Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Come on guys, those of you who know Astrid...please send her tons of loving energy.
She could use some....

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[meeradas]

ROFL

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Marilyn Manson cottage

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[Wind]

I just had to share this inspirational message...

The logical mind teaches something is not real until there is physical evidence, you cannot see oxygen but you breathe it at all times. You cannot see the wind but you can FEEL it and that is what I mean by moving into the HEART, to FEEL your way forward, to FEEL what the appropriate reaction is FOR YOU at any one moment.

[Robin]

Hello, my lovely friends!

Winter is indeed upon us. Though 'tis a rather harsh few months, let us rejoice in the beauty that it does bring us. Here are some passages from the journals of Henry David Thoreau about winter. Let us take the time to marvel at the beauty of a snowflake, and the cold chill a tree embraces to appreciate the abundance of rejoicing come Springtime:

To me, winter draws in the warmth of friends and family. Just as we reatreat in our hearts and souls to understand and appreciate our personal being, this is a time for the wildlife to do the same. Although it is a tough time for wildlife, think of it as a way for animals and plants to look inwards, understand themselves, battle their inner demons, and to develop a sense of oneness that will carry their souls to the next quandaries of a soul journey.

There is always some positivity to glean from any situation. :)

1. Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. [ August 23, 1853]

2. Summer is gone with all its infinite wealth, and still nature is genial to man. Though he no longer bathes in the stream, or reclines on the bank, or plucks berries on the hills, still he beholds the same inaccessible beauty around him. [November 22, 1860]

3. The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another. [November 11, 1850]

4. Nature now, like an athlete, begins to strip herself in earnest for her contest with her great antagonist Winter. In the bare trees and twigs what a display of muscle. [October 29, 1858]

5. Why do you flee so soon, sir, to the theaters, lecture-rooms, and museums of the city? If you will stay here awhile I will promise you strange sights. You shall walk on water; all these brooks and rivers and ponds shall be your highway. You shall see the whole earth covered a foot or more deep with purest white crystals . . . and all the trees and stubble glittering in icy armor. [October 18, 1859]

6. Is not January the hardest month to get through? When you have weathered that, you get into the gulfstream of winter, nearer the shores of spring. [February 2, 1854]

7. To us snow and cold seem a mere delaying of spring. How far we are from understanding the value of these things in the economy of Nature! [March 8, 1859]

8. Now, by 2 p.m., a regular snowstorm has commenced, fine flakes falling steadily, and rapidly whitening all the landscape. In half an hour the russet earth is painted white even to the horizon. Do we know of any other so silent and sudden a change? [November 28, 1858]

9. We are hunters pursing the summer on snowshoes and skates, all winter long. There is really but one season in our hearts. [December 6, 1856]

10. The sky appears broader now than it did. The day has opened its eyelids wider. The lengthening of the days, commenced a good while ago, is a kind of forerunner of spring. [Journal, February 19, 1852]

If you have the time, please read A Winter Walk by Henry David Thoreau (http://www.thoreau-online.org/a-winter-walk.html).

Stay warm my dear friends...and peace to you all. :)

[Robin]

To me...the most beuatiful musical piece ever written. Enough to make a grown man cry...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY

Sigh...winter I love you. :violin:

[Guest]

Love to you Astrid

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[Redstar Kachina]

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[Carmody]

Care to tell us just where all your wisdom springs from???




Meditation. Lots of it.

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[Wind]

To me...the most beuatiful musical piece ever written. Enough to make a grown man cry...

Some years ago my mother used to play that tune during the mornings. Sometimes I was sleeping in my bed with my dog and I woke up hearing it. Now when I think about it, I think that it was one of the best ways to wake up to this reality.

[Crystine]

A little girl watched her mom preparing the ham. Mom cut off a good portion of the bone end.she asked why. Mom said because my mom did. So the girl, being curious went to ask grandma. Grandma told her she always cut off the end of the bone, because that was the way she learned from her mother. The little girl heaved a sigh of frustration and went to talk to great grand mother. She asked her great grandmother about the bone. And why they always cut it off.

Well grandmother hesitated for a minute, then she laughed and said, " sweetie I used to cut the end of the ham off because we had a big family and a big family needed a big ham. It simply didn't fit in the pan.

[Eram]

What a beautiful metaphor to illustrate that we need to evaluate all our behaviors in order to come to sensible habits Christine Lori :thumb:

[ulli]

A little girl watched her mom preparing the ham. Mom cut off a good portion of the bone end.she asked why. Mom said because my mom did. So the girl, being curious went to ask grandma. Grandma told her she always cut off the end of the bone, because that was the way she learned from her mother. The little girl heaved a sigh of frustration and went to talk to great grand mother. She asked her great grandmother about the bone. And why they always cut it off.

Well grandmother hesitated for a minute, then she laughed and said, " sweetie I used to cut the end of the ham off because we had a big family and a big family needed a big ham. It simply didn't fit in the pan.


How weird. I've known this story for years, but not thought of it in ages. And on Monday a friend came over and we were talking about weird traditions and their origins, and I told her this same story.
You must have been reading my mind... Scary shyte, lol

[ulli]

Not sure if this fits here, but made me laugh. Any resemblance to real persons is coincidental...

http://i.imgur.com/N1FSW18.jpg

[Violet]

Samm, your post reminded me of this one
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[Crystine]

A little girl watched her mom preparing the ham. Mom cut off a good portion of the bone end.she asked why. Mom said because my mom did. So the girl, being curious went to ask grandma. Grandma told her she always cut off the end of the bone, because that was the way she learned from her mother. The little girl heaved a sigh of frustration and went to talk to great grand mother. She asked her great grandmother about the bone. And why they always cut it off.

Well grandmother hesitated for a minute, then she laughed and said, " sweetie I used to cut the end of the ham off because we had a big family and a big family needed a big ham. It simply didn't fit in the pan.


How weird. I've known this story for years, but not thought of it in ages. And on Monday a friend came over and we were talking about weird traditions and their origins, and I told her this same story.
You must have been reading my mind... Scary shyte, lol

We have done that before.
Ulli I have been ill. But that's not the best word. In pain is more correct. I feel like all my energy is running out. I feel like I should not be here at Avalon. Because I am not aware enough to be here properly. Keep it simple. Be careful. Are they advice or warnings. I am shaking like a leaf now. It's so bad I can't sleep. 5:30 in the morning here. I am doing positive visualization. Bit those damned monsters keep on popping up to boo me. I remembered that story earlier. Because of another thread.
Good thoughts and a lovely day. I wish to everyone there.
Christine Lori

[araucaria]

Interesting goings-on in the European Parliament, Mr Bloom in one blooming minute

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[ulli]

A little girl watched her mom preparing the ham. Mom cut off a good portion of the bone end.she asked why. Mom said because my mom did. So the girl, being curious went to ask grandma. Grandma told her she always cut off the end of the bone, because that was the way she learned from her mother. The little girl heaved a sigh of frustration and went to talk to great grand mother. She asked her great grandmother about the bone. And why they always cut it off.

Well grandmother hesitated for a minute, then she laughed and said, " sweetie I used to cut the end of the ham off because we had a big family and a big family needed a big ham. It simply didn't fit in the pan.


How weird. I've known this story for years, but not thought of it in ages. And on Monday a friend came over and we were talking about weird traditions and their origins, and I told her this same story.
You must have been reading my mind... Scary shyte, lol

We have done that before.
Ulli I have been ill. But that's not the best word. In pain is more correct. I feel like all my energy is running out. I feel like I should not be here at Avalon. Because I am not aware enough to be here properly. Keep it simple. Be careful. Are they advice or warnings. I am shaking like a leaf now. It's so bad I can't sleep. 5:30 in the morning here. I am doing positive visualization. Bit those damned monsters keep on popping up to boo me. I remembered that story earlier. Because of another thread.
Good thoughts and a lovely day. I wish to everyone there.
Christine Lori


I would say hang in there, but only go to nurturing threads.
You are probably digesting too much shocking information,
and also some disinfo, as no forum is 100 % free of false ideas.
You are rewiring all your neurons, as you are exposed to this massive consciousness shift.
Trying to go back to who one was before is very difficult,
as the mainstream news is now looked at with suspicion.
Once awake there is a fresh purpose.

[Carmody]

yes, before clarity comes the stress of confusion and disturbance. clarity can and will take years to achieve. Years later, bits of it will still be falling into place.

I miss the mind-state of 'ephemeral' self, as all of it is assembled in one place as a single state of knowing and being. Which, when one can juxtapose the pair on top of one another, in mind, from this confused state of 3d linear time flow self we call this world..when one can do that, well...

It can at least be imagined that the other state of being, one not fraught with emotions and thoughts that confound and confuse..that state of mind..just might seem a bit more desirable. A bit more 'shining castle on the hill(ish)'.

It is like relief from stress. Or from a given pain, or a cramp. But in all things and in all ways.

Ultimately, it's kinda boring, though. Again, at least seen from here, that is. :p

The stressing can help evolve into change, a knowing of differences. Perspective, width and depth of it. Growth, one might say. For this one, when the stressing is blocked and clogged, where it is just constant, without the increase or change in perspective, then it is, well..not serving purpose. since we each learn differently and learn different things, then we each get a different load of stressing at different times. Personal lessons, local group lessons, global lessons, and so on.

And completing one..generally..just means that another will come along soon enough - or at least be recognized as existing. Clearing a field of rocks only makes the remaining rocks stick out even more obviously. And when the rocks are gone, something else will be found. When the field is cleared.. perfected, if you will, then we look at it in peace and satisfaction for a bit. But only for a bit. Then it gets boring. So we find something else to do....

[ulli]

yes, before clarity comes the stress of confusion and disturbance. clarity can and will take years to achieve. Years later, bits of it will still be falling into place.

I miss the mind-state of 'ephemeral' self, as all of it is assembled in one place as a single state of knowing and being. Which, when one can juxtapose the pair on top of one another, in mind, from this confused state of 3d linear time flow self we call this world..when one can do that, well...

It can at least be imagined that the other state of being, one not fraught with emotions and thoughts that confound and confuse..that state of mind..just might seem a bit more desirable. A bit more 'shining castle on the hill(ish)'.

It is like relief from stress. Or from a given pain, or a cramp. But in all things and in all ways.

Ultimately, it's kinda boring, though. Again, at least seen from here, that is. :p

The stressing can help evolve into change, a knowing of differences. Perspective, width and depth of it. Growth, one might say. For this one, when the stressing is blocked and clogged, where it is just constant, without the increase or change in perspective, then it is, well..not serving purpose. since we each learn differently and learn different things, then we each get a different load of stressing at different times. Personal lessons, local group lessons, global lessons, and so on.

And completing one..generally..just means that another will come along soon enough - or at least be recognized as existing. Clearing a field of rocks only makes the remaining rocks stick out even more obviously. And when the rocks are gone, something else will be found. When the field is cleared.. perfected, if you will, then we look at it in peace and satisfaction for a bit. But only for a bit. Then it gets boring. So we find something else to do....

aww, Carmody, should we all pray that you get visited by some unmarked helicopters then?
I do know about that boredom part, which comes with that feeling of absolute security.
There is a remedy though:
Just talking about insecure feelings can bring them on, quickly.
As in 'speak of the devil'...

Amazing how often these old-wives-tales like 'speak of the devil' turn out to be true...
and one rediscovers life's irony.
So to get back to Christine Lori...think hard about the law of attraction....and
the law where focus goes, the energy flows.
Then watch the connection between your thoughts and 3D events.
Then you will become more aware about your conscious mind and your subconscious mind and how they interact.
Then the next step is to simply combat your fears. Don't worry about the trembling, it will pass eventually.
I suffered severe migraines during my awakening processes...and before then there were the nightmares...
but all of it has passed. In the end all that is left is to help others with their awakening processes.
A world full of sensitive humans rather than robot clones, or sheeple, or Borg, or automatons, or whatever they are called,
is definitely preferable. Our future is at stake here.
You will be living inside your deeds....

[araucaria]

aww, Carmody, should we all pray that you get visited by some unmarked helicopters then?

I think that's part of his boring stuff. But the unmarked helicopter thing can come in many guises. They seem to work like synchronicities, appearing to tell you when you are doing something right.

[Crystine]

Yikes, helicopters! Are you joking? My sister and her husband drove to my home last night. I was not home. She took several photos of some weird lights over the area where I live. She was actually going to post them here at Avalon. But she is new and does not know how. Imagine that. She was very excited. Me, not so much.

[skippy]

"We've come too far to give up who we are. So let's raise the bar and our cups to the stars." Get Lucky, Daft Punk, 2013.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EofwRzit0#t=112

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3200 year old sequoia tree

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[ulli]

Brain dead tonight. Yet feeling visual. So Im just posting pictures to enjoy...

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And that big tree...I was thinking of Nora when I saw it and lookie, she was the first to leave a thanks. Heh.

[Wind]

The elementals are at it again, the gusts are really violent here. Rarely, if ever I've heard the wind hitting the rooftops and the windows this hard... The speed is "only" 30 m/s or below and still that's a lot here. Yet all snow has melted away and now it's 7 C degrees. I'm glad that I'm not amongst the 200 000 people who are without electricity.

[Crystine]

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In the PINK!

[Calz]

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[Carmody]

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3200 year old sequoia tree

Morale booster shot, over here:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66416-Pilot-Crashes-See-Own-Body-Hanging-in-Trees-Near-Death-Experience&p=771466#post771466

[ulli]

http://metropolitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/spock-pink-hair.jpg

Yeah, I think it's time for Spock and Zandra to swap hair styles. Zandra had this exact cut and colour
when we were in our thirties, and when you google her now (Zandra Rhodes) it appears that she got stuck there.
She suffered a lot from the fact that her financial backers were dictating things that she would have done otherwise,
and advised me to remain independent.
So I never did a million dollar fashion show.
I never got to the top of the fashion scene, but I knew the woes of those who did.
Fashion shows are done to entertain a jaded herd of journalists,
and then the models in their rush to change outfits ruin those priceless samples.
And in the end you might see one of your frocks on the back of a Texan oil wife
who wears it with black patent leather shoes and a matching bag,
with no clue how to style it all properly.
And the moment you develop a unique technique which is recognizable and sells,
the backers won't allow you to change ever again, which makes the term fashion designer obsolete.

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/zandra-rhodes-pure-london-autumnwinter-2012-habw3t.jpg

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000M.qxtexW7vc/s/750/750/Zandra-19.jpg

[Carmody]

Yep. I can testify to that. The moment you have a formula in form and function that works, people don't want it to change. Especially that of the money people. They will demand, in every way possible, that the same button be hit the same way again.

People don't want change, they want the same orgasm as yesterday, somehow imagined to be bigger and better than the one before. More new worlds and groups and places, highs and etc....opened up to them. yet entirely the same. The two thoughts are (almost) wholly incompatible with one another.

It is a curse, but it is also what stops us from doing the Don Quixote thing, which the galloping off in all directions (all at the same time).

It is the recognition in self of the embodiment of both which allows for change.

Come to think of it, my prior linked post kinda explains that 'potential' in humans and scientific terms. Both being the same, of course. As above, so below.

Here is the follow up post in that linked thread:


The human body, being mostly water, is equatable, in a sort, to the displacement volume of 0.07 cubic meters of 'water'. Mmmmkk?

Now, let's take that number of earths, which is a volume based calculation, a cubic meter -exactly one. let's take that and multiply it by that 'average human displacement volume equivalence'.

So...the amount of energy, or the lifting of planet earths, one foot in height.... that amount...coursing through the space you exist in and as....is:

385,152,905,703,564,315,033,068,128,047.0 (in the form of lifting that many earths, one foot, is inside of your 'space' right now)

And, due to the variance of human mass displacement, that is accurate, give or take a few quadrillion earths being moved that one foot.

Again, such fantastical numbers, yes?

But true. This is not speculation in the world of science. This is accepted scientific facts and theories. No speculation in those energy levels, OR their existence in and of you. This is a thing that hard science says.

This does not even begin to touch any wild ass theories or speculation.

such enormous levels of energy and pressure. and, some people in science, some religions, etc, say you are devoid of ANY form of involvement in that energy. "Go away, go home, take your beatings and imprisonment, there's nothing to see here!", they all say.

Yet, thousands of books, records, texts, entire libraries of texts and stories, even scientifically done studies in thousands.... over thousands and thousands of years, says different. They all say that yes indeed, you DO personally have access to some form of manipulation and involvement with that energy.

So, imagine the tiniest tickle of capacity in those energies.

Look how ENORMOUS that 'miniscule' energy access level would be...and is.

[araucaria]

cf Spock's hand signal: dial M for money.

That's one hell of a tree. At least they didn't saw it down to find its age, the way they killed the world's oldest shellfish.

[ulli]

Yep. I can testify to that. The moment you have a formula in form and function that works, people don't want it to change. Especially that of the money people. They will demand, in every way possible, that the same button be hit the same way again.

People don't want change, they want the same orgasm as yesterday, somehow imagined to be bigger and better than the one before. More new worlds and groups and places, highs and etc....opened up to them. yet entirely the same. The two thoughts are (almost) wholly incompatible with one another.

It is a curse, but it is also what stops us from doing the Don Quixote thing, which the galloping off in all directions (all at the same time).

It is the recognition in self of the embodiment of both which allows for change.

Come to think of it, my prior linked post kinda explains that 'potential' in humans and scientific terms. Both being the same, of course. As above, so below.

When sitting in a concert, whether classical or rock, the moment a familiar tune starts the audience applauds.
Because they all love what they are already familiar with.
Familiarity means comfort zone...and astrologically is governed by the moon,
which in turn governs the whole domain to do with emotions.

On the other hand, when something fresh and new appears,
the intellectual crowd is the first group to welcome the novelty.
And then it is their elitism that helps establish the novelty in the framework of what is already out there.
So you then have a trickle-down effect, which in the end reaches those who are less discerning about such matters.
And why are they less discerning? Because they are engaged in the hard struggle of merely staying alive,
of finding some peaceful corner where they can eat their GMO hamburger without someone snatching it from them.
That is stress.
And the moment they are out of that race and get their first pay,
and can take a deep breath, some will celebrate by buying Nikes, a cell phone and maybe get a new hair color.
Thus creating some recognizable image for themselves...hence you have the fashion industry.
And if shopping for the first outfit of ones own choice is a fun experience, most likely an addiction sets in,
and you have people staying stuck in the fashions of their youth, instead of reinventing themselves, and choosing carefully what image they wish to project at the society around them.
Because in the end getting dressed is all about knowing what disguise best suits the occosion of the moment, and remembering one's own agenda. That is true self knowledge.

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[1inMany]

Thank you so much grip, you have no idea how I needed that. :)

Schlepping my crap through the village today. Sorry. I hope I've put enough in to balance this. I feel like roots that go into the core of me are being removed. Some heartlessly ripped out, some ever so gently. Divorce is always painful, I've seen enough (and experienced enough) to know it is always hard. I certainly don't mean to minimize the painful experiences of anyone. But this...this...disconnection is different. Sure, there is the normal painful pulling apart, the constant reminders, emotional upheaval, self doubt, uncertainty, withdrawals. But there is this added component. Being aware there is more to it. There was more to it together, there is more to it apart. Knowing some of the life I lead elsewhere, and some of the life he leads elsewhere, and having first hand knowledge of that specifically, and knowing each other there...

I do remind myself constantly of what the beautiful blue beings said. That in some amount of time (they gave me a good idea) I will be able to see. Things will be completely different. Not just in my insignificant life, but this plane. I will simply sigh a relief of understanding, and say "Oh." Like, oh...ohhhhh...that's why. And that was such a comfort. For about a week. I want to know why now. I want to understand now. But...understanding like I do, I dare not ask for answers. Mostly I either don't like the answers, haha, or...they are so huge that I cannot possibly comprehend them. It is like when K was three and she wanted to know what dirt was made out of...or eyeballs. I guess I would like to understand to the best of my ability. Maybe.

I have a lot of questions about the moon. That won't surprise a couple of people. I wish I had the book of knowledge and I could flip to the pages. And in my mind, I hear someone suggesting "meditation." Ha. Yeah. I know. I've been soul searching as to why I have no motivation there, why I dread going there when it was such a powerful and mindblowing experience. Just being honest with myself here, while it was powerful and mindblowing, yes, during and after there was so much heaviness at the same time. Some internal, some external. I really don't enjoy that kind of attention from external sources. I don't particularly enjoy the crap, regardless of the source. I guess I feel so damned much heaviness as I schlep, that I just don't want any more.

Maybe later. I hope I can get back to feeling strong, realizing how much power there is in the energy in my body and in the "empty space" around me (Carmody's booster shot). I'm not afraid. It isn't fear. It's knowing how much it takes to just Be. In the face of What Is.

Much Love,

Oh, and just in case I left traces...

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[Carmody]

On the moon and emotions.

We, being flung about by our emotions, may end up being attached to said spun emotions.

Those emotions are great fun, yes. They have their ups and downs, and wild those swings are.

But, ultimately, the spin added by the moon is a false one. The moon is a false planetoid. It should not be there.

Scientifically, in analysis, it simply cannot be there, except by contrivance and manipulation. It is wholly unnatural.

And when we get beyond the false spin, we find the calm, and those spins affect us no more.

When we cease involving ourselves in this moon derived form of clinging and emotional Stockholm syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome), when we cease allowing that pervasive coloration from pushing us to the ground every time we stand up...we begin the process of gaining our freedom from this place.

But, to not do it in negativity and the derision of cutting out our emotions wholesale, to leave behind the animal instincts in their place (sociopaths) ---which is banking, capitalism, war, secret societies, etc. Animals with cunning, but devoid of true functional depth.

To learn to swim in the toughest ocean flow in the known universe, as if we had two ton anchors and weights on our limbs at the same time we are at the bottom of an ocean..to master a swim to the surface and frolic...in that world.

That is what being on this planet is likened to.

Until then... spin, spin away.....continue twisting on that rope.

It is not the skill we must learn, to flop about blindly, but first, to recognize that this.... is what we are dealing with.

Only then can we build that skill in an effective way, with reason, causal relationships shown to be what they are.. and then, to swim to that surface and frolic...in a state of knowing.

[Flash]

Thank you so much grip, you have no idea how I needed that. :)

Schlepping my crap through the village today. Sorry. I hope I've put enough in to balance this. I feel like roots that go into the core of me are being removed. Some heartlessly ripped out, some ever so gently. Divorce is always painful, I've seen enough (and experienced enough) to know it is always hard. I certainly don't mean to minimize the painful experiences of anyone. But this...this...disconnection is different. Sure, there is the normal painful pulling apart, the constant reminders, emotional upheaval, self doubt, uncertainty, withdrawals. But there is this added component. Being aware there is more to it. There was more to it together, there is more to it apart. Knowing some of the life I lead elsewhere, and some of the life he leads elsewhere, and having first hand knowledge of that specifically, and knowing each other there...

I do remind myself constantly of what the beautiful blue beings said. That in some amount of time (they gave me a good idea) I will be able to see. Things will be completely different. Not just in my insignificant life, but this plane. I will simply sigh a relief of understanding, and say "Oh." Like, oh...ohhhhh...that's why. And that was such a comfort. For about a week. I want to know why now. I want to understand now. But...understanding like I do, I dare not ask for answers. Mostly I either don't like the answers, haha, or...they are so huge that I cannot possibly comprehend them. It is like when K was three and she wanted to know what dirt was made out of...or eyeballs. I guess I would like to understand to the best of my ability. Maybe.

I have a lot of questions about the moon. That won't surprise a couple of people. I wish I had the book of knowledge and I could flip to the pages. And in my mind, I hear someone suggesting "meditation." Ha. Yeah. I know. I've been soul searching as to why I have no motivation there, why I dread going there when it was such a powerful and mindblowing experience. Just being honest with myself here, while it was powerful and mindblowing, yes, during and after there was so much heaviness at the same time. Some internal, some external. I really don't enjoy that kind of attention from external sources. I don't particularly enjoy the crap, regardless of the source. I guess I feel so damned much heaviness as I schlep, that I just don't want any more.

Maybe later. I hope I can get back to feeling strong, realizing how much power there is in the energy in my body and in the "empty space" around me (Carmody's booster shot). I'm not afraid. It isn't fear. It's knowing how much it takes to just Be. In the face of What Is.

Much Love,

Oh, and just in case I left traces...

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Give yourself a chance. It takes time.

[1inMany]

On the moon and emotions.

We, being flung about by our emotions, may end up being attached to said spun emotions.

Those emotions are great fun, yes. They have their ups and downs, and wild those swings are.

But, ultimately, the spin added by the moon is a false one. The moon is a false planetoid. It should not be there.

Scientifically, in analysis, it simply cannot be there, except by contrivance and manipulation. It is wholly unnatural.

And when we get beyond the false spin, we find the calm, and those spins affect us no more.

When we cease involving ourselves in this moon derived form of clinging and emotional Stockholm syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome), when we cease allowing that pervasive coloration from pushing us to the ground every time we stand up...we begin the process of gaining our freedom from this place.

But, to not do it in negativity and the derision of cutting out our emotions wholesale, to leave behind the animal instincts in their place (sociopaths) ---which is banking, capitalism, war, secret societies, etc. Animals with cunning, but devoid of true functional depth.

To learn to swim in the toughest ocean flow in the known universe, as if we had two ton anchors and weights on our limbs at the same time we are at the bottom of an ocean..to master a swim to the surface and frolic...in that world.

That is what being on this planet is likened to.

Until then... spin, spin away.....continue twisting on that rope.

It is not the skill we must learn, to flop about blindly, but first, to recognize that this.... is what we are dealing with.

Only then can we build that skill in an effective way, with reason, causal relationships shown to be what they are.. and then, to swim to that surface and frolic...in a state of knowing.

I intuit this is quite true. (You know it is, and don't need validation from me of all people, but I needed a starting point.) A couple of years ago, my Grandpa got a message to me. We were talking about ruling influences, and knowing myself. Asked where to look, he replied "the moon" and chuckled. As is always the friggin case, I couldn't find anything to explain this. I looked at the phases of the moon and tried to make correlations to moods that way. I tried looking at moon astrology, whatever the term is for that. I tried looking for hidden knowledge, which is a lost cause because it is well hidden. Now, after all this time, it is becoming clear. Thanks to your posts.

I'm not nearly as emotional as I used to be. I attribute that to spiritual growth (lack of a better word). I still identify influence(s) of the planets. Generally speaking, please...I still don't get it mostly, but I do see there is influence. And the moon...this makes sense with the pull of the water on the planet, and in the human body...and the emotions are somehow water based and I can't quite pull that info up.

I was looking for something a while back, and found a website selling candles powered up with full moon energy. (Completely unrelated to what I was looking for.) And it is then that I began to wonder...is this a good thing? Magical people who worship the moon...who look at the moon as a goddess...is this a good thing? Let's say it is artificial...meaning it was placed after the formation of the planets. I don't feel pulled to honor the moon, as I would the Sun let's say. Of course, as was eluded to, it could have been placed to make the "game" more interesting, make the "school" more difficult or efficient. I play that over in my head and wonder if it is just another thing to grow beyond.

And then there are the deep emotions of a Cancerian. On the one hand, you have the thought that allowing those to move through is the healthy way. And emotions are part of this experience, so I would surmise that experiencing them is part of the point. However, being ruled by them or becoming so attached to them that they take over...well, that's not healthy. It does give experience though. On the other hand, there is the thought that the planetary influences are something to grow beyond somehow.

I don't know. I'm sure this is rambling. I will excuse myself, haha.

Wait, before I excuse myself let me play that thought out. If the emotions are influenced by the planets, and by the moon...what to do with that information. I mean, you can't really say "well, I am having a ****ty time of it because of the planets, or the moon, so I will stop having a ****ty time of it." You can't really just not experience the stuff. And you can't really deny it, be in denial or avoidance of the stuff. So somehow the key must be to allow it all the while knowing why it is happening, but not let it take you over....

Okay, now I am excusing myself...

[Crystine]

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LITTLE MOON
A Joe Belt pencil portrait

[Crystine]

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How's this for DETERMINATION?

[Carmody]

On the moon and emotions.

We, being flung about by our emotions, may end up being attached to said spun emotions.

Those emotions are great fun, yes. They have their ups and downs, and wild those swings are.

But, ultimately, the spin added by the moon is a false one. The moon is a false planetoid. It should not be there.

Scientifically, in analysis, it simply cannot be there, except by contrivance and manipulation. It is wholly unnatural.

And when we get beyond the false spin, we find the calm, and those spins affect us no more.

When we cease involving ourselves in this moon derived form of clinging and emotional Stockholm syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome), when we cease allowing that pervasive coloration from pushing us to the ground every time we stand up...we begin the process of gaining our freedom from this place.

But, to not do it in negativity and the derision of cutting out our emotions wholesale, to leave behind the animal instincts in their place (sociopaths) ---which is banking, capitalism, war, secret societies, etc. Animals with cunning, but devoid of true functional depth.

To learn to swim in the toughest ocean flow in the known universe, as if we had two ton anchors and weights on our limbs at the same time we are at the bottom of an ocean..to master a swim to the surface and frolic...in that world.

That is what being on this planet is likened to.

Until then... spin, spin away.....continue twisting on that rope.

It is not the skill we must learn, to flop about blindly, but first, to recognize that this.... is what we are dealing with.

Only then can we build that skill in an effective way, with reason, causal relationships shown to be what they are.. and then, to swim to that surface and frolic...in a state of knowing.

I intuit this is quite true. (You know it is, and don't need validation from me of all people, but I needed a starting point.) A couple of years ago, my Grandpa got a message to me. We were talking about ruling influences, and knowing myself. Asked where to look, he replied "the moon" and chuckled. As is always the friggin case, I couldn't find anything to explain this. I looked at the phases of the moon and tried to make correlations to moods that way. I tried looking at moon astrology, whatever the term is for that. I tried looking for hidden knowledge, which is a lost cause because it is well hidden. Now, after all this time, it is becoming clear. Thanks to your posts.

I'm not nearly as emotional as I used to be. I attribute that to spiritual growth (lack of a better word). I still identify influence(s) of the planets. Generally speaking, please...I still don't get it mostly, but I do see there is influence. And the moon...this makes sense with the pull of the water on the planet, and in the human body...and the emotions are somehow water based and I can't quite pull that info up.

I was looking for something a while back, and found a website selling candles powered up with full moon energy. (Completely unrelated to what I was looking for.) And it is then that I began to wonder...is this a good thing? Magical people who worship the moon...who look at the moon as a goddess...is this a good thing? Let's say it is artificial...meaning it was placed after the formation of the planets. I don't feel pulled to honor the moon, as I would the Sun let's say. Of course, as was eluded to, it could have been placed to make the "game" more interesting, make the "school" more difficult or efficient. I play that over in my head and wonder if it is just another thing to grow beyond.

And then there are the deep emotions of a Cancerian. On the one hand, you have the thought that allowing those to move through is the healthy way. And emotions are part of this experience, so I would surmise that experiencing them is part of the point. However, being ruled by them or becoming so attached to them that they take over...well, that's not healthy. It does give experience though. On the other hand, there is the thought that the planetary influences are something to grow beyond somehow.

I don't know. I'm sure this is rambling. I will excuse myself, haha.

Wait, before I excuse myself let me play that thought out. If the emotions are influenced by the planets, and by the moon...what to do with that information. I mean, you can't really say "well, I am having a ****ty time of it because of the planets, or the moon, so I will stop having a ****ty time of it." You can't really just not experience the stuff. And you can't really deny it, be in denial or avoidance of the stuff. So somehow the key must be to allow it all the while knowing why it is happening, but not let it take you over....

Okay, now I am excusing myself...

you got it. Exactly that. Knowing where it is coming from makes all the difference in the world. Even if you free yourself from it, everyone else around you is still in the bubble. the more you remove yourself from it and remain in their midst, the more you grind against their flow and end up catching their flack.

Helping yourself and helping others, can be very costly, until some form of detachment is reached. Obviously, it can't be forced as that is no good either. Generally, only in the face of true detachment, does one gain the peace required so that others cannot reach them..at the same time some deeper parts of them (other) cease trying to grind against the detached being.

[PurpleLama]

IME, detachment comes less from removing oneself from that which is temporal, than spending one's effort to move toward that which is eternal.

1inmany, I might suggest spending your contemplation on the relaxation of every tension, beginning in the belly and expanding upward and downward and outward from there. When the practice is internalized, less chance is there for any outside interference, and much progress stands to be made. Just focus on the sensations, and follow from there.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Of course, the perfect remedy for the friction Carmody describes is a healthy dose of DGAF.

[Flash]

Of course, the perfect remedy for the friction Carmody describes is a healthy dose of DGAF

Got to remember that one. lol

My late saying, repeating it to myself: "it has to be easy"

not lazyness here, this is not me, but just stopping to take the ardeous and most difficult roads, looking for the easiest ones in the solutions coming up. For everything.

I bet my next one will be DGAF

[Michelle Marie]

Here and now…

awareness of this type of illegal arrest hitting pretty close to home:

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/wrongfully-arrested-colorado-man-gets-23500-payout-because-cops-didn-t-know-gun-laws

I'm glad he won.

Michelle Marie

[Michelle Marie]

My heart is full of compassion for you, 1in Many.

I sense that compassion is violet. Has anyone else ever sensed that vibrational relationship? Just wondering.

Anyway, lots of violet flame compassion to transmute the heavy energy into light as you transform into a free playful fun wisdom-laden butterfly soul that flies smack into Freedom.

Many more blessings and miracles to come ,,,Love,
Michelle Marie

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

That Sequoia is the most venerable cathedral I've ever seen. Incredible. One of my favorite books is Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses". He describes the old growth forests before they were clear cut. Would have been something to see.....

In other news of the here and now, I read this interesting article from Seattle regarding a highway tunnel they're digging beneath the city:

http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/dec/11/mysterious-object-blocks-seattle-tunnel-drilling/

[Guest]

lol PL

1inMany I'm a Sun person too but I have three planets in Leo. When I was a child I was fascinated that there was a moon here. I called it the boon and told everyone that it doesn't belong there, much to the chagrin of my parents. In Native and traditional cultures they don't say "look to the moon," but "look to the Sun."

This whole page is synchronistic to my own life differing circumstances and situations but similar.

Shift just a little bit and watch as they come out of the woodwork. There's my own resistance as well.

Speaking of connections and invisible messages from the multiverses
I subscribe to Rahkyt's blog Sacred Space and Time. About an hour or so ago clicked on his newest blog then to this thread and read this page.

by rahkyt
genre hip hop

There is a Way to Find Love

There is a way, to find, Love.
There is a way to find Love.
We face the demons in the night
We scream out loud then run in fright
Til we find the loving place
Illuminate and shine our light!

There is a way to find Love.
There's nothing in between us
but the walls we put in place
We live our lives in search of dreams
and find ourselves in outer space.
There is a way to find Love.
There is a way to find Love.
Mystical magical wonderful beautiful we are full of light and love we're bright our second sight shinin through dimensions pretensions of soul as psychos like pyros light fires of tires and buildings come crashing down they clown we don't care we are flying higher and higher the fire burning planets like manic depressives we dip and dive flowin thru life livin like Ballas we follow synchronicity our paths shinin electricity climbin levels and levels ascension burnin skin yearnin we brighten and heighten third eye risin we out in space yeh the place of our birth this earth no hidin place we gone we out no doubt it's on ...

There is a way to find Love.
We face the demons in the night
We scream out loud then run in fright
Til we find the loving place
Illuminate and shine our light!
There is a way to find Love.
There's nothing in between us
but the walls we put in place
We live our lives in search of dreams
and find ourselves in outer space.
There is a way to find Love.
There is a way to find Love.
There is a way to find Love.
There is a way to find Love.
There is a way, to find, Love.
http://rahkyt.com/2013/12/12/there-is-a-way-to-find-love/#comments


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Love


Nora

[ulli]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q79/1511230_1388632634718841_1616126064_n.jpg

Snow in Egypt today...global warming for sure.

[Wind]

So that's where all the snow went...

[Billy]

Can i ask for prayers for my Mother Elizabeth. 86, I moved in with her a few weeks ago because she was falling down due to arthritis , First bad fall she fractured her wrist, the last fall she fractured her knee and the knee cap has become detached from the ligaments that hold it in place, She has been in hospital for 6 weeks now and is losing the will to fight on. My Father passed away last January.

This last few days she has been hallucinating due to a possible virus that they cannot detect, (Doctors description) seeing people who have passed away. My father being one of many, When i saw her yesterday she told me that earlier in the day " Everything was upside down " I asked what she meant. She said she was above her bed looking down. Hmmm i think she had an OBE. But does not understand the experience. I reassured her.

She is strong and wants to come home. Please pray that this can happen. If it is the will of the creator.

I feel it is not her time yet. Taking each day as it comes.

off to visit her again soon. Thank you Village.

peace

[araucaria]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q79/1511230_1388632634718841_1616126064_n.jpg

Snow in Egypt today...global warming for sure.
Ulli, you are just being cynical because you don't understand these things. It is an effect of global warming.

;)

[araucaria]

Can i ask for prayers for my Mother Elizabeth. 86, I moved in with her a few weeks ago because she was falling down due to arthritis , First bad fall she fractured her wrist, the last fall she fractured her knee and the knee cap has become detached from the ligaments that hold it in place, She has been in hospital for 6 weeks now and is losing the will to fight on. My Father passed away last January.

This last few days she has been hallucinating due to a possible virus that they cannot detect, (Doctors description) seeing people who have passed away. My father being one of many, When i saw her yesterday she told me that earlier in the day " Everything was upside down " I asked what she meant. She said she was above her bed looking down. Hmmm i think she had an OBE. But does not understand the experience. I reassured her.

She is strong and wants to come home. Please pray that this can happen. If it is the will of the creator.

I feel it is not her time yet. Taking each day as it comes.

off to visit her again soon. Thank you Village.

peace
billyjl, this is a very difficult time for you and for your mother. They say seeing loved ones is a sign that the end is close, but on the other hand, anyone might start losing the will to fight on after six weeks in hospital. If you can get her home, she may well have a few more years in her. Here's wishing the very best for you both.

[ulli]

Truth and lies. A magicians view of it....on TED talks

http://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_the_magic_of_truth_and_lies_on_ipods.html

[ulli]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q79/1511230_1388632634718841_1616126064_n.jpg

Snow in Egypt today...global warming for sure.
Ulli, you are just being cynical because you don't understand these things. It is an effect of global warming.

;)

Or is it an effect of the weather wars we all participated in?
Or maybe a bunch of photographers who have been reading Avalon as lurkers,
and who made a bet. Racing to be the first one to get a picture of the snowy sphinx.

[Flash]

Can i ask for prayers for my Mother Elizabeth. 86, I moved in with her a few weeks ago because she was falling down due to arthritis , First bad fall she fractured her wrist, the last fall she fractured her knee and the knee cap has become detached from the ligaments that hold it in place, She has been in hospital for 6 weeks now and is losing the will to fight on. My Father passed away last January.

This last few days she has been hallucinating due to a possible virus that they cannot detect, (Doctors description) seeing people who have passed away. My father being one of many, When i saw her yesterday she told me that earlier in the day " Everything was upside down " I asked what she meant. She said she was above her bed looking down. Hmmm i think she had an OBE. But does not understand the experience. I reassured her.

She is strong and wants to come home. Please pray that this can happen. If it is the will of the creator.

I feel it is not her time yet. Taking each day as it comes.

off to visit her again soon. Thank you Village.

peace

Sorry for your mom. I am all there with you and her.

In hospitals here, the virus people catch is not a virus but a bacteria generally called C difficile. Have that checked, I would if it were my mom. It was an epidemic here, but it may not be in your region and doctors may not know as much about it. And yet, it may be something else too.

[genevieve]

billyji--

My 88-year-old mom saw her departed loved ones while on drugs prescribed by her Hospice nurse, but as she got better and the drugs were reduced, she no longer saw them. She lived a couple more years (surprise, Hospice!) and soaked up the love that surrounded her.

My prayers are with you and your mother. May her wishes come true.


Peace Love Joy & Harmony,
Genevieve

[Carmody]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q79/1511230_1388632634718841_1616126064_n.jpg

Snow in Egypt today...global warming for sure.
Ulli, you are just being cynical because you don't understand these things. It is an effect of global warming.

;)

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/images/1442.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dgk_5eFrlwg/TNly2upMofI/AAAAAAAACck/Bi1iLflfo_c/s320/bear.jpg

no, wait...I mean:

http://www.donegaldollop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/pope-bear.jpg

http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050308031016/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/4/49/Popewoods.jpg/400px-Popewoods.jpg

[Flash]

What Carmody, you show their teddy bears for the small kiddies? Here a little teddy bear, come to me, come to me. The big bear eating children is not far.

Oh no, it is a teddy contine. The other teddies are dressed in red.


LES OURS EN PELUCHE DU PAPE, VUS PAR GLORIA
http://beatriceweb.eu/Blog/images/orsicommemorativpetit_462.jpg

Just the religion that has changed, the principles remain throughout it seems

http://www.religiouswatch.com/images/nemobear.jpg

[ulli]

billyji--

My 88-year-old mom saw her departed loved ones while on drugs prescribed by her Hospice nurse, but as she got better and the drugs were reduced, she no longer saw them. She lived a couple more years (surprise, Hospice!) and soaked up the love that surrounded her.

My prayers are with you and your mother. May her wishes come true.


Peace Love Joy & Harmony,
Genevieve


When my mum was on her way out, she told me one day how instead of seeing the forest from her window it had become the ocean. She loved visiting me because I always lived near the ocean.
But she never could face traveling on those endless flights, with a Miami stop over after she turned 80. The 9/11 thing changed everything, with the increased security. You hardly ever see seniors on international flights any more. They put them through hell.
Right now we need prayers for my 85-year-old father-in-law...he is very poorly. Liver malfunction. Tomorrow Im taking the MicroMat machine to him again...it worked wonders last weekend.

[Crystine]

q90JsglUY0U

What a ride!

[Carmody]

What Carmody, you show their teddy bears for the small kiddies? Here a little teddy bear, come to me, come to me. The big bear eating children is not far.

Oh no, it is a teddy contine. The other teddies are dressed in red.



It's tied to an old Steve Martin joke...

The original saying is about things being obvious. The reply is, 'Does a bear **** in the woods? Is the pope catholic?'

Steve Martin changed it to: 'Does the Pope **** in the woods? Is a bear catholic?'

Pardon my dark humour. I'll try not to do it more than a few times a day.

[Carmody]

q90JsglUY0U
What a ride!


Huh. One of the few recent mega-rides that I don't have a connection to.....(this one is a plain-jane rollercoaster)

[Flash]

What Carmody, you show their teddy bears for the small kiddies? Here a little teddy bear, come to me, come to me. The big bear eating children is not far.

Oh no, it is a teddy contine. The other teddies are dressed in red.



It's tied to an old Steve Martin joke...

The original saying is about things being obvious. The reply is, 'Does a bear **** in the woods? Is the pope catholic?'

Steve Martin changed it to: 'Does the Pope **** in the woods? Is a bear catholic?'

Pardon my dark humour. I'll try not to do it more than a few times a day.

Ok, here comes my non anglo-saxon background, thank you , i had not catched it at all.

Nevertheless, my mohammed teddy is right here anyhow, for any religion. right?

[Crystine]

24152Celebrate, celebrate. I learned how to capture a video.

[Carmody]

I guess someone does not like my new thread.

My brand new phone (pay as you go) just drained itself, battery wise. Hot battery and dead. Which means it's been found to be connected to me.... and it's just been used as an observation post. (at the very least)

[RunningDeer]

Moving Illisions (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?61182-The-Network-Hub&p=772296&viewfull=1#post772296):

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/ames_room2_zps0e063724.gif

[Gekko]

q90JsglUY0U

What a ride!

I rode that one many years ago. The youngest kid on there. Much fun. Of course, the warm weather was the real attraction...

speaking of which, swimming through the first winter storm here :smow:

Took a short walk earlier in the falling snow...

[Carmody]

Moving Illisions (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?61182-The-Network-Hub&p=772296&viewfull=1#post772296):

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/ames_room2_zps0e063724.gif



Watch how they hold and move their feet and shoes.

As the phone/camera moves just a 'hair' off center of the perspective holding peephole location, the perspective and squareness of the image shifts out of 'perfection'. It happens in the last few seconds of the gif.

[Gekko]

Just found out today that one of my favorite authors died over a week ago... from mom no less. I cringed when she said his name and I saw the newspaper in her hands, like darn! Guess I'm getting old.

Colin Wilson, 82; first novel created sensation in UK (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2013/12/14/colin-wilson-first-novel-created-sensation/hYk7vS6k2RFZv6EBru5ZBJ/story.html)

The Outsider was one of the first books I consumed at 16 when I developed a sudden thirst for these things. Human potential, paranormal, psychology, etc... one of my gateways so to speak. But his autobiography is what really got me going.

Unfortunately the authors of these editorials know just which quotations and factoids to cherry pick to make him into entertainment.

RIP Colin Wilson

http://doubtfulnewscom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/200px-Colin_Wilson.jpg

[meeradas]

I just have to drag this (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66500)here.
[Thanks to Marlowe for putting it up!]

It's beautiful, you'll love it. Totally worth the time.

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/11936/The-Animal-Communicator

[Cristian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYwTU7z6BI

[ulli]

Father-in-law now has high fever. Please help with healing ...my husband is sh..ting himself.
Not to mention the rest of that huge family. Everyone worried sick.

[RunningDeer]

Father-in-law now has high fever. Please help with healing ...my husband is sh..ting himself.
Not to mention the rest of that huge family. Everyone worried sick.


For your Father-in-Law and All of your Family
http://www.pic4ever.com/images/grouphugg.gif
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/HealingHands_zps248a6ffa.JPG

http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smileys-and-emoticons/hugs/smileys-hugs-765537.gif

[ulli]

Father-in-law now has high fever. Please help with healing ...my husband is sh..ting himself.
Not to mention the rest of that huge family. Everyone worried sick.


For your Father-in-Law and All of your Family
http://www.pic4ever.com/images/grouphugg.gif
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Angels/HealingHands_zps248a6ffa.JPG

http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smileys-and-emoticons/hugs/smileys-hugs-765537.gif

Thank you, Paula. Beautiful. I can feel it.

[1inMany]

Here and Now, Lookie! Look what I found!

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Ahhhhhhhhh

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Ulli and billji my prayers are with you and your families.

Much Love,

[Carmody]

I guess someone does not like my new thread.

My brand new phone (pay as you go) just drained itself, battery wise. Hot battery and dead. Which means it's been found to be connected to me.... and it's just been used as an observation post. (at the very least)

Quite the bit of a direct attack last night, as you might imagine.

[1inMany]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYwTU7z6BI

This touched me deeply. It did. This week at school, one of Em's friends laughed at a comment. Em was disgusted and shocked, first at the comment and then the fact that her friend laughed at it. Em is now working towards severing the tie with the friend, who exhibits behavior Em wants nothing to do with. At great risk to herself, as the friend will then turn on Em for rejecting her.

A white boy, in some type of argument, asked a black girl at school, "what is your last name again? Because I think I own your grandfather."

Em was one of these bystanders, who spoke up. Of course she is. This still exists. Bigotry. Hate. Meanness. And it is so, so sad.

[Carmody]

As a child of 10 or so, I was innocent of the idea of racism (this title we have for that behavior). My family, parents, etc, had never talked of the subject, or dealt with any form or reaction or what not on/in it, as it did not and does not exist in us, it was and is a 'nothing'.

When I figured it out, I was absolutely livid.

To me, we have to blend back to the original animal. This will happen when we mix the people up again, together.

An improved version of the original avatar, with all those new corners and colors.

[ulli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYwTU7z6BI

This touched me deeply. It did. This week at school, one of Em's friends laughed at a comment. Em was disgusted and shocked, first at the comment and then the fact that her friend laughed at it. Em is now working towards severing the tie with the friend, who exhibits behavior Em wants nothing to do with. At great risk to herself, as the friend will then turn on Em for rejecting her.

A white boy, in some type of argument, asked a black girl at school, "what is your last name again? Because I think my grandfather owned your family."

Em was one of these bystanders, who spoke up. Of course she is. This still exists. Bigotry. Hate. Meanness. And it is so, so sad.

In fact, the more efforting we do to combat racism,
the more the entrenched bigots out there
insist wilfully to remain in their bigotry.

Once in a while someone switches camps, but on the whole people seem to hang on to old patterns.
Carmody has explained many times how this works.

Something inside them has to grow, slowly, maybe the outcome of contemplation,
certain experiences are needed to prepare them.

When they are finally ready they realize that their parents or societal programs were wrong.

The best way to live is in mixed neighborhoods, and have your kids grow up in mixed neighborhoods.
Then they can figure out many things for themselves,
including how entire cultures are driven and manipulated.
As Terrence McKenna once said...'Culture is not your friend'.

But mixed neighborhoods are not easy to find in the US, if one looks at housing developments.
Lots of segregation there.
If I ever had to go and live in the US my preferred choice
would be living in a black middle class neighborhood, and my Latino husband
who also lived in Barbados for a few years, would agree with me there.

Before the forces of racial unity can prevail individuals have to take their positions,
and will find themselves in opposite camps, unfortunately.

[ulli]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q71/1514565_597888976932287_301639660_n.jpg

[ulli]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1476437_193838537487000_234779375_n.jpg

[grapevine]

And, if one wanted to slowly convert a planet (as it would have to be done slowly) to a condition, vibration pattern .. that was favorable, it might take something, a machine.. the size of....a.. size of a....(looks up into the sky).

And that device would have to be precisely geometrically aligned to the object planet.... in a way that was and is wholly unnatural. Something perfected, in all ways.

One of a dozen or more anomalies tied to the moon. when stacked up, they reach an improbability level that is so far off the charts it is impossible to calculate. The moon is therefore an artificial construct. here, the one thing, which is so unlikely it is considered to be impossible in the known universe. Just one anomaly out of dozens:


For some reason, the Moon is exactly the size so as to obscure the Sun during a full eclipse. Because it is 400 times smaller than the sun but 400 times closer to the Earth. It has been called the most improbable coincidence in what we think we know of what is in the universe (this one).

The moon controls our tides and without the moon we would continue to have tides (pulled by the sun) butthe days would be shorter because we would be spinning faster. We would then have more extreme weather and bigger differences between summer and winter. Is it just a coincidence that this appears to be happening now? I was shocked when I heard years ago that there was a plan by US/USSR in 1958 to nuke the moon - but now I'm thinking that the plan would have had different repercussions than slowing the tides ...

[RunningDeer]

The more I decided to say screw it, I don’t want any more information, I don’t care this is all BS, the more subtle poke-pokes happen. My dreams are fast moving, and I’m in a lot of different places. People are intentionally making themselves known. Several times, they use a wink. Out of the blue, I’ll remember during the day and recall vague parts that stay just out of reach. There’s an overlap or a main theme that weave all the dreams together.

The last several weeks, I wake myself up because I’ve physically pushed “someone” away with an elbow gesture and message that says “back off”. Or out of a dead sleep, I used a Tai Chi block because I felt someone’s there. Though, I don’t have the sense that they are malevolent, but I’m covering my butt just in case I’m in denial. I’m awake for hours. I’ll open my eyes quickly and catch something or other times an orb.

My iPod that’s set up by my bed, lights up out of the blue. Or sometimes, while I try to get back to sleep, I’ll watch with awareness and if there’s a particular query or ah-ha, again my iPod lights up. I’ve even switched it out with another and replaced the iPod station, but it still comes on.

I’m aware that I am readying to see more and discover more and these are ways in which it is happening. The daytime peripheral activity has increased, too.

Lots of awake hours at night to hav-a-look. I’ve shared this before, nighttime is a perfect setting to discover how much of an illusion the body is. I don’t need to go under the covers, but total darkness lessens the 3D senses. I see there’s no body. When I run my fingers over my arm and once I stop identifying with sensation, even that goes away. It’s a place of no emotion. No desire to see aura. Or anything else. And there are other times, I’ll feel how the body has increase it’s energy not just in a specific region, but in an increased, uniformed way.

[Crystine]

I am somewhat comforted to know someone else rolls over in the night to check Avalon on their iPad. Just to make sure all is well. A look see. The world is good. I had awful night a few nights ago. Jees oh Pete. Old time specters were coming back for a goodbye haunt. I say good riddance. And don't you come back no more, no more.

I have yet to find that spot of complete peace. Oh well one day. Maybe. Maybe not.

[RunningDeer]

This blows me away every time I listen to it. Often, I'll play it going off to sleep.


Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat: Through The Stargate - Part 1
dr1ltChjKeE

Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat: Through The Stargate - Part 2
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[Crystine]

Hi Paula. I love this sound. Here is one I listen to. Before sleep. A similar sound
.Akb2hyw1aNg









Oh. Wonderful.

[Crystine]

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Ulli,

Your family is in my prayers. Sending strength and good thoughts. Comfort for your father in law. Support for your husband and you.

Blessings for you and yours.

Love,
Christine Lori

[RunningDeer]

Hi Paula. I love this sound. Here is one I listen to. Before sleep. A similar sound.Akb2hyw1aNg

Oh. Wonderful.

I get chills and a proud to be a "human at this time kinda-feelin'". Thanks, Christine Lori. http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/dog-smiley.gif

[Crystine]

I get chills and a proud to be a "human at this time kinda-feelin'". Thanks, Christine Lori.


Exactly, Paula. It is beautiful. Fills a place in your heart.

[RunningDeer]

Can i ask for prayers for my Mother Elizabeth. 86 She is strong and wants to come home. Please pray that this can happen. If it is the will of the creator. I feel it is not her time yet. Taking each day as it comes. Off to visit her again soon. Thank you Village.

peace

Dearest Mother Elizabeth,

Sending in the big and small
Into your Blessed space
With prayers, and Love
On this Healing Journey

And...

For who You are
For what You do
And the imprint You create
Thank you

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

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

Love,
Paula

[Crystine]

To billyji,
For your mom, this prayer is said again.

Posted by billyji (here)
Can i ask for prayers for my Mother Elizabeth. 86 She is strong and wants to come home. Please pray that this can happen. If it is the will of the creator. I feel it is not her time yet. Taking each day as it comes. Off to visit her again soon. Thank you Village.

peace
Dearest Mother Elizabeth,

Sending in the big and small
Into your Blessed space
With prayers, and Love
On this Healing Journey

And...

For who You are
For what You do
And the imprint You create
Thank you

[ulli]

On my way home. Now in the car. Father's fever went down, and he has less pain.
They told him he had to follow doctors orders, or his birthday party (85)
at the end of December would be cancelled.
That did it.
Thanks everyone for your energies...LOVE...LOVE...LOVE...

[grapevine]

So glad Ulli . . .

[RunningDeer]

On my way home. Now in the car. Father's fever went down, and he has less pain.
They told him he had to follow doctors orders, or his birthday party (85)
at the end of December would be cancelled.
That did it.
Thanks everyone for your energies...LOVE...LOVE...LOVE...


Lit for Father's 85th, and for Love, Love, Love.
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Photoshop/candles_zps3f48277b.JPG

[RunningDeer]

Cat Eyeball And More

It’s hard to pick a top three. They are all that good!

Quick link to cat eyeball seconds after this spot (http://youtu.be/VO5j_mB5hRY?t=2m16s), but worth a look at all the innovative artists.


VO5j_mB5hRY

[Crystine]

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A personal pic from home. Brrrrrrrr. Pooh and Ti double gr r.

[Carmody]

I guess someone does not like my new thread.

My brand new phone (pay as you go) just drained itself, battery wise. Hot battery and dead. Which means it's been found to be connected to me.... and it's just been used as an observation post. (at the very least)

Quite the bit of a direct attack last night, as you might imagine.

I sensed the footfalls on the bed, all around me, in the same way that a large dog walking on your bed would be like. More than one of them. And the fight to stay to my body. Took about an hour, it felt like. Couldn't wake up, had to keep fighting it. It would probably freak most folks out pretty severely.

[Crystine]

I guess someone does not like my new thread.

My brand new phone (pay as you go) just drained itself, battery wise. Hot battery and dead. Which means it's been found to be connected to me.... and it's just been used as an observation post. (at the very least)

Quite the bit of a direct attack last night, as you might imagine.

I sensed the footfalls on the bed, all around me, in the same way that a large dog walking on your bed would be like. More than one of them. And the fight to stay to my body. Took about an hour, it felt like. Couldn't wake up, had to keep fighting it. It would probably freak most folks out pretty severely.

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I agree the attacks are extremely unpleasant. It seems they are being stepped up. I felt like a pinball the other night. Poor folks at Avalon. Several of you got a frantic text from me in the middle of the night. I am sorry. It was exhausting.
Prayers of protection for you, Carmody.

Christine Lori.

[Guest]

Christine Lori, I've been attacked on all fronts almost two months now. I feel like I'm trapped on the inside of a shore break and when I come up for air I'm hit with the next giant wave or have to take a deep breath and dive back down....
Wishing you Protection and Peace.


This is a fun story Geometric
Crop circles in the snow :) Lac Marlou

Here's some beautiful winter wonder art awesome

pretty darn cool
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http://inhabitat.com/artist-makes-giant-wintry-crop-circles-just-by-walking-in-the-snow/simon-beck-snow-art2/

more of his story and Slide show

http://www.weather.com/travel/incredible-snow-art-created-foot-photos-20131212


Love

Nora

[Crystine]

Nora, how do you keep going.
Sometimes I cannot breath. I joke about needing a cave to hide in.

Christine Lori

Yes, the art is Cool. No pun intended.

[gripreaper]

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Soccer-Kick-Ball-to-Reporter-Head.gif

[araucaria]

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Soccer-Kick-Ball-to-Reporter-Head.gif
well that's sky sport for you.

Carmody, I guess this is where unmarked helicopter variations get a little less 'boring'. Take care, my friend.

I dreamt a lot last night. In the dream I woke up from and can remember well, I stayed for a while in an unfamiliar bedroom reading a book about futuristic subjects instead of going downstairs. I was lying on the bed when my shoes on the floor started steaming, or rather smoking, because they burst into flames and I had to take them along to the bathroom to extinguish the fire. I was glad I'd stayed around to deal with this, otherwise the whole place would have been on fire.

Now, in the light of day, I am thinking of the expression being in someone's shoes, suggesting that I was somehow targeted. Of course if I'd gone downstairs, I'd have been in those shoes.

I can see where this is coming from. I did once have an incipient fire on my shoes, as I once reported here, and the other day I was reading Ibsen's Ghosts in which an orphanage burns to the ground as this wiki article does not mention:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_%28play%29
Edit: radio version at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnb4y

And of course, Ulli was reminding me yesterday that we are all ghosts trying to wake up to being dead. Ibsen's use of the word seems to be closer to the idea of 'bad pennies' that keep turning up - but that would be a part of the process.

[ulli]

Picture of the old bed in our guest cottage, in the main room.
Soon I will have the bedroom fixed as well, and that will have a queen sized bed.
So we can have up to three guests staying.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1486166_10202834577451432_319895717_o.jpg

[Crystine]

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Sometimes I want to use very bad language. But I don't like the taste of soap.

Ulli, your guest room is a lovely retreat. Cheery, warm, and inviting.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I was lying on the bed when my shoes on the floor started steaming, or rather smoking, because they burst into flames and I had to take them along to the bathroom to extinguish the fire.

I can't help a Jerry Garcia lyric and quote here from their song, "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo":

"I lost my boots in transit babe
A pile of smoking leather
Nailed a retread to my feet
and prayed for better weather"

"Events in my life suggested to me that maybe it was going to be my responsibility to keep upping the ante. In was in an automobile accident in 1960 with four other guys...ninety plus miles an hour on a back road. We hit these dividers and went flying, I guess. All I know is that I was sitting in the car and there was this...disturbance...and the next thing I was in a field, far enough away from the car that I couldn't see it.

The car was crumpled like a cigarette pack...and inside it were my shoes. I'd been thrown completely out of my shoes and through the windshield. One guy did die in the group. It was like loosing the golden boy, the one who had the most to offer. For me it was crushing, but I had the feeling that my life had been spared to do something...not to take any bull****, to either go whole hog or not at all...That was when my life began. Before that I had been living at less than capacity. That event was the slingshot for the rest of my life. It was my second chance, and I got serious." -J. Garcia

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/halfstep.html

[ulli]

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Soccer-Kick-Ball-to-Reporter-Head.gif

Maybe she had been posting about asteroid attacks on too many alternative news forums.

[norman]

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Soccer-Kick-Ball-to-Reporter-Head.gif

Maybe she had been posting about asteroid attacks on too many alternative news forums.

More likely she was so career orientated that spiritually she needed a bloody good slap on the back of the head :)

[ulli]

@Norman...
in which case it looks like Calz had something to do with that then. Shall we ask him?




Here comes another slap on the head:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q71/1466316_689118427780105_1972520292_n.jpg

[norman]

Awuch ! that's not fare ! ( or is it fair? )

[ulli]

Awuch ! that's not fare ! ( or is it fair? )

No hidden meaning, Norman, not directed at you.
Just that it coincided with a Facebook post, New Yorker cartoons,
which I then thought was funny in a weird way...
and then right after that I got some really bad news about my father-in-law's health.
And that did feel like a slap....

[ulli]

This thread just passed the 1.5 million views mark and I didn't even notice until now.

[1inMany]

This thread just passed the 1.5 million views mark and I didn't even notice until now.

Oh my goodnes. Congratulations! Perfect time for my good ole animated wow, but I'm on my phone. Drat...

[Calz]

@Norman...
in which case it looks like Calz had something to do with that then. Shall we ask him?




Here comes another slap on the head:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q71/1466316_689118427780105_1972520292_n.jpg


Bugger ... took some daze off to celebrate my wife's birthday.

How many pages must I go back to make some sense of this one???

[Calz]

Sometimes I want to use very bad language. But I don't like the taste of soap.

Ulli, your guest room is a lovely retreat. Cheery, warm, and inviting.


With your images and mindset you would have been a perfect fit for this thread (unfortunately closed and the member responsible driven off the forum):


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?42360-Welcome-to-The-Pub-At-the-End-of-the-Universe.&highlight=universe


Take a stroll through it if you have the time or the inclination (many images now missing ...) ... one of my favorite threads ever.

[Calz]

Been too long since we have had a music break.

How 'bout stepping back from spaceships, portals, folding time/space and timelines etc back into the daze of the wooden ships.


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qRORPGGDK_0/T1kuKpr6EtI/AAAAAAAAAN4/EkuOywdmtJI/s1600/relaxed.jpg


Ahhh ... isn't that better???


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[transiten]

Perfect Lullabye, love that song, leaving for the Eastcoast and family tomorrow..Going home for Christmas...my dad often reminds me of when i was just a kid of 3 years old and we stayed in the house of my grandmothers sister in Marseille. There was a pond in the backyard and i repeated "Écoute les grenouilles, les grenouilles! "Frogs" for those who don't have a French dictionnary..

http://www.mcv.se/media/artists/sounds/45-1_liliane_hakansson.mp3
Maybe i was inspired by their song without knowing it 15 years later when the lyrics of "Sailing" popped into my head while picking blueberries in the mountains..

Bonne nuit:sleep:

[Wind]

The animal communicator video got me thinking. So today I tried to communicate telepathically with my dog because I really haven't done that before and it worked almost instantly, I just had to tune in to the right "channel". I visualized energy or a chord flowing from me to him and then the connection was established, I was quite amazed. I got him to understand me, but I wasn't yet able to pick up his "thoughts" or anything like that. I wonder, do animals "think" in images? I guess that I have to work on it...

[RunningDeer]

The animal communicator video got me thinking. So today I tried to communicate telepathically with my dog because I really haven't done that before and it worked almost instantly, I just had to tune in to the right "channel". I visualized energy or a chord flowing from me to him and then the connection was established, I was quite amazed. I got him to understand me, but I wasn't yet able to pick up his "thoughts" or anything like that. I wonder, do animals "think" in images? I guess that I have to work on it...

Hi Wind,

Do animals think in images? Wolfie has taught me to see visuals and use telepathy. He’s really patient. It’s as if he knows, she’ll get it, just keep sending the message. His communication of choice is thought-speak, and I fill in the blanks with visuals.

One time, Wolfie decided it was too cold for his little paws to walk across the snow. Unbeknownst to me, he stayed under some bushes and sent out a call for Mommy to come get him. He knows, I’ll ‘hear’ him. He gives no hint like shake his collar and tags. He only stands and stares with intent.

When he was a puppy, I took him to an animal psychic. She said she wouldn’t charge if I wasn’t satisfied, and also because for some animals it didn’t work.

He wanted me to stop worrying that he was going to die. And that it scared him. I had lost my son a couple of years earlier, so you can understand my fear. She had no way to know those facts. That's when I was convinced it wasn't my imagination, and we were a team.

Hellos from,
Wolfie and Paula


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Love/Wolf_toy_zps9b84fa3b-1.JPG

[ulli]

The Tulip Staircase at Greenwhich

http://www.britsattheirbest.com/header_tulip_stairs.jpg

[ulli]

My iPad just slipped out of my hand, crashed to the floor, landed on its side and now the glass screen is smashed. I stuck scotch tape over the worst part, to hold it together. Everything is still working ok, though, including the camera.
What strange energies...I've been pretty worried about father-in-law.
Bummer.

[Flash]

Perfect Lullabye, love that song, leaving for the Eastcoast and family tomorrow..Going home for Christmas...my dad often reminds me of when i was just a kid of 3 years old and we stayed in the house of my grandmothers sister in Marseille. There was a pond in the backyard and i repeated "Écoute les grenouilles, les grenouilles! "Frogs" for those who don't have a French dictionnary..

http://www.mcv.se/media/artists/sounds/45-1_liliane_hakansson.mp3
Maybe i was inspired by their song without knowing it 15 years later when the lyrics of "Sailing" popped into my head while picking blueberries in the mountains..

Bonne nuit:sleep:

Are you talking of that "Sailing" ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuhRjgB6xg

[gripreaper]

As long as we're throwing things, dropping things, chopping things...

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/7/Y/W/2/bush-flying-shoe.gif

[Carmody]

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[Kimberley]

7khQNR7s1Ho

My room mate dated Christopher Cross in the late 1970's for a while... we worked at Zeta4 in Miami Florida...she was a broadcast engineer, I was a DJ and the music director...always liked his music and he was a nice man.

[transiten]

Perfect Lullabye, love that song, leaving for the Eastcoast and family tomorrow..Going home for Christmas...my dad often reminds me of when i was just a kid of 3 years old and we stayed in the house of my grandmothers sister in Marseille. There was a pond in the backyard and i repeated "Écoute les grenouilles, les grenouilles! "Frogs" for those who don't have a French dictionnary..

http://www.mcv.se/media/artists/sounds/45-1_liliane_hakansson.mp3
Maybe i was inspired by their song without knowing it 15 years later when the lyrics of "Sailing" popped into my head while picking blueberries in the mountains..

Bonne nuit:sleep:

Are you talking of that "Sailing" ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuhRjgB6xg

Flash I felt there might be misunderstandings in connection with Rod Stuart as i wrote this post but since my lyrics are in Swedish noone made that connection here. :p...No, sailing means "segla" in Swedish and it's me singing my own song in the link which i feel somewhat stupid to have posted once more since last time only 2 persons commented on it and i'm rather sensitive to negative critique or being ignored and although i've come a long way working on that problem it seems i'm still testing, testing testing;)

I'm a professional musiscian and singer/songwriter but for the last 2 years the Lyme has stopped me from performing and there's been many "sidetracks" during my life and moderate caréer and i've been wondering why the universe/my higher self puts up resistance for me to sing in public although i've had many chances to a major breakthrough...i've got some hints though...

And just before posting the mp3link, a person asked me to send her the link once more since she lost it and then i happened to go the village for the first time in a long time and the last post was Calz posting "Wooden Ships" which made me post my song once more in the village....sync sync

My usual difficulttofollownotsointerestingtootherssynchroni citytalkingtomyself pointingatwhatsgoingonat adeeperleveloftheconsciousnessrant....

"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Timeline to You All"

[araucaria]

We were talking about multitasking a while back, when I promised an example of controlled multitasking :) The old story of asking a millipede how it walks is nonsense. It would have a formula for any one pair of legs and another for coordination between one pair and the next, and it would just be an iterative process from there on.

Compare this with the parameters involved in hitting a ball in the context of a game of tennis. The following paragraph is not necessarily meant to be read. Its mere size makes my point as well as any of the details. A single shot will typically last a couple of seconds, divided into preparation and follow-through, with a couple of tenths of a second in the middle when the ball and strings actually come into contact. This is the atom of which several combine to make up the molecule, called a rally, multiples of which form higher units, games and sets. And this atom can be split into many more subatomic particles.

The overall setup involves several parameters that are fine-tuned as you go – as the ball approaches and its trajectory, speed and spin become clearer. Footwork: getting into position from here to wherever in increasingly shorter steps; shot selection: forehand/backhand (getting into position, possibly switching to different grip), cross-court or down the line, top spin, slice, and/or side spin, or no spin; long or short; angle, always taking into account the variable height of the net and available distance between any two points; strategy (game plan: overall insistence on the opponent’s weakness(es); tactics (occasional deviation from the game plan in order to preserve its effectiveness); defence/offence (depending on the difficulty of the shot, the score (important point or not, need to play safe/take a risk) – this includes how early to hit the ball (before the bounce (volley), just after the bounce (half-volley),before/at/after the top of the bounce, all the way to scraping under the next bounce. Then there are the hand/wrist/forearm/elbow/shoulder positions and coordination thereof, with the other arm doing something different, and each leg ditto, including arm/leg coordination and considerations of weight transfer. And throughout all of this you need to keep your head still and your eye on the ball. I must be forgetting a few things but you get the picture. If you need to cough or sneeze as well, you will have to fit that in as best you can :) And of course you may need to factor in tiredness and/or injury too. And I have said nothing about what your opponent may be getting up to in the meantime to make life difficult.

This is not a tennis lesson. It is merely an indication of the complexity of something that even a not particularly bright child can learn to do reasonably well. How much more complex must it be then to achieve excellence in the task of living.

I want to take this somewhere, in another post, not in the direction of complexity, you will be relieved to know, but in the direction of simplicity.

[araucaria]

How complex tasks are learnt is by isolating the various parameters and working on them separately in the laboratory conditions of a training session and gradually integrating them. Yesterday’s tennis practice focused on the follow-through, in the first instance when a right-handed forehand takes the racket up past the left ear, holding it there until the ball bounces on the other side. Not particularly difficult; it comes fairly naturally in fact, just as long as you remember to do it.

Yesterday was neither the time nor the place to be philosophizing on what effect this movement could possibly have, given that the ball has already left the racket: simply, it has been established empirically that it is important in order to ensure that the ball lands in the court rather than in the street.

However, I can safely venture an explanation here. The ball has to be lifted up over the net and made to drop again on the other side. So in the couple of tenths of a second when the ball and strings come into contact, the racket needs to move through several different angles, starting under the ball to lift it and finishing on top of it to bring it down again. The purpose of the entire preparation and follow-through phases is to get this just right. This means turning a moment of danger or opportunity (the approaching ball) into one of danger passing or of opportunity being realized (the return). In terms of time, you have a before and an after, and the crucial and very brief ‘present’ moment, representing about a tenth of the whole duration, that everything else is aimed towards. It is like the peak of a sine wave, which doesn’t just happen on its own. Hence time is just another way of breaking down complexity, but the action itself as a whole is a timeless combination of past, present and future.

Transposing all this to a lifetime, it is said that a life is preceded by a prior planning phase, with a life review phase to follow. The actual lifetime being only an instant between the two where future and past meet in the present, which they both influence in different ways.

Ulli’s reminder that we are already dead


Well actually, the future has been and gone - you are all living in the past.

You are wrong, araucaria. All the predicted events happened,
and everyone died all at the same time,
and only a few were informed that they were already dead.
The great majority are imagining that the big wipe-out still lies ahead.
But what a relief it was when I realized that I had died,
and didn't have to worry no more about dying.

Now the only job I have to do is tell people they are already dead.
How 'bout that then?

I noticed soon after 2000 that I could do things that only spirit can do...
you know, mind stuff?

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Hello, is there a link to an article or other reference we can take a look at please?

The past takes longer than expected.
There is a link (http://www.speld.nl/2013/12/10/toekomst-opnieuw-uitgesteld/) but its in Dutch
Ja Ja. Ik ken dat.

Now you are channelling my dad. Platt Duitsch.
German dialect that sounds more Dutch than German...we lived near the Dutch border.
amounts to saying that we have moved on unnoticed from the strike to the follow-through phase: what we are experiencing right now is the life review, only it is happening on a collective rather than an individual level. Hence we can infer that a mass death event is already behind us. As to whether we see it as the ultimate disaster of mass extinction or the ultimate blessing of some kind of ascension process, the jury is still out, because, although occurring after the ‘event’, the follow-through phase still has to be executed properly in order to ensure a positive outcome. It is an active phase, not the passive inquest or stock-taking that we often imagine the life review to be. It is crucial and yet only a tiny part of who we are.

And it is only one shot in an endless tennis match, probably an important one, but the secret to straining every sinew is to… relax. And we can do that because the catastrophic event we call death is already behind us, no more than the twang of catgut against felt-coated rubber.
:)

[ulli]

@araucaria

Thank you so much for "getting" what I was trying to say there.
what we are experiencing right now is the life review, only it is happening on a collective rather than an individual level. Hence we can infer that a mass death event is already behind us


I used my Facebook page to do my personal review...posted some of my college art work, and found people responded by pressing the LIKE button, as if they were surprised that I had such talents in me.

Yet those talents are irrelevant today, ...this is my discovery.
Why am I not painting these days? I have been asked this, over and over.
And my answer is that IT IS ALL OVER..., at least for me it is....
that period of an individuals's discovery of their gifts.
And maybe this is what transiten is also discovering...

What Im perceiving as important now is this...
TEAMS; GROUP identity, collective efforts.
The days of individual stardom are over. Pluto in Leo...
that was the last generation in this lifetime.

In the light of ET making themselves known to us earthlings in our nursery....
We are specks in one huge flock of birds, or leaves of one tree.

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@araucaria

Thank you so much for "getting" what I was trying to say there.
what we are experiencing right now is the life review, only it is happening on a collective rather than an individual level. Hence we can infer that a mass death event is already behind us


I used my Facebook page to do my personal review...posted some of my college art work, and found people responded by pressing the LIKE button, as if they were surprised that I had such talents in me.

Yet those talents are irrelevant today, ...this is my discovery.
Why am I not painting these days? I have been asked this, over and over.
And my answer is that IT IS ALL OVER..., at least for me it is....
that period of an individuals's discovery of their gifts.
And maybe this is what transiten is also discovering...

What Im perceiving as important now is this...
TEAMS; GROUP identity, collective efforts.
The days of individual stardom are over. Pluto in Leo...
that was the last generation in this lifetime.

In the light of ET making themselves known to us earthlings in our nursery....
We are specks in one huge flock of birds, or leaves of one tree.

ulli, this is also happening in my personal life just now....Anyone else experiencing this? "The days of individual times of Stardom are over" and to that i've got Scorpio Sun conj Mercury square Pluto in "Me-generation Leo" in radix and Saturn blockings all over the place.....but i'm still alive and so are you here in the village and i've had two days of feeling quite Ok! My Libra Moon conj Neptune conj SN is longing for COOPERATION" tired of being this "Lonely Sailor"....

[araucaria]

I can understand transiten. I have loads of unpublished material that does not correspond to the profile of what is commonly understood by a 'writer', and have learnt to see this as no longer relevant. This was the point of an earlier post:


Hi Christine
I see this thread as an incredible experiment in collective writing. I remember back in the eighties, long before the Internet, when this was a theoretical subject for intellectuals – what you had was heavyweight theory with lightweight practice. Of course back then, there were huge issues of leadership, exacerbated by material concerns such as who got to wield the piece of chalk, and it involved a highly structured discourse which I would call architectural in the sense that it called for planning and engineering to hold things together. Ego issues were theorized in terms of Mallarmé’s ‘disparition élocutoire’, whereby the writer as speaker disappears, leaving the initiative to the words themselves, but these issues were never resolved in practice, for you cannot leave your individuality at the door, precisely because it is your personal creative power that you need to bring to the table.

What we have here and now is a more relaxed stream-of-consciousness format which I would describe as organic rather than architectural. Individuals branch out wherever they see an opening, ideas grow, and structural unity is effortless because of the shared DNA; it is not hidebound by any predefined ideal shape. If it were a tree, it would be a hybrid, like a citrus, with oranges and lemons, tangerines and clementines all growing off the same trunk. Here we can achieve that community of individualities where the writer as speaker truly does disappear, leaving the initiative to the words themselves, in the sense that you are what you say, but you are also more than that, you have your secrets too, things not to be spoken and things simply left unsaid because not everything is possible or timely and appropriate. At least not yet: we have come 1818 pages to be told that Ulli is a great greeter
:)

[ulli]

I have a friend, who is rather scholarly, and also quite attached to the British heritage
and in shock at what has been going on there in recent years....and is currently following the hacking trial.
Well I gave her another shock today when I pointed out to her that I no longer have any interest
in the intricacies of historical events, and pointed her in the direction of Jimmy Saville
and the surrounding scandals, which make the hacking scandal look pale by comparison.

[Carmody]

I too find the same. as soon as I complete it, in the physical sense, it is no longer relevant.

For me.

For others it may be.

But they are not on my lifeline and timeline.

It may be something for them to discern, or it may be distraction.

What I put down to making 'real' then becomes critical, at the one point, my sharing. As my sharing is either selfish or selfless, in those moments. Thus, to be clear before it is shared, or given. To share my distraction and it's manifestation.... and turn people (in their weakness and strength of taking externalizations of other into internalization/self) to drooling mud, or to share my distraction and turn people toward growth and opening?

[RunningDeer]

Dear Christine Lori,

It's a bottomless cup and we'll keep it hot, until your return.


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Foods/steamy_coffee_zpsb6dd7179.GIF

We’ll keep the light on for ya
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Hearts,
Paula http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smileys-and-emoticons/hugs/smileys-hugs-765537.gif

[TargeT]

it seems funny how I'm often reminded that we are collectively experiencing the same thing ( or at least groups of us are on specific issues, holistically of course the greater experience is also shared) all over this planet with slightly different context to color the experience and make it "ours".

My wife and I ran across this lastnight and it completely sums up the past 6 months of our life
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/p480x480/996753_250228811802234_1058283572_n.jpg

we started a horse rescue (https://www.facebook.com/cruzancowgirlshorserescue) and have been completely financially drained by it, but clearly this isn't my experience alone; I guess that picture was my little reminder that we are all in this together.

GO TEAM!

[Gekko]

Target, my sister is a large animal veterinarian. A few months ago she adopted an older horse to save him from the glue factory, with a good place to stay at one of the farms she works for. Just this morning she sent out an email to everyone asking that all Christmas presents be in the form of donations to help keep him. Said it's very expensive. Did it all up with a plea to "Save the Unicorn" (she went to a Halloween event where she dressed up as an elf and affixed a horn to his head). I don't think she would mind me sharing this snippet...

Unicorns eat. A lot. And it turns out that despite their fantastical horns, the rest of their anatomy is well, quite like any other horse. And that means, well, they crap. A lot. And I am finding that their maintenance is quite expensive, too - they require gold shavings and special feed that can only be found at certain locations at fairytale stores.

[ulli]

"He eats like a horse" ...such a popular saying should have sent a message.
But alas, we, too, had two horses who ate us out of house and home.
And then there were the vet bills, with all sorts of ailments that needed treatment.
Anyway, Spot and Blackie are now with someone who has money to burn, unlike us.

[TargeT]

we are trying to set up a "perpetual horse rescue machine" where we rehabilitate horses, train them to be calm and docile and adopt them out; we will be doing guided horse back tours as apart of their theropy (for the horses that need/are able to exersize, we don't have enough land for them to be able to run much but we are working at fixing that), horsmanship lessons on the weekends for kids & interested adults (we already have a group of deaf kids lined up for some horse time, good animal theorpy :) ) so we can afford to rescue as many as possible... of course building the machine takes some resources, but the horses love a dip in the ocean and grain/alfalfa and pastures that the rides will provide (well, that I am providing right now.. haha) and once they are shown that humans can be nice and won't just jump on them and ride the SH** out of them they really are seeming to enjoy the life we have provided for the few that were lucky enough to end up with us over the last 6 months.

[Caren]

Hi everyone,
lots of ice and snow here in eastern Canada of late, and more to come. Thank goodness for warm socks :)
For a number of years now my daughter in-law's aunt has been rescuing horses from different auctions, etc. - bless her kind soul. She has a large farm in Alberta and has cared for many unwanted, neglected animals. Last I heard she had eight rescues, living out their last days in peace and with plenty to eat. They are the lucky ones.
Caren
p.s. transiten: I enjoyed listening to your song and didn't mind you posting it twice at all - your voice is lovely!

[1inMany]

Bless your hearts, all of you, for rescuing animals. At this moment, I am not caring for any strays and I'm happy about that. I am, however, preparing for the rescue of Little One, and Mike and I both hope this will lead to the end of denial on K's part. We have three choices. All will cost any and all contact with K, not our first choice but likely inevitable. One-file suit now. Costly. Financially we just can't do that. Two-wait until something happens. Then it becomes an emergency in the eyes of the courts, would have a more easily determined outcome. The cost would be the same, but we could prepare from now until then. Three-cut her off now. Problem with that choice is that without an event, she could just call up the po-po and say go bring my child home. Which they would do. Hoping Mike keeps his head about him.

After I posted that I had found joy, I realized that just another layer of the same emotional "game" and saw it as just another facet. I sure have learned a lot in the past week. Yes, the key is attaching to that which is eternal. And the more attached one becomes, the less attached one can be to that which is this heavy experience. Still, must live it, yes. But...with what is real as the focus.

Much Love,

[dianna]

we are trying to set up a "perpetual horse rescue machine" where we rehabilitate horses, train them to be calm and docile and adopt them out; we will be doing guided horse back tours as apart of their theropy (for the horses that need/are able to exersize, we don't have enough land for them to be able to run much but we are working at fixing that), horsmanship lessons on the weekends for kids & interested adults (we already have a group of deaf kids lined up for some horse time, good animal theorpy :) ) so we can afford to rescue as many as possible... of course building the machine takes some resources, but the horses love a dip in the ocean and grain/alfalfa and pastures that the rides will provide (well, that I am providing right now.. haha) and once they are shown that humans can be nice and won't just jump on them and ride the SH** out of them they really are seeming to enjoy the life we have provided for the few that were lucky enough to end up with us over the last 6 months.

I think thats AWESOME what you are doing!

[Flash]

After I posted that I had found joy, I realized that just another layer of the same emotional "game" and saw it as just another facet. I sure have learned a lot in the past week. Yes, the key is attaching to that which is eternal. And the more attached one becomes, the less attached one can be to that which is this heavy experience. Still, must live it, yes. But...with what is real as the focus.

Much Love,

You definitely have what is needed, and you know deep down who you are. You have shown it all along with your hundreds of posts right here. And you are a wonderful mom, whatever happens, you are, because you have what is needed.

I do not want to seem preachy, I really saw that in you and I do have to write it

Much love

Flash

[1inMany]

After I posted that I had found joy, I realized that just another layer of the same emotional "game" and saw it as just another facet. I sure have learned a lot in the past week. Yes, the key is attaching to that which is eternal. And the more attached one becomes, the less attached one can be to that which is this heavy experience. Still, must live it, yes. But...with what is real as the focus.

Much Love,

You definitely have what is needed, and you know deep down who you are. You have shown it all along with your hundreds of posts right here. And you are a wonderful mom, whatever happens, you are, because you have what is needed.

I do not want to seem preachy, I really saw that in you and I do have to write it

Much love

Flash

Holy crap, Flash. Just...holy crap. You do not seem preachy, first of all. And thank you. I can't even form a response to that....

[ulli]

Bless your hearts, all of you, for rescuing animals. At this moment, I am not caring for any strays and I'm happy about that. I am, however, preparing for the rescue of Little One, and Mike and I both hope this will lead to the end of denial on K's part. We have three choices. All will cost any and all contact with K, not our first choice but likely inevitable. One-file suit now. Costly. Financially we just can't do that. Two-wait until something happens. Then it becomes an emergency in the eyes of the courts, would have a more easily determined outcome. The cost would be the same, but we could prepare from now until then. Three-cut her off now. Problem with that choice is that without an event, she could just call up the po-po and say go bring my child home. Which they would do. Hoping Mike keeps his head about him.

After I posted that I had found joy, I realized that just another layer of the same emotional "game" and saw it as just another facet. I sure have learned a lot in the past week. Yes, the key is attaching to that which is eternal. And the more attached one becomes, the less attached one can be to that which is this heavy experience. Still, must live it, yes. But...with what is real as the focus.

Much Love,

1inMany, you have reached such an important high point in your journey with this realisation.
Joy, and fun, and even thrills are ok, as we all need a rest from the battles,
but as far as events go they are just as fleeting as any suffering. It all alternates.

[transiten]

Hi everyone,
lots of ice and snow here in eastern Canada of late, and more to come. Thank goodness for warm socks :)
For a number of years now my daughter in-law's aunt has been rescuing horses from different auctions, etc. - bless her kind soul. She has a large farm in Alberta and has cared for many unwanted, neglected animals. Last I heard she had eight rescues, living out their last days in peace and with plenty to eat. They are the lucky ones.
Caren
p.s. transiten: I enjoyed listening to your song and didn't mind you posting it twice at all - your voice is lovely!

:llama: Found no horse..Thanx Caren, my last peep before i go, take care-n everyone:grouphug:

[dan33]

LOST HIGHWAY
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[ulli]

Hi everyone,
lots of ice and snow here in eastern Canada of late, and more to come. Thank goodness for warm socks :)
For a number of years now my daughter in-law's aunt has been rescuing horses from different auctions, etc. - bless her kind soul. She has a large farm in Alberta and has cared for many unwanted, neglected animals. Last I heard she had eight rescues, living out their last days in peace and with plenty to eat. They are the lucky ones.
Caren
p.s. transiten: I enjoyed listening to your song and didn't mind you posting it twice at all - your voice is lovely!

:llama: Found no horse..Thanx Caren, my last peep before i go, take care-n everyone:grouphug:


Llamas are perfectly fine, too.
By the way, the next Chinese year will be the year of the Horse.
Meanwhile, since you are off again, wishing you a lovely festive season,
and that all stay in good health.

[araucaria]

whoever posted pictures of the pyramids under snow was the victim of a cruel hoax. The photo that was photoshopped originally looked like this:

[Flash]

whoever posted pictures of the pyramids under snow was the victim of a cruel hoax. The photo that was photoshopped originally looked like this:

sigh and weeping. That was sooo pretty. It felt just like home;). Pyramids at home, great.

[ulli]

whoever posted pictures of the pyramids under snow was the victim of a cruel hoax. The photo that was photoshopped originally looked like this:

Cruel indeed. Now the whole planet will be known in the multiverse as a nest of liars.

[Flash]

Perfect Lullabye, love that song, leaving for the Eastcoast and family tomorrow..Going home for Christmas...my dad often reminds me of when i was just a kid of 3 years old and we stayed in the house of my grandmothers sister in Marseille. There was a pond in the backyard and i repeated "Écoute les grenouilles, les grenouilles! "Frogs" for those who don't have a French dictionnary..

http://www.mcv.se/media/artists/sounds/45-1_liliane_hakansson.mp3
Maybe i was inspired by their song without knowing it 15 years later when the lyrics of "Sailing" popped into my head while picking blueberries in the mountains..

Bonne nuit:sleep:

You have a very nice voice and the music is nice too. I would have listened to the whole piece anytime. I will have my daughter listen to it too because as she grows older, her voic is starting to sound like yours.

This is nice music and voice, I wish I could undertand the lyrics.

And sorry to have mentioned another sailing song. I had listened to yours not knowing it was that one, missing on the lyrics. And not sure of whom Lilian was.

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my dauhgter Mini Flash just listened to it and tried to sing it. She was getting right into it, same intonations, same rythm and almost same voice. It was quite fun to listen to both of you together.

[DNA]

LOST HIGHWAY

I have just got to ask Dan, do you or does anyone understand this movie?
I used to like David Lynch but after trying to figure out what is going on in his movies I have come to the conclusian that I have no freaking idea.
I was scared to admit this for a while because of the artsy crowd telling me how deep he was and people who don't get him just don't understand symbolic movie making. To this I say so be it, I have no freaking idea what is going on in David Lynch movies

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Hello Violet. I really enjoyed the movie you posted. After watching it, I found an equally great movie to watch on Siberian trappers. It was really interesting to see the commonalities and differences between the Canadian and Russian trappers. The Film is called "Happy People: A Year in The Taiga" and it is a Werner Herzog film. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoyed "The Last Trapper".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw06wh_happy-people-a-year-in-the-taiga-2011-russia-siberia_shortfilms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QXa_gn0EFc&list=TL3FyN9-3vp0I





Samm, your post reminded me of this one
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[Playdo of Ataraxas]

"He eats like a horse" ...such a popular saying should have sent a message.
But alas, we, too, had two horses who ate us out of house and home.
And then there were the vet bills, with all sorts of ailments that needed treatment.
Anyway, Spot and Blackie are now with someone who has money to burn, unlike us.

My uncle is a true cowboy and still raises cattle and breeds horses for a living. He was telling me how lucrative it can be one moment and then total destitution the next. At one time, he had a stallion from Italy (I know, Italian Stallion) that he would stud with mares. The stallion was young and he was already making a lot of money studding him. The horse itself was worth a ton of money. One night, in a violent storm, the horse broke free from the barn and got struck by lightning. And in a moment, the horse and my uncle's investment was gone in a flash of lightning, literally.

[ulli]

LOST HIGHWAY

I have just got to ask Dan, do you or does anyone understand this movie?
I used to like David Lynch but after trying to figure out what is going on in his movies I have come to the conclusian that I have no freaking idea.
I was scared to admit this for a while because of the artsy crowd telling me how deep he was and people who don't get him just don't understand symbolic movie making. To this I say so be it, I have no freaking idea what is going on in David Lynch movies

By the time David Lynch made this movie he was already known for making weird, strange, dark movies,
and had to live up (down) to that stereotype to make his weirdo fans happy.

Breaking away from mainstream stuff can at times mean getting lost in all sorts of alleyways,
and some would not even consider it as "getting lost",
but believe that they found exactly what they were looking for.
Personally, it's not my scene...but who is to judge another's path?

[Crystine]

It is not a requirement to be Christian to enjoy the effort in this video clip. Heartwarming.

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[RunningDeer]

whoever posted pictures of the pyramids under snow was the victim of a cruel hoax. The photo that was photoshopped originally looked like this:
That was my first thought. So heck, let's make this one Christmasy. Let's pretend that you don't notice there's no shadow for the stars. I could add them.

"But heck," she said again, "perfection is overrated."


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/pyramids_zpsd952e6ae.jpg

[RunningDeer]

Hello Violet. I really enjoyed the movie you posted. After watching it, I found an equally great movie to watch on Siberian trappers. It was really interesting to see the commonalities and differences between the Canadian and Russian trappers. The Film is called "Happy People: A Year in The Taiga" and it is a Werner Herzog film. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoyed "The Last Trapper".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw06wh_happy-people-a-year-in-the-taiga-2011-russia-siberia_shortfilms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QXa_gn0EFc&list=TL3FyN9-3vp0I


Samm, your post reminded me of this one


These are a couple of my favorites from that genre:


Jeremiah Johnson - Trailer & Full movie

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Last of the Dogmen Trailer
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I couldn't find the free full movie. I've got a copy that was worth it's price. It's often hard to find. Here are 7 Last of the Dogmen Clips. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEdO0yXfOA&list=PL16CF909D18B5D33A)

:wave:

[dianna]

Paula ... Jeremiah Johnson ... seriously ... one of my fav movies of all times ...

[RunningDeer]

Paula ... Jeremiah Johnson ... seriously ... one of my fav movies of all times ...

Hi Dianna,

Mine, too!

[Carmody]

I miss Charles Bronson. (not the 'Death Wish' Charles Bronson, but the other roles) (the Jeremiah Johnson clip make me look around a bit)

[RunningDeer]

I miss Charles Bronson. (not the 'Death Wish' Charles Bronson, but the other roles) (the Jeremiah Johnson clip make me look around a bit)

Here's a Charles Bronson I hadn't watched, "Once Upon a Time in The West". I downloaded it couple of weeks back from iTunes. Well done. A different era of filming. Long movie, over two and half hours. Didn't find a freebie on YouTube.


Once Upon a Time in The West Trailer
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Charles Bronson; You Brought Two Too Many
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:wave:

[Carmody]

"'you brought two too many", the most bad ass line in all of film history.

and then:

Frank: The future don't matter to us. Nothing matters now - not the land, not the money, not the woman. I came here to see you. 'Cause I know that now, you'll tell me what you're after.

Harmonica: ...Only at the point of dyin'.

[Carmody]

Woody Strode*, the guy in the scene at the train station with the messy hair, he jumped out a window, suicide it seems. The film was still being made and this was during filming. It was at his hotel room for the filming sessions.

The film set, the whole train station, was made for the film. They used an existing track, and that alone, IIRC. The rest was made for the film (or something close to that)

Sometimes, it seems, the best in anything, or something that brings change like that, some peak of sorts, it seems to get what appears to be, on the surface, like a blood sacrifice. Like Woody jumping out the window (4 or 7 stories up). IIRC, someone else said they saw him fly by their window.

The scene just before that 'showdown', with Jack playing with the fly and the gun, that was entirely ad-libbed. and they kept it for the film.

But back to the epic soundtrack. One of Morricone's finest, and that's saying a lot:

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To illustrate what I mean, I'm going along in this other thread. Pressure builds. Things break, they shift, they crack and pop. Today, a full moon, and a (XXXX, removed... too much information) (I like my privacy) (let's just say about half a city block went away)

On the highway in front of me, a car spun out on the 3 lane wide freeway, at highway speed and bounced off the center cement barrier.

~~~~~~~~~~~
Edit: correction, it was not woody. woody played the other hired gun, the black man at the train station scene.

The guy who killed himself, did it in full film costume, when he jumped out the window.

That was the messy haired guy who's name I confused with Woody Strode. It was Al Mulock who jumped out his room window.

[skyflower]

Woody Strode, the guy in the scene at the train station with the messy hair, he jumped out a window, suicide it seems. The film was still being made and this was during filming. It was at his hotel room for the filming sessions.

The film set, the whole train station, was made for the film. They used an existing track, and that alone, IIRC. The rest was made for the film (or something close to that)

Sometimes, it seems, the best in anything, or something that brings change like that, some peak of sorts, it seems to get what appears to be, on the surface, like a blood sacrifice. Like Woody jumping out the window (4 or 7 stories up). IIRC, someone else said they saw him fly by their window.

The scene just before that 'showdown', with Jack playing with the fly and the gun, that was entirely ad-libbed. and they kept it for the film.

But back to the epic soundtrack. One of Morricone's finest, and that's saying a lot:

i3Q8h-fDfEI

To illustrate what I mean, I'm going along in this other thread. Pressure builds. Things break, they shift, they crack and pop. Today, a full moon, and a (XXXX, removed... too much information) (I like my privacy) (let's just ay about half a city block went away)

On the highway in front of me, a car spun out on the 3 lane wide freeway, at highway speed and bounced off the center cement barrier.

I love love love this soundtrack!
I remember hearing a snippet of this music in a fashion show 10 years ago, and I went on a frantic search to find the title to this lovely melody. ( went around singing the short snippet I heard, and it wasn't completely accurate)

As I sit here recovering from one of the worst colds I have caught in the past ten years, listening to this soundtrack, I feel a strong knowing that it's all come to an end. The past ten days have been like passing through a minefield with quite a few explosions surrounding me. Everything that could go wrong went wrong at work, co workers getting into car collisions, my roommate damaging the side of my car while parking.....tomorrow things turn around.

I am reminded of how blessed I am for my health, as I am rarely sick.
I am also reminded to pat myself in the back, as I kept my cool through this "passage" and remembered to smile. I have come a long way. On to the next challenge.

The music tells me, job we'll done. Tomorrow you get a clean canvas. Go do your thing. :D

[grapevine]

My least complicated relationship is with my cat. I feed her, stroke her and in return she snuggles close to me and purrs loudly in my ear. OK there’s that irritating stropping she does on the carpet but I don’t love her any less for that :). After that it gets more complicated . . .

There’s a great phrase – said a lot on the forum – “joining the dots”, which I take to mean making connections. But if you don’t join the dots in the right order then the Bigger Picture doesn’t emerge and you just get muddle. So the question is: What is the right order?

There’s another great phrase – also said a lot on the forum – “if it resonates with you” which I take to mean gut feeling. Does that mean gut feelings are right? Logically no. We can only resonate and join the dots from the information we have at that moment. So the question must be: How do we know we have all the information? But not all information is knowledge . . . .

Has anyone joined the dots in the right order and resonated with knowledge? If so, what is the answer?

[onawah]

What rings true for us in our gut can change; our gut instinct isn't infallible, but I think the best we can do is just go with what resonates for us at the time, because it will eventually lead us to a clearer, more accurate truth.
True, information isn't knowledge-- knowledge is information combined with wisdom.
But wisdom comes partly from intuition, and you cannot explain intuition with information.
Intuition can help you see around corners where logic and reason cannot go.
We can label it with as many words as we like, but Great Mystery is beyond words and intellect.

My kitty is my best friend. I love those chubby little cheeks in your avatar, Windmill.

[araucaria]

My least complicated relationship is with my cat. I feed her, stroke her and in return she snuggles close to me and purrs loudly in my ear. OK there’s that irritating stropping she does on the carpet but I don’t love her any less for that :). After that it gets more complicated . . .

There’s a great phrase – said a lot on the forum – “joining the dots”, which I take to mean making connections. But if you don’t join the dots in the right order then the Bigger Picture doesn’t emerge and you just get muddle. So the question is: What is the right order?

There’s another great phrase – also said a lot on the forum – “if it resonates with you” which I take to mean gut feeling. Does that mean gut feelings are right? Logically no. We can only resonate and join the dots from the information we have at that moment. So the question must be: How do we know we have all the information? But not all information is knowledge . . . .

Has anyone joined the dots in the right order and resonated with knowledge? If so, what is the answer?

Hi W1ndmill.

I like your frankness – no beating about the bush: What is the answer to the big question? :)

Here’s my million dollars.

I find the idea of joining dots a bit childish and simplistic – a dot has no dimensions or any features at all and the only way to join them correctly is when they are numbered, which in real life they never are.

On the other hand, the pieces of a puzzle have plenty of shape, and when you find one, you often find several others falling into place around it. So there is a notion of construction there and there is also the idea of verification: the piece either fits or it doesn’t. It may seem to fit for a while on one side, but not on the others.

The either of resonance corresponds to this process of verification. Think of the simplest form of muscle testing. This is a yes/no positive/negative response in the relaxed body. You tend to lean forward for yes and pull back for no. Try it: it works. If you say or think ‘my name is (real name)’ you will sway unambiguously forward. If you say or think ‘my name is (other name)’ you will sway unambiguously backward. You can use this to ask yourself personal questions as this is the body’s unconscious memory responding. I presume this method can be used to tap into other information as well.

I also like to see information as coming in layers. When you have a number of data points that do not seem to add up – unconnected dots if you will – there will generally be some overriding fact that you are missing. For example, a new family member will see people behaving and interacting in various ways that will seem strange until some event or aspect the family’s history is explained to them, and then everything will become clear. If your new partner’s parents are dead (I am thinking here of some young cousins of ours), there will be much about your partner that will seem inexplicable because you never saw them interacting together.

This idea we have been looking at here of us all being already dead with an extinction level event in our rear-view mirror is the sort of idea that goes a lot towards explaining a great many things that we are exploring separately on the forum. Multiple synchronicities, telepathy, switching timelines, the exponential growth of computing, AI and internet connectivity, encounters with extraterrestrial beings of all kinds, OBEs, supposed NDEs, CMEs, the link between extinction and speciation events, the possibility/need for free energy, disclosure of everything that is wrong with the world, notably including the high crimes and misdemeanours of our human and non-human controllers, nuclear and other pollution, wars, greater spirituality with less reliance on the material, all these things and many more fall into place in this bigger picture. These are things that the theory that we are already dead would in fact predict.

If we see the present as a collective life review, then it would appear that we are getting close to the end, when the catastrophic event or combination of events is almost upon us. Things like Armageddon in the Middle East or economic collapse, which have both been imminent for years, seem to be moving in slow motion as if approaching the event horizon of a black hole, and we are experiencing a kind of limbo as a result.

So the idea of our need to wake up the sleeping sheeple becomes literally true as we are about to relive the catastrophic event. Anthony Peake puts forward a brain-based explanation that this occurs in an endless loop. This is probably correct most of the time for most people. So what we are trying to do is to help as many as possible to reach this stage in the correct frame of mind to see this event not as a catastrophe, for the catastrophe is already behind us, but as a wonderful opportunity to move forward.

I hope this answers your question ;)

[araucaria]

This subject came up last April, I don’t recall in what connection – invisibility? You can backtrack from here:



Greetings to all WMDs and other three-letter alphabet soupers :)

I read Paul Levy’s The Madness of George Bush back when that was a relevant subject. His analysis of collective psychosis based on Jung’s works I found very persuasive. No wonder old George couldn’t find any WMD’s under his desk, it was sitting on his chair. I later heard an interview on the wetiko thing, will have to follow up when I find time. Anyway, Levy’s definitely someone you can read without wondering whether it’s disinfo or whatever.

My thoughts to all the folks having a rough time right now. I have to include my nephew, who I reported was doing well, but it turns out not so well, and still in psychiatric care. For myself, I have just finished a big job I couldn’t get out of and which took all the longer because it wasn’t for me. So it’s a bigger than usual Friday night feeling that tells me it’s been a bit of a drain. Given that my work usually takes me where I need to be, I am still puzzling over this one: must have needed to lie low. Astrology 101 I imagine :)

I have often felt a bit like the invisible man with minimal effect on the real world. There is a scene in the film where the cops watch this driverless car. I once had a similar experience driving a right-hand drive in France with a 13-year-old passenger: they thought the kid was driving.

Or this old joke: ‘Doctor doctor, everyone treats me as if I wasn’t there! – Next please!’

Of course the invisible people are supposed to be the dead. Or maybe it’s the other way round, as in Philip K. Dick’s Ubik: we are the dead? To me this makes a great deal of sense. We are not so much sheeple as over-polite poltergeists. Time we made ourselves at home.

Recommended reading: Murther and Walking Spirits, a novel by the Canadian writer Robertson Davies.

I could have done a prank here and PMmed everyone to ignore your post.
But then I decided against it...
that given this is a forum of 5000+ members,
we are all already pretty invisible to all except for the ten or so that thank our posts.

[araucaria]

This should raise a laugh: prosthetic leg mistaken for a paedophile
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/children-evacuated-from-swimming-pool-after-prosthetic-leg-mistaken-for-paedophile-9010525.html

[1inMany]

I am asking for help this morning. My prayers are for Little One and K, for M, for Mike. I was reminded last week that monsters like the dark, they thrive in the dark. And bringing as many details to light as possible will effect, and has profoundly effected, every member of this family.

I have not seen Little One in a couple of months, he was scheduled to come for a visit Friday. Which will likely not occur. So he is in an unhealthy situation, and most of you know that is an understatement. And now he is cut off from our entire family. Left alone to whatshisname and his family. No eyes are watching any longer. And I make it through each day with Trust that I have done everything I can, both in the physical and in the non-physical, and Trust that his Highest Good will play out. The only thing that can be done for Little One at this point is to see if we can afford to file a plea in a court for visits with him. And I will need to make a trip to the Village Barn for that. Not kidding. Otherwise, I can say in all honesty, I do not know when I will see him again.

I pray for Mike to think, think and not act from hurt feelings or anger. Acting from anger helps no one. I pray for K to have clarity and strength. She will need it, as there will be absolutely no help any longer, financial or in any other way. I pray for M to have strength, as she is privy to many things that need to come out into the open and that is a scary thing.

I am asking from my heart, please send anything you have. A thought, good intent, a prayer, light a candle.

This will be difficult.

Thank you all. Much Love,

[araucaria]

Hang in there 1inMany, the days are getting darker, but that is about to change. Friday is the solstice. There is still time for Little One's visit to happen - maybe it is a kind of Christmas truce that you can build on. Maybe his presence and his light is proving more of a burden than was bargained for and some more convenient arrangement might be possible. I am sending you whatever I have that may help.
Much love to you

[grapevine]

I am asking for help this morning. My prayers are for Little One and K, for M, for Mike. I was reminded last week that monsters like the dark, they thrive in the dark. And bringing as many details to light as possible will effect, and has profoundly effected, every member of this family.

I have not seen Little One in a couple of months, he was scheduled to come for a visit Friday. Which will likely not occur. So he is in an unhealthy situation, and most of you know that is an understatement. And now he is cut off from our entire family. Left alone to whatshisname and his family. No eyes are watching any longer. And I make it through each day with Trust that I have done everything I can, both in the physical and in the non-physical, and Trust that his Highest Good will play out. The only thing that can be done for Little One at this point is to see if we can afford to file a plea in a court for visits with him. And I will need to make a trip to the Village Barn for that. Not kidding. Otherwise, I can say in all honesty, I do not know when I will see him again.

I pray for Mike to think, think and not act from hurt feelings or anger. Acting from anger helps no one. I pray for K to have clarity and strength. She will need it, as there will be absolutely no help any longer, financial or in any other way. I pray for M to have strength, as she is privy to many things that need to come out into the open and that is a scary thing.

I am asking from my heart, please send anything you have. A thought, good intent, a prayer, light a candle.

This will be difficult.

Thank you all. Much Love,

My hand is on your shoulder and I pray with you that all will be well . . .

[ulli]

I am asking for help this morning. My prayers are for Little One and K, for M, for Mike. I was reminded last week that monsters like the dark, they thrive in the dark. And bringing as many details to light as possible will effect, and has profoundly effected, every member of this family.

I have not seen Little One in a couple of months, he was scheduled to come for a visit Friday. Which will likely not occur. So he is in an unhealthy situation, and most of you know that is an understatement. And now he is cut off from our entire family. Left alone to whatshisname and his family. No eyes are watching any longer. And I make it through each day with Trust that I have done everything I can, both in the physical and in the non-physical, and Trust that his Highest Good will play out. The only thing that can be done for Little One at this point is to see if we can afford to file a plea in a court for visits with him. And I will need to make a trip to the Village Barn for that. Not kidding. Otherwise, I can say in all honesty, I do not know when I will see him again.

I pray for Mike to think, think and not act from hurt feelings or anger. Acting from anger helps no one. I pray for K to have clarity and strength. She will need it, as there will be absolutely no help any longer, financial or in any other way. I pray for M to have strength, as she is privy to many things that need to come out into the open and that is a scary thing.

I am asking from my heart, please send anything you have. A thought, good intent, a prayer, light a candle.

This will be difficult.

Thank you all. Much Love,

Dear One

I just read this prayer for you, and for every member of your family.
It brings up imagery of perfection, and it works to bring such perfection into a life.

From the sweet-scented streams of Thine eternity give me to drink, O my God,
and of the fruits of the tree of Thy being enable me to taste, O my Hope!

From the crystal springs of Thy love suffer me to quaff, O my Glory,
and beneath the shadow of Thine everlasting providence let me abide, O my Light!

Within the meadows of Thy nearness, before Thy presence, make me able to roam, O my Beloved,
and at the right hand of the throne of Thy mercy, seat me, O my Desire!

From the fragrant breezes of Thy joy let a breath pass over me, O my Goal,
and into the heights of the paradise of Thy reality let me gain admission, O my Adored One!

To the melodies of the dove of Thy oneness suffer me to hearken, O Resplendent One,
and through the spirit of Thy power and Thy might quicken me, O my Provider!

In the spirit of Thy love keep me steadfast, O my Succorer,
and in the path of Thy good pleasure set firm my steps, O my Maker!

Within the garden of Thine immortality, before Thy countenance, let me abide for ever, O Thou Who art merciful unto me,
and upon the seat of Thy glory stablish me, O Thou Who art my Possessor!

To the heaven of Thy loving-kindness lift me up, O my Quickener,
and unto the Daystar of Thy guidance lead me, O Thou my Attractor!

Before the revelations of Thine invisible spirit summon me to be present, O Thou Who art my Origin and my Highest Wish, and unto the essence of the fragrance of Thy beauty, which Thou wilt manifest, cause me to return, O Thou Who art my God!

Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee.
Thou art, verily, the Most Exalted, the All-Glorious, the All-Highest.

Bahá’u’lláh

[Crystine]

For you, 1inMany. Keep the faith. I send this as a prayer for your family.

K6fYAiqV-Bs


Love and Light...............Christine Lori

After I saw my own post. This one. I looked at it kind of odd. Then later I recalled what my original intent had been. "Come Back To Me." I let this one stand. I believe this is the one that was meant to be.

And you have had Good News. I don't have the foggiest as to what you folks are talking about. But I am glad it is good.

[Carmody]

The one facet of the reality that is, is this.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66514-Physics-breakthrough-Is-the-universe-a-giant-hologram&p=773830&viewfull=1#post773830

The rest, is just us learning to peel back the instincts (many colors of individual and collective learning) of the avatar.

Once we recognize this, we are one with god as god is that. God is the alpha and the omega, in the first point of self recognition, at the so called omega (not just the alpha). 'I am' is god, 'I am' is (potential to be) in you. No difference. To be the I am, is the point.

When that happens, as I repeatedly do to myself, to go through the revolving door of self recognition, and recollecting this, both desire and instinct fail me. It's my solution to the idea of helping folks. To keep running to the exit of the house that is on fire. Over and over again.

I'm the best in the world, relatively speaking, in what I do. Yet when that happens (reawakening).. all desire and drive to be involved in it drops to a near nothingness. Which is why the enlightened fade into the backdrop, to a degree, and we are left with both real explorers, and false prophets in their place. All the world is left with... is the breadcrumbs of their trail. The desires and pressures of this world fall away and they cease to explore, as there is no point. To just relax..and look around, to find the beauty and flow, as in the end, that's all there is.

[RunningDeer]

I am asking for help this morning. My prayers are for Little One and K, for M, for Mike. I was reminded last week that monsters like the dark, they thrive in the dark. And bringing as many details to light as possible will effect, and has profoundly effected, every member of this family.

”I was reminded last week that monsters like the dark, they thrive in the dark. And bringing as many details to light as possible will effect, and has profoundly effected, every member of this family.’


While all is sorted out,
I ‘hear’ Little One’s Spirit is
strong and centered

And in the center of the wheel
His family is all a part of

[Little One is a Map Maker]

Mapmaker = a Traveler; one who brings
persons, conditions, elements, events into
a cohesive alliance, agreement, and/or alignment.

Blessings and Love,
Paula

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Seasons/healing_moons_zpsc6a24e5b.JPG

[1inMany]

...Once we recognize this, we are one with god as god is that. God is the alpha and the omega, in the first point of self recognition, at the so called omega (not just the alpha). 'I am' is god, 'I am' is (potential to be) in you. No difference. To be the I am, is the point.

When that happens, as I repeatedly do to myself, to go through the revolving door of self recognition, and recollecting this, both desire and instinct fail me. It's my solution to the idea of helping folks. To keep running to the exit of the house that is on fire. Over and over again.

I'm the best in the world, relatively speaking, in what I do. Yet when that happens (reawakening).. all desire and drive to be involved in it drops to a near nothingness. Which is why the enlightened fade into the backdrop, to a degree, and we are left with both real explorers, and false prophets in their place. All the world is left with... is the breadcrumbs of their trail. The desires and pressures of this world fall away and they cease to explore, as there is no point. To just relax..and look around, to find the beauty and flow, as in the end, that's all there is.

I am sometimes lost between these two points. One, the point at which all around me is movement and yet I just am. And there is a point of observation there. Observation only.

Two, seeing someone who needs help. (Worse if that is someone who is related to me, twice as bad if it is a child related to me.)

I honestly can't decide if I should act on this, half the time. That's the truth. I used to be pulled every which way, following the pull every which way. Like diving in, heart strings leading the way. Truth.

And having grown to a place where now emotions are not as strong a pull, well...in this place I experience an awareness. Awareness only.

Until someone appears in my view who needs help.

This is the hardest point for me. I can, I know this as I've done it, pull back to the observation point in the midst of a house on fire.

I honestly cannot decide what to do sometimes. I can't quite bring myself to keep observing if there is action I can take.

That's the problem.



Edit to add thanks: I have just received word that for some completely unknowable reason, Little One is coming Friday. I just want to tell you folks how odd this is, and how these energies you have sent must have given the push needed for this to happen. For I do not ask for this or that, a visit not a visit, etc. I ask for the Highest Good. I ask for Light to be fed into the dark corners. And this is what is happening because of these energies. You do make a difference.

[Carmody]

Well, it drives home that point of understanding, that: 'consciousness, awareness, is'.

At first, it will tend to have some aspect of being forced, then the reality of it slowly begins to take hold.

And it becomes more natural, and then the next level of dawning awareness comes through.

listening to:

sEuTaBhhXXo

[araucaria]

I honestly cannot decide what to do sometimes. I can't quite bring myself to keep observing if there is action I can take.

That's the problem.

1inMany, you're not a closet Libran by any chance are you? :)


Edit to add thanks: I have just received word that for some completely unknowable reason, Little One is coming Friday. I just want to tell you folks how odd this is, and how these energies you have sent must have given the push needed for this to happen. For I do not ask for this or that, a visit not a visit, etc. I ask for the Highest Good. I ask for Light to be fed into the dark corners. And this is what is happening because of these energies. You do make a difference.
That's wonderful news - no reasons needed. The Highest Good will prevail on Friday, you will know what to do.

[1inMany]

Well, it drives home that point of understanding, that: 'consciousness, awareness, is'.

Yes. It is. I guess I'm not there yet. In theory, I would guess a person could stand at the side of a lake immersed in Awareness of all that is, while another person drowns. Morbid and all, but that's the situation, isn't it? I know, saying that could spark a debate on morals, on right and wrong.

I've not yet reached the field, out past the ideas of right and wrong. I can see it. But I haven't reached it.

Maybe it isn't even right and wrong actually. It's the pull in my belly to help.

p.s...araucaria, made me laugh! I have wondered the same many, many times. Nothing libra in me that I can find, though I'm convinced there is truth to that as back and forth as I go...

[skippy]

Well, it drives home that point of understanding, that: 'consciousness, awareness, is'.

At first, it will tend to have some aspect of being forced, then the reality of it slowly begins to take hold.

And it becomes more natural, and then the next level of dawning awareness comes through.


Small question Carmody. According to you: What is it, that is? What's the essence of this is? Thank you for your ongoing contributions to this community.

[Carmody]

Well, it drives home that point of understanding, that: 'consciousness, awareness, is'.

Yes. It is. I guess I'm not there yet. In theory, I would guess a person could stand at the side of a lake immersed in Awareness of all that is, while another person drowns. Morbid and all, but that's the situation, isn't it? I know, saying that could spark a debate on morals, on right and wrong.

I've not yet reached the field, out past the ideas of right and wrong. I can see it. But I haven't reached it.

Maybe it isn't even right and wrong actually. It's the pull in my belly to help.

p.s...araucaria, made me laugh! I have wondered the same many, many times. Nothing libra in me that I can find, though I'm convinced there is truth to that as back and forth as I go...

How about..if we try to expand our consciousness, into what we do not hold as a reality yet, this may require a re-calibration, a new corner, or new angle to see, from within the realm of what we do know (to handle and be as, to attempt to be, not what we have been, as we would know it already. New in the scope of the area of our potential knowing). As a method of coming to a understanding of the potentials in the new (the true unknown), shall we say.

[greybeard]

in awareness right action happens--its far from being a zombie state.

Chris

[Carmody]

Well, it drives home that point of understanding, that: 'consciousness, awareness, is'.

At first, it will tend to have some aspect of being forced, then the reality of it slowly begins to take hold.

And it becomes more natural, and then the next level of dawning awareness comes through.


Small question Carmody. According to you: What is it, that is? What's the essence of this is? Thank you for your ongoing contributions to this community.

The problem, as we might deal with it...: 'is'..exactly that. is just is. Both messy and difficult, and nothing at all. Neither evasive, nor untruthful.

[1inMany]

in awareness right action happens--its far from being a zombie state.

Chris

Aha. That explains it. Yes, this I can live with. Thank you.

[PurpleLama]

skippy, *it* is mystery. that is the whole point.

1in many, it like standing on the side of a lake chock full of drowning people, and being unable to convince anyone of the danger they are in.

the first gift of that awareness, to me, is trust. the second gift is patience.

[1inMany]

skippy, *it* is mystery. that is the whole point.

1in many, it like standing on the side of a lake chock full of drowning people, and being unable to convince anyone of the danger they are in.

the first gift of that awareness, to me, is trust. the second gift is patience.

Maybe, PL. It becomes more complicated for me when there are a couple of three year olds in the lake chock full of drowning people. I ask myself...am I led by my emotions? By...what? What leads me? That is why the struggle. Today. Is the Universe leading me to help? (Want to respond) Is my heart being yanked? (Do not want to respond) Is this something I should allow to play out, no matter the human struggle involved? (Do not want to respond) Is there a contract or agreement I have made with this child/person/soul that I will help? (Want to respond)

[Crystine]

Well, it drives home that point of understanding, that: 'consciousness, awareness, is'.

At first, it will tend to have some aspect of being forced, then the reality of it slowly begins to take hold.

And it becomes more natural, and then the next level of dawning awareness comes through.

listening to:

sEuTaBhhXXo

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


Carmody, I do declare,

Life is amazing. When I posted Here I Am Lord, I had a different email than I thought. The one I wanted was " Come Back To Me." a different version from yours, but all in all. WOW.

Then just a bit ago I received an image of a children's toy. So I googled it. A Train. It seems the train has a limited amount of track. So the engine picks up the piece in back and lays it down in front. Toot toot.

A line in the song about, one track!

Also I hope Powassey sees your song, because that image in space of the swimming ?????????? Looks like what he describes as coming upon him from behind and entering in to him.

[araucaria]

is just is. Both messy and difficult, and nothing at all. Neither evasive, nor untruthful.
Neither evasive, nor untruthful, until you reach the point when 'it depends on what your definition of the word "is" is' :)

Edit: talking of trains Christine, I have mentioned them in posts on two different threads today...

[dan33]

LOST HIGHWAY

I have just got to ask Dan, do you or does anyone understand this movie?
I used to like David Lynch but after trying to figure out what is going on in his movies I have come to the conclusian that I have no freaking idea.
I was scared to admit this for a while because of the artsy crowd telling me how deep he was and people who don't get him just don't understand symbolic movie making. To this I say so be it, I have no freaking idea what is going on in David Lynch movies

When i was a kid, i loved MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, because it was so strange..... years later i thoug...NO, that's not i have on my "records". I don't like it. Too simple.

Hard to undertand David Lynch. So... "I have no freaking idea what is going on in David Lynch movies" is the best film review on David's movies ha,ha... I think, you don't have to understand music, just feel or sense it. I don't undestand some of his movies either. Do you remember when "2001: A Space Odissey" shocked planet earth? That's the begining of "sensations-shock-think-movies". The last i remember is "INCEPTION" ....what would CASTANEDA thinked of it?

Hugs DNA! :)

MHBlYJ-tKcs

[Calz]

What nuggetry is this??? :tsk:

I missed the high noon gunslingers??? http://www.pic4ever.com/images/cowboypistol.gif

Working the night shift really sux sometimes ... http://www.pic4ever.com/images/2gwb921.gif


dM2UXFe78sc

[Calz]

Great eye candy to go with a great tune ... ahh ... does it get any better than this???


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afHUJ0zt9_Q

[Calz]

Sorry for posting so much ... cannot post vids from work and time is limited at home.

(hey ... if this is all a hologram ... someone ... somewhere ... did a damn fine job!)


http://vimeo.com/21284171

[1inMany]

Sorry for posting so much ... cannot post vids from work and time is limited at home.


http://vimeo.com/21284171

One way or another calz, you always make me smile...If *twice* is too much, then I've been spamming.

Thanks for the giggle... :)

[Calz]

I hearby nominate "1" as the most deserving in the village of a smile.

I cannot pretend to know what you are going through ... all I can offer is a simple smile ...


http://cdn.meme.li/i/ihtg4.jpg

[dianna]

The result of today's christmas photo-shoot for the family cards LOL LOL!!

24196

[Calz]

Oh ... so we want some Xmas cheer do we???

Ho Ho Ho


3L8fIrWnXRA

[ulli]

Sorry for posting so much ... cannot post vids from work and time is limited at home.

(hey ... if this is all a hologram ... someone ... somewhere ... did a damn fine job!)


http://vimeo.com/21284171

This one deserves a special prize as well
Kudos for your ability to make excuses as well as Praising the Loord...
all in one breath.
Someone, somewhere did a fine job creating you.

[Johnny]

whoever posted pictures of the pyramids under snow was the victim of a cruel hoax. The photo that was photoshopped originally looked like this:

Cruel indeed. Now the whole planet will be known in the multiverse as a nest of liars.

LOL And if they want more, they can contact NSA, then they will be really confused :)

Johnny

[Johnny]

My least complicated relationship is with my cat. I feed her, stroke her and in return she snuggles close to me and purrs loudly in my ear. OK there’s that irritating stropping she does on the carpet but I don’t love her any less for that :). After that it gets more complicated . . .

There’s a great phrase – said a lot on the forum – “joining the dots”, which I take to mean making connections. But if you don’t join the dots in the right order then the Bigger Picture doesn’t emerge and you just get muddle. So the question is: What is the right order?

There’s another great phrase – also said a lot on the forum – “if it resonates with you” which I take to mean gut feeling. Does that mean gut feelings are right? Logically no. We can only resonate and join the dots from the information we have at that moment. So the question must be: How do we know we have all the information? But not all information is knowledge . . . .

Has anyone joined the dots in the right order and resonated with knowledge? If so, what is the answer?

I will give it a try:

If the mind is engaged in duality = noise.
If the mind is engaged in simplicity = bliss.
If the mind is engaged in trinity = knowledge.
Confused ? get out of duality :)

Johnny

[Crystine]

This is a commercial for bottled water. Maybe two years ago. But it is still funny. Maybe new for some of Avalon. Creative. And we are such silly people.
Sorry I couldn't find the one without the commentary.

sqPbntxZ9QE

[ulli]

My least complicated relationship is with my cat. I feed her, stroke her and in return she snuggles close to me and purrs loudly in my ear. OK there’s that irritating stropping she does on the carpet but I don’t love her any less for that :). After that it gets more complicated . . .

There’s a great phrase – said a lot on the forum – “joining the dots”, which I take to mean making connections. But if you don’t join the dots in the right order then the Bigger Picture doesn’t emerge and you just get muddle. So the question is: What is the right order?

There’s another great phrase – also said a lot on the forum – “if it resonates with you” which I take to mean gut feeling. Does that mean gut feelings are right? Logically no. We can only resonate and join the dots from the information we have at that moment. So the question must be: How do we know we have all the information? But not all information is knowledge . . . .

Has anyone joined the dots in the right order and resonated with knowledge? If so, what is the answer?

I will give it a try:

If the mind is engaged in duality = noise.
If the mind is engaged in simplicity = bliss.
If the mind is engaged in trinity = knowledge.
Confused ? get out of duality :)

Johnny

I love meeting people who can count to three.

[RunningDeer]

This is a commercial for bottled water. Maybe two years ago. But it is still funny. Maybe new for some of Avalon. Creative. And we are such steeple.
And "we" are such steeple.

Hello Christine Lori,

I know you know this, but…speaking for myself, I am not in that "we".


Bill Clinton - "What 'Is' is" - Quick link @ 1:15 (http://youtu.be/xHlt1W83JFU?t=1m15s)

xHlt1W83JFU


Hearts,
Paula http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smileys-and-emoticons/hugs/smileys-hugs-765537.gif

[Johnny]

I will give it a try:

If the mind is engaged in duality = noise.
If the mind is engaged in simplicity = bliss.
If the mind is engaged in trinity = knowledge.
Confused ? get out of duality :)

Johnny

I love meeting people who can count to three.

Yes, it can be really amazing :)

[Gekko]

Twas a glowing sunny day

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/240/e/4/train_in_sunset_by_eberouge-d48316p.jpg

[ulli]

KOIqauJ3_WU

Keith is 70.

This guy is one tough nut.

[ulli]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/p180x540/331445_544026048954558_2113581559_o.jpg

[Johnny]

KOIqauJ3_WU

Keith is 70.

This guy is one tough nut.

Yes, I also love him here:

9EnOjGuQkNs

[ulli]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kAMpeYX0wrs/TuzYT7Ed4bI/AAAAAAAAC-I/uH-Zxrovf0E/s640/imgkeith+richards2.jpg

The ring

http://shapersofthe80s.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/kr08-mario-sorrenti.jpg?w=500

Keith's arthritic hands...poor guy

[Crystine]

Tough throng.

[Carmody]

Sorry for posting so much ... cannot post vids from work and time is limited at home.

(hey ... if this is all a hologram ... someone ... somewhere ... did a damn fine job!)


http://vimeo.com/21284171

Then we can get mildly repetitive and even more spacey...

cgxYOOLLLFE

[meeradas]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1484083_10151781614025919_1628859810_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1517633_825528960809892_1050649145_n.jpg

[ulli]

Artist uses brain waves to manipulate the motions of water

http://neurogadget.com/2013/12/04/artist-uses-brainwaves-to-manipulate-the-motions-of-water/9104

Good read, and the vids are great, too.

[1inMany]

For today, I will not worry.
For today, I will not anger.
For today, I will do my work honestly.
For today, I will be grateful.
For today, I will be kind to every living thing.

And I will stay in this moment.
Here and Now.
Not tomorrow. Not yesterday.
My energy will stay here.
No contemplating, no pondering.
Just being.
Right now.

24199

Much Love,

24200

[Carmody]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66514-Physics-breakthrough-Is-the-universe-a-giant-hologram&p=774339&viewfull=1#post774339

[1inMany]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66514-Physics-breakthrough-Is-the-universe-a-giant-hologram&p=774339&viewfull=1#post774339

Geez Carmody. I get it. I don't know how, but I get it. And now, after I have sworn off pondering, I want to pick apart my instincts. Question them, find their source....Hmmm.

On some level, no effort is necessary. It just is. It just.....is.

[meeradas]

Once again, for obvious [?] reason.

8yoABwIlX3s


For today, I will not worry.
For today, I will not anger.
For today, I will do my work honestly.
For today, I will be grateful.
For today, I will be kind to every living thing.

Always.

[Carmody]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66514-Physics-breakthrough-Is-the-universe-a-giant-hologram&p=774339&viewfull=1#post774339

Geez Carmody. I get it. I don't know how, but I get it. And now, after I have sworn off pondering, I want to pick apart my instincts. Question them, find their source....Hmmm.

On some level, no effort is necessary. It just is. It just.....is.

I find that it isn't the worry per se, it is the attachment and involvement in it, that excites us to distraction.

To feel the self rising to the pressure, to feel the body respond in it's instinctual ways, to control the body's response in immediacy and formation of thoughts and directions.

That first line of defense and thought formation, the avatar and it's instincts.

Not wrong, per se, but mis-trained and misunderstood.

The two-three-etc year old being pulled from the giant playstore, that howl of anger, ineffectual rage and forlorn loss..it still runs us, coloring our thoughts to total directed distraction...

(sociopaths don't suffer this, so they are clear on that front, which means they have, they see clearly..a deep and abiding lever of manipulation, like a control stick that is staring right at them, in every person they meet.)

All we can do is recognize this issue in ourselves and in that act, find the way to easing it's grip.

[Crystine]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
For today, I will not worry.
For today, I will not anger.
For today, I will do my work honestly.
For today, I will be grateful.
For today, I will be kind to every living thing.
-------------------------------
For today I will smile at myself.


Fuzzy Wuzzy wuz a bear,.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wuzn't very fuzzy,
Was he?

[meeradas]

per se

You have my gratitude for that.

[skippy]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66514-Physics-breakthrough-Is-the-universe-a-giant-hologram&p=774339&viewfull=1#post774339

Geez Carmody. I get it. I don't know how, but I get it. And now, after I have sworn off pondering, I want to pick apart my instincts. Question them, find their source....Hmmm.

On some level, no effort is necessary. It just is. It just.....is.

Yes, I'm start getting it also. And now it's gone. Get it again. Gone again... :) It's there, it was always there.. Wow! Thank you dear people. Relief and gratitude.

[Wind]

So many things that I could write about, but I don't like about talking about me. What a week...

Dislike or like the messenger, but don't let it distract you. The message in this video is so important. I guess that I have watched already like 50 times during the past month. Love truly is the only thing that matters, in the end.

_bKQXmvdr8o

[Flash]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66514-Physics-breakthrough-Is-the-universe-a-giant-hologram&p=774339&viewfull=1#post774339

Absolutely captivating

[QUOTE]
tackle the varying energies of black holes discovered in parallel universes

They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,”[/QUOTE

First, it is completely admitted, within science it seems, that we are in a multiverse. So what are we doing here on Avalon, still debating this, we do look like babbling monkeys.

The thermodynamic of black holes reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe. Wow, this would explain higher dimension ETs interventions, at some levels. I surley goes much deeper.

I read the whole article, including the string theories, I am not sure I understand everything (i understand the string theory, but joining the dots is something else), I may need some explaining for the laywoman I am.

Please Carmody???:confused::hand::ear:

[Calz]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66514-Physics-breakthrough-Is-the-universe-a-giant-hologram&p=774339&viewfull=1#post774339

So what are we doing here on Avalon, still debating this, we do look like babbling monkeys.





I am going to play my lazy libra card and grab 1st dibbs on the 100th monkey ...

http://animationsa2z.com/attachments/Image/funny/funny60.gif

[Crystine]

Lazy Libra? No matter.
I was not familiar withe the Hundred Monkey phenomenon. So I had to find some source material. There are many variations out there. Is this one ok?
--------------------
The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years.

In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.

An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.

This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists. Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable. Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.

Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -- the exact number is not known. Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes. Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.

THEN IT HAPPENED!

By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!

But notice: A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea...Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.

Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people.

But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!

From the book "The Hundredth Monkey" by Ken Keyes, Jr.
The book is not copyrighted and the material may be reproduced in whole or in part.

Read the whole book.

Please Note:

The 100th Monkey Theory has been on the WOW site since 1996, and we occasionally receive letters claiming that it was a hoax or fake.

We contacted Penny Gillespie, who was married to Ken Keyes and participated in his work and writing. Here is her response:

I'm not sure what you mean by "fake." The Hundredth Monkey is a real book and hundreds of thousands of copies were printed and circulated, often through university courses. People bought them by the case and gave them away.

The story of the hundredth monkey came from a writing by Rupert Sheldrake.

After our book was printed, there was some question about whether the study was authentic. Ken presented the story as a legend, or phenomenon; the concepts of morphogenetic fields and critical mass are very true and the story serves to illustrate them.

Hope that answers your question.

All the best,

Penny Gillespie
President's Club, Platinum Wellness Consultant
www.5Pillars.com/pennygillespie

We were also forwarded the following article that "puts a new light on this popular story"

The Hundredth Monkey Revisited

by Elaine Myers

Going back to the original sources
puts a new light on this popular story


Is there some magic key that provides a short cut to cultural transformation?

THE STORY OF "The Hundredth Monkey" has recently become popular in our culture as a strategy for social change. Lyall Watson first told it in Lifetide (pp147- 148), but its most widely known version is the opening to the book The Hundredth Monkey, by Ken Keyes. (See below.) The story is based on research with monkeys on a northern Japanese Island, and its central idea is that when enough individuals in a population adopt a new idea or behavior, there occurs an ideological breakthrough that allows this new awareness to be communicated directly from mind to mind without the connection of external experience and then all individuals in the population spontaneously adopt it. "It may be that when enough of us hold something to be true, it becomes true for everyone." (Watson, p148)

I found this to be a very appealing and believable idea. The concept of Jung's collective unconscious, and the biologists' morphogenetic fields (IN CONTEXT #6} offer parallel stories that help strengthen this strand of our imaginations. Archetypes, patterns, or fields that are themselves without mass or energy, could shape the individual manifestations of mass and energy. The more widespread these fields are, the greater their influence on the physical level of reality. We sometimes mention the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon when we need supporting evidence of the possibility of an optimistic scenario for the future, especially a future based on peace instead of war. If enough of us will just think the right thoughts, then suddenly, almost magically, such ideas will become reality.

However, when I went back to the original research reports cited by Watson, I did not find the same story that he tells. Where he claims to have had to improvise details, the research reports are quite precise, and they do not support the "ideological breakthrough" phenomenon. At first I was disappointed; but as I delved deeper into the research I found a growing appreciation for the lessons the real story of these monkeys has for us. Based on what I have learned from the Japan Monkey Center reports in Primates, vol. 2, vol. 5 and vol. 6, here is how the real story seems to have gone.

Up until 1958, Keyes' description follows the research quite closely, although not all the young monkeys in the troop learned to wash the potatoes. By March, 1958, 15 of the 19 young monkeys (aged two to seven years} and 2 of the 11 adults were washing sweet potatoes. Up to this time, the propagation of the innovative behavior was on an individual basis, along family lines and playmate relationships. Most of the young monkeys began to wash the potatoes when they were one to two and a half years old. Males older than 4 years, who had little contact with the young monkeys, did not acquire the behavior.

By 1959, the sweet potato washing was no longer a new behavior to the group. Monkeys that had acquired the behavior as juveniles were growing up and having their own babies. This new generation of babies learned sweet potato washing behavior through the normal cultural pattern of the young imitating their mothers. By January, 1962, almost all the monkeys in the Koshima troop, excepting those adults born before 1950, were observed to be washing their sweet potatoes. If an individual monkey had not started to wash sweet potatoes by the time he was an adult, he was unlikely to learn it later, regardless of how widespread it became among the younger members of the troop.

In the original reports, there was no mention of the group passing a critical threshold that would impart the idea to the entire troop. The older monkeys remained steadfastly ignorant of the new behavior. Likewise, there was no mention of widespread sweet potato washing in other monkey troops. There was mention of occasional sweet potato washing by individual monkeys in other troops, but I think there are other simpler explanations for such occurrences. If there was an Imo in one troop, there could be other Imo-like monkeys in other troops.

Instead of an example of the spontaneous transmission of ideas, I think the story of the Japanese monkeys is a good example of the propagation of a paradigm shift, as in Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The truly innovative points of view tend to come from those on the edge between youth and adulthood. The older generation continues to cling to the world view they grew up with. The new idea does not become universal until the older generation withdraws from power, and a younger generation matures within the new point of view.

It is also an example of the way that simple innovations can lead to extensive cultural change. By using the water in connection with their food, the Koshima monkeys began to exploit the sea as a resource in their environment. Sweet potato washing led to wheat washing, and then to bathing behavior and swimming, and the utilization of sea plants and animals for food. "Therefore, provisioned monkeys suffered changes in their attitude and value system and were given foundations on which pre-cultural phenomena developed." (M Kawai, Primates, Vol 6, #1, 1965).

What does this say about morphogenetic fields, and the collective unconscious? Not very much, but the "ideological breakthrough" idea is not what Sheldrake's theory of morphogenetic fields would predict anyway. That theory would recognize that the behavior of the older monkeys (not washing) also is a well-established pattern. There may well be a "critical mass" required to shift a new behavior from being a fragile personal idiosyncrasy to being a well-established alternative, but creating a new alternative does not automatically displace older alternatives. It just provides more choices. It is possible that the washing alternative established by the monkeys on Koshima Island did create a morphogenetic field that made it easier for monkeys on other islands to "discover" the same technique, but the actual research neither supports nor denies that idea. It remains for other cultural experiments and experiences to illuminate this question.

What the research does suggest, however, is that holding positive ideas (as important a step as this is) is not sufficient by itself to change the world. We still need direct communication between individuals, we need to translate our ideas into action, and we need to recognize the freedom of choice of those who choose alternatives different from our own.

from: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC09/Myers.htm

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[Calz]

I was not familiar withe the Hundred Monkey phenomenon. So I had to find some source material. There are many variations out there. Is this one ok?



By George you've got it!!!

http://www.youarentmymother.com/images/infinite-monkey.gif

[araucaria]

The hundredth monkey phenomenon is always quoted as being a vector for positive change. But it is also responsible for many of the negative habits that we eventually need to shake off. Stuff moves from fashionable, to a craze, to a must, and outstays its welcome...

[ulli]

And my wish since the formation of this Village
was to reach critical mass without the monkey route
nor the church ceremony route.
One thing that we did achieve here though
Even if we have not quite reached the point of critical mass (yet)
No one has ever been critical.
YAY

P.S.

On second thought...from someone who has been plagued by monkeys
(In Barbados they would race through our house, and even smash objects... long story)
this could change at any moment.
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4691089029662270&pid=15.1

[ulli]

So many things that I could write about, but I don't like about talking about me. What a week...

Dislike or like the messenger, but don't let it distract you. The message in this video is so important. I guess that I have watched already like 50 times during the past month. Love truly is the only thing that matters, in the end.

_bKQXmvdr8o

He does know how to sum things up:
"They don't want us talking about fracking...
they want us to talk about twerking"

[Crystine]

Calz. Yucky. Here, give him some bananas. He looks hungry.🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌some apples too.🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎. How about a donut?🍩 A piece of cake?🍰if I had enough time just now, I would find him a girl monkette. But she would need added incentive. Cause he is too attitudinal.

[Calz]

Mid 70's ... 6 rows back auditorium setting ... I (we) were there.

Oh yeah ...

UZh8YjbDiVk

[Calz]

Long time since I heard this one ... great album (age alert ... vinyl) ... http://www.pic4ever.com/images/301.gif


seCZhLBtekc

[meeradas]

real cool sh!t, folks:

http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/waterStreamNoiseGenerator.php

All praise to Linda/ w1ndmill (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?1866-w1ndmill)for the unique noise generator link (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66653-Unique-Noise-Generator)!

Enjoying the "ultimate water stream" as i type this... awesome. Wait, just found the "indian drone"... wow, this goes right into my feet and crown. Great overtones Have to explore further, it's soothing... and fun!

Right now, i have three running at once [harmoniously balanced]:
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/indianDroneGenerator.php ("darkness" preset),
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/waterStreamNoiseGenerator.php ("quiet brook" preset),
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/iceDroneGenerator.php ("clear water" & "magnetic fields" presets, alternating).
I already love that thing.

[panopticon]

c0-D8uNg0D4

[1inMany]

If this link works, here is some music from the soul. Not high quality, may not lead to enlightenment. She bobbles, but she sings...

Im3qky4MccE

I enjoyed experiencing this. A far cry from Polar Express, hard to believe that was just a year ago.

Much Love,

[Carmody]

Getting back to the idea of being a fuzzy holographic shard. A mini-whole, but fuzzy.

A neuron, if you will.

Now..how does a consciousness.....grow? How does it maintain itself?

[Carmody]

Alrightie then. A mite heavy?

Something from The Duck side. (warning, strong language....)

(bad guy stuff blowing up in their faces, so it's worth a listen)

(put yer windbreakers on, it's getting polarized out there)

KW343K1-upo

[Wind]

real cool sh!t, folks:

http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/waterStreamNoiseGenerator.php

All praise to Linda/ w1ndmill (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?1866-w1ndmill)for the unique noise generator link (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66653-Unique-Noise-Generator)!

Enjoying the "ultimate water stream" as i type this... awesome. Wait, just found the "indian drone"... wow, this goes right into my feet and crown. Great overtones Have to explore further, it's soothing... and fun!

Right now, i have three running at once [harmoniously balanced]:
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/indianDroneGenerator.php ("darkness" preset),
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/waterStreamNoiseGenerator.php ("quiet brook" preset),
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/iceDroneGenerator.php ("clear water" & "magnetic fields" presets, alternating).
I already love that thing.

I could listen to that stuff all day long! It is so calming...

After a week and a half of heavy energetic bombardements I'm feeling quite calm again. Also the Full Moon always seems to make me nervous.

Here is the astrology of January. Tomorrow is winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. After that it will only get brighter and better. Probably more snowy too, since there is no snow nowhere to be seen.

3sFqvFfR8vc

[ulli]

Alrightie then. A mite heavy?

Something from The Duck side. (warning, strong language....)

(bad guy stuff blowing up in their faces, so it's worth a listen)

(put yer windbreakers on, it's getting polarized out there)

KW343K1-upo

couldn't have said it better myself....

[1inMany]

Getting back to the idea of being a fuzzy holographic shard. A mini-whole, but fuzzy.

A neuron, if you will.

Now..how does a consciousness.....grow? How does it maintain itself?

Not too heavy, but I don't know. I thought about it, and I couldn't decide what you meant by grow. Bigger? More...experienced? More...intelligent? More powerful? Brighter? (Ways in which I experience awareness.)

I feel like the answers I came up with would be insufficient.

[Johnny]

Getting back to the idea of being a fuzzy holographic shard. A mini-whole, but fuzzy.

A neuron, if you will.

Now..how does a consciousness.....grow? How does it maintain itself?

Consciousness is not a 'thing', and don't forget the subconsciousness. But forget all what you have been told about the subconsciousness :) The consciousness is what we are aware of (IMO) :)

Johnny

[ulli]

Getting back to the idea of being a fuzzy holographic shard. A mini-whole, but fuzzy.

A neuron, if you will.

Now..how does a consciousness.....grow? How does it maintain itself?

Consciousness is not a 'thing', and don't forget the subconsciousness. But forget all what you have been told about the subconsciousness :) The consciousness is what we are aware of (IMO) :)

Johnny

I was always struck by Gurdjieff's teachings that consciousness was a commodity...
that there might only be a limited amount available to any given person.
Now I'm still wondering...seeing how hard it is to guide others to higher consciousness.

"Ouspensky stressed that the spiritual evolution of man was a commodity. Evolution was only possible because of its benefit to higher cosmoses. In the greater universal scheme of things, there existed a general downward movement of growth: perpetual physical expansion of the universe, suns giving birth to planets who give birth to moons and so forth. Parallel to this broad way, there existed a narrow way of upward movement against the stream. This was the path to consciousness, and this accounted for why spiritual evolution was so rare and difficult.

Ouspensky repeatedly stressed the difficulties and challenges of awakening. He repeatedly outlined the many pitfalls along the path, and indeed, saw many of his students stumble through them. But in view of the great things at stake, and the magnitude of the reward, he continued his own path along the Fourth Way, and did his best to inspire and instruct those around him willing to follow."

[Violet]

I was thinking about understanding. How we understand things and how when we don't understand things we use a familiar route to come to understanding.

This started when after a couple of alarm clock snoozes I was having breakfast and heard it go off again (apparently I pressed snooze instead of off). I have it set on radio (and not that annoying beep). And I came in the room and a lady sang "one more time" and I started thinking of these synchronicities and how they can possibly be arranged to match.

How can you have an independent radio station match a situation like this so precisely? How do situations meet to fit or not fit each other? Why do they behave like that?

Are there poles of attraction at work, like magnets? Do certain combinations attract each other. I was trying to get an idea of the algorithm of it because surely, all things have some type of understanding to them.

At the end of this day I must conclude that although I could continue thinking about it, I may not find the answer and if I don't I can take peace with the idea that not all things need full apprehending. I can also just greatly value and enjoy it. (but knowing myself, I will still think about it)