Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Baby Steps]

Just enjoying a rye cracker, with non dairy coconut based cheese (because I am worried about IGF-1 & bovine estrogen in my prostate). After this I will have a slice of Camembert because I need the K2.

Contemplating blackmail.
Have you ever had weird approaches or opportunities(hopefully declined) to get involved in immoral & illegal behaviour?
I am thinking our Security Services are mainly concerned with entrapping as many people as possible, and a pre-requisite for Political High Office is that 'They have got something on you'

I googled this bizarre congressman- lindsey graham, with the word 'blackmail' and found some very disturbing things.

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[araucaria]

An interesting and timely discussion, ulli and transiten. If you have a “moment” (ha ha), I’ve just posted my latest submission on just how big the lie really is. I am using “moment” in the timeless, mechanical sense of leverage. It may involve quite a long moment in time, but as the degree of leverage depends on the length of your lever, that should be no problem.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87260-Excellent--encompassing--recent-presentation-by-Greer&p=1027465&viewfull=1#post1027465

[RunningDeer]

I went out to get the mail and look what I found at the bottom of my stairs. It’s Michael’s rebirth day in a couple of days. For newbies, the shortened version is the night before his burial, he assured me things would be okay and to remember “This was the plan, Mom. Remember the plan.”


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Feather/feather-sent-12815_zpsn33gmwvc.JPG

At that time, my bedroom was filled with boxes of books and I couldn’t say why I tore through them. Until one book said ‘pick me, pick me’. It was “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah," by Richard Bach. Every page I opened to, Michael spoke to me. I’d ask a question and the perfect answer came through a sentence on a page.

Then I was directed two floors down to my office. I pulled open my computer shelf and there smack in the middle was a feather. I had been collecting them for a couple of months and didn’t know why. On the cover of the book there was a feather. It was an important turning point in the story of a teacher that had died but floated a feather onto his grieving student.

Michael continues to send me feather messages on important dates. He sent a lot the first year after his passing. More often than not, he/others send feathers when I ask for confirmations to important pondering.

It’s timely in another way. I’ve allowed myself to get pulled away from things that are important in order for me to see from the greater perspective; which is one part of my contribution to the whole.


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/feather_zpsc34713cf.JPG

Life is golden,
RunningDeer ♡

[ThePythonicCow]

So I see it as a good sign that the Avalon management are being more careful in their attempts of containing the disinformation virus. And since it has already spread so far that even our best members are showing signs of losing their reasoning power, of surprise attacks against Bill and the mods, of incredible anger tantrums, we are really in an emergency situation.
Don't you agree?
I don't actually sense that much of an emergency.

The granite in this mountain has cracks and crevices, as do all mountains, reflective of the general way of mountains. There are deeply felt and thought differences in the ways in which this world and our lives and communities, our hearts and minds, work, from the fundamental physics on up. There is also a widely varying range of shocks, stresses and traumas that have been imposed on different parts of the mountain, over vast time.

The bastards in power wiggle and chisel on these differences and now and again open up a crack wide enough to cause another rock slide or avalanche. The mountain stands, tall as ever, growing taller actually, thanks to a deep underground swelling.

With each such crevasse, we each individually choose which side, or the underlying bedrock, or far to the other side of the mountain, or over on some other mountain after a little trek, to be on. That is our choice. So be it.

Would that the rocks in the current slide spent less energy trying to amplify the rock slide, however. That can get rather annoying. Please choose your place to be for now and be on with it. It seems that the divisive energy of the bastards in power feeds through us at times. Wittingly or not, there is usually no way to discern, and that difference matters little anyway.

[Calz]

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[ulli]

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So I see it as a good sign that the Avalon management are being more careful in their attempts of containing the disinformation virus. And since it has already spread so far that even our best members are showing signs of losing their reasoning power, of surprise attacks against Bill and the mods, of incredible anger tantrums, we are really in an emergency situation.
Don't you agree?
I don't actually sense that much of an emergency.

The granite in this mountain has cracks and crevices, as do all mountains, reflective of the general way of mountains. There are deeply felt and thought differences in the ways in which this world and our lives and communities, our hearts and minds, work, from the fundamental physics on up. There is also a widely varying range of shocks, stresses and traumas that have been imposed on different parts of the mountain, over vast time.

The bastards in power wiggle and chisel on these differences and now and again open up a crack wide enough to cause another rock slide or avalanche. The mountain stands, tall as ever, growing taller actually, thanks to a deep underground swelling.

With each such crevasse, we each individually choose which side, or the underlying bedrock, or far to the other side of the mountain, or over on some other mountain after a little trek, to be on. That is our choice. So be it.

Would that the rocks in the current slide spent less energy trying to amplify the rock slide, however. That can get rather annoying. Please choose your place to be for now and be on with it. It seems that the divisive energy of the bastards in power feeds through us at times. Wittingly or not, there is usually no way to discern, and that difference matters little anyway.

The emergency I'm seeing needs some explaining then.
It has to do with my fear of WW 3 going ahead, and my illusion that perhaps we here could prevent it if we all pull together.
It has to do with my own childhood trauma, of having been raised by a mother who survived a PoW camp, barely.
But those events unfolding are really too huge for anyone to be able to do anything about.
Or are they? Head scratch....

[ThePythonicCow]

The emergency I'm seeing needs some explaining then.
Ah - yes - we are at the place in the cycle of human affairs where it seems major wars are looming near on the horizon. I think you're right to think we can tilt the odds a bit more in our favor, if we will.

[transiten]

Absolutely ulli! And i've become more and more cautious about what I present as TRUTH for the few I talk to about what I've come across in the "Conspiration theories". At the moment I stick to the Big Banks Fraud and noone questions that. I use to add that I would be more than happy if someone could prove me wrong, i really don't want to have any such strong emotional or intellectual attachment to what I have learned since 2006 as I first found project Camelot as not to be able to continue to live if it was all debunked...Still got my Synchronicities and Cosmic Mirror Astrology to look into, yhry never let me down:star::star::star:

Well well, as I went to the bank to get some help, the thought hit me I forgot to mention the extremely accurate readings I've had from several mediums...and voilà! I find a 1 year old magazine, open it and there is a long article about one of the most wellknown mediums in Sweden!

Not only that, he also tells a funny story about when he himself went to the bank and was asked about his profession. He has worked as a hair dresser and used to only mention that but now he had decided to "come out of the closet" so he also added "medium" and jokingly told the employee he could take down her grandmother for her :Angel: which offer she politely declined :ROFL:

[transiten]

An interesting and timely discussion, ulli and transiten. If you have a “moment” (ha ha), I’ve just posted my latest submission on just how big the lie really is. I am using “moment” in the timeless, mechanical sense of leverage. It may involve quite a long moment in time, but as the degree of leverage depends on the length of your lever, that should be no problem.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87260-Excellent--encompassing--recent-presentation-by-Greer&p=1027465&viewfull=1#post1027465

Wow! That was a piece of masterwork! One thing I didn't know was that the Liberation Theologists were Jesuits. I was actually somewhat involved as I was singing Latin American liberation songs when all the Chileans came here and we cooperated with a priest who was rather radical hiding fugtifs in the church even cooking there.

Also didn't know that about Perez de Cuellar, a son of his has two sons with a Peruvian friend of mine.

What i didn't get is if you mean the Moon landing was fake? What I've heard is that they took some photos in Steven Spielbergs studio if the Moon landing should fail and they also used some of these pictures for the media.

[Mike]

Absolutely! And in sync with Fulford I went to David Wilcocks blog and the server was unable to find it! I tried different options but no...Will try again, there was an interesting read with a list of 170 something bank employees having dropped dead after reporting anomalies to the high ups...

Nope the sites are still down, must have been some sensitive info there...

By "in sync with Fulford" I meant that it seems like most pple on Avalon don't think much of David as to not even check his recent info. I don't "take sides" and think that pple operating in this field must be more subject to disinformation, deceit and attacks - at least the level and sevreity of it - due to the collective component- than most of the members on Avalon.

Now it seems that Bill and Avalon as a community have been robbed by a member that also was involved with another "disinformant" on Avalon. Does that mean that information coming from Bill is no longer interesting or reliable? Maybe it's the wrong thread to post in but this is also "The Village" a family of sorts and a place where one should feel safe to air "sensitive" issues without fear of being ostracized

I actually constantly have a feeling of "unease" being on this forum because of what i percieve as the "Elephant in the room-we don't talk about this in our family" tendency.

Anyway David Wilcocks blog is back if anyone would like to see if there's anything valuable there in spite of the "Instant ascension" and "Corey ghost". I went to facebook where he announced it was down because of security manageing.

Really looking forward to that New Moon on Friday dec 11. Could need some New Vision and Hope and a 3:rd Factor stepping in to integrate the opposites :happy dog:

You brought up a good point here, transiten.
Personally, I have nothing against people bringing up delicate issues in the Village living room.
Even if they are no longer ok for discussion outside in the rest of the forum.
That is because I know that us Villagers are pretty cool headed people.
Also, most of us are hermits, used to operating alone, and don't form intense codependent relationships.

What I believe Bill has experienced in person is the triggering of preprogrammed people, and how such people can then infect the rest of the forum. So he and his team are believers in quarantine measures.

I myself have over the years of investigating Internet sites become at times infected by false info.
And in my ignorance of the consequences shared those false ideas with family members.
I can't tell you how much I now regret doing that.

An example, what type of explosives were used to bring down the WTC towers? There was so much disinformation planted there, that the final answer is still pending. One theory after the other was debunked.
I lost all credibility in the eyes of my son. This is the outcome of such debates, when false stuff is being spouted.

Corey lost credibility here in a similar way. He may well have been fed such a lethal mix of truth and falsehood that he really became a human weapon. And we all know that DW is not too concerned with absolute truth, but with statistics of his fame expansion.
The second argument I have with the Corey case ...his reaction to being questioned by Bill. I read his and his wife's stuff after that and must say they both were incredibly outraged, and went all over the Internet bitching against Avalon. Massive over-reaction.
Although later on, when Avalon discovered that the Ruiner was not for real either, he (Ruiner) managed to keep going a bit longer, simply _because_ he was so calm and polite.
Yet it was all lies, stuff he had been reading and presented as real, then admitted none was real, then presented it again as real- typical of someone who wants to confuse the masses, and thinks it's all a big joke.
Is this right, in view of the seriousness of what is happening on our planet?

And all those lies are out there now, being lapped up by young awakening souls who are now coming under fire by their spouses and family members, and as a result untold disunity is growing all over the world.

So I see it as a good sign that the Avalon management are being more careful in their attempts of containing the disinformation virus. And since it has already spread so far that even our best members are showing signs of losing their reasoning power, of surprise attacks against Bill and the mods, of incredible anger tantrums, we are really in an emergency situation.
Don't you agree?



Some solid wisdom here...

ive got a delicate topic(s) to broach. It has to do with externalizing (a word I got from you Ulli;)..so thanks!). And it has to do with delusion. And also, as Transiten says "the elephant in the room". And then it has to do with Gripreaper...and finally it has to do with all of us as a group.

I'm not sure how literally to take your term 'disinformation virus', but to me it suggests a deliberate and malevolent movement by an outside force to confuse and antagonize us..or anyone seeking the truth. Perhaps this type of thing exists. Perhaps it doesnt. I often wonder about the damage we might be doing by externalizing these issues...and the issue we have now, which you referred to above, is this thing with Bill and Christine of course, and also how certain members are reacting, namely, Gripreaper.

It seems to me, that whenever there is some drama on the forum, we usually find a way to blame some outside force or forces. Its black ops, archons, star positions and so forth. I'm not disregarding these things entirely, theres validity there on occasion...but it's as if, at times, we all go suddenly blind to the simple, true explanation staring us right in the face...

Take Gripreaper for example. Clearly a very smart man. A funny man. A warm man. But, and i'll say this as delicately as possible, not the most stable of fellows emotionally. You might even say delusional. Not too long ago, on this very thread, he was declaring himself the go between, between humanity and the lost city of Atlantis..he knew where the lost crystals were, and he'd bring them forth when commissioned by the dead spirits of atlantis etc etc (I'm paraphrasing). Anyway, total nonsense. It was disappointing, but the bigger disappoinment was this: NO ONE SAID A WORD ABOUT IT. Not only that, but some people actually "thanked" it. I sat back and hoped someone would say something, anything, to restore my waning faith in humaity...but no, it didnt happen. I considered writing a post myself, but coming from me it would hardly matter, it would just be another case of the doubting thomas "not getting it" or something. And even more than that, I like Grip and I didnt want to hurt his feelings. And i'll bet a few others felt the same, which makes me wonder:

How much damage are we doing to ourselves and the forum at large when we let respected members carry on with their fiction without calling them out on it? This whole Grip thing doesnt surprise me at all. I wasnt caught off guard, and I don't consider it a surprise attack....because ive been reading his posts for years and something is just a little off there...

But it's hard to say that to people we like...the plain truth. In this example I gave, I couldnt bring myself to do it. So we go on blaming archons or A.I. or whatever. It's easier in the short term and doesnt hurt anyones feelings...but in the long run, enabling and even encouraging these fictions acts as a cancer, the beginning of a tumor or something, and gets us in the long run...tenfold!

to me, these obvious fictions are the "elephant in the room", the cancers that could kill the forum. Delusions can be fun and serve short term purpose, but are deadly in the long run. If we decide to tolerate them, we have no outside source to blame for the consequences. If we continue to blame fiction for the fiction we ourselves create or tolerate, then there is no hope at all. What we're seeing on the forum now is simply a symptom of that, in my opinion.

[Violet]

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Nora, I hope the sea's a bit calmer now for you.

Take care.

[transiten]

Sync Violet! I just sent Nora a visitor message! Has anyone heared anything from her lately?

[araucaria]

An interesting and timely discussion, ulli and transiten. If you have a “moment” (ha ha), I’ve just posted my latest submission on just how big the lie really is. I am using “moment” in the timeless, mechanical sense of leverage. It may involve quite a long moment in time, but as the degree of leverage depends on the length of your lever, that should be no problem.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87260-Excellent--encompassing--recent-presentation-by-Greer&p=1027465&viewfull=1#post1027465

Wow! That was a piece of masterwork! One thing I didn't know was that the Liberation Theologists were Jesuits. I was actually somewhat involved as I was singing Latin American liberation songs when all the Chileans came here and we cooperated with a priest who was rather radical hiding fugtifs in the church even cooking there.

Also didn't know that about Perez de Cuellar, a son of his has two sons with a Peruvian friend of mine.

What i didn't get is if you mean the Moon landing was fake? What I've heard is that they took some photos in Steven Spielbergs studio if the Moon landing should fail and they also used some of these pictures for the media.

Thank you transiten :)
Did they go to the Moon? Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t. I don’t need to be sure. It may have been the real bit used as a hook to pin on the other stuff. The indications are ambiguous. The astronauts have memories but don’t talk about them; they have forgetfulness, but don’t talk about that either. According to Jay Weiden, it was Kubrick, not Spielberg, and he sees the same front-screen projection in the Moon photos as in 2001, one effect of which Hoagland took for miles-high glass towers…
Next out, Mars: you have guys like Andy Basiago, who seems to be recalling implanted memories. Henry Deacon, we don’t know the status of his claims and there is really no way of finding out. As for taking ET home, that could be anything, including some joke someone overheard wrong. But you get the idea: there is a grain of truth at bottom and a bunch of lies at the top end, the exact tipping point is not cut and dried.

The thing is, most people don’t have a “need to know”; it has no practical use for them one way or the other. This is what I meant in quoting Jamesian pragmatism here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87260-Excellent--encompassing--recent-presentation-by-Greer&p=1027519&viewfull=1#post1027519
In contrast, alternative media followers tend to think that they have a “need to know”, and preach to other people that they do too. And a whole lot of it is half-truths, or outright fiction, as Mike is saying. I tend not to be bothered because, as I said, I don’t need this stuff, except to play around with it. But for others who do, I agree it can be a problem.

The Perez de Cuellar story is straight from Greer. I have no idea if it’s true in any objective sense. Simply, it is consistent with his basic thesis, which in turn is consistent with what I was trying to put forward; in other words it rings pragmatically true for me.

[RunningDeer]

Sync Violet! I just sent Nora a visitor message! Has anyone heared anything from her lately?
Nora's been on my mind, too. Sync. I took this today. Every time I pass it, I send out a Nora-love-hug. :heart:


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♡

[Violet]

Ha! And did you know that Oscar & The Wolf have a tracked called...:yes4:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbj-ULPn83Y

[Sierra]

Quoting Aracauria from: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87260-Excellent--encompassing--recent-presentation-by-Greer&p=1027519&viewfull=1#post1027519


William James explains his Pragmatic philosophy as follows:


Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. “Grant an idea or
belief to be true,” it says, “what concrete difference will its being true
make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences
will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were
false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?”
The moment pragmatism asks this question, it sees the answer: True ideas
are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate and verify. False
ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to
us to have true ideas; that, therefore, is the meaning of truth, for it is all
that truth is known-as.
This thesis is what I have to defend. The truth of an idea is not a stagnant
property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made
true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely
of its verifying itself, its verification. Its validity is the process of its validation.

Can you imagine the reaction were I, as a mod, to attempt to send someone on vacation for Archontic infection, rather than breaking the guidelines?

[Sierra]

There is an odd thing that gives me hope (ruminating on Ulli's Haifa dream post, that it will take a long time before we end war).


During the 1950s, macaques on the island of Koshima learned to wash sweet potatoes and explicitly passed this skill onto younger members of the group.
According to Watson and Blair, this behaviour then spread and was observed on neighbouring islands among groups of macaques who had never seemingly come into contact with each other.
They chalked this up to the monkeys sharing a collective consciousness, often referred to as a ‘shared mind’ or ‘hive mind’, in which the practices were shared telepathically.
A similar practice was more recently observed among blue tits. This time the skill the birds taught themselves was to break into milk bottles and drink the cream from the top.

Blue tits are said to have a collective consciousness. Birds in the UK taught themselves to break into milk bottles and drink the cream from the top, pictured. Similar groups of the same species exhibited the same skills in other countries throughout Europe and Asia. This was despite the groups never meeting
Although the practice was first observed in Southampton in 2011, similar groups of the same species exhibited the same skills in other countries throughout Europe and Asia. This was despite the groups never meeting and the birds being non-migratory.
A science journal in 2010 published claims made by Professor Daryl Bem, a physicist from Cornell University, that he had proved humans have similar psychic abilities supposedly seen in the birds and monkeys.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2509971/Are-PSYCHIC-Scientists-believe-animals--including-humans--collective-consciousness.html#ixzz3tlyc2zGF
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Here's hoping our hive mind learns quickly. :)

[RunningDeer]

Take Gripreaper for example. Clearly a very smart man. A funny man. A warm man. But, and i'll say this as delicately as possible, not the most stable of fellows emotionally. You might even say delusional. Not too long ago, on this very thread, he was declaring himself the go between, between humanity and the lost city of Atlantis..he knew where the lost crystals were, and he'd bring them forth when commissioned by the dead spirits of atlantis etc etc (I'm paraphrasing). Anyway, total nonsense. It was disappointing, but the bigger disappoinment was this: NO ONE SAID A WORD ABOUT IT. Not only that, but some people actually "thanked" it. I sat back and hoped someone would say something, anything, to restore my waning faith in humaity...but no, it didnt happen. I considered writing a post myself, but coming from me it would hardly matter, it would just be another case of the doubting thomas "not getting it" or something. And even more than that, I like Grip and I didnt want to hurt his feelings. And i'll bet a few others felt the same, which makes me wonder:


NO ONE SAID A WORD ABOUT IT.

You covered a lot of ground there, Mike. There’s probably more misses than hits in my response. And damn, re-reading your post, I see I'm more off the mark. I'll post anyway. Cuz I don't want to not say a word.
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/boff-smiley-face_zpstxx3msnv.GIF

Many people, many realities. Fortunately, I’ve had enough weird (and welcomed) experience to know it’s possible that what others perceive may be true or at the very least is true for them.

Where I am today on the whole, “Was I Jesus or was I not?” All past/present/future experience is power-packed right here and right now. My journey is to tap it.

I’ve only had one past life regression. It was with an inexperienced person. In present life, I stammered when I was young and it lessen by my early 20’s as long as I wasn’t stressed.

The past life took place in the 1800’s. I was a young boy who lived on a farm with his mom. He was deaf and mute. There was no connection between he and his mom. Partly because of his disabilities and partly because she shouldered all of the responsibility for the chores. The mom in that life is the same mom in this one.

It wasn’t long after that discovery, the stammer lessened to the point of nonexistence. One other note was that the boy looked like my son, blonde, blue-eyed. And that past live regression took place before he was born.

Lastly, as for the outside interferences? There’s two points:

In terms of the AI and dark energies, I was happy to have a name for what I experience when that wave infiltrates at family gatherings, particularly when two siblings are present. The part of me that pays attention sees and feels that wave blanket us. I ward-off the ickies as best I can.

The second point is as part of my journey it is my responsibility to walk with awareness. Ideally, I chuck the straight-jacket beliefs and stay open to new thought and ideas. What I’m noticing is it’s mostly about nixing the limiting beliefs.

I’d like to believe I don’t create many dramas, but I still get pulled into them. Here comes the damn disclaimer...


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/wip-1_zpsqvwkbw2t.GIF

[Sierra]

I love your damn disclaimer!

[RunningDeer]

I love your damn disclaimer!

I'm gonna make one and maybe Bill will add it to the collection.


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[ulli]

Had a busy day and could only skim araucaria's essay.
A ton of stuff came to mind but without taking notes were quickly forgotten.
All I can recall now is that he mentioned the Skolnick Reports, which I used to read years before I found Avalon.
Court reporter from Chicago and a brave man. Brilliant, in fact.
And warned the world about Rahm Emanuel.
Will read your epistle again tonight, araucaria.

[ulli]

You brought up a good point here, transiten.
Personally, I have nothing against people bringing up delicate issues in the Village living room.
Even if they are no longer ok for discussion outside in the rest of the forum.
That is because I know that us Villagers are pretty cool headed people.
Also, most of us are hermits, used to operating alone, and don't form intense codependent relationships.

What I believe Bill has experienced in person is the triggering of preprogrammed people, and how such people can then infect the rest of the forum. So he and his team are believers in quarantine measures.

I myself have over the years of investigating Internet sites become at times infected by false info.
And in my ignorance of the consequences shared those false ideas with family members.
I can't tell you how much I now regret doing that.

An example, what type of explosives were used to bring down the WTC towers? There was so much disinformation planted there, that the final answer is still pending. One theory after the other was debunked.
I lost all credibility in the eyes of my son. This is the outcome of such debates, when false stuff is being spouted.

Corey lost credibility here in a similar way. He may well have been fed such a lethal mix of truth and falsehood that he really became a human weapon. And we all know that DW is not too concerned with absolute truth, but with statistics of his fame expansion.
The second argument I have with the Corey case ...his reaction to being questioned by Bill. I read his and his wife's stuff after that and must say they both were incredibly outraged, and went all over the Internet bitching against Avalon. Massive over-reaction.
Although later on, when Avalon discovered that the Ruiner was not for real either, he (Ruiner) managed to keep going a bit longer, simply _because_ he was so calm and polite.
Yet it was all lies, stuff he had been reading and presented as real, then admitted none was real, then presented it again as real- typical of someone who wants to confuse the masses, and thinks it's all a big joke.
Is this right, in view of the seriousness of what is happening on our planet?

And all those lies are out there now, being lapped up by young awakening souls who are now coming under fire by their spouses and family members, and as a result untold disunity is growing all over the world.

So I see it as a good sign that the Avalon management are being more careful in their attempts of containing the disinformation virus. And since it has already spread so far that even our best members are showing signs of losing their reasoning power, of surprise attacks against Bill and the mods, of incredible anger tantrums, we are really in an emergency situation.
Don't you agree?



Some solid wisdom here...

ive got a delicate topic(s) to broach. It has to do with externalizing (a word I got from you Ulli;)..so thanks!). And it has to do with delusion. And also, as Transiten says "the elephant in the room". And then it has to do with Gripreaper...and finally it has to do with all of us as a group.

I'm not sure how literally to take your term 'disinformation virus', but to me it suggests a deliberate and malevolent movement by an outside force to confuse and antagonize us..or anyone seeking the truth. Perhaps this type of thing exists. Perhaps it doesnt. I often wonder about the damage we might be doing by externalizing these issues...and the issue we have now, which you referred to above, is this thing with Bill and Christine of course, and also how certain members are reacting, namely, Gripreaper.

It seems to me, that whenever there is some drama on the forum, we usually find a way to blame some outside force or forces. Its black ops, archons, star positions and so forth. I'm not disregarding these things entirely, theres validity there on occasion...but it's as if, at times, we all go suddenly blind to the simple, true explanation staring us right in the face...

Take Gripreaper for example. Clearly a very smart man. A funny man. A warm man. But, and i'll say this as delicately as possible, not the most stable of fellows emotionally. You might even say delusional. Not too long ago, on this very thread, he was declaring himself the go between, between humanity and the lost city of Atlantis..he knew where the lost crystals were, and he'd bring them forth when commissioned by the dead spirits of atlantis etc etc (I'm paraphrasing). Anyway, total nonsense. It was disappointing, but the bigger disappoinment was this: NO ONE SAID A WORD ABOUT IT. Not only that, but some people actually "thanked" it. I sat back and hoped someone would say something, anything, to restore my waning faith in humaity...but no, it didnt happen. I considered writing a post myself, but coming from me it would hardly matter, it would just be another case of the doubting thomas "not getting it" or something. And even more than that, I like Grip and I didnt want to hurt his feelings. And i'll bet a few others felt the same, which makes me wonder:

How much damage are we doing to ourselves and the forum at large when we let respected members carry on with their fiction without calling them out on it? This whole Grip thing doesnt surprise me at all. I wasnt caught off guard, and I don't consider it a surprise attack....because ive been reading his posts for years and something is just a little off there...

But it's hard to say that to people we like...the plain truth. In this example I gave, I couldnt bring myself to do it. So we go on blaming archons or A.I. or whatever. It's easier in the short term and doesnt hurt anyones feelings...but in the long run, enabling and even encouraging these fictions acts as a cancer, the beginning of a tumor or something, and gets us in the long run...tenfold!

to me, these obvious fictions are the "elephant in the room", the cancers that could kill the forum. Delusions can be fun and serve short term purpose, but are deadly in the long run. If we decide to tolerate them, we have no outside source to blame for the consequences. If we continue to blame fiction for the fiction we ourselves create or tolerate, then there is no hope at all. What we're seeing on the forum now is simply a symptom of that, in my opinion.

Tolerating means that there is the chance of reaching a limit, unlike approval or appreciation.

But each of us have different tolerance thresholds and at certain times more than others.
So who is to say when that limit is reached?

Some people post under the influence of drink or drugs and if it happens only once in a while one lets it go.
After the second or third incidence one might raise an eyebrow, after the fifth the first remark.
Then the lecturing, then reporting to mods, and finally comes the straw that breaks the camel's back.
I just like to give a long leash, the way Bill does.
I also have read some of Paul's raised eyebrow comments and am trying to emulate him.

[RunningDeer]

Had a busy day and could only skim araucaria's essay.
A ton of stuff came to mind but without taking notes were quickly forgotten.
All I can recall now is that he mentioned the Skolnick Reports, which I used to read years before I found Avalon.
Court reporter from Chicago and a brave man. Brilliant, in fact.
And warned the world about Rahm Emanuel.
Will read your epistle again tonight, araucaria.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/writing_zpsd26h7e8a.GIF Epistle’s a good word. I took araucaria’s advice and make a document. It’s 10 pages in length in a font size of 14 pt, and a word count of 4,738.

Still reading. Cuz, I add purty hi-light colors and font sizes.

[norman]

.....And all those lies are out there now, being lapped up by young awakening souls who are now coming under fire by their spouses and family members, and as a result untold disunity is growing all over the world. .......



This, far more than cyber interpersonality, more than raises my own eyebrows.

I look at a huge numbers game, and often despair. How on earth are we to merge a time of great realisation and truth discovery with a time of calm heads and unity.

I can hardly close my eyes without seeing an image of very bad people chuckling to themselves at how well they've got it all under their spell.

[Carmody]

Had a busy day and could only skim araucaria's essay.
A ton of stuff came to mind but without taking notes were quickly forgotten.
All I can recall now is that he mentioned the Skolnick Reports, which I used to read years before I found Avalon.
Court reporter from Chicago and a brave man. Brilliant, in fact.
And warned the world about Rahm Emanuel.
Will read your epistle again tonight, araucaria.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/writing_zpsd26h7e8a.GIF Epistle’s a good word. I took araucaria’s advice and make a document. It’s 10 pages in length in a font size of 14 pt, and a word count of 4,738.

Still reading. Cuz, I add purty hi-light colors and font sizes.

One could always chalk it up to erudition.

[ulli]

.....And all those lies are out there now, being lapped up by young awakening souls who are now coming under fire by their spouses and family members, and as a result untold disunity is growing all over the world. .......



This, far more than cyber interpersonality, more than raises my own eyebrows.

I look at a huge numbers game, and often despair. How on earth are we to merge a time of great realisation and truth discovery with a time of calm heads and unity.

I can hardly close my eyes without seeing an image of very bad people chuckling to themselves at how well they've got it all under their spell.

That chuckle will be their downfall.
He who laughs last...an' all that.

[Sierra]

I think Carmody made a pun... :ROFL:

[Carmody]

As for what grip said, I had no idea what to make of it either. But I left it for something that might be more clear later. The initial impression... was as if he touched cloth while in a church elevator, and everyone studiously avoided the whole episode. (just trying to make Mike spit his beer on the monitor)

I do note it was a response to my released practical information on the basics behind making a dimensional gating crystal.

[norman]

Grip's mental acuity is solid.

Welcome in polite circles or not.

[Mike]

Take Gripreaper for example. Clearly a very smart man. A funny man. A warm man. But, and i'll say this as delicately as possible, not the most stable of fellows emotionally. You might even say delusional. Not too long ago, on this very thread, he was declaring himself the go between, between humanity and the lost city of Atlantis..he knew where the lost crystals were, and he'd bring them forth when commissioned by the dead spirits of atlantis etc etc (I'm paraphrasing). Anyway, total nonsense. It was disappointing, but the bigger disappoinment was this: NO ONE SAID A WORD ABOUT IT. Not only that, but some people actually "thanked" it. I sat back and hoped someone would say something, anything, to restore my waning faith in humaity...but no, it didnt happen. I considered writing a post myself, but coming from me it would hardly matter, it would just be another case of the doubting thomas "not getting it" or something. And even more than that, I like Grip and I didnt want to hurt his feelings. And i'll bet a few others felt the same, which makes me wonder:


NO ONE SAID A WORD ABOUT IT.

You covered a lot of ground there, Mike. There’s probably more misses than hits in my response. And damn, re-reading your post, I see I'm more off the mark. I'll post anyway. Cuz I don't want to not say a word.
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/boff-smiley-face_zpstxx3msnv.GIF

Many people, many realities. Fortunately, I’ve had enough weird (and welcomed) experience to know it’s possible that what others perceive may be true or at the very least is true for them.

Where I am today on the whole, “Was I Jesus or was I not?” All past/present/future experience is power-packed right here and right now. My journey is to tap it.

I’ve only had one past life regression. It was with an inexperienced person. In present life, I stammered when I was young and it lessen by my early 20’s as long as I wasn’t stressed.

The past life took place in the 1800’s. I was a young boy who lived on a farm with his mom. He was deaf and mute. There was no connection between he and his mom. Partly because of his disabilities and partly because she shouldered all of the responsibility for the chores. The mom in that life is the same mom in this one.

It wasn’t long after that discovery, the stammer lessened to the point of nonexistence. One other note was that the boy looked like my son, blonde, blue-eyed. And that past live regression took place before he was born.

Lastly, as for the outside interferences? There’s two points:

In terms of the AI and dark energies, I was happy to have a name for what I experience when that wave infiltrates at family gatherings, particularly when two siblings are present. The part of me that pays attention sees and feels that wave blanket us. I ward-off the ickies as best I can.

The second point is as part of my journey it is my responsibility to walk with awareness. Ideally, I chuck the straight-jacket beliefs and stay open to new thought and ideas. What I’m noticing is it’s mostly about nixing the limiting beliefs.

I’d like to believe I don’t create many dramas, but I still get pulled into them. Here comes the damn disclaimer...


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/wip-1_zpsqvwkbw2t.GIF


sure, but there was also the time he claimed to have walked with jesus....claimed to be a holy bodhisattva of some sort etc. i mean the list goes on here:bigsmile:

i can see youre softening the blow here a little, and its out of your innate kindness no doubt...which is a wonderful quality you have that i admire but can't quit emulate..

yes, different people, different realities...but when those realities become increasingly ego based and frequent and outlandish, don't we have some sort of responsibility here to say something? thats not a rhetorical question, by the way...i'm interested in your thoughts.

its not just Grip, either. there are others. we all know who they are.

is it their realities, as you say..or are they just flat out lying? or are they delusional? and if so, how far should we allow them to go before we say "enough"...as their previously harmless fantasies begin to water down and damage the structural integrity of the forum?

once in a while we get a thread here, something like 'how can we improve avalon?' but its always a little vague and lacking in detail. well, in my opinion, this is whats wrong with it - too many people spewing fiction. and how do we know the difference between harmless realities and flat out lies or delusion? for me, the latter is soaked in ego...

i'm a work in progress too. we all are. but does that excuse us from just inventing sh!t and presenting it as the truth? again, not a rhetorical question.....interested in your thoughts, as i know they will cause me to see this from another, probably deeper angle..

:heart:

p.s. regarding drama, i think thats why we came to this earth plane...for a little action! i really do. my guess is that theres very little mixing it up on the other side(s), and we tend to miss it a little:wink:

[Guest]

I read Grip's post and I did not make a comment because I thought he was writing a bit of a funny. Really. I almost replied and wish I had now.

I don't know what happened on the forum with gripreaper, but he is very knowledgeable and a great writer. He strikes me as a very sensitive soul too. That may be where the crux is.
I hope he is going to be ok.

The Archonic hits are real and the planets do influence us. Sometimes they are extremely difficult to navigate.

I'm ok. Thank you so much for your prayers and messages. Very nice of everyone. I really don't know what I would do without all of you. Thank you for all of the love, teary eyed.

The sign is very cool Paula, really neat & very sweet of you. Thank you Transiten for posting Tom's report. Violet the seas have calmed for me for now. I did go to the beach today for a brief time .... the waves were huge. So powerful and beautiful. I found a pretty little treasure while reveling in the Grace.

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[transiten]

There you are Nora strolling down the seashore collecting the gems of Mother Nature, cannot count the days I've been doing that, also cleaning beaches from trash....

In the first one I see a footprint and the other? The face of an ET??? :ufo:

[transiten]

Mike, I think you've opened up Pandoras Box here :shielddeflect: I was absent when Grip was telling this and I have not been reading many of his posts but I can't say if I had commented on that or not.......
.....maybe not to be honest but I would surely be doubtful.

I often initially have the reaction of scepticism when I read something like that, all the same i have so many experiences from accurate mediumistic readings including specific details that noone except myself can possibly know so when that person says I've had an incarnation in Atlantis (which ranges from an island to a world wide culture i think) I tend to think maybe..or maybe not..

I have to ponder this a bit more...I'll be back :waving:

Ooooops, time was 9:11 as I posted....

[Violet]

Times, I try to not read the papers. Beside the repetitious nature of some popular newspapers, they are also rarely an invitation to happiness and tolerance. In the Here and Now, not too long ago, we've talked about the need to face a problem in order to be able to deal with it better, or at least give it a place in one's life. So, I do read the news, I am and I'm here now, and I need to know what this now is made up of. I'm not the only one who creates now, so I do need to look further to understand the composite. But when I'm trying to not read papers, I'll be found reading
very old newspapers. I'm in the year 1846 now.

Soon I'll be moving onto 1847. I know I told myself that last year but I didn't keep up with reading all the way through '46 and so I'm redoing that year because I think it will make it easier to understand '47. Unless, back then, the repetitious character of newspapers was already in place. Sometimes, I chuckle (ccc) at how some aspects coincide with today's events around the same time. Here's an example of the Swiss women's strike of December 1846. I'll just translate it for you, it's in an older form of Dutch. It says:



The women folk of the Swiss city of Basel is putting it's nose into politics now, protesting any changes to be made to the Constitution. The women say tha‎t they, together with their children, will take up arms, rather than to watch their rights violated. "We do not want centralisation, nor unlimited free trade, nor do we want new (foreign) citizens nor do we want foreign professors; we have house fathers enough who are without work and without bread."http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=32226&cid=1&stc=1


Contextually, this comes from the 6/12/46 edition of the Catholic newspaper De Denderbode, local to the region of Aalst in East Flanders. In this paper there is a lot of focus on socialism, politics in general and from what I've read already, a strong aversion against the liberals. The latter may also be a by-product of the spirit of the time.

What other news in the 6 Dec. issue? Let's see. Oh, and when people are counted, statistically, they speak of souls (zielen): one representative for 12,000 souls. How is that?

We are also in the era of industrialisation, so we read about printing presses and how much pages they can print and rail road infrastructures making their way throughout the country. There is an enthusiasm and hope that goes together with these, at the time, very new things, that is very enlightening.

Coin flipped, around this time the local spinning trade suffers great losses from
mechanical spinning machines, in a comparable manner that we lose jobs to both industrialisation and digitalisation.

Liberal translation:


If only the government could ever value the worth of hand spun (goods).
And if only it would consider what little number are able to make their
bread (earn living) from mechanical spinning as compared to the large
number of hand spinsters that are now being chased into (street)begging.
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These newspapers can get very intriguing at times. And although they're not always good news, I do feel happier after reading these. It feels as if I met new people, I learn new stuff, about history, but also about language. About the gradual ways words have changed over the centuries.

Borgemeester, mayor, is now burgermeester.
And bestieren, govern, is now besturen. Anyone hearing bestier now, would instantly think of stieren, bulls. And who knows, etymologically speaking.

So, if your locale has an archive of old newspapers, and/or digitally, I know France, England and the Netherlands do, I invite you to dive into the time machine and make your own discoveries!

[araucaria]

I'm OK with Ulli's 'epistle'; just as long as it's not being taken as 'gospel'. Paula's technicolor screen job is already straying from the authorized version, so just imagination what would be left if they turned it into a Hollywood blockbuster :)

[transiten]

Violet!

As you are into repeating patterns in time and history I think you'd appreciate "The Synchronicity Key" by David Wilcock. Awesome cyclic connections between cultures and historical events that has nothing to do with Davids other theories if you question them.

[Violet]

Violet!

As you are into repeating patterns in time and history I think you'd appreciate "The Synchronicity Key" by David Wilcock. Awesome cyclic connections between cultures and historical events that has nothing to do with Davids other theories if you question them.

If, of course, really it (status quo) is a repetition, that is :)

[transiten]

Violet!

As you are into repeating patterns in time and history I think you'd appreciate "The Synchronicity Key" by David Wilcock. Awesome cyclic connections between cultures and historical events that has nothing to do with Davids other theories if you question them.

If, of course, really it (status quo) is a repetition, that is :)

Yes I think it is a "repetition" of patterns just as in a persons life the same theme will pop up again and again until it's solved. Everytime there is a potential for going through/reversing negative patterns. There is this term in psychology in Swedish called "compulsive repetition" and is applicable on cultures and nations also.

[ulli]

My husband is often approached by people who are poor or collecting on behalf of the poor they know.
As a rural doctor he is known by all, and so he has become a target.
And yesterday a woman told him about a family with five children and that they are desperate for clothes.
So we decided today (he has the morning off) to go to a second hand clothes depot and buy one of their huge plastic bags full of clothes.
The whole bag is $5, and has over 100 items in it. We did that before, in previous Decembers.
Then empty all on our garage floor, and then sort them into baby clothes, toddlers, children's, and women's and men's.
I also keep jeans separate as they are the most wanted.
Sometimes there are bits of lovely fabric, table cloths, pillow cases from hotels, which are still like new and have a high thread count.
Sometimes I find top designer stuff..once a Mary MacFadden evening dress which must have had a $1000+ retail.
I also have a fake fur jacket which I never wear, as it is too warm, by Marc Jacobs, which still has all the tickets and spare button bag in the back label. Original price still there too. $595. I got it for $4.
This is going to be fun.
And the happy faces as the people go through the stuff and find just what they were looking for, and for free.
There will always be poor people in the world, and they won't be able to become self sufficient in one lifetime.
So they are our responsibility.
I don't even like the idea of charity organizations, but would rather see each community take care of the poor in their midst.
So I'm not sharing this because I want to present a holy saintly image here, but am doing it in the hope that it might inspire others to do something similar.
Our curiosity about whether or not we lived in Atlantis can then be replaced with a dedication to the needs of the world as it is here and now.

[1inMany]

Here and Now, I am trying to understand my own triggers. Why Mike's words, of all the words put out here in the recent days, have triggered me enough to respond. Certainly grip is a big boy and needs no defense.

And what I decided was this. Once upon a time, in the There and Then, I was wet behind the ears and as green as they come. And I was mortified when I began to see and experience what some would call weird. I would have. I thought I was losing my mind. The wings come to mind. In fact, it took me some time before I would even come into this Village to share that experience, and I did so holding my breath. I was caught in the gentle arms of compassion and reassurance. I would not be where I am today had I not gotten that response.

I have found in listening to others, reading or watching from a distance, that many people begin to have unexplainable experiences when their consciousness opens up. Some of these experiences might be dis/misinformation, who is to judge? I guess that is up to the individual, yes? I am not speaking of those who come out with fictional fantastical stories, either, but the same thing holds true...we each have to assess these stories for ourselves. I would, and I do, shy away from publicly putting a label on any story as delusion or bullsh!t. Each person's higher guidance system will kick in, and growth ensues.

I was speaking to a close friend last night about the very fact that life is dramatic. My comment there, and then, was that it is heart breaking for me, personally, to watch someone very close to me live an unimaginably painful lesson. Live it. And my comment was that one day, when this physical life is over, we (the others close to me, and I...) will likely have a celebratory party and congratulate each other on the vivid experiences we had. And then choose to do it all over again.

Why? Because we will once again want to experience warm chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven and an ice cold glass of milk. We will once again want to experience the filling scent of honeysuckle, and stand in awe of the beauty of all those little yellow blossoms against the deep, rich greenery of the vine. We will again want to experience the way our soul melts when we hear "I love you" so sincerely spoken that it reaches a part of us that isn't physical at all.

Truly, the drama of this life seems to be quite the price for warm chocolate chip cookies. Yet...when it is all over, this time around, there will be a loss at the same time there is the (more) wholeness. In that wholeness, the vivid nature of the experiences is likely what we will want to experience again...and painful and joyful are certainly both very vivid. (Although I do secretly hope we will all have to experience less pain, I promise you.)

***

Here and Now, I toy with placing a disclaimer permanently into my posts somehow also. Maybe a signature. About how I am a work in progress. About how I may speak my Truth, or I may not, but either way I am not speaking as an expert on everyone else's Truth. About how I work under the guidance of my current best theory at all times, and Lord knows this changes by the moment. And about how anyone reading my words should take them with a grain of salt. And sometimes I even want to make a statement that whatever energy I place right Here and right Now can only be used as it is intended.

Eh. Too much. Hopefully you all know all of that is implied.

Much Love,

(good to hear from you, Nora. You've also been in my thoughts...)

[Jean-Marie]

I just had to share this today! This house is about 12 city blocks from me and their synchronized Christmas display and music is incredible!

http://q985online.com/this-illinois-home-has-the-most-incredible-christmas-light-display-ever-video/

It will make you smile and laugh! I can't imagine their electric bill!

-jean-marie

[Hym]

What's it like living in that house? Subtlety lost. Visual caffeine.

1inmany, You're cool. No disclaimer needed. Anyway, good friends always tell each other when we're pissin' in the wind, if we can't feel it ourselves. (Just thought, how does that work with women? Maybe that's too personal. Nevermind.)

About a post based on fantasy here. About posts where our friends and visitors are going out there somewhere, lost in the ozone again. I speed read thru them, leave them be. I do see the need to call them out when they disrupt the flow that has so many insightful and inspiring, funny posts on it.

Maybe he should be directed to the thread on the ongoing, fictional 'stories we write'.
How silly is it to claim to be someone who was famous? Why would the same personality be the same in a new life? Who would want the hassle? There lives in the now more than enough work to do to keep anyone busy, both internally and externally. There are many ways to stoke the fires of fantasy, alit in the minds of others. Why not make these fires about inspiration, and leave out the disney b.s..

I've only shared those things I can verify, those seemingly amazing things that made such a deep emotional impact on me, even though they seemed inexplicable, that I cannot deny their impact on me, nor those close to me. (I must say that I share some of my deep experiences with strangers, noting that those things they experience on the same level are just as valid. Who knows where the spark of emotionally valid spiritual truths go with others we meet? I don't, but I'm not going to wait for a PC moment to light it up. It is not unusual for me to be the one who hears the things others want and need to share, but don't have the social or intimate space to share these moments of joy or pain with anyone willing to listen. It sometimes, no..often, annoys my son, but it is real and worthwhile.)

However, there are many things I've experienced in nature that fit much more into the writings of Castaneda, but I experienced them. These experiences were common in my life and I used to think nothing of them. Because I felt so much alive in these experiences in nature I remember them. In fact i would share the few things that Castaneda told me but only if they were taken in the spirit of the talk. (I knew him for a short while and had some dramatic interactions with him in L.A.) For me I've had many things shared with me about my life by those with extra insight, Carlos's only notable for his knack of being ambiguously honest, and for some reason they have no barriers sharing with me. I am grateful, even if the insights are exact in some parts and silly in others, or missing in some aspects of getting to the point. These things are insights that many share here and many are accurate.

I know who sent those messages. I know that many here have shared some of the same. It is the main reason I spend time and space here. I want the feedback that i didn't have before. I also want to share the perspective of the mistakes I've made so others suffer less.

[RunningDeer]

i can see youre softening the blow here a little, and its out of your innate kindness no doubt...which is a wonderful quality you have that i admire but can't quit emulate..

You say potato, I say potahto…

My dad had progressive ideas but he also wasn’t in the driver’s seat a lot of the time. One example was rather than take the advice of the artisan drillers he hired, he had me use dowsing rods to find the location. I was a pre-teenager. I worried every time the pump went down that it was because I picked the wrong water spot. He also gave me my first tarot card deck in the 60’s.

I didn’t know the word archon, but I knew the energy. My dad purchased books from the Rosicrucians organization. He spent a lot of time with automatic handwriting. When he died, I tossed out boxes and boxes of yellow, legal sized pads filled with squiggly, jaggedy lines.

In terms of group consciousness, once three or four sibling had an urge to call home around the same time. Calling was extremely unusual for those of us that moved on with our lives and it was way before cell phones. What we didn’t know was there was a fire out back.

So that’s my barometer for when people write of their experiences on the forum. Some of it I flat out don’t believe. Some I believe they believe. Some I wait on. Some are infected. And others I really get.


regarding drama, i think thats why we came to this earth plane...for a little action! i really do. my guess is that theres very little mixing it up on the other side(s), and we tend to miss it a little

I’ve lived drama my whole life. From one perspective, I’ve squeezed four lives into one. Now, I wake up in full gratitude of each day of ordinary, as I have defined it and with side order of surprise, chuckles and tidbits of woo-woo.

There no point in me contemplating about the other side. I don’t know, what I don’t know in this limited bodysuit. But based on the brief moments of suspension of thought, worry and body, there’s no need nor desire to know about it. I’d add, I’m a co-creator. From the experience I’ve gathered here, there’s no doubt the next one is/will bring surprises and chuckles, too.


i’m a work in progress too. we all are. but does that excuse us from just inventing sh!t and presenting it as the truth?

Hell no. I have a family member so steep in her Paul Bunyan tales, that she actually believes them. They continue to grow in absurdity. The naive are taken in. It was only weeks ago that I experienced first hand the tipping point. People began to questions aspect of what she said. Each time she’d add clarity, the puzzle pieces got so warped that even she couldn’t squeeze out another story to make it all fit.

My world is a micro of the macro. If the veil in thinning in mine, so it is in the larger.

These people help us to develop our BS meters. At another level, the sh!t inventors help us to open to other experiences because they provide a work-out for our extra-senses. Senses that are a normal part of us and are coming back on-line.

Imagination is an important part of a co-creator life; so is discernment and knowledge which leads to wisdom.

At the end of the day the most important things are: Have I lived within integrity, honesty, and do-no-harm? What did I learn? What do I green-bag out?

Hugs to you, Mike. ♡


Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
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[Calz]

Hey ... Grip is back :)

Makes me want to break out in a song (... go figure ...)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM0im3V8HlU#t=25

[RunningDeer]

Hey ... Grip is back :)

Makes me want to break out in a song (... go figure ...)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM0im3V8HlU#t=25


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[transiten]

You say potato, I say potahto…

I’ve lived drama my whole life. From one perspective, I’ve squeezed four lives into one. Now, I wake up in full gratitude of each day of ordinary, as I have defined it and with side order of surprise, chuckles and tidbits of woo-woo.

At the end of the day the most important things are: Have I lived within integrity, honesty, and do-no-harm? What did I learn? What do I green-bag out?
[/CENTER]

:handshake:

Just before entering the Village they discussed on radio whter "architect" should be pronounced with a hard or soft "ch".....both are Ok although architects themselves use the "hard k pronounciation"

[dan33]

I read Grip's post and I did not make a comment because I thought he was writing a bit of a funny. Really. I almost replied and wish I had now.

I don't know what happened on the forum with gripreaper, but he is very knowledgeable and a great writer. He strikes me as a very sensitive soul too. That may be where the crux is.
I hope he is going to be ok.

The Archonic hits are real and the planets do influence us. Sometimes they are extremely difficult to navigate.

I'm ok. Thank you so much for your prayers and messages. Very nice of everyone. I really don't know what I would do without all of you. Thank you for all of the love, teary eyed.

The sign is very cool Paula, really neat & very sweet of you. Thank you Transiten for posting Tom's report. Violet the seas have calmed for me for now. I did go to the beach today for a brief time .... the waves were huge. So powerful and beautiful. I found a pretty little treasure while reveling in the Grace.

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Norahttp://projectavalon.net/forum4//forum4/images/misc/pencil.png

Wise Hands Nora.
Hugs!

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=32224&d=1449643570&thumb=1

[Sierra]

Wise Hands Nora.
Hugs!

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=32224&d=1449643570&thumb=1

I'll say.

Nora, I've never seen (what I think is from what I can see in the photo) the mental line score down so deeply into the mound of the moon (mound of intuition).

[transiten]

Hi Sierra! Met a dog with your name today!

[ulli]

Hi Sierra! Met a dog with your name today!

And I held up a shirt that had a label which said High Sierra. Not Hi Sierra.
Anyway, I thought of you.

[ThePythonicCow]

but would rather see each community take care of the poor in their midst.

That's what it was like in the little village my father grew up in, and near where I grew up. One mother would send her son out once a week to check on a neighbor who couldn't get around so well anymore. We always gathered up a plate of food to send to another neighbor who was hard pressed to pay for food on Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. Another of my dad's sister always had a fresh pot of coffee and a place to sit and chat, keeping up with how it was going for everyone.

Long ago and far away ...

[ulli]

but would rather see each community take care of the poor in their midst.

That's what it was like in the little village my father grew up in, and near where I grew up. One mother would send her son out once a week to check on a neighbor who couldn't get around so well anymore. We always gathered up a plate of food to send to another neighbor who was hard pressed to pay for food on Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. Another of my dad's sister always had a fresh pot of coffee and a place to sit and chat, keeping up with how it was going for everyone.

Long ago and far away ...

Yes, times have changed.
An old guy who just had his hip operated (for free, as we have social meds here)
is now back in one of the old cabins next door, which belong to my brother-in-law.
My gardener told me today that he can't even make it to the bathroom.
There is no nurse to help him.
My husband has been treating him for free when we were still living in those cabinas as this man was under my brother-in-law's care, and thus it was taken for granted that hubby did it as a favor.
This guy did everything possible to wreck his health, is still a heavy smoker, has a miserable personality who expects the whole world to wipe his ...and the more my husband sacrifices himself the more the others stand back and contribute nothing.
Endless free treatments taken as their due.
And when I see how many people have become like that, and how their neighbor's don't care anymore about them, because it's all taken for granted I wonder where the future is headed.
It is simply overwhelming.

[RunningDeer]

:handshake:

Just before entering the Village they discussed on radio whter "architect" should be pronounced with a hard or soft "ch".....both are Ok although architects themselves use the "hard k pronounciation"

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/snychronicity_zpsnqsupop8.jpg

♡

[transiten]

Can't sleep tonight, walk into The Village and find one of RunningDears amazing creations!

[transiten]

Coin flipped, around this time the local spinning trade suffers great losses from
mechanical spinning machines, in a comparable manner that we lose jobs to both industrialisation and digitalisation.

Liberal translation:

[QUOTE]If only the government could ever value the worth of hand spun (goods).
And if only it would consider what little number are able to make their
bread (earn living) from mechanical spinning as compared to the large
number of hand spinsters that are now being chased into (street)begging.

Borgemeester, mayor, is now burgermeester.
And bestieren, govern, is now besturen. Anyone hearing bestier now, would instantly think of stieren, bulls. And who knows, etymologically speaking.


This one might qualify as a synchronicity to RunningDeers potato/pothato post :highfive:

Also did you know that "sabotage" comes from French "sabot" the "wooden shoe" the workers used to destroy the machines that stole their jobs?

[Flash]

I’ve lived drama my whole life. From one perspective, I’ve squeezed four lives into one. Now, I wake up in full gratitude of each day of ordinary, as I have defined it and with side order of surprise, chuckles and tidbits of woo-woo.


It is funny that you write that because I often have the feeling to have squeezed 4 lifes into one too.

It had been explained that we come here with a mission and that usually this mission is quite simple. It is usually not to save the world at all, but rather to learn compassion for example, or to learn patience, or to improve in sharing abilities, and usually we come for only one of these seemingly small missionsl While also playing with karma.

But I was also told that sometimes some rare people come with two missions. Two of those seemingly small missions. Which makes their lifes much more complicated and difficult.

I bet anything that it is those ones who feel they managed to stuck 4 lifes into one.

[araucaria]

Poverty is a central issue in the Catholic civil war I was describing the other day. The Church is intent on saving souls, leaving it to the evil communists in their midst to minister to people’s earthly needs. Here is a neat piece of projection from Malachi Martin, who talks uncomprehendingly about “the here-and-now”:

While the Pontiff fought to blaze a way out of the injustice caused by capitalism and by Marxism, a far too simplistic and even Manichean dualism was frozen into the new Jesuit vision. The poor who were good, were being trampled by the nonpoor who were evil. The “preferential option for the poor” absolutized revolutionary thought and divinized political action.
[…]The basic error of Arrupism [deviant modernist Jesuitism] was that it turned the mighty energies of Ignatius’s Society to achieve the ideal of the New Man in a terrestrial setting, leaving the supernatural ideal presumably to be taken care of at a later stage, once the here-and-now was established in ideal conditions. The Jesuits, p. 479 There you have both the piety of the cabal, mopping up while God’s sheep look heavenwards, and the notoriety of the Jesuits: not only dirty Communists but smeared by conspiracy theorists denouncing the work done by earlier generations of Jesuits setting the cabal in place on the Vatican’s behalf. The present pope is a Jesuit? That is actually a very good sign for some of the very people who see it as a very bad thing. And all this is an explanation for how and why folks have unlearnt the neighbourly reflexes that have absolutely nothing to do with Christian charity and everything to do with human growth, not as opposed to but including spiritual growth.

[ulli]

Poverty is a central issue in the Catholic civil war I was describing the other day. The Church is intent on saving souls, leaving it to the evil communists in their midst to minister to people’s earthly needs. Here is a neat piece of projection from Malachi Martin, who talks uncomprehendingly about “the here-and-now”:

While the Pontiff fought to blaze a way out of the injustice caused by capitalism and by Marxism, a far too simplistic and even Manichean dualism was frozen into the new Jesuit vision. The poor who were good, were being trampled by the nonpoor who were evil. The “preferential option for the poor” absolutized revolutionary thought and divinized political action.
[…]The basic error of Arrupism [deviant modernist Jesuitism] was that it turned the mighty energies of Ignatius’s Society to achieve the ideal of the New Man in a terrestrial setting, leaving the supernatural ideal presumably to be taken care of at a later stage, once the here-and-now was established in ideal conditions. The Jesuits, p. 479 There you have both the piety of the cabal, mopping up while God’s sheep look heavenwards, and the notoriety of the Jesuits: not only dirty Communists but smeared by conspiracy theorists denouncing the work done by earlier generations of Jesuits setting the cabal in place on the Vatican’s behalf. The present pope is a Jesuit? That is actually a very good sign for some of the very people who see it as a very bad thing. And all this is an explanation for how and why folks have unlearnt the neighbourly reflexes that have absolutely nothing to do with Christian charity and everything to do with human growth, not as opposed to but including spiritual growth.
Latin America is still where the bulk of the Vaticans income originates. Since most donations are small they need large numbers of people, which Latin America still provides. Far more than Europe, anyway.
Which in turn explains why the priests here are against birth control.
A Jesuit Argentinian pope with expertise in public relations, on the heels of a controversial ex Nazi who would only serve a short term ....
Whoever came up with that idea is a master at killing several birds with one stone.

[meeradas]

a baby dolphin in the womb

http://files.brightside.me/files/news/part_3/39855/863705-850-1449558789-164930_original.jpg

more here (http://brightside.me/article/15-amazing-photographs-of-animals-in-the-womb-39855/)[don't miss 'em!]

[RunningDeer]

a baby dolphin in the womb

http://files.brightside.me/files/news/part_3/39855/863705-850-1449558789-164930_original.jpg

more here (http://brightside.me/article/15-amazing-photographs-of-animals-in-the-womb-39855/)[don't miss 'em!]

Precious...

[transiten]

Here's Kaypacha with a sprayed ankle
tLfY7LDcgdk

[araucaria]

Here's a transitenian synchronicity for you: we were just talking about fake moon landings when here comes Stanley weighing in from beyond the grave: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87433-Stanley-Kubrick-Confesses-to-faking-Moon-Landings&p=1028237&viewfull=1#post1028237

[ulli]

I


but would rather see each community take care of the poor in their midst.

That's what it was like in the little village my father grew up in, and near where I grew up. One mother would send her son out once a week to check on a neighbor who couldn't get around so well anymore. We always gathered up a plate of food to send to another neighbor who was hard pressed to pay for food on Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. Another of my dad's sister always had a fresh pot of coffee and a place to sit and chat, keeping up with how it was going for everyone.

Long ago and far away ...

Yes, times have changed.
An old guy who just had his hip operated (for free, as we have social meds here)
is now back in one of the old cabins next door, which belong to my brother-in-law.
My gardener told me today that he can't even make it to the bathroom.
There is no nurse to help him.
My husband has been treating him for free when we were still living in those cabinas as this man was under my brother-in-law's care, and thus it was taken for granted that hubby did it as a favor.
This guy did everything possible to wreck his health, is still a heavy smoker, has a miserable personality who expects the whole world to wipe his ...and the more my husband sacrifices himself the more the others stand back and contribute nothing.
Endless free treatments taken as their due.
And when I see how many people have become like that, and how their neighbor's don't care anymore about them, because it's all taken for granted I wonder where the future is headed.
It is simply overwhelming.

Kenneth, the guy I mentioned above, just died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital.
The woman who cleaned his cabin had sneaked him a final cigarette, and he coughed himself unconscious.
My husband was called, but there was no response, although still breathing, and faint heartbeat.
So he called the ambulance.
R.I.P. Kenneth.

[promezeus]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vybsmA1ru8k/VmnLRbmnX7I/AAAAAAAAT5E/NvgEIv1us_0/s640/watching-you.jpg

[transiten]

Here's a transitenian synchronicity for you: we were just talking about fake moon landings when here comes Stanley weighing in from beyond the grave: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87433-Stanley-Kubrick-Confesses-to-faking-Moon-Landings&p=1028237&viewfull=1#post1028237

Yeah right! Remember i was travelling by car between Nice and Marseille with my mothers cousin the day the Moon landing took place...if it did...:confused: There's a video I saw some years ago where you hear one of the astronauts saying something like there already were visitors there...

"transitenian" :cool2:

[Taurean]

What's going on here then, - a University for Trekkies ?

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/planning-permission-for-factory-2050-1.369129

[transiten]

The woman in the Moon...Just found this...don't ask me how...and why...just yet...SZ1WjrA5L0s

[promezeus]

How about a little guilty pleasure as you watch politicians in Ukraine attacking each other in parliament(instead of attacking their citizens) as the PM is literally attacked at the podium by a member of parliament.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zgTl6-KWqg


How about the metaphor here of giving someone roses publicly (politicians funding projects for the people), and then attacking those same people afterwards.

[Violet]

I heard a beautiful song on my way to go get the kids today. Bay, I believe it was. If you ever want to be in love. It's too corny for me, just like that. I don't know if it's the raw edge in the vocal timbre or the falsetto that does it. The rain was not pouring today, it spread out thin and came down like a soft curtain. I enjoy the loneliness of empty paths, when it rains, people hide in their cars and feel sorry for "miserable" souls like us. Time flies in a car. From school to home is about ten km and we (me and the kids) have lots of time to talk. We have lots of time to see things too. Observe, people, nature, and each other. A part of our path goes through forest. Old trees, some with broad branches, they make forest roofs and cast a protective shadow over us. We can escape the turbulent and cold winds in here. Every now and then a rabbit crosses. It's a wobbly road. Muddy when it rains. I don't think we even notice anymore. Time flies when things go well.
Sometimes, things don't go well. The older one may be upset over something that has happened at school, or I said the wrong thing (btw, physiotherapist said a lot of progress has been made and is reducing our weekly sessions, yay!). Then we will ride home in silence. The silence works therapeutic.
Things have gone up since Freinet. Plus these method schools tend to be smaller and familiar. General schools didn't work for him. I'm much closer to the teachers now than before, and I think they invest a lot of time in cooperating with the therapists and adopting in-therapy approach over the classical methods. We have articles that state a mandatory additional effort for special needs children but kudos to these teachers who do more than that.
Ever since the last accident, I've been worrying a lot. If I fall, I fell before, it happens. Pain happens, so that's not the problem. I had a whiplash and the effects are still here. It's a very slow process to healing. It seemed to go well for me in the first few weeks after that, but just this week it came back everywhere, as if it had only happened yesterday. Picking up a heavy basket, and during swimming. Freestyle gave me a stiff neck, or accentuated it, I don't know. And just today there's a throbbing pain going from my left toe in a straight line to my left hand palm and index, and I'm thinking, what do I do with this, I'm not that old, or am I? Well, I feel very old now. I don't want to go back to the doctor,...again. I just went there for the whiplash reevaluation. So :ohwell: I'm worrying about that. Maybe I can cut on the handicrafts a little. See if that will help.

Or just get lost in another Neptunian mist, have a wonderful weekend, and forget about everything, join in:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCNKLS9dC_A


Post-update:

I didn't know that about the French sabot, Transiten, thanks. The Moroccans use sebat for any type of shoe. I think they met somewhere, not the shoes, I mean.

[RunningDeer]

I enjoy the loneliness of empty paths, when it rains, people hide in their cars and feel sorry for "miserable" souls like us. Time flies in a car. From school to home is about ten km and we (me and the kids) have lots of time to talk. We have lots of time to see things too. Observe, people, nature, and each other. A part of our path goes through forest. Old trees, some with broad branches, they make forest roofs and cast a protective shadow over us. We can escape the turbulent and cold winds in here. Every now and then a rabbit crosses. It's a wobbly road. Muddy when it rains. I don't think we even notice anymore. Time flies when things go well.

...Ever since the last accident, I've been worrying a lot. If I fall, I fell before, it happens. Pain happens, so that's not the problem. I had a whiplash and the effects are still here. It's a very slow process to healing.

Dear Violet,
The world would be a different place if we had more parents like you. Enjoy a restful weekend with your family.


Wrapping a swaddle blanket
of love around you.

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

♡

[RunningDeer]

I had recall this morning of an incident when I was about 8 years old. Two boys lived next door were a couple of years older than my sister and I. They tricked us into going into the cellar and threatened that we’d be locked up until we pulled our pants down. I looked around and saw a window that I could help my younger sister climb out and go around and unlock the door.

The important recall is that I remembered sending a thought message to her about my plan while the boys were there. This is revealing because it validates feelings, behaviors and memories I’d pick up on growing up. Also, how sending and hearing thought messages was a normal part of life to me.

[promezeus]

A bunch of fish are dancing..

https://33.media.tumblr.com/35d8d24c4f8ad379e7cbb7fa120064ae/tumblr_nxgqb7QZpn1tl8u0ko1_540.gif

[Flash]

I didn't know that about the French sabot, Transiten, thanks. The Moroccans use sebat for any type of shoe. I think they met somewhere, not the shoes, I mean.

there is also Savatte n French, an in between from sabot to sebat. Sabot beging the wooden shoe, sebat any shoe in Morocco, while savatte is the relax flat shoe with open heel.

Sabotage from sabot, thanks Transiten, I did not know this either, and with savatte "un coup de savatte" hit with a shoe. I thought the term "savatte" was from the Middle East originally but I may be wrong.

Then there is soulier, which is literally a shoe.

[Violet]

Waitiing for Dan to throw in a zapato...

Paula :hug:

[RunningDeer]

Dear God


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Dear_God/chemtrails_zpshrwdrwq7.JPG

[araucaria]

The familiar French word for shoe is “godasse”, which sounds in English like the author of Paula’s chemtrails…

Talking of footwear, often for some reason I retire to bed with an itchy foot. I have learnt to rub in a little balm rather than scratch it all night till it bleeds. I don’t know if there’s any connection, but I often wake up with an itchy brain. This morning for some reason I was scratching my head over the judgment of Solomon. You know the story: two women fighting over a baby. The king makes a 50/50 ruling; one woman accepts half a dead baby rather than no live one. The real mother prefers a Schrodinger’s baby: dead to her yet alive to the world. She loses her appeal to hand over the baby; it is rescued from Schrodinger’s box fully alive and restored to her.

What do I take from this story? That even the maternal itch is like an itchy foot: you can scratch it till it bleeds, or you can rub in a little balm, i.e. love your baby. The confrontation of the two reactions is what leads to the best of three possible outcomes: the baby is not killed, nor is it adopted by another woman, it is returned to its mother. You wouldn’t get there without a bit of scratching first.

This is a good example of how Hegelian dialectics are effective. We have heard all too much of the cabal’s parody of it: if I hear David Icke’s problem-reaction-solution one more time I think I’ll scream (peace Cidersomerset :)). A problem per se is at least twofold: a fork in the path (alternatives); and a solution is reached by weighing up the pros and cons of each, rubbing and scratching them together. Hardly rocket science, but still an effective tool. So we can’t let the pros spoil it with their cons.

[RunningDeer]

For the guitar folks:


Reslotting A Guitar Nut w/Baking Soda and Super Glue
qollBAYCZ48


Published on Dec 12, 2015

In this video I illustrate how to re-slot a high E string slot on a guitar nut that is not aligned or positioned correctly (i.e., the high E string slips off the side of the lower (2nd and 3rd) frets when playing open chords).

* Previous HB-35 Video (Thomann Return Process): http://tinyurl.com/zymhblb
* Buy a Harley Benton (Thomann): http://tinyurl.com/h4dka9s
* My Other Do It Yourself Guitar Videos: http://tinyurl.com/zbtqx2f
* My Music: http://www.laboroflovemusic.com/index.html

All content provided on The Sage of Quay Radio Hour is for informational purposes only. We make no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information discussed or presented during the show or found by following any link mentioned in the broadcast or in the show notes.

Any and all images used in this video or any other Sage of Quay Radio Hour presentation are considered to be in the public domain, free to use, royalty free material we have licensed or in compliance with the Fair Use Clause contained within the Copyright Act (17 US Code § 107). If by chance this is not the case and you are the rightful owner please contact us at [email protected].

The song 'I Dig You' is from Mike's album Leaving Dystopia http://www.laboroflovemusic.com/

[dan33]

For the guitar folks:


Reslotting A Guitar Nut w/Baking Soda and Super Glue
qollBAYCZ48


Published on Dec 12, 2015

In this video I illustrate how to re-slot a high E string slot on a guitar nut that is not aligned or positioned correctly (i.e., the high E string slips off the side of the lower (2nd and 3rd) frets when playing open chords).

* Previous HB-35 Video (Thomann Return Process): http://tinyurl.com/zymhblb
* Buy a Harley Benton (Thomann): http://tinyurl.com/h4dka9s
* My Other Do It Yourself Guitar Videos: http://tinyurl.com/zbtqx2f
* My Music: http://www.laboroflovemusic.com/index.html

All content provided on The Sage of Quay Radio Hour is for informational purposes only. We make no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information discussed or presented during the show or found by following any link mentioned in the broadcast or in the show notes.

Any and all images used in this video or any other Sage of Quay Radio Hour presentation are considered to be in the public domain, free to use, royalty free material we have licensed or in compliance with the Fair Use Clause contained within the Copyright Act (17 US Code § 107). If by chance this is not the case and you are the rightful owner please contact us at [email protected].

The song 'I Dig You' is from Mike's album Leaving Dystopia http://www.laboroflovemusic.com/

Are this two guys relatives? They seem speak with the same passion about.... the same. Love it!


we0r_v255qg

[ulli]

Our garden yesterday.
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xal1/t31.0-8/12362802_10208229627564313_9004064841948773510_o.jpg

[Calz]

Our garden yesterday.




I'd snap an image of my vehicle currently being snowed on in the parking lot but ... oooops ... keep forgetting I don't carry a cell phone.

Is that legal???

way things are getting who knows???


Guess you'll just have to use your imagination ...


http://media.veryfunnypics.eu/2013/02/funny-picture-damn-its-not-mine-car-under-snow-540x445.jpg

[RunningDeer]

Our garden yesterday.
Beautiful rainbow of color, Ulli. I’m relearning how to sit in a rocking chair in the sun without technology, music nor a book. There’s no rainbow of color out my window. It’s mostly monochromatic brown-grays. I watch the horses nibble on shades of lawn-green. I’m grateful for no salt-sandy-whites. It’s been in the range of 50-60 F/10-18 C.


Chuckles and Greetings, All:


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Seasons/green-alien_zpsgtct4nyd.GIF

Me Before Morning Coffee
uCMX-M3NgZM

♡

[ulli]

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12373289_10153706183225482_2215486902157369427_n.jpg?oh=ff173cabfbd3e0f552820327727bdca3&oe=56D8517F

[Calz]

If I could do it all with images and music ... I would ... work still in progress ...

https://davidlampreia.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/introvert-1.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcs61otfnA8

[RunningDeer]

work still in progress …
Oh goody, a chance to use my graphic:

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/cartoon%20and%20silly/wip3_zpsvjvh8cv0.gif

Silence is a self-check to make sure I’m the only one in there. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/dielaughing.gif

I do Tai Chi and go for walks to music. (not when I'm in the forest) http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/smilies/music-note_zpspid3p37t.gif

My family use to joke back in the 80’s. They’d say, “What is she into now?” They never understood it’s all the same just different ways of doing it. They don’t go poke-poke anymore. I’d like to think it’s because they're beginning to understand. It’s probably because I less and less let those comments slide. I’ve finally learned that sometimes taking the high road isn’t the answer.

On Introverts:

I love Mondays. Everyone’s back at work. I make the trip down and around into the creepy cellar, hunched over dodging the old cobwebs that hang down with bits of fiberglass in them to do my laundry.

Clean sheets today. Yippee!

♡

[promezeus]

are u..... a work in progress......... or more aptly........a progression of works.

[Calz]

yeah that ... what he said ...

with love and respect ... http://www.pic4ever.com/images/4fvgdaq_th.gif


http://www.pic4ever.com/images/snapoutofit.gif

[Violet]

Evening coffee melange with a touch of


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STHQyb1byXg
(track title: Tonight, I want to lose myself in the streets (of Antwerp))

[RunningDeer]

are u..... a work in progress......... or more aptly........a progression of works.

both & neitherhttp://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/tnp_zpslrclongg.GIF
{insert a Pauler wise-guy/gal attitude smilie}

[ulli]

This is great.
I won't have to make name tags for the plants in our botanical garden
As by the time we open every plant lover will have one of these installed on their phone.
An app that identifies plants when you take their picture.

http://www.growsomethinggreen.com/an-app-that-will-identify-plants-from-just-the-snap-of-a-picture/#more-37894

PlantNet

An App called PlantNet, a project initiated in 2009 provides a platform and tools to make it easier to share information about plants. The app is basically an image search engine to help one identify plants and flowers by just taking a picture with your smart phone.

Images are collected through PlantNet and users help identify what plants are what through a rating system and can add additional information to help support the network.

Their newest project, IdentiPlante, will allow people to use the database to quickly receive data about the plant they have taken a picture of. At the moment there’s no specific focus on edible flowers but it could certainly be used in the future to help create a specific database of wild herbs and plants.

(there are several videos in the link)

[Meggings]

Here and now, what's happening.
Syria before, Syria after.
Insane. Think we have to love everything better.

https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11990630_10156327257240437_6889412994349604176_n.jpg?oh=787ac8f5782e6c19d06300719e4d6631&oe=571ED0BB

[meeradas]

Our Sstarss (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?23174-Sstarss) just got green [if i haven't been dreaming too long]

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA14105.jpg

[Stephanie]

Our Sstarss (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?23174-Sstarss) just got green [if i haven't been dreaming too long]

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA14105.jpg

Gosh...that's beautiful!
Thank you /Muchas gracias, dearest Meeradas!

Here and Now, surrounded by Ulli's amazing gardens,
warmed by all you wonderfully, unique and caring souls,
make my blessings many.

:bearhug:Thank you to all of you, for making me so welcome. :bearhug:

[RunningDeer]

Congratulations Sstarss!
If you ask me,
you’ve been a greenie all along.

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Sstarss222_zpsaxletp2y.gif
♡

warmed by all you wonderfully, unique and caring souls,
make my blessings many.

[Meggings]

This is today. Heads up.

https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12243516_1077182548983314_7023165474420992151_n.jpg?oh=f97fab274bf9ec230558b4a429bb9b91&oe=56DE8B19

[Constance]

This is today. Heads up.

Thanks for the heads up Meggings! :star:

In honour of this day, I offer my own home-made chocolate recipe. It is a popular request amongst friends and I like a bit of it every now and then myself. ;)

200gm raw cacao powder
240g raw cacao butter
300ml of coconut sugar
handfuls of hazelnuts and almonds (don't ask me to get technical here, I just use a couple of handfuls of almonds and a couple of handfuls of hazelnuts)

optional extras: pistachios, goji berries, spirulina (don't get carried away with the spirulina - just a teaspoon if you like), berry powder

Smash into smaller pieces, hazelnuts and almonds. I use a meat tenderizer in a tea towel but I also have been known to use a mortar and pestle to do this. If you want smaller pieces, a food processor will also do.

Melt the raw cacao butter in a double boiler.

Whilst that is melting, sift your raw cacao powder and the coconut sugar. (you can skip this part if you like). Once the cacao butter has completely melted, add the raw coconut sugar whilst still on the cooktop and mix well.

I prefer to let the coconut sugar dissolve as much as possible but if you are too impatient, you don't have to. :evil:

Lastly, add the raw cacao powder into the mix and mix well.

Pour chocolate mixture into a warm bowl (I use the kitchens hot water and a stainless steel bowl to keep the bowl warm) and add the nut mixture. Mix well. At this stage, if you really like raisins or other dried fruits, add these too. Grease with some coconut oil, a large baking dish or lasagna dish and pour the mixture into the dish. Flatten well and then place in the freezer for a couple of minutes to set slightly.
IMPORTANT! Do not forget about this stage or you will not be able to score the chocolate up into individual pieces.
I just had an idea. You could also spoon the mixture into large chocolate moulds or paper cupcake holders.

The finished product will look something like this

http://mnb.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/MNB-CHOC-SLICE2.jpg

[3(C)+me]

This is today. Heads up.

Thanks for the heads up Meggings! :star:

In honour of this day, I offer my own home-made chocolate recipe. It is a popular request amongst friends and I like a bit of it every now and then myself. ;)


240g raw cacao butter
300ml of coconut sugar
handfuls of hazelnuts and almonds (don't ask me to get technical here, I just use a couple of handfuls of almonds and a couple of handfuls of hazelnuts)

optional extras: pistachios, goji berries, spirulina (don't get carried away with the spirulina - just a teaspoon if you like), berry powder

Smash into smaller pieces, hazelnuts and almonds. I use a meat tenderizer in a tea towel but I also have been known to use a mortar and pestle to do this. If you want smaller pieces, a food processor will also do.

Melt the raw cacao butter in a double boiler.

Whilst that is melting, sift your raw cacao powder and the coconut sugar. (you can skip this part if you like). Once the cacao butter has completely melted, add the raw coconut sugar whilst still on the cooktop and mix well.

I prefer to let the coconut sugar dissolve as much as possible but if you are too impatient, you don't have to. :evil:

Lastly, add the raw cacao powder into the mix and mix well.

Pour chocolate mixture into a warm bowl (I use the kitchens hot water and a stainless steel bowl to keep the bowl warm) and add the nut mixture. Mix well. At this stage, if you really like raisins or other dried fruits, add these too. Grease with some coconut oil, a large baking dish or lasagna dish and pour the mixture into the dish. Flatten well and then place in the freezer for a couple of minutes to set slightly.
IMPORTANT! Do not forget about this stage or you will not be able to score the chocolate up into individual pieces.
I just had an idea. You could also spoon the mixture into large chocolate moulds or paper cupcake holders.

The finished product will look something like this

http://mnb.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/MNB-CHOC-SLICE2.jpg

Chocolate: food of the Gods
I am eating Chocolate therefore,
I am a God.....

[Meggings]

0h Breal, I am so friggin' hungry right now - been copy editing a book all day and supper will be yesterday's soup.
How I wish to have YOUR offering instead. Sigh.
Thanks for the recipe. I'll save it.
Daughter is coming home to visit next week - maybe we can make this as a treat - I can bend her arm to buy the ingredients.
Even though she's one of those poor grad students, she has more dollars than me.
(She spent six months this year wandering about Australia...)
But she loves chocolate MORE than I do - what a blessed thing for me.

I downloaded the movie INSIDE OUT from this forum link, and we'll watch that with treats I hope.

One could mound the mixture into drop cookie format. Think that would be grand.

Thanks!

[Flash]

Maybe one day we will say "I am eating greens vegetables, therefore I am God" lolllll How come this does not sound right? lolllllllllllll

Ok, yééééééé (pronounced ya in English) for the drug called chocolate - wow for the hormonal boost it procures! I agree, I will eat chocolate, therefore I am a divine..... :flock:




This is today. Heads up.

Thanks for the heads up Meggings! :star:

In honour of this day, I offer my own home-made chocolate recipe. It is a popular request amongst friends and I like a bit of it every now and then myself. ;)


240g raw cacao butter
300ml of coconut sugar
handfuls of hazelnuts and almonds (don't ask me to get technical here, I just use a couple of handfuls of almonds and a couple of handfuls of hazelnuts)

optional extras: pistachios, goji berries, spirulina (don't get carried away with the spirulina - just a teaspoon if you like), berry powder

Smash into smaller pieces, hazelnuts and almonds. I use a meat tenderizer in a tea towel but I also have been known to use a mortar and pestle to do this. If you want smaller pieces, a food processor will also do.

Melt the raw cacao butter in a double boiler.

Whilst that is melting, sift your raw cacao powder and the coconut sugar. (you can skip this part if you like). Once the cacao butter has completely melted, add the raw coconut sugar whilst still on the cooktop and mix well.

I prefer to let the coconut sugar dissolve as much as possible but if you are too impatient, you don't have to. :evil:

Lastly, add the raw cacao powder into the mix and mix well.

Pour chocolate mixture into a warm bowl (I use the kitchens hot water and a stainless steel bowl to keep the bowl warm) and add the nut mixture. Mix well. At this stage, if you really like raisins or other dried fruits, add these too. Grease with some coconut oil, a large baking dish or lasagna dish and pour the mixture into the dish. Flatten well and then place in the freezer for a couple of minutes to set slightly.
IMPORTANT! Do not forget about this stage or you will not be able to score the chocolate up into individual pieces.
I just had an idea. You could also spoon the mixture into large chocolate moulds or paper cupcake holders.

The finished product will look something like this

http://mnb.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/MNB-CHOC-SLICE2.jpg

Chocolate: food of the Gods
I am eating Chocolate therefore,
I am a God.....

[Constance]

I understand your hunger. I'm fasting today!! Why is it that whenever I fast, I make the most delicious, most delectable food items for my family? :crazy:



Daughter is coming home to visit next week - maybe we can make this as a treat - I can bend her arm to buy the ingredients.

Sounds like a plan! :muscle:


Even though she's one of those poor grad students, she has more dollars than me.

Yes, I know what you mean by that. My son has more money in the bank than us and he is still a young un.



But she loves chocolate MORE than I do - what a blessed thing for me.

I totally concur with this :bigsmile:


I downloaded the movie INSIDE OUT from this forum link, and we'll watch that with treats I hope.

One could mound the mixture into drop cookie format. Think that would be grand.

Thanks!
Great idea about the drop cookie format. :hail:

[Constance]

I agree, I will eat chocolate, therefore I am a divine..... :flock:

You are divine anyways Flash...:bigsmile:



Chocolate: food of the Gods
I am eating Chocolate therefore,
I am a God.....
Are you actually eating chocolate ccme? Because if you are, I am almost jealous.

[meeradas]

Morons (http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/loggers-accidentally-cut-down-worlds-oldest-tree-in-amazon/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork). "Accidentally".

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/samaura.jpg

Sorry, old news, from 2014. Still - morons.

[araucaria]

Talking of dollars, and before chocolate becomes the new world currency, anyone with a few to spare might consider getting involved in the following enterprise: http://www.palastinvestigativefund.org/?id=69
Even if you can't, you can always check out the link to this:

CEXsCSML-ig

[Calz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1uOqRb0HU

Here and now I have come to discount nearly everything ... the more I learn the more I understand I know nothing.

How many years of "new age" gone bad???

How much sheer pain at accepting AI/black goo/mind control/time loop/light tunnel trap ... and so on.


... all I am left with is one thing ...


There simply *must* be balance in the Universe or else we would not be here ...

[Billy]

It is always amazing to see the northern lights and always amazing to see hump back whales.

here is both together :clapping:

0zGScMz1tn4

[Violet]

I found a great message. Great as in large. Grand. In my dreams, I think, somewhere between sleep and waking up. I lost the casing, so I can't remember exactly what it was, as usual, with these things. Intuitively, I know. A great wave of tenderness. Soft, yet massive, and it came down perhaps a week ago. It conquered my heart, at least. And opening those doors is trouble, technically speaking. This is different. The wave rushes through all the rooms and forces the doors open. I think it's ok now. To open up, and look again. The scenery changes, things look different. Some realisation that it's not fixed. More elastic. It depends. And so I've been feeling very friendly, which I guess, I already am but..., like I said it's different. And I discovered Pluto and I think I understand why I see the things I see when I look into people eyes. Sometimes, I'm afraid they'll notice, they'll see, I saw. I see too much. I don't like it, it's none of my business. I wish I could just look into people's eyes and see a nice colour, and move on.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyZgym599bA

[Guest]

Oh meeradas what does one say.

Grace and beauty.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=32327&cid=1&stc=1


Love


Nora

[RunningDeer]

Dear God

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Dear_God/upside-down-heart_zpsb1lahenw.JPG

[promezeus]

Is God a work in progress or a progression of works..............:)

[3(C)+me]

I eat a small piece of chocolate with my coffee pretty much every morning. Another food of the Gods: coffee...

[dan33]

oPvI2EzVMMc:waving:

[Meggings]

..........

[Meggings]

What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies. The more you think of grievances, the more such trials you will continue to receive; the more you think of the good fortune you have had, the more good fortune will come to you."
--Emmet Fox from Make Your Life Worthwhile, 1942

A "PBS American Masters" series show on DALTON TRUMBO, followed by a you tube short video called "Trumbo Remembered - 1983"...word-and-action examples of this noble life.

It is uplifting and instructive to attend to what this man fought for. He was the highest paid Hollywood screenwriter at the time he was put in jail for "contempt of congress", as one of the "Hollywood Ten", the first who were blacklisted in the communist scare. He never gave up nor gave in.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C46P6NL1_xU

Among many things Mr. Trumbo said is this: "Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. ... Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility."

"Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder, but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share."

[RunningDeer]

Two posts in one.

Part One:

@ Meggings - My graphic isn’t RunningDeer.

Part Two:

To All, I'm stepping out for a bit. Here's an early cheer to Villagers & Guests: happy holidays and have a healthy, prosperous 2016 and beyond.


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/blink-light-Villagers_zpsiqbczfmh.gif

♡

[Lost N Found]

Energy reboot, Take it to the inner and outer. We all get lost and then something or someone, our own hearts get found. Shine brightly my dear. All things are moving forward.

Love from
Steven

[Meggings]

............

[ulli]

This is how I imagine some people might feel when they come across the here and now thread by accident

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1922384_10152318024565941_1194449427_n.png?oh=8308322d8cab95fa75050a719b452408&oe=5712B561

[ulli]

Without Paula around I see myself having to get my act together a bit more and nurture Village social life.
Since words are failing me I have to resort to other forms of communication.

So, how is everyone?

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12391442_954652757934776_2225317265212892013_n.jpg?oh=6db07e922b9067b7144f3d7d9c318f24&oe=5712F354

(Chairs by Konstantin Simun, sculptor)

[Calz]

Without Paula around I see myself having to get my act together a bit more and nurture Village social life.
Since words are failing me I have to resort to other forms of communication.

So, how is everyone?

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12391442_954652757934776_2225317265212892013_n.jpg?oh=6db07e922b9067b7144f3d7d9c318f24&oe=5712F354

(Chairs by Konstantin Simun, sculptor)



... been a heckuva lot better ...



http://thetrendguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Electric-Chair-Whoopie-Cushion.jpg

[ulli]

Without Paula around I see myself having to get my act together a bit more and nurture Village social life.
Since words are failing me I have to resort to other forms of communication.

So, how is everyone?

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12391442_954652757934776_2225317265212892013_n.jpg?oh=6db07e922b9067b7144f3d7d9c318f24&oe=5712F354

(Chairs by Konstantin Simun, sculptor)



... been a heckuva lot better ...



http://thetrendguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Electric-Chair-Whoopie-Cushion.jpg

Death is intimately connected to birth and transformation.
You'll be alright, Calz.
http://www.maurilioamorim.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Great_Body_Transformation.jpg

[Calz]

Death is intimately connected to birth and transformation.
You'll be alright, Calz.




Next lifetime perhaps ...

New agers had me convinced I could come back as a dolphin on a water planet (or such) rather than getting slammed back down here in a transhuman body with all the latest chips.

Who knows ... maybe I already have them ...

[hey I was blissfully unaware and very happy until Morpheus shoved that damn pill in my face]


https://flagshipfiction.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/morpheus-red-pill-vs-blue-pill.jpg



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cq9y3QagI


http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/happy-dolphin.jpg



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

[ulli]

And some more perspective here:


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

[ulli]

Christmas gift for Calz to put on his jacket:
Old and new life in one

http://rlv.zcache.com/brain_fart_buttons-r4252e376ef8847dab68e238ae8128a86_x7j3i_8byvr_512.jpg

[Bluegreen]

Without Paula around I see myself having to get my act together a bit more and nurture Village social life.
Since words are failing me I have to resort to other forms of communication.

So, how is everyone?

Well thanx fer the invite
Don't mind if I do set a spell
What's that?
Take my shoes off?
I'd think twice about that

GC7v3DYDAU0
:yo:

[ulli]

Without Paula around I see myself having to get my act together a bit more and nurture Village social life.
Since words are failing me I have to resort to other forms of communication.

So, how is everyone?

Well thanx fer the invite
Don't mind if I do set a spell
What's that?
Take my shoes off?
I'd think twice about that

GC7v3DYDAU0
:yo:

That depends how muddy the shoes are.
Just be yourself.
No rituals here, although we go by the motto 'do no harm'.
But you knew that already.

[Billy]

I thought i would share this amazing fireworks display.

"A stairway to heaven" but we'd be careful as it is made of fireworks and is held up by a balloon.
This footage is of artist Cai Guoqiang's recent (successful) display in China.
Cai, an artist who often works with gunpowder, is said to have come up with the idea for this spectacle some twenty years ago.
Cai had already attempted to complete this task on several occasions but never fully succeeded until recently.
The occasion, Cai said, is for his grandmother who 'was born in a small fishing village in Quanzhou and sold fish to help her grandson realise his artistic dream,' the artist revealed.



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[Carmody]

Tomorrow, space x tries to land a craft on hard ground instead of a floating platform.

Apparently, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, his company, managed to do so last month. I was not aware of that. however, they say his landing was a bit of a cheat, having been the ending point of a much lower launch height. Possibly a smaller more purpose built 'landing rocket', which would qualify for the 'cheat' moniker. Cheat, as Space x is trying to do this with a full sized payload delivery rocket, that delivers full sized payload to full LEO (Low Earth Orbit). Thus a 'real rocket' not a 'designed mostly to land' rocket that Jeff Bezos may have been doing, don't know..I'll have to look into it.

This is all quite important, as both are on the verge of publicly dropping the cost of space entry by a factor of 100. Such an act is like breaking the side off of a bucket, when it comes to the idea of flow, or flow as an act of change.

I mean, if one really wants to know when Elvis actually went on stage or when he actually left the building, this Information coming from space x and Bezos..this qualifies as a here and now moment, with no doubts.

Think of the land rush for the new world, or the west, or similar.

Add in the 'dammit, people already living there' aspect of prior explosions of human movement and motion, and that would probably be the story we expect to come.

If people are feeling out of place, well, that would be normal, as so much is about to shift...in what seems like very slowly and pained motion.

History records these things in a one page two minute read... and we flip said page, but the mentioned time periods can be years and usually are years.

'Go west Young Man', took 1.5 seconds to say. The act itself took 1.5 years to do, being fraught with difficulties, adventures and changes in the extreme -throughout the whole motion. What came out of it, borne unto the west coast.... was seemingly a different person, in a different space and place. There ain't no change without change.

One cannot be desirous of motion and change and to arrive in a different space/environment as the same person. There would be no point. New worlds/vistas and change... require turmoil -both inner and outer- as part of their very definition.

[1inMany]

This came into my awareness this morning. I really get it, too. So true for me. Thought I'd share, here and now :)

32347

Much Love,

[Carmody]

Without Paula around I see myself having to get my act together a bit more and nurture Village social life.
Since words are failing me I have to resort to other forms of communication.

So, how is everyone?

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12391442_954652757934776_2225317265212892013_n.jpg?oh=6db07e922b9067b7144f3d7d9c318f24&oe=5712F354

(Chairs by Konstantin Simun, sculptor)

I was thinking more the 'Basic Instinct' set.

[ulli]

How about this for basic instinct? Horizontal gene transfer:
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-tardigrade-genome-has-been-sequenced-and-it-has-the-most-foreign-dna-of-any-animal

http://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/processed/22318923511_af450b6df7_o_web_1024.jpg

It's called a water bear, or tardigrade.

http://www.sciencealert.com/images/Osos_de_Agua_puede_sobrevivir_sin_comida_ni_agua_durante_m_s_de_una_d_cada3wodo1_400.gif

[promezeus]

uh.oh Mother Nature is exposing herself again.

[ulli]

uh.oh Mother Nature is exposing herself again.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=32349&cid=1&stc=1

While Mother Nature is exposing herself you are doing a good job keeping her hidden.
Your image doesn't show anything but a 1/4" black square, Promezeus.

[promezeus]

thats weird. in both chrome and firefox, the image in the post shows up huge for me, even after refresh.

:)

[Carmody]

How about this for basic instinct? Horizontal gene transfer:
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-tardigrade-genome-has-been-sequenced-and-it-has-the-most-foreign-dna-of-any-animal

http://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/processed/22318923511_af450b6df7_o_web_1024.jpg

It's called a water bear, or tardigrade.

http://www.sciencealert.com/images/Osos_de_Agua_puede_sobrevivir_sin_comida_ni_agua_durante_m_s_de_una_d_cada3wodo1_400.gif

tardigrade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade)

Which brings you to.....:

trehalose. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trehalose)

Probably the only sugar you can eat that makes you healthier. Imagine the guilt. Eat half a pie.... and actually be better off for it.

[animovado]

The Christmas (-shopping)- Universe:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=32350&d=1450786700

From the teachings of Fazang of Huayan-Buddhism (Source (http://www.ancientdragon.org/dharma/articles/huayan_buddhism_and_the_flower_ornament_sutra))

The whole universe is seen as a multidimensional net, and at every point where the strands of the net meet jewels are set. Each jewel reflects the light reflected in the jewels around it, and each of those jewels in turn reflects the lights from all the jewels around them, and so on, forever. In this way each jewel, or each particular entity or event, including each person, ultimately reflects and expresses the radiance of the entire universe. All of totality can be seen in each of its parts.

[...] Fazang illustrated the Huayan teachings for Empress Wu by constructing a hall of mirrors, placing mirrors on the ceiling, floor, four walls, and the four corners of a room. In the center he placed a Buddha image with a lamp next to it. Standing in this room, the empress could see that in the reflection of any one mirror clearly reflected the reflections from all of the other mirrors, including the specific reflection of the Buddha image in each one. This fully demonstrated the unobstructed interpenetration of the particular and the totality, with each one contained in all, and with all contained in each one. Moreover, it showed the non-obstructed interpenetration of each particular mirror with each of the others.

I wish you lovely holidays! 🎄

[ulli]

How about this for basic instinct? Horizontal gene transfer:
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-tardigrade-genome-has-been-sequenced-and-it-has-the-most-foreign-dna-of-any-animal


It's called a water bear, or tardigrade.



tardigrade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade)

Which brings you to.....:

trehalose. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trehalose)

Probably the only sugar you can eat that makes you healthier. Imagine the guilt. Eat half a pie.... and actually be better off for it.
Hmm...so tardigrades use trehalose to rehydrate.
I can do with that since I'm often short of the eight glasses of water I'm supposed to drink daily.
The added sweetness is then just another bonus.

Well soon be seeing ads.

http://www.just-food.com/news/cargill-hayashibara-to-introduce-trehalose-sweetener-to-the-americas_id90417.aspx

[ulli]

The Christmas (-shopping)- Universe:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=32350&d=1450786700

From the teachings of Fazang of Huayan-Buddhism (Source (http://www.ancientdragon.org/dharma/articles/huayan_buddhism_and_the_flower_ornament_sutra))

The whole universe is seen as a multidimensional net, and at every point where the strands of the net meet jewels are set. Each jewel reflects the light reflected in the jewels around it, and each of those jewels in turn reflects the lights from all the jewels around them, and so on, forever. In this way each jewel, or each particular entity or event, including each person, ultimately reflects and expresses the radiance of the entire universe. All of totality can be seen in each of its parts.

[...] Fazang illustrated the Huayan teachings for Empress Wu by constructing a hall of mirrors, placing mirrors on the ceiling, floor, four walls, and the four corners of a room. In the center he placed a Buddha image with a lamp next to it. Standing in this room, the empress could see that in the reflection of any one mirror clearly reflected the reflections from all of the other mirrors, including the specific reflection of the Buddha image in each one. This fully demonstrated the unobstructed interpenetration of the particular and the totality, with each one contained in all, and with all contained in each one. Moreover, it showed the non-obstructed interpenetration of each particular mirror with each of the others.

I wish you lovely holidays! 🎄

By the time I was fifteen I already had pomp overload.
Europe is full of pomp, what with their ancient churches and castles.

So the Versailles Hall of Mirrors didn't drop my jaw.
Partly because it was expected that one was impressed, and I was always a rebellious child.
Still, when I'm creative there is always that choice to be made, between the formal and informal,
Or symmetry as in sacred geometry, and flower petals formation,
or asymmetry as in the randomness of the wind distributing seeds.

I'm having serious problems accessing how I feel about such things now.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/d5/50/ca/d550caf522aaa2b50da82d46172dbfe2.jpg

Here are some of my more formal designs; no pompous gold tones as you can see.

https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/12371151_10208291846359744_2108734226089827585_o.jpg

[TargeT]

How about this for basic instinct? Horizontal gene transfer



But the new research has shown that approximately 6,000 of the tardigrade’s genes come from foreign species, which equates to around 17.5 percent.




Update 10 December 2015: A separate team of researchers in Scotland has also sequenced the tardigrade genome, and found at most 500 genes from foreign species. They concluded that the original researchers might have inadvertently sequenced DNA from bacteria living alongside the tardigrades. Further research is needed to confirm just how foreign the water bear's genome really is. Watch this space.

far less impressive now unfortunately




THIS is cool though:


Intelligence genes discovered by scientists
Imperial College London has found that two networks of genes determine whether people are intelligent or not so bright.

Genes which make people intelligent have been discovered and scientists believe they could be manipulated to boost brain power.
Researchers have believed for some time that intellect is inherited with studies suggesting that up to 75 per cent of IQ is genetic, and the rest down to environmental factors such as schooling and friendship groups.

But until now, nobody has been able to pin-point exactly which genes are responsible for better memory, attention, processing speed or reasoning skills. Now Imperial College London has found that two networks of genes determine whether people are intelligent or not-so-bright.

They liken the gene network to a football team. When all the players are in the right positions, the brain appears to function optimally, leading to clarity of thought and what we think of as quickness or cleverness.

However when the genes are mutated or in the wrong order, it can lead to dullness of thinking, or even serious cognitive impairments.

Scientists believe that there must be a ‘master switch’ regulating the networks and if they could find it, they could ‘switch on’ intelligence for everyone.

“We know that genetics plays a major role in intelligence but until now haven’t known which genes are relevant,” said Dr Michael Johnson, lead author of the study from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College.

“This research highlights some of genes involved in human intelligence, and how they interact with each other.

“What’s exciting about this is that the genes we have found are likely to share a common regulation, which means that potentially we can manipulate a whole set of genes whose activity is linked to human intelligence.

“Our research suggests that it might be possible to work with these genes to modify intelligence, but that is only a theoretical possibility at the moment – we have just taken a first step along that road.”

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02759/dna_2759155b.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12061787/Intelligence-genes-discovered-by-scientists.html

[TargeT]

[QUOTE]Intelligence genes discovered by scientists

Combining these two things is exciting


Gene Drives Offer New Hope Against Diseases and Crop Pests
The technique involves a mechanism called a gene drive system, which propels a gene of choice throughout a population. No gene drives have yet been tested in the wild, but in laboratory organisms like the fruit fly, they have converted almost the entire population to carry the favored version of a gene.

Gene drives “could potentially prevent the spread of disease, support agriculture by reversing pesticide and herbicide resistance in insects and weeds, and control damaging invasive species,” a group of Harvard biologists wrote last year in the journal eLIFE.

A much discussed application of gene drives would help rid the world of pest-borne diseases like malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease.

A gene drive designed to render a population extinct is known as a crash drive. A crash drive being developed for mosquitoes consists of a gene engineered into the Y chromosome that shreds the X chromosome in the cells that make the mosquito’s sperm, thus ensuring that all progeny are male.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/12/22/gene-drive-system/4687d16f3b1228b3d5068fa3221c4ed45cb37ced/drive-720.png
NHERIT

A genetic change made to one parent usually has a roughly 50 percent chance of being passed down to offspring.

But a novel technique called a gene drive system may be able to increase the odds of spreading a genetic change to all offspring, and eventually through an entire population.

MATCH AND CUT

A gene drive is a segment of engineered DNA that typically contains a guide sequence, a gene for an enzyme called Cas9 and any desired genes that researchers want to spread in the population.

If the guide sequence matches a stretch of DNA inherited from the wild parent, the wild DNA will be cut by the Cas9 enzyme.

REPAIR AND COPY

The cell rushes to repair the cut in the wild DNA, using the matching strand of DNA from the genetically modified parent as a template.

Once repaired, the wild DNA will contain both the Cas9 gene and the desired genes.

SPREAD

Because the gene drive effectively inserts itself into any wild DNA it is paired with, a single copy from one parent is enough to spread the gene drive and its desired genes to all offspring.

The technique has worked in the lab, but researchers are exploring the ethics and risks of releasing a gene drive into the wild.




http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/science/gene-drives-offer-new-hope-against-diseases-and-crop-pests.html

but gene drives alone are a bit worrying.

[Flash]

This is the most dangerous thing i have read up to now to ensure the destruction of nature. Who will feed the birds and the bats if there is no more mosquitoes. Why aren't they thinking to work on the precise sprirochet for Lyme for example, instead? Changing an element of nature as widespread and as useful as mosquitoes AND not being able to calculate all the conséquences is very dangerous.






[QUOTE]Intelligence genes discovered by scientists

Combining these two things is exciting


Gene Drives Offer New Hope Against Diseases and Crop Pests
The technique involves a mechanism called a gene drive system, which propels a gene of choice throughout a population. No gene drives have yet been tested in the wild, but in laboratory organisms like the fruit fly, they have converted almost the entire population to carry the favored version of a gene.

Gene drives “could potentially prevent the spread of disease, support agriculture by reversing pesticide and herbicide resistance in insects and weeds, and control damaging invasive species,” a group of Harvard biologists wrote last year in the journal eLIFE.

A much discussed application of gene drives would help rid the world of pest-borne diseases like malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease.

A gene drive designed to render a population extinct is known as a crash drive. A crash drive being developed for mosquitoes consists of a gene engineered into the Y chromosome that shreds the X chromosome in the cells that make the mosquito’s sperm, thus ensuring that all progeny are male.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/12/22/gene-drive-system/4687d16f3b1228b3d5068fa3221c4ed45cb37ced/drive-720.png
NHERIT

A genetic change made to one parent usually has a roughly 50 percent chance of being passed down to offspring.

But a novel technique called a gene drive system may be able to increase the odds of spreading a genetic change to all offspring, and eventually through an entire population.

MATCH AND CUT

A gene drive is a segment of engineered DNA that typically contains a guide sequence, a gene for an enzyme called Cas9 and any desired genes that researchers want to spread in the population.

If the guide sequence matches a stretch of DNA inherited from the wild parent, the wild DNA will be cut by the Cas9 enzyme.

REPAIR AND COPY

The cell rushes to repair the cut in the wild DNA, using the matching strand of DNA from the genetically modified parent as a template.

Once repaired, the wild DNA will contain both the Cas9 gene and the desired genes.

SPREAD

Because the gene drive effectively inserts itself into any wild DNA it is paired with, a single copy from one parent is enough to spread the gene drive and its desired genes to all offspring.

The technique has worked in the lab, but researchers are exploring the ethics and risks of releasing a gene drive into the wild.




http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/science/gene-drives-offer-new-hope-against-diseases-and-crop-pests.html

but gene drives alone are a bit worrying.

[RunningDeer]

thats weird. in both chrome and firefox, the image in the post shows up huge for me, even after refresh.

:)
It shows up for you because it's in your personal file on Avalon, but it's not out there, linked up on the web for the public.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-coffee-297237_zpsscugsuzu.GIF It's like having a file on your desktop to view and no one else has access to it. (excluding the letter agency types)

Check out Paul’s how to post images from your computer (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?11918-How-to-post-images-from-your-computer&p=104616&viewfull=1#post104616), which includes a video tutorial link (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69093-Video-tutorials-about-forum-functionality&p=804655&viewfull=1#post804655) made by Ilie.

[TargeT]

This is the most dangerous thing i have read up to now to ensure the destruction of nature. Who will feed the birds and the bats if there is no more mosquitoes. Why aren't they thinking to work on the precise sprirochet for Lyme for example, instead? Changing an element of nature as widespread and as useful as mosquitoes AND not being able to calculate all the conséquences is very dangerous.


Read the article, it's not all bad.


They just mentioned killing off mosquitoes because, well not all mosquitoes are the same, example:

Anopheles /əˈnɒfɨliːz/[1] (Greek anofelís: "useless"[2])
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopheles#/media/File:Anopheles_stephensi.jpeg
is a genus of mosquito first described and named by J. W. Meigen in 1818.[3] About 460 species are recognised; while over 100 can transmit human malaria, only 30–40 commonly transmit parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which cause malaria in humans in endemic areas. Anopheles gambiae is one of the best known, because of its predominant role in the transmission of the most dangerous malaria parasite species (to humans) – Plasmodium falciparum.

Fyi, this is the SAME species that carries Dengue... There are more than 3,500 species of mosquitoes, and we are only talking about getting rid of 40 of the 460 in the Anopheles group.


and besides killing them off, they might just make them immune to malaria so they won't even carry it to begin with.

[promezeus]

thats weird. in both chrome and firefox, the image in the post shows up huge for me, even after refresh.

:)
It shows up for you because it's in your personal file on Avalon, but it's not out there, linked up on the web for the public.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-coffee-297237_zpsscugsuzu.GIF It's like having a file on your desktop to view and no one else has access to it. (excluding the letter agency types)

Check out Paul’s how to post images from your computer (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?11918-How-to-post-images-from-your-computer&p=104616&viewfull=1#post104616), which includes a video tutorial link (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69093-Video-tutorials-about-forum-functionality&p=804655&viewfull=1#post804655) made by Ilie.

I think I fixed it. now you can see mother nature fully exposed:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=1031536&viewfull=1#post1031536

[ulli]

Thanks for accepting Curt! Couldnt think of a better choice brother!

*grins*

http://media2.giphy.com/media/S3Ot3hZ5bcy8o/giphy.gif

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k95/Low-Ki/DeMOTIVATION/001smurf.jpg

[Carmody]

Tomorrow, space x tries to land a craft on hard ground instead of a floating platform.

Apparently, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, his company, managed to do so last month. I was not aware of that. however, they say his landing was a bit of a cheat, having been the ending point of a much lower launch height. Possibly a smaller more purpose built 'landing rocket', which would qualify for the 'cheat' moniker. Cheat, as Space x is trying to do this with a full sized payload delivery rocket, that delivers full sized payload to full LEO (Low Earth Orbit). Thus a 'real rocket' not a 'designed mostly to land' rocket that Jeff Bezos may have been doing, don't know..I'll have to look into it.

This is all quite important, as both are on the verge of publicly dropping the cost of space entry by a factor of 100. Such an act is like breaking the side off of a bucket, when it comes to the idea of flow, or flow as an act of change.

I mean, if one really wants to know when Elvis actually went on stage or when he actually left the building, this Information coming from space x and Bezos..this qualifies as a here and now moment, with no doubts.

Think of the land rush for the new world, or the west, or similar.

Add in the 'dammit, people already living there' aspect of prior explosions of human movement and motion, and that would probably be the story we expect to come.

If people are feeling out of place, well, that would be normal, as so much is about to shift...in what seems like very slowly and pained motion.

History records these things in a one page two minute read... and we flip said page, but the mentioned time periods can be years and usually are years.

'Go west Young Man', took 1.5 seconds to say. The act itself took 1.5 years to do, being fraught with difficulties, adventures and changes in the extreme -throughout the whole motion. What came out of it, borne unto the west coast.... was seemingly a different person, in a different space and place. There ain't no change without change.

One cannot be desirous of motion and change and to arrive in a different space/environment as the same person. There would be no point. New worlds/vistas and change... require turmoil -both inner and outer- as part of their very definition.

space x landed their full payload reusable rocket yesterday evening.

Space travel costs just reduced by a factor of 10x and in the next few years will reach a 100x cost reduction for pound/kilo of payload.

This means the lid is coming off of space secrecy whether the controlling powers want it or not. Not in the far future, but in the near to intermediate future. either humanity is rolled back.... or rolls forward.

All in the next FEW years (less than a half decade). Ie a $200M trip to the space station will be ..$2m cost in the next 5 years or less.

[TargeT]

space x landed their full payload reusable rocket yesterday evening.


Two companies able to do it now, though one is a bit more impressive.

http://i.imgur.com/ATkpdAX.png


though when you get ~5bn from the government, it's less impressive.....


Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html

[Carmody]

Well, the cost of getting into space something like the ISS (International space station) has dropped from $100 billion, to near $1-1.5 Billion, probably in the next five years. Probably..oh... $400 million for the launches of the equivalent mass,and $1B for the hardware, all 800,000 lbs of it. Depending on the efficiency they reach, that's 80 to 100 launches of an excess of 5 tons per launch. Just quick off the cuff numbers, but you get the idea.

The gatekeepers are in trouble, unless things change fast. The threat now rolls forward.

The 'space issue' hot potato (in all it's complexities) being tossed about.... went from merely hot.... to white hot.

Holding back the technologies, and maintaining all paths in exclusivity as a stoppage method.... has finally been shorted out.

[Flash]

My question is, why is it allowed to happen, if the forces for secrecy are so strong, what is changing within it? What is pushing the other way around? or is it still part of the overall plans to keep us controlled?


Well, the cost of getting into space something like the ISS (International space station) has dropped from $100 billion, to near $1-1.5 Billion, probably in the next five years. Probably..oh... $400 million for the launches of the equivalent mass,and $1B for the hardware, all 800,000 lbs of it. Depending on the efficiency they reach, that's 80 to 100 launches of an excess of 5 tons per launch. Just quick off the cuff numbers, but you get the idea.

The gatekeepers are in trouble, unless things change fast. The threat now rolls forward.

The 'space issue' hot potato (in all it's complexities) being tossed about.... went from merely hot.... to white hot.

Holding back the technologies, and maintaining all paths in exclusivity as a stoppage method.... has finally been shorted out.

[Violet]

thats weird. in both chrome and firefox, the image in the post shows up huge for me, even after refresh.

:)
It shows up for you because it's in your personal file on Avalon, but it's not out there, linked up on the web for the public.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-coffee-297237_zpsscugsuzu.GIF It's like having a file on your desktop to view and no one else has access to it. (excluding the letter agency types)

Check out Paul’s how to post images from your computer (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?11918-How-to-post-images-from-your-computer&p=104616&viewfull=1#post104616), which includes a video tutorial link (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69093-Video-tutorials-about-forum-functionality&p=804655&viewfull=1#post804655) made by Ilie.

Has anything been changed to the URL image insertion code, because I post images quite regularly and I haven't had any problems with it until recently.

[ThePythonicCow]

Has anything been changed to the URL image insertion code, because I post images quite regularly and I haven't had any problems with it until recently.
No change that I know of.

[RunningDeer]

Has anything been changed to the URL image insertion code, because I post images quite regularly and I haven't had any problems with it until recently.

Two points:

What would be the reason to change the process? And if it changed here at Avalon then administration would’ve informed us.

If there were lot of pictures from many members that weren’t showing up, then I’d believe there’s been a change in URL image insertion code. That hasn’t been my experience.

UPDATE: I see :cow: confirmation. :wave:

[meeradas]

Merry Christmas everyone.

[the impatient may start the vid from about 00m:55s]
gpshJ5uwX0s

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/Herb_Garmsen/DSCN9025_zps4t9gtsve.jpg

[PurpleLama]

c8kT7BDH4uc

[1inMany]

Here and Now, my schedule is off from everybody else's. We did our Christmas thing yesterday, and now I'm enjoying some much needed peace and quiet. Real peace. Solitude. Enjoying every second, too. I am excited to have the house put back together after the Little Ones and all the extra people spent some time here. I don't think I could express how much love there was here. I am so grateful. And I am looking forward to a day full of workings by the Full Moon tomorrow.

I touched the little boy inside Whatshisname this visit. This moment was mindblowing and filled me up. I saw him. He became C. He has decided that he has a lot to learn, and every time he comes to visit he soaks up everything I say and do. He asks if they can spend another night, inevitably, no matter how long they have already stayed. He takes back with him a feeling of unconditional love, and it isn't mine. He and K have taken a liking to the way their house feels after they smudge, they have depleted my supply of stones and candles, and they have started down paths of their own, individually. God, please be with them. K will not forget these times. C, however.... Well, I learned a while back not to be attached to the outcome. Rather, I learned that is what I am supposed to do. It is a test of sorts to give every part of myself and know full well they have to make the choice what to do with the new realizations. Each one of them. Because we all Travel this Life Alone ultimately.

I had the best celebration I can ever remember. The girls have all become young women. And they are such beautiful beings. They finally see each other, warts and all, and have the kind of bond that I know will outlast my time here. I wanted that very much for them. I hope they cherish the memories we made in the past few days as much as I do. And I hope each one remembers, and works to keep, what has been cultivated.

Blessings to each of You, each of Us. May we each be Graced with the Unveiling of our own Divinity, and the Divinity within every other living being we meet. After all, we are All doing the best we can.

Much Love,

HPH4LRASWbo

[Calz]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DJqxAEA_Pu8/TrBJrFOtSuI/AAAAAAAAEKY/1BoMBnNcVNs/s1600/Old-Hippie.jpg

[ulli]

Merry Christmas to all my beloved Villagers and a gift to each of you in case the noise level of your surroundings become a bother.
Because we all need privacy sometimes.

http://takeandbake.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/8-3_RxmOpen_450x600.jpg

[ulli]

And here we have something to help with visualizing a smooth shift.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aehqua-FgkQ/VmeNFzYXkuI/AAAAAAABQcU/Mi4OSTi-DUs/s640/doze_studio_151207.gif

[Valley]

A time of Heart
A time of Cheer
A time to see
Those far and near
We hold so dear
:bearhug:

[PurpleLama]

http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/snowman-made-of-mud.jpg

[Guest]

Merry Christmas Villagers.

One of my little ones K and I made you something for CHRISTMAS. I tried to post it last night and again this morning. It won't post. A friend of mine is going to help me later on tonight. Probably my computer skills:)


Its still posting as an attachment.


We had a lot of fun doing this and took a little patience on my part, K is Autistic and supposedly ADHD....


For years now she has sat on my lap listening to and watching the videos, pictures you all post and I also read a lot of your posts to her. She especially loves the classical and ambient music videos....

She claps her hands and says, "please play it again auntie." You all have brought a lot of Soulfulness and peace to her.










Love you all.

Nora

[ulli]

Merry Christmas Villagers.

One of my little ones K and I made you something for CHRISTMAS. I tried to post it last night and again this morning. It won't post. A friend of mine is going to help me later on tonight. Probably my computer skills:)


Its still posting as an attachment.


We had a lot of fun doing this and took a little patience on my part, K is Autistic and supposedly ADHD....


For years now she has sat on my lap listening to and watching the videos, pictures you all post and I also read a lot of your posts to her. She especially loves the classical and ambient music videos....

She claps her hands and says, "please play it again auntie." You all have brought a lot of Soulfulness and peace to her.










Love you all.

Nora

Nora, please tell K that I was really, really touched by her wondrous Christmas card.
It is just beautiful.
I will find some music just for her.

[RunningDeer]

Merry Christmas Villagers.

One of my little ones K and I made you something for CHRISTMAS.
The art is exquisitely detailed. It’s beautiful. Thank you, K and Nora. I’m touched.

RunningDeer ♡

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/PVC_zpsdrq1irca.jpg

[Stephanie]

Merry Christmas Villagers.

One of my little ones K and I made you something for CHRISTMAS.


RunningDeer ♡

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/PVC_zpsdrq1irca.jpg

From my heart, this is so touchingly beautiful.....

Thank you dearest Nora and wonderful K, for your very, loving giving.


:bearhug::heart::bearhug:

:star: K :star:

[1inMany]

Merry Christmas Villagers.

One of my little ones K and I made you something for CHRISTMAS. I tried to post it last night and again this morning. It won't post. A friend of mine is going to help me later on tonight. Probably my computer skills:)


Its still posting as an attachment.


We had a lot of fun doing this and took a little patience on my part, K is Autistic and supposedly ADHD....


For years now she has sat on my lap listening to and watching the videos, pictures you all post and I also read a lot of your posts to her. She especially loves the classical and ambient music videos....

She claps her hands and says, "please play it again auntie." You all have brought a lot of Soulfulness and peace to her.










Love you all.

Nora

Love in motion, is what you two created. Can there be anything more beautiful...

Thank you for expressing it. Much love offered back to you both,

[Calz]

We had a lot of fun doing this and took a little patience on my part, K is Autistic and supposedly ADHD....


For years now she has sat on my lap listening to and watching the videos, pictures you all post and I also read a lot of your posts to her. She especially loves the classical and ambient music videos....

She claps her hands and says, "please play it again auntie." You all have brought a lot of Soulfulness and peace to her.



Love in motion, is what you two created. Can there be anything more beautiful...

Thank you for expressing it. Much love offered back to you both,


Wow moment for sure!

In a world with so many ... issues ... it takes things like this to bring perspective.

Another reminder for those posting in this special thread to take an extra moment to reflect before you hit the "enter" key.

[ulli]

Merry Christmas Villagers.

One of my little ones K and I made you something for CHRISTMAS. I tried to post it last night and again this morning. It won't post. A friend of mine is going to help me later on tonight. Probably my computer skills:)


Its still posting as an attachment.


We had a lot of fun doing this and took a little patience on my part, K is Autistic and supposedly ADHD....


For years now she has sat on my lap listening to and watching the videos, pictures you all post and I also read a lot of your posts to her. She especially loves the classical and ambient music videos....

She claps her hands and says, "please play it again auntie." You all have brought a lot of Soulfulness and peace to her.










Love you all.

Nora

I chose this chant for K and all the children out there


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XP-f7wPM0A

[Eram]

Hi friends,

I've asked to reactivate my account, so here I am, again :)

Wishing you all best wishes for Christmas and New year.

[ulli]

Hi friends,

I've asked to reactivate my account, so here I am, again :)

Wishing you all best wishes for Christmas and New year.

How nice to see you, Eram.
Warm welcome back.

[Flash]

I am truly happy to see you back here. Happy new year.


Hi friends,

I've asked to reactivate my account, so here I am, again :)

Wishing you all best wishes for Christmas and New year.

Nora, very nice art piece, thank you to both.

[1inMany]

TerRIFfic! Wonderful to see you! :D And the Best to you as well.

I love that chant, Ulli. It's perfect.


Hi friends,

I've asked to reactivate my account, so here I am, again :)

Wishing you all best wishes for Christmas and New year.

[Flash]

yes, the chant made me shiver lol


TerRIFfic! Wonderful to see you! :D And the Best to you as well.

I love that chant, Ulli. It's perfect.


Hi friends,

I've asked to reactivate my account, so here I am, again :)

Wishing you all best wishes for Christmas and New year.

[RunningDeer]

Hi friends,

I've asked to reactivate my account, so here I am, again :)

Wishing you all best wishes for Christmas and New year.

Welcome back, T. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-hugs-765537_zpso1eaenyy.gif
Paula/RunningDeer/WhiteCrowBlackDeer
♡

[meeradas]

Oh, Waky is back. Hi!

Today's presents. Rather be without one of 'em:

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/Herb_Garmsen/DSCN9396_zpscfzkoikl.jpg

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/Herb_Garmsen/DSCN9373_zpsw2exk722.jpg

[Chester]

Hi friends,

I've asked to reactivate my account, so here I am, again :)

Wishing you all best wishes for Christmas and New year.

Awesome and now I get to thank you for "the formula"

Thanks to you, my dreams became so much more vivid and freaky!

I am glad to see you back...

Sam

[Hym]

Getting wood ready to cut, split before the storm comes in. Letting the dog in earlier to hang out by the fire. Bought a pie and have some candles to sing myself happy birthday, since this is the 1st one alone, but I am not really alone with all I have to be greatful for.....including my brothers and sisters here on Avalon.
Thanks for the Sharing !!!!!!!

[RunningDeer]

to sing myself happy birthday, since this is the 1st one alone, but I am not really alone with all I have to be greatful for.....including my brothers and sisters here on Avalon.

I'm singing along with you, Hey It’s Me… http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-hugs-765537_zpso1eaenyy.gif


:Music:Happy birthday...to you.
Happy birthday..to you.:Music:
:Music:Happy BIRTH...day... dear…Hey It’s Me…..:Music: http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/smilies/music-note_zpspid3p37t.gif

Happy birthday to You! :Music: http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/smilies/music-note_zpspid3p37t.gif

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/Hey-me_zpsjdxddytr.JPG

♡

[Hym]

Deelicioussssss!!!

THANK YOU, PAULA!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Yeah. I also had to pick up after our dog and you know how hard that is to do after the snow comes and it freezes. These things too are blessings...........

[1inMany]

Happy Birthday, Hey it's me :heart:

We are having a little weather issue around here, so while I was checking that out Paula beat me to the chocolate. Haha. Not to worry, I am always, always good for the candles!

https://s3-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http:%2F%2Fwww.myglowsticks.co.uk%2Fimages%2Fmagictoolbox_cache%2F2bfb0aa526afe0c746d 4aa9d1e881a70thumb300both.jpg&sp=cd10f179db933d2059d2f2fb02cb5229

Much Love,

[RunningDeer]

:wave: to http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Catsquotl_zpsvqbtn6xj.jpg
Peace, joy, health and prosperity in 2016 and beyond to you and your family. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-flowers-967577_zpslibhgwqy.GIF

[bettye198]

Happy Day after Christmas. I live 1000 ft up at the highest point in the city overlooking the vast ocean and now experiencing fierce winds plummeting the house and howling ungawdly sounds, a wind chill factor wayyy up there and a cold like ice stabbing. Trust me, Beach never had a weather like this in this town. We are the pearl of the South Coast. Yet, everything is changing and this winter, may be like the horrific summer, so humid and hot no one cared to sit on the beach. Yes, we are shifting.

[Hym]

Removed. Tried to post a pic of my birthday pie...Oops.

Very super windy here also in the high desert hills of the mid-southwest...Cold too...Dog's indoors hours early.

[6pounder]

Just took a picture of a bright spot in the sky... It was taken at 5:50 GMT+2. Could it be Venus? I've never seen it so bright before...

http://i.imgur.com/hpYZ7qU.jpg

[Catsquotl]

:wave: to http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Catsquotl_zpsvqbtn6xj.jpg
Peace, joy, health and prosperity in 2016 and beyond to you and your family. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-flowers-967577_zpslibhgwqy.GIF


Thanks you RunningDeer,

You've succeeded in making me come out of hibernation for a minute again.
I just want to wish all the villagers a magical 2016.
May your dreams come true this year.
May your journey be a peaceful and joyous one.

I love you

With Love
Eelco

Who is going right back to his inner world. HAving expanded a little over the last few weeks to find nothing has changed.
My spirit spread on BE-ing this morning.

Earth, - 3 of wands
Air , - 3 of cups
Fire , - page of wands
water, - 4 of swords
Spirit, - The Hermit

Using the robin wood tarot.

[animovado]

Just took a picture of a bright spot in the sky... It was taken at 5:50 GMT+2. Could it be Venus? I've never seen it so bright before...



Yes, it was venus in the south-eastern sky.

[Carmody]

"Jingle Bells, Santa smells - Like He's drinking all his pay..."

RDZu04v7_hc

ouch

[Violet]

Badly congested nose. Feel like someone punched me in one part of the face. Eyeball hurts, jaw hurts, the whole cheek hurts, and my upper teeth feel like they all have cavities.
:(

I'm diffusing tea tree, peppermint and eucalyptus, and also using these for steaming. Rinsing with saline water.

God, I hope my home therapy is going to bring relief because according to these symptoms I should* be having an antibiotics treatment if I go to the doctor who's likely to diagnose it as acute sinusitis.

(* Dr. Net)

[Hym]

I use the herb Lomatium for such things.

[Violet]

Oh, what's that, never heard of it.

[Hym]

Lomatium is an herb. Strong anti-viral and anti-biotic used in the americas by natives for a very long time.
I have found it to be more effective for me than many other herbs. I do take Lomatium and Black Walnut herbal tinctures habitually BEFORE I feel the need from excess exposure to weather conditions or any excess stress that I may be challenged with. I also take a couple of grams of good vitamin c daily..

Here is a link describing it's benefits:

http://www.online-health-care.com/herbal-medicines/lomatium.htm

[Guest]

Merry Christmas Villagers.

One of my little ones K and I made you something for CHRISTMAS. I tried to post it last night and again this morning. It won't post. A friend of mine is going to help me later on tonight. Probably my computer skills:)


Its still posting as an attachment.


We had a lot of fun doing this and took a little patience on my part, K is Autistic and supposedly ADHD....


For years now she has sat on my lap listening to and watching the videos, pictures you all post and I also read a lot of your posts to her. She especially loves the classical and ambient music videos....

She claps her hands and says, "please play it again auntie." You all have brought a lot of Soulfulness and peace to her.










Love you all.

Nora

I chose this chant for K and all the children out there


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XP-f7wPM0A


Awesome.


Ulli, So Soulful and mystical. Perfect. I played it for K. Afterward, she said, "Lets listen to it again." As always, lol.
The look on her face was full of wonder. She calls the video, snow.


Thank you Ulli and everyone. The best Christmas Ever.


vrufhzsvgfhba heart from K




Love




Nora

[Carmody]

Badly congested nose. Feel like someone punched me in one part of the face. Eyeball hurts, jaw hurts, the whole cheek hurts, and my upper teeth feel like they all have cavities.
:(

I'm diffusing tea tree, peppermint and eucalyptus, and also using these for steaming. Rinsing with saline water.

God, I hope my home therapy is going to bring relief because according to these symptoms I should* be having an antibiotics treatment if I go to the doctor who's likely to diagnose it as acute sinusitis.

(* Dr. Net)

mms mixture (watered down with distilled water) with a misting bottle. That's what i've used at times. Great for throat and upper congestion, as well. spray the mist and inhale strongly.

The other is a wash/irrigation with a fine tipped all plastic syringe, using the same sort of mixture.

[ulli]

Watching this last interview given by former Beatle George Harrison...
45 minutes well spent.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWTFlg2Er0

[Flash]

First snow of the winter yesterday - which is not very normal, we should have had before. The day before chrismas, we were going out in fall clothes (not heavy winter coats), and small jackets. Incredible. But today it is usual winter temperature. A snow storm is expected tomorrow or wednesday.

I had a good Christmas day dinner at my family, with my daughter of course, and a good two days at a friend in the country side near a river. What a difference it makes, no city noises, the white pine trees upon waking up, calm and quiet, but good chats and fun.

Now, cleaning the house and tomorrow starting to work on rebuilding my business for the coming year, as well as on another project. I hope that either one will bring in money.

2015 was a very weird year for me, all I wished came true, about one month each (except for the millions$ lol), and showed up as being illusory wishes, no withstanding results (like a transitory job, transitory boyfriends one with money, and roller coster moral all year) . But, with quite a lot of understanding and some undeniable inner growth.

Overall, I am happy these days - and meditating about every day as well, it does a great lots of good.

I truly, deeply wish a very good 2016 years to all of us and to the planet, for the good of all there is.

[1inMany]

Yeah, Flash, there's been some really odd weather. Wicked around here. I've been thinking of Paul, actually, hoping he was not in the path of this last one. It was ... well... wicked. Dealing with that for a couple of days, and I'm right there with you, Violet. Don't have any mms. Or Lomatium (which I may look into). But not to worry, I started on my good ole trusty Oregano Oil. Everybody laughs at me now, well more like with me, because at the first sign of a sniffle...from anyone within a block of me...I pull out a bottle and start them on it. I will blame Dennis, he started it.

Much Love,

[ThePythonicCow]

I've been thinking of Paul, actually, hoping he was not in the path of this last one.
They (the tornado touchdowns) missed by 30 miles. With a tornado, just being on the right side of the street is usually good enough.

[Guest]

K and I just drove up the mountain through the beginning of a snow storm to my place in my car..... I should have taken the old truck with four wheel drive and all terrains.
Whew, made it home safely to a good hot fire. It's the first snow storm of the season here too Flash.


We have now listened to Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu about ten times now. She is quite taken with it and trying the Mudras.



One more message from K.

I love Ulli

[RunningDeer]

It's 2:45 am in New England. It's the first snow/sleet storm this winter. The temperatures have been unusually warm. A few days ago a record high temp was broken that was set back in the 1970's. For the last couple of months, they've ranged between 50-70 F/10-21 C. Whereas typically the average temp for this time of year is 30F/0C.

[Dennis Leahy]

Just got back from a road trip to Chicago. On the way there, it was about a 7-1/2 hour drive (450mi) to one of the Chicago suburbs, actually. (on dry roads.)

The trip back was a bit different. Nearly 12 white-knuckle hours, starting with a sleet storm in Chicago, and progressing to snow in mid Wisconsin. 70mph Interstate highways were more like 40 to 50mph max, for the sane drivers. I thought several times about just stopping at some hotel, but figured the next day's driving would be about the same conditions.

There were probably 2 dozen cars spun-out in ditches and/or rolled-over into ditches and fields, 3 semi tractor-trailers in the ditch (one "jackknifed", one on its side, and one that had rolled over.) Several of the accidents had numerous police, ambulance, and fire dept (EMT) attending to injured. One accident (with police at the scene) was a car that had rolled over and over and ended up in a field. Near the car was what appeared to be a dead body. No way of knowing if the insane drivers passing us (some were going 60MPH when everyone else was going 45mph - no one was crazy enough to drive 70mph through the storm) were the cars and trucks we later saw in the ditches.

It was emotionally draining. Very happy that my here and now is safely in my home.

[RunningDeer]

It was emotionally draining. Very happy that my here and now is safely in my home.
Amazing account, Dennis. Glad you're safe.


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/home-sign-home-sweet-home_zps36siuvrl.jpg

♡

[ulli]

I had just copied this picture, ready to pos it here.
About the contrast, between embellishing a home and having just lost one.

http://cdn1.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/collage2.jpg
All I can say is how grateful I am for having one, and here in this currently near-perfect climate.

I'm also reminded of the worries I felt, when my husband had just arrived at O'Hare airport in Chicago, and rented a car, to drive to his hotel in Arlington Heights, and found himself lost in a blizzard like the one you described, Dennis.
He was lost for hours. That was in the nineties...no GPS.
No way of knowing where he was, not a soul on the road to ask directions.
And he had to drive daily in those conditions, between attorney visits in the suburb and downtown court house where he fought to get to see his kidnapped daughter.

[Flash]

I am so sorry this happened to your husband - and to you Ulli. I cannot even imagine the pain of losing one's daughter (just thinking mine could be kidnaped was soooo dreadful).

As for the near perfect climate, yes, you are right - we just are actually getting the first huge snow storm today. The only sound is the commuter train I hear in the far background. When it snows like this, the city becomes quiet, as if we were all walking, tip toeing, on a white carpet. Snow everywhere, on the phone and electrical wires, on the trees, on cars and houses, all existing in white.

I must admit it is absolutely beautiful though. But cold. I have an appointment for lunch, I will probably get there by public transportation, if I can at all.

Have a good day every family like member here, living in all kinds of color worlds.


I had just copied this picture, ready to pos it here.
About the contrast, between embellishing a home and having just lost one.

http://cdn1.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/collage2.jpg
All I can say is how grateful I am for having one, and here in this currently near-perfect climate.

I'm also reminded of the worries I felt, when my husband had just arrived at O'Hare airport in Chicago, and rented a car, to drive to his hotel in Arlington Heights, and found himself lost in a blizzard like the one you described, Dennis.
He was lost for hours. That was in the nineties...no GPS.
No way of knowing where he was, not a soul on the road to ask directions.
And he had to drive daily in those conditions, between attorney visits in the suburb and downtown court house where he fought to get to see his kidnapped daughter.

[ulli]

If you focus on the realm of the Miraculous, it will manifest.
So today I decided to give it my fullest attention, again.
About time, after having directed my attention too long on cookies, Christmas cakes, wine and chocolates.
The visual quality of this video is not too great, but I can just listen, and listen, and listen to that fine voice.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPoj_C7IUuc

[ulli]

Here is part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDR3eed9rKI

Interesting how he mentions the dark energy of the year 1915.

One hundred years later one can compare those energies...
With the war drums louder than ever.

[ulli]

I couldn't find part four, but instead came across the full 42 minute version here:


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

[Flash]

Ouspensky and Gurdjieff - know thyself, know the human machine, makes it conscious because unconsciousness always destroys (my own paraphrasing of ouspensky's words from Gurdjieff teaching): there is no end in knowing the human machine in my views, in its multidimensions.

I do think Ouspensky was making the same mistakes I often do as well, namely using too much of his intellectual, intelluctualising Gurdjieff's teachings and missing much by not living it. However, it is Ouspensky who mainly allowed for Gurdjieff's teaching to reach the West. So I presumed his ways had its overall needs and mission response.




Here is part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDR3eed9rKI

Interesting how he mentions the dark energy of the year 1915.

One hundred years later one can compare those energies...
With the war drums louder than ever.

[ulli]

Ouspensky and Gurdjieff - know thyself, know the human machine, makes it conscious because unconsciousness always destroys (my own paraphrasing of ouspensky's words from Gurdjieff teaching): there is no end in knowing the human machine in my views, in its multidimensions.

I do think Ouspensky was making the same mistakes I often do as well, namely using too much of his intellectual, intelluctualising Gurdjieff's teachings and missing much by not living it. However, it is Ouspensky who mainly allowed for Gurdjieff's teaching to reach the West. So I presumed his ways had its overall needs and mission response.




Here is part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDR3eed9rKI

Interesting how he mentions the dark energy of the year 1915.

One hundred years later one can compare those energies...
With the war drums louder than ever.

This is a good observation, once you wish to play a conscious part in the greater whole of a community that has the right goals.
The initial foundation of the discovery of one's powers, however, is the integration of the intellectual self with the emotional as well as the physical.
Admittedly, when one has a young body this is easier to accomplish, although at that stage of life the ego/intellect still has programs which can mislead.
Anyway, that's how it was with me.

In my case everything was in reverse...I had a couple of weeks (in 1977 at age28) of being fully integrated, and then returned to my original fragmented self. But a vague memory remained, and so my search began which had led me to this Here and Now.
First Gurdjieff, then astrology, Krishnamurti, self Realization in a Yogananda group in Barbados, the the Baha'i Faith which I also found in Barbados, even though it originated in Iran.
Later in Costa Rica I found a Gurdjieff group. Attending Baha'i and Gurdjieff activities weekly became too much of a strain, and by overdoing it I got the rebellious energy to drop out of both and go into a more secluded life, socially.

At that point I found the Wingmakers materials online.
By this time I had daily encounters with the miraculous, or synchronicities.

Then started joining forums, to get back into connecting with others, at least mentally.
While still active on dissident Baha'i forums, I had joined several forums around the Wingmakers materials and was totally unsuccessful in my attempts to show people from both sides the similarity between those teachings.
I found closed-mindedness instead.

So finally via David Wilcocks Divine Cosmos forum I discovered Project Camelot, and felt this was the next step in my evolution, to hear the accounts of whistleblowers.
And when I met Brian O'Leary in person as well as Nick Cook (author of the Hunt for Zero Point) I received further confirmations that the world of the miraculous was working for me, helping me in the direction I was choosing to go, which is to bring my accumulated version of truth to others who have chosen a similar path.

[Dennis Leahy]

Flash, that really was insightful, brilliant really. And, it inspired Ulli to expound on the steps in her integrative/spiritual journey. Love it!

I have no easy segue from that into a romantic, hand-drawn animation, so what the hell, here it is:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWYpy8x_CZU

This particular version of Glen Keane's "Duet" is the uncolored version - and it has a certain magical, raw quality to it. To see the colorized version, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9CG_PoEWCg

Note how the colorization evokes a different mood, and is even more compelling and spellbinding to watch than the uncolored version.

What an amazing artist. He says he becomes the characters, even Duet's "Mia" (the girl/woman.)

[Carmody]

Just reading something from zero hedge. From George Soros. It's a tad weird to feel as if George is stealing a bit of my thunder and using it. (Just look at what he says about emotions - it is specifically tied to the wording and expression)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-28/nervous-george-soros-lashes-out-donald-trump-he-wants-you-be-afraid

[Flash]

Actually listening to this,

Il Sogno di Volare, from the Saltimbanco show, from the Cirque du Soleir

Song by Chantal Hamel, with her beautiful opera voice

Chantal is Mini Flash singing teacher. I am so happy I could provide her such a teacher.


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

[dan33]

I liked Ouspensky's book so much. I got to him reading The Wave.

Thanks Ulli and all of you......... and Happy New Year!!

http://cassiopaea.org/category/volumes/the-wave/

https://electrodes.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/tertium_organum__ouspensky.pdf

[Flash]

Just read a resume of 3 studies showing that intelligent people do more of the three S, Sleep later at night, Smoke pot and do drugs more, Sex much more sex than regular or non intelligent ones.

In fact, it seems they are more delinquent all around, which most probably in my views, keeps their creativity up.

here the article in French:
http://bridoz.com/les-gens-plus-intelligents-se-couchent-plus-tard-se-droguent-plus-et-font-plus-souvent-lamour-et-ce-sont-des-chercheurs-qui-le-disent/

The more intelligent were rated as very intelligent with an IQ score of 125 or more. Compared with average 100, and low intelligence of 75 or less, the latter doing much less of all the three SSS.

Nerds, the world is yours!!!!! lol Hum..... does this makes for a better understanding of myself? :confused::p

[RunningDeer]

Just read a resume of 3 studies showing that intelligent people do more of the three S, Sleep later at night, Smoke pot and do drugs more, Sex much more sex than regular or non intelligent ones.

Full article in English - Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More Drugs, And Have More Sex (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/#sthash.E5Y4gVRv.dpuf: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/)

Summary:

What does this all mean?

Correlation does not imply causation.  This does not mean that staying up late, doing drugs, and experimenting with sex toys makes you more intelligent.  But it seems to be the case that people who naturally have a higher degree of intelligence partake in these activities naturally because they are drawn to them.  Maybe it is because of their openmindedness, their desire to expand their mind and their experience, or a biological urge to experiment with something novel.

Chances are, a lot of people reading this tend to stay up late and indulge in life’s pleasures. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and it may even be a natural consequence of having an above average IQ. These three studies completely shatter everything we would expect to be true about people of high intelligence.  It seems to be the intellectuals that are having the most fun.  I think it’s time we let go of old stereotypes.

[Hym]

I see how this study reflects a lot of truth. Almost all I know stay up later than average, and it is interesting how many cultures around the world stay up much later than people in the states do.

The thing about drugs doesn't apply with me or most close to me. Maybe it's because I consider this life a mixture of drugs on it's own. Why blow out your perceptions by clouding the enjoyment of all there is around. Lessen sensitivity and the experiences decrease in intensity and remembrance. It is then of little surprise that no one comes to our home and drinks or does drugs, legal or illegal. It makes for a safe haven of silly, relaxed and enjoyable times.

As far as sex goes, I would add massage to that. I always found it incredible that people stay together, even getting married, who don't know each other's bodies as much as they should, inside and outside. I never even tried to get legislation passed that requires an in depth sensual knowledge of your partner's body before marriage, but it makes a lot of sense. I would bet that this group in the Village of Avalonians probably has a much higher sensuality quotient than many, which follows the truths of that report.

[Carmody]

http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/childhood-intelligence.jpg

Winners don't do drugs, ok Nancy? Conservative republican values good..... drugs bad......mmmkk?

I dig the drugs for the cognitive expansion, the reaching out for bigger and better life experience stereoscopy. It makes for an expanded mind, with bigger better reach, with finer microscopic control, a finer capacity for realizing color and subtleties of color. Alcohol is not a drug, it's a mind duller, and is more often the choice of those with dull minds who want to remain that way. To 'forget' all the things they cannot reach, to revel in the dullness. Ugh. Alcohol is, to me, just like suicide.

Alcohol is legal partially because it is an addictive destructive downturning soporific toxin. Soma for the masses.

[RunningDeer]

Something for everybody. A hodgepodge of speed read articles by Steven Bancarz.

A. 7 Types Of Friends Worth Fighting For (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/7-types-of-friends-worth-fighting-for/)

The generous one
The Listener
The Uplifter
The Comic
The honest one
The big dreamer
Your soul mate

B. 5 Attachments That Keep Us Enslaved In Life (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/5-attachments-that-keep-us-enslaved-in-life/)

Societies expectations
Your past
The need to impress others
Fear of the future
Relationships that aren’t worth it

C. Social Anxiety 101: How To Overcome Fear Of Social Interactions (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/social-anxiety-101-how-to-overcome-fear-of-social-interactions/)

Stop caring what other people think
Stop thinking. Become present.
Trace back to the causes of your anxiety and heal yourself

D. 3 Signs You Are On The Wrong Path (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/3-signs-you-are-on-the-wrong-path/)

You feel dead inside
You feel like you are wasting your time
You try to fill the void

E. 3 Common Energetic Blockages That Cause Heart Pain (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/3-common-energetic-blockages-that-cause-heart-pain/)

Suppressing emotions
Not communicating
Not forgiving

F. Why Crying Is Healthy & Necessary For Personal Growth (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/why-crying-is-healthy-necessary-for-personal-growth/)

It clears your energy field
It allows more to come up
It prevents serious health issues


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[Carmody]

I think I'm gonna have me a drink of some nice 12 year old rum.

[ulli]

I've been reading family members' astro charts for 2016 and can't do that well if I'm even slightly inebriated.

Year's end for me normally means sobriety, and I feel as if I always have to do the opposite of what others are doing.


But now you (Carmody) mention it I have this sudden taste to have me a Campari and fresh orange juice.
The guests have left and all I need to worry about is to relax and enjoy the rest of the day.

Will be sipping it slowly rather than gulping it, while wishing everyone at Avalon a fruitful and happy New Year.

[Hym]

Running Dear,
That's a really good summation of healthy living, Spirit Science and Metaphysics, especially E and F.
I have always welcomed the tears, from others and myself as well. When I was with a beautiful soul, troubled by heavy parenting and a lost generation of her friends, I treasured the tears from her whenever they came because that meant she was dealing with the truths that confused her. Nothing to say....just being there for her. I find it a weakness in men who can't or won't cry, even if it is rare. It means, to me at least, that they don't give a damn.

And as far as any need or desire to alter my brain's makeup....
It's not that I haven't experienced some of those short term alterations, but my health and active life style, along with being born with an addiction, made my time in those lost lands very short, even if I had a tolerance far above my friends'.

As for the sometimes healthy use of D & A.......and as far as altering the chemical makeup of the brain and the endocrine system, I used to tell people that if you meet someone in religious garb, (like I wore for many years-but only for the comfort, the energy and the simplicity of my energetics (like keeping my hair) -certainly not for the religion that was/is associated with it), I would tell people if they meet others so externally adorned to be forgiving of them......those not as communicative as me, or as seva oriented to others, had probably not been laid or loaded enough to "get" what that identity was all about.

I mentioned to some in the religion that they should probably institute the "Laid and Loaded" pre-requisite if they wanted to have a better relationship with those they meet. But you know most organizations and how full of it they are......consolidation of previous neurosis their parents and society gave them, only worse, hiding in plain sight...

Have a safe and happy time meeting the challenges that require losing the safety at times and allowing yourself the space to be unhappy to move on.......Every bit of it is worth the living....

[Caren]

Cheers Carmody, from the 'Rum' province of Canada. Cheers to you Ulli as well (I'm sipping a locally made beer). Happy New Year to everyone.

[Violet]

Lomatium is an herb. Strong anti-viral and anti-biotic used in the americas by natives for a very long time.
I have found it to be more effective for me than many other herbs. I do take Lomatium and Black Walnut herbal tinctures habitually BEFORE I feel the need from excess exposure to weather conditions or any excess stress that I may be challenged with. I also take a couple of grams of good vitamin c daily..

Here is a link describing it's benefits:

http://www.online-health-care.com/herbal-medicines/lomatium.htm


You say before. Is that your own rule or is it determined? Like they say with the purple coneflower. Although the last time I was at the doctor for this type of ailment, he told me that it was a misconception and that you can use it during the disease (with results) as well.

Thanks again.

[araucaria]

Enjoy your libations everyone, but I don’t think I’ll be partaking. We had a lovely Christmas, with 20+ here for dinner, but one of the babies was just out of hospital with bronchiolitis, and I seem to have taken up where he left off. For me 2015 was by some margin the fastest year ever, but it was still 4 days too long. Normal service will be resumed asap, but tonight will be an early night – now how dull and dumb does that make me? Happy New Year to all :)

[Calz]

A co-worker has taken off 3 weeks to go to Vietnam ... which kicks in mandatory overtime for yours truly.

No days off for nearly a month.

Someone else enjoy some new year celebrations for me eh??? :Party:


http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/its-called-work-funny-demotivational-posters-employment-working.jpg

[ulli]

Enjoy your libations everyone, but I don’t think I’ll be partaking. We had a lovely Christmas, with 20+ here for dinner, but one of the babies was just out of hospital with bronchiolitis, and I seem to have taken up where he left off. For me 2015 was by some margin the fastest year ever, but it was still 4 days too long. Normal service will be resumed asap, but tonight will be an early night – now how dull and dumb does that make me? Happy New Year to all :)

If I were to celebrate a New Year it would have to be on March 21st.
It's the beginning of the astrological year as well as Naw-Ruz, the Baha'i New Year which stems from Zoroaster times.
Makes a lot more sense to me than the Gregorian calendar.

I have attended quite a few Old Year's Night parties over the years, but can't remember any I particularly enjoyed.
So I stopped going, to save myself the negative feelings I get when surrounded by silliness.
Fortunately husband agrees with me so we will have an early night here. We will be woken up by fireworks and their echoes and think of the poor dogs who have to suffer through this.
I hope you get over your flu, araucaria. Be well.
:heart: to all.

[RunningDeer]

2016
an ongoing
celebration of
peace, joy,
love, prosperity
and health

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Photoshop/2016-villagers_zpss8cdlgsc.GIF

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[Flash]

Happy new year everyone

Araucaria, be bwell fast.. now you know what it is to feel like a baby ;)

I hope we will all have a good year, opening up to what is (talking to myself lol)

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[ulli]

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[Hym]

Violet. I use herbs during AND before any time I am sick, or if i feel something coming on. I am reliant upon being healthy to get work done, so I've been very aware of what makes me sick and do my best to head anything off at the pass. Many people do the same.

Have a healthy, fun and fulfilling year all !!!! You are a Blessing !!!!

[Stephanie]

"Let your life lightly dance on the edge of time,
like dew on the tip of a leaf."
R. Tagore

Abundant blessings, health and joy...
...to all you most kindly of companions,
on another journey around the sun.

Feliz Año Nuevo 2016

[Dennis Leahy]

Just had a wisdom tooth extracted. Anesthetic just starting to wear off.

Yesterday, riding the pain roller-coaster, I think I may have hit a 9 on the 0 to 10 pain scale. At one point, I was pacing around the room, lost in the pain, and when the pain level dropped down to about a 5, I remarked, "I can see the carpet." Before that, my eyes were aimed down at the carpet, but I had no awareness of my surroundings - only the pain.

How in the hell do people live with severe, chronic pain?

After 3 years, my dentist is starting to figure me out. I was pleased that my dentist said, "I'd write you a prescription for pain, but I know you won't take it." She also was fine with me using Oil of Oregano as my antibiotic, and she mentioned Turmeric as an anti-inflammatory (noting that I had no plans to even take ibuprofen.) It's nice to see examples within the medical/dental troops of acceptance of herbal and holistic approaches - and not being defensive when a patient rejects the offerings of Big Pharma.

[promezeus]

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[RunningDeer]

RUNNING DEER SPEAKS TO HATTER : HER OWN STORY

In case clarification is needed that Running Deer (https://outofthisworldx.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/running-deer-speaks-to-hatter-her-own-story-rolling-thunder-amd-sun-bear/) is not me.

A few years ago, it was time to retire my avatar name of ‘WhiteCrowBlackDeer’.

Princess RunningDeer was a guide of mine in the early 1970’s. The only one who ever gave me their name. Shortly after, this white deer buckskin power bag was given as a gift.

She’s Native American. Because of her status, she's dressed in white deer buckskin. With her blessing… I changed it to RunningDeer.


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Healed/powerbag_smudge-stick_zps7b2rw7w6.JPG

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[Mike]

Just read a resume of 3 studies showing that intelligent people do more of the three S, Sleep later at night, Smoke pot and do drugs more, Sex much more sex than regular or non intelligent ones.

Full article in English - Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More Drugs, And Have More Sex (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/#sthash.E5Y4gVRv.dpuf: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/)

Summary:

What does this all mean?

Correlation does not imply causation.  This does not mean that staying up late, doing drugs, and experimenting with sex toys makes you more intelligent.  But it seems to be the case that people who naturally have a higher degree of intelligence partake in these activities naturally because they are drawn to them.  Maybe it is because of their openmindedness, their desire to expand their mind and their experience, or a biological urge to experiment with something novel.

Chances are, a lot of people reading this tend to stay up late and indulge in life’s pleasures. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and it may even be a natural consequence of having an above average IQ. These three studies completely shatter everything we would expect to be true about people of high intelligence.  It seems to be the intellectuals that are having the most fun.  I think it’s time we let go of old stereotypes.



Yes, i'm afraid it's true Paula:sun:

Carmody, youve got it all wrong. Alcohol is a symphony. If you allow it, it'll lift you into the stratosphere. It can be a glorious thing, but it won't do all the work for you like drugs...it makes you work a little harder. But you won't get there by drinking mike's spiked lemonade...youll need some guinness stout or some high quality belgian whites. Or a good pale ale...or 10

Happy new year to everyone! Lots of love to all of you!!:Party:

[Carmody]

A co-worker has taken off 3 weeks to go to Vietnam ... which kicks in mandatory overtime for yours truly.

No days off for nearly a month.

Someone else enjoy some new year celebrations for me eh??? :Party:


http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/its-called-work-funny-demotivational-posters-employment-working.jpg

Oooo.. original mint condition ps/2 clicky keyboards. Worth at least $100 on eBay.

[RunningDeer]

Full article in English - Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More Drugs, And Have More Sex (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/#sthash.E5Y4gVRv.dpuf: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/)

Summary:

What does this all mean?

Correlation does not imply causation.  This does not mean that staying up late, doing drugs, and experimenting with sex toys makes you more intelligent.  But it seems to be the case that people who naturally have a higher degree of intelligence partake in these activities naturally because they are drawn to them.  Maybe it is because of their openmindedness, their desire to expand their mind and their experience, or a biological urge to experiment with something novel.

Chances are, a lot of people reading this tend to stay up late and indulge in life’s pleasures. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and it may even be a natural consequence of having an above average IQ. These three studies completely shatter everything we would expect to be true about people of high intelligence.  It seems to be the intellectuals that are having the most fun.  I think it’s time we let go of old stereotypes.



Yes, i'm afraid it's true Paula:sun:

Carmody, youve got it all wrong. Alcohol is a symphony. If you allow it, it'll lift you into the stratosphere. It can be a glorious thing, but it won't do all the work for you like drugs...it makes you work a little harder. But you won't get there by drinking mike's spiked lemonade...youll need some guinness stout or some high quality belgian whites. Or a good pale ale...or 10

Happy new year to everyone! Lots of love to all of you!!:Party:

My guess is that you’re making a funny. But just in case…

It was hard to respond to the article. It included: I think it’s time we let go of old stereotypes. I felt like it was all over the place. In which case, my response will be as well.

It depends from what perspective and which part of the life journey I compare what the article speaks too. Along with experimentation and intelligence, I’d add courage and insight to the equation.

This addictive personality understands that sex, drugs and alcohol are limiting. By comparison, activities I’ve participated in such as the firewalk, 3-day monthly intensive group encounters and outward bounds, were insightful, therapeutic and have on-going beneficial effects.

Inner understanding is where it’s at. That entails clarity of mind, honesty and willingness to go where most don’t.

Happy New Year, Mike. xo


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Seasons/HNY_zpsuvaksoit.GIF

[Flash]

Gosh I threw an old Apple monitor a few years ago, with keyboard and all



A co-worker has taken off 3 weeks to go to Vietnam ... which kicks in mandatory overtime for yours truly.

No days off for nearly a month.

Someone else enjoy some new year celebrations for me eh??? :Party:


http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/its-called-work-funny-demotivational-posters-employment-working.jpg

Oooo.. original mint condition ps/2 clicky keyboards. Worth at least $100 on eBay.

[Guest]

Well I have imbibed too much this year and I am one not to at all. Geesh been a heck of a couple of years.

I really don't like alcohol very much. But once in a while I do enjoy a good beer.
Mike I agree Guinness Stout draft is very good. Must be my Irish blood.


Wish everyone much Love Joy Beauty and Peace.





Love


Nota

[Mike]

Full article in English - Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More Drugs, And Have More Sex (http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/#sthash.E5Y4gVRv.dpuf: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/)

Summary:

What does this all mean?

Correlation does not imply causation.  This does not mean that staying up late, doing drugs, and experimenting with sex toys makes you more intelligent.  But it seems to be the case that people who naturally have a higher degree of intelligence partake in these activities naturally because they are drawn to them.  Maybe it is because of their openmindedness, their desire to expand their mind and their experience, or a biological urge to experiment with something novel.

Chances are, a lot of people reading this tend to stay up late and indulge in life’s pleasures. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and it may even be a natural consequence of having an above average IQ. These three studies completely shatter everything we would expect to be true about people of high intelligence.  It seems to be the intellectuals that are having the most fun.  I think it’s time we let go of old stereotypes.



Yes, i'm afraid it's true Paula:sun:

Carmody, youve got it all wrong. Alcohol is a symphony. If you allow it, it'll lift you into the stratosphere. It can be a glorious thing, but it won't do all the work for you like drugs...it makes you work a little harder. But you won't get there by drinking mike's spiked lemonade...youll need some guinness stout or some high quality belgian whites. Or a good pale ale...or 10

Happy new year to everyone! Lots of love to all of you!!:Party:

My guess is that you’re making a funny. But just in case…

It was hard to respond to the article. It included: I think it’s time we let go of old stereotypes. I felt like it was all over the place. In which case, my response will be as well.

It depends from what perspective and which part of the life journey I compare what the article speaks too. Along with experimentation and intelligence, I’d add courage and insight to the equation.

This addictive personality understands that sex, drugs and alcohol are limiting. By comparison, activities I’ve participated in such as the firewalk, 3-day monthly intensive group encounters and outward bounds, were insightful, therapeutic and have on-going beneficial effects.

Inner understanding is where it’s at. That entails clarity of mind, honesty and willingness to go where most don’t.

Happy New Year, Mike. xo


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Seasons/HNY_zpsuvaksoit.GIF



Beautiful post.

I did agree with the articles premise, wasnt really being silly, just ironically including myself in that group...quite ambitiously I might add, as I don't feel especiallly sharp these days and I regrettably have very little sex (contact disease and pregnancy paranioa). I do feel , in my own way, courageous and insightful, so I appreciate you adding those..

I'm happy to announce that ive resumed my zen meditation classes at the zen center here in syracuse...so we'll see if it has any lasting effect on my nocturnal activities. I'll include an update here.sometime soon..

:heart:

[Calz]

Alcohol is a symphony.

... you'll need some guinness stout




Crack me up you do ...


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[ulli]

In the last week 10 people died here of swine flu, and 50 are hospitalized, half of them in intensive care.
The outbreak is quite near us, so my husband doesn't want to take any risks.
Will be using a mask when seeing patients and last night gave himself a shot in the arm with the vaccine.

And now has come down with a fever and upset tummy, from the side effects, I.E. nausea and diarrhea.
There are a lot of people here in high alert mode.

[Hym]

Ulli, do you have access to herbs there?

Blessings and Healing to your husband and all of those in need !

[ulli]

Ulli, do you have access to herbs there?

Blessings and Healing to your husband and all of those in need !

There are some shops which are called Macrobioticos, but whenever I tried to find something they didn't have it.
Why, what herb would you recommend?

I could try and shop online, but there is another problem here. Only one customs office in the whole of the country, and situated in the center of town, which when you go near there will make you sick. In early November I bought two batteries and a keyboard for my 2 MacBook Air computers, and am still waiting for them to notify me for collection.
I know they have been in the country since December 1st, because of the tracking.

They will have to start installing rural offices soon, because that centralization thing no longer is feasible, what with people wanting to shop online from other countries.

Welcome to the tropics.
Oh, and when I go there I have to make lines at three different windows...and the whole process can take up to three hours, not counting the 1 hour each way journey.
I better start learning to go into the rain forest and identify healing plants, but feel I'm a bit too old now for such an adventure. Plus, there are many snakes and jaguars.

[Hym]

I use lomatium for these things, with a small amount of golden seal and echinacea, but only as 3-4 days on and 1-3 days off. I also take vit.C, if that ill, in gram form, at 2 capsules every 5 hours, or until diarhea comes on. However, it is not accurate to recommend beyond personal experience over the net. You have a lot of discernment and meditative introspection at your disposal. May you and yours be served by it well.

What is the method of transmission of the strain there? Airborne, waterborne, food borne ? Remember how well known Nostradamus was because of his healing, way before the quatrains? He removed the source of the transmission by separating the water and sewage systems, burnt infected cloth and separated the levels of illness from each other. This was in addition to his herbal mixtures used to combat the illness and strengthen the immune system.

By now there have to be enough connections between the transplanted northern and european practitioners, both whole-istic and allopathic, and the native herbalists to have produced some local knowledge and supplies. We know that the best treatments derive from local sourcing of natural herbs and plant, mineral based ingredients. There have been botanists from the western nations there gathering these curatives for a long while. I guess that some may have only been funded by big pharma and may or may not share their findings. I hope you find some connection there.
Blessings, Ulli.

[dan33]

:ROFL::highfive:

hieKgQNQpMA

[RunningDeer]

In the last week 10 people died here of swine flu, and 50 are hospitalized, half of them in intensive care.
...The outbreak is quite near us, so my husband doesn't want to take any risks....

Encircling the valley,
and Ulli, Dr. Ulli and all Families
with protection and vibrant health

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[ulli]

In the last week 10 people died here of swine flu, and 50 are hospitalized, half of them in intensive care.
...The outbreak is quite near us, so my husband doesn't want to take any risks....

Encircling the valley,
and Ulli, Dr. Ulli and all Families
with protection and vibrant health

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Ulli-Valley_zpsbouufd72.jpg

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Wow, Pauler. Speechless.
Beautiful image, too.

[ulli]

Just saw this and had to share.
Good example of quick wit.

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[ulli]

...and while I was looking at political jokes my husband surprised me.
He turned the smart TV to YouTube and unbeknownst to me searched for Gurdjieff music.

When I heard this I could not believe my ears, as he normally doesn't show much interest in Gurdjieff.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLru2MWxmaM

[araucaria]

A few thoughts on the drugs/alcohol debate. Whatever drugs do to you, you usually have to subscribe to the criminal drug trafficking system which, as Catherine Austin Fitts explains, http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?84698-Secret-Space-Program-Conference-2015&p=1019990&viewfull=1#post1019990 is a way of dumbing down a whole population with its own money. Hence the illegality of drugs may have something to do with their usefulness, but it mostly has something to do with their usefulness as a weapon against the user. I don’t know enough about the Prohibition, but it was a fairly local phenomenon that never really got off the ground. Maybe this had something to do with the on-the-spot availability of alcohol just about everywhere. This inevitably leads to variety and comparisons and preferences, and gourmet listings, with market forces on the negative side and a search for authenticity on the positive side. In other words, whisky or beer or wine, as opposed to alcohol generally, become social and cultural phenomena, and the bonding they can produce when consumed in moderation is arguably what has made prohibition impossible, apart from in certain Muslim countries and... the USA.

This is the one aspect that illegality removes. Drug users have to go underground to some extent; they can be picked up any time if they don’t, i.e. they are blackmailable, just like politicians, without the respectability. And they are largely cut off from their supply source. They cannot drop in at the local brewery or pub, or the nearest wine-grower: they have no traceability, no authenticity, and are therefore easier to rip off in terms of quality and even toxicity. And often drugtaking comes closer to medication (injections, tablets...) than to recreation (smoking).

Another aspect is addiction: a substance is addictive when consumption itself produces the desire for more and more often. The drug trafficking process is also addictive in the sense that craving is further induced by clandestine routines, relative scarcity and its corollary, high prices. This in turn leads to an escalation of illegality: even if drugs were legal, you would still need to go into crime to finance your habit. Tobacco is legal, but if you sell it yourself, you don’t become a tobacconist, just a cigarette smuggler/dealer.

Alcohol on the other hand is cheap. And dirt cheap especially wherever binge drinking can be encouraged (e.g. the British houses of Parliament http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/john-bercow-accused-of-covering-up-drinking-problems-in-parliament-where-a-pint-of-beer-costs-just-a6792821.html ). Binge drinking and longer term alcoholism are to be encouraged because they take you straight past the useful disinhibiting/stimulating stage when people lose enough self-control to go places, share things, discover things they wouldn’t otherwise be able to, all the way to the disabling soporific stupor stage. And this is where a legal activity can still get you in trouble with the law: drunk and disorderliness, violence and rape...

Since the ancient wisdom “nothing in excess” means both immoderation and moderation in moderation, the ideal dose is typically whatever is “a bit too much”. Things happen when you surrender control somewhat, which here means slight intoxication. There is little point getting to the stage where things get interesting and then carrying on to the stage of total inebriation where you can’t remember a thing. The same thing happens in the dream state, where you have to wake up to remember anything. Sleep is physically restorative, but in other respects the really interesting, productive states are hypnogogic and hypnopompic drowsiness before and after. Here you see how surrendering control somewhat amounts to partial sensory deprivation. This is probably what alcohol also does, notably in the recklessness that results from the overriding of such things as primitive flight impulses. It doesn’t have to be walking into traffic, it might be blowing the whistle on something, or coming to terms with something big. If you don’t need a stiff drink before, you might need one afterwards. As compared with sleep, alcohol of course involves a substance, but that is perhaps the price you pay for getting the effects out as a lubricant of social interaction. Much more useful at any rate than taking in the heady fumes of charismatic speakers of every kind.

The ramblings of a still ’fluey man about to have a bowl of soup...

[TargeT]

Went to a chairty donkey race recently and shot some video... it was entirely too much fun; the races were delayed for 2 hours while the donkeys were "wrangled", but the bars opened on time ;)

f2u1DiCVPNs


The Gentlemen of Jones puts this event on every year to pay for the city seasonal holiday lights & help support the boat parade:
http://stcroixsource.com/files/userfiles/image/2011%20December/boat%20parade%20bigger%20party%20boat.jpg

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[ulli]

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/president-obama-catches-netanyahu-bribing-republican-congressmen-to-change-their-votes/23432/

Republican congressmen got caught by Obama accepting bribes from Bibi Netanyahu.
Wall Street Journal initially broke the story

[Carmody]

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/president-obama-catches-netanyahu-bribing-republican-congressmen-to-change-their-votes/23432/

Republican congressmen got caught by Obama accepting bribes from Bibi Netanyahu.
Wall Street Journal initially broke the story

That is an act of prosecutable -- treason.

The punishment is execution.

Israel, when caught, and it goes public, put nails in it's own coffin.

Israel will more than likely..claw at the USA underbelly and pull on control ropes - even harder than the time prior to this going public...and make the process of removal of Israel and Israeli supporters...faster yet.