Here and Now...What's Happening?

[PurpleLama]

I just got a call, a buddy of mine has been missing since Friday night. His name is ***** and he lives near Meridian, MS. Any prayers or anything else toward a positive outcome to this situation would be more than welcome. Any feedback please PM, thanks.

[PurpleLama]

He's got a lot of friends who are gonna whoop him, once his girlfriend bails him out. I don't know the story, but he is safe, at least.

[Carmody]

Good time to introduce my new Internet acronym creation, methinks.

SOK

"Sh!t Upon Kablooey"'

Then the variants,

GSOK (Giant), and so on.

Your friend might suffer, or has suffered a GSOK. Depends on how his story pans out.

Ie, self inflicted, might be SDGSOK (self directed), or SIGSOK, works better in English (Self Inflicted) ...then, MOGSOK (Maximum Overdrive) etc...

[Carmody]

Apparently, it is now a yearly event. Albeit a small one, I'd hazard.

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[Bluegreen]

He's got a lot of friends who are gonna whoop him, once his girlfriend bails him out. I don't know the story, but he is safe, at least.

Any excuse for a party is fine
Get down get down

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[Violet]

The end of a school year is typically a very busy period.


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(Blenda Studio)

Sonny, yeah I think I'll call him that (sonnenschein (http://www.interglot.com/dictionary/de/en/translate/Sonnenschein)) is making great progress and as time goes by, it seems to come with more ease. He's very busy enjoying soon-summer and various school trips all over the country. They just came back from what we call here: sea classes, semi-week spent at the sea-side. Just that the weather wasn't on their side. He brought home a small sea star, a small Patrick. He likes Spongebob.

Sonny jr. is becoming more and more playful on the school ground but he still doesn't speak to his kindergarten teachers, or anyone else there for that matter. We're (therapists & I) looking into non-verbal communication as a first step towards spontaneous speech and also to bridge the current gap. We still have time. His teachers are patient and kind (it's also a small method school), he feels comfortable with them. The non-speaking is not necessarily a sign of not liking, it's just "his decision", as he puts it, because he càn speak. He has a fixed set of about two or three people he'll talk to.

So, lots of school-therapists meetings scheduled now. We're looking at this year's evaluation (what worked, what not) and next year's planning (what do we keep, what changes). And then I lose my diary. :blink: A written one. I said goodbye to the digital ones a long time ago. I wanted to decrease my dependency on the electrical circuit. Of course, a logical condition for the written one to work out is that you must not lose it. A condition that can go beyond my own control, I have no idea what happened or even where I might have left it. If I stop thinking about it, I'm sure I'll know more soon. Somehow, that's how it usually goes.

Mother is gone visiting holy places. It makes her feel safe and loved. Of course she would never tell me that herself, but I know. She's lonely.

I couldn't believe my ears this morning waking up to the news with advice for Orlande muslims to best stay indoors for fear of retaliations following the shooting. Especially women are advised to not leave the homes, their veils might provoke people. The sound of that.

There was a memorial service in Brussels yesterday (and in lots of places in the world):

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Syncs are still here, and welcome. On sunny days when the kids play in the garden, I'll have a big chalk box ready, you know. Just in case anyone would want to put something out there. And sometimes they do, not as much as I would like them to, but hey, everyone at their own pace. So, what happens is that usually I'll be the one grabbing the chalk and start drawing on the walls. Just playing, nothing serious. But there's one garden wall on which the autumn and early spring rain (and now also: soon-summer rain) has left traces. It's the wall that directly faces my kitchen window. When I'm preparing meals I look at it. I peel my potatoes and watch the lines that mark rain's earlier visits, and I see various images in the collective. There's a path of trees in there, on a skew diagonal along a small river and in front of that river stands a figure. A man holding his head and screaming with fearful eyes. He's been there for two years now. I take a piece of chalk and go over the man's face, the outline of his hands, the open mouth, the round eyes, it screamed alright.

I just read that Antwerp is going to get another museum of art. To be called museum De Reede and it's said to feature Munch's works. Let's put that in...erm...the new diary, hopefully here soon.

[ulli]

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Yep.
This is what happens when you get a small piece of high altitude land in a tropical country and build a house on it and plant trees and flowers and create a miniature world to your own liking....

[PurpleLama]

Apparently they have 72 hours to charge you for whatever, and they don't have to let you contact anyone while they sit on this decision. My friends girlfriend was going to file a missing persons report and they were like, oh we have him.

I will refrain from expressing my disdain for such a policy on the part of our law enforcement in MS.

[PurpleLama]

He has PTST from working construction in a war zone halfway around the world. For this he takes no prescription, rather he uses something legal in some states, but not in ours, to keep the edge off of the condition. Ultimately they decided to hit him with misdemeanors, which was quite fortunate in its own way, as it could have meant time to serve rather than a fine to pay.

[ulli]

I've been meaning to give my perspective on the term NWO, and it's Baha'i origin.
How one can reconcile hierarchy and equality, by setting up a federated world superstate in which the rights of the individual are protected.
So there is a thread now, started by Agape, which gave me the opportunity to post this:
Quote Posted by mosquito (here)
"THE New world order (a term first coined by George H.W. Bush) is already here and is nothing more than a progression of the old tyranny. Unfortunately, the majority of people on this planet actually DO want it and the perceived "security" it brings.

What we actually need is .... A new world order. Although the term I prefer is new paradigm. This is so radically different from what we currently have that the majority wouldn't know how to handle it, or how to even envision it, which is probably why it's so long coming."

My reply:
When G.W. Bush first mentioned the term "New World Order" Bahais all over the world were ecstatic.
After all, they had gone out of their way to deliver a document called "The Promise of World Peace" to leaders of all the countries on the planet.
http://www.bahai.org/documents/the-u...se-world-peace

And this document mentioned the term, which Bahai's have been using since it was first coined by the prophet Baha'u'llah in the 19 th century.
So Bush must have read it, as well as Gorbachev, who also mentioned it in one of his speeches.

But nowhere did this document recommend a top-down hierarchy, with its secrecy, elitism, and nondemocratic policy-making.

A certain degree of sovereignty must be allowed to exist at all levels. I.E. that of the individual, the family, the community, the nation, and the planet as a whole, and world government can only be useful in its function of guarding the planet as a whole, if it respects the rights of those other levels.

Of course, those rights are then limited by the potential damage a country can do to its neighbours, as seen in the case of the Fukushima event, where clearly one single government does not have the means to sort out such a vast problem.
The best minds of the planet have to come together to find a solution that benefits all life.

[Carmody]

http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/062010/small_sad%20cat%20keanu.jpg

Since it is that special day and cat pictures show up every now and then.. I thought I'd..just...

(also my paternal grandfather's birthday)

[Guest]

My father made his journey peacefully on May 22 in the late evening hours. The day after the full moon in Sagittarius and the day Mercury stationed direct. His moon was in Gemini. There was a lot of bright gold and deep pink light around him and in the room. I know Spirit took really good care of him.


Love

Nora

[Stephanie]

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Dearest Nora,
Special, loving blessings for you and yours.

[ulli]

Blessings to you, dear Nora, and to your dad, wherever he may dwell now. Big hug.

[araucaria]

Newness is inextricably bound up with oldness.The word ‘new’ must be one of the most misused in any language. The French are crazy about it: nouvelle cuisine, nouvelle couture, nouveau roman, nouveau cinéma, nouvelle vague... Such newness is more about form than substance, rather like when some dictating a letter will say ‘new paragraph’. And often in fact, the new is actually looking nostalgically backward: New York, New Orleans, New England, Nova Scotia...

This then gets mixed up with origins; the Latin poet Virgil (it whom we owe the ‘novus ordo saeculorum’ version on the dollar bill) calls Rome the New Ilium (Troy) founded by survivors of the Trojan War. Hence his hero Aeneas turns out to be the son of the goddess Venus and founds a city destined for greatness. His epic poem the Aeneid is then a combination of old and new; it tells the story of fresh beginnings, and yet it is a rehash of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in reverse order. The ‘New World’ is the same old story: it was only ever new for old world people, and unsurprisingly it turns out that the old world still rules the roost there.

What applies to the word ‘new’ also applies to the word ‘original’. The word is derived from ‘origin’ and only comes to mean entirely novel in the creative sense when referring to someone or something that is its own origin. In this sense it is opposed to both old and new; it is not interested in beginnings or ends (where we come from or where we are heading, genesis/apocalypse), it is only interested in here and now as an eternal process in time and space.

[ulli]

Newness is inextricably bound up with oldness.The word ‘new’ must be one of the most misused in any language. The French are crazy about it: nouvelle cuisine, nouvelle couture, nouveau roman, nouveau cinéma, nouvelle vague... Such newness is more about form than substance, rather like when some dictating a letter will say ‘new paragraph’. And often in fact, the new is actually looking nostalgically backward: New York, New Orleans, New England, Nova Scotia...

This then gets mixed up with origins; the Latin poet Virgil (it whom we owe the ‘novus ordo saeculorum’ version on the dollar bill) calls Rome the New Ilium (Troy) founded by survivors of the Trojan War. Hence his hero Aeneas turns out to be the son of the goddess Venus and founds a city destined for greatness. His epic poem the Aeneid is then a combination of old and new; it tells the story of fresh beginnings, and yet it is a rehash of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in reverse order. The ‘New World’ is the same old story: it was only ever new for old world people, and unsurprisingly it turns out that the old world still rules the roost there.

What applies to the word ‘new’ also applies to the word ‘original’. The word is derived from ‘origin’ and only comes to mean entirely novel in the creative sense when referring to someone or something that is its own origin. In this sense it is opposed to both old and new; it is not interested in beginnings or ends (where we come from or where we are heading, genesis/apocalypse), it is only interested in here and now as an eternal process in time and space.

This post got me contemplating the idea of octaves. Comparing the high C to the lower C note...how it is familiar, and yet new.

[Carmody]

Newness is inextricably bound up with oldness.The word ‘new’ must be one of the most misused in any language. The French are crazy about it: nouvelle cuisine, nouvelle couture, nouveau roman, nouveau cinéma, nouvelle vague... Such newness is more about form than substance, rather like when some dictating a letter will say ‘new paragraph’. And often in fact, the new is actually looking nostalgically backward: New York, New Orleans, New England, Nova Scotia...

This then gets mixed up with origins; the Latin poet Virgil (it whom we owe the ‘novus ordo saeculorum’ version on the dollar bill) calls Rome the New Ilium (Troy) founded by survivors of the Trojan War. Hence his hero Aeneas turns out to be the son of the goddess Venus and founds a city destined for greatness. His epic poem the Aeneid is then a combination of old and new; it tells the story of fresh beginnings, and yet it is a rehash of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in reverse order. The ‘New World’ is the same old story: it was only ever new for old world people, and unsurprisingly it turns out that the old world still rules the roost there.

What applies to the word ‘new’ also applies to the word ‘original’. The word is derived from ‘origin’ and only comes to mean entirely novel in the creative sense when referring to someone or something that is its own origin. In this sense it is opposed to both old and new; it is not interested in beginnings or ends (where we come from or where we are heading, genesis/apocalypse), it is only interested in here and now as an eternal process in time and space.

This post got me contemplating the idea of octaves. Comparing the high C to the lower C note...how it is familiar, and yet new.

And the description of astrology not as a circle or wheel of repetition, but a spiral of 'increase', or 'change'. Which is which....depends on the person involved to contemplate.

[ulli]

Newness is inextricably bound up with oldness.The word ‘new’ must be one of the most misused in any language. The French are crazy about it: nouvelle cuisine, nouvelle couture, nouveau roman, nouveau cinéma, nouvelle vague... Such newness is more about form than substance, rather like when some dictating a letter will say ‘new paragraph’. And often in fact, the new is actually looking nostalgically backward: New York, New Orleans, New England, Nova Scotia...

This then gets mixed up with origins; the Latin poet Virgil (it whom we owe the ‘novus ordo saeculorum’ version on the dollar bill) calls Rome the New Ilium (Troy) founded by survivors of the Trojan War. Hence his hero Aeneas turns out to be the son of the goddess Venus and founds a city destined for greatness. His epic poem the Aeneid is then a combination of old and new; it tells the story of fresh beginnings, and yet it is a rehash of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in reverse order. The ‘New World’ is the same old story: it was only ever new for old world people, and unsurprisingly it turns out that the old world still rules the roost there.

What applies to the word ‘new’ also applies to the word ‘original’. The word is derived from ‘origin’ and only comes to mean entirely novel in the creative sense when referring to someone or something that is its own origin. In this sense it is opposed to both old and new; it is not interested in beginnings or ends (where we come from or where we are heading, genesis/apocalypse), it is only interested in here and now as an eternal process in time and space.

This post got me contemplating the idea of octaves. Comparing the high C to the lower C note...how it is familiar, and yet new.

And the description of astrology not as a circle or wheel of repetition, but a spiral of 'increase', or 'change'. Which is which....depends on the person involved to contemplate.
Do you mean the theory that Mercury = Uranus, that Venus = Neptune, that Mars = Pluto, each latter being the higher octave of the former? Just more refined?

[Carmody]

both, I guess, as that is also the so called physical layout of the system, as we go from inner to outer, in the so called solar system.

Sometimes is forget how much of a perfected mirror is there in the details if one cares to compare structure. That the concept of as above, so below.... is in the most quantum..all the way to the most macro scaling.

The seeming paradox of how cohesion in the individual and the humanity is required for the analysis to appear so the consideration for growth is to take place, but in that the cohesion must be broken so the change can take place. That vibration, resonance, frequency, differential and so on.. are not just the fundamental but the mechanism itself. That the context is of itself, both the anchor and the reflection. Both the core reason and the fault, and so on. So many ways to describe the one essential all encompassing singularity of complexity.

It's not so good when I forget, it's not so good when I remember. Whatever the hell an I is, which is both everything and nothing. To recall how widespread and shared and universal the nothingness is. How much seeming meaning there is in the seeming pointlessness. I could go on, but...

[ulli]

The pairing of functions, like the function of the heart as a pump, pumping blood, and the circulatory system that distributes it to the furthest parts of the body...then compare it to the polarity of astrology...

So here we have the sun, in the center, as the heart of the solar system, the pump that pushes out endless energy,
represented by the sign of Leo, and it's symbol is a circle with a dot in the center.

And then Leo's opposite sign, Aquarius, its symbol looks like an antenna, and Aquarius the water bearer (water here symbolizes knowledge) as the distributer of knowledge, and Uranus-Aquarius rules the circulation system.

So there is this perfect system, or structure, which can be gleaned in the details of the human body as well as in the larger structure of the solar system, which is the outer reflection of a perfct creative design.

Of course everything is only perfect as long as one thinks it's perfect....

[ulli]

Years ago, in an earlier post on astrology, I mentioned that I perceive only six Zodiac signs instead of twelve. Or to be more precise, six axis, taking a given sign and its opposite as one whole. By itself each sign and its dominant trait is only a fragment, and faulty in its function.

For instance: the Libra-Aries axis.
Libra, hesitant, holding back out of fear of making a mistake. The diplomat who wishes to solve all disputes without violence. Air sign, intellectual.
Aries, pushy, not at all worried about getting things wrong. The adventurer-warrior who sees even warfare as a game. Fire sign, instinctive.
Each sign complements the other, and the hesitant (aka cowardly) Libra native can learn much from Aries' courage (aka recklessness) as forceful Aries natives can learn from Libra's peace and harmony message if they can just learn to control their fire.
So in between those two signs lies that perfect midpoint, where all becomes full creative potential, the point where divinity is accessed, where all one has to do is say Be! and it comes into existence, provided the energies dont cancel each other out and all goes pfffttt.....

Today is dentist day. Will talk about the virtues of a Taurus dentist later. The kind of dentist who is like the Oracle in the movie The Matrix, who said to Neo, "here, have another cookie"

[Violet]

Interesting observation. Thanks for sharing.

I know a Libra who behaves like an ardent Aries (not the ascendant).

Maybe whispering 'be' and screaming 'BE' gives different results.

[ulli]

Interesting observation. Thanks for sharing.

I know a Libra who behaves like an ardent Aries (not the ascendant).

Maybe whispering 'be' and screaming 'BE' gives different results.

Absolutely. When I allow myself to go into mechanical automaton mode my natural capricornian ambitiousness kicks in, and ruins all my plans.
It's as if that fierceness creates a giant dust cloud in front of me. Similar to a bow wave of a ship.

So then I remind myself to slow down and to stop for a while and smell the roses.
Going against one's dominant planet, as it were. Remaining still, yet alert.

For a Libra it might be easier than other signs to find that secret of balancing between their own sign and their opposite, as the need for balance is inherent in Libra's chief attitude. Most of all become aware of themselves in a healthy way, provided they dont sink into narcissism.

[araucaria]

Interesting observation. Thanks for sharing.

I know a Libra who behaves like an ardent Aries (not the ascendant).

Maybe whispering 'be' and screaming 'BE' gives different results.

Absolutely. When I allow myself to go into mechanical automaton mode my natural capricornian ambitiousness kicks in, and ruins all my plans.
It's as if that fierceness creates a giant dust cloud in front of me. Similar to a bow wave of a ship.

So then I remind myself to slow down and to stop for a while and smell the roses.
Going against one's dominant planet, as it were. Remaining still, yet alert.

For a Libra it might be easier than other signs to find that secret of balancing between their own sign and their opposite, as the need for balance is inherent in Libra's chief attitude. Most of all become aware of themselves in a healthy way, provided they dont sink into narcissism.
Balancing the balance, a kind of metabalancing act. Like a tightrope walker negotiating the wobbly bit (the rope) between two fixed points. He can wobble mostly sideways, so he uses a long balancing rod in the perpendicular plane where he stands at the fulcrum between two counter-acting pendulums on either side.

[PurpleLama]

So I should balance my Gemini diplomacy with the Sagittarian hoof in mouth disease? I've got that one....

[ulli]

So I should balance my Gemini diplomacy with the Sagittarian hoof in mouth disease? I've got that one....

Gemini adapts to their environment. Diplomacy only comes out where it is called for, and so it is used as survival strategy.
Sagittarius won't compromise their personality like that...they grab their backpack and move on.

Had to LOL at the hoof in mouth comment, as Im married to a Sag and only know too well what you are talking about.

[Carmody]

I made a note a in various posts while back on the forum, over the past few years, about the noticeable trend toward a seemingly inevitable danger zone issue. One of the breaking of humanity into two separate levels.

In some, I may have mentioned my given 'last life - past life recall', which occurred in my current life childhood. (as in recall of the full life, not just bits)

I witnessed first hand what a separated system looks like. Where one group is the animal-serfs, and the other is the oligarchy.

It is ugly beyond belief. If you think we treat animals and the world bad, in today's life, well, you ain't seen nuthin'.

The end game of such scenarios can be and is inevitably ---- exceedingly despairing and ugly.

This is what I'm talking about, when I say that I know where all these particular beings are going, the ones who promulgate this nightmare scenario in our society -- I know where they are going. I know their next stop.

The War on Stupid People (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-war-on-stupid-people/485618/)

This is very much a danger zone area, where some foresight and/or farsight... would go a long way to mitigating the issues.

Eg, we now know that genetics can change in a single generation, even within the given person in the given lifetime.

It's a fairly complicated mess, complicated by the lack of understanding in the article.


Most important as points go, is that people who disparage 'stupid' people, are not really all that intelligent themselves.

They think they know something as they have a well decorated box of intelligence, where the walls are difficult to see. So they are under the impression that their box is wall-less and encompasses the world, in it's myriad considerations.

A more intelligent person would see the walls of the box of their own limits, and understand those limits. And would, in a way that transcend those limits, specifically with respect to how they treat a person of differing intelligence or a differing skill and wiring set.

[Stephanie]

Happy birthday to our lovely, Gemini
Marianne.

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[ulli]

Happy birthday to our lovely, Gemini
Marianne.

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Aka Junebug, which was her name before graduating to moderator.
Happy Birthday, Junebug!!
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[Carmody]

Sometimes I find stuff and I think it is utterly hilarious, but then decide that no... (https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/files/1461652102353-download.jpg). I can't share that. Oh well.

[ulli]

Sometimes I find stuff and I think it is utterly hilarious, but then decide that no... (https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/files/1461652102353-download.jpg). I can't share that. Oh well.

I know what you mean. Me too.
Example coming up. Read it quick before it gets moderated.
"Happy Fathers Day Mother F¥ckers"

[Stephanie]

Summer solstice at Glastonbury.
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[araucaria]

Here is the story of a couple of teenagers impromptu artwork at a contemporary art gallery (MoMA San Francisco).
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/museum-responds-to-abandoned-glasses-as-art-prank-sees-the-funny-side-a7052531.html
It would be flattering for them to be compared with Marcel Duchamp, but if, as the quoted philosopher says, the message of his urinal was ‘Art is something you piss on’, then they are not so much doing that as ‘taking the piss’. I think Duchamp was actually comparing the two situations of (a male) having a pee and visiting an art gallery: in both cases standing facing a wall at very close range like they’ve forgotten their glasses. So I guess a pair of specs facing back out from the wall was a very Duchampian item to exhibit, suggesting the artwork is not so much to be looked at, as a visual aid to be looked through. Once you start seeing clearly, you might notice for example that the second photo in the article has been faked: in all the other pictures, the floorboarding is perpendicular to the wall, but here it is parallel.

[ulli]

Here is the story of a couple of teenagers impromptu artwork at a contemporary art gallery (MoMA San Francisco).
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/museum-responds-to-abandoned-glasses-as-art-prank-sees-the-funny-side-a7052531.html
It would be flattering for them to be compared with Marcel Duchamp, but if, as the quoted philosopher says, the message of his urinal was ‘Art is something you piss on’, then they are not so much doing that as ‘taking the piss’. I think Duchamp was actually comparing the two situations of (a male) having a pee and visiting an art gallery: in both cases standing facing a wall at very close range like they’ve forgotten their glasses. So I guess a pair of specs facing back out from the wall was a very Duchampian item to exhibit, suggesting the artwork is not so much to be looked at, as a visual aid to be looked through. Once you start seeing clearly, you might notice for example that the second photo in the article has been faked: in all the other pictures, the floorboarding is perpendicular to the wall, but here it is parallel.

Not faked. They moved the "art object" to a place that does it more justice.
Now it can really be seen, in its shining glory.
;)

http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/26/10/art-glasses.jpg

[ulli]

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[PurpleLama]

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[Carmody]

Summer solstice at Glastonbury.
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That degree of the solstice, of 'sun stand thou still'....is 0.02 degrees off one of, if not the --- most important astrological points in my birth chart.

The thunderstorms, hail, rain, lighting, wind and near tornadoes...whip around me.



And just like everybody else, I scratch my ass... while looking up and contemplating the universe.

[PurpleLama]

Thunderstorms?

http://ihadfunonce.com/fs/i/2013/02/27/07757e0b0c91484d20b75e3322f493.jpg

[ulli]

Summer solstice at Glastonbury.
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That degree of the solstice, of 'sun stand thou still'....is 0.02 degrees off one of, if not the --- most important astrological points in my birth chart.

The thunderstorms, hail, rain, lighting, wind and near tornadoes...whip around me.



And just like everybody else, I scratch my ass... while looking up and contemplating the universe.

Oh dear! So how's your mum?

[Carmody]

Summer solstice at Glastonbury.
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That degree of the solstice, of 'sun stand thou still'....is 0.02 degrees off one of, if not the --- most important astrological points in my birth chart.

The thunderstorms, hail, rain, lighting, wind and near tornadoes...whip around me.



And just like everybody else, I scratch my ass... while looking up and contemplating the universe.

Oh dear! So how's your mum?

Not quite getting your meaning on that one.....

[Ron Mauer Sr]

My thank you prayer for the solstice, 21Jun2016.

I give thanks for knowing that we all are extensions of Source energy, on Prime Creator's never ending journey of Self discovery.

I give thanks for knowing that the power that creates worlds flows through us. I ask for clarity, courage and strength to use this power wisely, responsibly and with love.

I give thanks for knowing that imagination is a useful and powerful tool to change reality.

I give thanks for knowing that when we feel good, we are aligned with Source.

I support freedom, well being, joy, love, truth, clarity and empowerment for all.

So be it.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Talking of the summer solstice, this outrage:

Druids rail at 'pay to pray' entry fee at Stonehenge on Summer Solstice

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[ulli]

Summer solstice at Glastonbury.
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That degree of the solstice, of 'sun stand thou still'....is 0.02 degrees off one of, if not the --- most important astrological points in my birth chart.

The thunderstorms, hail, rain, lighting, wind and near tornadoes...whip around me.



And just like everybody else, I scratch my ass... while looking up and contemplating the universe.

Oh dear! So how's your mum?

Not quite getting your meaning on that one.....

Sorry, I didn't mean to be obscure.

A powerful full moon, like eclipses, or right now coninciding with a solstice, when it falls onto any sensitive point in the birth chart, will show up in two areas of life, home and mother.
Both are governed by the moon. Together with food, rest, comfort zone, and everthing else that stands opposite the sun's action, which is work, non-emotional self expression, paternal.

I experienced this first hand, when an eclipse fell on my birthday in 1982. I asked my astrology teacher what it might bring, and she said total change of home. Or news re mother.
In the end the unexpected came to pass, and very swiftly. On that birthday, during a terrible blizzard, we headed with baby and nanny to Gatwick in the UK, having spent the day loading all of our possessions onto a container.
None of this was planned properly, but circumstances gave no other choice when the shippers told us they had no other vacancy until many months later.

At the time Pluto was also square my sun, by the way. And mum was so upset that we were moving so far away that we could not calm her down.
At least not until Lufthansa opened a direct flight route to Barbados a few months later.

[Stephanie]

My thank you prayer for the solstice, 21Jun2016.

I give thanks for knowing that we all are extensions of Source energy, on Prime Creator's never ending journey of Self discovery.

I give thanks for knowing that the power that creates worlds flows through us. I ask for clarity, courage and strength to use this power wisely, responsibly and with love.

I give thanks for knowing that imagination is a useful and powerful tool to change reality.

I give thanks for knowing that when we feel good, we are aligned with Source.

I support freedom, well being, joy, love, truth, clarity and empowerment for all.

So be it.

Beautiful.

33693

[Carmody]

Summer solstice at Glastonbury.
33681
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That degree of the solstice, of 'sun stand thou still'....is 0.02 degrees off one of, if not the --- most important astrological points in my birth chart.

The thunderstorms, hail, rain, lighting, wind and near tornadoes...whip around me.



And just like everybody else, I scratch my ass... while looking up and contemplating the universe.

Oh dear! So how's your mum?

Not quite getting your meaning on that one.....

Sorry, I didn't mean to be obscure.

A powerful full moon, like eclipses, or right now coninciding with a solstice, when it falls onto any sensitive point in the birth chart, will show up in two areas of life, home and mother.
Both are governed by the moon. Together with food, rest, comfort zone, and everthing else that stands opposite the sun's action, which is work, non-emotional self expression, paternal.

I experienced this first hand, when an eclipse fell on my birthday in 1982. I asked my astrology teacher what it might bring, and she said total change of home. Or news re mother.
In the end the unexpected came to pass, and very swiftly. On that birthday, during a terrible blizzard, we headed with baby and nanny to Gatwick in the UK, having spent the day loading all of our possessions onto a container.
None of this was planned properly, but circumstances gave no other choice when the shippers told us they had no other vacancy until many months later.

At the time Pluto was also square my sun, by the way. And mum was so upset that we were moving so far away that we could not calm her down.
At least not until Lufthansa opened a direct flight route to Barbados a few months later.

Like the last words in 'Guardians of the Galaxy: "A bit of both!"

[Guest]

I have a close relative who's moon will be conjunct the penumbral Lunar eclipse in Aquarius within seconds in August. I'm not taking any chances. I will thankfully have moved out of state by then.

I'm currently still in the forest and there is a 7500 acre fire burning about 25 miles from where I live. The weather has cooled and the winds are low for the moment. Thank goodness, but fire creates its own weather and there is a lot of fuel. A few firemen have been hurt and some outbuildings have burned in the area. Three small towns have been evacuated.
Asking for prayers.


Love


Nora

[Stephanie]

May I know the source of what,
Appears within my mind,
And only act upon that which,
My heart and soul align.


33695

Blessings for you and lovely K.

Protective blessings and prayers for all.

[ulli]

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13497895_10209779900640171_8038793452110924707_o.jpg

The sky looks different every day, but especially today.
Opening a tiny store as soon as the Mayor signs the permits which took weeks to organize, this being Latin America.
I still cannot believe how this bureaucracy was allowed to get so totally out of hand.

[araucaria]

I think bureaucracy grew out of the need to counter those cheating the system. Many laws and regulations are passed to circumvent loopholes previously exploited for selfish ends. The minute, say, you introduce something like VAT (valued added tax) for the noble purpose of funding community investments, you will have VAT fraudsters collecting the tax for themselves. The entire system is based on mistrust, and if you are trying to implement a venture based on trust, you are going to have to run the gauntlet of bureaucracy until trust-based operation becomes the dominant mode. But to build up trust, the hard part is finding a place to start.

[ulli]

I think bureaucracy grew out of the need to counter those cheating the system. Many laws and regulations are passed to circumvent loopholes previously exploited for selfish ends. The minute, say, you introduce something like VAT (valued added tax) for the noble purpose of funding community investments, you will have VAT fraudsters collecting the tax for themselves. The entire system is based on mistrust, and if you are trying to implement a venture based on trust, you are going to have to run the gauntlet of bureaucracy until trust-based operation becomes the dominant mode. But to build up trust, the hard part is finding a place to start.

This is exactly true, especially in countries where law enforcement is low.

Especially if the Catholic Church is strong, and everyone follows only one law...
Which is the 11th commandment, of which there are two versions:
A) Church version: The only mortal sin is not showing up at mass on Sundays.
B) public version: Do whatever you like just don't get caught.

[Carmody]

AKA: blowing god -- lip service at it's finest.


:silent:

Sorry. That one just slipped out....(heh heh)

[Violet]

The Brownie, the BROWNIE, THE BROOOOOWNNNIIEIEIEIE....

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M99fcb06726a386d644be121d6689a576o0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=266&h=179 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_De_Bruyne)

Don't you just love international football (commentators)?

[ulli]

The Brownie, the BROWNIE, THE BROOOOOWNNNIIEIEIEIE....

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M99fcb06726a386d644be121d6689a576o0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=266&h=179 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_De_Bruyne)

Don't you just love international football (commentators)?

Husband is banished to another room, and still I can hear the screams.
The Irish commentator sounded like he was in a gay club being shot.

[ulli]

Sharing this letter from a Venezuelan friend who lives in Barbados.

"My heart is broken and I want the world to know. I spoke to one of my 2 brothers ln Caracas today and he said they have not eaten anything for 3 days because they have no food. Yesterday it was my other brother's turn to go and buy food, (you are allowed to go only the day you are assigned according to the number your ID card ends in) he was there from 5am to 5pm and returned home with nothing after a whole day in a line. He told me this is not just them, it's everybody in Vla. in this situation. There's no food, no medicines, no power and no water. How could Vla. have fallen so low. A country that has more oil than Dubai. But if you are from the government or military (who have been bought) you don't have these problems. I don't know how Venezuelans are going to survive, lots of people have died for lack of medicine and now they will die of hunger. it's a lot worse than we can image. The army has been told to shoot people who demonstrate because they are hungry. Please pray!"

[Violet]

The Brownie, the BROWNIE, THE BROOOOOWNNNIIEIEIEIE....

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M99fcb06726a386d644be121d6689a576o0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=266&h=179 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_De_Bruyne)

Don't you just love international football (commentators)?

Husband is banished to another room, and still I can hear the screams.
The Irish commentator sounded like he was in a gay club being shot.

You know, I was at the dentist earlier this week and we got into jewish humor*.

That aside.

Are there any news sources or individuals reporting about what is happening in Vla?


*= ftr, not about indiv., rather he character of the humor itself

[Calz]

This is nice ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0TInLOJuUM

[ulli]

The Brownie, the BROWNIE, THE BROOOOOWNNNIIEIEIEIE....

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M99fcb06726a386d644be121d6689a576o0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=266&h=179 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_De_Bruyne)

Don't you just love international football (commentators)?

Husband is banished to another room, and still I can hear the screams.
The Irish commentator sounded like he was in a gay club being shot.

You know, I was at the dentist earlier this week and we got into jewish humor*.

That aside.

Are there any news sources or individuals reporting about what is happening in Vla?


*= ftr, not about indiv., rather he character of the humor itself

Sure, many.
Here in Costa Rica we get Venezuela news daily.
Plus there is a huge ex-pat population with whole cities being built for those refugees...mostly classy condos.
The poor probably can't afford to leave.

[Violet]

Reading about it just now. I wasn't aware of that.


What started as persistent food shortages under President Hugo Chavez has turned into a food crisis under the Nicolas Maduro government, elected in 2013. A tour of Maracaibo last month showed the crisis is especially dire.

Socialist economic policies that have put the government in charge of much of the country's food production and distribution have dramatically reduced the supply of rice, pasta, milk and other basic staples.

Meanwhile, falling prices for oil, which accounts for nearly all of Venezuela's export income, mean President Maduro's government has far less money to import food.
From link (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-economic-crisis-1.3647320)

[Jean-Marie]

I have been up at Boy Scout camp for two weeks now in Central Wisconsin. I am having fun this year finding four leaf clovers in the field as I am walking. I give them away to Staff, Scouts and Leaders. Some will ask me how I find them? I tell them I thank the earth and ask for one. Manifest them and they will come to you!

-jean-marie

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Hello Ulli and the Village and its lovely denizens! Long time, no see. All's well that ends well, and I ended up back in the Village to pass along my glad tidings and well wishes. It's hot and humid here and the mosquitos are greedier than politicians. I'm listening to some live Miles Davis Allstars from '58 and '59 and Coltrane's playing tenor sax in the group. It's sounding nice with the thick sweatin' air and the thunderclaps of reverberating atmosphere droning in the distance. I've had my nose to the grindstone for the past few months, focusing on family and work and play. Araucaria, I think I left off last meaning to tell you that you were right about sometimes having to stick your neck out there regardless of how others might interpret and perceive. Life is out there to be manifested and you might as well go for it, whatever it may be.

Where's that Ol' Purple Lama hanging around these days?

[ulli]

Hello Ulli and the Village and its lovely denizens! Long time, no see. All's well that ends well, and I ended up back in the Village to pass along my glad tidings and well wishes. It's hot and humid here and the mosquitos are greedier than politicians. I'm listening to some live Miles Davis Allstars from '58 and '59 and Coltrane's playing tenor sax in the group. It's sounding nice with the thick sweatin' air and the thunderclaps of reverberating atmosphere droning in the distance. I've had my nose to the grindstone for the past few months, focusing on family and work and play. Araucaria, I think I left off last meaning to tell you that you were right about sometimes having to stick your neck out there regardless of how others might interpret and perceive. Life is out there to be manifested and you might as well go for it, whatever it may be.

Where's that Ol' Purple Lama hanging around these days?

Playdo!!!! Been thinking about you, and here you are!
Amazing!

[ulli]

You all have probably heard of the two-legged pig named Chris P. Bacon by now....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMA3x-bc8iM

[BongoBob]

My wonderfully playful pup Zen introduced me to Black Bear today, while hiking among the mountainside in Medicine Bow forest in Wyoming.

At first, I thought he was chasing a squirrel or an elk, when Zen comes trotting back into sight, followed by a ground shaking pa-tump pa-tump pa-tump pa-tump, and the bear, like a glorious gelatinous mass of fur, thuds out from behind the treeline.

So I'm standing about 20 yards away, Zen between me and the bear. So I start squeaking his spiky orange ball that I carry, and this majestic, timid creature ambles on back into the trees.

[meeradas]

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/Herb_Garmsen/DSC04622_zpsumk0s2aa.jpg

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/Herb_Garmsen/DSC04793_zpszoz7z9er.jpg

I've also added a couple of 'beautiful nature pics (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52010-Beautiful-Nature-pics&p=1077488&viewfull=1#post1077488)', have a look.

One more for the village:

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/Herb_Garmsen/DSC03865_zpsv5tdqlwm.jpg

[araucaria]

Just now we have 8% of the total population of Iceland (28,000/320,000) here cheering on their soccer team at the Euros. They have already qualified for the last 16 and today take on the mighty(?) England with more than an outside chance of winning. Just days after Brexit, they seem to have got the timing right for an upset. We shall see.

[Violet]

Good morning. Easy morning, no morning coffee...Two more weeks. Worse part is over, I didn't even know I could have head aches like that.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk767TcJo3k

These are absolutely wonderful, Meeradas, thank you for posting. There's a part in the song up here, it says

so carelessly there

The details you caught and the manner in which, minimalistically/elegantly/can't find the most precise adjective/...(to me) reflect the feeling contained within this phrase:

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/Herb_Garmsen/DSC04622_zpsumk0s2aa.jpg

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/Herb_Garmsen/DSC04793_zpszoz7z9er.jpg

Congratulations, France.

We had our own little bravo yesterday. Midnight sounded like a Saturday Night Fever.
:dancing::dancing::dancing::dancing:
4 goals.

[ulli]

http://hollandshielding.com/158-Faraday%20tent

For those who might be interested.
A Faraday tent, at last.

[avid]

Thanks Ulli, my ex has a lab testing electronic stuff, and has a huge steel room! This is great for mobile apps, so I've sent him the link. However, he probably knows about them already 🙄, as he always was a know-it-all 😜

[Carmody]

Things are grinding a bit on the forum, right now, so I thought I'd check, and sure enough, the moon is square. 90degree angle.


makes me think of that whole 'cut off the foreskin of the male child on the 7th day after birth', thing of the Judaic astrology. On the 7th day after birth and the moon, emotions, is at a 90 degree angle to the child's birth moon position. Cutting the end off the most sensitive nerve cluster of the human body of the male, the deepest part of the body's reason for existing, reproduction.....doing this on the 7th day creates a deep emotional twist and severe damage to the permanent wiring of the developing mind, in a place so deep the grown person will never find it.

A male can't reach themselves emotionally if this is followed through to perfection, as it was in the past.

Makes for excellent low emotion fundamentally disconnected low empathy soldiers who cannot connect to themselves on the deepest level. Broken and brainwashed in a way that is never recognized and never seen.

It completely miswires the brain of a newborn. Which was the entire point. Standard circumcision is little better. Just more industrialized.

Those Abrahamic religions are killers, and they've got to go. Little blood and division psycho factories.

It's like Cutting the top off of a seedling on the 7th day. I wonder how many IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence) points it costs the child that is to be the man?

But only parts of him will ever be the man... the most important parts will remain the torn child, re-enforced every day, worse than constant nicotine or heroin in the act of mis-wiring of an addict, as the end of the penis is constantly rubbing (and it was never designed to do so) and this zaps the brain. All the way from birth until their dying day. The wound that cannot heal.

What price, controlled and directed insanity?

See it for what it is.

[ulli]

Yes, the moon squaring itself, seven days after birth, definitely makes for a moment of emotional coldness, with or without circumcision.

And then, seven YEARS after birth, Saturn squares itself, and this brings suffering without human intervention.
Saturn does its thing, like its time to drop the baby teeth and to form new ones.
Or at the next square completion, at around age 14, at the opposition point to itself, kicks in with puberty hormones.
All this causes guaranteed suffering. No need to pile more on, especially not on the vulnerable.

I suppose these ancient rituals were to reflect the suffering points of natural cycles.

Doing this to kids, or grown women, is cruel, and unnecessary. Life itself is cruel enough. No need to inflict pain on others.
Voluntary suffering, a term coined by Gurdjieff, is a different matter. Keyword being voluntary.

Not masochism, either, as that is just an automatic search for externally inflicted patterns, caused in childhood.
Circumcision could easily be the cause of sado-masochistic psychopathy.
These old practises need to go, as you say.

[Carmody]

The reason it's not getting fixed.... is that it's too close to many of the people involved. Ie, 20-50% of the male readers.

How does one confront the fact that, in essence, critical parts of one's brain have been cut out, insanity inserted in it's stead, and that one may also have consequently done the same to their own children?

How does a person deal with that? Or a mother deal with having done so to their sons?

[ulli]

I'm reminded now how I was pressurized at the West London Hospital 37 years ago to have my son circumsized, less than 24 hours after giving birth.
I had to insist that I did not agree with the practise.
It was a hard-sell method, and usually that gets my spidey senses to ring the alarm.

I have a strong Mars-Mercury conjunction in Aquarius, which gives me a resistant personality.
Buttt- on the other hand, I also have a Neptune-sun square, which can make me gullible, when people use soft-sell methods.
(Just sharing as there are more and more people asking for astrology info. )

One more comment...re insanity. I have met quite a few men who were pretty insane despite the fact that they were never circumsized.
How did I find out? Hmm...
In one case- my first husband. Pisces, planets in the 12 th house...all contributors although not in all cases.
Later, during religious discussions, in Baha'i groups, where religious laws and their need for reform were being discussed.

The real cause of insanity is a general confusion about where thoughts originate. Telepathy is a fact, and many times people's thoughts are really not their own, especially if they have never efforted at creating an identity, or personal opinion.
I'm all for doing this, how to really try and figure out what is best for oneself and for humanity as a whole.

Laws are needed, but only if they get regular re-evalution, and dumped as soon as they have become obsolete.
That alone would then do away with a huge percentage of all traditions.

[ulli]

Synchronicity...this just popped up on my Facebook wall...
http://www.healthnutnews.com/baby-lost-consciousness-circumcision-dies/
Baby dies after being circumsized.

One of the comments, and brilliant:

" Since an infant is incapable of religious beliefs, imposing an irreversible body alteration on him violates the freedom to choose his own religion as an adult. It differs from religious education, which can be changed. My body belongs to me!"

[Carmody]

(probably our third go around on this conversation, IIRC)

I'm taking the strong stance, with zero wiggle room, for one reason.

If you stand in front of a crowd, at a podium, and wryly say, "10% of you are really smart" (which is not true, but closer to the truth), over 75% of the people there will infer that you are speaking about them.

To allow for some wiggle room, is to give 100% of the people who desire to sneak through it, the opportunity to do so. Ie, not one single circumcision would be prevented. 100% would slip though the hole of the minor probability.

The damage is hidden. People learn how to limp along, like they always do. It happens in youth, for the most part. Early youth. They learn how to cover it up in the normal process of growing up.

[ulli]

More and more I am beginning to see the need for tweaking our pre-birth memories, just to get the bigger picture of the eternal merry-go-round, and the need to get off.

Even though there are no guarantees that those memories are our own, but at least looking back at history,
personal as well as collective, can trigger a decent desire for a better world.
A better me and a better them.

To illustrate the alternative:
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13528835_10154383010951015_5202492119407064389_n.jpg?oh=94ef6321d6b71747716ff057366386c1&oe=57FF7777

[ulli]

And one more anti-circumsion article...really made me want to barf....

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/07/health/new-york-neonatal-herpes/

[avid]

The name I chose for my son implicated religion - not the case, just in reverence to a famous designer we both knew.
Since my son's birth I was pestered to have the circumcision, and refused.
Sadly, the choice of a name, in reverence, was a nightmare for my son.
Even after the birth of his own son, the penis-snippers were on their case, even when the wee chap was very premature.
A very unnecessary loathsome practice, and a signitary device of tribalism.

[Ernie Nemeth]

I was invited to Vancouver to witness my sister's daughter's christening. I did not know there was an ulterior motive. Turns out, they wanted to reverse my decision not to christen my daughter and intended to go behind my back and get the holy water dunked on my daughter's head at the same time as my sister's kid. So there I sit watching the christening when my mother comes for my child - just to give my wife a momentary break she claims. She takes her around back of the alter out of view where they dress my three month old in a frilly little church outfit, ready for baptism. But I was on to them and thwarted their efforts. Turns out they convinced my wife that not getting baptised would curse my child later in life, so she was in on the scam. I was livid. But I got my way, my daughter is safe and unmarked by the blemish of a small god. And she is the model of an advanced human - she had me as her teacher after all.

[ulli]

I was invited to Vancouver to witness my sister's daughter's christening. I did not know there was an ulterior motive. Turns out, they wanted to reverse my decision not to christen my daughter and intended to go behind my back and get the holy water dunked on my daughter's head at the same time as my sister's kid. So there I sit watching the christening when my mother comes for my child - just to give my wife a momentary break she claims. She takes her around back of the alter out of view where they dress my three month old in a frilly little church outfit, ready for baptism. But I was on to them and thwarted their efforts. Turns out they convinced my wife that not getting baptised would curse my child later in life, so she was in on the scam. I was livid. But I got my way, my daughter is safe and unmarked by the blemish of a small god. And she is the model of an advanced human - she had me as her teacher after all.

Yes, those satanists are very crafty, and they know how to use the gullible old tradition-steeped matriarchs.

Whereas in religious texts the practise of baptism was performed on adults, never babies, as an indication that they had changed their views, and thrown out their older traditional beliefs in favor of the new teachings.

The water was always symbolic for knowledge...as in the water urn poured by the Aquarius symbol of the water bearer.
No such rituals are necessary now, where one can just change one's social media status by writing one's viewpoint down and pressing a send button.

[Frenchy]

pressurized at the West London Hospital 37 years ago to have my son circumsized, less than 24 hours after giving birth.

TN Doctor Butchers A 3mth old During Circumcision Procedure You Tube ps,

I don't wish to embarass my friends here on PA, but, could the Circumscision, ploy be a highly anticipated { pre-planned } strategy of Hybridisation ?... [ just asking ]

[ulli]

pressurized at the West London Hospital 37 years ago to have my son circumsized, less than 24 hours after giving birth.

TN Doctor Butchers A 3mth old During Circumcision Procedure You Tube ps,

I don't wish to embarass my friends here on PA, but, could the Circumscision, ploy be a highly anticipated { pre-planned } strategy of Hybridisation ?... [ just asking ]

Possibly.
Whatever...
the best way to start life on this planet is sheltered by loving arms, fed by a cornucopia of mothers breasts, or else deprivation will cause trauma which stays stuck in the deep registry of the subconscious, only to surface much later on when sudden association with the event triggers neurotic behaviors.

Which then causes a ripple effect through the immediate circle of relatives, friends and co-workers.

The situation today is so grave that anyone who feels they are in possession of some degree of sanity should go out and heal whoever needs healing, and do in the spirit of good character and trustworthiness.

This is more important, in my view, than sharing details of close encounters with other races.
(Hinting at another thread here...)

[PurpleLama]

Hey, I'm glad to see Playdo finally got his password/login issue sorted! Good to see you back, bro!

[PurpleLama]

http://ihadfunonce.com/fs/i/2016/05/02/e9685b40aa61a57f8acd8e216b4495.jpg

[Violet]

Mars

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3328/3582374198_b69e8879e1_z.jpg?zz=1
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3328/3582374198_b69e8879e1_z.jpg?zz=1)
Fighting what is underneath.

Literally in this case. Scorpio rules the genitals.

[araucaria]

Possibly.
Whatever...
the best way to start life on this planet is sheltered by loving arms, fed by a cornucopia of mothers breasts, or else deprivation will cause trauma which stays stuck in the deep registry of the subconscious, only to surface much later on when sudden association with the event triggers neurotic behaviors.

Which then causes a ripple effect through the immediate circle of relatives, friends and co-workers.

The situation today is so grave that anyone who feels they are in possession of some degree of sanity should go out and heal whoever needs healing, and do in the spirit of good character and trustworthiness.

This is more important, in my view, than sharing details of close encounters with other races.
(Hinting at another thread here...)

Yes. I see this in terms of a sense of perspective. The rule of perspective is that things seem bigger when they are closer. Our sense of perspective relies on having seen familiar objects at various ranges. You can calibrate your vision on the things like the size of people and thereby estimate the size of unfamiliar objects. Miscalibrations can occur, as in the tale by Edgar Allan Poe I quoted here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?83133-The-Corey-Goode-affair-various-updates-from-David-Wilcock&p=988415&viewfull=1#post988415), where an insect on a window pane is mistaken for a huge monster on a distant hill – two points of reference, one real the other illusory.

However, in non-visual matters, you also have to factor in your changing vision. To a newborn babe with its face buried in it, its mother’s breast is huge; it is all that there is. But as it grows and grows up, the earlier all-round vision gradually recedes in apparent size and importance. Hence greater maturity is about seeing more things, and out to a greater distance. But the decrease in size and importance is only apparent: your mother does not really diminish in this way: you love her just as intensely in more refined ways, or if you don’t, that energy will find other outlets. That love colours and informs everything else, all the way up to the macrocosm, which may be seen as the mother of all mother’s breasts, the loving medium in which we bathe. When there is no distance like this, there is no perspective, or rather the perspective is reversed: against this yardstick, everything seems tiny, maybe not trivial, but no big deal.

How does the ET business fit in with this picture? It depends. If we put it in the latter context, we can take it in our stride. If an ET comes knocking at our door, no big deal, they get the usual treatment. Unusual features are no problem, but if they start behaving like Jehovah’s Witnesses, they get the usual JW treatment... However, much of what we read seems to be a case of miscalculated perspective. This would mean that relatively small domestic planetary issues are blown up onto a galactic, or even cosmic scale. For example, current urgent interhuman issues include illegal alien immigration, sexual and other abuse such as abduction and/or human sacrifice, particularly by those who should know better against the most vulnerable; and so on. These very same issues being staples of ET contact testimony, the question is whether the ET element can be removed from the equation altogether. In other words, do we have a huge, insoluble cosmic problem on our hands, or is it something smaller, closer to home and more manageable? Poe’s tale suggests how incredibly simpler things become by handling them at the most local level. Just open the window and let out the insect, and the monster on the horizon instantly disappears.

[Carmody]

The whole idea has always been, on all controllist fronts, to attack us on the underbelly of our physiological/psychological hindbrain connections. after all, a controlling force or attempts at such must resemble or be of that which remains unseen, and in the case of a human, is in the unconscious and subconscious. Similar to that of a parasite or virus, which is to infiltrate and gain....through the unguarded and unrecognized portal(s).

Such a item within the mind and body can also be double edged, in some points of analysis.

[ulli]

By the way, I got a really bad case of herpes on my upper lip since yesterday.
Duck lips. Botox lips.

Three explanations come to mind:
A) the three hour-long stressful dentist session last Friday did it, with those multiple anaestesia injections.
B) my giving my attention to that ghastly ritual of circumsion by herpes infected rabbis, a la "where focus goes, energy flows"
C) psychic attack from such quarters, who might have been reading along...

...and feeling a bit under the weather I just manifested this picture
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12122733_10152998227927303_1625430091030386918_n.jpg?oh=a2ebab4e8e79ea97ff274c5d029e9afc&oe=57F2A750

[araucaria]

Just now we have 8% of the total population of Iceland (28,000/320,000) here cheering on their soccer team at the Euros. They have already qualified for the last 16 and today take on the mighty(?) England with more than an outside chance of winning. Just days after Brexit, they seem to have got the timing right for an upset. We shall see.
In case anyone doesn't know, Iceland duly spanked England 2-1, which just goes to show that you can have an alternative world view and yet see things coming. Similarly, last week I was saying that Jeremy Corbyn is the only one able to lead a post-referendum UK, and lo and behold, the knives are really out for Corbyn, ahead of the Leave campaigners, and ahead of the defeated Cameron. There is no mainstream narrative to account for that.

[ulli]

I knew her in Barbados, when she was a high society hostess, with a beautiful Oliver Messel mansion.
She then had a spiritual awakening, and has since then become an author, writing about such matters, OBEs, ESP, etc. and now she is being interviewed by Sean Stone. Wow...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km_r3zRMqLA

[ulli]

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13494962_1243731692318773_6720780579590541807_n.jpg?oh=02535b0740d6c9a948f0d01b4d7f4aef&oe=580A46F0

[Carmody]

Found out my favorite car & driver article was finally re-published on the net. (http://media.caranddriver.com/files/puff-the-dangerous-driver.pdf)

[Stephanie]

By the way, I got a really bad case of herpes on my upper lip since yesterday.
Duck lips. Botox lips.

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

...and feeling a bit under the weather I just manifested this picture
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12122733_10152998227927303_1625430091030386918_n.jpg?oh=a2ebab4e8e79ea97ff274c5d029e9afc&oe=57F2A750

Uplifting, healing blessings...33719 :bearhug::bearhug::bearhug::bearhug:

Special lip disguises......33720

[ulli]

By the way, I got a really bad case of herpes on my upper lip since yesterday.
Duck lips. Botox lips.

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

...and feeling a bit under the weather I just manifested this picture
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12122733_10152998227927303_1625430091030386918_n.jpg?oh=a2ebab4e8e79ea97ff274c5d029e9afc&oe=57F2A750

Uplifting, healing blessings...33719 :bearhug::bearhug::bearhug::bearhug:

Special lip disguises......33720

Thank you, Sstars. I think i might try the panda one.

Speaking of disguises...for the guisers...
How about the clip-on man bun?
Or rather, topknot, as they are called now?

http://www.boredpanda.com/man-bun-hair-trend-fake-clip-on/
http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/man-bun-hair-trend-fake-clip-on-3.jpg

[Foxie Loxie]

Hey, Ulli, thanks for posting the Hazel C. video. One of my Aunts has loads of orbs coming out in her photos around her house & property. My impression is that it is a sign of someone being more "in touch". She sent me some of the photos.....amazing!

[PurpleLama]

Take a lysine supplement for fever blisters.

[PurpleLama]

http://americanassociationofpatriots.com

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Whoa...I don't know what's going with that website, but after reading about Josiah and his cats for a couple of minutes, I am having intense tracers and colorful, geometric gliders in my vision, let alone that tabby running across the screen. A truly purrrplexing website. Dig the link to bulkammo.com

[Violet]

Ulli, try coconut oil for lip gloss. The gloss wears of fast, so you'll find yourself reapplying regularly which is ideal in this situation.

Hi Paula,

I'm sending one of my friends over if that's okay with you. I'll be a bit later.

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200709/r184380_684542.jpg

[ulli]

Ulli, try coconut oil for lip gloss. The gloss wears of fast, so you'll find yourself reapplying regularly which is ideal in this situation.

Hi Paula,

I'm sending one of my friends over if that's okay with you. I'll be a bit later.

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200709/r184380_684542.jpg

Thanks, I did the coconut oil from day one, and it gave me some relief. Also, applying pawpaw helped.
I heard from Pauler...she is spring cleaning.

[ulli]

Good morning!

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13521847_948985388558007_7184271875929990867_n.jpg?oh=0be5f6081ac52f7fbdca6dbbb7b1a95d&oe=57F7FD87

[RunningDeer]

Thank you, Violet and Ulli. I’m following everyone in silent mode. :heart:

My interests are changing so much and so fast that the ‘stuff’ of yesterday has lost it’s magic or is no longer needed. Gone are: clothes, books, feathers, trinkets, kitchenware, memorabilia, New Agey and computer stuff, furniture, alternative healing medicines, vitamins and apparatus, ’important papers’ and sticky notes.

With this last sweep, I’ve tossed and donated about 40 green bags of stuff all hours of the day and night. It’s happening in layers. By friends and family standards, I’ve always been a minimalist. This time, I even surprised myself.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/General/home-sweet-home_zpsw66odzh9.JPG

One of the books I’m re-reading is “Quantum Jumps (https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Jumps-Extraordinary-Happiness-Prosperity/dp/0971934959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467292657&sr=8-1&keywords=Quantum+Jumps): An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity,” by Cynthia Sue Larson. I’ve quantum jumped.

If I didn’t have carpets, I’d swear there’d be an echo in my new humble abode. Talk to you All later, later, later…



http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/General/quantum_zpse6yoq0bt.JPG

QUANTUM JUMPS presents a radical new paradigm--that we exist in an interconnected holographic multiverse in which we literally jump from one parallel universe to another. Experience a new science of instant transformation. In a moment you can become smarter... more confident... happier... more outgoing... more effective... in better relationships... with more willpower. Gain practical tools to achieve real change in your life, regardless of past history. Leap forward to become happier and more successful, living the life of your dreams. Supported by distinguished sources from the fields of psychology, biology, sociology and physics, QUANTUM JUMPS is an inspirational book packed with practical tools for living a happier, healthier, more prosperous life. 

“The 'Quantum Age' has finally arrived. Cynthia Sue Larson understands its implications for our everyday lives--for how we can make wiser decisions, relate better to other people, manage our careers more effectively, use our dreams to provide insights, and even how we can use 'quantum jumping' for self-healing.”-- Stanley Krippner 


Hi Paula,

I'm sending one of my friends over if that's okay with you. I'll be a bit later.


Thanks, I did the coconut oil from day one, and it gave me some relief. Also, applying pawpaw helped.
I heard from Pauler...she is spring cleaning.

[Mike]

Ancestry.com update:

38% great britain
27% scandanavian
20% irish

...and the rest is a european hodge podge. I basically spent $100 to find out that I'm an american.

[RunningDeer]

About 5-6 weeks ago I purchased an ancestry.com dna kit. (Yes, of course my conspiracy sirens were blaring..but I was drunk, so I didnt care;). Actually, thats how confident I am that i'm no one special...if I even had an inkling that black ops recruiters were going to abduct me on my nightly walk, I wouldn’t have done it.

It was $100. On the one hand i'm glad I did it, but on the other theres a twinge of regret. Having recently told my boss to go f#ck himself, I am now unemployed. I could use that 100 bucks. There's a beautiful euphoria I usually experience after quitting a job, but its short lived. It isnt long before it morphs into the dreaded realization that I must get a new job, quickly, or I won't be able to eat soon. Currently i'm aggressively segueing into the dread part of the process..…

Post of gratitude and some things I wonder about but don't ask or express:

Mike, you’ve come into my thoughts since this June 6th posting. Specifically, the part about not having the money to eat (or purchases the vitamins and to keep your heart and body well oiled).

Violet, I wondered if you've found your handwritten journal? When I read it, what flashed in my mind was to check backpacks, yours and both kids as well. BTW: I love, love the Teddy-plane message and graphic. It’s my current desk top pic. (people must be tired of my saying that)

An early shout out to Nora for an upcoming new “Home Sweet Home”. And a wink and a cheer to Father and his ongoing journey.

Hugs and more hugs to Sierra. I follow all your posts across the forum. Lots of dimensions to your life. Thanks for your support and dedication.

That goes for ALL past, present, future greenies, blues, reds and brown helpers, mods, and administrators. Thank you for your support and devotion to make this a pleasant, entertaining and supportive environment.

Kudos to Ulli for the coming soon new ‘little store’. The most enterprising person I know.

Jean Marie, you are amazing. A plethora of diverse abilities, a Jane-of-all-trades. (PS just finished my 11th liver and gallbladder cleanse.)

Happy belated birthday to Marianne. Yeah and belated hip-hip-hooray for your retirement and continued health to you and your family.

It was nice to hear from Flash (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88999-Our-experience-with-Simon-Parkes-as-a-counselor&p=1078296&viewfull=1#post1078296). I agree with onawah (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88999-Our-experience-with-Simon-Parkes-as-a-counselor&p=1078304&viewfull=1#post1078304). Happy to know you and The Mini are doing well.

Eaglespirit…I presume your still flying high. Have a safe trip back eastward.

And the other Dan. How the heck are you?

Thanks to the many for the on-going graphics. My desktop pictures are rotated out regularly from here and Wind’s thread, too.

A shout out to meeradas. I’ve got a desktop pic folder for all of your brilliant work…

Carmody, I’ve enjoyed the interesting things you’ve shared about yourself of late here and on other threads and of course your music selections and unique web links.

Glad Cal’s back and a hello-hug to you. I think of you from time to time. You’re living big changes. My personal projections cause me to be excited for you.

Playdo, the dodo guy, welcome back. Continued enjoyment with your end of the week routine of a brewski(s) and star gazing from your home sweet home porch.

And I often wonder about how The P. Lama family are doing with their newest doggie member, and that dog from across the way, and if LB’s cat ever returned or did I miss that post? and hello to the chickens and family garden. I recently made another batch of sauerkraut. I mix it in with both new and red potatoes, gluten free nutritional yeast (https://nuts.com/cookingbaking/leavenerthickener/nutritional-yeast-gluten-free.html), butter, celtic sea salt and a smidgen of Bragg’s ACV.

And to Sstarss… http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/greenstars_zpscfgxxgeh.GIF
the greenest of the greenies… your arms are wide-wide with cheer and support and timely posts across the forum and on everyone’s message boards. Sstarss, you are beautiful and sparkly.

araucaria, I shake my head in amazement and follow your cross linked posts that you leave. Deep thinker. Expansive dot connector.

In case onawah drops by. Two Thumbs. :thumb: Been following you and others on the Simon thread. The Libra planets in me say…everyone’s made fair and reasonable points.

Lastly, a special shout out to All who contribute to this unique thread either through posts, thanks, and reads. There’s no place like it anywhere. Special thanks to Ulli for your on-going support, strength and sense of humor.

Before I continue with my ‘fishing holiday’, a happy long weekend and fireworks to those in the US. And a shout out to the one that’s going for Yoga certification…

:heart:

[onawah]

When I saw from the main page that you had posted , Paula, I thought I would stop by (are you telepathic?), and thanks for the mention.
It's really nice to have you and Mike back. :hug:
The latest Simon thread has certainly been interesting--I fear we have been giving Bill and the Mods a work out, though.
I've changed my mind about Simon's info and work so many times, the Libra aspects in my own chart are about worn out.
The recent Kerry Cassidy interview with Shane the Ruiner featured some good commentary about whistleblowers and our expectations of them.
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...Though Simon's is certainly a unique case.
I hope we get enough substantial evidence one way or the other to put the debate at rest for awhile at least, though opinions will probably still vary.
(And not forgetting what you have shared about that, either, Paula. :bowing: )



It was nice to hear from Flash (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88999-Our-experience-with-Simon-Parkes-as-a-counselor&p=1078296&viewfull=1#post1078296). I agree with onawah (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88999-Our-experience-with-Simon-Parkes-as-a-counselor&p=1078304&viewfull=1#post1078304). Happy to know you and The Mini are doing well.

In case onawah drops by. Two Thumbs. :thumb: Been following you and others on the Simon thread. The Libra planets in me say…everyone’s made fair and reasonable points.

Lastly, a special shout out to All who contribute to this unique thread either through posts, thanks, and reads. There’s no place like it anywhere.
:heart:

Hear! Hear! :thumbsup:

[Mike]

Hi Paula!:sun:

Thanks for thinkin about me! I'm doing pretty well, actually. As I was telling Nat, ive been bit by the golf bug. My Dad and I play most days and i'm having an absolute blast. Its very zen, and I love the discipline of it. Being on the course is like one long meditation...the only way you can be successful is to get out of your head.

As for employment, i'm still looking..tho not very aggressively. I'd saved some cash for a rainy day, and its getting me thru...tho dwindling rapidly. Plus, I'm extremely fortunate to have a solid support system behind me. Push comes to shove, the old man will always be there for me. I'm very lucky in that way...and very, very thankful.

I'm just catching up with your latest. Very cool, exciting stuff!!! :) I was wondering about you too, and its great to be updated. It's always a treat when one of my favorite posters writes a post like that....It's like getting a letter in the mail that youve been waiting weeks for (remember that? Getting letters? Lol)...even opening up the envelope is fun. Then you read and reread it, stick it on your desk..and read it again later:sun:

[RunningDeer]

When I saw from the main page that you had posted , Paula, I thought I would stop by (are you telepathic?), and thanks for the mention.
It's really nice to have you and Mike back. :hug:
Yes, happy to see the Mike has returned. Natalie, you also offer a lot. Often, you express my thoughts but in a much more coherent way. These days my mind is an ever changing kaleidoscope of pictures and thoughts. I’m feeling part idiot, part lazy and part I don't give a **** (in a good way).

I recently deleted what I shared on the Simon member’s only thread. I didn’t want someone to openly post elsewhere. As for the video, I think I listened to that one. These days, the videos and blogs mostly sound the same. The Runier and Simon share what everyone else does. Interesting tidbits, but it’s mostly information I no longer need to hold onto.

I circle back to live a simple life. (again, with the repeating myself http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/faint_zpsz6ek9afz.GIF)

Even with a simple life, I still run out of time every day. Most is interesting entertainment that can easily take me away from what’s important. Which is why I go on fishing trips. Even while on them, my home is filled with many, many past and present Avalonians. We’re all in conversation night and day.

I’m appreciative of what I’ve learned from everyone on the forum. At present, it's more important to toss out more than what I take in and allow the silence to find the forgotten voice of knowledge and ideas. I catch myself doing some of it in small ways.
(again, with the repeating myself http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/smilies/faint_zpsz6ek9afz.gif)


…I’m extremely fortunate to have a solid support system behind me. Push comes to shove, the old man will always be there for me. I'm very lucky in that way...and very, very thankful.

I’ve taken comfort in knowing that. I deleted a sentence in the post above that you have loving parents that are there for you. I’m happy to know you’re doing well.

Life times ago, I joined a country club with hubby and son. Early on hubby had folks watched ‘the beginner me’ make the green in three-four strokes (IIRC). I quickly lost the natural swing after taking private lessons. I turned into a intellectual robot, step A, step B, step C. And I always sucked at the damn putts. It NEVER was a Zen-kinda-thang for me.


I’m just catching up with your latest. Very cool, exciting stuff!!! :) I was wondering about you too, and its great to be updated. It's always a treat when one of my favorite posters writes a post like that…

Know that you are alway close by… :heart:

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-smiley-with-sign-165726_zpsib04wklr.GIF All...

[Baby Steps]

Aaahhh, the stomach is rumbling as the 'fruit fast' and veggie smoothies do their excellent work, it is so much easier to tap into universal love and spirit when the body is clear of heavy foods.

PS Monty Python did reveal the meaning of life - but not at the end of the film...


HARRY: That's right. Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and, uh, what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: people are not wearing enough hats. Two: matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches. It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ

[ulli]

Paula, decluttering like that, in such a radical way, takes some guts.
The internal hoarder wrestling with the internal minimalist.

Opening that little store was the result of such a battle...I chose to make it a second hand shop so that I could put all my old stuff in there and hopefully it will sell.
With prices between one and five dollars I should have just called it the "garage cellar"

Here the used clothes shops are all called Ropa Americana. American clothes. The Americana part of the name evolved after some shop owner saw the USA part in his shop sign, and painted an American flag across the first three letters of the word USADA.
The word "usada" is Spanish for "used" so the original name here for second hand clothes shops was Ropa Usada.
Nobody calls them that anymore. Every second hand shop sign now says Ropa Americana, even though none of the clothes are made in the US.

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13482798_10209847945221243_5078889349897852712_o.jpg

[onawah]

Not just American...Captain America! :shielddeflect: :lol:


Ancestry.com update:

38% great britain
27% scandanavian
20% irish

...and the rest is a european hodge podge. I basically spent $100 to find out that I'm an american.

[ulli]

For Paula: (and others who are decluttering)

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13566931_1200372236662933_5567410801004656426_n.jpg?oh=96149b11c989705a713f9cde384e5ce3&oe=57FB5C0F

[seah]

Been awhile since I said hello fellow inmates :highfive: had to read back a ways...

Billy, what a great story, about the 5,000 year old tree that appears to be experiencing some feminine energies, it really does consciousness good to have an opposing point of reference.

DNA, I once posted that quote in the video, “absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence”, on a forum and received a good lashing for making a said to be ‘irrelevant argument’. Funny, how the irrelevancy of an argument is always in the eye of the one opposing the point of view.

Nora, my condolences on your father’s passing. :flower:

Happy belated Birthday to dear Maryanne. :happy dog:

Carmody, thanks to your story I’ll think twice before touching anything in second hand stores…I’m in a University town, also.

Ernie, good for you on being vigilant, and saving your baby from being ‘marked’; the puny god already has enough soldiers.

Blackdeer, I can identify with the shedding of belongings, this came to mind:

The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

Allow the heart to do what it does folks :star:

[Violet]

http://www.millan.net/anims/gifs/smileyhug.gif
So good to see you hop in for a minute, Paula.


Spring cleaning :behindsofa: reminds me of my mother's annual limpieza fits.


http://www.hispaniolatv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/LIMPIEZA.jpg


Plus waking us up very early on Sunday to thoroughly shoeshine up the house.

As it happens Sonny happily returned me my diary yesterday (so sync to that), saying he found it for me in a living room drawer. I don't know what to make of it. I had already bought a new one and updated everything I could remember by heart.

It's not the first time things disappear when he's having anger outbursts. Our camera once got lost like that, and then months later magically reappeared in the children's wardrobe. A place I had emptied several times in search of it.

I think I did sufficiently comb the house for that diary, to the point it made me very nervous. I called all places I had been that week. I had this feeling. But no evidence, I don't like the state of being suspicious like that.

I missed one important meeting, altogether not too bad, was able to have it rescheduled.

Because these things cause too much confusion and self-doubt we have to lock some rooms where important stuff lays. I don't like it but chaos happens when we don't.

Just earlier today he had one of his outbursts and by the time I reached his room the family pictures I had neatly framed above his desk into one big frame were scattered. I asked him what had happened and he said the frame had come off by itself. The nail lay way on the other side of the room, the hole in the wall visibly bruised...I'll look at him for a while in a vain hope that he'll tell me the truth but it only makes him angrier. No one has access to his mind. Some days feel like a string of wild guesses. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.


Happy minimizing (http://kotaku.com/extreme-minimal-living-in-japan-1744368976), Paula

[Carmody]

For Paula: (and others who are decluttering)

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13566931_1200372236662933_5567410801004656426_n.jpg?oh=96149b11c989705a713f9cde384e5ce3&oe=57FB5C0F

I think it is a good sign of society healing itself, as the list does not include the prior usual reference to husband/partner. Or if it was a man's list, the wife/partner.

And that's a good thing. Small and seemingly unimportant even... not noticed, but..a sign, however small it may be. A dot on a chart that becomes a cascade and flow, if one is looking close enough and wide enough.

[ulli]

For Paula: (and others who are decluttering)

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13566931_1200372236662933_5567410801004656426_n.jpg?oh=96149b11c989705a713f9cde384e5ce3&oe=57FB5C0F

I think it is a good sign of society healing itself, as the list does not include the prior usual reference to husband/partner.

I probably wouldn't have posted it if it did. Most of my astrology clients were surprised when I encouraged them to stick it out, if only for the sake of the children. Wait patiently for change.
Most of them had been told by their friends to just get rid of the bastard.
Thats the easy thing to say, and currently FB is full of that advice, I noticed.
But relationships are not about feel-good romance, they are about learning how to negociate private space.

Also, no two people have the exact same attitude to what signifies "clutter".
My husband gets loads of cluttery stuff from medical visitors, all with the pharma corporations name displayed.
I can't stand it...and he loves it. What to do? Give him a room of his own? I did. It's still spilling out, and even the cars are full of these bags, free medical samples, umbrella, computer mouses, etc., and so I have to put my foot down.
He is learning, but it has taken years.

[Limor Wolf]

A smell of cofee, warmth, heart unity, togetherness, wittiness, lazines (allowed), comarderie and figuering out things in an easy flowing way is the treasure of all you village citizens (please excuse me if these are not the words that you would chose yourself) - So wonderful to read you from the outside and moreso pleasent to join for a minute or two to drop an appreciation line. The storms of the inside and outside are being mellowed here to a cosy but unignoring package, no matter what type of journey any of you chose for themselves, all can meet here on a frequent or less frequent basis and share their own. With the courtecy of Ulli ~

I am currently sitting in a small cofee place, waiting for a long bus ride, would that be the characteristics of my near future, constntly on the way to somewhere, or the heart destintion is close by, peeling layers all the time (eqivelent to Paula's spring clening, but it feels like my skin is taken away, sharing one reality with other parallel touching realities)

Well, the Buena Vista Club is playing in the background -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFfKbxIHD0

I don't know anymore where my home is, my old life was left behind (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?56303-Dare-To-Fly&p=1039058&viewfull=1#post1039058) and the new is not yet known, but strongly felt, they always say it's in the heart, (even when it's a source to attackes), and so this is where I will firmly chose to reside.


Posted by Paula: "QUANTUM JUMPS presents a radical new paradigm--that we exist in an interconnected holographic multiverse in which we literally jump from one parallel universe to another."


"my home is filled with many, many past and present Avalonians. We’re all in conversation night and day."

So so true, Paula,your hands are straight on the wheel :heart:

Many good blessings, and keep the good thing going ~

Limor

[Stephanie]

Dearest, ever-beautiful Paula,

:star::star::heart: Thank you. :heart::star::star:


33740

( Home made, specially for you.)

[ulli]

Minimalism...Georgia O'Keeffe

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/art/2016/06/30/okeeffe-patio-xlarge_trans++ndq2YE5PKHeQ6xVPqqwIed4bWYMuQe8gau5geR08YKs.jpg

[ulli]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ewnCPT_ZqC0/UlJLzlobY_I/AAAAAAACKzI/kt0c-KLL_kI/s1600/military-industrial+complex2.jpg

[ulli]

Great blog:
http://www.visibleorigami.com/2016/07/the-chinese-acrobats-in-my-alphabet-soup.html

Snippet:
"The world I see is a madhouse. Does that mean I am mad because it is what I see? I could see it many ways. It could look sane to me. Would that mean I was sane but... if the world really is a madhouse I would prefer not to be one of the inmates. This is one of the core things I have to think about. Agendas are lumbering on a rampage like drunken elephants through a shopping mall. Some of them are dressed up like those painted boys who were kept in the mansions of some dissolute marquis or manufactured royalty in pre-revolutionary France. Some of them had them in dozens. Today they got them in the hundreds and thousands in Hollywood. Would that be pre-revolutionary Hollywood? Another lumbering elephant is the race wars and then there are the culture wars, the language wars, the immigrant wars, the economic wars. The worst of the wars is the war of lies against the truth and worse than that is the size of the army that serves the military industrial complex of lies. Maybe it isn't such a big deal if you are part of it and it seems real to you but it doesn't seem real to me and therein is the conundrum. It's okay, I guess, if you are skating on non existent ice, as long as you believe the ice is there. If you know there is no ice, then putting on a pair of skates seems ridiculous but... not to the people who believe the ice is there. Do I submit to the general fantasy and agree that there is ice, even when I know that there is not? Do I buy into global warming when it seems to be getting colder? I'm not a scientist in the first place. I am a scientist actually but not that kind of scientist."

[Limor Wolf]

Thanks, Ulli, and somewhat complementing this blog but in a different way -
(Excuse the language, mind the message)

The dimensional veil of separtion - Sethikus Boza (https://www.youtube.com/user/BEZCORE/videos)

once we know what the **** were actually dealing with here the better off were going to be.., I can't even get into the real solution because most are not willing to see reality as it is still.., I wish it wasn't real and wish that I didn't have to face the horrors that I have on this path.., but you can't make this **** up.., and were dealing with much more than all the Hegelian Dialectic Horse **** that keeps perpetuating it'self in thrall to the Ouroboros in systems of manipulation that reach far beyond any mind controlled slavery here in 3D.

This is Shaman ****.., and is what is missing from culture.., Earth is the ****ing Alamo you guys.., and we have to ****ing TAKE IT back from those that think they own us and use us to feed into their systems.., and when I say that I mean YOUUUUU!!! You need to take YOU back.., all of you.., this also is where those that are ready to graduate come into this.., and you would not be here or have read this post if you weren't.., this Life is the Test.., all of it.., and I didn't come back to this **** hole to watch any of you fail.., and though there be much beauty in Nature.., I'm here for the ones that really.., and I mean reeeeally give a **** and here to assist in that and getting myself and those into the place of being ready for the solution.., it's a matter of choice.., despite the pain and trial it takes to get there.., we decide what we want.., and there are different levels of knowing when it comes to things.., if you have not come into the concept of the 9 veils yet it may be difficult understand what I'm getting geared up to bring forth on my Youtube channel: Black Earth Productions.., but this is not for everyone.., and it comes to those to whom it chooses and is meant to.., and is protected.., we don't cast pearls before swine.., and me and my beloved are resting on what seems to be at least 10 years worth of output that was downloaded to us when it comes to what is really going on.., what is meant to happen.., and what to really do about it.., certain things have worked and still work up to the point that we have come to but we need to keep taking the stair case.., those that are slave in common culture don't know who their masters are or know that they are slaves.., and in the worst cases they love it knowing the difference.., but more has to be unveiled.., this is what the Apocalypse ****ing is.., the unveiling.., and ya it's all ****ed you guys.., even with the other beings in the parallel earth timeline and universe we are in that is literally using humans to harvest their soul genetics.., why.., because they are disconnected from Source.., and they can never re-connect to it.., they are in decay.., and want our soul spark which is is why we need come within the vortex of connection and route these ****ers out.., frankly.., if it were up to me I would just download the **** out of everyone in an instant., but I can't do that.., I don't get to decide self actualized initiation for anyone..

most turn back because they are not ready to deal with reality as it truly is and surrender to Higher Self.., thing is though that Higher Self dose not care about our circumstances.., in fact.., it expects us to overcome that ****.., it did not give us this power of knowing for nothing.., ya see the difference here.., cause I deal with it just as much as anyone else.., the denial.., yet I still remain at the helm of it all as much as I can as long as it depends on me and for those that all of this means something to.., alone at times this feels., but I'm not.., and we'll keep sounding the ****ing horns for this generation and the next generation and show them how to light the torch and flame within them., so for me to go on and on about things without it having the effect that it needs to is nothing that dose not come with consequence to this.., there is no hiding from it and pretending like it's not what the **** is really going on.., and I'm not going to let up on it because nothing has changed yet in the way that it needs to.., look at all the **** that is STILL going on you guys.., it's not going to ****ing stop.., ever.., not until we come into the place of knowing how the **** this game really works and you know who you really are via gnosis.., and knowing how your energy systems and multi-dimensional bodies and mechanics and the heart and mind actually work.., you must know where your true power comes from and how it's been manipulated.., and taking it the **** back and making this playing field even.., then to crush this ****............................., I stand at the gate.., as I am.

our inner teacher appears when our inner student is ready.., there is no avoiding this war... it can only be postponed to the advantage of the enemy.

http://humansarefree.com/2014/08/the-dimensional-veils-of-separation.html

Blessings ~

Limor

[ulli]

Thanks, Ulli, and somewhat complementing this blog but in a different way -
(Excuse the language, mind the message)

The dimensional veil of separtion - Sethikus Boza (https://www.youtube.com/user/BEZCORE/videos)

once we know what the **** were actually dealing with here the better off were going to be.., I can't even get into the real solution because most are not willing to see reality as it is still.., I wish it wasn't real and wish that I didn't have to face the horrors that I have on this path.., but you can't make this **** up.., and were dealing with much more than all the Hegelian Dialectic Horse **** that keeps perpetuating it'self in thrall to the Ouroboros in systems of manipulation that reach far beyond any mind controlled slavery here in 3D.

This is Shaman ****.., and is what is missing from culture.., Earth is the ****ing Alamo you guys.., and we have to ****ing TAKE IT back from those that think they own us and use us to feed into their systems.., and when I say that I mean YOUUUUU!!! You need to take YOU back.., all of you.., this also is where those that are ready to graduate come into this.., and you would not be here or have read this post if you weren't.., this Life is the Test.., all of it.., and I didn't come back to this **** hole to watch any of you fail.., and though there be much beauty in Nature.., I'm here for the ones that really.., and I mean reeeeally give a **** and here to assist in that and getting myself and those into the place of being ready for the solution.., it's a matter of choice.., despite the pain and trial it takes to get there.., we decide what we want.., and there are different levels of knowing when it comes to things.., if you have not come into the concept of the 9 veils yet it may be difficult understand what I'm getting geared up to bring forth on my Youtube channel: Black Earth Productions.., but this is not for everyone.., and it comes to those to whom it chooses and is meant to.., and is protected.., we don't cast pearls before swine.., and me and my beloved are resting on what seems to be at least 10 years worth of output that was downloaded to us when it comes to what is really going on.., what is meant to happen.., and what to really do about it.., certain things have worked and still work up to the point that we have come to but we need to keep taking the stair case.., those that are slave in common culture don't know who their masters are or know that they are slaves.., and in the worst cases they love it knowing the difference.., but more has to be unveiled.., this is what the Apocalypse ****ing is.., the unveiling.., and ya it's all ****ed you guys.., even with the other beings in the parallel earth timeline and universe we are in that is literally using humans to harvest their soul genetics.., why.., because they are disconnected from Source.., and they can never re-connect to it.., they are in decay.., and want our soul spark which is is why we need come within the vortex of connection and route these ****ers out.., frankly.., if it were up to me I would just download the **** out of everyone in an instant., but I can't do that.., I don't get to decide self actualized initiation for anyone..

most turn back because they are not ready to deal with reality as it truly is and surrender to Higher Self.., thing is though that Higher Self dose not care about our circumstances.., in fact.., it expects us to overcome that ****.., it did not give us this power of knowing for nothing.., ya see the difference here.., cause I deal with it just as much as anyone else.., the denial.., yet I still remain at the helm of it all as much as I can as long as it depends on me and for those that all of this means something to.., alone at times this feels., but I'm not.., and we'll keep sounding the ****ing horns for this generation and the next generation and show them how to light the torch and flame within them., so for me to go on and on about things without it having the effect that it needs to is nothing that dose not come with consequence to this.., there is no hiding from it and pretending like it's not what the **** is really going on.., and I'm not going to let up on it because nothing has changed yet in the way that it needs to.., look at all the **** that is STILL going on you guys.., it's not going to ****ing stop.., ever.., not until we come into the place of knowing how the **** this game really works and you know who you really are via gnosis.., and knowing how your energy systems and multi-dimensional bodies and mechanics and the heart and mind actually work.., you must know where your true power comes from and how it's been manipulated.., and taking it the **** back and making this playing field even.., then to crush this ****............................., I stand at the gate.., as I am.

our inner teacher appears when our inner student is ready.., there is no avoiding this war... it can only be postponed to the advantage of the enemy.

http://humansarefree.com/2014/08/the-dimensional-veils-of-separation.html

Blessings ~

Limor

Thanks for sharing, Limor. And there is this enormous difference, between those who have lived and experienced horrors in this life, and those who are only horrified because we heard about it second hand. And then there are those whose memories take them back several lifetimes and whatever torturous experiences where handed to them there.

Yet, the world is what we make it...and this was the biggest surprise and discovery for me, and is also what has been hidden from us, during our indoctrination phases.

So it is either us, (who tread gently and wish no harm), or them, (who feel entitled to invade even the most precious aspects of the universe, small, innocent children).
Who will take the creative ball and run with it?

The here and now is a blissful place, as it means we can be sitting peacefully with our computers and share with others whatever comes to mind. This to me is freedom. We just have to know how to write down the thoughts we wish to share.
And there is something to be said for attempting to give others hope.


There is no such thing as false hope, unless one sets up a trap.
Real hope is the vision of one 's being able to _DO_ something- to better the human condition, and to help the virtuous to become even more virtuous.
And this does something to our DNA, and a person lights up like a Christmas tree, and shines.

And that then can provide them with protection, far more than living in blissful ignorance ever can.
Blessings to you.

[Carmody]

Great blog:
http://www.visibleorigami.com/2016/07/the-chinese-acrobats-in-my-alphabet-soup.html

Snippet:
"The world I see is a madhouse. Does that mean I am mad because it is what I see? I could see it many ways. It could look sane to me. Would that mean I was sane but... if the world really is a madhouse I would prefer not to be one of the inmates. This is one of the core things I have to think about. Agendas are lumbering on a rampage like drunken elephants through a shopping mall. Some of them are dressed up like those painted boys who were kept in the mansions of some dissolute marquis or manufactured royalty in pre-revolutionary France. Some of them had them in dozens. Today they got them in the hundreds and thousands in Hollywood. Would that be pre-revolutionary Hollywood? Another lumbering elephant is the race wars and then there are the culture wars, the language wars, the immigrant wars, the economic wars. The worst of the wars is the war of lies against the truth and worse than that is the size of the army that serves the military industrial complex of lies. Maybe it isn't such a big deal if you are part of it and it seems real to you but it doesn't seem real to me and therein is the conundrum. It's okay, I guess, if you are skating on non existent ice, as long as you believe the ice is there. If you know there is no ice, then putting on a pair of skates seems ridiculous but... not to the people who believe the ice is there. Do I submit to the general fantasy and agree that there is ice, even when I know that there is not? Do I buy into global warming when it seems to be getting colder? I'm not a scientist in the first place. I am a scientist actually but not that kind of scientist."

There it is.. yet no-one looks..... (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91117-Elon-Musk-Nails-it-We-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation&p=1078837#post1078837)

The erasure of the illusion of the ice, it's reality and non reality, in one fell swoop.

[Limor Wolf]

There it is.. yet no-one looks..... (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91117-Elon-Musk-Nails-it-We-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation&p=1078837#post1078837)

The erasure of the illusion of the ice, it's reality and non reality, in one fell swoop.

Very interesting, the world is quantum, the ice is quantum, and we are quantum. It means that we can move in many more directions than we think, getting many more options and having many more results than we are meant to believe - should we put our quntum mind on the quntum side of things with our expended quntum understanding together.

[Carmody]

Such a carlinesque way to live. The mind in full wander mode. test fitting everything into everything.

Outside working on cleaning up some found recycle bins.

Washing the ugly goop from them ....and me brain says, out of the blue.... "Banana Dostoyevsky"

The internal dialogue stops for a second, and continues..."It's the obvious thing, when out of Rum and Triple Sec for making Banana Daiquiris. Just sub in some complimentary reflective socialist vodka, and use Napoleon brandy..and there it is....one Banana Dostoyevsky."

[Limor Wolf]

Interesting what our mind construct programming comes up with. Is quantum only the mind, or is it that conciousness/awareness is playing a trivial part in it. And why are we (humans) are being used for our quantum qualities for others manifestation's use.. and why is it that we were never sufficiently been educated about it.

And what role does our heart play..

Soon at the cinema near your home

[Limor Wolf]

Thanks for sharing, Limor. And there is this enormous difference, between those who have lived and experienced horrors in this life, and those who are only horrified because we heard about it second hand. And then there are those whose memories take them back several lifetimes and whatever torturous experiences where handed to them there.

Yet, the world is what we make it...and this was the biggest surprise and discovery for me, and is also what has been hidden from us, during our indoctrination phases.

So it is either us, (who tread gently and wish no harm), or them, (who feel entitled to invade even the most precious aspects of the universe, small, innocent children).
Who will take the creative ball and run with it?

The here and now is a blissful place, as it means we can be sitting peacefully with our computers and share with others whatever comes to mind. This to me is freedom. We just have to know how to write down the thoughts we wish to share.
And there is something to be said for attempting to give others hope.


There is no such thing as false hope, unless one sets up a trap.
Real hope is the vision of one 's being able to _DO_ something- to better the human condition, and to help the virtuous to become even more virtuous.
And this does something to our DNA, and a person lights up like a Christmas tree, and shines.

And that then can provide them with protection, far more than living in blissful ignorance ever can.
Blessings to you.

Thank you, Ulli, I find this to be a very apt post. I think this is perheps what caused the Avalon server to be down : )

The tortoures experiences of the past loop themselves and we continue to reconstruct it and live it again and again (talk about quantum!). The thousands of years perpetrators knows it very well (trusting our ignorance in the laws of the universe, physical or otherwise) and use it to their benefit, and so we find ourselves both personally and collectively playing the same roles, only in a more modernised version each time UNTIL we acknowledge, and release the 'story'. Easier said than done, but certainly posssible. And as they say, there is no time like the present.

I feel affinity with your words above, as if they were meant to me. Some relevancy that I needed to hear. Sometimes we vocal words that come from somewhere that are meant to disrupt, sometimes words that are meant to assist. And sometimes there are blockages deliberately put to not be able to say anything at all, especially if there are some interesting conclusions from certain experiences of the horrors of this life. And sometimes it's truly us : ), How versatile our world is. So much more to learn.

All the good things to you, Ulli ~

Limor

[Carmody]

The puns never end, it seems. I have the windows open the sun is shining and the wind blows through the house.

I load the front loading washing machine and put a scoop of detergent in, and in the back of my mind, the song starts up....Roger waters. I start the laundry machine and it begins turning. the song begins. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbeLFG6Lglo)

Oh..oh ..oh..the tide is turning.

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/sits_pod41/dw/image/v2/AAJI_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-londondrugs-master/default/dw7a6f3e9e/products/L4795134/large/L4795134.JPG?sw=360&sh=360

[Limor Wolf]

Preconcived tunes find their translation (with the assistance of who)

Detergent foam clears the stains and helps to move through the tide, when the heart participates in the service and where there are no fake guides

We better be clear (and cleaned : ) about that

[ulli]

When I watched this movie in the early nineties I got an Aha! that lifted me out of my seat.
Mainly how to access my subconscious more frequently, and deliberately.
Too slow for anyone who is not on such a path.
I think I will watch it again now, on this lazy Sunday afternoon.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uec1CX-6A38

[RunningDeer]

Less than a half hour ago, I finished “Childhood’s End (https://www.amazon.com/Childhoods-End-Arthur-C-Clarke/dp/0345347951/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467581784&sr=8-1&keywords=Childhood’s+End”%2C+by%3A+Arthur+C.+Clarke)”, by: Arthur C. Clarke. Currently processing. It’s timely that you posted “Mindwalk". I'm downloading it now.


Mindwalk - Trailer
hMZ9xwfmNvs
A US politician visits his poet friend in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medieval island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja, a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen to the ideas of this brilliant woman and discuss how her ideas can work in their own politician and poet lives.

[ulli]

In the Mindwalk movie they talk about the turning tide at 1:35:00.

I didnt remember that part.

The other thing...my husband walks into the room I'm watching this movie on my ipad, sees the image of Mount Saint Michel, and says he just left the room where he had been watching TV with that same image, as the Tour de France bicycle race began there at that moment.

[RunningDeer]

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Dogs_Kids/small-babies-children-big-dogs-62__880_zps869bb6f9.JPG

[ulli]

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/happy-videos/2747/He-Hiked-From-Mexico-To-Canada-And-Filmed-One-Second-Each-Day-This-Is-What-He-Saw#MZ78a5UgwHLpAq3o.01

A guy hikes from Mexico to Canada on trails and films one second each day.
For nature lovers.

[Sierra]

Lazing in Epsom salt, reading the Village.

We came out of retroactive Mars in Scorpio (Mars in Scorpio in birth chart), July 1st and not a moment too soon. The big aha in the snarling dog eat dog, mental, months long donnybrook was, I've been blaming my husband who is not to blame. Very difficult to think with Mars dragging up the kitchen sink, so I was so grateful to latch on to this particular game changer.

It's the battles about emotional housecleaning that exhaust me, while I am trying to find my way in the deafening ego din, does this or that constitute a responsibility or old baggage? And meanwhile the retro Mars grumpiness must be controlled (no point whatsoever triggering PTSD in my husband), another strain on my system.

Without a word said, so yes, that swirly stuff around you *does* permit communication, my husband clearly feels freedom and relief from my previous habitual, automated, judgement. So do I.

:)

Retroactive Mars in Scorpio is very good for life review exercises, lol.

Pauler, singing with the wind in your space, so clear, so much room. I too, think of the Villagers all the time.

Nora, I've been thinking about you, well, I almost feel as if I am sitting with you, and a moment here, a moment there, a continuous being that breaks into my awareness every so often as a thought of Nora, which its not, just love and care.

Marianne, happy belated birthday dear heart, and thank you SO much for the reminder to use the mat! I space out when my body can't move, hard to remember to take care of myself. I've walked around the block these last two days, woohoo. Come home safe.

Mike, love you, you big European mutt. It is so cool you and your dad are having a blast golfing.

Lolly, I am glad you are here, enjoy getting to know you, and I enjoy your joy.

Violet, ick on chaos, do what you gotta do. My sister had to lock the refrigerator and cupboards, and put up a steel door to the bedroom when puberty, and serious anger outbursts ensued, testosterone is no joke.

Woofs to PL, Playdo, Araucaria, EagleSpirit, Carmody, and Meeradas, keen seers all.

Blessings to Flash, and this is what I said to the mod team after reading her email to be posted to the SP thread:

Wow. Impressive. Way to go. Extract the benefit, ignore the dross, align to good, and hold to love.

:heart: :heart: :heart:

In terms of life path, life task, Flash is a raving success.

Lol, Onawah, that's our job, to be driven nuts.

Blessings to all shamans, to all little autistics and their families, to all Villages of love and friendship.

Love, Sierra a nutcase as usual, rooting through Ulli's lovely store, and stopping to hug her every five minutes just because I can... (Go quantum!)

[ulli]

Star Tzar posted Roxy's Stranded album on the Whole Album Thread.
And while listening I'm reminded of a conversation I had with Ferry (yes, I had many chats with him, as well as Eno and Phil Manzanera, who had never met any girl before who knew what a syncopation was. I miss those days with these geniuses)
Anyway, I am reminded of how transparent Ferry was about his inner life. He told me in 1988 that listening to the old Roxy Music songs made him cringe with embarrassment.
And here I am, blown away again by how good he was.
Geez....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvE-J0cMkLk

Wondering what we would have been served had he and Brian Eno never split up.

[ulli]

Less than a half hour ago, I finished “Childhood’s End (https://www.amazon.com/Childhoods-End-Arthur-C-Clarke/dp/0345347951/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467581784&sr=8-1&keywords=Childhood’s+End”%2C+by%3A+Arthur+C.+Clarke)”, by: Arthur C. Clarke. Currently processing. It’s timely that you posted “Mindwalk". I'm downloading it now.


Paula, I still have a tattered version of the book. Brilliant book. I quoted from it before, I believe.
This is the cover, which was copied by the producers of Independence Day.
(Hey, isn't that supposed to be tomorrow?)
http://tobinelliott.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/childhoods-end.jpg

[Sierra]

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/happy-videos/2747/He-Hiked-From-Mexico-To-Canada-And-Filmed-One-Second-Each-Day-This-Is-What-He-Saw#MZ78a5UgwHLpAq3o.01

A guy hikes from Mexico to Canada on trails and films one second each day.
For nature lovers.

That made me homesick for the high Sierras.

Here is another one, one second per mile on the John Muir Trail:
ptEA_OBYIz0
I got homesick watching that one too, and started researching horse packing, and hiking, where you can be old and arthritic, not carry anything, get fed and put to bed, lol:
http://www.rockcreekpackstation.com/trailrides.shtml
http://www.wildlandtrekking.com/yosemite/backpacking-trips/high-sierra-loop.html

[RunningDeer]

Less than a half hour ago, I finished “Childhood’s End (https://www.amazon.com/Childhoods-End-Arthur-C-Clarke/dp/0345347951/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467581784&sr=8-1&keywords=Childhood’s+End”%2C+by%3A+Arthur+C.+Clarke)”, by: Arthur C. Clarke. Currently processing. It’s timely that you posted “Mindwalk". I'm downloading it now.


Paula, I still have a tattered version of the book. Brilliant book. I quoted from it before, I believe.
This is the cover, which was copied by the producers of Independence Day.
(Hey, isn't that supposed to be tomorrow?)

http://tobinelliott.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/childhoods-end.jpg

Yes, the 4th of July is officially tomorrow. As I write this, there are fireworks going off in several places. Last evening too.

Childhood’s End was good. I did a speed read with the last two chapters so I wouldn't scoot ahead to the ending. The more Sci Fi and ET books and movies I get caught up on that others reference, I better understand people's posts/POV. Between no TV or music in the home growing up and then off in the world as a youngin', I've got big gaps.

[ulli]

Consciousness app
http://consciousness-app.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRkAaiJv6zw

[ulli]

From an interview given by Zora Burdan, rock journalist, artist, and wife if Doors singer Jim Morrison, on having "the gift"

"PKM: They weren’t encouraged at all! My family was very strict Irish Roman Catholic, though the little gifts like Sight did sneak through, from both sides of the family tree. But we never discussed it. One gift I could do without: precognition of deaths. I had a vision of Jim the night before he died: he was standing by my bed, so real that I could smell his indefinable scent; he bent over to kiss me and was gone. A few years later, I woke up screaming from a nightmare of my sister being killed in a car crash; the next day, my mom called to tell me that my sister’s fiancé had been killed in a car crash. I had a vision of my beautiful Irish wolfhound jumping on the bed as she used to do, again so real the bed sagged under her; the friends who had her called the next day to tell me she’d peacefully died. And of course there’s the earthquake precog … It never tells me anything nice, like winning lottery numbers, and I kind of wish it would stop. Being warned isn’t much fun."

Being warned isn't much fun...so true.
Nor is there any fun in being the warner, a role one can easily identify with if one has astrological knowledge.
It is a real dilemma.

[Carmody]

When I watched this movie in the early nineties I got an Aha! that lifted me out of my seat.
Mainly how to access my subconscious more frequently, and deliberately.
Too slow for anyone who is not on such a path.
I think I will watch it again now, on this lazy Sunday afternoon.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uec1CX-6A38

At the 51 minute mark, she explains the structure of what I'm speaking about, when I talk about how the angular view of our reality causes our 'view' of the universe to be itself. That the medium and the message are one and the same. That our slice of a viewing position of the complete and complex reality, that sliver we see is also the carrier of what we are, it is us and it is our reality that causes such a small amount of the reality to be seen. The mirror of the slice of the viewpoint reflected back into and upon the avatar.

this is the how and why that the nucleus of that seeming atom is so small compared to that of the electron, which is even smaller. that the electron, even smaller, is so immensely far from the nucleus. It is all due to the angle of the view, the slice of the view, the reality itself, being so stuttered and impermanent, is 'not of all' that it is a mere infinitely small repeating stutter moment of a vibrational/resonant pattering.

That all is vibration, frequency, resonance, and angle of view, angle of motion, a vectored reality. the small seemingly very complex vectors that describe consciousness and gravity and time, that were REMOVED from James clerk Maxwell's mathematical complexities. Which are his 20 equations in 20 unknowns, described in quarternion notation, which was based upon Faraday's work of describing electricity (electrons) interaction in 'matter'. Which was essentially the eruption of order from the seeming randomness of matter, ie electrons in 'motion' arsing into spun vectors in multiple orientations. Complex vector spins.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotation)
Maxwell described the huge gulf, the infinite seeings space, Maxwell described the 'nothing' between the nucleus and the electron. Those forces he described seems so insignificantly small, that they were REMOVED. It's too bad it happened...as it's relational factors to the seemingly all important nucleus and electron, was the core of the fundamental. The relation was the key. By the way, Einstein used the shortened math, so his equations can only ever describe the Newtonian world, not the quantum. Which is why the noted incompatibility between quantum and Einsteinian worlds - exists.

It is tied to the quantum showing it's face in the overall Newtonian reality we call our 'normal world'. Why the quantum spookiness shows up in the Newtonian world. What I speak about when I say that certain assumptions can be made, in order to come to a 'bound infinity'. order pressured into chaos via consciousness...consciousness brought to bear on the Newtonian world creates predictability and driven order. To steer through timelines, etc. Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am", but this also cut off the depth of the truth in that moment.

As his premise in such statements...how it was ..related to and upon the Newtonian world, with regard to how the world saw his exclamation of a view, how the world captured his missive. The order hiding in the randomness... the predictability of consciousness driving the vehicle (the needed view of the outside of the box), the ability to literally drive the reality, to drive the timelines... to drive the very formation of self and overall system.. through time.......that (the entire deeper more fundamental connected view).... was cut off.

Descartes had been interpreted by the lesser mind of the average aspects of academia (the quote that 'C grades rule the world)..as a truly false floor of reality. In that moment, the manipulations of groups who seek power ...were given their control mechanism in the world of science and academia. They had their false floor for you to walk on.... and they could move above and below it....... and manipulate at will.



Great blog:
http://www.visibleorigami.com/2016/07/the-chinese-acrobats-in-my-alphabet-soup.html

Snippet:
"The world I see is a madhouse. Does that mean I am mad because it is what I see? I could see it many ways. It could look sane to me. Would that mean I was sane but... if the world really is a madhouse I would prefer not to be one of the inmates. This is one of the core things I have to think about. Agendas are lumbering on a rampage like drunken elephants through a shopping mall. Some of them are dressed up like those painted boys who were kept in the mansions of some dissolute marquis or manufactured royalty in pre-revolutionary France. Some of them had them in dozens. Today they got them in the hundreds and thousands in Hollywood. Would that be pre-revolutionary Hollywood? Another lumbering elephant is the race wars and then there are the culture wars, the language wars, the immigrant wars, the economic wars. The worst of the wars is the war of lies against the truth and worse than that is the size of the army that serves the military industrial complex of lies. Maybe it isn't such a big deal if you are part of it and it seems real to you but it doesn't seem real to me and therein is the conundrum. It's okay, I guess, if you are skating on non existent ice, as long as you believe the ice is there. If you know there is no ice, then putting on a pair of skates seems ridiculous but... not to the people who believe the ice is there. Do I submit to the general fantasy and agree that there is ice, even when I know that there is not? Do I buy into global warming when it seems to be getting colder? I'm not a scientist in the first place. I am a scientist actually but not that kind of scientist."

There it is.. yet no-one looks..... (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91117-Elon-Musk-Nails-it-We-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation&p=1078837#post1078837)

The erasure of the illusion of the ice, it's reality and non reality, in one fell swoop.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the link about the quantum AI (in the above quote), and human consciousness.... is the link to the article about how science has proven the existence of the quantum nature and predictability laws in all Newtonian things. That is a a HUGE 'fact' to have science establish. Absolutely HUGE, fundamental on the most base level, in fact. Yet people are not noticing it's implications. They are outlined in the connectivity of this overall post you are reading. How consciousness (larger than the avatar and reality) aimed at a random number generator.... collapses the generator.... into repetition and predictability.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


That randomness does not truly exist when the consciousness turns it's attention to randomness. How consciousness is not local, it is larger than the body/avatar and has a larger view of the universe. A larger view that we can bring to this confined view, this animal avatar boxed view.....of the overall 'Newtonian laws'/Descartes/bacon view. With that view we are given some norms, but remain a monkey clinging to a log in a vast sea... that appears to function as a view... but has limited laws of operation. When we apply our larger consciousness to that Newtonian reality -the seeming Newtonian order- this act...turns the random averaged laws...to a quantum level predictability, to a driven direction. Randomness collapses into order, one driven by the consciousness. We begin to steer through time, consciously, and gain a control over timelines and outcomes. We become more than the result of animal fear and desire. See the written works of Micheal newton and so on.

And thus the idea pressured upon us of randomness in the universe (newtonian order) is a false one and removes our own abilities to drive our future. how this capacity is taken from us (the 'order out of chaos crew' and so on) and that our abilities are driven from our consciousness and connectivity to this place/view/holographic... by an enforced animalism of fear, desire and so on.


Consciousness app
http://consciousness-app.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRkAaiJv6zw

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If one wants to know how the (multi)universe actually works, then one should struggle with this post as much as they can...... as it is all (as a functional doorway) right here.

If one wants the outer chaotic world to reflect the inner being's truths... then the inner being must reflect itself, quantum wise -spooky action timeless wise- upon the outer vehicle of the Newtonian unidirectional time/gravity world. The mechanism by which that is done and how it exists, is described, if one reads fully and carefully. It is the width and depth of consciousness as projection and connection into this 'reality' ....that is key in both vehicle/reality -- and ability to drive it.

Do not allow fears and desires to be smacked and hit and slammed about by external seeming manipulative forces (war, sex, violence, desires, and so on)... into collapsing your consciousness viewpoint/connection/expression (your power of control of reality's unfolding)...so that you become a tiny animal...a Newtonian random/predictable toy, a chess piece, to be moved by someone else.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Years ago, during the cold war fear when I was a kid, I had an idea. A simplistic, but I thought brilliant, idea.

Why not put all the world's leaders and all their armies on an island somewhere. And let them destroy each other, if that's what they want to do.

Then the rest of us could get on with it in peace.

~children, they have more wisdom than many give them credit for.

[ulli]

Years ago, during the cold war fear when I was a kid, I had an idea. A simplistic, but I thought brilliant, idea.

Why not put all the world's leaders and all their armies on an island somewhere. And let them destroy each other, if that's what they want to do.

Then the rest of us could get on with it in peace.

~children, they have more wisdom than many give them credit for.

Yes, if one considers the fact that they are eternal beings, and some have brief recollections of stuff that carry as past life memories...not that I like the term of "past" life, as that that level time operates differently than in linear fashion.

I remember having similar thoughts when living in England, but was at that time still trusting the main parties, just not the fringe ones, like the Socialist Workers Party and the National Front, who were two sides of the same coin. Put their leaders in one confined cell, and they will discover that they are of similar ilk.

And at age ten I thought that the next great invention would be weather control, but what if it got into the hands of the wrong people?
The whole process of arriving at where I am now, unfolded faster and faster, as I learnt to overcome my Capricorn/Aquarius tendncy of fixed ideas and rigid thinking patterns, and how to switch from one of the hemispheres of my brain to the other.

Strangely enough, the people who switch fastest between brain hemisheres are dancers...having to measure space (left brain) as well as carrying on with their creative expression ( right brain.)

[Carmody]

Listening to:https://susumuyokota.bandcamp.com/track/oskar-air-conditioning-2

(you can only get a piece of it....)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Yokota

DY6HhvCLwxY

[ulli]

Perception for most people is mostly what is seen or heard on the outside...This is my observation around here in Costa Rica, where there is still a powerful cultural programming coming from the top of the matriarchy a fake hierarchy created by church leaders, which is in a dysfunctional relationship with the patriarchy, which is created via the press and TV media.
Their current obsession with selfie pictures on Facebook is a sign that they are at least discovering that there is a self at all.
This too, will hopefully be just a phase, to be outgrown. Where next?
So there is still no awareness of instinctive activity, nor efforts at controlling such stuff, with teen pregnancies at an alltime high. The self-organizing part of lifebeing ignored. And so the societal programmers have a field day here.

But somehow a common denominator has to be created, just so that people can form relationships built on mutual points of reference. More than just reproductive instincts being played out.
But for now there is only focus on sports, TV soaps, lottery, and endless partypolitical tug of war.
For the women there is celebrity culture unlike anything I have witnessed in my youth, all are designed to keep us trapped in this instinctive survival mode, rather than contemplate how to break free and become truly "self"-organizing, which is that word Sonia used in Mind Walk, when asked what is life.

[Hervé]

... tendency of fixed ideas and rigid thinking patterns, and how to switch from one of the hemispheres of my brain to the other.
Hmmm... maybe that's another new-age, psycho-bable programme to quick out and about... because... what to do with bouillabaisse brains (https://www.sott.net/article/321408-Civil-servant-missing-most-of-his-brain-still-conscious-Your-brain-is-not-your-mind)? :bigsmile:

Hello everyone! I am declaring Independence from brains and genetics!

... Ok, ok... I'll go back lurking behind the sofa...


:behindsofa:

[Carmody]

The problem, for life, one might say, is that the eggshell and associated issues of it's puncturing....must be real... otherwise it is just a simple exercise in nothing, and means nothing. Meaning and result addresses itself and it's existence...across the given gap, it is defined by the gap. And a million other ways to express it.

[Carmody]

... tendency of fixed ideas and rigid thinking patterns, and how to switch from one of the hemispheres of my brain to the other.
Hmmm... maybe that's another new-age, psycho-bable programme to quick out and about... because... what to do with bouillabaisse brains (https://www.sott.net/article/321408-Civil-servant-missing-most-of-his-brain-still-conscious-Your-brain-is-not-your-mind)? :bigsmile:

Hello everyone! I am declaring Independence from brains and genetics!

... Ok, ok... I'll go back lurking behind the sofa...


:behindsofa:


Actually, you've got it exactly right.

The essence of enlightenment is a true and actual independence from brains and genetics. To hold the vehicle of the body, the avatar... but to not have the dominance of the avatar as the essence. In the real and true sense. The embodiment of what one might a call a godhead, in "physical" form.

You have that right now, but the body is like a resonant diode bubble. Stuff goes in and stuff goes out but it's awareness is in a limited loop.

This analogy can be applied to the issue of the Maxwellian micro residuals that were all important but scrapped, as compared to the seeming importance of the Newtonian reality.

The 20 equations in 20 unknowns with their seemingly irrelevant complex vectors vs the Newtonian projections, that difference is the range we need to cross, the gap we need to breach and cover. With our bodies and ego minds trapped in the Newtonian view (anything coming in and out of it.. simply bounces around within it--from it's point of view)... unless we relax...expand... and incorporate the quiet small messages from the seeming aether.

The animal avatar can no longer be afforded, the representative reality/bubble/earth... is breaking down..

Those who are cunning and realize this... and have the capacity to see into the aether components through their unemotional animalistic sociopathy.... they are manipulating to hold their position of knowing and power.

Parasites, essentially, who think they are superior.

Actually ... they form defect, not consensus.

They are not elevated --they are perversion.

[Ernie Nemeth]

I am determined, in a far softer way than ever before, to grasp the functional meaning behind Charmody's posts about reality altering.

Up until this point I have always used massive "force" to change vibration and increase my inner awareness. It has been akin to stretching a rubber band beyond its slack, normal length. Stretch it hard with focused intention and then try and make that "higher" state my ground state, my new "normal". But this requires copious amounts of energy and focus and cannot be maintained for long before "snap back" occurs. This I have called the "enemies that always attack me when I try to advance" syndrome. There may be conscious entities involved occasionally but most times that is not even required - I will fall on my own because of the unnatural state I am trying to hold onto.

But there is always the flip side of this: if others can control reality to ensure I never do then controlling reality is possible. This is my new working tenet. Instead of trying to use my powers in an all-out offensive, I don't try at all. Instead I just do and "expect without expectation". It's this "let's just see" attitude that seems particularly effective.

Many here keep talking about such a thing but I have never truly understood. Still have trouble being "softer" and have many false beliefs to unravel but there may be hope yet.

[ulli]

I am determined, in a far softer way than ever before, to grasp the functional meaning behind Charmody's posts about reality altering.

Up until this point I have always used massive "force" to change vibration and increase my inner awareness. It has been akin to stretching a rubber band beyond its slack, normal length. Stretch it hard with focused intention and then try and make that "higher" state my ground state, my new "normal". But this requires copious amounts of energy and focus and cannot be maintained for long before "snap back" occurs. This I have called the "enemies that always attack me when I try to advance" syndrome. There may be conscious entities involved occasionally but most times that is not even required - I will fall on my own because of the unnatural state I am trying to hold onto.

But there is always the flip side of this: if others can control reality to ensure I never do then controlling reality is possible. This is my new working tenet. Instead of trying to use my powers in an all-out offensive, I don't try at all. Instead I just do and "expect without expectation". It's this "let's just see" attitude that seems particularly effective.

Many here keep talking about such a thing but I have never truly understood. Still have trouble being "softer" and have many false beliefs to unravel but there may be hope yet.

We only have enough energy to change our own programming. After that everything works like a dream...no more efforting is needed.

As soon as I noticed that this was indeed happening with me, and things started to work out for me I became excited. This then ruined everything again. Back to square one.
Next time I got back to the smooth running of my life, a new problem arose.
What would be my agenda?

Too many options, too many choices to be made. The result was confusion.
I'm still stuck in confusion, and too much self questioning.
But one thing has improved...my overall alertness.
And only when I become aware of a real crisis does my intent to change the outer reality kick in.
Bring everything back to balance,..or "normal flow".
The bigger outer world needs more than one little me to get back to normal flow...
It takes a united effort of a united group.

The hard part is getting a consensus.

[ulli]

... tendency of fixed ideas and rigid thinking patterns, and how to switch from one of the hemispheres of my brain to the other.
Hmmm... maybe that's another new-age, psycho-bable programme to quick out and about... because... what to do with bouillabaisse brains (https://www.sott.net/article/321408-Civil-servant-missing-most-of-his-brain-still-conscious-Your-brain-is-not-your-mind)? :bigsmile:

Hello everyone! I am declaring Independence from brains and genetics!

... Ok, ok... I'll go back lurking behind the sofa...


:behindsofa:


I saw a video documentary about a child that was born empty headed,
yet functioning normally. This was before I had Internet, in 1992.

So, WTH is a brain then? And what about bio-feedback?
It was the image on a mind monitor of a biofeedback machine that convinced me back in 1979 that meditating helped in getting the two hemispheres to balance. All this contributed to my search for higher consciousness.

Actually, consciousness levels rise just by talking about it, or directing focus there.
Just like synchronicities become more frequent when reading Jung, or miracles happen when studying Gurdjieff's work, a book by P. D. Ouspensky, called In Search of the Miraculous.

Anyway, Hervé, you must be uncomfortable behind that couch...here, have a cushion.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

From Rahkyt's FB page:

http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2016/01/zeno-effect-verified-atoms-wont-move.html?m=1#.V3qRfpBOKrV

[Hervé]

[Q...]
So, WTH is a brain then? And what about bio-feedback?
[...]

Honestly, I don't know...

... remember Carmody's favorite:



The three scientific test groups groups were carefully selected.

Group one was made up of non believers in psychic sensitivity.
Group two was made up of believers in psychic sensitivity.
Group three was made up of agnostics in psychic sensitivity.... which means that results from "scientific" experiments (never mind their interpretations) are in need of serious revisions.

Thanks for the cushion :)

[Carmody]

I am determined, in a far softer way than ever before, to grasp the functional meaning behind Charmody's posts about reality altering.

Up until this point I have always used massive "force" to change vibration and increase my inner awareness. It has been akin to stretching a rubber band beyond its slack, normal length. Stretch it hard with focused intention and then try and make that "higher" state my ground state, my new "normal". But this requires copious amounts of energy and focus and cannot be maintained for long before "snap back" occurs. This I have called the "enemies that always attack me when I try to advance" syndrome. There may be conscious entities involved occasionally but most times that is not even required - I will fall on my own because of the unnatural state I am trying to hold onto.

But there is always the flip side of this: if others can control reality to ensure I never do then controlling reality is possible. This is my new working tenet. Instead of trying to use my powers in an all-out offensive, I don't try at all. Instead I just do and "expect without expectation". It's this "let's just see" attitude that seems particularly effective.

Many here keep talking about such a thing but I have never truly understood. Still have trouble being "softer" and have many false beliefs to unravel but there may be hope yet.

You expand your awareness and connection of all around you, but the pressures (misnomer) required to enact change... are in the nothingness tied to the expanded awareness. To be a nexus of cascade.

[Sierra]

PDF of "In Search of the Miraculous":

http://www.gurdjieff.am/in-search/index.pdf

[Hervé]

Ooops... re-opened... Sierra!?!

[ulli]

Ooops... re-opened... Sierra!?!

I knew it wasn't you. After all, you had just sunken into a comfy cushion. Which leaves Sierra.
No one else has access to the red button.
I already skyped her, but I believe she found another sofa to hide behind.

And now I can't remember that brilliant, best post ever, of all my millions of posts, addressed to you, which got eaten alive by our darling Sierra.

Must do something urgently about my short-term memory issue....

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[Q...]
So, WTH is a brain then? And what about bio-feedback?
[...]

Honestly, I don't know...

... remember Carmody's favorite:



The three scientific test groups groups were carefully selected.

Group one was made up of non believers in psychic sensitivity.
Group two was made up of believers in psychic sensitivity.
Group three was made up of agnostics in psychic sensitivity.... which means that results from "scientific" experiments (never mind their interpretations) are in need of serious revisions.

Thanks for the cushion :)


About revising scientific experiments. How?
No wonder science departments attract less followers than religious institutions.

Maybe they should start using more flowers, candles, stained glass windows, colorful costumes....

[Hervé]

[...]

And now I can't remember that brilliant, best post ever, of all my millions of posts, addressed to you, which got eaten alive by our darling Sierra.

Must do something urgently about my short-term memory issue....

:bigsmile:

If you use Firefox and some add-ons like Lazarus, it may be possible to recover the text by right-clicking on the Edit/Post box and use "Recover text"

[Carmody]

Ooops... re-opened... Sierra!?!

Perhaps we were getting too warm, and the leaf was introduced to change the course of the bullet, ever so slightly. It's like that sometimes.

As for talking about expanding one's awareness it is done in the hind-brain, in the unconscious and how it connects to consciousness.... not really a conscious thing at all.

This is why the learning to empty the mind is the first step. the consciousness babble and constant talk and motion is the block of the doorway and path.

Look at modern society and it's insane pile of patches to block that doorway. The noise levels are insane. As was said in the Return of the King, 'the way is closed'. Through the noise.. by turning it to silence, to bring it to silence.... by ease and not force. Then the door can be found, a door and way that has not conscious worded voice. Some find it through pain, some find it through mental ordering some find it through ecstasy and beauty. Obviously it is in all of those approaches so it exists everywhere, but mostly, within.... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY6HhvCLwxY)

[ulli]

[...]

And now I can't remember that brilliant, best post ever, of all my millions of posts, addressed to you, which got eaten alive by our darling Sierra.

Must do something urgently about my short-term memory issue....

:bigsmile:

If you use Firefox and some add-ons like Lazarus, it may be possible to recover the text by right-clicking on the Edit/Post box and use "Recover text"

Thanks. None of my macbooks work anymore. Only have this iPad. Or should I call it eye-pad?

Anyway, back to reality, as we have green parrots attacking our fruits.
(Not my picture, but you get the picture)
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13567015_1796314163920724_4191138468532917143_n.jpg?oh=575647f034a5f4541584caee8bfb1e20&oe=57F9975D
We are harvesting soursops, carambolas aka star fruits, Mulberries, oranges, limes, guavas, and there are hungry birds trying to get to them before me.

[Hervé]

[...]
About revising scientific experiments. How?
[...]


... not sure... remove all the Remote viewers from the area? Remove the bacteria and fungi spies (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?71453-Life--Or-What-s-A-Yoghourt-s-Got-To-Do-With-Nature-Nurture.&p=834380&viewfull=1#post834380)? Get the experiments performed by non-hackable robots?

In short, remove anything that's anchoring a consensus reality :)


Maybe they should start using more flowers, candles, stained glass windows, colorful costumes....Indeed, all these things and rituals help anchor a specific consensus reality...

[Carmody]

Anyway, back to reality, as we have green parrots attacking our fruits.
(Not my picture, but you get the picture)
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13567015_1796314163920724_4191138468532917143_n.jpg?oh=575647f034a5f4541584caee8bfb1e20&oe=57F9975D
We are harvesting soursops, carambolas aka star fruits, Mulberries, oranges, limes, guavas, and there are hungry birds trying to get to them before me.


They are not hungry, they just need a reason to crap on the remainders. (looking at the bright side, here)

[ulli]

Anyway, back to reality, as we have green parrots attacking our fruits.
(Not my picture, but you get the picture)
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13567015_1796314163920724_4191138468532917143_n.jpg?oh=575647f034a5f4541584caee8bfb1e20&oe=57F9975D
We are harvesting soursops, carambolas aka star fruits, Mulberries, oranges, limes, guavas, and there are hungry birds trying to get to them before me.


They are not hungry, they just need a reason to crap on the remainders. (looking at the bright side, here)

Lol, you are reversing the purpose of existence. Is that what the Life of Brian taught you?

From this:
Banana land
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13516153_1795138590704948_3202788698589900568_n.jpg?oh=868a3fbba0a9da8b8ebbe80681db0199&oe=57EAB289
To this, banana republic.
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13445301_1792244870994320_1504956775567529473_n.jpg?oh=26e72f79b40c7870461c4f501140b21a&oe=57F2137F

[ulli]

Focusing on this, as my next fruit tree experiment.
Cashew nuts/apples. I don't know which tastes better, the fruit or the nut.
The fruit goes off rather quickly, unfortunately.
Not like normal apples which can last months if stored in a cool place.
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13432235_1791435671075240_8512175624907594770_n.jpg?oh=2c4ec4b7684ca959c1af3533ece740a1&oe=57EA872B

[ulli]

Anyway, trying here to get my thoughts back on track. What is it to be, renewal, or decay?
Or both?
But even then, the focus on decay will determne an outcome of regression, whereas focus on renewal brings a reality of possible betterment, or refinement.

[RunningDeer]

PDF of "In Search of the Miraculous":
Thanks, Sierra. :wave: Just in case, here’s the direct link to your pdf (http://www.gurdjieff.am/in-search/index.pdf) and the Kindle edition (https://www.amazon.com/Search-Miraculous-P-D-Ouspensky-ebook/dp/B0072I1JUS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1467664206&sr=8-2) is $2.99. Huge bargain. Many moons ago, I purchased through iBook for $11 (ish).

[Bluegreen]

Spent the holiday with my family in a back yard and I am thankful I even have a family which many do not and am thankful they continue to accept me but they all think I am crazy. They started talking about ISIS and the need to have more security personnel to pat down the public and go through their possessions to make sure they don't have bombs etc and you never know who it might be some little old lady and her purse and on and on each one spurring the other to make even more outrageous propositions and they all nod in agreement. I was biting my tongue and shutting up but finally I said something I thought was fairly innocuous like Well no I disagree I think it is time we start living in love and stop living in fear or something like that and they all stopped talking and looked at me and I could feel every set of eyes boring into me like What, what are are you, nuts? Then one by one they started back into it and they soon forgot about me and I was glad. How do you deal with that mob mentality? I don't know how.

You guys have no idea how grateful I am I can come to this place and thank you each and every one ...

:heart:

[RunningDeer]

http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/yaysmilesa-smiley.gif

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/flash_zpsfv5pqzhc.jpg

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/director_zps0cwtxixq.GIF Hey, a purple Flash, that means you're back. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/clap_zpspp7oeh2v.GIF


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-waving-756458_zpsgerbbxwz.GIF

[ulli]

http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/yaysmilesa-smiley.gif

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/flash_zpsfv5pqzhc.jpg

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/director_zps0cwtxixq.GIF Hey, a purple Flash, that means you're back. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/clap_zpspp7oeh2v.GIF


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-waving-756458_zpsgerbbxwz.GIF

That means she sorted out her stuff, and found a good job. Was just a matter of time.
Welcome back, Flash.

[ulli]

Venezuela suicides...people on antidepressants can no longer get their meds.
Colombia starvation...truck drivers are on strike and there is no food in the shops.

[RunningDeer]

Venezuela suicides...people on antidepressants can no longer get their meds.
Colombia starvation...truck drivers are on strike and there is no food in the shops.

Though, this can't help the poor Colombian folks, it’s an opportunity to repost this:

ThriveLife.com (http://www.thrivelife.com/shop) is a good place to check out for emergency preparedness. Most are certified gluten-free, NO GMOs: no bioengineered ingredients, NO artificial colors or flavors.

I've purchased the fruits, vegetables, and grains which have a shelf life of 25 years and best used within one year of opening to maintain life sustaining nutritional value.

Too, it’s cost effective if you live in seasonal areas where the price fluctuates, or inclement weather, or time constraints with work and home.

The customer ratings/reviews are pretty accurate. The site is informative and user friendly. :thumb:

[Flash]

http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/yaysmilesa-smiley.gif

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/flash_zpsfv5pqzhc.jpg

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/director_zps0cwtxixq.GIF Hey, a purple Flash, that means you're back. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/clap_zpspp7oeh2v.GIF


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-waving-756458_zpsgerbbxwz.GIF

That means she sorted out her stuff, and found a good job. Was just a matter of time.
Welcome back, Flash.

thanks for the welcome, but no, no good job yet, but a few tentative months in a software start up, with no results. However, it put me back on the working scene, making lots of contacts. I am now starting to create new ideas to survive or rather to live, so my inovlvement in avalon will be sketchy at times, because I need to work. I take it all in a very different manner.

The good news is that i am seven month in a wonderful relationship with lots of fun, lots of care, lots of love. He is a retired college math teacher but does not want to make his mind work too much - he is completely oblivious to any conspiracy theory which is funny at times, the naivety. Even daughter likes him... this says it all.

She is doing really well, finished her first year of college with slightly above average grades, and is now working for the summer in a respite camp for heavy heavy autistic and mentally disable adults. A tough job but she likes it and mostly likes the participants in the camp. She will do it every other week end when school starts again. And she has been for one year and half with a boyfriend who is nice and loving to her.

The refief of knowing she will be fine when i will not be there anymore is truly inicredible. I now realise how heavy the worries were on my shoulders, even though I did lived it with deep love which ligtened it a bit.

I have great ideas for creating work and will be working at it for the next two months. It should be implemented in September.

[Sierra]

Welcome back Flash! :bearhug: :heart: :bearhug:

So good to hear you and Mini are doing well. :)

[araucaria]

I have only just caught up with yesterday’s fascinating discussion – many thanks to all. I too have been pondering these matters in my own poetic rather than scientific way. Last week, casting around for a thread title I came up with ‘soft underbellies’. The very next day Carmody was using that phrase, and now eggshells, so I guess we’re on the same page. I started writing this stuff three months ago, and was thinking this week it’s about time to make a start on getting it out. I guess not starting this thread was my personal equivalent of closing the Here & now thread; anyway it’s done now: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91692-Soft-underbellies&p=1079335&viewfull=1#post1079335

[RunningDeer]

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Animals/chipmunk_zps8olvlhuf.JPG

Day three of my new chipmunk neighbor, Charlie. He fearlessly climbs up the second story deck stairs, and along side the birdie friends, he fills up his cheeks then scoots back down.

This morning, he caught me peeking out the screen door. With half filled chipmunk cheeks, he hightailed it. And so began the match. Charlie froze at the bottom to engage in a stare-off.

After a good effort on both our parts for two minutes that felt like twenty, I lost. Charlie’s got my number and was back in no time.

Seems, I’ve got an attention span of a chipmunk. (correction...less than a chipmunk) http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/delete_zpsk6bycz0n.GIF

[Sierra]

This version has the best choreography, as well as no audience shrieking so you can hear the music. :)
o2VKaH2sKtU
"Tilted"

I will die before Methusalah
So I'll fight sleep with Ammonia
And every morning with eyes all red
I'll miss them for all the tears they shed

But I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted

I miss prosthesis and mended souls
Trample over beauty while singing their thoughts
I match them with my euphoria
When they said "Je suis plus folle que toi"

But I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted

Nous et la man on est de sortie
Pire qu'une simple moitié on compte à demi-demi
Pile sur un des bas côtés comme des origamis
Le bras tendu paraît cassé tout n'est qu'épis et éclis
Ces enfants bizarres
Crachés dehors comme par hasard
Cachant l'effort dans le griffoir
Et une creepy song en étendard qui fait:

I'm doing my face
With magic marker
I'm in my right place
Don't be a downer
I'm doing my face
With magic marker
I'm in my right place
Don't be a downer

I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted

I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted

[RunningDeer]

This version has the best choreography, as well as no audience shrieking so you can hear the music. :)

o2VKaH2sKtU


I'm pumped after watching that. The choreography was delicious. The whole thing was perfection....
:blackwidow:

[Orph]

How do you deal with that mob mentality? I don't know how.

You deal with it by being strong in who you are. You stated your belief, but then you sort of "faded into the background", so to speak. On the one hand, nothing more needed to be said by you, but it seems you were a bit intimidated by the group. .... Don't be.
Just for a second, go back and remember those feelings you had as the group looked at you. Now, find that inner calmness, that inner you. Now, see yourself facing the group and replace any feelings of doubt or anxiety that you had with feelings of calmness and assurance.
Of course, doing this when you are alone, or in a non-threatening atmosphere is one thing. The trick is to be able to tap into that calm and assured inner you when things get a little crazy in your outer world. You may not be able to change mob mentality type thinking. Sometimes it's enough to just hold your ground. ... Calmly. Who knows, you may have planted a seed in some of their heads. Hang in there.

:yes4:

[RunningDeer]

Unexplained strangeness. A tiny, tiny centipede (3/4”/2 cm) appeared out of nowhere a few inch from the edge of the kitchen table and disappear in midair after it dropped off.

As a double check, I grabbed a flashlight and search without success for several minutes. It looked too real to be an AI spider-type-guy.

Note:
1) I’m well hydrated with filtered H2O.
2) No mood altering foods or drink were ingested, that is unless you don't consider coffee a tripper.
...........................http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/coffeebath_zpsrpxxmm0c.GIF

[Limor Wolf]

Note:
1) I’m well hydrated with filtered H2O.
2) No mood altering foods or drink were ingested, that is unless you don't consider coffee a tripper.
...........................http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/coffeebath_zpsrpxxmm0c.GIF

Hi Paula ~

Smiling for the icon and for your comment. I know if I would describe everything that I saw, it wouldn't be either percieved or recieved with sympathy by my surroundings, or even here a few years ago (or even by myself, more than a few years ago). But, yes, we are part of a diversified surroundings in an environment that is teaming with life, and the unveiling process will be interesting both to the exposers and to the exposed. On a smaller or a larger scale. Learning to put bounderies - 'no one with more than three legs can talk to me'. (no, just kidding!), will possibly be the next stage after the needed acknowledgment that our physical is only a translation to the etherical, and there is so much there that is not being translated..

Or too much cofee? :bigsmile:

[onawah]

Maybe the elementals are inviting you to play, Paula.
https://img0.etsystatic.com/110/1/8604131/il_214x170.942322978_cu0t.jpg

[RunningDeer]

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/animal-speak_zpsw9mjql7p.jpg

A snippet from “Animal Speak (https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Speak-Spiritual-Magical-Powers-Creatures/dp/0875420281/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467833482&sr=8-1&keywords=animal+speak+ted+andrews),” by Ted Andrews:





Centipedes and millipedes alert us to new psychic environments and connections and to new and previously unrecognized psychic relationships. They also appear to alert us to any possible pitfalls within those relationships. Theirs is the energy of quiet protection in psychic exploration.


Hi Limor, my current interpretation is there was an overlap of two worlds. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/earthhug_zpsoj1aizef.GIF

As far as exploration of the unseen worlds bleeding through? It’s on going to the extent that I pay attention, rather than make it a full time job to seek it out.

And Natalie, the elemental play is not too far a stretch. I may have a wee bit of the elf and fairy blood runnin’ in me veins. According to my father, we’re 100% Irish. My mother says there’s a bit of English mixed in. As a family unit we were/are in-tuned with each other.

As previously posted, in my youth, I’d play in what we called, “FairyLand”. It was a marshy, stream filled area that was loaded with rotting logs of paper birch, violets, skunk cabbage, grasses, thorns, peeper frogs and such. Back then I could see the wee-ones.

In another special place on the property there were high grasses and sumac bushes/trees. I’d hide from my younger siblings and ‘float’ on all fours with the help of my wee friends. I’d get that tickle in the belly and off I went tumbling, floating and giggling. What a rush! Back then, I didn’t know it was not possible.

Programing sucks…(excuse me-Irish) http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/boff-smiley-face_zpstxx3msnv.GIF


Hi Paula ~

Smiling for the icon and for your comment. I know if I would describe everything that I saw, it wouldn't be either percieved or recieved with sympathy by my surroundings, or even here a few years ago (or even by myself, more than a few years ago). But, yes, we are part of a diversified surroundings in an environment that is teaming with life, and the unveiling process will be interesting both to the exposers and to the exposed. On a smaller or a larger scale. Learning to put bounderies - 'no one with more than three legs can talk to me'. (no, just kidding!), will possibly be the next stage after the needed acknowledgment that our physical is only a translation to the etherical, and there is so much there that is not being translated..

Or too much cofee? :bigsmile:


Maybe the elementals are inviting you to play, Paula.
https://img0.etsystatic.com/110/1/8604131/il_214x170.942322978_cu0t.jpg

[onawah]

What a lovely gift to have as a child!
I've always had a special affinity for the wind.
As a young child, I was sure that it could take me flying if I asked it enough times.
I had flying dreams all the time, my favorite ones being where I was the instructor for other children just learning how.
I grew up in Denver and when I got to have a day in the mountains, my favorite thing was to find a log in a mountain stream and hang onto it, letting the flow of water pull me level, as though I was flying along the surface of the water.
I want to make a fairy house and leave it down in the woods where I go to hang out.
I don't remember ever seeing an elemental, but I can feel them in natural areas.
https://www.fairyhouses.com/images/image.php?image=https://www.fairyhouses.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSC_2089-1.jpg&width=685&height=413&cropratio=685:413
I read every fairy tale I could get as a bookworm child.
And nowadays, they feature often in my collages.

[Carmody]

what happens when you see a snake?

Like I did, last week. A meter long (40") snake on my kitchen counter.

seriously.

I was standing there, thinking of what to eat.... and a snake went across the counter in front of me.

Probably doing the same, looking for mice.

Managed to get it out of the house without hurting it.

[RunningDeer]

what happens when you see a snake?

Like I did, last week. A meter long (40") snake on my kitchen counter.

seriously.

I was standing there, thinking of what to eat.... and a snake went across the counter in front of me.

Probably doing the same, looking for mice.

Managed to get it out of the house without hurting it.

That's amazing, Carmody...

"Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals: Understanding Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides," by Farmer, Dr. Steven.


You’re about to go through some significant personal changes, so intense and dramatic that an old self will metaphorically die as a new self emerges.

You’re going to feel a surge of energy that will sharpen your senses, alert your mental faculties, and open up new channels of awareness.

You’re about to resolve a long-standing issue, one that has required a great deal of your attention, by seeing things in a new light. It would be a good time for you to start doing either tantric or kundalini yoga.

You’ll experience a dramatic and unexpected physical or emotional healing very soon, coming from an unexpected source.

[ulli]

Unexplained strangeness. A tiny, tiny centipede (3/4”/2 cm) appeared out of nowhere a few inch from the edge of the kitchen table and disappear in midair after it dropped off.

As a double check, I grabbed a flashlight and search without success for several minutes. It looked too real to be an AI spider-type-guy.

Note:
1) I’m well hydrated with filtered H2O.
2) No mood altering foods or drink were ingested, that is unless you don't consider coffee a tripper.
...........................http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/coffeebath_zpsrpxxmm0c.GIF

This morning, while sweeping under the bed, I saw the smallest centipede ever, 3 cm. I havent seen a centipede in years. It was dead. Very strange, that it happened to both of us.
Then I just read about Carmody's snake. Well done, getting it out of the house safely.
No such luck around here, if you are a snake, as they get beheaded instantly. Costa Rican men will not tolerate dangerous animals near the home.
A guard up the hill just lost his dog to a spotted leopard, and our friends staff are scared to walk to work in case they too get eaten.
Costa Rica law forbids sports hunting wild animals now, so the leopard and jaguar population is increasing in numbers. I wonder what it will be like in a few years.

And just as we got home tonight and I was searching for the front door keys I saw a tarantula on the wooden bench by the door.
It was dead before it could greet me; husband simply took off his shoe and that was it.
No hesitation. It's either us or them. Raw wilderness all aound us.

I save animals all the time, except for flies, mosquitoes and roaches. And occasionally I will kill even a spider if I find one in the bedroom. I've had some terrible spider bites in my life, and now won't risk another one.
The animals I save are mainly lizards, small mice and birds which the cats used to bring into the house before we got those two huge dogs. Now the cats are trapped inside, and rather resentful of the dogs.
I had hoped for friendship, but realize now that those two dogs are like a twoheaded monster. Always together, always patrolling, and chasing even a lowflying kingfisher bird I saw today.

Hey, Paula, what does it mean to see a kingfisher?

[RunningDeer]

Hey, Paula, what does it mean to see a kingfisher?
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/animal0048_zpsczb24onu.GIF For Ulli and Dr. Ulli. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/animal0019_zps0lrkgtiw.GIF


http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smiley_faces/fish-1-smiley-face.gifhttp://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smiley_faces/fish-2-smiley-face.gif
http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/spirit-animals_zpsdju0ga4x.jpg

Farmer, Dr. Steven. Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals

KINGFISHER:


Make it a point to express yourself clearly and concisely with everyone you communicate with.

For the next seven days, set aside a few minutes in a quiet place where there’s no chance of intrusions to simply contemplate, without any particular structure or restrictions to your thinking.

Take the plunge into this project or relationship with confidence and alacrity (brisk and cheerful readiness), and let go of all doubt and fear, because it will be successful.

Get daily physical exercise that involves both cardiovascular and muscular elements.

You’re at the initial stages of a cycle of abundance and prosperity, so welcome and receive it.

TARANTULA:


Trust your intuitive senses—what you feel in your body—more than what you see.

This is a time to shed anything that has served its purpose for the growth of your consciousness but is now no longer needed.

Your sensitivity is increasing, particularly to the vibrations you feel from your environment.

Be especially gentle to yourself in the next few days, doing whatever you can to provide comfort and self-nurturing.

In spite of your sturdiness and strength, this is a very sensitive and delicate time for you, so treat yourself accordingly.

Although you tend to stay in the background and by yourself, be willing to come forward as necessary for your own social and emotional nourishment.

[ulli]

Paula, that stuff is uncanny. It certainly applies in the kingfisher case.
Have to wait for the other half to wake up to see what he makes of the spider story.
I found out that he already battled with that same spider earlier during the day but it kept getting away. At one point he even took off his shirt, believing the spider had jumped on his back.
So he was glad when hours later he saw it there on the visitor bench by the front door, and so could help him meet his maker with a quick and painless death.

[RunningDeer]

Paula, that stuff is uncanny. It certainly applies in the kingfisher case.
Have to wait for the other half to wake up to see what he makes of the spider story.
I found out that he already battled with that same spider earlier during the day but it kept getting away. At one point he even took off his shirt, believing the spider had jumped on his back.
So he was glad when hours later he saw it there on the visitor bench by the front door, and so could help him meet his maker with a quick and painless death.

With your husband seeing a tarantula twice yesterday and ‘shedding off’ his shirt, I'd give it more weight.

How I use those books are some parts jump out at me. They serve to confirm both the things that are progressing and the things that hold me back.

After I read your post, I saw a daddy-long-leg spider in my bathroom. I cornered him in a dixie cup, cupped the top off with a damp paper towel and put him on a bush. Usually, the flies get a chance at freedom because I figured I let them in and they are just as eager to leave. Like you I don’t provide a catch and release program to mosquitoes. I let the guys know that the deal is they've got to cooperate with me, otherwise my apologies for a shorter stay.

After the centipede incident yesterday, I got the creeps with any little itch or tingle. I was OCD about checking the floor and in my bed last evening.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/cuckoo-say-what_zpspbkti08s.GIF
Here’s one for spider:

This is an opportunity to access your deepest wisdom and assimilate it so that it becomes a part of your daily living.

Beware of any potential traps or ruses that you’re tempted to get involved in.

Rather than staying stuck in this apparent impasse, open your mind to the infinite number of possibilities that are before you, and make a choice.

Don’t limit yourself to the mundane world, but instead be willing to explore other dimensions and realities.

It’s time to write creatively without limits of tradition or habit, allowing yourself to be inspired by Nature.

[Carmody]

TARANTULA:


Trust your intuitive senses—what you feel in your body—more than what you see.

This is a time to shed anything that has served its purpose for the growth of your consciousness but is now no longer needed.

Your sensitivity is increasing, particularly to the vibrations you feel from your environment.

Be especially gentle to yourself in the next few days, doing whatever you can to provide comfort and self-nurturing.

In spite of your sturdiness and strength, this is a very sensitive and delicate time for you, so treat yourself accordingly.

Although you tend to stay in the background and by yourself, be willing to come forward as necessary for your own social and emotional nourishment.


I wonder where Tito was.....(as Tarantula was seen)

Chicano Metalbilly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIBEo-hUARQ)

[Carmody]

One might wonder why seeing a spirit animals can mean something. Well, animals and associated elements (as our conscious mind 'sees' them) are not connected to the world in the same way as our 'conscious' mind is.

They (that untrue separation thing again, it illustrates the fundamental separatist/reflective/mirror insanity of the ego mechanism) are not separate, they are inclusive, to a holistic level, of the universe and it's motions.

Like a clock ticking, like a river flowing, like a quantum dance, it is they who are more tuned and inclusive. It is us humans/ego/voice.. who have separation and illiteracy issues.

The animals and the other elements serve us notice... of our connectivity to all...by speaking to us of this fundamental connectivity.

Our seeing and noting their presence and context of their presence is fundamental quantum connectivity, our astrology does the same, the motion of time/reality and our flow in it -- is the same.

When one understands the context of this... there is no separation, there is no juxtaposition, it is all in our individual hall of mirrors called the 'ego mind', and it's thoughts on the idea of individualization and separation.

Everything we call language and communication in the ego world sense (the rolling ego mind-voice thing in separation-it is a vocalization echo, nothing more, it is not you), the Newtonian reality sense, the unidirectional world of time and reality aspects, all of that combines to create it's own separate language and meaning.

Yet the whole packages is based on the quantum fundamentals, which I earlier related to as being proven to exist as the fundamental of Newtonian reality. Where mainstream science finally made the connection. It was illustrated that the quantum fundamental(s) are inescapable in the Newtonian world, which is why 'animal spirits', or whatever other seeming 'other world' aspects, do indeed impact and fundamentally integrate with the Newtonian world.

As the experiments in consciousness and information illustrated, they being as the fundamentals in quantum aspects...their being the fundamentals in the Newtonian world..those experiments illustrated that one can ignore the quantum fundamentals if they wish and reality will form around that bubble of flow, but the fundamental remains the same. What underlies it's formation and flow, remains the same. The quantum fundamentals cannot be removed as they are the whole of the entirety.

As above, so below. The ego/vocalization can fake it, it can bubble itself, and be as a bubble world, but the connections and realities that underlie it will remain as they are. The clues and components of such will constantly peek through at all times as they are the very edifice itself.

The voice in your head, your speaking voice, your thought bubble system, this thought bubble communication in the Newtonian world thing...it is not you, this ego mechanism ----is not you.

We have to understand this ..and stop using this separatist thing that is off in it's own distorted and controllable bubble (hypnotics, NLP, emotions, etc), we have to stop seeing it as fundamental, as it is not. This Newtonian communications and connections device of ego, is not our underlying quantum self. The underlying self which is really in charge, really in the drivers seat, the place where it all comes from.... a place that has no Newtonian voice-world reality.

[RunningDeer]

Day two of thousands of butterflies where I walk. I’ve never seen so many. They’re here to spread change. I soak in their rebirth, renewal, and regeneration energies.

Note to self: do not wear red, orange or yellow on walk.




Butterfly: "Get ready for a big change, one where an old habit, way of thinking, or lifestyle is going out, and a new way of being is emerging. It’s time to make the changes you’ve been considering. In spite of the challenges, you’ll get through this transition, and as always, know that “this too shall pass.”


92F/33C; 90F/32C

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/heat_zps39ulzerj.jpg

Day two of a three day high humidity and heat. Summer two of no air conditioner. I got a walk in early. Christine and the Queens accompany me the last couple of days. If I accomplish nothing else, it’s a productive day.


o2VKaH2sKtU

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

The feline, a force to be reckoned with.

[lake]

There are many things I do not comprehend, such as why, you, Carmody would have knowledge of such a film as Domino?
I never realized of its existence till you posted the link, which means you have knowing of it! I got throught 47 mins of it before I had to turn it off.


It reminds me of the dangers of misread things and being too literal. a bad combination. (graphic warning)

As this goes....another question to you all if I may.......how do you get unwell?
With all that you know, how can you become sick? I do not understand it?
I have not been unwell since this form was 7 and it supposedly is now 51.
Yes I have many issues, mainly due to my inability to utilize others (or resources) for personal gain but this does not require that which I conceive of to be in disease.
So HOW do you become unwell? Which I have read many times within many posts.
It would assist me greatly to have this discord that is a part of your beings explained if that is possible?

Many thanks


Edit to add:
Is that not funny....the number 47 has travelled with me for the last 7 years, it is always there as a companion.
And I posted this at 47mins past the hour. I did not know until the time until I viewed my post.
When I was 45 I thought it meant that I would leave this Terra of a physicality at this forms age of 47 even though I have reason to believe that this form expires two weeks before it is 90!
Oh well I shall see?

[Carmody]

There was no need to watch the film, it was only about context and meaning of misheard and misunderstood words. As taken in, by a linear and literal mind. What sort of consequences can take place. Domino is only a film, I've seen much worse. Urotsukidōji, for example. Not an experience I care to repeat but also illuminating as to extremes. Yet I've never watched 'the killing fields', as I find that ..difficult. Probably tied to how I rarely ever use people's names, even that of family. I tend to connect on a level that is deeper than names.

This one is interested in the rainbow of human life and exploring all it's corners. Some I will only touch, some I will explore deeply.

This one is interested in the increases in range as in the increase in range comes the basis of wisdom. In that there will be motions into darkness as well as light. Some will be more literal than others. This one may escape any time it desires to, for it knows the way. The way is individual, and the best that can be done is to illustrate via connection.

The Buddhist , one might say, occupies the silences and quiet, systems of ordered and controlled form and expects the acolyte to arrive at their doorstep, for a few lessons in what reality is and what to do with it. It is complimentary to the human way, but it is far from all, far from the only.

Before (and around) that way of the Buddhist occurs, comes... moments of integration with the world and others...which may show... something else is out there (or in there). (That before Buddhism, or in parallel to 'Buddhism as endeavor'... comes the prelude in the mind, the setting of the moment and context... in the given life, a life not lived in ways which lead to clarity of understanding of the existence of a formalized path)

Maybe something else altogether.

Enlightenment has no need to be defined, it can be found in the strangest areas, as can despair and loss. The carrier has no form ---what we seek...it is in everything. Which is why the Buddhists say (I paraphrase) that any honest search for the truth is valid.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/526952442575872000/5RaDLcuq_400x400.jpeg

All this tends to lead to a fairly dark sense of humour.

[TargeT]

"Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals: Understanding Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides," by Farmer, Dr. Steven.


how about horses.. I'm SURROUNDED BY THEM EVERY DAY! I wake up to them playing at night sometimes (the babies are in the front half of our property near our bed room... that was a bad idea, apparently playing involves a lot of galloping.. which is way louder than you'd think).

(haha)

[RunningDeer]

how about horses..
Welcome back, Target. :wave:


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Animals/white-horse_zpsegd4djsp.JPG

“Animal Spirit Guides,” by Steven Farmer, PhD.

If HORSE shows up, it means:

You’re about to embark on an unexpected adventure and will have to move very quickly once it’s initiated.
It’s time to free yourself from those physically and emotionally constricting aspects of your life.
You need to call upon reserves of stamina and strength to get you through this ordeal.
You’re much more powerful than you think you are.
This situation requires strong warrior energy, balanced with sensitivity, patience, and compassion.
Teamwork with your family, friends, or community is important right now.

If WHITE HORSE:

You’re very well protected from any negative or harsh psychic attacks.
You’re being called to investigate other spiritual realms and dimensions through meditation, a vision quest, or shamanic journeying.

Call on HORSE when:

You’re feeling held back by external circumstances or by conditioned beliefs about your supposed limitations.
You’re feeling victimized and are blaming others for your current situation.
You’re getting the urge to travel and explore new territories, yet have doubts and fears about acting on it.
Your energy is low, and you need a boost of strength and endurance to handle the tasks before you.
You’re being prompted to expand and deepen your spiritual practice, but you’re not sure how to go about it.

If HORSE is your POWER ANIMAL:

Your personal freedom is of the highest priority—sometimes at the expense of others’ approval—and you buck whenever someone tries to stifle you in any way.
Even though you know how to travel to other dimensions and realities, you still deal well with mundane issues and concerns.
You’re very loyal to others once they’ve earned your trust.
You love to wander about just for the sake of exploring, with no particular goal or agenda in mind.
You’re a natural leader and evoke confidence in others.

[ulli]

Glad you are back, Target. Same as Flash.
Avolon seems to have you both " corded", ( that word came up recently) but in the best sense.

[ulli]

At the rate we are going we will pass the 4 million views mark a couple of days from now.

[ulli]

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/maps-news-publication/saturn-sun-magnetic-rope
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/images/news/Saturn_3D_final6.jpg

Magnetic Rope observed for the first time between Saturn and the Sun

6 July 2016

A twisted magnetic field structure, previously never seen before at Saturn, has now been detected for the first time, using instrumentation built at UCL and Imperial College.

When the Sun’s magnetic field interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field (the magnetosphere), a complex process occurs called magnetic reconnection which can twist the field into a helical shape.


Magnetic Rope observed for the first time during the interaction between Saturn and the Sun

These twisted helically structured magnetic fields are called flux ropes or “flux transfer events” (FTEs) and are observed at Earth and even more commonly at Mercury. The conditions that allow FTEs to be generated at a planet worsen with distance from the Sun, however they have been observed at all the planets out to Jupiter.

The observation of this phenomenon at Saturn has been elusive. Searches have been undertaken to find an FTE with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, with reports published of none being found. Up until now….

The Cassini spacecraft has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004, and after many years analyzing the data collected, Cassini has observed the first FTE at Saturn. The observed magnetic signature was successfully compared to that of a model to show that Cassini indeed observed a flux rope at this giant magnetosphere, and that the spacecraft passed close to the structure’s center. It is also estimated that the flux rope could be up to 8300 kilometers wide.

"Contrary to previous ideas about Saturn's magnetosphere being unlike its terrestrial counterpart, these findings reveal that Saturn at times behaves and interacts with the Sun in much the same way as Earth." Jamie Jasinski, UCL Space and Climate Physics PhD graduate now based at the University of Michigan, and lead author of the new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters.

This not only shows that magnetic reconnection occurs at Saturn but also that Saturn’s magnetic field can at times interact with the Sun in much the same way as at Earth.

The analysis was completed using a particle spectrometer built at UCL and a magnetometer built at Imperial College, both of which are onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

The Cassini mission will end in November 2017, when the spacecraft will be steered into the planet to study it, before disintegrating in Saturn’s thick atmosphere.



Links

Research paper in Geophysical Research Letters
UCL Space and Climate Physics
Imperial College London
Cassini - Mission to Saturn

[RunningDeer]

-207 and counting as of this posting before 4 million mark.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/General/almost-there3_zpsjch4pljm.GIF
♡

[ulli]

http://cdn.scratch.mit.edu/static/site/projects/thumbnails/1464/0876.png

Just woke up.
And saw the stats: we are at 4,000,041.

OMG, and my hair is a mess!!!!
I thought I had a couple ot days to get ready.

[RunningDeer]

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/bliss_zpstdsixjgz.GIF 4,000, 051 http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/balloons_zps9r4wo5q2.GIF


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/4million_zpssexm6fbh.gif

[ulli]

I guess most of those clicks were made by ourselves, checking if we are there yet.
:ranger::ranger::ranger::ranger::ranger::ranger::ranger::ranger::ranger:

[RunningDeer]

4,000,000 Congrats to Ulli, the Villagers, and thank you to the Guests. :wave:

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/General/almost-there_zpsyogjmvnu.GIF

[ulli]

http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/63/b91d6075f3bfa72facf99c16d961d1e4/l.jpg

[ulli]

Let's enjoy it while it is quiet.
But who knows, it might soon be like this:
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/mosh-pit-epicdive.jpg

[ulli]

http://republicranches.com/wp-content/gallery/schroeder-dance-hall/band.jpg
Maybe get us a band....

[ulli]

Lets see if anyone shows up.
Fugueing music I mean fusing music- classic and modern

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewe4_6gLBN4

[ulli]

So most of our regulars are still asleep, as it is Saturday morning.
But the kids are up.

Here is their favorite Zebra dance


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fljKx9nvrL4

[greybeard]

Congratulations ulli for starting, hosting and maintaining the most successful thread on Avalon.

Much love
Chris

[ulli]

Buffet table
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5279/7420969060_cdae88e54f_z.jpg

Even a potluck table for our Vegans.
http://cdn.funcheap.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/emmasbuffetze6.jpg

[ulli]

Congratulations ulli for starting, hosting and maintaining the most successful thread on Avalon.

Much love
Chris

Thank you, Chris. I hope you can stay for a while.
Bring family and friends....we have food and music

[Marianne]

Congratulations Ulli, the village and all the guests!
I'm over here serving cake ...
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00981/751d5ffe-6211-11e5-_981111c.jpg

[PurpleLama]

Wow 4 million is more than a few. Love you guys!

[ulli]

While you are eating and chatting....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKELU-F9S4

[Flash]

Congratulation Ulli and all members. And.... we are 800 short of 50,000 posts. These foods make me hungry!!



http://cdn.scratch.mit.edu/static/site/projects/thumbnails/1464/0876.png

Just woke up.
And saw the stats: we are at 4,000,041.

OMG, and my hair is a mess!!!!
I thought I had a couple ot days to get ready.

[Melinda]

Thought maybe we could have a little chill-out area (every good party needs one.)

Too many candles? Mmm... Not sure. Just saw the party food and got a bit excited :biggrin:

There’s minty refreshments and raw chocolate mini-cakes for everyone.

Thank you to Ulli, and to all who keep the Avalonian threads flowing with wonderments.


http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/Here%20And%20Now%20Chill%20Out%20Zone_zpsgikhazg7.jpg


Peace, freedom and a breeze of healing to all in the Here and Now

:)

Uz_FfPEn6bM

[Stephanie]

http://cdn.scratch.mit.edu/static/site/projects/thumbnails/1464/0876.png

Just woke up.
And saw the stats: we are at 4,000,041.

OMG, and my hair is a mess!!!!
I thought I had a couple ot days to get ready.

Our dearest, amazing Ulli.....Congratulations!



33768
Drinks for your wonderful party....
I see the food and cakes are taken care of.

Just got my hair done too!33770

:star::heart: Thank you, muchas gracias, Ulli,
and thank you,all of you. :heart::star:

[lake]

First, well done Ulli on the four million, would you like it in cash or will a check do?


This one may escape any time it desires to, for it knows the way.


Thank you for the response it is most welcomed.

I wonder how many times I have lived this life so far?
I wonder how many times I have lived parts of this life so far?

I wonder for why and for what or whom's purpose?

You state that “one knows how to escape” ….but to escape from what?
If it is necessary to have to 'escape' then this, life, can only be seen as a container or limitation which is imposed. Thus freewill has been removed.

Therefore freewill is NOT a constant or law within consciousness / awareness and abuse via another will is condoned.

It could then be said that the use of violence and intimidation must be a fundamental essence within the construct of physicality?
To require an 'escape' from a situation requires in the first place that a HOLD must be placed on the potential escapee.

How can a hold be placed unless by consent upon any part of unlimited awareness creating reality?
It can not.
Unless said awareness is NOT unlimited.

Combining these three posts,
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening/page2458

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91117-Elon-Musk-Nails-it-We-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation&p=1078837#post1078837

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=1080367&viewfull=1#post1080367

along with everything I have ever considered, yes I can see how the external of this physical form is in actuality....... the form itself but this then begs the question as to whether the limitation and repeating of the 'stutter' is self imposed?

Why would I imprison my own being? And if I did not do it....... then freewill, again, does not exist!

There could be one reason.... utter boredom of being infinite.......
Of knowing all and anything, so just create this stutter, this loop and forget to actually be.

Or another possibility.... being a new born?

Any considerations would be most welcome.

Edit: and thank you for the avatar....... rather appropriate.... maybe!

[ulli]

Congratulations Ulli, the village and all the guests!
I'm over here serving cake ...
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00981/751d5ffe-6211-11e5-_981111c.jpg

I don't know which I love more, cherries, cake, or antique porcellain cake stands.

Thank you, Marianne, for having been here since day 1, also PurpleLama, and all the other regulars, like RunningDeer, Calz, Carmody, Jean-Marie, without whose input the thread would have died ages ago.

[ulli]

Thought maybe we could have a little chill-out area (every good party needs one.)

Too many candles? Mmm... Not sure. Just saw the party food and got a bit excited :biggrin:

There’s minty refreshments and raw chocolate mini-cakes for everyone.

Thank you to Ulli, and to all who keep the Avalonian threads flowing with wonderments.


http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/Here%20And%20Now%20Chill%20Out%20Zone_zpsgikhazg7.jpg


Peace, freedom and a breeze of healing to all in the Here and Now

:)

Uz_FfPEn6bM

Melinda, would you consider coming back here as decorator-in-chief for the next milestone party?
That ambiance you created was just beautiful.

[Dennis Leahy]

I didn't see any guacamole among the food spread. I guess I'll bring some. Do you think a 55 gallon barrel will be enough?

Four Million Views?
"There are currently 26 users browsing this thread. (1 members and 25 guests)" <------ with numbers like that, the actual page views may be closer to 100 million.

[Mike]

Congratulations Ulli!:hug:...and all the great contributors to this epic thread.

I think what separates Avalon from most alt forums is the sense of community here. Its very unique. This thread is a major reason for that.

:beer:

[Curt]

Congratulations to Ulli, and all the villagers.

For me, this place has always been the beating heart of Avalon.

:clapping:

Lots of love to you all.

[Shannon]

How awesome! Congrats, Ullie, And all the amazing contributors to the village ... You guys are some cool peeps, and I'm honored to be among you :)


So can we get a conga line going? or are we just gonna eat chips and shoot the chit? ;P


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18

[ulli]

Thanks everyone for dropping by.
Today was a good day.
Ate our first avocado from our own tree. Also first 3D astro client in years, who made it to our house here in the country.
Relaxing now, with wine, cheese, crackers, olives, and
Morcheeba music.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9D4-0KaH5w

[Melinda]

Melinda, would you consider coming back here as decorator-in-chief for the next milestone party?
That ambiance you created was just beautiful.

Ulli... thank you! It would be my honour.

The chill-out zone is where my sensibilities tend to shimmy toward.
But for the celebratory festival as a whole we can open up a box for all to contribute. Mmm... Yes let's...

Should you feel inclined, send your contributions in >
Here and Now Decorations
C/O the helpers
Interdimensional PO Box 11:11
Solar System

My people are on it (see pic.)

In these times of high strangeness, and unfurling transformations > >

Much love, love, love to all

(as much as your generous hearts can hold)


http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/Decorations%20Boxes_zpsxnywdyem.jpg

[ulli]

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13592722_1043005302415105_6592180709661421851_n.jpg?oh=cd5026a8f10f37b87214f8cb3916442f&oe=58345C18

Man in the womb of the universe

[ulli]

Melinda, would you consider coming back here as decorator-in-chief for the next milestone party?
That ambiance you created was just beautiful.

Ulli... thank you! It would be my honour.

The chill-out zone is where my sensibilities tend to shimmy toward.
But for the celebratory festival as a whole we can open up a box for all to contribute. Mmm... Yes let's...

Should you feel inclined, send your contributions in >
Here and Now Decorations
C/O the helpers
Interdimensional PO Box 11:11
Solar System

My people are on it (see pic.)

In these times of high strangeness, and unfurling transformations > >

Much love, love, love to all

(as much as your generous hearts can hold)


http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/Decorations%20Box_zpskde7syjc.jpg

Wow, love it, especially that PO.Box number.

[araucaria]

Many belated congratulations to Ulli and all contributors to the Hear and Now thread for attracting so many readers. For personal reasons, I have not been around so much of late, particularly earlier in the year. I was surprised to find the forum popularity curve at alexa.com shows a dip when I am not around so much :)

33771

This of course is not to suggest in any way that one individual contribution is holding the thing together, which would be totally silly; it does suggest however that many individual contributions are being made and received with that intention, and that overall it is working.

[DNA]

Congratulations Ulli, I hope we get to see 5,000,000 very soon. :)

[ulli]

Many belated congratulations to Ulli and all contributors to the Hear and Now thread for attracting so many readers. For personal reasons, I have not been around so much of late, particularly earlier in the year. I was surprised to find the forum popularity curve at alexa.com shows a dip when I am not around so much :)

33771

This of course is not to suggest in any way that one individual contribution is holding the thing together, which would be totally silly; it does suggest however that many individual contributions are being made and received with that intention, and that overall it is working.

It also means that many individuals are simultaneously being moved or inspired to participate (or not) in the forum. Sort of like a flock.
I was also less active during the earlier part of the year, as an extremely dry season here meant I spent a lot more time in the garden, keeping my wilting plants alive. Others may have had reasons of their own.

[Carmody]

Congratulations Ulli!:hug:...and all the great contributors to this epic thread.

I think what separates Avalon from most alt forums is the sense of community here. Its very unique. This thread is a major reason for that.

:beer:

We're a daisy if we do........

(very inside jokeish)

[Mike]

Congratulations Ulli!:hug:...and all the great contributors to this epic thread.

I think what separates Avalon from most alt forums is the sense of community here. Its very unique. This thread is a major reason for that.

:beer:

We're a daisy if we do........

(very inside jokeish)



3G2_KZ7_hxc


note: couldnt find an isolated "daisy" quote. darn. really wanted that one.

[ulli]

Hey, how about this for a tombstone?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/73/2c/16/732c168d87a611e09715b45534f113cd.jpg
Because using it as a cake might make one wonder what's inside.

[Sierra]

Drifting down the village road towards the sound of partying... I stop to give a gentle whirl to RunningDeer's tai chi vortex, peer inside the healing pool Dennis created, dodging splashes, looking up at the cliffs where the village shamans reside, lights in their windows, catching drifts of conversation at the bay sea wall. Music bursts forth from the party, kids and cats running down the road, Lady K laughing at the antics, Ulli directing the Avalon roadies carrying the daisy cake to the hall, lol.

Thank you Ulli and all. :heart:

[ulli]

Good morning. Lets start the week with an appropriate chuckle.

A Buddhist monk approaches a burger food-truck and says “make me one with everything.”

The Buddhist monk pays with a $20 bill, which the vendor takes, puts in his cash box, and closes the lid.

“Where’s my change?” the monk asks.

The vendor replies, “change comes from within.

[ulli]

https://i.redd.it/uh3g2bd16b7x.jpg

[araucaria]

The ‘NRJ in the Park’ (NRJ in French sounds like energy) festival near Angers drew over 43,000 spectators for a free concert on Friday, and since the whole country was soccer-crazy until last night, it featured a sequence of Icelandic clapping recorded in a video here.
http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/angers-49000/insolite-ils-realisent-le-plus-gros-clapping-de-france-trelaze-4355700
The interesting thing about this event is that, despite the fact that the country is still officially in a state of emergency, or actually because the country is still officially in a state of emergency, it was covered by zero police: not a single one. And the really interesting thing is that the whole event seems to have passed off without incident: I am sure we would have heard about it if anything had happened.
http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/angers-49000/angers-ce-gros-festival-de-trelaze-oublie-des-radars-policiers-4361836
The organizers complained of course, to be told that there are major events that pose a terrorist threat and other ‘family’ gatherings like this one that don’t. But how do the police know they can take a night off or turn up en masse somewhere else? Those terrorists must be pretty dumb if they can’t even show up where they’re not expected. And/or they must be losing their knack, because the Euros, one of those major events that allegedly do pose a terrorist threat, also passed off without incident, and so has another, the Tour de France, at least so far.

Meanwhile, France lost the football match and the cup, but may be winning the battle of war and peace. It is getting very hard to find an answer to conspiracy theorists who claim that terrorist attacks are turned on and off at will.

[araucaria]

https://i.redd.it/uh3g2bd16b7x.jpg
N.B. If you’ve been short-changing Buddhist monks, that counts as stealing and lying. Here change comes from without. Don’t forget the money box on the way out. ;)

[dan33]

Congratulations Ulli! :Party:



Hi Mike! :idea:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/customavatars/avatar3356_44.gif

http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/8/81/AppaloosaSK8Gauge-2.jpg/600px-AppaloosaSK8Gauge-2.jpg

[dan33]

https://i.redd.it/uh3g2bd16b7x.jpg
N.B. If you’ve been short-changing Buddhist monks, that counts as stealing and lying. Here change comes from without. Don’t forget the money box on the way out. ;)

Pray three Hail Marys and three Our Fathers. Do not touch my balls. Thank you very much. :Angel:

[ulli]

https://i.redd.it/uh3g2bd16b7x.jpg
N.B. If you’ve been short-changing Buddhist monks, that counts as stealing and lying. Here change comes from without. Don’t forget the money box on the way out. ;)

Pray three Hail Marys and three Our Fathers. Do not touch my balls. Thank you very much. :Angel:

Just yesterday on a friends FB page:
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/11050854_636830349786039_3994776837816573242_n.jpg?oh=8fdd353c4da6b7a6d48efdbeb2f16c55&oe=57EE8DEB
And here is my explanation: I wouldn't normally post stuff like this...as it's not quite my kind of humor, but your post was asking for it.

[Melinda]

My friend and I went and sat outside the Stevie Wonder concert in the park yesterday. Celebrating (almost) 40 years since the album Songs in the Key of Life came out.

Lots of people gathered near and under the trees. Sharing smiles and hugs, singing along and dancing together or by themselves. Snuggled up with their partners or laughing with their friends. Some standing alone, in their own musical-zone, feeling the music.

So much love in the air, and in the sounds. Stevie seems to me to be an emissary of love with his songs, on this planet at this time.

So I’ve been listening to his Songs in the Key of Life album again – so much love on that record.

Thought to share a piece of his genius :

hmKshpLXnxE


And for the joy of it ( makes me chuckle ) :

qqrvm2XDvpQ

A comment under another Stevie vid on youtube made me laugh. Someone said they weren’t sure they could trust a person who didn’t like Stevie Wonder’s music. Think I agree :biggrin:

Thanks for the music Stevie

and love to you all

[Violet]

Congratulations to all participants reading and writing.

I'm late. :( Missed it.

Down with hip problem, painful walking. May be related to that traffic accident.
No dancing meanwhile.

It's midnight

AlaRjP8pg0Q

[Bluegreen]

Here and now listening to a car ad on the radio, knowing the internal combustion engine has been obsolete for 100 years. Finding it harder and harder to relate to so-called "normal" people.

I like to take long barefoot walks and try to every day, time and weather permitting. After 10 is fun because then I can look at the stars (currently Summer Triangle and thereabouts). On a good clear night I can see the Southern sky but oftentimes not too good. Northern is always there for anyone to see. But usually I go in the daytime. I tell myself: Our bodies are electrical first chemical second and we spend a lot of time concentrating on the chemical with things like vitamins and nutrition as well we should but we need to give those synapses some raw juice to work with and we do that by making direct contact with the planet Earth and why doesn't everybody do this? Well, it feels good and I miss it it if I don't.

I've gotten into the habit of seeing certain trees and rubbing their bark telling them, You're doing a good job, which they are. I especially like to see my friend Two Trunk. At one point I decided I had to give Two Trunk a good name and I spent several days thinking up all these oh-so-clever puns until I realized, Oh. That tree's name is Two Trunk.

As I walk I always say the same thing: I walk in gratitude upon your back. Thank you for all you've done for us and continue to do and I am sorry for all of our abuse. Please accept my humble offering of a gentle message, I want it to feel good. Then I say, Do you mind if I dig in my heels? and I always hear, Don't worry, I'm big and strong. And I say, You sure are.

Sometimes I forget, but if I am thinking and cognizant, I will send a bright and blinding white light straight to the Earth's core. I'm not sure if this is real and helpful, but I think it is, so that's what I do. I got this from Cameron Day when I was reading his website regularly in 2011. One day I went there and Cameron was selling something, and I haven't back since. I wonder if I'm missing anything. I really enjoyed reading, and it worked for me at the time. Sometimes I will send my bright white light up, straight to the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and if I'm really feeling it that day, I'll do both.

Good. Now they're playing the Mungo Jerry song. I like summertime.

I've learned the hard way that if I walk under these certain types of trees that the birds that live there will buzz me by flying one inch over my head. I get the idea they think I am intruding. Sorry I don't know what kind of trees or birds they are ("I ain't no Mountain Man"). So I take the long way around those trees. Today I was taking the long way around one of those trees and a bird came and flew smack right into my head! I was stunned, and then it struck me as funny. I burst out laughing. I took it as a compliment. But was it? What was that bird doing? Was he saying Walk further away? Was he saying Come and walk under our tree? Or was he just near-sighted? I don't know.

Oh cool. Now its "1-2-3" by Len Barry. Like taking candy - from a baby.

:)

[Melinda]

Enjoyed your whole post Bluegreen :)

Especially these three moments...


“Finding it harder and harder to relate to so-called "normal" people.”


“...I tell myself: Our bodies are electrical first chemical second and we spend a lot of time concentrating on the chemical with things like vitamins and nutrition as well we should but we need to give those synapses some raw juice to work with and we do that by making direct contact with the planet Earth and why doesn't everybody do this? Well, it feels good and I miss it it if I don't.”


“I've gotten into the habit of seeing certain trees and rubbing their bark telling them, You're doing a good job, which they are.”

More and more I’ve been walking barefoot. This year I’ve even been doing it more on the pavement, on the way back from the park. It feels lovely leaning up against the trees with my bare feet on their roots. I like to ask permission first, before I go in for the full hug. Offering gratitude and receiving their energies. And I like to meditate with the earth sometimes, picturing the light in her core pulsing and resonating with the light in my heart. Synchronising with her. I miss feeling my skin next to the trees and the earth, if I stay away too long.

Sometimes when I commune with her, feeling in the flow, there are magical moments. Like when a robin redbreast came and landed at my feet. Or when people’s pet dogs come bounding out of nowhere and sit on my feet or roll over and nudge me to throw their ball. One came over super-quiet one time, and my eyes were closed. I was sat in the middle of a big open space, alone, and just sensed this soft ‘plop’ in front of me. Opened my eyes and saw a soggy tennis ball, practically in my lap – and this little woofer sat patiently, nudging it forward until I gave in and threw it for him to go fetch.

Had a bumper day this summer solstice, with 5 sets of dogs interrupting my meditation at different times, coming over for a sit-down. They crack me up sometimes. Racing through the long grass, on a mission to lift the spirits of unsuspecting meditators. Sometimes their owners look a bit confused by how social their canine is being. But the dogs don’t care. I think a lot of them are like a cross between party people and social workers. Sharing is caring, being their general vibe.

Occasionally I meet a tree who doesn’t want to be disturbed. But as long you move on they seem cool with it.

Bonding with the trees, speaking to them with my thoughts and energies, has opened up a dimension of life that is truly wonderful.

They’re like people to me. Very quiet, and comparatively still. But with their own feelings and personalities. And wishes.

I remember tidying up the trash around a particularly old and fulsome oak once. It felt like the kind of tree that was a home to a plethora of creatures, and a portal to other, hidden realms. A sacred feeling about it. Not a giant / ethereal beam of light. More like a sage. Strong and silent. A hardy tree. As I finished gathering the rubbish, I felt a wave of energy, like it was acknowledging my actions. It almost moved me to tears.

:)

[Orph]

I've learned the hard way that if I walk under these certain types of trees that the birds that live there will buzz me by flying one inch over my head. I get the idea they think I am intruding. Sorry I don't know what kind of trees or birds they are ("I ain't no Mountain Man"). So I take the long way around those trees.

Writing and reading words on a computer sometimes doesn't convey the true feelings behind the words. So take what I'm going to say here in a joyful and playful manner. Not a serious one.

Instead of taking the long way around those trees, perhaps, if you care to, you can learn to get along with those birds. As you near those trees, greet the trees and let them know you will be passing by. Let the tree know you mean the birds no harm, but you will be passing by regardless. (Once again, find that inner calm and learn to stand tall. Calmly and strong. After all, you have rights as well). The birds will of course come dive-bombing out of the trees. Pay them no mind. Communicate with the trees in any manner that suits you as you walk by. Ignore the birds completely. Do this for a week or two and see if the birds might stop.

Or you could wear a football helmet. :)

[RunningDeer]

I've learned the hard way that if I walk under these certain types of trees that the birds that live there will buzz me by flying one inch over my head. I get the idea they think I am intruding.
Hi Bluegreen,

You’ll see hawks with a gap in it’s wing because a small bird such as sparrow will fly great distances to pull the feathers off a predatory bird in protection of their young. Smaller birds also team up against those big guys to slow them down.

Here’s an article (http://www.massaudubon.org/learn/nature-wildlife/birds/aggressive-birds) on the hows and whys of aggressive birds and what you can do:

Signs of Aggression

Defensive behavior toward people can take the form of loud vocalizations, feigning injury, or pursuing or attacking the intruder. The vigor with which a bird defends its territory depends on the species.

Time Period

Birds are most aggressive towards humans during the nestling period (the interval between hatching and the young bird's departure from the nest), a span of about two weeks in common backyard nesters. Some birds (e.g., robins, mockingbirds, cardinals) can produce two or three broods a season; as a result, their defensive behavior may occur in the spring and again in mid- to late summer.

Mockingbirds also display territorial behavior in fall and winter when they are protecting a source of food such as a bush laden with berries. If there are bird feeders within a mockingbird's feeding territory, other birds will be driven off, even though the mockingbird has no interest in the food offered at the feeder.

What You Can Do

When being harassed by a mockingbird, robin, catbird, or blue jay, patience and understanding are the best options. Remember, the behavior will last only as long as the young are in the nest, about two weeks. There are some additional options to help avoid any situation:

If possible, stay out of the area of the nest. Use another door, move lawn furniture or children's toys to a different location in the yard, etc.
For short journeys into the bird's territory, carry an open umbrella to discourage the birds.
For longer periods in the vicinity of a protective parent bird, use a helium-filled Mylar balloon tied to a belt or hat, and extended two or three feet above the head. The movement of the balloon will frighten the bird.
To avoid being harassed by a bird of prey (such as a hawk) or seabird like a gull, try stay out of the area for at least six weeks, at which point the young are flying and the adults feel less threatened.
If a person or pet is actually struck and the skin is broken, the wound should be washed and treated with antiseptic. Birds do not carry rabies or other diseases communicable in this way.

[ulli]

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