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ulli
14th June 2013, 17:12
1inMany, I can't see your picture.

Speaking of eye sight.....
apparently genetics is progressing in
restoring vision.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-simple-non-invasive-gene-therapy-restores-sight?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7e3d03c030-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-7e3d03c030-281952481

ulli
14th June 2013, 17:16
...and NASA admits faster than light travel is possible...

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/05/28/nasa-admits-they-are-working-to-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/

The times they are a-changing....

jiminii
14th June 2013, 17:26
...and NASA admits faster than light travel is possible...

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/05/28/nasa-admits-they-are-working-to-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/

The times they are a-changing....

it is not faster than light ...it is swapping space
if you were to actually go faster than light you would disintegrate

space is not a nothing .... you lock onto the coordinates of a block of space near the moon ... then lock onto another coordinates of an equal bock of space near the earth ... swap both spaces and whatever is in each of those spaces will be swapped too ...

jim

jiminii
14th June 2013, 17:29
1inMany, I can't see your picture.

Speaking of eye sight.....
apparently genetics is progressing in
restoring vision.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-simple-non-invasive-gene-therapy-restores-sight?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7e3d03c030-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-7e3d03c030-281952481

if I could only switch my viewpoint from using the human eyes to using the spirit eyes .. I would have perfect vision down to the minute size of an atom if I wanted to look .... perfect vision forever

jim

jiminii
14th June 2013, 17:38
...and NASA admits faster than light travel is possible...

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/05/28/nasa-admits-they-are-working-to-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/

The times they are a-changing....

it is not faster than light ...it is swapping space
if you were to actually go faster than light you would disintegrate

space is not a nothing .... you lock onto the coordinates of a block of space near the moon ... then lock onto another coordinates of an equal bock of space near the earth ... swap both spaces and whatever is in each of those spaces will be swapped too ...

jim

oh there is also portals ... you can travel that way too

jim

ulli
14th June 2013, 17:44
Also...

another viewpoint:

"the universe appears and disappears every four-quadrillionth of a second.

That within this brief moment, there is that which entities perceive and experience.

That each of these four-quadrillionth of a second intervals contains within itself the eternal now.

That entities is moving from one macro-moment to another,

carry with them that which they choose to carry from one universal moment to the next.

This Awareness indicates that wherein you carry that which is sorrow, carry that which is depressing;

wherein you carry that which is fear--that your next moment shall carry with it the fear, depression, and sorrow

which could have been left behind in your previous moment.


This Awareness asks entities upon this plane to think in new ways,

to begin to look in new directions, to begin to explore within themselves those areas of the psychic sea,

to move beyond the third dimensional thinking into the fourth dimensional ecstasy.

This Awareness indicates that energies of ecstasy are pouring in upon this planet at this time.

That those who can experience those energies shall rise, shall find health, vitality and joy.

donk
14th June 2013, 18:05
Tony mentions misdirection in his lovely thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60072-Instructions-to-Illuminati.), which I have been thinking about all day. The esteemed Mr Sanford pointed out somewheres that all of our information is tainted, dare I say: misdirection? All of the mainstream stories getting so much energy is really spooky to me, I suspect somekind of….ruse (thought I’d say something else? ...see what i did there ;))

Anyhow, it was fun misdirecting all the energy my employer is paying me for—playing on the forum all day…unfortunately here & now I need to direct my attention to the cracker factory for the afternoon, love to the village, hope you all are well.

dan33
14th June 2013, 18:08
Also...

another viewpoint:

"the universe appears and disappears every four-quadrillionth of a second.

That within this brief moment, there is that which entities perceive and experience.

That each of these four-quadrillionth of a second intervals contains within itself the eternal now.

That entities is moving from one macro-moment to another,

carry with them that which they choose to carry from one universal moment to the next.

This Awareness indicates that wherein you carry that which is sorrow, carry that which is depressing;

wherein you carry that which is fear--that your next moment shall carry with it the fear, depression, and sorrow

which could have been left behind in your previous moment.


This Awareness asks entities upon this plane to think in new ways,

to begin to look in new directions, to begin to explore within themselves those areas of the psychic sea,

to move beyond the third dimensional thinking into the fourth dimensional ecstasy.

This Awareness indicates that energies of ecstasy are pouring in upon this planet at this time.

That those who can experience those energies shall rise, shall find health, vitality and joy.

Very Moving post. Like it.

ulli
14th June 2013, 18:10
Tony mentions misdirection in his lovely thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60072-Instructions-to-Illuminati.), which I have been thinking about all day. The esteemed Mr Sanford pointed out somewheres that all of our information is tainted, dare I say: misdirection? All of the mainstream stories getting so much energy is really spooky to me, I suspect somekind of….ruse (thought I’d say something else? ...see what i did there ;))

Anyhow, it was fun misdirecting all the energy my employer is paying me for—playing on the forum all day…unfortunately here & now I need to direct my attention to the cracker factory for the afternoon, love to the village, hope you all are well.

Maybe your time has come to do your own directing.

It could be all about YOU, donk, ok?
YOU.


Not just what you perceive, but what you want to put OUT THERE!

Meditation helps.

Let these be our example.

nPJWadX3l-U

ulli
14th June 2013, 18:17
Anyone searching for God outside of themselves is also allowed to go here:

http://991.com/newGallery/Eric-Clapton-Clapton-Is-God---411896.jpg


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jiminii
14th June 2013, 18:31
it takes light traveling 10 years to get to the nearest star .... a spirit can be there almost the same time he thinks it...
the reason I don't get in the pro's and con's of these games ... is this . the being knows ... inside ... I just look .. don't evaluate ...
because this body doesn't know ... I let that what KNOWS ... me the spirit clean it all ... it knows how to do that ... just look and all those little black masses that hang around people's head just disappear ... so .. thing is their game changes without them even knowing it ....
my game is just being there looking and keeping the planet safe ...

jim

dan33
14th June 2013, 18:51
Just bringing your vids to light, Dan



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Thanks a lot Meeradas! ha,ha.
Where did you find my fav vids? :)

Love the attorney speech on THE INSIDER vid.
Here below there are some others fav vids.

Hugs,Meeradas! Bless you.


JEREMIAH JOHNSON introduction (like a classical novel)
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MEAN STREETS, the best movie by Marty.
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ALL THAT JAZZ. The Shower
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LILITH. The spit of Jean Seberg is a work of art
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The Magnificent Jason Robards.

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HIGH FIDELITY
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ulli
14th June 2013, 19:03
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1004408_262027303937508_1467066375_n.jpg

Wind
14th June 2013, 19:17
Anyone searching for God outside of themselves is also allowed to go here:

http://991.com/newGallery/Eric-Clapton-Clapton-Is-God---411896.jpg

Two great guitarists here!

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greybeard
14th June 2013, 19:31
Dire Straits & Eric Clapton - Sultans of Swing Live
Mark Kopler has an amazing tone and style.


Live 1988 at London Wembley on the event of Mandela's 70th birtday. Dire Straits at their best with help from Eric Clapton!

Mark Knopfler - guitar
Eric Clapton - rythm guitar
John Isley - Bass
Guy Fletcher - Keyboard
Terry Williams - drumms
Alan Clark - Piano / Keyboard


This is song is just one of many played that night! Here's the entire track list followed up with the person who actually wrote it.

1. Walk Of Life (Mark Knopfler)
2. Sultans Of Swing (Mark Knopfler)
3. Romeo & Juliet (Mark Knopfler)
4. Money For Nothing (Mark Knopfler & Sting)
5. Brothers In Arms (Mark Knopfler)
6. Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
7. Solid Rock (Mark Knopfler)




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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAl5jucOgro

ulli
14th June 2013, 20:24
Just beautiful...

Clapton is a real team man. Also David Gilmore.

So while listening to Greybeards contribution ...Knopfler and Clapton together...
Brothers in Arms happens to be a favorite of mine...

I had to sneak this one in here:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1003841_10151711364090482_1824088448_n.jpg

transiten
14th June 2013, 20:33
Tony mentions misdirection in his lovely thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60072-Instructions-to-Illuminati.), which I have been thinking about all day. The esteemed Mr Sanford pointed out somewheres that all of our information is tainted, dare I say: misdirection? All of the mainstream stories getting so much energy is really spooky to me, I suspect somekind of….ruse (thought I’d say something else? ...see what i did there ;))

Anyhow, it was fun misdirecting all the energy my employer is paying me for—playing on the forum all day…unfortunately here & now I need to direct my attention to the cracker factory for the afternoon, love to the village, hope you all are well.

Maybe your time has come to do your own directing.

It could be all about YOU, donk, ok?
YOU.


Not just what you perceive, but what you want to put OUT THERE!

Meditation helps.

Let these be our example.

nPJWadX3l-U

I just picked a lot of chives in my allotment and put the flowers in water and my neighbours told me they had a birthdayparty for their 20 year old cat that passed away just a few days later in her sleep laying in bed between them...

ulli
14th June 2013, 20:36
Tony mentions misdirection in his lovely thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60072-Instructions-to-Illuminati.), which I have been thinking about all day. The esteemed Mr Sanford pointed out somewheres that all of our information is tainted, dare I say: misdirection? All of the mainstream stories getting so much energy is really spooky to me, I suspect somekind of….ruse (thought I’d say something else? ...see what i did there ;))

Anyhow, it was fun misdirecting all the energy my employer is paying me for—playing on the forum all day…unfortunately here & now I need to direct my attention to the cracker factory for the afternoon, love to the village, hope you all are well.

Maybe your time has come to do your own directing.

It could be all about YOU, donk, ok?
YOU.


Not just what you perceive, but what you want to put OUT THERE!

Meditation helps.

Let these be our example.

nPJWadX3l-U

I just picked a lot of chives in my allotment and put the flowers in water and my neighbours told me they had a birthdayparty for their 20 year old cat that passed away just a few days later in her sleep laying in bed between them...

So it was for your neighbors that spirit guided me to post the zen cats.
This was once sent to me by Melinda, but I never got around to posting it until now.
Timing is everything.

ulli
14th June 2013, 21:17
Here and Now, making bracelets and listening to this

engines of my ship....

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transiten
14th June 2013, 21:52
So it was for your neighbors that spirit guided me to post the zen cats.
This was once sent to me by Melinda, but I never got around to posting it until now.
Timing is everything.

Yes and he really put a lot of feeling in describing what had happened to the cat, and i haven't seen the guy for 1½ years and this is the first thing he tells me. He was often involved with my beloved dog Pajazzo. There were also intense things happening on my allotment in connection with the chives.

"Timing" sounds like a Saturnian thing, but then again synchronicity feels more "Neptunian" ...what do you think ulli?

ulli
14th June 2013, 22:17
So it was for your neighbors that spirit guided me to post the zen cats.
This was once sent to me by Melinda, but I never got around to posting it until now.
Timing is everything.

Yes and he really put a lot of feeling in describing what had happened to the cat, and i haven't seen the guy for 1½ years and this is the first thing he tells me. He was often involved with my beloved dog Pajazzo. There were also intense things happening on my allotment in connection with the chives.

"Timing" sounds like a Saturnian thing, but then again synchronicity feels more "Neptunian" ...what do you think ulli?

Exactly. Saturn is Old Father Time, and makes sure everything is in right measure.
The one that tries to keep planet earth tied to a prison routine.
But Neptune is strong now, in Pisces, and is tearing the walls down, and one can see the parallels of all the dimensions.
It's really up to the individual which of the two they want to go with.
I'm currently having Saturn squares all over the place, but due to my commitment to Neptunian wholeness I'm managing to walk through walls.

transiten
14th June 2013, 22:48
Hmm, but "timing" in the sense you just said "Timing is everything" doesn't sound like keeping things in Saturnian prison routine...i was pondering in what way this kind of synchronistic "timing" could have affinifty to the Neptunian/Uranian feeling of it...

ulli
14th June 2013, 22:58
Hmm, but "timing" in the sense you just said "Timing is everything" doesn't sound like keeping things in Saturnian prison routine...i was pondering in what way this kind of synchronistic "timing" could have affinifty to the Neptunian/Uranian feeling of it...

LOL, you were supposed to find my answer between the lines...
prison routine means everything goes by the clock,
food, work, rest...
but when spirit does the timing in the spirit sense, which is Neptunian,
it goes beyond the clock...
here we find eternity in the now, and can see synchronicities.

It doesn't matter anymore if one is in prison. One is free.


I found a current picture of a childhood friend of my son's on Facebook and sent it to him...
this afternoon.
My son wrote back saying he looks like the older brother in Hanson.
Now here is my synchronicity:
to open my sons email I went through my Yahoo home page, and on it was this picture:



http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/10-child-stars-who-turned-out-all-right-1370630005-slideshow/hanson3-jpg-photo-535887398.htmlwhere he=

So tell me...did Yahoo see my son's email to me and quickly put that Hanson photo on my home page?
Or is it just one of those weird synchronicities that happen to me frequently, the way they happen to you?
Whatever! I have quit trying to figure it out.

eaglespirit
15th June 2013, 00:14
Dire Straits & Eric Clapton - Sultans of Swing Live
Mark Kopler has an amazing tone and style.


Live 1988 at London Wembley on the event of Mandela's 70th birtday. Dire Straits at their best with help from Eric Clapton!

Mark Knopfler - guitar
Eric Clapton - rythm guitar
John Isley - Bass
Guy Fletcher - Keyboard
Terry Williams - drumms
Alan Clark - Piano / Keyboard


This is song is just one of many played that night! Here's the entire track list followed up with the person who actually wrote it.

1. Walk Of Life (Mark Knopfler)
2. Sultans Of Swing (Mark Knopfler)
3. Romeo & Juliet (Mark Knopfler)
4. Money For Nothing (Mark Knopfler & Sting)
5. Brothers In Arms (Mark Knopfler)
6. Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
7. Solid Rock (Mark Knopfler)




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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAl5jucOgro


Brothers In Arms (Mark Knopfler)

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to me
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed all your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

WhiteFeather
15th June 2013, 01:26
Here and Now,,,,,I'm Constantly Craving this Tune. KD can sing! Hope all is well in the village.

Peace

W.f.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqPjx94YMg

ThePythonicCow
15th June 2013, 02:10
With permission, sharing M's latest sketching...

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=6e47d657ee&view=att&th=13f433f18410f60a&attid=0.1&disp=thd&realattid=1437831146661478400-1&zw

Let's see if this works...Oh, good :)

Much Love, Villagers...

You gave us a link to some image in your email. Only you can see it. The rest of us (hopefully) can't view your email :).

ulli
15th June 2013, 03:12
How to use a cat to untangle your headphones...

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1inMany
15th June 2013, 13:12
Good Morning :)

Since I really wanted to share M's pic, I will try this. But, apologies in advance, my efforts to lighten it up or make it bigger failed bigtime. I share it because it is symbolic for me...and when that happens I always wonder if it will be for someone else, too.

Much Love,

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=21756&d=1371301424

ulli
15th June 2013, 14:04
Maybe this was already posted elsewhere on Avalon, but I'm seeing it for the first time
Air Force Chemtrails Manual

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/chemtrails/us-air-force-academy-chemtrail-manual.html



The word "chemtrails" was not invented by a conspiracy theorist, it was invented by the US Air Force. A microfiche has been found in the Oklahoma Library system of an Air Force manual dating back to 1990, which uses the word "Chemtrails" in its title and describes the various experiments pilots will be conducting with the aerosol release of various noxious substances, some relating to cloud-seeding and weather modification such as silver iodide and others, in conjuction with the HAARP project, such as barium-fluoride.

The spraying of toxic barium salts in the atmosphere relates to scalar weapons systems (HAARP), which behave like targeted gravitational fields and act as anti-ballistic shields.

The list of substances listed in this manual to be used in these USAF experiments include: aluminum 3, aluminum hydride, barium-fluoride, beryllium, cyanide, hydrochloric acid, various ions, including ions of copper, iron 2, lithium ions, nickel perchlorate (rocket fuel), phosphorous tri-fluoride, silver iodide, sodium ions and single-valence metals.

transiten
15th June 2013, 15:36
How to use a cat to untangle your headphones...

0c9LybUbxII

I bought headphones yesterday....

Wind
15th June 2013, 15:46
Hey, I just wanted to say that I love you all!

V-_NMAllsJc
http://s21.postimg.org/hi1oz1cbb/Best_Bob_Marley_Quotes_2013_1.jpg

ulli
15th June 2013, 15:59
How to use a cat to untangle your headphones...

0c9LybUbxII

I bought headphones yesterday....

Good. So now you only need a cat.
You might try here:
http://cat.rescueme.org/se

ulli
15th June 2013, 20:56
So finally the horse talks back

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1000898_666325440060934_1460614483_n.jpg

CD7
15th June 2013, 22:20
YES..yes I am connected again...:rolleyes: I much rather the interactive box then the talking heads box anyday!..lol

Had a proper burial from my laptop...Dooooo DooooDooooooooooooo...Do Doooooo DOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo...:note: :director: (<----pretend this is a horn) My laptop served me well...help me watch all those PC and PA vids from few years back alllll weekend....helped me to tap COUNTLESS hours of alotta talkin but nothing really being said hahahaha! :typing: Well maybe theres a gem of something fertile somewhere along the line :) Anywho... I can now watch vids and know wht everyone is talking about and keep myself well informed :rolleyes: Shes been going downhill for sometime now...its been alittle while since I could watch a full 10 minute vid! BUT last but not least!! I keep in touch with great people of like mind and heart <3 <3 <3 Awwwww to b apart of the web.....<-------sarcasm :)

transiten
16th June 2013, 06:34
How to use a cat to untangle your headphones...

0c9LybUbxII

I bought headphones yesterday....

Good. So now you only need a cat.
You might try here:
http://cat.rescueme.org/se

:panda: (Does this one have a symbolic meaning?) There's a cat rescuecenter in Norrtälje where i'm leaving for on wednesday, would love to have a pet but it doesn't fit ito my life just now, even have a hard time keeping track of my friends...seems Uranus square Venus is trying to tell me something...

eaglespirit
16th June 2013, 11:05
Ho'oponopono

Hawaiian word of the day PONO: Pono means that your relationships with others are just and fair and untinged by anger, jealousy, resentment or any negative energy. You are in harmony and in integrity. Discord is resolved with ho'oponopono - the setting right of bad feelings. Ho'oponopono must be entered into with a sincere desire by all parties to resolve differences - not an opportunity for "right fighting." In truth, every action in life is either pono ... or not. And humankind's assignment is to be pono in all things.

skippy
16th June 2013, 19:09
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transiten
16th June 2013, 20:35
:fans: I can't believe it!!! While i was posting the video with Bob Dylan and you guys the one with Mark Knopfler they both were playing in Gothenburg and my Peruvian friend Fransisca told me today she was working in the bar!!! I had no idea!

The tickets were very expensive so i wouldn't have gone anyway and i don't think my friend really understood how famous the artists are until she came there. Talking about synchronicity...........

1inMany
16th June 2013, 22:42
Happy Father's Day. Here, and now, it was a day of barbecue and the lake. Thank goodness for shade and a breeze. There is a special place in my heart for those of us, those of you, who are fathers who don't get to see your kids as often as you would like, single moms, those who don't fit into the mold, and those whose fathers are not with us in the physical any longer...every day, but this is a rough day for some.

I hope this day brought good things for everyone.

Much Love,

ulli
16th June 2013, 23:05
:fans: I can't believe it!!! While i was posting the video with Bob Dylan and you guys the one with Mark Knopfler they both were playing in Gothenburg and my Peruvian friend Fransisca told me today she was working in the bar!!! I had no idea!

The tickets were very expensive so i wouldn't have gone anyway and i don't think my friend really understood how famous the artists are until she came there. Talking about synchronicity...........

I must say, transiten, your synchronicities are the most consistent and frequent I have ever encountered.
I hope you see them as a road sign to stay close to our Village.

ulli
16th June 2013, 23:18
I'm reposting a PM I sent to another Avalonian who wanted more information on the Bahai Faith.
Since posting that video about the persecution of the Baha'is of Iran I have received several enquiries via PM.

Here is a summary of my impressions, what I believe it's all about, and also my reservations.



"Here is the website which in my opinion gives the best access all Bahai writings: (and I believe the proclamation to the kings can be downloaded too, chapter by chapter....on this actual page of the link)

http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/PB/

The years I spent serving the Bahai cause left me frustrated and unhappy, although my heart still believes in the four founder figures.
I left the community in 2001, but miss them nevertheless.
The feeling you describe in your message here is similar to my own. There is still something not quite right. Maybe it is that Islamic filter...that Persian absolutism.
My heart says yes to Bahaulah, and His message, but my head is not in agreement with some of that heavy Islamic style. Yet, when seen in the light that Bhaullah was the first real channel of the modern age....and that he was not just channeling the Plaeadians, or Arcturians, or Cassiopaeans, but God Almighty Himself, the Source of all there is, this message is well worth looking into.

There are four principal figures who helped establish this budding world religion:
Bab, Bahaullah, Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi.
They came to establish a blueprint of the New World Order, which was then supposed to run from then on without leadership. Nevertheless, this system needed leaders in order to establish it. In fact, four generations of leaders.
This is not to be confused with the NWO, which the powers that be, or PTB, are trying to establish.
They want to create a global religion based on Theosophy, or New Age thought, in my opinion. So this Bahai thing this is quite different.
Yes, God is within each of us, but also without, as we cannot function without government leaders. But we need to have a say in who we desire to have as our leaders...hence the regular elections.

Bahaullah also hinted that before the golden Bahai age arived the "oppressor" would rule the whole planet. To me it seems as if God was using the elite currently to create the foundation and logistics, but will discard them at the right time. Well, at least I hope so.

Anyway, to save you some time, here is something I wish to add for the sake of clarity. These four founder figures had a role.
The first two, Bab and Baha'u'llah, are considered divine manifestations.
More than just prophets, but they fulfilled the prophesies of the biblical prophets, including Mohammed.
The Bible prophesy of "double trumpet blast" In the old Testament. To the Jews, Bahaullah would then be the Messiah, to Christians the Return of Christ. One shepherd, one flock, the shepherd being God Himself.

The Bab's role was that of "herald", in the same way that John the Baptist was the "herald"to the advent of Christ.
Bahaullah was the actual "revealer" ...
His Revelation being, in essence, that a Just Society would be established on earth, in which all leadership will arise from the grassroots of the people, through regular democratic elections. In other words, a new system.

Rather than being party-political, this government structure will be corporate...like a board of directors, elected annually by the peoples of the earth.
That is the essence of Bahaullahs message.
A government of levels,- local, national, and international.
To elect the international body, also called The Universal House of Justice, all National Assembly members cast their vote.
This institution is elected every five years, in Israel.

The third person was Abdu'l-Baha ...Baha'u'llah's son.
His role was that of "interpreter". As there is no clergy in the Bahai Faith, the body of his writings is supposed to be sufficient to explain what Bahaullah meant.

The fourth and last living leader was the Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, Baha'u'llah's grandson.
His role was that of "expounder". He dedicated his life to guide the budding spiritual assemblies around the globe, local assemblies, as well as national ones. The first Universal House of Justice was finally elected in 1963, six years after Shoghi Effendi's passing.

If you are really curious now about all of this, the history, and the vision, I hope you get God's blessings and guidance, because you will need it. This is not an easy path to follow.

ulli
16th June 2013, 23:57
He was a prisoner for forty years. The Shah of Iran and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire banished him to the prison city of Akka, in Palestine.

He wrote letters to the rulers of that period. Here is one paragraph:

It is not Our wish to lay hands on your kingdoms. Our mission is to seize and possess the hearts of men. Upon them the eyes of Bahá are fastened......
Forsake your palaces, and haste ye to gain admittance into His Kingdom. This, indeed, will profit you both in this world and in the next. To this testifieth the Lord of the realm on high, did ye but know it.

This is the same spirit that I now see in Edward Snowden. Martyr for the truth.

ulli
17th June 2013, 04:10
This is what's happening. Spirit is descending.

http://i.imgur.com/0ancqz5.jpg

transiten
17th June 2013, 06:05
:fans: I can't believe it!!! While i was posting the video with Bob Dylan and you guys the one with Mark Knopfler they both were playing in Gothenburg and my Peruvian friend Fransisca told me today she was working in the bar!!! I had no idea!

The tickets were very expensive so i wouldn't have gone anyway and i don't think my friend really understood how famous the artists are until she came there. Talking about synchronicity...........

I must say, transiten, your synchronicities are the most consistent and frequent I have ever encountered.
I hope you see them as a road sign to stay close to our Village.

Yes ulli, if i were to tell them all i would be sitting at the computor all day long, and here's another one (or is it telepathy?) I woke up thinking about your recent jaguar avatar and that i still have a picture of myself..and Lo and behold, you changed it and there you are again:photo:

I've read everything on synchronicity and i still quite don't know how to decode them, they occur whether negative or positive things are happening. They make me feel connected to another dimension at least and makes life more interesting but it's frustrating that i have noone who is seriously interested to talk to IRL.

I met a woman some years ago who took a doctors degreee on Jung and Synchronicity but she had never expereienced anything herself and didn't even notice when it happened while we were talking so i don't know what the universe wants to teach me by not connecting me with likeminded IRL.

The synchronicity of astrology is more concrete and even I Ching. It all comes down to the level of consciousness in the end.

Concerning Bahai, is there any connection to the oldest religion Zoroastrianism?

ulli
17th June 2013, 09:01
:fans: I can't believe it!!! While i was posting the video with Bob Dylan and you guys the one with Mark Knopfler they both were playing in Gothenburg and my Peruvian friend Fransisca told me today she was working in the bar!!! I had no idea!

The tickets were very expensive so i wouldn't have gone anyway and i don't think my friend really understood how famous the artists are until she came there. Talking about synchronicity...........

I must say, transiten, your synchronicities are the most consistent and frequent I have ever encountered.
I hope you see them as a road sign to stay close to our Village.

Yes ulli, if i were to tell them all i would be sitting at the computor all day long, and here's another one (or is it telepathy?) I woke up thinking about your recent jaguar avatar and that i still have a picture of myself..and Lo and behold, you changed it and there you are again:photo:

I've read everything on synchronicity and i still quite don't know how to decode them, they occur whether negative or positive things are happening. They make me feel connected to another dimension at least and makes life more interesting but it's frustrating that i have noone who is seriously interested to talk to IRL.

I met a woman some years ago who took a doctors degreee on Jung and Synchronicity but she had never expereienced anything herself and didn't even notice when it happened while we were talking so i don't know what the universe wants to teach me by not connecting me with likeminded IRL.

The synchronicity of astrology is more concrete and even I Ching. It all comes down to the level of consciousness in the end.

Concerning Bahai, is there any connection to the oldest religion Zoroastrianism?

I know that quite a few people from the Zoroastrian religion converted to Bahai, but not knowing anything about their religion myself, I can't tell you what that connection might be.
I do know that Zoroaster was considered a divine manifestation by Baha'u'llah. As were many other founders of indigenous movements whose names are unknown to us, as no history was recorded in writing. But some of their traditions prove that they also received guidance from the Highest Realms, while others show the distortions that man adds over the years, which is why regular renewals of religious beliefs are necessary. What counts is the essence. That we are all spirit, experiencing a 3D reality for a brief moment here on earth. Reincarnations on earth happen if you believe in them, if you don't, you can go anywhere you like in this infinite universe. It's up to us and God, in the end..

CD7
17th June 2013, 14:12
Ah yes synchronicities Abound :)

Perhaps all the threads around us are coalescing closer to each other in changing patterns tht are syncing US in a dance tht is transforming itself :)

transiten
17th June 2013, 18:28
This is what's happening. Spirit is descending.

http://i.imgur.com/0ancqz5.jpg

As i was ironing a 20 year old white shirt i haven't used for 10 years i discovered among the wowen pattern............
a peacock and of course it's white since the shirt is.......20 years ago i was leading a choire at the road maintenace authority; i wore this shirt and discovered there were cars wowen into the fabric, today i noticed the word "LINCOLN" ...the "brand" and a former president of the US....I wonder about that one...wait and see...

Today i've been driving for the first time in 3 years, and it felt yesterday! Got Mars square Mars but no accident but a lot of energy learning the new techniques, cleaning and avoiding getting upset by frustrated men loosing seconds of their speed....

As strong synchronicities occur an archetype is con-stell-a-ted in the subconscious Jung says. It's an opportunity to be aware, rise one's consciousness concerning what's going on in one's life. They occur more frequently in periods of change.

dan33
17th June 2013, 18:45
Very interesting.

RD1h2np77xk
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?24951-Secret-Weapons-Now-Beaming-Into-Your-Skull&p=260300&viewfull=1#post260300

"The narrow band of visible light and audible sound are directly related in the form of frequency harmonics.
Sound is measured in cycles per second (or hertz), which humans can perceive from around 20 cycles per second to around 20000 cycles per second. Light is measured in the trillions of cycles per second.
From a theory standpoint, if you double the wavelength of sound by forty times you start to reach the vibrational frequencies of light.
If you had a piano that was forty octaves long you could surpass tone and play the visible colours of the spectrum.
Like wise if you had a piano that moved in the opposite direction the slowest frequency waves would form into matter."

:music:

Sierra
18th June 2013, 01:45
If you had a piano that was forty octaves long you could surpass tone and play the visible colours of the spectrum.
Like wise if you had a piano that moved in the opposite direction the slowest frequency waves would form into matter."

Oh heavens Dan, I just saw creation with that quote ... I wonder if thought, the causal level, vibrates as well, at frequency waves beyond light?

Are we vibrating when we think? :becky:

Playdo of Ataraxas
18th June 2013, 04:13
Feeling a lot of love tonight permeating the aether. Stopping by to say Hey Now! Listening to this: Cheers Village!

fVtHztdkrnU

kanishk
18th June 2013, 05:44
Heavy rains in north india
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/998611_10151696250472139_1334742068_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1010742_10151696246232139_651743513_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1013880_10151696252247139_428147103_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/998671_10151741355041062_1736310337_n.jpghttp://im.rediff.com/news/2013/jun/17rains1.jpghttp://media2.intoday.in/indiatoday/images/stories//2013june/rain2_moss_061713052125.jpg

meeradas
18th June 2013, 05:56
Just saw a bee, visiting the flowers in front of my house.
I wouldn't have believed, say 40 years ago, that this would be a joyous event for me [which i would even post on a forum].

----

Meanwhile, blue sky annihilation attempts by the "trailers" going on above the city, as usual ["it looked like this always; it's just the increased air traffic"].

meeradas
18th June 2013, 05:59
I wonder if thought, the causal level, vibrates as well, at frequency waves beyond light?

Are we vibrating when we think? :becky:

'f course we do - there's nuttin' else.

transiten
18th June 2013, 06:29
Very interesting.

RD1h2np77xk
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?24951-Secret-Weapons-Now-Beaming-Into-Your-Skull&p=260300&viewfull=1#post260300

"The narrow band of visible light and audible sound are directly related in the form of frequency harmonics.
Sound is measured in cycles per second (or hertz), which humans can perceive from around 20 cycles per second to around 20000 cycles per second. Light is measured in the trillions of cycles per second.
From a theory standpoint, if you double the wavelength of sound by forty times you start to reach the vibrational frequencies of light.
If you had a piano that was forty octaves long you could surpass tone and play the visible colours of the spectrum.
Like wise if you had a piano that moved in the opposite direction the slowest frequency waves would form into matter."

:music:

"In the beginning was the Word" - sound descending down intto Matter! Interesting, I will tell this to my light therapist tomorrow!

Ernie Nemeth
18th June 2013, 12:22
The number forty is also associated with Venus and its cycles through the sky. It is five cycles of eight years each, if I recall. The ancients used to use this knowledge as a reproducible unit of measure with a predictable margin of error depending on latitude. Has to do with timing the retrograde motion of Venus against a star in the background, at certain times of the year, depending on the 40 year cycle (using a makeshift pendulum).

A harmonic of forty, 400:
The diameter of the moon as compared to the sun from our perspective is exactly the same. This is due to the moon being 400 times closer to the earth than the sun and 400 times smaller. It is such a precise fit that at times, due to slight variations in orbital configurations when the earth is a bit further or closer to the moon, the ratio of distance to diameter changes enough that an eclipse is not exactly full, or of unusually long duration.

Sierra
18th June 2013, 13:25
I wonder if thought, the causal level, vibrates as well, at frequency waves beyond light?

Are we vibrating when we think? :becky:

'f course we do - there's nuttin' else.

Rattle rattle rattle ... rattle.

Sierra
18th June 2013, 13:29
Heavy rains in north india
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/998611_10151696250472139_1334742068_n.jpg


Kanishk,

That is one terrifying river ...

meeradas
18th June 2013, 15:05
Off to Greece (http://www.travel2greece.com/Travel/Greece/Company/photography/index.html#csky).

CD7
18th June 2013, 16:14
Meeradas is ur avatar frank zappa?

donk
18th June 2013, 16:30
Here & now fighting off the tears and shivers this one evokes, forgot about this until I jut heard it on the radio, Ray Lamontaine is one of the absolute best, this song is sooooo good:

gPBdVjaTcQs

johnf
18th June 2013, 17:14
Off to Greece (http://www.travel2greece.com/Travel/Greece/Company/photography/index.html#csky).

I feel a little silly saying this but I have trouble seeing that avatar lately, and not thinking, jeez is he back yet,
we need that guy! Musician, poet, Orator, what will it be this time.

jf

greybeard
18th June 2013, 17:17
Thought for the Day


Handle every stressful
situation like a dog.
If you can't eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away.

dan33
18th June 2013, 17:59
I wonder if thought, the causal level, vibrates as well, at frequency waves beyond light?

Are we vibrating when we think? :becky:

'f course we do - there's nuttin' else.


Rattle rattle rattle ... rattle.

With a very large piano, with many more octaves, you could play the melody of your mind... or that's Ktlight would say.

And this post from Amzer Zo from the same thread.
Re: Secret Weapons Now Beaming Into Your Skull

Now, having an idea of what can be inserted into sound waves or even the "blanks" between soundwaves... how can one manage to trust all these "New Age" "meditation" tapes, CDs, DVDs, downloaded mp3, etc?
More to the point:

Orgone In A Can

...At a certain point, when thinking how to stop this, I remembered a conversation I had several years ago with a musician who was also running a sound recording studio together with another musician.

This guy told me about a "trick" they were using, when some recording sessions started to load up with bad moods and feelings. They used to make some "blackbox"-recordings on days with great creative atmosphere. That means they recorded this atmosphere with a microphone within a soundproof box. What they got was, acoustically, some low white noise. But it had turned out, that these recordings, when played over speakers, lightened up the atmosphere and brought a good feeling back into the studio.

So I tried to use this for my purposes.

About 3 years ago I had made an orgone can. That means I had put a smaller food tin can within a bigger one and filled the space between with metal shavings, quartz and resin. I regularly use it to charge crystals or whatever else...
So I had already a space containing great energy and atmosphere at my hands... no need to wait for better days
Put a microphone inside, a bigger piece of orgonite on top in order to close the can and started recording on my hard drive.

After a few minutes I saved the file and played it on the speakers. And it was astonishing!

It was like being in a strong stream of orgone when sitting in front of the speakers.
Second thing was, that the radionic inteerference was noticeably decreased.
Third is, it is then very easy to boost a target.

I transferred the file on a Compact Disc to have it portable, for example in the car or at work. And it works also from the compact!

So the CD is like an orgone can, one can open it up and release the orgone, when playing this white noise.
It is easy for everyone to repeat the experiment. All you need is an orgonite with a cavity big eneough to put a small microphone in for recording the sound of orgone.

So this works similar to a succor punch, but I´m not sure if it is able to block surveillance or some radionic signal completely.
It is a helpful tool, but, all in all it is a passive measure.
Passive measures are useful but a determined assault will probably need to be met head-on and defeated. Otherwise, they probably will keep increasing the pressure.

What I found helpful is, when boosting, one can aim the stream of healthy orgone at a desired target. And this works verey, very well, at least as I had experienced it.
Please be also cautious to make your own orgone record!, to be sure to have a healthy orgone track, which is not contaminated with other kinds of etheric signatures. I´m quite sure that music industry is regullarily and widely making use of this effect.

Try it yourself and have fun! It´s easy. But keep always in mind, that this does not replace orgonite and gifting! It does not replace boosting from the heart and predator blasting, as you can read and learn at donebydooney!
It does not replace anything, it is just an additional discovery which may be useful. OK?

Manfred 03 Jan 2009 17:34

Re: Orgone In A Can

For testing the effect, feel free to download some white noise from the orgone can:

http://www.orgonart.at/orgoneinacan.htm

Enjoy!

Manfred

ulli
19th June 2013, 00:06
Another bird for Meeradas.
http://i.imgur.com/r2g5qBD.jpg


We found a spring today, right there where the waterfall used to be. The waterfall was always rainwater from the coffee fields on the mountain above us, and would be dry when it didnt rain, but after a heavy shower became scary and noisy. Water thundering right into our garden, with a tunnel under the living room from where it would find its way to the river.
The worry was that if for some reason that tunnel entrance got blocked we would end up with our two cabins under deep water.

But not only was that fear removed when the bulldozer redirected the waterway, but clean fresh water came down that slope, and at first we thought it was a broken water pipe.

It's not! Its a spring!! Pristine water, right here on our land, in our garden. What a blessing.

meeradas
19th June 2013, 00:29
Meeradas is ur avatar frank zappa?

Christine! It's the bird! :biggrin1:


---


Thanks for the bird [i know the joy of that little one], Ulli [whole post is awesome - congrats on the spring: Mother obviously loves you]!

Singing heart.

ulli
19th June 2013, 12:10
I see Nora is back. Hi Nora!!!
Another thing that made yesterday a special day.

And it was Marianne's birthday. Happy Birthday, Marianne!
Although I dealt with that already via Skype after they reminded me.

Project Avalon also has birthday notification, I believe,
but I need to find the button to switch it on.

ulli
19th June 2013, 12:13
Meeradas is ur avatar frank zappa?

Christine! It's the bird! :biggrin1:


---


Thanks for the bird [i know the joy of that little one], Ulli [whole post is awesome - congrats on the spring: Mother obviously loves you]!

Singing heart.

At the risk of sounding ungrateful:
If Mother really loved me she would have made it thermal waters.
But now I can at least have a Koi pond in my garden.

Ernie Nemeth
19th June 2013, 12:43
Another saying for ya, following Chris' lead:

Never drive faster than your gaurdian angel can fly.

That was the moral of my friend's car accident story.

Calz
19th June 2013, 15:19
Short comic interuptus ....

F9gtV-rSyEc

Back to your normally scheduled village stuff ...

CD7
19th June 2013, 15:26
Meeradas is ur avatar frank zappa?

Christine! It's the bird! :biggrin1:


---


Thanks for the bird [i know the joy of that little one], Ulli [whole post is awesome - congrats on the spring: Mother obviously loves you]!

Singing heart.



AAAARRRRRrrrrrGGGGgggggggg Meerades!! ur not answering my questions....do u live close..im gonna come over and choke you, lol.........OK I give up, theres something about the photo..yes the bird does get ur attention, the whole pose, idk :eyebrows:

jiminii
19th June 2013, 15:33
Meeradas is ur avatar frank zappa?

Christine! It's the bird! :biggrin1:


---


Thanks for the bird [i know the joy of that little one], Ulli [whole post is awesome - congrats on the spring: Mother obviously loves you]!

Singing heart.



AAAARRRRRrrrrrGGGGgggggggg Meerades!! ur not answering my questions....do u live close..im gonna come over and choke you, lol.........OK I give up, theres something about the photo..yes the bird does get ur attention, the whole pose, idk :eyebrows:

the truth is he is really Frank Zappa but using a different name

jim

¤=[Post Update]=¤


Another saying for ya, following Chris' lead:

Never drive faster than your gaurdian angel can fly.

That was the moral of my friend's car accident story.

wow that angel must have been distracted by fly by super jets .. (not really sure what they call them) ... I mean what else could it have been

jim

eaglespirit
19th June 2013, 16:22
I see Nora is back. Hi Nora!!!
Another thing that made yesterday a special day.

And it was Marianne's birthday. Happy Birthday, Marianne!
Although I dealt with that already via Skype after they reminded me.

Project Avalon also has birthday notification, I believe,
but I need to find the button to switch it on.

Hi Nora...Good To See You : ) Hope All Is Well in the Mountains!

...and "Happy Birthday" publicly Here and Now Marianne..Ya don't look a day over 28 : ) : ) : )

...and Ulli, awesome fresh water freshness to You : )

...and Meeradas, that's a great thinking cap Ya got!!!

Kraut
19th June 2013, 18:18
Some photos I took while taking my walk.

http://pichost.de/images/2013/06/19/AogSO.jpg
http://pichost.de/images/2013/06/19/UW1P0.jpg

Calz
19th June 2013, 19:32
Not a comic moment this time.

Amazing music and images (not for everyone ... but damn ...).

Who comes up with this stuff???

UUXBCdt5IPg

Kraut
19th June 2013, 19:34
Not a comic moment this time.

Amazing music and images (not for everyone ... but damn ...).

Who comes with this stuff???
Tool rock!

Sierra
19th June 2013, 19:39
Short comic interuptus ....

Back to your normally scheduled village stuff ...

That was hilarious Calz! Thank you!

ulli
19th June 2013, 19:55
Short comic interuptus ....

F9gtV-rSyEc

Back to your normally scheduled village stuff ...

Funny!
Thanks, Cal!

1inMany
19th June 2013, 22:26
You know what sucks? When it gets too hot outside to just sit. Hours can pass when I'm sitting outside, watching, listening, experiencing all there is. I fear we have turned the corner this year, and it's heat for months ahead. It just isn't the same to sit inside. There's way too much to do in here, and not much to watch or listen to unless I want to turn my brain on...which I would prefer not to do.

Just sayin'

Much Love,

1inMany
19th June 2013, 22:59
This is what I miss about sitting outside. My time pondering the universe. I was just sitting outside, watching the leaves on the trees and noticing how they dance when there is a breeze (I am grateful the breeze has not jumped ship). And some things struck me.

Things like...what a hub the herb shop is. I had the honor of helping S take her first step on the path of Reiki this morning. I know, some people don't subscribe to this, but in my experience it is one of the most wonderful gifts I was ever given (thank you, my friends) and one of the most wonderful gifts it is in my power to give. To me, the key is to remain clear and sit in one particular space or place in consciousness. To see the opening up of a soul to more than existed before is like watching a rose bloom, but in compressed time.

When we were done, she asked me to sit for a bit and drink some herb tea. And as I sat there, people wandered in and sat down and joined us. And before I knew it, two hours had passed. It would seem I'm being kicked back out into the real world from my comfy little spot in the boonies, as this happens almost daily.

And after the experience in the herb shop with the being from elsewhere, I was nudged to try something that would help with the energies there. In so doing, I found another key...another way to experience the timeless and spaceless universe and all its Mystery. And I found another gift.

In this past two or three weeks, I feel myself expanding and yet I also fall back into myself, into that part of me where I do not even exist, but mystery is all there is. It has been one experience after another.

I've also started doing a particular meditation. I've not had any luck with doing meditations in the past, no matter how earnest I was in my efforts. This time, though sleep does toy with me, I can stay just above it.

Took my first herb class. This is not my path. I have a new and improved appreciation and respect for those of you who *know* plants and herbs, communicate with nature in a way I never will. It very well might be Em's path, time will tell.

And then I come inside, and looking around at all the things that need to be done...well, it is not the same as pondering the universe haha. There is not a single spot where I can sit in this house and feel as comfortable - not even a fraction as comfortable - as sitting outside in the shade.

I think I will just have to deal with the heat for a while longer, taking frequent showers to cool off. Because I'm not ready to give it up yet.

Much Love,

astrid
20th June 2013, 02:11
acscKOW3LbA

Tom's view of the week ahead,

have a good one, happy Solstice everyone !

Ernie Nemeth
20th June 2013, 13:53
A few months ago I found this big spring in one of my project boxes (I have three projects on the go). Beside it was an aluminum tube. My brain went, hey!, what if? ... and the next thing I know I have the spring in the tube and I fashion a dart out of some tin tubing I have, and five minutes later I fire a dart that pierces my chair!

That's all it took. Now two months later I am almost finished my weapon, that will fit onto the end of my staff.

Why am I making a weapon? It does not feel right. I am not a violent man. But something won't let me stop. When it's done I'll post some pictures. Should not be too long - just working on the trigger now...

I'm freaking my wife out with my fixation. I'm sawing, filing, test firing, etc. My office is a mess, screws and springs and tubes and tools all over the place.

I did not know Reiki had a bad rap where one must first appologize for getting into it, 1. What's the problem with Reiki? The only reason I ask is because I just bought a book on it to find out what it is about, I have no idea... Glad you endorse it in the end, though.

Ernie Nemeth
20th June 2013, 13:59
Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
Another saying for ya, following Chris' lead:

Never drive faster than your gaurdian angel can fly.

That was the moral of my friend's car accident story.
wow that angel must have been distracted by fly by super jets .. (not really sure what they call them) ... I mean what else could it have been

jim


I think you meant a jet buzzed his gaurdian angel? The reason for the moral is that he was going too fast to avoid the accident but as he slowed down his gaurdian angel made sure the crash was survivable.

1inMany
20th June 2013, 14:05
A few months ago I found this big spring in one of my project boxes (I have three projects on the go). Beside it was an aluminum tube. My brain went, hey!, what if? ... and the next thing I know I have the spring in the tube and I fashion a dart out of some tin tubing I have, and five minutes later I fire a dart that pierces my chair!

That's all it took. Now two months later I am almost finished my weapon, that will fit onto the end of my staff.

Why am I making a weapon? It does not feel right. I am not a violent man. But something won't let me stop. When it's done I'll post some pictures. Should not be too long - just working on the trigger now...

I'm freaking my wife out with my fixation. I'm sawing, filing, test firing, etc. My office is a mess, screws and springs and tubes and tools all over the place.

I did not know Reiki had a bad rap where one must first appologize for getting into it, 1. What's the problem with Reiki? The only reason I ask is because I just bought a book on it to find out what it is about, I have no idea... Glad you endorse it in the end, though.

I've been doing Reiki for about a year. It is amazing. I wholeheartedly endorse it. It is a gift, truly. I had no idea there could be a negative spin put on it until I read some thread or other here, on PA. I had to ask how the negativity surrounding it was even possible.

What I gather is that if you are pulled to this path, there need not be a single solitary negative aspect. Period. There isn't one for me, never has been and never will be. When you are ready for the first attunement, I gather you just have to choose someone who you can Trust. I think.

Reilly? Marianne? Playdo? Someone help me out here, haha.

Much Love,

PurpleLama
20th June 2013, 14:28
As with any discipline, there are good teachers and bad ones. One must apply the utmost discernment in selecting a person to teach, for its not mere mastery of energy that one needs from their teacher, but mastery of a well rounded spiritual nature. There are plenty of teachers out there who have not applied to themselves fully that which they teach, and a practitioner who has not cleared their own inner garbage may very well share this undesirable material with those they treat along with any positive energy. Look for a teacher who displays genuine humility in the practice, and one who takes the protection of their students very seriously, and one who emphasizes the clearing of self above all. There is much more to tell, and I will be glad to share, but for now I have a store to open.

Eram
20th June 2013, 15:10
Amen to that Reilly,

Other then in sports, were it is possible to coach someone to the top without having experienced it yourself, in spirituality, in a teacher student relation, we are being led by example.
How else are we going to get to the frozen fish sticks?

bmTxB5nXlzk

Eram
20th June 2013, 16:07
Especially the clearing of self is an underestimated and misunderstood tool in spiritual practice these days.

The ego wants to get to the enlightened state in the most direct way it sees and that is, turning his understanding of spiritual matters into a program, creating an image.

Reaching for the stars without dealing with the nitty gritty stuff will get one nowhere.

It is the clearing of the self that brings the gems into ones life...... so I have begun to understand recently. :)

There are a lot of ways to clear ones self, and if practised genuine, with a true involvement in the emotions, there will be real releasing and a raise of vibration.

dan33
20th June 2013, 17:21
Meeradas is ur avatar frank zappa?

Christine! It's the bird! :biggrin1:

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7U0_Mj1GitI?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


Thanks for the bird [i know the joy of that little one], Ulli [whole post is awesome - congrats on the spring: Mother obviously loves you]!

Singing heart.

A vid for meeradas

7U0_Mj1GitI

donk
20th June 2013, 18:13
I posted this in a different thread, it's an essay I revisit every other year or so since I first came across it...scary how dead on & timeless it is:

John Taylor Gatto's "6 Lesson Schoolteacher (http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html)"

eaglespirit
20th June 2013, 18:14
Especially the clearing of self is an underestimated and misunderstood tool in spiritual practice these days.

The ego wants to get to the enlightened state in the most direct way it sees and that is, turning his understanding of spiritual matters into a program, creating an image.

Reaching for the stars without dealing with the nitty gritty stuff will get one nowhere.

It is the clearing of the self that brings the gems into ones life...... so I have begun to understand recently. :)

There are a lot of ways to clear ones self, and if practiced genuine, with a true involvement in the emotions, there will be real releasing and a raise of vibration.

...and so it is, changing the world en masse, one by one by one!

Thank You Eram

Calz
20th June 2013, 18:22
There is much more to tell, and I will be glad to share, but for now I have a store to open.

My ticket ...

http://www.animationplaza.com/2/animations/people_a_to_b/businessmen_women/man_running_with_busi_a_hb.gif

Wind
20th June 2013, 21:14
http://oi41.tinypic.com/lee07.jpg

Lifebringer
20th June 2013, 21:26
All depends on, what's in or on the dart. If used to subdue a person intent on harming you with a tranquilizer, it's no different than a taser, in my book. A few booby traps may help also, you never know when they may come in handy.

I don't think we as a whole will suffer from the cataclysms much. There are many loving and good hearted people, that have been stepped on and still keep up a good stride, instead of striking/reacting violently. The storms with all these homes that "are covered" by insurance companies, will break those who have been over charging us. They will need us again, but the doors will be firmly shut, unless they change the whole game's rules. Greed isn't allowed to the extent of people dying. What is wrong with the people that are doing this. Surely there is a cure.

Calz
20th June 2013, 21:31
Perhaps you need to be as old as me to appreciate ... or not ...

3j8mr-gcgoI

Wind
20th June 2013, 21:33
You don't need to be old to appreciate Pink Floyd. I love that version too, Calz! :)

eaglespirit
20th June 2013, 22:36
uOQwdRMTKEk

Calz
20th June 2013, 23:06
Sugary blast from the past ...

Archies ... wow ... I think I had a 45 rpm by them oh about ... 50 years ago ... :whistle:

gripreaper
21st June 2013, 07:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3BYw4xjxE&list=RD15AOoeoiO-3C0

1inMany
21st June 2013, 11:58
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)

jiminii
21st June 2013, 12:18
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)

well I know another japanese thing ... not sure if it is reiki .. in los Angeles
they call it light .. they just flow light on the forehead and do some chant ,. and
then some things on the back

but doesn't sound like the definition of reiki in the wikipedia

jim

jiminii
21st June 2013, 12:47
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)



well I know another japanese thing ... not sure if it is reiki .. in los Angeles
they call it light .. they just flow light on the forehead and do some chant ,. and
then some things on the back

but doesn't sound like the definition of reiki in the wikipedia

jim


well ...I had a buddhist put heat around my head .. but I didn't know you can transfer pains too

jim

jiminii
21st June 2013, 13:07
First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...


does this reiki have anything to do with light ... for me it happened accidentally in holland ... a nurse had a toothache and i moved my hand near her face near the tooth and she suddenly reacted and said, "what did you do???? ... my toothache is gone .. " ....
I said, "I don't know what I did. "

then my friend was on the floor of a health food store ,.... screaming from pain or her right side ..... and i moved my hand next to her side ... (never touched her or the nurse) and she suddenly said, "jim .. the pain is gone .. " ... I didn't know why but I had a response from my inner self that wanted me to move my hand more to the middle ...
I said, "wait ... I have to move it more to the middle." ... I did and she said, "jim .. something moved inside me." ....

I said " wait ... I have to move it more " ... she said , "jim ... it moved again ... jim ....you got white lines coming from your fingers .... "

I couldn't see the white lines .... but she could

from then on ... I found I can find ridges in the body ... the body creates ridges to shut off pain .... so for example .. you hit your finger with a hammer ... then the spirit shuts off the communication to the finger ... this means blood circulation .. and everything to resist the pain ... so the finger swells up ... and takes a long time to heal

so I move my hand to the ridge and flow something inside until I feel the ridge go ... and the next day the swelling is gone ... and circulation is ok
I can feel when it is ok

just can't see it

jim

CD7
21st June 2013, 14:52
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)


Interesting synopsis of reiki, and along the lines of something ive heard before, where people are paranoid about whos "working" on them. I know she didn't ask, but ive seen this in groups where people are all there to do reiki together and they don't want a particular person working on there head say, because they believe something negative about them. To me this seemed very judgmental (but whts new with humans!)

Intention is the key--where your heart is...to me reiki is more concentrated BUT not all tht different from people walking around you all day and ALL of our energy is mixing anyway!! Were ALL CONNECTED When someone hugs you---its a form of reiki-- Reiki just a word--

To me we are "reiking" each other all the time, haphazardly---just our thoughts effect who your standing near, even far from! To me reiki may be a tool to turn your 'electric' into a "laser" so to speak

Ive been blessed to have 4-5 people around me doing reiki (we would do it different as apposed to one big circle and only a few practitioners around), one person lying down while there are many around u--its amplified!! ---with loving intention, the power felt is unmatched from walking around in daily life.

We are all mixing in our connected energy

PurpleLama
21st June 2013, 15:07
There are as many healing modalities and techniques and abilities as there are stars in the night. Reiki in general involves the use of light/energy that is accessed from a universal source. The form I teach is one of the many underground, so to speak, lineages, and we utilize much of the original reiki forms along with a plethora of techniques taken from a number of other modalities. Everyone has some natural access to the universal source, but through attunements, passed along from teacher to student somewhat like apostolic succession, the student is given a greater and greater connection to the energy. Many other modalities use some degree of universal energy along with some degree of one's personal energy, but these typically cannot be described as reiki related. One's experience with reiki is largely dependent on who one works with, with much variation between these in technique and practice. My own path is ascension reiki, and it is as much about the transformation/spiritualization of the practitioner as it is about the work the practitioner does for others.

ulli
21st June 2013, 17:34
I posted this in a different thread, it's an essay I revisit every other year or so since I first came across it...scary how dead on & timeless it is:

John Taylor Gatto's "6 Lesson Schoolteacher (http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html)"

I can't believe it ...I actually read the whole article.
And it is very true. Thanks, Donk.
So what is going to happen to bring about the needed change?

donk
21st June 2013, 17:37
I posted this in a different thread, it's an essay I revisit every other year or so since I first came across it...scary how dead on & timeless it is:

John Taylor Gatto's "6 Lesson Schoolteacher (http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html)"

I can't believe it ...I actually read the whole article.
And it is very true. Thanks, Donk.
So what is going to happen to bring about the needed change?

I'm pretty slow ulli, I spent a half decade or more just mired in hopelessness that only catastrophe could change anything. This place, and especially the village, has started to turn me around on that. I am still cleaning up my personal house, piecing together ideas to broadly effect change, while I do what I can by living by example on the interpersonal level...

donk
21st June 2013, 17:43
And by slow I mean held back by my own self-limitations…which I am working hard on the healing for…but is difficult with the seemingly infinite number of contracts I inadvertently (and some purposely) managed to accumulate—which I feel responsible for, and so therefore must juggle.

Just looking at my activity this past week, I wonder at how the eff I can manage to keep track of anything…it’s no wonder I spend hours at a time looking for my keys, or wondering why I walked into a room

dan33
21st June 2013, 17:48
I've found, at last, the whole scene. I'M SO EXCITED. ...enjoy :)

St3nh75tRrM

ulli
21st June 2013, 17:51
And by slow I mean held back by my own self-limitations…which I am working hard on the healing for…but is difficult with the seemingly infinite number of contracts I inadvertently (and some purposely) managed to accumulate—which I feel responsible for, and so therefore must juggle.

Just looking at my activity this past week, I wonder at how the eff I can manage to keep track of anything…it’s no wonder I spend hours at a time looking for my keys, or wondering why I walked into a room

I have the same problem. Maybe you can take comfort in the fact that you are not alone.

I believe the information explosion is unhealthy if it doesn't allow us the time to process what we have learnt.
Time to reflect.

And what we don't understand must then be properly discarded...which is in my opinion what the dream mechanism is for.
So a good nights rest is paramount. Also simplifying life.
.and that is why we have a harder time concentrating on our agenda...if we can be so lucky to even have one.

jiminii
21st June 2013, 17:53
There are as many healing modalities and techniques and abilities as there are stars in the night. Reiki in general involves the use of light/energy that is accessed from a universal source. The form I teach is one of the many underground, so to speak, lineages, and we utilize much of the original reiki forms along with a plethora of techniques taken from a number of other modalities. Everyone has some natural access to the universal source, but through attunements, passed along from teacher to student somewhat like apostolic succession, the student is given a greater and greater connection to the energy. Many other modalities use some degree of universal energy along with some degree of one's personal energy, but these typically cannot be described as reiki related. One's experience with reiki is largely dependent on who one works with, with much variation between these in technique and practice. My own path is ascension reiki, and it is as much about the transformation/spiritualization of the practitioner as it is about the work the practitioner does for others.

don't you have to be careful about mesmerism ... and if something is wrong with the healer it is transferred to the patient

Jim

ulli
21st June 2013, 18:11
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)


Interesting synopsis of reiki, and along the lines of something ive heard before, where people are paranoid about whos "working" on them. I know she didn't ask, but ive seen this in groups where people are all there to do reiki together and they don't want a particular person working on there head say, because they believe something negative about them. To me this seemed very judgmental (but whts new with humans!)

Intention is the key--where your heart is...to me reiki is more concentrated BUT not all tht different from people walking around you all day and ALL of our energy is mixing anyway!! Were ALL CONNECTED When someone hugs you---its a form of reiki-- Reiki just a word--

To me we are "reiking" each other all the time, haphazardly---just our thoughts effect who your standing near, even far from! To me reiki may be a tool to turn your 'electric' into a "laser" so to speak

Ive been blessed to have 4-5 people around me doing reiki (we would do it different as apposed to one big circle and only a few practitioners around), one person lying down while there are many around u--its amplified!! ---with loving intention, the power felt is unmatched from walking around in daily life.

We are all mixing in our connected energy


Yeah, this is exactly what was happening here a year ago
when the Here and Now Village was buzzing with lots of healers.

Maybe we are going through a lull, and it's just a matter of time before we are back there.
But also we've had less people asking for healing lately.

Each time that I did I could feel beneficial results within the hour.

ulli
21st June 2013, 18:15
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)

well I know another japanese thing ... not sure if it is reiki .. in los Angeles
they call it light .. they just flow light on the forehead and do some chant ,. and
then some things on the back

but doesn't sound like the definition of reiki in the wikipedia

jim


I think you mean Johrei. Japanese form of distant healing. I had it done once. .

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

donk
21st June 2013, 18:24
I’m hoping to get to the ECETI ranch, that can’t hurt. Hoping they will have me, I can’t figure out their invite system, eagerly awaiting a response to my query…they don’t have any events on the days I’m out there but I am hoping to just go and experience it…

I feel like a kid told I MIGHT get to go to Disneyworld!

jiminii
21st June 2013, 18:29
me I just want to finish my mission ,.. go back into the stars ... maybe make a dream planet ... where we don't have one species eat another to survive ...

jim

jiminii
21st June 2013, 18:36
I’m hoping to get to the ECETI ranch, that can’t hurt. Hoping they will have me, I can’t figure out their invite system, eagerly awaiting a response to my query…they don’t have any events on the days I’m out there but I am hoping to just go and experience it…

what is eceti ranch?

jim

jiminii
21st June 2013, 18:48
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)

well I know another japanese thing ... not sure if it is reiki .. in los Angeles
they call it light .. they just flow light on the forehead and do some chant ,. and
then some things on the back

but doesn't sound like the definition of reiki in the wikipedia

jim


I think you mean Johrei. Japanese form of distant healing. I had it done once. .

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

yes ... that sounds like it

devine light

the thing is I have this without a ritual .. just do it ...

jim

donk
21st June 2013, 18:59
I’m hoping to get to the ECETI ranch, that can’t hurt. Hoping they will have me, I can’t figure out their invite system, eagerly awaiting a response to my query…they don’t have any events on the days I’m out there but I am hoping to just go and experience it…

what is eceti ranch?

jim

It's James Gilliland's joint, I can't do it any justice by describing it (& have never been there, so can't really say)...but if I get to go I will hopefully meet Giovanni (an avid Avalon poster, who's "up on the ranch thread" might answer some questions) and James and I'm sure lots of great folk

It's a relatively short drive from two of the towns I'll be at when I go to Oregon in August.

ulli
21st June 2013, 19:16
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)

well I know another japanese thing ... not sure if it is reiki .. in los Angeles
they call it light .. they just flow light on the forehead and do some chant ,. and
then some things on the back

but doesn't sound like the definition of reiki in the wikipedia

jim


I think you mean Johrei. Japanese form of distant healing. I had it done once. .

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

yes ... that sounds like it

devine light

the thing is I have this without a ritual .. just do it ...

jim

Exactly. When the intent is right and balanced with the emotional fuel of love then no ritual is necessary. Basically the purpose of all rituals is to have a group of people on the same page. Sort of like a protocol.
The other thing about ritual, because of the esthetics involved, can heighten the senses of the participants.
Music, lighting, colored glass, flowers, altars, heavy symbolism....it's all done for effect:
To stimulate the commitment and sense of belonging of the participants.

But in a session between healer and patient it's mostly passed-on tradition.
Once a healer has freed himself from his teachers he can move onto
whatever he or she feels useful for the patients relaxation.

Like my acupuncturist, who plays Enya in a room full of orchids.
It works, too, unless one can't stand Enya.

DeDukshyn
21st June 2013, 20:04
Just popping to say hi to all you fine villagers, I'll have to stop by a little more often, I miss you guys.

Here and now dealing with rain ... lots of rain ... http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/21/calgary-flooding-downtown-mandatory-evacuations_n_3479785.html?ref=topbar (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/21/calgary-flooding-downtown-mandatory-evacuations_n_3479785.html?ref=topbar)

eaglespirit
21st June 2013, 20:11
I’m hoping to get to the ECETI ranch, that can’t hurt. Hoping they will have me, I can’t figure out their invite system, eagerly awaiting a response to my query…they don’t have any events on the days I’m out there but I am hoping to just go and experience it…

I feel like a kid told I MIGHT get to go to Disneyworld!

Use me as a reference, Donk...Dan the eagle man orrrr smokin' beaver(pipe smokin' carpenter) orrrr 13th apostle(from a 'connection' session with James) ...James or Nate or Giovonni will get Ya an invite confirmed by email : )

Have a Great Visit : )

DeDukshyn
21st June 2013, 20:12
As if on cue, the Universe provided a learning opportunity for me yesterday. First the question about Reiki, then there was Reilly's response, then...

At the store I met a woman who says she does Reiki and energy work both. We had a light conversation, nothing real meaningful or deep. Just chit chat about the difference between the two, since I really didn't understand. And out of the blue, the woman stood up, walked around behind me, and put her hand above my head. I felt a very hot energy above my head. It surprised me so much, I couldn't even ask her "What the heck are you doing?" And she made some weird sounds of recognition, like "Ohhhh. Hmmmm."

She only held her hand above my head, sizing me up I gather, for a split second and moved to Em. Same deal there, but then she put her hand on Em's head. She proceeded to run her hand down Em's right arm, then her left, stopping at a certain place each time and stated that Em was in pain. Em was stunned, as she actually had not been in pain, but her elbows and arms became sore and then her joints became painful...within about 10 minutes.

After this "assessment" by this lady, she abruptly left. No goodbye, no nothing.

So I sat there in utter amazement that she would do such a thing. One of the things I hold dear is the Law (to me it is a law with a capital "L") of Free Will. I would never, never do Reiki on someone without their permission or that of the Higher Self. And since I don't know how to communicate with someone's Higher Self, I just stay with sending Reiki to those who ask.

Secondly, looking back at what happened, I can see that doing Reiki without keeping oneself clear is like doing surgeries without washing hands in between. Because what happened was that this woman had not kept herself clear between all her many massage clients, and proceeded to shlep onto Em and me all the crud she had moved around in them. The sad part about this, truly, is that she was also shlepping all the crap from one client to another. So these clients who came to her to feel better, and who had no knowledge of her energy work, walked in with (possibly) one problem, but undoubtedly walked out with a whole new layer of crap.

Anyway, it only took a moment to pull off the crud from Em and from myself. All is Okay here. I will be better prepared next time I meet this lady, and really next time I meet anyone who up and decides to size me up by barging into my (or Em's) personal space.

First of all, what a sync for me. Second, what a learning experience for me to see this up close and personal. Third, what a reminder. Fourth, what a teach/learning opportunity for S and me...and Em, who is also at the beginning of her Reiki path.

The Universe is certainly efficient. Man.

Every day is a learning experience in my world, I can tell ya that.

Much Love. Have a great Friday Everybody :)

well I know another japanese thing ... not sure if it is reiki .. in los Angeles
they call it light .. they just flow light on the forehead and do some chant ,. and
then some things on the back

but doesn't sound like the definition of reiki in the wikipedia

jim


I think you mean Johrei. Japanese form of distant healing. I had it done once. .

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

yes ... that sounds like it

devine light

the thing is I have this without a ritual .. just do it ...

jim

Exactly. When the intent is right and balanced with the emotional fuel of love then no ritual is necessary. Basically the purpose of all rituals is to have a group of people on the same page. Sort of like a protocol.
The other thing about ritual, because of the esthetics involved, can heighten the senses of the participants.
Music, lighting, colored glass, flowers, altars, heavy symbolism....it's all done for effect:
To stimulate the commitment and sense of belonging of the participants.

But in a session between healer and patient it's mostly passed-on tradition.
Once a healer has freed himself from his teachers he can move onto
whatever he or she feels useful for the patients relaxation.

Like my acupuncturist, who plays Enya in a room full of orchids.
It works, too, unless one can't stand Enya.

I consider rituals also as amplification process for the placebo effect. The "sugar pill" is the physical item that the patient believes in to reach the desired outcome. Likewise, I see the "ritual" as the sugar pill, that focuses peoples intent and energy, that normally would not exist. Just like if the doctor said, "here is a sugar pill", it likely won't work as a placebo, but if he said, "this will cure you" there is a 40% chance it will. Drugs only need to achieve efficacy consistently greater than a placebo. So in reality, 40% of every drug's treatment success might be attributed to the placebo effect while only 5 or 10% might actually be the drug. Based on efficacy testing and these stats placebos will always be a better treatment than the drug - which means the cure comes form your mind, and not so much the drug.

Anyway, enough of a tangent - I just wanted to share my view of a ritual, I see it as neither good nor bad but can be easily used either way. The greatest harm in a ritual is blindly going through it without knowing what its purpose or effect is.

eaglespirit
21st June 2013, 20:17
I’m hoping to get to the ECETI ranch, that can’t hurt. Hoping they will have me, I can’t figure out their invite system, eagerly awaiting a response to my query…they don’t have any events on the days I’m out there but I am hoping to just go and experience it…

what is eceti ranch?

jim


There my Spiritual Family at that thar wonderful place in the Northwest, Jim : )

http://www.eceti.org/

Carmody
21st June 2013, 20:37
I posted this in a different thread, it's an essay I revisit every other year or so since I first came across it...scary how dead on & timeless it is:

John Taylor Gatto's "6 Lesson Schoolteacher (http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html)"

I can't believe it ...I actually read the whole article.
And it is very true. Thanks, Donk.
So what is going to happen to bring about the needed change?

I'm pretty slow ulli, I spent a half decade or more just mired in hopelessness that only catastrophe could change anything. This place, and especially the village, has started to turn me around on that. I am still cleaning up my personal house, piecing together ideas to broadly effect change, while I do what I can by living by example on the interpersonal level...

It would be nice to experience change without a near total destruction. The indication seems to be that it's total destruction -or accept the change. People are stubborn and generally can't see the larger circles of logic and being.

the trick has been to get the message out when there is time to understand it. To understand it, with a limited view, means that the gun has to be in people's faces, and the rug has to be in the act of being pulledout from under them.

It's that ego thing as a body message interpreter that slows the process down. to understand that the intellect IS the muse and the voice in the head is merely the rote learning pattern of the body in it's highest form...come to life in the form of an internal voice. It is the pre-voice that is the actual intellect and occupant. And so on.

eaglespirit
21st June 2013, 20:48
...back t back posting today

cuz geee whiizzers...
it is getting more surreal by the moment for me in my day to day doings...
Ya know, pouring concrete and fixing house trim and doing repairs at the office/shop of my buddy on the Cape...

Every moment of interaction with "Whoever" is in front of me seems to be but a slow motion picture frame to frame of Spirit Happenings...like I'm here but not yet it is more subtly intense than ever in each moment...
We really are on a ride to the Stars...and I ain't kiddin'...it's right in Our Faces now...Here and There and Everywhere Now : )

donk
21st June 2013, 21:07
Is the new little alpha male of our pack precious or what?

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=21818&d=1371848663

Summit's starting to come around on him (still don't seems like he completely trusts him though :p):

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=21817&d=1371848646

He likes to climb:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=21816&d=1371848630

ulli
21st June 2013, 21:51
Mine is a curtain shredder, too.
Not quite fully grown yet, but heavy enough to bring the whole lot down.
As I'm writing this she is sitting in my lap; picture of innocence ...
a mini black panther with a white bib and white spats. And white whiskers.

Wondering what was the warning I ignored before that tree fell on our beach house...
which was the catastrophe of this year.
Still fixing the house...costing a fortune...
I recall looking at the tree one day and noticing that it was starting to lean towards our house...
but then I thought Nah! and that I was imagining things.

dejavu
21st June 2013, 23:50
Okay this feels rather strange......a thread that looking for whats happening now and I haven't linked into Avalon for sometime......so whats happening now..........two parallel universes are existing at the same time.......Avalon isn't daily living it takes us out ourselves and sometimes into ourselves...........once you link into it your changed it becomes part of you even if you don't click the internet button.............

Nanoo Nanoo
22nd June 2013, 00:53
i was on a train once a few years ago in the sacred valley on the way to machu pichu... the train was a big blue diesel monster but inside it was quiet and comfortable. up top the roof was glass so passengers could see the valleys and mountains.

in the seat across the isle from me was an elgerly man and woman couple. she was a loving woman , holding the hand of her man with a look of hope in her eyes.. he was looking down with heavy thick glasses tinted black . . .

i could sence the man had problems with his eye sight .. and was having trouble seeing .. hence why in this beautiful place he stared at the table in front of him. . .

i had an over whelming sence to help the man and with this i asked for the gods to let me heal his eyes... so i connected with him , without permission . . and i worked on this mans eyes . . . about 10 minutes later i saw drops of water stream down his face . . . and he took off his glasses . . . he looked at his wife and asked to grab the camera . . . and he started to eagerly take photos of the landscape . . .

i did not have permission and this goes against my normal way however i had a feeling this man came to machu pichu for a miracle , and the gods saw fit for me to see if he had the good karma to receive one . . . i felt in my heart he was a good man, mostly because of the love and respect his wife showed him and he had a kind face. I saw fit as a healer to facilitate the energy transfer in a way that would not shock or inbue fear in the man. . . had he have known he was about to be healed he would not have been so relaxed , had i have gotten permission he would perhaps been fearful. . . both instances could hamper healing.

miracles happen every day

why did this miracle happen to this man ? because he followed his heart and because he showed great faith. the gods like this , this is someone we can work with .

this is someone who can pass on the story of healing , of faith and of love. what does this do ? it gives Hope. Hope and Faith when they meet with richeousness and benevolence make a power that no man or being or god can falter.

walk tall that you be one of these . . . the light shine down on you always in that you shall share all that you know with your fellow man and it was good.


Reilly , i share your analogy of the stars and healing modalities : 0 )


Naniu Trismesquetes Ap-Balan Ubuntu

Flash
22nd June 2013, 01:03
I posted this in a different thread, it's an essay I revisit every other year or so since I first came across it...scary how dead on & timeless it is:

John Taylor Gatto's "6 Lesson Schoolteacher (http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html)"

I can't believe it ...I actually read the whole article.
And it is very true. Thanks, Donk.
So what is going to happen to bring about the needed change?

I read it all too. Excellent text, I am if full agreement with Gatto. On all points including the overburden of the single parent families and the obligatory two income families of the lower middle class and the poors.

Flash
22nd June 2013, 01:11
I posted this in a different thread, it's an essay I revisit every other year or so since I first came across it...scary how dead on & timeless it is:

John Taylor Gatto's "6 Lesson Schoolteacher (http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html)"

I can't believe it ...I actually read the whole article.
And it is very true. Thanks, Donk.
So what is going to happen to bring about the needed change?

I'm pretty slow ulli, I spent a half decade or more just mired in hopelessness that only catastrophe could change anything. This place, and especially the village, has started to turn me around on that. I am still cleaning up my personal house, piecing together ideas to broadly effect change, while I do what I can by living by example on the interpersonal level...

It would be nice to experience change without a near total destruction. The indication seems to be that it's total destruction -or accept the change. People are stubborn and generally can't see the larger circles of logic and being.

the trick has been to get the message out when there is time to understand it. To understand it, with a limited view, means that the gun has to be in people's faces, and the rug has to be in the act of being pulledout from under them.

It's that ego thing as a body message interpreter that slows the process down. to understand that the intellect IS the muse and the voice in the head is merely the rote learning pattern of the body in it's highest form...come to life in the form of an internal voice. It is the pre-voice that is the actual intellect and occupant. And so on.

If the carpet is pulled out, be it. However, true, it would be nice to experience hcange without a near total destruction through acceptation and let go of the ego.

I would very much appreciate if you could, please, develop a bit further on the ego as a body message interpreter slowing the process down and that the intellect IS the muse. Also on the pre-voice.

thanks, many of them, as always

Melinda
22nd June 2013, 03:04
I love finding examples of how collaboration brings out the best in us, in all ways, and nourishes greater happiness and creativity :)

I’ve been researching the subject of collaboration versus competition the past few hours, and thought I’d rustle up a little collaboration post

I found a lovely documentary on the current Finnish school system and how it’s become the way it is,

The film makes statistical comparisons here and there between the U.S.A. and Finland regarding money spent, student results, methods applied etc.

In the documentary, there seems to be an ethos of trust that is valued in the Finnish system both at the individual level (between students and teachers) and also with schools themselves being trusted to steer their own paths. There is also an environment of transparency, helping both teachers and students to support and to learn from one another.

From an article published 27.11.12:
”A new global league table, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit for Pearson, has found Finland to be the best education system in the world. The rankings combined international test results and data such as graduation rates between 2006 and 2010, the BBC reports. For Finland, this is no fluke. Since it implemented huge education reforms 40 years ago, the country's school system has consistently come in at the top for the international rankings for education systems.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/finlands-education-system-best-in-world-2012-11?op=1

The Finland Phenomenon (part 1 of 4) :

VhH78NnRpp0

I also found this pyramid picture here : http://dbassett.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/collaborative-reasoning-part-iii.html

http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/PyramidofCollaboration_zps43b00a77.jpg (http://s1267.photobucket.com/user/DoodlemakerUK/media/PyramidofCollaboration_zps43b00a77.jpg.html)

I find this picture beautiful...

http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/TreeMuralCollaboration_zps7f98f790.jpg (http://s1267.photobucket.com/user/DoodlemakerUK/media/TreeMuralCollaboration_zps7f98f790.jpg.html)

From the guiding artist:
“The workshop plans and executes a monumental collaborative painting (mural) over three days. The scale of a mural fosters great freedom of expression and artistic accomplishment within the context of cooperation and compromise... [text missing] ...This project was very interesting... the art teacher involved had prepared the students very well and they focused on the theme of "Trees". Once I arrived, the theme evolved and became something of a more personal nature. In my opinion, the trees in the final mural are equal to symbolic self portraits. It inspired me to write on the mural, "I see you are growing into a beautiful future."
More words and colourful pics of the mural-making process here:
http://www.marciomelo.com/Murals/Symmes/SymmesJuniorHighSchool.htm

:)

Blessings to all

CdnSirian
22nd June 2013, 04:22
I read J T Gatto many years ago. Unfortunately my child found it and that busted the whole education facade. But we all adapted and he came through it, as far as he went. He completed his education himself extremely well.

Taurean
22nd June 2013, 04:46
I was astonished when this appeared on the BBC front page


21819

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-22983465

meeradas
22nd June 2013, 08:29
1. (http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/2013_laureates/) "world food prize" 2013 laureates [do scroll a little].

2. (http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/about_the_prize/sponsors/) sponsors.

Isn't that amazing.

ulli
22nd June 2013, 10:27
We are all doomed....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-prove-society-is-doomed

donk
22nd June 2013, 13:42
This made my day, so in case anyone in the village missed it, Dan the eagle man dropped this inspiration bomb on a different thread...figured it would feel just as good here too:



All of the verbal diatribe of wasted energy is dissolving... the new earth will not tolerate it and EVERYONE must simply change and turn from their dishonest and deceitful doings at EVERY level or they will BE the limelight by default...all bets are off in any of their worlds of deception!

donk
22nd June 2013, 14:11
1. (http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/2013_laureates/) "world food prize" 2013 laureates [do scroll a little].

2. (http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/about_the_prize/sponsors/) sponsors.

Isn't that amazing.

As meeradas I'm grateful for all the wonderful sponsors as well, these dudes are champions of protecting our food supply (& precious fluids):


The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • DuPont Pioneer • John Deere Foundation
The Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition • Monsanto • DuPont Pioneer
Ruan Transportation Management Systems • Claudia and Paul Schickler

All I see are vehicles of god's will, remember to thank these entities for all the good they do

Nanoo Nanoo
22nd June 2013, 20:15
We are all doomed....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-prove-society-is-doomed

aaaaaaarghhh ! i phones .... RUNNNN !

i frikkin detest i phones ! arrrrghhhhh ! burp !


ulli you really know how to tangle my antlers ! ha

N ;0)P

ulli
22nd June 2013, 21:03
We are all doomed....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-prove-society-is-doomed

aaaaaaarghhh ! i phones .... RUNNNN !

i frikkin detest i phones ! arrrrghhhhh ! burp !


ulli you really know how to tangle my antlers ! ha

N ;0)P

Nanoo have you thought of opening a pub and calling it "The Tangled Antler"?

ulli
22nd June 2013, 21:57
Evolution:

http://i.imgur.com/cvYXfxz.gif

Carmody
23rd June 2013, 04:09
I love finding examples of how collaboration brings out the best in us, in all ways, and nourishes greater happiness and creativity :)

I’ve been researching the subject of collaboration versus competition the past few hours, and thought I’d rustle up a little collaboration post

I found a lovely documentary on the current Finnish school system and how it’s become the way it is,

The film makes statistical comparisons here and there between the U.S.A. and Finland regarding money spent, student results, methods applied etc.

In the documentary, there seems to be an ethos of trust that is valued in the Finnish system both at the individual level (between students and teachers) and also with schools themselves being trusted to steer their own paths. There is also an environment of transparency, helping both teachers and students to support and to learn from one another.



The US education system has been bent to a requirement that it create a divide, to dis-empower, to polarize, to dumb down. It is a incarceration system based on debasing a society, via the ruination of it's youth and the world they live in and come from.

Since the Project paperclip scientists (Nazi scientists) where brought to the US black ops systems by their fellow fascists (federal reserve bankers and secret society members,etc) who financed them in the first place, the downturn in the USA's progress has been steady and resolute. We are now on the verge of a totally broken system in the US which is slated to collapse, and this group is hoping to step in more fully (and openly) than they are now. Fascism and the NWO agenda. Driving the USA like a car, to crush anything that gets in it's way.

A quote from Carrol Quigley, on what is actually going on:

....Also related to the problem of internalized controls is the shift of weapons in our society. this is a profound problem. I have spent ten years working on it throughout history,and I hope eventually to produce a book if I can find a publisher. There will be endless analysis of Chinese history and Byzantine History and Russian history and everything else, and the book is about nine-tenths written, I'd say, in the last ten years. The shift of weapons in any civilization and, above all, in our civilization, from shock weapons to missile weapons, has a dominant influence on the ability to control individuals....

In our society, individual behavior can no longer be controlled by any system of weaponry we have. In fact, we do not have enough people, even if we equip them with shock weapons, to control the behavior of the part of the population which does not have internalized controls. One reason for that, of course, is that the twenty percent who do not have internalized controls is concentrated in certain areas. (like attracts like) I won't go into the subject of controls. It opens up the whole field of guerrilla resistance, terrorism,and everything else; these cannot be controlled by any system or organized structure of force that exists, at least on the basis of missile weaponry. And, as I said, it would take too many people on the basis of shock weaponry. We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide: we have shifted from an army of citizen soldiers to an army of mercenaries, and those mercenaries are being recruited in our society as they were in roman society, from the twenty percent of the the population which does not have the internalized controls of the civilization.

From 'the evolution of civilizations'.

This takes us to the GMO, the Monsanto, the squalene, mercury, fluoride, the vaccines, the toxins, the chemtrails, etc.

To dumb down, to control, to burn off the twenty percent, in the act of controlling all other country and continent wide 20 percents in the given geographical areas.

As we step into over unity technologies, all attempts at control of any part of society, never mind the uncontrollable and out of control twenty percent, all attempts will fall short. Even attempts like outright retardation of the society and individuals in it, which is is what we are seeing, right now. The next step is a break in progress and the bleed off of any capacity to wage war in a physical location that is internal to the given society. Weapons and ammunition restrictions, a war based society (police state), massive incarceration, debased entertainment in order to distract and direct, and so on. We are also looking at an intelligence test, for that average individual, one that has no instruction, other than observation and action, motion, blend, connect, etc.

Over unity energies and associated issues means that the given individual can kill anyone and all, with no limits. Thus it is a case of humanity entering a gauntlet. A gauntlet that will prove to be messy, under the best of intentions and actions.

I've always thought that this is a game of final positioning as the curtain of limits begins to come down. A change. Musical chairs for the game of the millennium; who is in the lead and actually has a population, when over unity and all that it implies -hits the streets. The fire and the phoenix, individually and collectively, all at the same time.

It is no secret that the Christan and the Muslim extremists are simply mirrors of each other, and have that 'lack of internal control'. Thus, they are pitted against one another, as a form of burn off. Their danger is perceived to be so great to humanity's survival in this emergent world of dimensional connections and over unity energies... that it is sadly, as basic calculations go... immaterial if many good people go to rest in the midst of their downfall. It is far more important that the 20% get burned off. It's a numbers game, where results count in the one area, all else is secondary in the extreme.

The problem is how the 20% is used and integrated. Quite the mess.

We are so sensitive to the subject (of lacking internal controls) on this forum, that we Can generally sense it on another, simply due to their writing and reactions. Those that do not possess those controls, of course, cannot see that issue in themselves.

Believe it or not, that was a pep talk. :) Most here know the situation and know the lay of the layers and lands. A look at the bleak aspects of potentials, in plain speak, every now and then. To look at the stick, what it is, where it's been and where it wants to go, so it can be considered as well as possible. One cannot avoid the stick, unless they know what it is.

Personally, this view above, while incomplete and imperfect -does not faze me.

jiminii
23rd June 2013, 05:10
I love finding examples of how collaboration brings out the best in us, in all ways, and nourishes greater happiness and creativity :)

I’ve been researching the subject of collaboration versus competition the past few hours, and thought I’d rustle up a little collaboration post

I found a lovely documentary on the current Finnish school system and how it’s become the way it is,

The film makes statistical comparisons here and there between the U.S.A. and Finland regarding money spent, student results, methods applied etc.

In the documentary, there seems to be an ethos of trust that is valued in the Finnish system both at the individual level (between students and teachers) and also with schools themselves being trusted to steer their own paths. There is also an environment of transparency, helping both teachers and students to support and to learn from one another.



The US education system has been bent to a requirement that it create a divide, to dis-empower, to polarize, to dumb down. It is a incarceration system based on debasing a society, via the ruination of it's youth and the world they live in and come from.

Since the Project paperclip scientists (Nazi scientists) where brought to the US black ops systems by their fellow fascists (federal reserve bankers and secret society members,etc) who financed them in the first place, the downturn in the USA's progress has been steady and resolute. We are now on the verge of a totally broken system in the US which is slated to collapse, and this group is hoping to step in more fully (and openly) than they are now. Fascism and the NWO agenda. Driving the USA like a car, to crush anything that gets in it's way.

A quote from Carrol Quigley, on what is actually going on:

....Also related to the problem of internalized controls is the shift of weapons in our society. this is a profound problem. I have spent ten years working on it throughout history,and I hope eventually to produce a book if I can find a publisher. There will be endless analysis of Chinese history and Byzantine History and Russian history and everything else, and the book is about nine-tenths written, I'd say, in the last ten years. The shift of weapons in any civilization and, above all, in our civilization, from shock weapons to missile weapons, has a dominant influence on the ability to control individuals....

In our society, individual behavior can no longer be controlled by any system of weaponry we have. In fact, we do not have enough people, even if we equip them with shock weapons, to control the behavior of the part of the population which does not have internalized controls. One reason for that, of course, is that the twenty percent who do not have internalized controls is concentrated in certain areas. (like attracts like) I won't go into the subject of controls. It opens up the whole field of guerrilla resistance, terrorism,and everything else; these cannot be controlled by any system or organized structure of force that exists, at least on the basis of missile weaponry. And, as I said, it would take too many people on the basis of shock weaponry. We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide: we have shifted from an army of citizen soldiers to an army of mercenaries, and those mercenaries are being recruited in our society as they were in roman society, from the twenty percent of the the population which does not have the internalized controls of the civilization.

From 'the evolution of civilizations'.

This takes us to the GMO, the Monsanto, the squalene, mercury, fluoride, the vaccines, the toxins, the chemtrails, etc.

To dumb down, to control, to burn off the twenty percent, in the act of controlling all other country and continent wide 20 percents in the given geographical areas.

As we step into over unity technologies, all attempts at control of any part of society, never mind the uncontrollable and out of control twenty percent, all attempts will fall short. Even outright retardation of the society and individuals in it, which is is what we are seeing, right now. the next step is a break in progress and the bleed off of any capacity to wage war in a physical location that is internal to the given society. Weapons and ammunition restrictions, a war based society (police state), massive incarceration, debased entertainment in order to distract and direct, and so on.

Over unity energies and associated issues means that the given killer can kill anyone and all, with no limits. Thus it is a case of humanity entering a gauntlet. A gauntlet that will prove to be messy, under the best of intentions and actions.

I've always thought that this is a game of final positioning as the curtain of limits begins to come down. Musical chairs for the game of the millennium; who is in the lead and actually has a population, when over unity and all that it implies -hits the streets. The fire and the phoenix, individually and collectively, all at the same time.

It is no secret that the Christan and the Muslim extremists are simply mirrors of each other, and have that 'lack of internal control'. Thus, they are pitted against one another, as a form of burn off. Their danger is perceived to be so great to humanity's survival in this emergent world of dimensional connections and over unity energies... that it is sadly, as basic calculations go... immaterial if many good people go to rest in the midst of their downfall. It is far more important that the 20% get burned off. It's a numbers game, where results count in the one area, all else is secondary in the extreme.

The problem is how the 20% is used and integrated. Quite the mess.

We are so sensitive to the subject (of lacking internal controls) on this forum, that we Can generally sense it on another, simply due to their writing and reactions. Those that do not possess those controls, of course, cannot see that issue in themselves.

this is what a master games player can do in Ron's Org ... we have the ability to control masses ..of people ,... and we are doing it right now ... as long as he hold our position they can't seem to get the ball rolling ... and by the time they do .. it will be too late ... they will be out of power .. and then we can deprogram all these entities and create the new world

jim

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Thank you so much for your post .. you are really waking me up ... to the mission .... I see why now I am not worried about this planet anymore ... hahaha ...it is ours believe me ...

jim

Ernie Nemeth
23rd June 2013, 13:48
Talkin' about being out of control:

Thank God for the full moon. Now I can finally rest easy. Could barely turn a screw the last two days, too emotionally draining - couldn't get my hands to co-operate with my eyes, for the precision work. Had to stop and wait for the moon... Waxing kills me, waning is when I shine.

Nanoo Nanoo
23rd June 2013, 16:06
We are all doomed....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-prove-society-is-doomed

aaaaaaarghhh ! i phones .... RUNNNN !

i frikkin detest i phones ! arrrrghhhhh ! burp !


ulli you really know how to tangle my antlers ! ha

N ;0)P

Nanoo have you thought of opening a pub and calling it "The Tangled Antler"?

now thats not bad at all young lady !

hmmm

I know what the sign on the front door would be " No I Phones premitted on premises "

there would be rooms full of people not being able to text each other lol

N

jiminii
23rd June 2013, 16:23
We are all doomed....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-prove-society-is-doomed

aaaaaaarghhh ! i phones .... RUNNNN !

i frikkin detest i phones ! arrrrghhhhh ! burp !


ulli you really know how to tangle my antlers ! ha

N ;0)P

Nanoo have you thought of opening a pub and calling it "The Tangled Antler"?

now thats not bad at all young lady !

hmmm

I know what the sign on the front door would be " No I Phones premitted on premises "

there would be rooms full of people not being able to text each other lol

N

we are going to revert back to wires and cans ... you yell through the can and it goes to a tree house where there are some others to relay them to some other tree houses down the street ... and on and on until you got cans and wires everywhere to send messages naturally ... and at each tree there will be a known routing where the kid who is receiving the message can yell it down the right wire to the next can that will go to the next tree house until it arrives ... somewhere someplace ... some how .... and this will create a lot of jobs for kids all around the world ... so they will be able to feed their parents if they lost their jobs ....

what you think?

jim

Nanoo Nanoo
23rd June 2013, 17:37
My alarm clock wakes me up With This tune. Excellent.
"He" (an AI designed by Vivek) remainds me that I'm a Magician (as everyone else).
Travolta (Tony Manero) is also a Magician . Instead of pointing his finger to the Universe, he points it to the three Pleiadians (The Bee Gees). His left hand discovers the colorful board (a square is become a pentagon), instead of the wood table with the four elements. A colored square floor (the digital world approaching us) reminds me of "The Matrix", the movie.

0QOJDdwp3dE

If MATRIX were shooted in 1979, Travolta would be NEO.
Produced by Robert Stigwood.


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C0jk3EjbGa8/UMIya4DafFI/AAAAAAAAAM4/J8y8uISXp1w/s1600/rws-01-magician.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n-J_VpRXTKM/UUaLdMX97xI/AAAAAAAAGtU/3QJC2sboFMQ/s1600/Saturday-Night-Fever-Album-Cover-John-Travolta.jpg

You do know that John Travolta can fly aeroplanes ?

woooosh !

N

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We are all doomed....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-prove-society-is-doomed

aaaaaaarghhh ! i phones .... RUNNNN !

i frikkin detest i phones ! arrrrghhhhh ! burp !


ulli you really know how to tangle my antlers ! ha

N ;0)P

Nanoo have you thought of opening a pub and calling it "The Tangled Antler"?

now thats not bad at all young lady !

hmmm

I know what the sign on the front door would be " No I Phones premitted on premises "

there would be rooms full of people not being able to text each other lol

N

we are going to revert back to wires and cans ... you yell through the can and it goes to a tree house where there are some others to relay them to some other tree houses down the street ... and on and on until you got cans and wires everywhere to send messages naturally ... and at each tree there will be a known routing where the kid who is receiving the message can yell it down the right wire to the next can that will go to the next tree house until it arrives ... somewhere someplace ... some how .... and this will create a lot of jobs for kids all around the world ... so they will be able to feed their parents if they lost their jobs ....

what you think?

jim

i love your brain ! very cool idea ..Put me down for a Can , i can pay with gum leaves .


N

ulli
23rd June 2013, 18:37
Wow, Jiminii and Nanoo and Dan33 have all finally found each other.
I can take a break from carrying the world on my shoulders.
How neat is that?

Orph
23rd June 2013, 19:25
Wow, Jiminii and Nanoo and Dan33 have all finally found each other.
I can take a break from carrying the world on my shoulders.
How neat is that?Yeah, except now you'll need some earplugs. Instead of relaxing on your porch enjoying the sounds of nature, you'll be hearing a constant barrage of all the kids in the neighborhood yelling at each other from up in the tree's. Imagine this going on all day, .............

"Call for Nellie on the tomato can. Bob's on the can of peas trying to connect with Dave. What? No, I didn't say Nellie was IN the can, I said she's on the tomato can. No, Martha is the can of peaches, Marty is the pear can. Geeeeze you dweeb. Get it right. Oh crap. Pass the word, the east village is down. Somebody stole all the cans and tied them to the back of a car because somebody got married. Okay. ... Got word that Cambells soups is sending in a case of Cream of Broccoli's to help out in the disaster. ... Call for Ted on the oatmeal box

Ugggh. Life would be better without phones.

PurpleLama
23rd June 2013, 21:32
i dreamed this page last night.

i have got to love that german irony, makes you feel this><big.

to quote dan the eagle man, love love love!


its going faster than even expected, but so is the "response"

Nanoo Nanoo
24th June 2013, 00:15
Wow, Jiminii and Nanoo and Dan33 have all finally found each other.
I can take a break from carrying the world on my shoulders.
How neat is that?Yeah, except now you'll need some earplugs. Instead of relaxing on your porch enjoying the sounds of nature, you'll be hearing a constant barrage of all the kids in the neighborhood yelling at each other from up in the tree's. Imagine this going on all day, .............

"Call for Nellie on the tomato can. Bob's on the can of peas trying to connect with Dave. What? No, I didn't say Nellie was IN the can, I said she's on the tomato can. No, Martha is the can of peaches, Marty is the pear can. Geeeeze you dweeb. Get it right. Oh crap. Pass the word, the east village is down. Somebody stole all the cans and tied them to the back of a car because somebody got married. Okay. ... Got word that Cambells soups is sending in a case of Cream of Broccoli's to help out in the disaster. ... Call for Ted on the oatmeal box

Ugggh. Life would be better without phones.

hillarious ! oh wow lol


Call ted hah ! ted always fixes stuff, dont he lol

Pam ? pam .. PAM ! PAAAAM !! lol


N

Nanoo Nanoo
24th June 2013, 01:00
Wow, Jiminii and Nanoo and Dan33 have all finally found each other.
I can take a break from carrying the world on my shoulders.
How neat is that?

Do you really want us messing with your pretty beach side community ? I can tell you that there needs to be some changes . . . First thing ill address as Mayor of

Ulli Provence is Free Ice Cream stands after work. between the hours of 3 and 4 pm ( work finishes at 3 pm in my town, see how i have already made it mine )

The work week is from Tuesday 10 am to friday 3 pm ( no exceptions , over time is abolished as of the new anti slavery laws of which i am still to make up but will do so on the fly to seem like i been busy )

Weekends will consist of 3 communitiy events

Music and Arts Culture
Mountain Climbing and Meditation
Surfing Lessons with the local Surf Kids

As a community member you are encouraged to attend at least one of these events every week end as part of our " Re claiming Social Skills " Initiative.

all TV stations are turned off from 3 pm friday to mid day Monday.

All advertising is banned under the anti stupidity act. sec. 23 ( 56 )a All people who used to work in advertising companies are to attend re educative programs to help them understand people are not all docile imbiciles.

All community events host local foods / haberdashery and markets avail for barter only.

[ Ulli Province is a cashless society as there are no Banks : 0 ) aaah, as all intellectual property is in the mind. ( kind of like money is now , just a figment of digital hocus pocus ) As a result of there being no banks there is no crime as there is nothing to steal. All electricity Power and Food is free , All Health care is free , All Housing is free ]

Promises are a form of Barter in Ulli Province. Penalty for breaking a promise in Ulli Province is to be tickled for 30 minutes in town square with a feather. You WILL be told to remove your shoes , no exceptions .. except for you Ted we know you gots a condition ..

Town Meetings are held once a week in the Tangled Antler Bar , just up the pass from the Uranus Night Club ( no i phones allowed please in fact no i phones allowed at all as we have the new Jimini Cricket Cann Company installing their new Green Comm Cann System )

Friday nights we have the local dance at Dan's Barn 33 Dartanion Pde Barcelonaville. You are encouraged to wear period clothing from mid western circa 1840's and all men MUST have water pistols . Please no squirting directly into peoples ears ! That means you Jimini ! ha

There are no police as you know in Ulli Province however if you ever see someone doing the wrong thing you MUST approach them immediately and give them a hug ! tell them you love them and watch them stop and go home to re think their ways.

Inventors and scientists who come up with green friendly power technology are encouraged to come forward as you will not be executed as it was in the old world order but in fact you will be given FREE Ice cream forever ! And 100 promises ! and a cow ! MOOO !! ( you cannot eat the cow btw just pat it and feed it and you may milk it for market )

Smoking Pot is not illegal however if you do grow Pot you are encouraged to make health products that are beneficial for the others in Ulli Province , from said crops.

Hemp is encouraged to be used for , but not limited to

Clothing
Textiles
Medicine
Food ( as in chocolate brownies , must have warning label )
Entertainment

Hemp takes 5 times less chemicals to process it for these purposes and is 7 times stronger than cotton. If you are stoned and driving a moto vehicle please stay in the stoned lane so other people who want to drive faster than 25 kph can do so un hindered.


Thats all for now ...

Naniu

Flash
24th June 2013, 01:06
We are all doomed....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-prove-society-is-doomed

ok ok ok an argument with my daughter (small one) her saying: we are not that intense with our iphones, and me, yes your are guys and her, wow, stop it mom, we are not.... denial of truth...lol

Nanoo Nanoo
24th June 2013, 01:28
I forgot to mention

Massage Mondays is held at Dans Barn, free massage for all who attend. Good way to un wind from a stressful weekend of fun and laughter : 0 )

( dan no more happy endings please , you naughty spanyard ! )


N

ulli
24th June 2013, 03:03
Wow, Jiminii and Nanoo and Dan33 have all finally found each other.
I can take a break from carrying the world on my shoulders.
How neat is that?

Do you really want us messing with your pretty beach side community ? I can tell you that there needs to be some changes . . . First thing ill address as Mayor of

Ulli Provence is Free Ice Cream stands after work. between the hours of 3 and 4 pm ( work finishes at 3 pm in my town, see how i have already made it mine )

The work week is from Tuesday 10 am to friday 3 pm ( no exceptions , over time is abolished as of the new anti slavery laws of which i am still to make up but will do so on the fly to seem like i been busy )

Weekends will consist of 3 communitiy events

Music and Arts Culture
Mountain Climbing and Meditation
Surfing Lessons with the local Surf Kids

As a community member you are encouraged to attend at least one of these events every week end as part of our " Re claiming Social Skills " Initiative.

all TV stations are turned off from 3 pm friday to mid day Monday.

All advertising is banned under the anti stupidity act. sec. 23 ( 56 )a All people who used to work in advertising companies are to attend re educative programs to help them understand people are not all docile imbiciles.

All community events host local foods / haberdashery and markets avail for barter only.

[ Ulli Province is a cashless society as there are no Banks : 0 ) aaah, as all intellectual property is in the mind. ( kind of like money is now , just a figment of digital hocus pocus ) As a result of there being no banks there is no crime as there is nothing to steal. All electricity Power and Food is free , All Health care is free , All Housing is free ]

Promises are a form of Barter in Ulli Province. Penalty for breaking a promise in Ulli Province is to be tickled for 30 minutes in town square with a feather. You WILL be told to remove your shoes , no exceptions .. except for you Ted we know you gots a condition ..

Town Meetings are held once a week in the Tangled Antler Bar , just up the pass from the Uranus Night Club ( no i phones allowed please in fact no i phones allowed at all as we have the new Jimini Cricket Cann Company installing their new Green Comm Cann System )

Friday nights we have the local dance at Dan's Barn 33 Dartanion Pde Barcelonaville. You are encouraged to wear period clothing from mid western circa 1840's and all men MUST have water pistols . Please no squirting directly into peoples ears ! That means you Jimini ! ha

There are no police as you know in Ulli Province however if you ever see someone doing the wrong thing you MUST approach them immediately and give them a hug ! tell them you love them and watch them stop and go home to re think their ways.

Inventors and scientists who come up with green friendly power technology are encouraged to come forward as you will not be executed as it was in the old world order but in fact you will be given FREE Ice cream forever ! And 100 promises ! and a cow ! MOOO !! ( you cannot eat the cow btw just pat it and feed it and you may milk it for market )

Smoking Pot is not illegal however if you do grow Pot you are encouraged to make health products that are beneficial for the others in Ulli Province , from said crops.

Hemp is encouraged to be used for , but not limited to

Clothing
Textiles
Medicine
Food ( as in chocolate brownies , must have warning label )
Entertainment

Hemp takes 5 times less chemicals to process it for these purposes and is 7 times stronger than cotton. If you are stoned and driving a moto vehicle please stay in the stoned lane so other people who want to drive faster than 25 kph can do so un hindered.


Thats all for now ...

Naniu

Wow. I speechless.
Nanoo, you have painted my kind of Utopia.
A diffent kind of Reset Button.

Here and now...watching TV for the first time in ages. A documentary about Michael Jackson.
Awesome talent....

Melinda
24th June 2013, 03:14
The US education system has been bent to a requirement that it create a divide, to dis-empower, to polarize, to dumb down. It is a incarceration system based on debasing a society, via the ruination of it's youth and the world they live in and come from...



Those lines Carmody wrote reminded me of the interview Charlotte Iserbyt, author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, gave to Alex Jones. I think it’s been posted before on the forum, but it may be of interest to anyone who hasn’t come across it.

From Jones’ introduction to the interview:
“Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the department of education during the first administration of Ronald Regan. While working there she discovered a long-term strategic plan, by the tax-free foundations, to transform America from a nation of rugged individualist and problem-solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they’re told.”

Alex Jones and Charlotte Iserbyt and the "Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” :
http://youtu.be/LnWbKQcElGk

-------------------------------

On another note, regarding spirit and empowerment, I thought I would post this today. I only recently looked into Estonia’s Singing Revolution.

This is taken from the website of a documentary about it:

“Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolution. But song was the weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. The Singing Revolution is an inspiring account of one nation’s dramatic rebirth. It is the story of humankind’s irrepressible drive for freedom and self-determination. The Singing Revolution shares how, between 1987 and 1991, hundreds of thousands of Estonians gathered publicly to sing forbidden patriotic songs and share protest speeches, risking their lives to proclaim their desire for independence. While violence and bloodshed was the unfortunate end result in other occupied nations of the USSR, the revolutionary songs of the Estonians anchored their struggle for freedom, which was ultimately accomplished without the loss of a single life.”
http://www.singingrevolution.com/cgi-local/content.cgi

I’m moved by it because I believe profoundly in the power of peaceful means to overcome violence – acknowledging albeit how we all may be forced to protect ourselves at times when pushed to an extreme that is not our natural or desired state.

Even though there are clearly many layers to various non-violent movements and revolutions, and outside influences both seen and unseen (whether of international politics, or other-dimensional realms) I still find the story moving both on a symbolic and very real level. It’s powerful to see the images and hear the sounds of people singing not only for their physical survival, but their way of life and their sovereignty. It’s both visceral and spiritually uplifting to witness. It doesn’t interest me in this case that patriotism is arguably a two-sided coin, a thorn in the side of our greater evolution as a species - or that whilst public battles for freedom are won, dark masters plot ways to enslave over generations in hidden forms with advanced weaponry - or that it may say something sad about our race that we sometimes only harness the power of togetherness when coerced by extreme adversity (perhaps all of which is worth mentioning given the forum on which I’m posting.) It interests me that these people came together and sang together, as one force to proclaim their inner freedom and soar within their hearts. And in our blood-spilling, spirit-testing, battle ground of history, I find that to be one of the extraordinary moments.

I found The Singing Revolution to be an interesting documentary. In one section it portrays how, in May 1990, pro-Soviet Interfront members marched into Toompea Castle, the seat of the Estonian parliament, in what looked “like an attempted coup,” but were outnumbered by the volume of Estonians who turned up in response. Though Interfront were trapped in the courtyard by a defensive crowd, the opposing Estonians eventually let them leave. When the politician Marju Lauristin addressed the thousands from a balcony of the building, she said : “Dear people, thank you. We were sure that if you came to help us you would do it in the way you did. With your intelligence, your songs, your heart. That is when we are at our strongest.”

On a symbolic level, we could say all manner of darkness takes up merely temporary occupation, until the light finds its way into the space.

http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/LightPoursIntotheOnceDarkLandscape_zpsac9dda0a.jpg (http://s1267.photobucket.com/user/DoodlemakerUK/media/LightPoursIntotheOnceDarkLandscape_zpsac9dda0a.jpg.html)

May we all maintain the courage to sing from our hearts, and be guided along paths of decency and kindness

lookbeyond
24th June 2013, 09:16
Wow, Jiminii and Nanoo and Dan33 have all finally found each other.
I can take a break from carrying the world on my shoulders.
How neat is that?

Do you really want us messing with your pretty beach side community ? I can tell you that there needs to be some changes . . . First thing ill address as Mayor of

Ulli Provence is Free Ice Cream stands after work. between the hours of 3 and 4 pm ( work finishes at 3 pm in my town, see how i have already made it mine )

The work week is from Tuesday 10 am to friday 3 pm ( no exceptions , over time is abolished as of the new anti slavery laws of which i am still to make up but will do so on the fly to seem like i been busy )

Weekends will consist of 3 communitiy events

Music and Arts Culture
Mountain Climbing and Meditation
Surfing Lessons with the local Surf Kids

As a community member you are encouraged to attend at least one of these events every week end as part of our " Re claiming Social Skills " Initiative.

all TV stations are turned off from 3 pm friday to mid day Monday.

All advertising is banned under the anti stupidity act. sec. 23 ( 56 )a All people who used to work in advertising companies are to attend re educative programs to help them understand people are not all docile imbiciles.

All community events host local foods / haberdashery and markets avail for barter only.

[ Ulli Province is a cashless society as there are no Banks : 0 ) aaah, as all intellectual property is in the mind. ( kind of like money is now , just a figment of digital hocus pocus ) As a result of there being no banks there is no crime as there is nothing to steal. All electricity Power and Food is free , All Health care is free , All Housing is free ]

Promises are a form of Barter in Ulli Province. Penalty for breaking a promise in Ulli Province is to be tickled for 30 minutes in town square with a feather. You WILL be told to remove your shoes , no exceptions .. except for you Ted we know you gots a condition ..

Town Meetings are held once a week in the Tangled Antler Bar , just up the pass from the Uranus Night Club ( no i phones allowed please in fact no i phones allowed at all as we have the new Jimini Cricket Cann Company installing their new Green Comm Cann System )

Friday nights we have the local dance at Dan's Barn 33 Dartanion Pde Barcelonaville. You are encouraged to wear period clothing from mid western circa 1840's and all men MUST have water pistols . Please no squirting directly into peoples ears ! That means you Jimini ! ha

There are no police as you know in Ulli Province however if you ever see someone doing the wrong thing you MUST approach them immediately and give them a hug ! tell them you love them and watch them stop and go home to re think their ways.

Inventors and scientists who come up with green friendly power technology are encouraged to come forward as you will not be executed as it was in the old world order but in fact you will be given FREE Ice cream forever ! And 100 promises ! and a cow ! MOOO !! ( you cannot eat the cow btw just pat it and feed it and you may milk it for market )

Smoking Pot is not illegal however if you do grow Pot you are encouraged to make health products that are beneficial for the others in Ulli Province , from said crops.

Hemp is encouraged to be used for , but not limited to

Clothing
Textiles
Medicine
Food ( as in chocolate brownies , must have warning label )
Entertainment

Hemp takes 5 times less chemicals to process it for these purposes and is 7 times stronger than cotton. If you are stoned and driving a moto vehicle please stay in the stoned lane so other people who want to drive faster than 25 kph can do so un hindered.


Thats all for now ...

Naniu

Wow. I speechless.
Nanoo, you have painted my kind of Utopia.
A diffent kind of Reset Button.

Here and now...watching TV for the first time in ages. A documentary about Michael Jackson.
Awesome talent....

I remember having such a crush on MJ as a teenager and now my son who is a young teenager and really has not been exposed to his music has taught himself so many MJ dance moves that i am amazed by his talent, funny old life...

ulli
24th June 2013, 12:15
I'm not feeling very connected except at an inner level. It's the planets...Saturn mainly...currently still in Scorpio
Which forms a right angle (hence blockage) to both Leo and Aquarius.
Leo is where I have my Ascendant (self expression) and Aquarius is where I have my Mercury ( mind and communication planet)
Everyone born during the first week of either Leo or Aquarius will be noticing the impact Saturn can have on our lives.
And due to the retrograde motion Saturn spends nearly a year in this area.

So you all have my sympathy. This too shall pass. Saturn has the same effect winter has on nature...a time of restriction which forces us to dig into our inner reserves.
Therefore, when looked at in the larger context, not necessarily a bad thing.
All hardship serves to stimulate our innovative abilities.
It hurts while it lasts, but once that genius lightbulb starts to blink it was all worthwhile.

ulli
24th June 2013, 12:18
Reading the Greer thread and wondering if its about 'chaff in the wind' or the 'root of the rot'.
Finding all the posts there quite valid, even though they seem to contradict each other.
My gut tells me it's all good. Part of the process.

1inMany
24th June 2013, 13:04
From the page of Spiritual Awakenings, my facebook share for the day...


We only have control over two moments in our lives...Here and Now. ~ Randi Fine

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1044874_400757570033104_1052961372_n.jpg

with Love,

Marianne
24th June 2013, 16:58
Melinda, you and Nanoo and everyone here keep pulling me back to Avalon this morning ... it's good, reading about how important Song is to us. I've been working a bit with voice ... not my strongest talent, but important to develop a Voice to speak with/sing our truth, and hoping it will make a connection to my lyme-addled brain cells and maybe ZAP me into the expression I dream of. In the meantime, I love to read what everyone has contributed.

Hmm, bad because I have so much work to do this week, it's the start of our new academic year. Not stressed though ... just chugging along, and I find it all falls into place somehow.

Dearest Nanoo, I'm loving Ulli Province, and will be packing my bags when I get home (I wish!) Well, I'll be there just in time.

Love to everyone.

I so miss Nora.





The US education system has been bent to a requirement that it create a divide, to dis-empower, to polarize, to dumb down. It is a incarceration system based on debasing a society, via the ruination of it's youth and the world they live in and come from...



Those lines Carmody wrote reminded me of the interview Charlotte Iserbyt, author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, gave to Alex Jones. I think it’s been posted before on the forum, but it may be of interest to anyone who hasn’t come across it.

From Jones’ introduction to the interview:
“Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the department of education during the first administration of Ronald Regan. While working there she discovered a long-term strategic plan, by the tax-free foundations, to transform America from a nation of rugged individualist and problem-solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they’re told.”

Alex Jones and Charlotte Iserbyt and the "Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” :
http://youtu.be/LnWbKQcElGk

-------------------------------

On another note, regarding spirit and empowerment, I thought I would post this today. I only recently looked into Estonia’s Singing Revolution.

This is taken from the website of a documentary about it:

“Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolution. But song was the weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. The Singing Revolution is an inspiring account of one nation’s dramatic rebirth. It is the story of humankind’s irrepressible drive for freedom and self-determination. The Singing Revolution shares how, between 1987 and 1991, hundreds of thousands of Estonians gathered publicly to sing forbidden patriotic songs and share protest speeches, risking their lives to proclaim their desire for independence. While violence and bloodshed was the unfortunate end result in other occupied nations of the USSR, the revolutionary songs of the Estonians anchored their struggle for freedom, which was ultimately accomplished without the loss of a single life.”
http://www.singingrevolution.com/cgi-local/content.cgi

I’m moved by it because I believe profoundly in the power of peaceful means to overcome violence – acknowledging albeit how we all may be forced to protect ourselves at times when pushed to an extreme that is not our natural or desired state.

Even though there are clearly many layers to various non-violent movements and revolutions, and outside influences both seen and unseen (whether of international politics, or other-dimensional realms) I still find the story moving both on a symbolic and very real level. It’s powerful to see the images and hear the sounds of people singing not only for their physical survival, but their way of life and their sovereignty. It’s both visceral and spiritually uplifting to witness. It doesn’t interest me in this case that patriotism is arguably a two-sided coin, a thorn in the side of our greater evolution as a species - or that whilst public battles for freedom are won, dark masters plot ways to enslave over generations in hidden forms with advanced weaponry - or that it may say something sad about our race that we sometimes only harness the power of togetherness when coerced by extreme adversity (perhaps all of which is worth mentioning given the forum on which I’m posting.) It interests me that these people came together and sang together, as one force to proclaim their inner freedom and soar within their hearts. And in our blood-spilling, spirit-testing, battle ground of history, I find that to be one of the extraordinary moments.

I found The Singing Revolution to be an interesting documentary. In one section it portrays how, in May 1990, pro-Soviet Interfront members marched into Toompea Castle, the seat of the Estonian parliament, in what looked “like an attempted coup,” but were outnumbered by the volume of Estonians who turned up in response. Though Interfront were trapped in the courtyard by a defensive crowd, the opposing Estonians eventually let them leave. When the politician Marju Lauristin addressed the thousands from a balcony of the building, she said : “Dear people, thank you. We were sure that if you came to help us you would do it in the way you did. With your intelligence, your songs, your heart. That is when we are at our strongest.”

On a symbolic level, we could say all manner of darkness takes up merely temporary occupation, until the light finds its way into the space.

http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/LightPoursIntotheOnceDarkLandscape_zpsac9dda0a.jpg (http://s1267.photobucket.com/user/DoodlemakerUK/media/LightPoursIntotheOnceDarkLandscape_zpsac9dda0a.jpg.html)

May we all maintain the courage to sing from our hearts, and be guided along paths of decency and kindness

Carmody
24th June 2013, 19:31
I was forced to put an air conditioner into use, so I could think and move about (and sleep). Ugh. I hate the cold too. This body thing, I find it annoying at times. Always getting in my way, twisting things about, altering interpretations, etc.

Melinda
25th June 2013, 02:13
Melinda, you and Nanoo and everyone here keep pulling me back to Avalon this morning ... it's good, reading about how important Song is to us. I've been working a bit with voice ... not my strongest talent, but important to develop a Voice to speak with/sing our truth, and hoping it will make a connection to my lyme-addled brain cells and maybe ZAP me into the expression I dream of. In the meantime, I love to read what everyone has contributed...

Hi Marianne! So wonderful that you’re working with your voice. I wish you a realm of joy, and healing and discovery there.

It’s such a shame when any of us get put off using it because we think we don’t sound as good as we’d like.

I did a wonderful day-long workshop years ago where I don’t remember anybody singing a note, and no-one there was a professional singer of any kind. The whole day was used to make sounds with the voice that you wouldn’t ordinarily make. We were guided in exercises and experiments that gave us free reign to use our voices to make sounds that were adventurous, uncensored and even bizarre. There was no pressure to sound pretty, or manly, or aesthetically worthwhile. It was very liberating and cleared out some energetic, mental and physical blocks. Even so, I’ve always thought everyone has at least one song (at least) that suits their voice, that they can sound good singing. Just a matter of our finding it so we can feel good about the music that lives in us, and share it with our bodies.

I remember one occasion when I was sat down by the edge of a lake and felt this deep wish to sing. But I was worried it might offend the other people who’d come to relax there. I figured if I just did one or two songs hopefully they’d be able to cope. So I burst into a bit of folk song. What happened was wonderful! Dozens of ducks and Swans came gliding over and hovered right in front of me for the duration of my little musical offering. It was just me in my bliss, and them on the water in stillness and a gentle curiosity. The sun was shining and there was an air of contentment. Not attempting to sound like Snow White (also visions of Giselle in Disney’s Enchanted :biggrin: ), but I did feel a little like a chorus of carefree Robins could have fitted in nicely, just off to the right...

If I’d been afraid to sing, and if I’d had even one doubt in my veins as I did it, I don’t think the moment would have happened. Hard work, shifting those doubts. But I managed to do it at least that one time, and I’m so grateful nobody feathered asked for a refund.


“I love to read what everyone has contributed...”

I second that - very much so. Love this thread.


Carmody: "This body thing, I find it annoying at times. Always getting in my way, twisting things about, altering interpretations, etc.”

:) I had to have a little chuckle reading that. I just got back from a lecture given by a physicist-philosopher, exploring layers of knowing. My mind and spirit were engaged, but my body was decidedly unhappy at various intervals with the chair it had been given to sit on.

On another ‘note,’ I’m often thinking when I’m in Avalon mode, and in general as I go about my days, of the intense demands and challenges of our human journey. Why we do the things we do. The processes of building and tearing down. Some of it natural. Some of it brutal. The many divides that rise and fall between us as we attempt our journey through. I love the lyrics of this song by Anais Mitchell, the sense of old time and history in our memory, and the bare-bones sparseness of this particular live version. She introduces the song at around 45 seconds in, just before she begins. I think the record went out on Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe label.

wQyUUx7LC9Y

Why do we build the wall?
My children, my children
Why do we build the wall?

Why do we build the wall?
We build the wall to keep us free.
That’s why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free

How does the wall keep us free?
My children, my children
How does the wall keep us free?

How does the wall keep us free?
The wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free

Who do we call the enemy?
My children, my children
Who do we call the enemy?

Who do we call the enemy?
The enemy is poverty
And the wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free

Because we have and they have not!
My children, my children
Because they want what we have got!

Because we have and they have not!
Because they want what we have got!
The enemy is poverty
And the wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free

What do we have that they should want?
My children, my children
What do we have that they should want?

What do we have that they should want?
We have a wall to work upon!
We have work and they have none
And our work is never done
My children, my children
And the war is never won
The enemy is poverty
And the wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free
We build the wall to keep us free


And here’s one of my favourites from Ani. Coming Up. I love the album version, it’s got bright, intimate spirit. This one’s the raw poetry, a cappella.
Ani’s a very special lady. Full of light and music and a passion for life. She reminds me of these words from Clarissa Pinkola Estes :

“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”

:)

2Q9Wsgt8Ocg

Wishing us all a good story to bloom in

ulli
25th June 2013, 13:52
My head is spinning with information overload.

This Avalon forum means VFDM to me. Very few dull moments.

The hard part is to take all these fragments of info and put them into a greater spiritual context.

For now I'm sticking with the basics...what about money?

For those interested in currency matters, and the possibility of the $ crashing....

It's a while ago since I first heard about Dwolla...I even mentioned Dwolla

transactions here on this thread, but then heard

nothing more about it.

Had another look and need up on this page...

http://blog.dwolla.com/photo-gallery-behind-the-scenes-at-dwolla/

I must as I like the energy I'm picking up there....

Lots of food for more thoughts, for anyone so is hungry.

ulli
25th June 2013, 14:28
Earth doesn't have to have rings like Saturn to feel the constraining effect.

Anyway, this is what it would look like if we did have those rings:

http://i.imgur.com/d3sjFA8.jpg

WhiteFeather
25th June 2013, 14:34
Hello Villagers been awhile since stopping in town to meet you great folk. Sending my Love. Been busy reading these past weeks. Nothing like a good book. Halfway through Graham Hancocks " Fingerprints of The Gods". Amazing work i must say. So here and now ill send you this little nugget. For you peeps and also to Graham on his wonderful unorthodox research in the ancient civilization field. Temple of Light by Douglas Blue Feather.

All my Love

We are all 1 Tribe.........Vince


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEc6tlxs9xU

Calz
25th June 2013, 14:37
Been missing you WF :)

Dropping in for a tune (I know WF doesn't mind).

One of my very favorites ... yet it seems to have traveled timelines as now "an actor" plopped into the scene ...

... not too damn bad either???


-rIt3gGLUdw

WhiteFeather
25th June 2013, 14:54
Ben missing you WF :)

Dropping in for a tune (I know WF doesn't mind).

One of my very favorites ... yet it seems to have traveled timelines as now "an actor" plopped into the scene ...

... not too damn bad either???


-rIt3gGLUdw

Great song Calz. Love the older aeorosmith tunes. Toys in the attic is my favorite.
This song tickles my fancy especially. Enjoy....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-0UKJpzMWs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-0UKJpzMWs

Calz
25th June 2013, 15:01
Great song Calz. Love the older aeorosmith tunes. Toys in the attic is my favorite.




About 40 years ago or so ... got kicked out of an apartment for cranking that album on a 2k$ stereo system (hey ... that was a lot of $$$ in those days).

Funny too cuz the apartment was close to a railroad track that rattled things on a regular basis ... but not like that stereo :)

:drum:

donk
25th June 2013, 15:21
Best of times, worst of times--here & now I found out I definitely get to meet Gio & James and see the ranch!! And that my oldest thinks he wants to live on gramma's...and that woman feels "he" is making a sound decision I should use unconditional love to decide if its ok

In other words, she pulled the "well you wanna live here & I want you to live here, but dad..." crap I thought we had worked out two years ago. Nope, email says "A wants to live here, we think its time, thoughts?"

Yeah you wacko, my thought was I could send my kid to spend summer with his grandparents and not have to worry about whether he was coming home...

The killer is that it all gets put on me: oh you're being selfish and this what he wants

Searching my heart, I may have to let him go. If she's right and hes truly happy there, then the best thing I can hope for happened to my son. But if I'm right, and she doesn't recognize her manipulation and delusion coming into play, that an 11 year old boy doesn't have enough information to make a sound decision given the current circumstances, he'll be texting me by late fall begging to come home

Am I insane to think that grandparents should not extend invitations to their grandkids to live with them when their parent is doing a pretty good job? Am i insane to consider letting a woman with seemingly no empathy for me of the rest of my family to raise my kid--even if for a little bit?

Is it possible that I will ever get a reprieve from seemingly impossible unending soap opera style drama? Jeez, throw me a friggin bone here...I'd love a little period of relative peace...

Eff it, gotta make do with what I have, play the cards I'm dealt. All is well

Calz
25th June 2013, 15:35
here & now I found out I definitely get to meet Gio & James and see the ranch!!



One of the best steps a human can take ...

IMHO

ulli
25th June 2013, 16:04
Best of times, worst of times--here & now I found out I definitely get to meet Gio & James and see the ranch!! And that my oldest thinks he wants to live on gramma's...and that woman feels "he" is making a sound decision I should use unconditional love to decide if its ok

In other words, she pulled the "well you wanna live here & I want you to live here, but dad..." crap I thought we had worked out two years ago. Nope, email says "A wants to live here, we think its time, thoughts?"

Yeah you wacko, my thought was I could send my kid to spend summer with his grandparents and not have to worry about whether he was coming home...

The killer is that it all gets put on me: oh you're being selfish and this what he wants

Searching my heart, I may have to let him go. If she's right and hes truly happy there, then the best thing I can hope for happened to my son. But if I'm right, and she doesn't recognize her manipulation and delusion coming into play, that an 11 year old boy doesn't have enough information to make a sound decision given the current circumstances, he'll be texting me by late fall begging to come home

Am I insane to think that grandparents should not extend invitations to their grandkids to live with them when their parent is doing a pretty good job? Am i insane to consider letting a woman with seemingly no empathy for me of the rest of my family to raise my kid--even if for a little bit?

Is it possible that I will ever get a reprieve from seemingly impossible unending soap opera style drama? Jeez, throw me a friggin bone here...I'd love a little period of relative peace...

Eff it, gotta make do with what I have, play the cards I'm dealt. All is well


They say that blood is thicker than water...
explaining why families cluck together...
and there is truth to that...

but there is yet another factor to consider...
Not all family members are made for each other,
and sometimes there are special energies at work.

I have met loads of great kids who learnt most of their wisdom from their grandparents.

Calz
25th June 2013, 16:07
Okay ... music aside ... time for a 5 minute laughter break ...

What???

You don't think laughing is worth 5 minutes of your time :tsk:


2p5AG0Tqh3A

theferalkid
25th June 2013, 16:40
Hi Ya'll...new member here. Excited to be in such a diverse community!!:cool:

Right now...sitting at the coffee table, enjoy my coffee/butter/coconut oil concoction (strange right!?!) Surrounded by the chorus of Birds. Sounds of a yelping puppy nearby. Turns out to be another bird, crow.

donk
25th June 2013, 17:06
Welcome!! Is that butter & coconut oil in your coffee, or is your concoction some kind of soup?

Seriously, I discovered coconut oil recently, didnt know what I was missing

ulli
25th June 2013, 17:54
The closed bridge here is testing my patience. Feeling extremely isolated.

So it's no wonder I manifested a picture of this:

Of course the real thing would have been better still....

http://d12tusb9bq3y6m.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Terrafugia-the-Worlds-first-Flying-Car-3-640x432-590x398.jpg

Ermentrude
25th June 2013, 19:39
my first proper reply to an Avalonian thread...sitting here at my desk, typing, just read that i can put coconut oil in coffee (is it good?) feeling that i should have eaten less and thinking about planning my yoga session tomorrow and wondering if I'm ever going to get my head around chapter 1 of The Cosmic War.

1inMany
25th June 2013, 23:19
I'm tired, here and now. Sometimes it would be very nice if I could tell my mind to take the night off. I'll just sit here and enjoy the view, thank you very much.

Checked the garden, and looks like in addition to the cherry tomatoes we can also grow some cantaloupes. What a weird combination. They won't be ripe for a bit yet, but they sure are pretty. And fun to watch.

Got another handful of okra, thought about air mailing it to you, Ulli... ;)

Much Love,

lookbeyond
25th June 2013, 23:24
Hi Ya'll...new member here. Excited to be in such a diverse community!!:cool:

Right now...sitting at the coffee table, enjoy my coffee/butter/coconut oil concoction (strange right!?!) Surrounded by the chorus of Birds. Sounds of a yelping puppy nearby. Turns out to be another bird, crow.

Hi Theferalkid, if u add a little cinnamon on top of that coconut oil it makes a delicious combination-healthy too!

donk
26th June 2013, 00:04
Know how ya feel 1, days like that I have to go play poker--forcing myself to pay attention to strangers who's baggage don't follow me home and it's expected they're lying to me.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, in the winter time I had a string of luck so bad I had to stop (I'm not good by a dang sight but I usually even out. As the weather's gotten nicer, so have the hands dealt to me.

Speaking of hands, turns out my boy aint giving up on me, he just wants to try it for year.. I had a problem getting home one time a ways back...had flashback of that. Gosh I am a drama queen, but I swear I never thought Id find someone with worse "delivery" than me. I mean: you don't tell a father who just got secure about letting his boy go, then watching as he shows you he loves his home and "our" fam, then get a text: A wants to live here.

Jeez, I thought I was getting better at emotional maturity--still got my weaknesses, failure as a father insecurities

donk
26th June 2013, 00:17
My dog Summit chased the neighbor's (& my youngest's buddy's) cat cinnamon into a tree. He's up there staring Sum down, not realizing the gentle giant let a adolescent groundhog stand its ground to him, clacking its teeth. Nothing is funnier than a pissed off standing on his hind legs little hedgehogy-looking varmint bare his little claws and clack his teeth at a hundred pound sheplard lab mix creeping closer and closer as if trying to hug him and sneak in a few sniffs.

...but I digress, now he's inside looking out the window, watching two concerned 9 year olds, willing the cat down, certai. He is stuck forever. Wish I had a ladder and fireman's hat to go save day, alas, they will have to wait 5 more mins with baited breath as the amazingly uninjured kitty finds his way down himself. Close call, them boys were truly worried for a second

Orph
26th June 2013, 01:15
Donk, only you know the full situation, dynamics as it pertains to you, your son, and your grandparents, so I can't say one way or the other what the right decision might be. But, #1, you are the parent, and you have the right to make decisions!! Period!! You have the right to raise your own son!! Period!! There are two paths to be taken here, and one path isn't better than the other. They are just different. If you feel okay about your son moving away, then that is your decision. If you want your son to stay with you, then so be it. That doesn't make you a bad parent. Have a completely open and honest discussion with your son about both options. And that includes telling him how you feel too. Tell him how much you would miss him. How much you want to be there as his dad to watch him grow up. YOU are his dad. Don't sell yourself short. Again, obviously I don't know the situation. The decision is yours to make. Good luck.

donk
26th June 2013, 02:05
Aw, thanks for the input. I was really steamed more about them (her) speaking for him. She has a bond and brought up blood and it made mine boil (he's actually her daughter's son, I've raised sonce he was one)

I did get to tell her how creepy I thought her bringing it up is--I almost said reptilian, thought better of it and went with elite. Stuff does run deep. I was worried about their influence, and the context. I mean what 11 year old wouldn't love hanging with animals and fishing and enjoying nature in the summer--how do you take that from him?

I don't particularly want to. But we're gonna make sure he understands what it means that his gramma and grandpa and uncle are his whole entire world. I think he does, otherwise he wouldn't have requested a trial. My freak out earlier was related to the fact that it was not transmitted clearly that it was his idea and he suggested just a year...like I said, flashbacks

Funny, as an aside, i love and respect her a lot...she is straight forward and i draws out respknsibility in people...not usually very gently. I swore the first couple months i was on that Shelley (9eagle9) was her, especially when I asked what her name meant and she wouldn't tell me. It's funny, must have been busy as she not only revealed in old thread I wasn't around for, but right around then she used her real name a lot, it was relief.

Miss you 9E9 & mod! And gramma, if you're reading (I don't really think she does, but if any family of mine does its definitely her, and she'd definitely be here), I remember you mentioning you liked "Bates Motel", I'm just worried my boy will turn into Norman a little bit...wait til he's sown his oats before rescuing him from civilization!

Melinda
26th June 2013, 04:30
We are all 1 Tribe.........



Somehow - I never get tired of hearing that said.

It’s the oldest truth and a gift when we remember it.

Thank you WhiteFeather.


I shall be gone for a little while...




Wishing a wealth of happiness to those in the here and now and beyond.


May inspiration find you, and all good things be there to guide you.

On your journeys, in your dreams, may your heart remain in light :)


http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/HealingHandsatebovadotcom_zps1a2853ef.jpg (http://s1267.photobucket.com/user/DoodlemakerUK/media/HealingHandsatebovadotcom_zps1a2853ef.jpg.html)

Carmody
26th June 2013, 05:02
I'm not feeling very connected except at an inner level. It's the planets...Saturn mainly...currently still in Scorpio
Which forms a right angle (hence blockage) to both Leo and Aquarius.
Leo is where I have my Ascendant (self expression) and Aquarius is where I have my Mercury ( mind and communication planet)
Everyone born during the first week of either Leo or Aquarius will be noticing the impact Saturn can have on our lives.
And due to the retrograde motion Saturn spends nearly a year in this area.

So you all have my sympathy. This too shall pass. Saturn has the same effect winter has on nature...a time of restriction which forces us to dig into our inner reserves.
Therefore, when looked at in the larger context, not necessarily a bad thing.
All hardship serves to stimulate our innovative abilities.
It hurts while it lasts, but once that genius lightbulb starts to blink it was all worthwhile.

Saw Saturn's rings with my own eyes, for the first time, the other night, the night of the full moon. I was testing a 'scope and decided to look at the brightest star I could see, it turned out to be Saturn.

Calz
26th June 2013, 13:55
What's this???

H&N slipping to 3rd page???

Isn't that against the written commandments???

... oh yeah ... forgot ...


4TAtRCJIqnk

1inMany
26th June 2013, 14:02
I am loving it! Could it be that K is finding her inner Maxine? I'm watching her process from afar, and this is the cleanest share on fb this week. The other ones are awesome, but so as not to offend, I'll share the clean one ;) Go, baby!

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/9380_474712309280072_1432077821_n.jpg

Since shedding the extra "weight" her life is opening back up. Out of nowhere, she finds herself at a fork in the road at work. Both ways, a promotion and raise. And single mom needs to make more than a low hourly wage to make ends meet. Mike just filled up her refrigerator last night, it was bare. And that hurts her, whether she says anything or not. She finds herself with choices (already) of men, eegads, but thank Gawd is choosing to be alone for a while. It is good for her to know there are nice men who are interested, very good for her. And even better for her that she chooses none. These are signs to me that her life is getting back on track. And I believe strongly that when she is in a better place, her spiritual path will show itself as well. And listening to her inner voice will lead her right there. Oh, so much joy.

Mike will be traveling a lot the next month or so. The weeks he travels are hard for him because he isn't at home, doesn't have his hibernation time. And the weeks between, when he is home, all hell breaks loose because people can't think for themselves and I'm surprised they can tie their own shoes. So the weeks home are full of that plus all the stuff that no one could handle while he was gone. During long periods like this, I have to let him go. I have to be self sufficient emotionally, and I miss having him close...not geographically but close in all other ways. So, a bit of a growth spurt I suppose. It's all good.

Much Love,

CD7
26th June 2013, 16:05
WORLD WAR Z associated with PLAN B entertainment......AHAhahahahahaha! So I watched it....nothing complex about it....good zombie acting skills in some scenes...really resembled more of animals-which isn't too far off from wht is happening to us and around us--

They couldn't say wht started it, chemical warfare, virus, bacteria? Left tht one open...

I tell u I could have walked out of the movie, and I have been doing tht lately in theatres---the writing is horrible :sleep: Ofcourse theyre getting better at the visuals, but wht? lets forget about the story?! Few are the days of lord of the ring style, visuals with a great mash up story to go along! But perhaps it was just all about PLAN B :eek:


Oh one scene cracked me up...there's a point where brad pitt is able to take a breather (u know how these edge of your seat things go) He stops at a soda machine and starts to take a drink with a can tht resembled pepsi and all I could think of was his Channel #5 commercial...im waiting for him to break out in "soda...have u thought about soda?" "its wonders and enchantment?" LOL!!!!

1inMany
26th June 2013, 16:43
Well, thank you Em, a universal riddle has now been solved. She is in the kitchen, I hear clinking and clanking and humming. And out of the blue, I hear, "Mom! I know how Dorothy got to the land of Oz! She astral projected there!"

smh. and lol.

:)

CD7
26th June 2013, 16:49
OPPS my bad..apparently they are pulling out all PLANS A B and C

1.Magnetic pole fluctuation on the sun
2.Zombies
3. Civil unrest and pandemonium


Hummmm get out your :pop2: Shows getting interesting!@!

Calz
26th June 2013, 16:53
OPPS my bad..apparently they are pulling out all PLANS A B and C

1.Magnetic pole fluctuation on the sun
2.Zombies
3. Civil unrest and pandemonium


Hummmm get out your :pop2: Shows getting interesting!@!


Well "they" cannot control #1

#2 is questionable

#3 is certainly under the illooney naughy control

CD7
26th June 2013, 17:45
OPPS my bad..apparently they are pulling out all PLANS A B and C

1.Magnetic pole fluctuation on the sun
2.Zombies
3. Civil unrest and pandemonium


Hummmm get out your :pop2: Shows getting interesting!@!


Well "they" cannot control #1

#2 is questionable

#3 is certainly under the illooney naughy control


Haha #1 well I keep the possibility open tht the sun is also a show...


Edit----not tht the actual sun is a show but the explanations of say something terrible occurring come from the sun...

When I feel the Sun...lay in it...theres nothing awful about it only everything invigorating and enlightening feeling its rayz

Ernie Nemeth
26th June 2013, 19:06
Sorry, don't watch TV so I'm not bombarded by advertisements. What is World War Z? A movie in the theatre right now? I never go to the movies either, so no idea.
And it's a Zombie movie, with Brad Pitt? Incredible...but not unbelievable.

astrid
27th June 2013, 08:38
Tom's view on the week ahead..

RvBErIX63GM

1inMany
27th June 2013, 16:07
I'm sitting here wondering, here and now, what is going on in the big world. Is it the collective that is off balance again? Just pondering...wondering...I do wish I was better at detecting things. Waiting for a plumber to call. I'm not very good at waiting.

Going outside to breathe some fresh air and soak up some sunshine before it gets too hot.

Much Love,

eaglespirit
27th June 2013, 17:00
Got multiple birdbath's goin' in my daughter's back yard...and are the birdies of many persuasions and colors enjoyin' them
for splashin' and drinkin' and coolin' pleasure these hot days : )

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-48dX2UTCRAY/ThDwfETtnhI/AAAAAAAAAEI/KrkR1YsAu6k/s1600/bird+bath.jpg

Wind
27th June 2013, 17:05
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--AQ9oNA0exc/TuOHPpYmMeI/AAAAAAAABOI/RYMS3n00wZE/s1600/grateful.jpg

nj2ofrX7jAk

dan33
27th June 2013, 18:11
I've always laugh at this cartoon. :)

saludos villagers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGwzR0w5bwU

meeradas
27th June 2013, 18:28
Aware of Socmint (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/26/socmint)?

and sth (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/24/barclays-bank-sell-customer-data)neatly tying into this.

Pots of gold, these "social media" [topped only by 'lithium pot' avalon].


PS (http://politicalblindspot.org/us-media-blackout-monsanto-found-guilty-of-chemical-poisoning-in-france/): Sth completely different

Ernie Nemeth
28th June 2013, 00:04
Ya. Being here and posting a lot, depending on one's views and how radical they are, paints a nice big "bulls eye" on your forehead, alright.

I'm sure one night, around three in the morning, the gestapo...umm, I mean...police...will bust down my door and cart my sorry ass away, never to be seen again.

I hope it will have been worth it. I hope people are listening, thinking, reprioritizing. Sometimes I'm just not sure. But this is all I am equiped to do. So, here I am, doing my thing. And those assembling my damning profile can go jump off a cliff...please

Sierra
28th June 2013, 00:39
Wooo hooooo! The Supreme Court has ruled that no one can patent a gene! ALLL those patents are no good now! This means if you need a BRCA test for breast cancer, you can get one anywhere for 100.00 instead of paying the patent owner 4,000.00 (from the CorbettReport.com website's latest video).

Eventually. Very soon. :)

Eaglespirit, That bird bath reminded me of my old home where I had two birdbaths next to my sliding glass door where I sat pootering to Avalon. I loved watching them for hours every day. And when the babies would check out the baths every spring lol ...

Love, love, love, Sierra

CD7
28th June 2013, 03:17
Sorry, don't watch TV so I'm not bombarded by advertisements. What is World War Z? A movie in the theatre right now? I never go to the movies either, so no idea.
And it's a Zombie movie, with Brad Pitt? Incredible...but not unbelievable.

I don't have tv now either....the net keeps u plugged in MuWahHaha...

well at the time snl (Saturday night live) was in season, I had watched with a friends tv and saw all the fun they were making about brad pitts commercial-(perfume commercial)...yeah u are correct zombie movie with brad pitt!

Ernie Nemeth
28th June 2013, 03:50
Used to love SNL, Saturday Night Live. That show spawned a lot of good, well funny, actors. Starting with Jim Belusi on past Eddie Murphy to today's stars, that I can no longer name because I don't watch TV anymore.

People have said that you can watch TV shows on the net but I cannot find such a place. Humm, thinking that's not true either. I won't install their special player, that's why. I won't allow them in. Bad enough microsoft spies on me constantly, with their daily updates (each and every day, sometimes more than once). Kinda hypocritical, I know, since every site you visit and every email and every post is recorded and archived by Big Bro. Why not just let them in too, the more the merrier.

donk
28th June 2013, 04:38
Ahhh PeeWee, how many lives did you save?

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CD7
28th June 2013, 12:33
Kinda hypocritical, I know, since every site you visit and every email and every post is recorded and archived by Big Bro. Why not just let them in too, the more the merrier.

There already in. Our whole life is an observation...all one really can do is focus on the center core of their own life and DANCE LIKE NOONES WATCHING hehehe

im being funny but its serious too..... it doesn't matter . you know how a gymnast must be focused, in the moment, while SO MANY are watching. They cannot allow themselves to be concerned about the "observer's" ..the goal in front of them is all tht matters :) My 2 cents anyway

Kraut
28th June 2013, 13:50
Two interesting videos. One is a bit funny, with a cat! The other... it must be Demons. ;)


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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXiiE6qh5Jc

Ernie Nemeth
28th June 2013, 14:58
"the goal in front of them is all that matters"

well said

donk
28th June 2013, 15:32
I’ve been finding myself trying to make the irrelevant relevant lately (here & now)…and vice versa

WaveRider
28th June 2013, 16:49
I'm hearing of a people's uprising in western china. Has anyone picked up on some info they could share? Not positive if this is true?

skippy
28th June 2013, 18:50
I'm hearing of a people's uprising in western china. Has anyone picked up on some info they could share? Not positive if this is true?

That's wonderful news :cool:

QILaCLtWW9A

Wind
28th June 2013, 19:16
I'm hearing of a people's uprising in western china. Has anyone picked up on some info they could share? Not positive if this is true?

There are many chinese members on this forum, maybe they might know more about it?

Sierra
28th June 2013, 20:54
I'm hearing of a people's uprising in western china. Has anyone picked up on some info they could share? Not positive if this is true?

There are many chinese members on this forum, maybe they might know more about it?

Mariposafe lives and works in China, but he is not around right now, I think he is on vacation?

WaveRider
28th June 2013, 21:37
Shedding some light on what I was able to follow up on from mainstream media. So it's only half the truth.

There has yet to be any official explanation as to what triggered the violence. But some locals told us it was caused by a religious dispute.
It has echoes of a similar incident in Xinjiang this April in which more than twenty died.
Beijing blamed the violence on terrorists. But locals told the BBC that the incident was triggered after officials prevented women from one devout Muslim family from wearing full veils. It was claimed they pressured the men to shave their beards.
What is clear from recent events is the smouldering tensions that exist on China's rugged western frontier.

Orph
28th June 2013, 22:06
...all one really can do is focus on the center core of their own life and DANCE LIKE NOONES WATCHING hehehe

im being funny ..... Made me laugh as I tried to imagine NOONES dancing. (What-the-heck. The occasional typo can be funny). :)

WaveRider
28th June 2013, 23:38
C'est vraiment gentil de ta part

Richie Montgomery
28th June 2013, 23:46
An Idea I had a few hours ago.

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL!!!!!!!!

"Take a Dollar, Leave a Dollar" Movement
Put little boxes all over town with a dollar in it. Every time you go by put in a dollar, if you happen to need a dollar then take one. Perhaps connect with a bank to limit the amount to $10 a day per person to help prevent greedy people from cleaning it out all day. The idea is that anyone can get a meal for at least $10 and will help prevent hunger and bypass having to go to a charity to get a meal.

I encourage you all to help get this movement off the ground by making your own little "Take a Dollar, Leave a Dollar" boxes and distributing them where needed. I am making my own right now.

Flash
29th June 2013, 00:14
Hello everyone,

I am presently in England, In the York county, going westward tomorrow toward Ireland. Will be in Dublin in a few days, with my daughter. If anyone is on my trajectory, along the road, I would be enchanted to have a tea with you.

Flash

Next time is Costa Rica Ulli !!!

Sierra
29th June 2013, 02:19
Hello everyone,

I am presently in England, In the York county, going westward tomorrow toward Ireland. Will be in Dublin in a few days, with my daughter. If anyone is on my trajectory, along the road, I would be enchanted to have a tea with you.

Flash

Next time is Costa Rica Ulli !!!

Pictures Flash! We want pictures!

CD7
29th June 2013, 03:32
The idea is that anyone can get a meal for at least $10 and will help prevent hunger and bypass having to go to a charity to get a meal.


How bout we start a movement where only eatable plants and trees are planted ALL over AND the idea is anyone can get a meal FOR FREE? How many trees are destroyed to make money I wonder?....US money is over 70% CANNIBIS....hemp, marijuana. So roll up a dollar bill and smoke it!! So we destroy trees so we can buy things off of OTHER TREES?!! Holy God when will I b out of this asylum?

Calz
29th June 2013, 07:41
So very good ... hope some here take the time here (and now) to appreciate ...


0dVz2D1xS-0


*** adding ***

hey ... cannot appreciate if you don't listen.

... but you know the ol' saying about ... something pushed to water and making them drink ...

whoo ... that was a liberal interpretation but hey ... :juggle:

PurpleLama
29th June 2013, 12:24
We had another Village regular come to visit for the weekend, and I don't mean Playdo....

CD7
29th June 2013, 12:43
Heres an interesting tid bit about money.....today they say over 70% "cotton" and the rest linen....difficult to find any source tht breaks in down even further. Funny months ago I could find information that would say over 75% of money made of hemp today...now I cant find anywhere? Don't u just love it when information just drops out of the net nowhere to be found???


OLMtihhYXyE

WaveRider
29th June 2013, 13:34
Lightning with no Thunder, way cool!

m21hEYFhmXQ

Richie Montgomery
29th June 2013, 13:48
Just think of a world where there would be a bucket of money at every street corner, how would the world change their opinion of money? Of Equality?

¤=[Post Update]=¤

a "Tip the World for allowing you another day to live on her" campaign

CD7
29th June 2013, 17:21
...all one really can do is focus on the center core of their own life and DANCE LIKE NOONES WATCHING hehehe

im being funny ..... Made me laugh as I tried to imagine NOONES dancing. (What-the-heck. The occasional typo can be funny). :)


Well if u read my posts I have a lot of PURPOSEFUL typos....I like to write how I feel in my own way and not to b bothered with such rigid spelling rules :)

Ernie Nemeth
29th June 2013, 18:32
I would guess at Rumi's companion. Or another name for bakus, god of drink. Noones sounds aweful familiar but I cannot quite place it.

duh: "no one's"

¤=[Post Update]=¤

That is a good example of how easy it is to misunderstand something another thinks is quite obvious.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

It also illusatrates how some brains function differently than others...

CD7
30th June 2013, 03:45
I would guess at Rumi's companion. Or another name for bakus, god of drink. Noones sounds aweful familiar but I cannot quite place it.

duh: "no one's"

¤=[Post Update]=¤

That is a good example of how easy it is to misunderstand something another thinks is quite obvious.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

It also illusatrates how some brains function differently than others...


YES, so true....sometimes I see a response to something I posted and im like tht was not wht I was meaning at all...

But at the same time, I think it would nice if people just questioned a person or post directly if in doubt before jumping to conclusions. More times then not when given a chance to clarify a thought or post, a different perspective can be revealed from it. Unless there a troll, then theres nothing you can say to clarify ****e!! lol

Calz
30th June 2013, 03:56
Crap ... that one outlived my patience for scrolling back ... (tho the purple one dropped an interesting post ...)


Rumi???


http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/p/l/rumsfeld_reloaded.jpg

ulli
30th June 2013, 14:41
After my recent lobotomy this is where I find myself:


iEvRk2tL82U

Not giving it a thought....

ulli
30th June 2013, 16:01
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1044438_10151739951040482_1215789280_n.jpg


So here I am, machete in hand....

araucaria
30th June 2013, 16:53
Lobotomized - that's one way of describing it. But araucaria is reloading too, back in action in July.

Just finished Lord of the Rings, a cautionary tale about chimps who don't know who they are dealing with :p

Ernie Nemeth
30th June 2013, 17:04
Head's gone fuzzy?

At least your heart is in the right place...

ulli
30th June 2013, 18:28
Head's gone fuzzy?

At least your heart is in the right place...

Ernie could be projecting here. On both counts....

Ernie Nemeth
30th June 2013, 19:42
Maybe I am...a projector

ulli
30th June 2013, 20:16
Maybe I am...a projector

Aren't we all? Shhh....

WaveRider
30th June 2013, 23:14
This Illusion really plays with the mind.:cool: Enjoy!

http://www.maniacworld.com/magic-stairwell.html

ulli
30th June 2013, 23:53
This Illusion really plays with the mind.:cool: Enjoy!

http://www.maniacworld.com/magic-stairwell.html


Wow, this has me totally baffled.
Reminds me a bit of that movie Being John Malkovich-
different kind of weirdness though.

T2Y7oo3iB40

thunder24
1st July 2013, 00:47
garden up date:

so far i'v picked two straight squash, about a gallon of black raspberries, mustard greens, lettuce, strawberries, a handful of blueberries and red raspberries. The peppers are forming, tomatoes forming, butternut squash forming, zucinni and white bush squash forming, turnips, carrots, bushbeans, potatoes cucumbers all doing well... the beets weren't in a loamy enough soil...I think they got choked. Grapes are doing well, third year now and Im pretty sure ill have more then a dozen bunches off two plants... Corn and pole beans are growing, though the corn i got out a little late... fingers crossed...

Sun seems to b setting more north than usual... and in the morning and evcening outside feels like fall... its odd.

Today I got out of my truck to pick berries, and walked within about 10-15 feet of a deer...i got three berries picked and it took off... I'v also witnessed a few days old baby deer last week... Mountain living, as one grain of sand...

random acts of kindness can change the world...pass it on..

peace

Carmody
1st July 2013, 04:49
4-QTsBaGTJE

eaglespirit
1st July 2013, 09:34
0WNLLNxURt4

WaveRider
1st July 2013, 14:47
There is a lot of insight on this forum, thank you to all of you!
NjrCZj0VNIU

dan33
1st July 2013, 17:33
After my recent lobotomy this is where I find myself:


iEvRk2tL82U

Not giving it a thought....


KING CRIMSON
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTU-Cc3y3QxZMfkTOdNwqOTeHuWwgvaKSv1vmD445MiAnG1ZcAvUw

and Pigs on the Wing :)

http://www.bigcitylife.tv/media/k2/items/cache/da8a96cfc8ca1dd33bc42677c8b9c7c6_XL.jpg

:flypig:

ulli
1st July 2013, 17:50
Good TED talk.
This man has some great tricks up his sleeve, when it comes to getting kids to learn.
He is the one that started the Hole in the Wall project...you may have heard of it.

http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/interesting--other/school-in-the-cloud-the-future-of-learning.html


Here is the video:

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Ernie Nemeth
1st July 2013, 19:24
Very good talk and so much up my own alley - I support his work. It is the future of learning.

I have used this very same approach numerous times in my life. The first time, I was twelve. I was fascinated by astronomy and most especially about our solar system. I talked my friends into helping me by telling them that we would present the finished project to our teacher and we'd get extra marks. I actually thought that would be the case...We went to the library and I gave them parts of the curiculum to investigate. About a month later we had put together a twelve page project with volumes about the planets. I learned the order of the planets, their masses, diameter, composition and distance to the sun - which I still know today.

That was my first self-learning experience. Since that time I have taught myself many other things. The most prominent would be computer programming (which I first taught myself without a computer and with no knowledge of computer languages) and electronics (which surprisingly turned out to be very similar to computer programming in the sense that a circuit had to be designed to compute a certain electronic logic path).

I have taught myself certain portions of mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy, and other interests by this same method. What I know has nothing to do with what I was taught in school and everything to do with what I taught myself. And I can devise scientific experiments, or engineering tests to determine anything I want to know - given enough time, interest and of course, the big limiting factor - money.

Had this world been a different place, that encouraged learning and rewarded intellectual curiosity, I would have had a lot to contribute. As it is, I would not lift a finger to further along this insane society. Let them, as I myself have been forced to do all my life, rot.

I know it sounds ego-ish but the point is not that I did these things or that I am so special. On the contrary, I am not special or gifted, I am simply curious. And I know that the guy on the TED talk is spot on the money with that one.

Encourage learning, for the sake of learning, and we will raise a generation of miracle workers. For they will perform what for this society will seem like miracles. They will solve the problems of the world just out of curiosity...

edit to add: my teacher reprimanded me and my friends, and sent a letter home to our parents. We got no marks and no accolades. About two or three years later, maybe more, I handed in that project as an assignment, with no revisions, the very same twelve page document, and received an A. Guess what that taught me about our educational system?

ulli
1st July 2013, 20:04
What kills natural curiosity more than anything is overworked and tired mothers who get irritable
when a child has finally figured out speech and bursts out with endless questions.

Justintime
1st July 2013, 20:21
Right now I'm sitting on my couch, typing on my iPad, listening to Sunny Day Real Estates Live album from 98 on Spotify, specifically Song About an Angel, thinking about whether or not Ill have my first OBE anytime soon, also thinking about how nice it is to be a teacher and have the summer off.
Living the dream

Eram
1st July 2013, 20:59
What kills natural curiosity more than anything is overworked and tired mothers who get irritable
when a child has finally figured out speech and bursts out with endless questions.

Don't worry about that Ulli,

every child is doomed from the very moment they enter this world.

and I'm talking as a father who knows too well what we (parents) do to our children.

Every child will be saved too.

eaglespirit
1st July 2013, 21:31
Hey Gals and Guys...the Children ARE Changing the World!!!

All they need is an itsy bitsy nudge : )

Thanks for that wonderful video of wonder up top, Ulli!

Ernie Nemeth
1st July 2013, 22:24
I thought it worthwhile to mention that Dan, aka Eaglespirit, is recounting some of his experiences on another thread.

Eaglespirit is one of our most inspiring posters, and his story reveals, to some extent, why.

Thanks Eaglespirit, for all you do!

Here is the link:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59757-Personal-accounts-of-Native-Americans-and---Star-People--&p=689369&viewfull=1#post689369

Playdo of Ataraxas
1st July 2013, 22:30
What kills natural curiosity more than anything is overworked and tired mothers who get irritable
when a child has finally figured out speech and bursts out with endless questions.

So true, Ulli, so true.....I try my very best to be patient and it is so challenging. I never understood true patience until I had children. Nor had I learned true frustration yet.

Playdo of Ataraxas
1st July 2013, 23:44
My favorite comic writer/artist is Brooke McEldowney. He does Pibgorn and 9 Chickweed Lane. The past several Sundays he has published a commentary on Pibgorn. He calls it "...from A Demon's Nest of Sentiments." Here are the links to those Sunday strips. I've attached the images, too. Click on them to make them easier to read.

http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2013/06/09
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2013/06/16
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2013/06/23
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2013/06/30

Check out the his strips, they're really great.

ulli
2nd July 2013, 00:13
Ron Paul:

http://i.imgur.com/jXT6bET.jpg