Here and Now...What's Happening?

[1inMany]

Really, we can let the whole birthday thing pass with no mention... It ceased being fun after about ... 21 hahahaha.

Much Love,

[Lisab]

still on a phone 1inMany so no groovy pics or songs from me I'm afraid. Just a big, massive hug from me to you. Happy, happy birthday 1. I love you x x x

[Samsara]

I know the feeling 1. It will be mine in a couple of weeks, and although I would love for it to go unoticed, I also know that it is still fun for those who love me. So now, I let them get their way, making a big fuss over me.

My grandson told me once that I had roads on my face.... ugh ! A reminder of all the roads I travelled so far I guess....

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[RunningDeer]

Thank you, Jeanette.
I enjoyed the whole post. These are the two that jumped out for me to read and reread:


The feeling is energy. Attention is more energy, which will start to move the feeling. It in movement it may become overwhelming, particularly if you are discovering something that the mind has been trying to cover up with its noise.


To help focus your attention use your hand to locate where the feeling originates in your body. As you keep your attention on it, move your hand as the feeling moves.

Paula :wave:




It makes me sad... It makes me feel like I'm in some kind psychological wheel chair. :yuck:


Hi Wakytweaky,

Be very grateful for the wall; the psychological wheelchair. It is there to remind you that your job is not to make a decision about your life's direction. Keep trying to do that and you will keep hitting the wall.

Indecision comes from the mind. It's just its nature. This is what it does, it's the great problem solver and if you give it attention it will lead you on endless hours of options and possibilities, shall I, shan't I, do this, do that, blah, blah, blah....

It's not real and that is why when you follow it, you hit the wall.

All you need to do is be aware of your mind and its indecision. Don't try to change it or label it or judge it. Mind is just doing what it does.

Just be aware. Let the indecision sit in the field of Awareness. Shift your attention from the content of the indecision (the thoughts) and onto what else arises in this Awareness.

When you pay attention to what is arising you will notice that there is something else here that needs your attention.

It will be a feeling in the body. It could be fear, anger or sadness arising from not being able to make the decision. The feeling arising could be totally unrelated to the indecision. This is for you to discover. These feelings that are arising are what needs your attention.

The feeling is energy. Attention is more energy, which will start to move the feeling. It in movement it may become overwhelming, particularly if you are discovering something that the mind has been trying to cover up with its noise.

Allowing what needs to arise in Awareness takes courage and sincerity. When we have hit the wall enough times we realise that is the purpose of the wall to bring us to this point; when there is nothing left to do but just be with what is arising.


You may find it difficult at first to put attention on the feeling which is arising because it is likely all your life when you have thought you have had feelings your attention has been on your mind telling a story about the feeling. This is very different to feeling a feeling directly without giving attention to the mind's story about it.

To help focus your attention use your hand to locate where the feeling originates in your body. As you keep your attention on it, move your hand as the feeling moves.

I'll leave it there for now, I am in danger of making this complicated and it is not ....but you are exactly where you need to be right now :)

Jeanette

[PurpleLama]

just had to stop the car to save a huge turtle

[benevolentcrow]

Lest we forget...
There is no one in the universe more dear to us than ourselves. The mind may travel in a thousand directions, but it will find no one else more beloved. The moment you see how important it is to love yourself, you will stop making others suffer......................Thich Nhat Hanh

[RunningDeer]

just had to stop the car to save a huge turtle

Oh, turtle says thank you, PL!

I've got a turtle friend, Tara, that I visit every once in a while. Or at least I think it's her. Back a couple of years, she peed on me and my car. Tara was nervous because I was explaining about this safe place. But she'd have to trade in the Rhode Island address for a Connecticut one.

She explained, "Been goin’ back and forth on this here road all mornin’. No pond, just car and truck tires ta dodge. Thank ya, kindly, Missy. Sorry for the puddle. Got to worry-in, I was turtle soup."

[Mark]

Had a wonderful run this morning, then sat out on the point overlooking the Lake of Two Mountains. It is so peaceful there and so beautiful. I'm usually that guy running around with a camera all the time but, for some reason, this spring and summer, I haven't taken any pictures of the area. I have a lot from last fall and the winter, but now is the most beautiful time of year. I can't believe I missed the spring and all of the beautiful flowers. When the lilacs bloomed, it was as if we were living in lilac heaven, the scent was everywhere, so powerful and intoxicating. Now, the summer has been relatively warm for this region, less rain than usual but I can't tell because it's still so green and lush, it almost looks like a tropical environment.

There is this company of girls that runs around town planting flowers and they're all cute, young, and they wear cutoff jean shirts and tank tops lol i laugh whenever I see them and Sirayah shakes her head at me but they get ALL the business in town. And they re good at thier jobs, they have planted the village of Hudson with a beautiful variety of flowers. I'll have to take some and post.

Good job re the Turtle, PL, happy belated, 1inMany, enjoy being pampered, Reggae Ulli!

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17240&d=1341328901

[another bob]

Allowing what needs to arise in Awareness takes courage and sincerity. When we have hit the wall enough times we realise that is the purpose of the wall to bring us to this point; when there is nothing left to do but just be with what is arising.


Usually all the mind's strategic options must be exhausted before we finally get to this point and let the struggle end.

The Buddha told his followers there are four kinds of horses. The first sees merely the form of the whip and runs. The second reacts when the whip taps its hair. The third is aroused when the whip contacts its flesh. The fourth is animated when the whip touches its bone.

“In his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki approaches the question of fast and slow learners in term of horses.

"It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, right and left, at the driver's will, before it sees the shadow of the whip; the second best will run as well as the first one, just before the whip reaches its skin; the third one will run when it feels pain on its body; the fourth will run after the pain penetrates the marrow of its bones. You can imagine how difficult it is for the fourth one to learn to run. When we hear this story, almost all of us want to be the best horse..."

But this is a mistake, Suzuki says. When you learn too easily, you’re tempted not to work hard, not to penetrate to the marrow of the practice…. The best horse, according to Suzuki, may be the worst horse. And the worst horse can be the best, for if it perseveres, it will have learned whatever it is practicing all the way to the marrow of its bones.


:yo:

[PurpleLama]

Ok, garden update time. The red malabar has started sprouting, as are all in the Three Sisters Mega-Mound, and the star of david okra. Now I am awaiting only the hot peppers and ground cherries, and the petit gris melons from the day before yesterday. Oh, and the christmas lima beans also from the day before yesterday.

Here is the tetrahedron structure I built out of some dead bamboo I cut out of the woods the other day, for the pole beans:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17241&d=1341329185

And here is the piece of an old satellite dish we pulled out of the bushes that will soon have the lima beans climbing up:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17242&d=1341329234

The bird bath in the background has a statue of Aquarius, which has been reclaimed from the native azaleas, and was one more indication that the Universe meant for us to be exactly there.

[PurpleLama]

Also, I need to say that Playdo sends his love to the Village. All is very well with him. He is retiring from the net in general, not just the forum.

[another bob]

Also, I need to say that Playdo sends his love to the Village. All is very well with him. He is retiring from the net in general, not just the forum.

I've always admired Buddha's advice to alternate times of retreat and times of communal gathering. By alternating solitude with fellowship, each state is enriched.

Blessings to Playdo!

[Belle]

Did I hear someone say Reggae?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeuENBgd794

[dan33]

"IT'S RAINING CATS AND DOGS" English Lessons from the movie "DRAMMA DELLA GELOSIA".
English pronuciation improves when you are eating "pasta". Grande! Monica Vitti and Marcello Mastroianni.
From 10:55 to 12.20
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[Carmody]

Also, I need to say that Playdo sends his love to the Village. All is very well with him. He is retiring from the net in general, not just the forum.

I've always admired Buddha's advice to alternate times of retreat and times of communal gathering. By alternating solitude with fellowship, each state is enriched.

Blessings to Playdo!

Yes, I have not retreated in some time. In failing to do so, any thing I try to bring to the gathering..is slowly diluted. Watered down by the repetition of connection and motion.

[another bob]

Also, I need to say that Playdo sends his love to the Village. All is very well with him. He is retiring from the net in general, not just the forum.

I've always admired Buddha's advice to alternate times of retreat and times of communal gathering. By alternating solitude with fellowship, each state is enriched.

Blessings to Playdo!

Yes, I have not retreated in some time. In failing do do so, any thing I try to bring to the gathering..is slowly diluted. Watered down by the repetition of connection and motion.

Each of us needs to find our own rhythm, and it will likely vary from individual to invidual. That's one of the things I never cared for about institutional monasticism, btw -- the insistence on some kind of general conformity to established patterns and routines. Too artificial. Sometimes solitude is appropriate, and sometimes fellowship. I happen to feel that now is the time we should be keeping in touch with each other, and building telepathic neural connections across and beyond physical boundaries.

:yo:

[another bob]

RIP Andy Griffith -- one of the great ones has passed:

"As Sheriff Taylor, Griffith was reassuring for the same reason he was funny. Sheriff Taylor was the calm, imperturbable sounding board and problem solver. A single dad, and by extension a paternal figure to all of Mayberry, Taylor was a lawman who showed that patience and good humor could be the most effective weapons. At least in this one half-hour of TV, there was no problem that couldn’t be solved with plain talk, and maybe some of Aunt Bee’s biscuits."




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[RunningDeer]

On my walk today, I was aware of a brief feeling of sadness when I realized that this wasn’t where I lived any more. And a couple of times, I didn’t recognize this place of seventeen years. When I blessed it good bye, there were tingles in the back of my scalp and my stomach jumped. I continued the walk exhilarated and taller.


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Bryce/142.jpg

[dan33]

I happen to feel that now is the time we should be keeping in touch with each other, and building telepathic neural connections across and beyond physical boundaries.
Another Bob

Like your statement, Bob.

[RunningDeer]

Also, I need to say that Playdo sends his love to the Village. All is very well with him. He is retiring from the net in general, not just the forum.

I've always admired Buddha's advice to alternate times of retreat and times of communal gathering. By alternating solitude with fellowship, each state is enriched.

Blessings to Playdo!

I like this statement, AB. I'm trying to figure out that important balance. "Alternate" may be the operative word for me. I grow tired of hearing myself.

[another bob]

On my walk today, I was aware of a brief feeling of sadness when I realized that this wasn’t where I lived any more. And a couple of times, I didn’t recognize this place of seventeen years.

"Before I had studied Ch'an [Zen] for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and rivers once again as rivers".

~Qingyuan Weixin

First seeing mountains as mountains and rivers as rivers means seeing them as fixed and solid entities in and of themselves, just in the same way you used to see your home and environs.

Later seeing them as not mountains and not rivers means we understand that neither mountains nor rivers exist in and of themselves, that they are empty of inherent existence and made up of other beings that are also empty of inherent existence. For instance, there is nothing within a mountain that we can pull out and say, "this is mountain," or, "this is what makes a mountain a mountain." Mountains are made up of rocks, trees, grass, snow, water, rivers, ponds, lakes, insects, birds, animals, etc., etc., etc., and all of these things are made up of other things. So, there are no mountains and no rivers.

When we continue to evolve in our understanding of things, and our wisdom eye is fully opened, we realize that mountains are indeed mountains, and rivers are indeed rivers, for there is a mountain there and a river over here. However, we deeply understand that both "mountain" and "river" are merely words that we use to describe the conditioned phenomena in front of us. Neither phenomena is a fixed nor permanent entity that exists in and of itself and possesses inherent existence as "mountain," or "river." In other words we experience and understand their true nature, and the true nature of all beings.

:yo:

[ulli]

And this Mall is not a mall, in the grander design, either.
Right now there are loads of people here, and it is buzzing, but after a while every mall becomes a dead mall, beginning with the anchor stores moving out, and then the dollar stores move in, and stray dogs sleep in the corners ...that's when it is over.
The corporations who build them already calculate for this demise well in advance, and even know how much they will sell the land for, once the walls are torn down. The grey zone it is then called, as opposed to green zone, which has no foundations as yet. I shouldn't always look to the end of things, but there ya go....
Back to the airport I go...my shuttle is waiting. Next stop Barbados.

[Carmody]

From what I've gathered, I've "paid hell" in every incarnation for at least the last two thousand years time, so much so, as I've told you before, that when I started to figure out what's what the last time around, I committed suicide. Once the karma smoke cleared from that one, I was handed the purple pill, you know, the one labeled DGAF.

Purple pills for everyone who forgets that "it's just a ride".

Thank you for that reminder.

I'm dealing with family drama.

Some of that Drama involved the bulldozing of a house. An original homestead for a family of 12 kids. It was bulldozed out of spite, some feel..... (complete with desired old broken heirlooms and memories...)

[Mark]

Also, I need to say that Playdo sends his love to the Village. All is very well with him. He is retiring from the net in general, not just the forum.

I've always admired Buddha's advice to alternate times of retreat and times of communal gathering. By alternating solitude with fellowship, each state is enriched.

Blessings to Playdo!

Yes, we all should 'retire' for a while sometimes. From everything! And then come back to give loved ones and spiritual family astral hugs and scintillating solar smiles!

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17244&d=1341344512

[dan33]

From INGO SWANN "PENETRATION". Supermarket Scene.

In order to reduce shopping time, I gave Conrad a list of other comestibles. He went in the direction of meats, and I went in the direction of the vegies. The supermarket had huge tables loaded with artichokes-At one of the artichoke tables was standing a ravishing woman.

She was notable not so much for her excessive female physical endowments, but by the fact that they were barely covered. She was dressed in the briefest of halters of pink with big yellow polka dots. Beneath that were short-shorts so short they barely existed. Far beneath that she wore a pair of platform high-heels about eight inches high.

She had volumes of gorgeous black hair, and her eyes were covered by purple sunglasses. She was absolutely awesome.

I thought: “Good Heavens!!!"

She was rummaging through the artichokes, and I wanted some, too. So I worked my way covertly and nonchalantly into her proximity so I could closer appreciate her near-naked breasts. To make this look natural, with my eyes barely on them, I fumbled some selected artichokes into a bag. And then! For absolutely no reason at all I experienced an electrifying wave of goose-bumps throughout my whole body.

The hair on my arms practically stood at attention, and the hair on my neck definitely did. Without rime or reason or forethinking or anything at all I suddenly “knew" she was an alien, an extraterrestrial.

My throat went dry. My hand’s started shaking. And so I decided to back off and start examining the oranges and grapefruits for the fruit aspic Conrad and I were going to try to achieve. To get to the oranges, I had to turn - and then! Way down the line-up of vegetable cases I recognized, of ALL astounding and possible things, ONE OF THE TWINS!

HE was watching the woman. HE saw that I saw him, and then immediately arose in my mind an image of a white card: Please do not speak, and please act normal.

[Lettherebelight]

...And then what happened?!...

[PurpleLama]

Then he was contacted my Mr. Whatshisname and questioned as to why he as at that particular supermarket at that particular time.

........

[dan33]

...And then what happened?!...


Then he was contacted my Mr. Whatshisname and questioned as to why he as at that particular supermarket at that particular time.

........




...and later Mr. Alxelrod (Playdo) says, -"....Ingo, just listen. One of the Twins, will give you two purple cards. A Carmody Card and a Lama Card. Choose one.....and remember, any choose is right".

I'm reading Penetration by Ingo Swann. Has the style of "Andromeda Strain". :)

[PurpleLama]

If Playdo is Axelrod, the Carmody must be Ingo, and I get to be both of the twins, because I am Gemini, after all, hahaha.

[DeDukshyn]

Made this yesterday -- loved it! It's a fairly "loose" recipe as i didn't really measure anything - use your own judgement / creativity as needed.


DeDukshyn's Potato, Chorizo, and Dill Soup (yes an original recipe - invented it yesterday! Not suitable for vegetarians -- obviously, lol)


-1/2 to 1 length (or a few links) of chorizo sausage (I used 3/4 length (about a foot), hot, semi dry - I'm sure any type would work)
-3 to 4 medium potatoes (I used 2 large left over baked potatoes)
-1/2 med onion chopped
-3 to 4 cloves garlic finely chopped
-1/2 medium red pepper
-2 c. chicken or vegetable broth (probably optional if replaced with water, I used a vegetable bullion, a ham broth would be nice for this ...)
-2-4 c. water (or if you have lots of broth, use that ... or maybe you don't even need the broth if you add some more salt or any vegetable water?)
-1/4 - 1/2 c. chopped fresh dill (depending on how much you have or like dill; I put in lots ;-)
-1 c milk (probably optional)
-Salt and pepper
-Optional flavourings: smoked paprika, chilli flakes, squirt of lime juice, roasted red pepper flakes, chopped green onion, cumin, maybe thyme? - stuff like that - as long as it doesn't clash with the dill; I used all the aforementioned minus the green onions and thyme.


1. Fry sausage well, cut it how you like and set aside (half moons or thin diagonal slices)
2. Fry chopped onion in sausage fat for a few minutes
3. Add chopped garlic and chopped red peppers to the pan and fry until onion golden


What I did: (with the leftover baked potatoes I used)

I added the above fried mixture, the baked potatoes and then broth to the blender. This failed because the baked potatoes turned it into a thick mass that the blender couldn't mix (boiled potatoes don't seem to have this problem as much). It turned out ok anyway because the small chunks of red pepper and potato were nice (after I gave up trying for smooth). A handheld stick blender on those ingredients in a pot with all the water / broth would likely do a fine job for this ... I have to get one of those.


What might be better:

Chop the onion and red pepper more finely before frying and skip the blender and use handheld stick blender or a potato masher in the pot with the liquids. For non-baked potatoes, chop and boil with fried mixture, water, and broth until cooked, then mash / blend in the pot so it is sort of thick but still a little bit chunky. It doesn't matter much - one could leave it all chunky even, if you want.

4. Now you should have the fried mixture, water and broth with potatoes in a pot; because of my "blender / baked potato experiment", I actually got a really thick soup, but that was likely due to the blending process of the baked potatoes.

5. Add any optional stuff
6. Simmer for a bit
7. Remove from heat, add milk, dill and sausage chunks, return to heat
8. salt and pepper to taste -- adjust other spices if needed
9. heat through thoroughly

Serve! Makes about 6 good sized bowls. Turned out excellent, IMHO!

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[Carmody]

If Playdo is Axelrod, the Carmody must be Ingo, and I get to be both of the twins, because I am Gemini, after all, hahaha.

Well, I AM avoiding diving deep into the connection end of the pool.

Be careful what you ask for, Bob..... :)

For example, today, just to test it..as if i needed to....a young three person family was walking by, as I sat in my car at a supermarket. None of the three were looking in my direction.

Two parents, and an approximately 14-15 year old girl. She'll be a spectacular looker later on, I thought to my self. Just to see what would happen, I projected a 'look' at her. Not with much in the way of any vigor, no, just a tiny bit of a projection of energies.

No more than 2 seconds later, her father looked back at her (as all fathers should and also panic inwardly about). Two seconds after that, she started up the changeover from child... to a sashay type walk.

Right, I says. Not unusual.

Happens for me all day, every day (regarding connections).

(I'm merely illustrating how sensitive people are to energies, yet they don't realize it. It is a consciousness issue more than anything else)

[Marianne]

Sierra, I didn't forget the cornbread salad recipe. I was going to PM you, but since D posted an excellent soup recipe, I decided to post the cornbread salad recipe too.

I like a visual, so found Mr. Food's photo.

http://cf.primecp.com/master_images/MrFood/Mexican-Cornbread-Salad-RE--2--.jpg

Corn Bread Salad

1 16 oz. package corn bread mix (or make a skillet of corn bread using your favorite recipe, or use 6-8 corn muffins from the bakery)
2 15 oz. cans pinto beans, drained (or you can use dried beans, cooked til soft and creamy--I like to add a small piece of kombu to a pot of dried beans as they're cooking; this adds the goodness of sea vegetables and makes the beans digestible and it adds a delicious saltiness)
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
1 cup spring onion/scallion, chopped
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2 11 oz. cans whole kernel corn, drained
6 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled (can be omitted for vegetarian version)

Buttermilk Ranch Dressing:
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon parsley
2 cups buttermilk
2 cups mayonnaise

Whisk together dressing ingredients.

Directions to put salad together:
Prepare cornbread and let cool. Crumble into a large serving bowl. Top with half the pinto beans, and continue layering half the other ingredients: layer tomato, bell pepper, onion, cheese, corn, bacon and prepared dressing. Repeat layers.

Chill at least 2 hours before serving. Can be made day before and chilled overnight. Keeps a couple of days in the refrigerator. Recipe can be halved.

[ulli]

If Playdo is Axelrod, the Carmody must be Ingo, and I get to be both of the twins, because I am Gemini, after all, hahaha.

Well, I AM avoiding diving deep into the connection end of the pool.

Be careful what you ask for, Bob..... :)

For example, today, just to test it..as if i needed to....a young three person family was walking by, as I sat in my car at a supermarket. None of the three were looking in my direction.

Two parents, and an approximately 14-15 year old girl. She'll be a spectacular looker later on, I thought to my self. Just to see what would happen, I projected a 'look' at her. Not with much in the way of any vigor, no, just a tiny bit of a projection of energies.

No more than 2 seconds later, her father looked back at her (as all fathers should and also panic inwardly about). Two seconds after that, she started up the changeover from child... to a sashay type walk.

Right, I says. Not unusual.

Happens for me all day, every day (regarding connections).

(I'm merely illustrating how sensitive people are to energies, yet they don't realize it. It is a consciousness issue more than anything else)

It works well in restaurants, too...getting a waiter's attention.

[ulli]

What a smooth trip. Sometimes I just can't believe my own luck.
So here I am, in my other home, a little dehydrated, but happy as a pig in da sh!t.

[Anchor]

On my walk today, I was aware of a brief feeling of sadness when I realized that this wasn’t where I lived any more. And a couple of times, I didn’t recognize this place of seventeen years.

"Before I had studied Ch'an [Zen] for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and rivers once again as rivers".

~Qingyuan Weixin

First seeing mountains as mountains and rivers as rivers means seeing them as fixed and solid entities in and of themselves, just in the same way you used to see your home and environs.

Later seeing them as not mountains and not rivers means we understand that neither mountains nor rivers exist in and of themselves, that they are empty of inherent existence and made up of other beings that are also empty of inherent existence. For instance, there is nothing within a mountain that we can pull out and say, "this is mountain," or, "this is what makes a mountain a mountain." Mountains are made up of rocks, trees, grass, snow, water, rivers, ponds, lakes, insects, birds, animals, etc., etc., etc., and all of these things are made up of other things. So, there are no mountains and no rivers.

When we continue to evolve in our understanding of things, and our wisdom eye is fully opened, we realize that mountains are indeed mountains, and rivers are indeed rivers, for there is a mountain there and a river over here. However, we deeply understand that both "mountain" and "river" are merely words that we use to describe the conditioned phenomena in front of us. Neither phenomena is a fixed nor permanent entity that exists in and of itself and possesses inherent existence as "mountain," or "river." In other words we experience and understand their true nature, and the true nature of all beings.

As I read this, it bought to mind the opening of the Law Of One session one, which I quote here, broken up to pace the reading.

----

Let us for a moment consider thought.

What is it, my friends, to take thought?

Took you then thought today?

What thoughts did you think today?

What thoughts were part of the original thought today?

In how many of your thoughts did the creation abide?

Was love contained?

And was service freely given?

You are not part of a material universe.

You are part of a thought.

You are dancing in a ballroom in which there is no material.

You are dancing thoughts.

You move your body, your mind, and your spirit in somewhat eccentric patterns for you have not completely grasped the concept that you are part of the original thought.

---

[Taurean]

Has the revolution started ?

Clearly more and more people are taking a stand and refusing to pay their taxes.

I don't expect they will admit the full extent of the revolt.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18693026

[Belle]

Oh my word, Marianne...that recipe sounds and looks so good my mouth is watering! Thank you so much. :hug:

Guess what I'm making today...:hungry:

[Marianne]

Thanks Belle, I was wondering if people would think corn bread salad is weird ... it's really good.

It's Independence Day in the U.S. I won't mention the irony of it. I'm wishing everyone the world over the freedom to pursue their heart's desire.

Here's a song I've had in my head ... it could apply to the village ... you were always there for me. Besides, it's a summery song for this July 4th. Down under friends ... enjoy your lovely briskness and dream of a change to sunny days in your turn.

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My mom has taken a turn for the worse, I'd love any prayers and good energy anyone could send her way. We're continuing on with fourth festivities and have told her she can't get up. She seems okay with that, which is not like her. She'll see the doctor again tomorrow.

Carmody, I'd so love to shadow you for a day, just to see what kind of mischief you'll get in to. Ulli, you come along too ...

I drew a tarot card for the village today. I use the Robin Wood deck. Ta-dah, it's the Magician! (doesn't he look like PL?)

http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/_img/robin-wood-04257.jpg

Here's an excerpt from 'thirteen' of the aeclectic tarot forum (which reminds me of the sort of posts Anchor and DeDukshyn make, about manifesting):
'... the card is about getting an idea and finding a way to verbalize it. This is the first step toward making it a reality. Which is why the Magician can indicate a time when one is eloquent and charismatic, clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.' http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/meanings/magician.shtml

Doesn't that just sound like so many of you villagers, so many ideas and images floating on these pages to inspire many people, and words to comfort those in need.

Wishing you all a lovely day.
JB

[Belle]

Energy sent...positive thoughts, love and prayers to all in your family, Marianne.

Still bobbing my head from the video...love it.

In MA, we have a steady rain falling...good for gardens, but not so good for outdoor celebrations. It's morning yet, so there is still time for it to clear.

Love the 4th on the lake. Several neighbors take turns setting off some spectacular fireworks over the water...boats gather, lots of "hoots and hollers" from all of us gathered on the shores, and the causeway lined with town locals.

At least the idea of freedom and independence remains, along with high hopes that one day we will all be free to pursue and achieve our dreams of a peaceful, loving world free of the things that bind us.

[ulli]

Wishing your mum all the best, Marianne. As well as everyone else.
May this Independence Day bring a turn around for all US citizens who have been dependent.
Meanwhile here in Barbados a rainy morning so far, and a surprise from my landlady.
She built a roofed terrace in front of my entrance door, while I was gone.
Less heat will get inside and I have a place for outside entertaining.
She also upped the Internet speed, just for me, to stop my whining.
Life is good, and all is well.

[benevolentcrow]

Marianne, Prayers and positive thoughts for your Mother. May she live a long and healthy life.

Foggy and cool this morning as I sip my strong cup of coffee. It is suppose to clear up and warm up.

I have had my grandsons overnight and i will take them to a 4th of July parade today in a small town close by. No matter what the situation of this country I still well up with a sense of pride at a parade.

The boys are excited because the floats that pass by throw candy. Lots of red, white and blue!

Hope everyone has a happy day in the village!

[RunningDeer]

Marianne, blessings and healing for your Mom, family and you.

[Mark]

Marianne, energy, prayers, blessing and love to you and those you love. May her highest potentiality be realized and peace be the result.

Happy independence day, my fellow incarnate American inter-galactic souls. May your hot dogs be hot and your fireworks brilliant. Up here in Canada, it's overcast and cool. Woot.

[another bob]

If Playdo is Axelrod, the Carmody must be Ingo, and I get to be both of the twins, because I am Gemini, after all, hahaha.

Well, I AM avoiding diving deep into the connection end of the pool.

Be careful what you ask for, Bob..... :)

For example, today, just to test it..as if i needed to....a young three person family was walking by, as I sat in my car at a supermarket. None of the three were looking in my direction.

Two parents, and an approximately 14-15 year old girl. She'll be a spectacular looker later on, I thought to my self. Just to see what would happen, I projected a 'look' at her. Not with much in the way of any vigor, no, just a tiny bit of a projection of energies.

No more than 2 seconds later, her father looked back at her (as all fathers should and also panic inwardly about). Two seconds after that, she started up the changeover from child... to a sashay type walk.

Right, I says. Not unusual.

Happens for me all day, every day (regarding connections).

(I'm merely illustrating how sensitive people are to energies, yet they don't realize it. It is a consciousness issue more than anything else)



Thanks, Brother!

Here's something I just added to my blog, which relates:


“By reason, you will achieve nothing. It then remains on the level of mind, and the mind is very clever. The mind is the Shadow of Shaitan, as the Persian proverb goes. If the Shaitan has yielded, the whole barrier is gone. But for the complete surrender one needs more than that; there is not only the Mind, but the Will and the Character to be surrendered too. But already a great step is done if the Mind has yielded …. A very great one. It is the Victory. Little by little it will be done. It takes time.”

~Bhai Sahib

Daughter of Fire, Irina Tweedie


Here in this human incarnation, this virtual reality scenario, we are always being given tests, to see what our reaction will be. These tests serve our evolution. They will vary depending upon causes and conditions related to our particular traits and tendencies, which are derived from accumulated karmic strands, but essentially they will fall into three interdependent categories: mind, character, and will.

In my current understanding, tests of the mind consist primarily of discovering our true identity, prior to the imposition of conditional self-images. Consequently, one might say that the challenge here is with ignorance – ignorance of our true nature and condition, our “original face”.

Many suppose that, having had some awakening insight into their true nature, the job is done, but actually it has just begun. Failure to recognize that fact will lead to aberrations in one’s relationships, and hence we find folks like Rajneesh, Adi Da, Trungpa, and many other so-called “spiritual” personalities who nevertheless fail the tests of character and will, and remain trapped in the “Intermediate Zone” that Aurobindo cautioned about.

The category of “Character” is the next great test, after the penetration of ignorance. Character is all about integrity. When we examine our behavior, is it always consistent with the truth we have realized in our awakening insights? Or, is there a gap between what we know and how we embody that knowledge? Are we always acting with full integrity, or are we still habitually falling back into patterns of relationship that are self-centered and less than compassionate?

The third test category is “Will”. It is here that we come face to face with the final koan, “Not my will, but Thine.” What does that actually mean? What does it mean to step out of the way and let life live us, to let the Divine, or Source, live us? What is surrender? How can we become a clear prism for the Light to work Love into every thought, word, and deed, and so bring all our relationships into harmonious balance? What are we actually doing when we try to impose our will on any situation, subtle or mundane? What is the motive within the psyche that will have us cling to the impulse to control and manipulate? Is it not fear? This fear goes very deep, getting more and more subtle as we gig through the layers of awareness, until (if we are persistent) we ultimately arrive at the “core story” itself – the story of “me and mine”.

All we are ever trying to protect and defend is some image we have of ourselves. The more reality we invest in that self-image, the more we take it to be who and what we are. In this way, we become fixated in arbitrary positions, clinging to them as a matter of personal survival. Furthermore, we’re then threatened by anything perceived to be crossing the illusory line in the sand we've drawn around our imaginary position.

All positions are positions in mind, and have no concrete or enduring reality, except what we grant them in our afflicted case of mistaken identity. In actuality, we are not the self-image we are attempting to assert, confirm, and defend. Self-images are simply costumes or uniforms we don to accomplish particular activities, but then we typically forget that the costumes are just costumes, and come to believe that they represent our true identity.

When we fall for our own propaganda, we get stuck in positions that now seem to be in need of preserving. Fear is spawned to grease the wheels of attachment to the charade, and the life flow is crimped and cut off through the fixation of attention generated by this assumption of false identity.

Suffering is the inevitable consequence of fixating identity in transient self-images. This sense of suffering can only be relieved by totally letting go, relinquishing clinging to any position. Our free will provides the option: stay glued to a fixed position and reap the result, or swim freely, untethered by any self-imposed anchor.

When Vachagotta asked Gotama the Buddha what position he espoused, he replied:

"A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that a Buddha has done away with. What a Buddha sees is this: 'Such is form, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is feeling, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is perception... such are mental fabrications... such is consciousness, such its origin, such its disappearance.'

Because of this, I say, a Buddha — with the ending, fading out, cessation, renunciation, and relinquishment of all construings, all excogitations, all I-making and mine-making and obsession with conceit — is, through lack of clinging/sustenance, released."

[PurpleLama]

It is being like clear glass for primordial light to shine right through.

[another bob]

It is being like clear glass for primordial light to shine right through.

“The love of God, unutterable & perfect,
flows into a pure soul the way that light
rushes into a transparent object.
The more love it finds, the more it gives itself;
so that, as we grow clear and open,
the more complete the joy of heaven is.
And the more souls who resonate together,
the greater the intensity of their love,
and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other."

~Dante


:yo:

[astrid]

It's done ...Finally
And first night in new house
Downing loads of D3 to stop myself from
getting sick which can often happen after
the crash one gets after a big event
Had some warnings already with waking
up with sore throat.... But this vehicle does not do
sick...I'm fairly good at fighting things off and It's been
years since I have even had a head cold .
Mainly because I have learnt to listen to my body
and make adjustments to suit what it's telling me

But I must say I don't remember feeling this tired
and sore in a long time ...
So far my sleep is thrown and it just feels weird .
Louis also unsettled but without ozzie here he's
also a bit lost ... Ozzie comes home on Friday
thankfully . I miss him terribly

Love and blessings to all

[Sierra]

Hi, this is for Candace to read, if you do not mind. It is a word coming from my 15 years old daughter who accepted to write a word to Candace when she heard of her misfortune,

Hey dear little Dove :) I am sorry to hear that you are ready to end your life. I got to admit that we are pretty much in a tough cruel world. But think about it, if everyone like you left this world, nobody good would be left on this planet and this planet wont be saved.

I know that it`s hard to wake up everyday knowing that you might get hurt. I live the same thing and i got to admit that it`s hard to find motivation to live. But i find my motivation with music. Do you have any passion? If you dont, maybe you should try new things and get your mind off of what ever is going on in your life. And if you do have a passion, then use it to distract you and to especially get goals in life. Dreams and goals are what makes me want to keep living and going through the hard times.

Im only 15 so i dont really know how to completely help you. But i know that if you find love in your heart, everything will be ok... And maybe you think that no one loves you.. well i dont know who loves you, but i love you. Yes i don't know who you are, but you deserve to be loved and i am ready to give you love and sympathie. I'm sure i'm not the only one like that out there. So there are certainly a few people who just simply love you (starting with your aunt).

Even if i'm 15, i went through many thoughs times. But love, my passion and ALOT of crying always helped me get through. I wish i could help you more. But i tried the best i can. Anyways, remember that your aunt loves you and a random canadian 15 year old cares about you. Dont give up! God put you on this earth for a reason. And maybe someday i will write a song for you :)

I have met this 15 year old, through PMs via Flash. She is INCREDIBLE and she has been through some serious **** in her brief lifetime.

I rather adore her. :)

Sierra waving to Noisette (little black cat) and gang :hug:

[dan33]

...And then what happened?!...


Then he was contacted my Mr. Whatshisname and questioned as to why he as at that particular supermarket at that particular time.

........




...and later Mr. Alxelrod (Playdo) says, -"....Ingo, just listen. One of the Twins, will give you two purple cards. A Carmody Card and a Lama Card. Choose one.....and remember, any choose is right".

I'm reading Penetration by Ingo Swann. Has the style of "Andromeda Strain". :)It was only a few days after The Encounter that I returned to New York for much needed relief from research. I only half expected a call from Mr. Axelrod. It was not long in coming.

The Book continous. Mr. Axelrod" shows" again. (Frank Sinatra was chosen for the voice of Axelrod). :)


The phone rang early one evening, and a cheery female voice on the other end asked:
“Mr, Swann?”

I said, “Yes.”

“A friend of yours would like to talk with you.”

“OK.”

“He wants to talk to you on another telephone. Is it convenient for you to be in Grand Central Terminal at 7:30 tonight?”

“I suppose so" I replied.
sen for the voice of Axelrod.
“Very good, then. Go to the vicinity of the information box in the central concourse and wait there until you see someone you will recognize."
My telephone then abruptly went dead!

(...)

Finally, Mr. Axelrod came on.
“I’m sorry to have to do it this way," he began, “but we had to get you to a telephone which scrambles our conversation, and where you can be watched.”
I was about to say hello, but Axelrod’s voice became very firm.
“Do not say anything except answers to my questions."
So knowing he was going to yell at me because of my inadvertent encounter in LA LA Land, I remained quiet as a mouse.
“I may seem a little aggressive,” Axel said, “but we would like to know why you were in that Los Angeles supermarket?”

“I was staying with some friends, and we decided to cook dinner. I wanted orange aspic with lamb chops and I wanted to stuff artichokes. We didn’t have any.”
Silence. Then:
“There was no other reason?

”No"

“Had you ever seen that woman or seen her since?”

"No"

Silence. “Why were you looking at her?”

“Well, for chrissakes, she was extremely sexy and nearly falling out of the few clothes she had on. I first saw her from the rear, and just tried to see what the front looked like up close. She was messing with the artichokes.”

“You’re sure there was no other reason.”

“Absolutely.”
More silence. Then:
“What did you think of her?”
Now it was my turn to be silent for a moment,
“Well, I don’t know why - but I got the impression she wasn’t, well, exactly like us.”

“What WAS she like?”
I nearly choked on the word.
“Extraterrestrial!”

“What made you think that?”

“I have no idea. It was just an impression. She had some kind of vibes or something. She sent chills up my spine, and I felt the hair on the back of my neck starting to stand up.”

“Have you felt you have seen people like her before?”

“If you mean have I seen extraterrestrials before, the answer is no. Strange people, sure, but nothing like I got from her.“

“Why did you run away so fast?”

“After I spotted the twins, I realized something was going on. The whole thing scared the **** out of me"

“OK,” Axel said after a pause, "I'll buy it. Do you think she noticed you psyched her out?”

“I have no idea. She was into the artichokes. The whole thing happened too fast. But she never looked at me, at least I couldn’t say for sure, since her eyes were hidden behind those strange purple glasses."

“Think, man!” Axel insisted. “This is very important. Did she notice you at all?”

I suddenly started shaking. “No... my best guesstimate is that she did not.”

“Were you at the counter first, or was she?”

“Well, she was. I first saw her from way down the aisle, and then I decided to go up and have a closer look.”

“You’re sure?”

“Sure of what?”

“Well, did she make any attempt to get close to you, or was it you who made the attempt?"
I wanted to blurt out that the twins well knew the answer to this, since apparently THEY had her under surveillance.
”I don’t think she saw me at all, and she was there when I got there!”
A tone of desperation had entered into my voice.

Silence. Good.
"OK. I feel obliged to tell you that she is very dangerous. If you ever see her again, especially if she approaches you, make every effort to put distance between you and her. But act natural, always do it naturally.”

[Bo Atkinson]

http://harmoniouspalette.com/meadowsweetwellbeing.jpg

a little web tea for you astrid?

For Marianne and everyone else too *__*

~wav

[DeDukshyn]

<DeDukshyn adds Marianne's Cornbread Salad to his list of "must make" recipe's> ;)

I was thinking ... It would be nice to have a "Here and now ... Photos, Art, Poetry and Recipes" thread ... seems fitting as the appreciation of any and all of those things have to be done in the present moment, another way of helping people stay in the moment! ;)

[PurpleLama]

What's happens in the thread, stays in the thread. Ground rules.

[PurpleLama]

Also, D, I have a few magical staves. One has hematite at the bottom and moldavite at the top and quarts points, three or four, in between, with copper wire wound all around. Another has JHShVh burned into it, and it spirals, spins, when you hold your hand on the top of it when the bottom is touching the ground. Those two were first made by Playdo, my retired friend, out of Beau D'arc.

[DeDukshyn]

Also, D, I have a few magical staves. One has hematite at the bottom and moldavite at the top and quarts points, three or four, in between, with copper wire wound all around. Another has JHShVh burned into it, and it spirals, spins, when you hold your hand on the top of it when the bottom is touching the ground. Those two were first made by Playdo, my retired friend, out of Beau D'arc.

Any pics? =)

Edit: I've got to finish my design plan for my staff - I have one that wants to be built (came to me in a stream of consciousness) - a very elaborate design, rather complicated in fact - It appears to be a device of sorts, I'll eventually finish my 3D model of it and have maybe Carmody see if there's any deciphering to do of the design.

[1inMany]

Looks like y'all have been busy, I have lots to catch up on. No time today, have had one helluva time of it.

Four days ago, Devin (our toothless chow mutt) brought home a buddy. Looked like a beagle-type mutt. I told her to go home. Three days ago, I saw this dog around several times. I figured it was the neighbor's dog, because Devin goes running out in their fields quite a bit, the runnin-jumpin-playing kind of dog that he is. Loves this wide open space. Then this morning when I got my coffee and went out to sit in my perch, guess who was already in my chair? Yup. So, I told her (obviously has very recently had puppies) to get home to her puppies. Nope. She wasn't having it.

Well, I swore I was not going to feed this dog, because I just knew if I did it would never go back home. I came in from my coffee and saw that there was a half-eaten bowl of dogfood right inside the door. Dang it, the girls already fed her. Well, that's that.

As the day went on, my sadness got to me...or hers did, who really knows. So at this point, she has had a bath and flea and tick drops and two bowls of food and two bowls of water and a chew bone. Little One asked her name, and I said "Mama."

Mama has at least 5 puncture wounds, pretty deep, in her neck above her shoulder blades. They are open and infected. She had never been in a bathtub before, so I ended up bathing her outside with the hose. She was scared of water at the beginning, but was rather enjoying it at the end. Last night, the girls saw that the fur around this wound area was matted and Mama wouldn't let them touch it. She let me wash this area with clean water, then with gentle puppy shampoo, then rinse it again. She has the sweetest soul. She is not too playful, I caught her sleeping for hours at a stretch on the cool concrete outside today.

I'm afraid to let her sleep in the house. First of all, I'm allergic to dogs and cats, and Devin is in the house anyway. Mama sheds way worse than Devin, so I'm afraid my eyes would swell shut. Secondly, there's no way of knowing what kind of animals hurt her. It could be another dog, but there aren't any ferocious type dogs around...you all know there are lots of other animals though, including coyotes. I'm kind of afraid coyotes got to her puppies :( Makes me feel rather sick to think about it. Anyway, whatever animal got to her could have had rabies....or whatever else wild animals carry. And finally, I can't decide if an outside dog would automatically know to go outside to go to the bathroom. I've decided to put her in one of the sheds with some blankets and water and food for the night. Guess I will be calling for a vet tomorrow. I really don't want to have to take her to the pound or something...all that I did to her today and she didn't even nip at me. She cried, she whimpered, and finally she gave me her best bark. But not one time did she nip. And the kids have been around her all day, and not a single aggressive instinct has shown itself. Poor baby has some white hair...probably drops puppies every season...she's tired.

All that and Little One stayed overnight. He was not the usual angel either. Peanut was supposed to pick him up this morning, but had a blow out on the highway so he only just left a little while ago. I've had so much anxiety today I feel like adrenaline is buzzing through my veins.

Yup, salt bath night for me. Wonder if my kids will eat dinner...or cereal...

Any thoughts on Mama are more than welcome :)

Much Love,

[DeDukshyn]

...

I like a visual, ...

http://cf.primecp.com/master_images/MrFood/Mexican-Cornbread-Salad-RE--2--.jpg

.
mmmm that looks sooo good. I added pics to my soup recipe "in process" here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=516047&viewfull=1#post516047).

[DeDukshyn]

DO-IT-YOURSELF! Solid manifestation from vibrations!
(simply cornstarch and water in a woofer at a low frequency)

Humans tend to think they are the solid, but really they are the vibration behind the form. ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqG2Oas0r0I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqG2Oas0r0I&feature=related


Also, the "Information" that water picks up and holds ... are vibrations. ;) Interesting video.


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

[astrid]

Outside in PJ's and gumboots, pruning some underbranches of a wattle tree to let in more light,
and give more space for an old Rasberry Cane, and an even older tiny old fashioned rose bush.

As my chicken coop is not yet built, i housed my two girls over night in a puppy crate that
Louis had when he was younger. Amazingly they have not missed a beat,
and both laid this morning !!

Just now i put them in my larger wire crate that i use to keep my dogs safe
in the car. They are scratching and eating the grass at the back, and Louis has discovered his new
favorite thing to do is chicken gazing.

Thinking that i can't go to wrong to spend some time in the garden for the first few days,
the house being all in boxes, is somewhat overwhelming.

Already i am getting money back my away again, the old agent gave me a cheque for over paid rent.
So i liking this move already.

The food pics are making me hungry , so hopefully today i can tackle unpacking some basics to
at least be able to cook something. Well apart from coffee.

love to all

[eaglespirit]

I have been envisioning huge groups of like-minded souls gathering around crystal energy together...sending vibrations here, there and far and wide...opening up communications/connections in an unprecedented 'higher' manner to help change all that matters. The posts 'here and now' once again in sync with my thoughts and feelings just prior to coming here and catching up. We are on a roll...we can help vibrate this place to a higher standard at lightning speed now. I Love You All!

http://fireflyforest.net/images/firefly/2006/February/giant-quartz-crystal.jpg

[Marianne]

http://harmoniouspalette.com/meadowsweetwellbeing.jpg

a little web tea for you astrid?

For Marianne and everyone else too *__*

~wav

Thank you Wav, that's a gorgeous pic of the meadow queen ... nothing more beautiful than a field of budding medicine plants.

I'd love to make a soothing cup of tea for Astrid and hear her plans for the day.

I discovered a little plant called All Heal (or sometimes Heal All) growing beneath and around the water spigot this year. It grows abundantly in New England and I always had it there. I know it wasn't anywhere around here last year, but I was wishing it would grow wild somewhere on the property. That has happened too many times for it to be a coincidence. A plant will pop up someplace where I can harvest it, or someone will give me the plant ... it finds me somehow.

It's a kind of manifesting that seems natural to me.

Here's wishing all good things to Avalonians ... good will to each one.

Love,
JB

[benevolentcrow]

Best 4th of July ever! Awesome parade, complete with Sea Fair Pirates and Bagpipes. Old car clubs and marching bands! A sense of pride came to my eyes! Then all American B-B-Q, Hot dogs, hamburgers, baked beans and potato salad. Good time with all of my family! A mini fireworks show for the grand kids! All is well! ps Reese's Peanut Butter Cup S'mores!

[another bob]

http://i50.tinypic.com/2r766g0.jpg

[meeradas]

Playdo, my retired friend

When'd that happen?
[well, he's off my friends list, so it must be true]
Am obviously not catching up with the village going-ons...

The 'professional life' has got me again.
It's utter perspectivelessness & futility has hit me big time after these holidays.
Getting more unbearable by the day; but the "alternatives" look even less attractive...
what a dead end.

PS: Some holiday leftovers

[ulli]

Being in another country feels like another dimension. After the initial running around and sorting out glitches post travel fatigue has hit...

[Eram]

Hi villagers,

I continued my attempts for astral travel tonight. I figured out a strategy for the prevention of the frustration road, that seems to be working.
Much more relaxation exercises and much less willpower in my efforts :).
It seems that a part of my is really afraid of all this. When I enter the first stage of astral travel, 'the vibrational state', I become a little hyperventilational like. My heart rate rises to 120 or so and my breathing becomes real quick. So I've got to solve this blockade somehow and I think the best way to go is just to keep on trying and let everything that arises come to me without judgement or an attempt to get rid of it.

Anyway... I just fell asleep in the end and woke up this morning... My dreams were vivid though and all about showering, brushing teeth and get dressed.. weird I thought.. Until I realised that this was something in me that was trying to wake me up in the dream. Everything was about my waking up rituals in 3D. When I figured that out I just laughed... so funny how that works!

There is not a fixed time for learning to astral travel, but many people seem to have their first success in about a month.


@ Marianne..... I pray for you mother.

@ Ulli... holiday pics please :)

Oh and yesterday I read about 9eagle9, how she seems to have landed in another time line where she suddenly didn't plant any squash, because all the plants have disappeared out of her garden. Couldn't help but think about where PurpleLama was, the night they disappeared ;)

[ulli]

All images in one's dream need to be decoded.
Dreams are coded messages, and unless decoded, appear meaningless to the dreamer.
Therefore the true meaning has to be explored, and found.

I am certain those images are not about the rituals of your daily getting-up routine,
but want to tell you something about soul awakening since you have signaled such intent to the universe.

In order to find the true self one has to follow certain routines and steps,
which begin with cleaning and purification. Eliminating waste.
So equally routines and disciplines have to be in place that will eliminate memory pressure,
habitual unnecessary thought patterns, and generally clean all inner thought and feeling processes.

[Belle]

Don't know what happened, but wrote a fairly long post about my first OBE and years of astral traveling during the night to check on my sleeping children in their rooms, and in the middle of typing the post disappeared.

To make a longish story short, first OBE began when my son was a baby and my daughter had not even been a thought. I entered a vivid dream, and as the dream faded, I "saw" a man I had never seen before holding a baby. Then I reentered my body through the top of my head...could feel the warmth bit by bit as my body was "filled". (Within a year, that man was my second husband and the baby, my daughter, was born.)

Didn't understand what happened at the time, but thought that if I could do it again, I could check up on my son in his room during the night without getting out of bed...and every night thereafter that is what I did until both my children were teenagers.

One night after checking on them, instead of reentering my body, I started going further away. On floating down the stairs and leaving the house, fear about where I was going overcame the experience...I quickly retreated and 'popped' back into my body, and have not been able to do it since.

As with everything else I've experienced, it all just happened. I don't recall ever consciously thinking about any of it until it stopped, but I do recall that it was on the night fear entered that I consciously realized what I had been doing for 16 years and wondered exactly how I did it.

When the fear left and thinking about how 'cool' it was, I could not recreate it no matter how hard I tried. Part of me believes that it served a necessary purpose at the time, and will return if and when a need arises. That seems to be how these things work in my life...

[Swan]

That was very inspiring!

I would love to be able to check on my children that way.

I think I might have travelled astrally a couple of times ( could have been dreams ), but each time as soon as I am aware of having left my body, I´m back.

Maybe because I feel fear.

Years ago when I worked as a journalist, I interviewed a lovely man about his near death experience. He told me that he had done alot of astral travelling before that event. When working as a nurse in Saudi Arabia he astral travelled to visit his married mistress in Sweden. And she saw him!

[Samsara]

Life is good. I have been busy working around the house, the Garden, reading, training, spending time with my daughter and grandson. It is has also been a time of letting go of big chunks coming up to the surface to be realeased.

I will be leaving tomorrow for a couple of days, reconnecting with Wild Woman, howling at the moon. I am bringing the Village in my heart, so don't be surprised if you suddenly have the urge to dance wildly in the wind. LOL

I'll be back !

Here's a photo of the Garden now

17274

from this

17275

Pretty cool hey !

[astrid]

Just in.....

amHr01mKk88

"Within the chaos lies the perfection"

Says she, looking at the mountains of boxes to sort and unpack

[ulli]

Life is good. I have been busy working around the house, the Garden, reading, training, spending time with my daughter and grandson. It is has also been a time of letting go of big chunks coming up to the surface to be realeased.

I will be leaving tomorrow for a couple of days, reconnecting with Wild Woman, howling at the moon. I am bringing the Village in my heart, so don't be surprised if you suddenly have the urge to dance wildly in the wind. LOL

I'll be back !

Here's a photo of the Garden now

17274

from this

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Pretty cool hey !

Love the transformation before and after pictures. Great job.
I might take you up on that dance offer, but will try and refrain from howling...
that would get me locked up around here.

Wakytweaky: pictures coming up...so far very little of Barbados, though.
I'm going to upload them to my photo bucket account, and give a link when I'm ready.

[Eram]

Don't know what happened, but wrote a fairly long post about my first OBE and years of astral traveling during the night to check on my sleeping children in their rooms, and in the middle of typing the post disappeared.

To make a longish story short, first OBE began when my son was a baby and my daughter had not even been a thought. I entered a vivid dream, and as the dream faded, I "saw" a man I had never seen before holding a baby. Then I reentered my body through the top of my head...could feel the warmth bit by bit as my body was "filled". (Within a year, that man was my second husband and the baby, my daughter, was born.)

Didn't understand what happened at the time, but thought that if I could do it again, I could check up on my son in his room during the night without getting out of bed...and every night thereafter that is what I did until both my children were teenagers.

One night after checking on them, instead of reentering my body, I started going further away. On floating down the stairs and leaving the house, fear about where I was going overcame the experience...I quickly retreated and 'popped' back into my body, and have not been able to do it since.

As with everything else I've experienced, it all just happened. I don't recall ever consciously thinking about any of it until it stopped, but I do recall that it was on the night fear entered that I consciously realized what I had been doing for 16 years and wondered exactly how I did it.

When the fear left and thinking about how 'cool' it was, I could not recreate it no matter how hard I tried. Part of me believes that it served a necessary purpose at the time, and will return if and when a need arises. That seems to be how these things work in my life...

That's remarkable Belle.

If you ever have the wish to pick astral travel up again.... I can recommend William Buhlman as a guide to learn the techniques to do it.
He stayed away from all the time consuming rituals that surround astral travel in many spiritual teachings and brought it down to simple 'down to earth' ;) techniques that can work for everyone.

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He wrote two books that explain in detail his experiences and the many ways you can teach it yourself.
* Adventures beyond the body-how to experience out of body travel
* The secret of the Soul

I can relate to what you wrote there Swan. I had several spontaneous lucid dreams and always when I became aware of it, I woke up, because of some sort of fear. Sometimes I think it is because I have in me a scared little child that believes all this ( the 3D world) is very 'real' and cannot believe that it is just a dream.
I am glad though that in this time in life I am finally facing these fears, also through the learning of astral travel. It is scary to do, but I know this will be very liberating in the end.


@Samsara........... Very nice garden. That must have been a lot of work.

[Samsara]

"Within the chaos lies the perfection"

Says she, looking at the mountains of boxes to sort and unpack

Hehe... that made me laugh !

Go ! Astrid ! you can do it !
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[Belle]

Wakytweaky, I've had a lot of interesting experiences in my life, and through PA I've learned that I'm not alone in these experiences and that they actually are named.

My life is very fluid...trusting my higher self to lead the way. I've been given just what I need exactlly when I need it, so there's never been an urge to pursue something simply because it can be done....it's more of an allowing or just being opposed to controling and doing. Not for everyone, but works for me.

@ Marianne...do you have any pictures of the All Heal/Heal All plant? Never heard of it before. What does it do? ...By the way, everyone loved the Cornbread Salad yesterday. It was the first dish to be wiped out on the first go-around of the 'buffet line'.

@ Samsara...connecting with your spirit...doesn't everyone dance wildly in the wind, arms opened wide, twirling and spinning, laughing and giggling? Tho' some do call my singing "howling".... Your garden is an inspiration. My first attempt at an herb garden turned out to be overgrown...planted too close. There's always next year!

[1inMany]

Good Morning,

Tom was speaking to me this morning. His information is another way of stating my new mantra, it's okay. I guess I will not try to put into place the plans I have been bouncing around to get the girls on a better schedule. They can wait until next week. Sounds like a much better plan to work with the universe rather than against it :)

And I guess I will also stop beating up on myself for gliding along with the wind, riding along being swept this way and that with the river of life. I will leave the oars in the boat for now and try to focus on enjoying the sea air, as it were, filling my lungs and carrying life's energy through my body.

Tomorrow is the planned signing of the Letter of Intent for Hubby's Boss and the Investor. We shall see how that goes. In the meantime, someone who has worked with Hubby for several years has now offered the information that his cousin is an investment guru with massive resources. This co-worker's cousin could easily, and has volunteered to, put together an offer to Boss as well. Hmmm. Interesting development, isn't it? Cousin's offer would give Hubby more ownership interest, and that would make him feel more secure in retirement as he could sell his interest in a few years.

We shall see.

Mama is up and around this morning. Whining a lot, and I don't know why. Em talked me out of putting her in a shed, she was afraid Mama would be scared to death being stuck in a dark box with no fresh air when she has been a free spirit until now. Em decided to take our favorite fuzzy blanket outside and cover the weeds in Mama's favorite spot. Ugh. Oh well, with this crochet spell I'm on this blanket will be replaced several times over.

Need to mow again. I guess the grass/weeds didn't get the memo. Apparently I don't enjoy mowing in the heat...thought I was clear in the memo. Must work on my communication style.

Much Love to All,

[Taurean]

CHEMTRAIL BASES IDENTIFIED


Evergreen Air is a CIA front company for chemtrail operations within the US, based out of Marana Air Park near Tucson Arizona and McMinville Oregon, near Portland.

A major missing piece of a grand conspiracy has been targeted by a drunk pilot. In a small town 30 miles east of the Pacific Ocean in Oregon is the center of a major global operation. At a bar in McMinnville, Oregon, an inebriated pilot attempted to impress one of the pretty ladies with tales of his secret mission.

The pilot’s pathetic attempt to portray himself as a Sean Connery or Daniel Craig caused him to (ante up) his importance and spill the secrets of the CIA’s asset Evergreen International Aviation.

The slurred revelations confirmed suspicions that Evergreen (International Aviation) is part of the major crap dump on the planet. Chemtrails made up aluminum, barium and other ingredients contribute to respiratory ills and change the acidity of the soil.

Evergreen works from over a 100 bases and employees 4,500 people. Delford Smith privately owns the company. They admittedly “perform” for the CIA.

Evergreen was given a no contest bid that gave them all the facilities in Marana, Arizona that previously belonged to CIA’s Air America (Pinal Air Park, Arizona).

The security at the Pinal site is said to be as severe as that of Area 51. It is run as a military base where one lost pilot got an armed escort immediately off the operational base. The 10 year pilot said it was nothing like anything he has ever seen.

Evergreen International Aviation brags of their planes that have 7 times the capacity of other fire fighters. One can carry 20,000 galleons. Firefighting … Right … and next we will be told the chem trails are to prevent global warming as millions more are advancing to an early death.

Evergreen International Aviation has exemptions from the law that are advertised on their web site. They can fly anywhere and not stay on a designated route. Has CFR members paved the way? People like Philip Lader and John Wheeler III … they were in a position to do just that.

Evergreen’s public relations (propaganda) spokesman is handled by WPP run by Council on Foreign Relations member Philip Lader. He worked under the present head of the CIA … Leon Panetta as White House deputy of staff under Bill Clinton.

Philip Lader is an “inside” authority on international affairs and business. He is the non-executive Chairman of WPP Group, Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley International, and a board member for think-tank RAND Corporation. He is also a trustee of UC Rusal (largest aluminum company in the world) the British Museum and St. Paul’s Cathedral Foundation. Ambassador Lader has addressed trans-Atlantic audiences from the U.N.’s General Assembly Hall to state chambers of commerce and local world affairs councils, is a member of Rockefeller’s Council on Foreign Relations.

Philip Lader (CFR) is a key player driving toward world government. In addition to running the Public Relations for Evergreen International Aviation … Lader is a director of UC Rusal, the largest Aluminum producer in the world located in Moscow, Sweden, Italy, and Australia. Nathaniel Rothschild is a big investor.

Eugenic operation of Chemtrails has had the assistance of Mitre a non-profit Corporation that manages the Federal Aviation Administration, Homeland Security, and IRS. (1) The IRS is part of the Federal Reserve which is a major transmission belt driving the conspiracy.

Philip Lader’s fellow Council on Foreign Relations member John P Wheeler III was recently dumped into a land fill in Wilmington, Delaware. Wheeler III was a consultant to Mitre the non profit corporation with jurisdictional advice over the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight patterns.

Was John P. Wheeler III to sentimental for the killing underway? And got murdered by the Company?

The CIA is the enforcement arm of the Council on Foreign Relations

Mitre is conveniently located in McLean,Virginia home of the CIA.

Thanks to the drunken pilot and his loose lips … the Free People of the world can focus on the criminals who are poisoning our air and our water.

http://www.freedumbnation.com/?p=2803

[Belle]

I love your communication style, 1inMany. It's warm, homey, comfortable and I feel like we're having a conversation while sitting on a porch swing and having glasses of iced tea.

It is uniquely you, and I love it!

Or did I just do the "read too quickly, must have misunderstood thing" again? Communication as in memo's?

Oh dear, must be time to get outside and tend the veggie garden...you know, to clear the cobwebs in my mind.

Sorry about that.

[Taurean]

Another 60th anniversary coming up



1952: Flood devastates devon village


twelve bodies have been recovered and 24 people are missing feared dead in the flood which has swept through lynmouth in north devon.

The normally picturesque holiday village was evacuated early today as troops and council workers were brought in to begin clearing the devastation.

Hundreds of people have been left homeless. There is no water, gas or electricity supply. All the boats in the harbour have been washed out to sea. Four main road bridges have been swept away.

The flood followed yesterday's torrential rain. In the 24 hours before, some nine inches (22.9cm) of rain had fallen on exmoor, just four miles (6.4km) away.



there was some speculation the flash flooding could have been caused by ministry of defence experiments in rain-making. By dropping dry ice into clouds, the idea was to start a heavy storm which would bog down enemy movements.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/16/newsid_2960000/2960180.stm

[1inMany]

I love your communication style, 1inMany. It's warm, homey, comfortable and I feel like we're having a conversation while sitting on a porch swing and having glasses of iced tea.

It is uniquely you, and I love it!

Or did I just do the "read too quickly, must have misunderstood thing" again? Communication as in memo's?

Oh dear, must be time to get outside and tend the veggie garden...you know, to clear the cobwebs in my mind.

Sorry about that.

I love the way you read it, it's perfect!

Love You,

[1inMany]

Being in another country feels like another dimension. After the initial running around and sorting out glitches post travel fatigue has hit...

Isn't it funny, I feel like I know exactly what you mean and I just travel an hour and a half away. Same state even. Absolutely everything is different!

[PurpleLama]

Universe, lead the way!

[1inMany]

Universe, lead the way!

Well, now, aren't you PerkyLama today lol... Uncertainty is a curse for sure. I think the many, many, many solar flares of the past 24-48 hours may be adding to the ill-at-ease feeling for me. I'm still trying for your excited acceptance though! No giving up here :)

it's okay, it's okay

Much Love,

p.s...going to hunt down every black rock I own...

[1inMany]

A former police officer who retired from the FBI due to post-traumatic stress disorder linked to her role in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks has written a book about seeing legions of angels guarding the Pennsylvania site where a hijacked airliner crashed.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=229689

Hmmmmmm.....

I do wonder what angels really are...

[Mark]

Any thoughts on Mama are more than welcome :)

Seems mama knew where to go to find some real love and kindness. Devin probably said something to the effect of, "Damn, check you out."

Mama blinks slowly, tears welling in her eyes.

Mama: "I know, I know. I just lost my babies."

Weeps softly as Devin sympathizes.

Devin: "Welll you can come home with me, I got a pretty good family. The girls feed me more than I need and their mama has a heart of gold."

Mama's eyes widen, her tongue lolls as she considers the offer.

Mama: "For real? You don't think anybody would mind?"

Devin snorts and licks himself.

Devin: "Naaaah, trust. Pretty soon you'll be right as rain."

And the rest is the dogs story.

[Marianne]

Good morning Villagers and everyone,

I'm at work, taking a break... so only have a few minutes. I wanted to thank you all so much for your prayers and wishes for my mom. I stopped to see her on the way into work this morning, and SHE"S BETTER! She said she'll wait to see the doctor til her regular appointment next week. The therapist sees her daily, so I'll get a report later today. She is calmer too, and I know the love going her way from the village has made a difference. <3.

D, how did your soup turn out? Hope you get to make the corn bread salad. I loved your videos -- manifesting lessons via cornstarch, I get it. We are much more empty space than we are solid. Think about the amount of mind bending we do to see our world as solid, as we 'think' it is. No wonder there's an occasional missing sofa pillow or something, it could easily slip through the gap.

Eaglespirit, I don't know why the crystal pic isn't showing up. I tried to fix it, and it worked for awhile then it flipped back to a box with an X in it. Sorry... it's a great pic.

Samsara, the garden pics are amazing! So happy you have that wonderful beauty to commune with.

BC, thanks for the report on your great fourth celebrations! A parade, fireworks, a cookout, and Reese's PB s'mores ... I can't eat most nuts, and I'm soooo drooling for one of those.

Meeradas, love your vaca photos. Hope you and your family are well.

AB and Mazie ... beautiful flowers you show us most every day, thank you.

Swan and Belle and Waky, all of you talking about OBE's and remote viewing ... thanks for sharing ... I've done remote viewing with a tiny success, but never had an OBE. Have felt some tingling which I'm told can be a precurser to it. Maybe someday ...

Astrid, I love the pictures you paint with your words. Thinking of your hens and all the animals settling into the new homestead, with much happiness ahead of you all ... and much here and now as well.

Love to everyone, know I've missed some names.

Belle, I had to answer your question about All Heal (aka Self Heal).

http://www.spiritualhealingportal.com/images/photo/heal-all1.jpg

Heal All (Prunella vulgaris)

It’s also called wound wort (wort being the old English word for plant) and is used as a boo-boo wash. It’s a nutritious herb (as most of the edible ones are … they have vitamins and minerals which you ingest when you drink them as a tea or tincture). Some people use it in cooking, but I haven’t yet. It has a long list of ailments it's said to help, but haven't used it for many, just use it as a general strengthener and love it because it looks so sweet growing in the grass.

I suspect the 'Self Heal' name denotes magical healing properties that I will use someday.

The caution about herbs, ALWAYS be sure of what you’re harvesting. If you’ve never harvest in the wild before, get an experienced herbalist or country person to help you. See if you can find an herb walk in your area. It’s a good introduction. Don’t harvest from the side of the road, the fumes from cars build up in the plants and you don’t want to take that into your body.

If you hear the herbs calling you, consider ordering seeds and starting them in your garden, so you’ll know what you have. Or buy dried herbs.

Richter’s has about any herb you can think of. Google it to find out more. They’re in Canada but have a US distribution and it’s easy to order from them.

Love,
JB

Post Update:
Rahkyt, I adore your post ... it feels like you were there!

[1inMany]

Oh.............My.............Gosh!

I just read the funniest thing ever! Okay, well, it has kept me giggling to myself for at least 30 minutes, and if anything does that I have to share it.

We can all rest better now. The United States Government has made the official announcement. Yesterday in fact.

Mermaids are not real.

BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yes, it really happened.

Much Love,

[dan33]

http://imagenes.estoescine.com/fondos/15122.jpg

[dan33]

MORE ABOUT THE INGO SWANN INCIDENT.

Some years after the "Supemarket Incident", i was in Costa Rica, working on a "remote viewing" at a secret underground city. I was relaxing in my room (Rica Costa Hotel. Room 405) when the phone says RIIIIIIIIIING!.

- Ingo? (the voice was unmistakable)
-Axelrod. how do you know I'm ..."here", ... did you talk to PurpleLama?
-Listen. I know you have the Carmody card on your wallet.
- I thought it will be....
- Burn the Carmody card. After 4 seconds you'll see a 3 number figure "inside" the card. Add this number to your phone number, dial ....and wait.


TO BE CONTINUED...

[778 neighbour of some guy]

MORE ABOUT THE INGO SWANN INCIDENT.

Some years after the "Supemarket Incident", i was in Costa Rica, working on a "remote viewing" at a secret underground city. I was relaxing in my room (Rica Costa Hotel. Room 405) when the phone says RIIIIIIIIIING!.

- Ingo? (the voice was unmistakable)
-Axelrod. how do you know I'm ..."here", ... did you talk to PurpleLama?
-Listen. I know you have the Carmody card on your wallet.
- I thought it will be....
- Burn the Carmody card. After 4 seconds you'll see a 3 number figure "inside" the card. Add this number to your phone number, dial ....and wait.


TO BE CONTINUED...

Thanx Dan,

Is this the second part or do i have to read back a couple of pages?


Ed

[Marianne]

Sitting in my car in the hot parking lot on lunch hour. A delivery truck drove out to the street and it put me back into a village dream I had last night only I can't bring it back. Maybe I'll get something more tonight.

Thinking of Nora and Little Dove and all the family.

Love to all,
JB

[778 neighbour of some guy]

From INGO SWANN "PENETRATION". Supermarket Scene.

In order to reduce shopping time, I gave Conrad a list of other comestibles. He went in the direction of meats, and I went in the direction of the vegies. The supermarket had huge tables loaded with artichokes-At one of the artichoke tables was standing a ravishing woman.

She was notable not so much for her excessive female physical endowments, but by the fact that they were barely covered. She was dressed in the briefest of halters of pink with big yellow polka dots. Beneath that were short-shorts so short they barely existed. Far beneath that she wore a pair of platform high-heels about eight inches high.

She had volumes of gorgeous black hair, and her eyes were covered by purple sunglasses. She was absolutely awesome.

I thought: “Good Heavens!!!"

She was rummaging through the artichokes, and I wanted some, too. So I worked my way covertly and nonchalantly into her proximity so I could closer appreciate her near-naked breasts. To make this look natural, with my eyes barely on them, I fumbled some selected artichokes into a bag. And then! For absolutely no reason at all I experienced an electrifying wave of goose-bumps throughout my whole body.

The hair on my arms practically stood at attention, and the hair on my neck definitely did. Without rime or reason or forethinking or anything at all I suddenly “knew" she was an alien, an extraterrestrial.

My throat went dry. My hand’s started shaking. And so I decided to back off and start examining the oranges and grapefruits for the fruit aspic Conrad and I were going to try to achieve. To get to the oranges, I had to turn - and then! Way down the line-up of vegetable cases I recognized, of ALL astounding and possible things, ONE OF THE TWINS!

HE was watching the woman. HE saw that I saw him, and then immediately arose in my mind an image of a white card: Please do not speak, and please act normal.

:cool:i am exited, cant wait for part three.

[778 neighbour of some guy]

KuIy5N3oPMM

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[PurpleLama]

I had a long, involved dream last night, but only brought the very last part back to recollection. In a field, close to a forest, I came upon one of my old framing counters, which I had to clean out my personal items, as I was leaving it behind, and I discovered a long forgotten envelope that contained a hundred dollar bill and some coins, much to my surprise.

This morning, at work, shortly after opening the store, the owner (who lives two hours drive away) comes walking in the door. She proceeds to give the most demoralizing pep talk she has ever given, and basically threatens all of our livlihoods. She said several times that one friday she will have to call and tell us to close the doors because she won't have the money to meet payroll. This coming from a woman who is a millionaire.

So, my Universe, lead the way, comes not from PerkyLama but ResolvedLama, as I know how the universe works and it does appear a change of scenery may be at hand. I am very good at what I do, but am bound by contract by this woman not or work at any similar business within fifty miles for two years after I stop working for her. Fortunately I already live twenty miles south of here, so looking further south it is! If I can manage to get my gardening to be productive enough, hell, I might just do that. Work wise, it's the only thing I've done that gives more satisfaction than the day job, anyway.

We shall see, and again, Universe, Lead the way!

[astrid]

PL I wish you were here I have some things i need
framing .
While I was away in Alice I purchased 3 pieces of art
and I would love them up in my new place
This week I will hunt for a framer
Either that or I will stretch them over a frame and just
have then as canvases as is usually what is done

Anyways your post has motivated me to get onto it
sooner than later
So thanks

[sirdipswitch]

PurpleLama

Seems to me, that if she closes the doors, and is no longer in business, then you would not be in competition with her, and would then be entirely free to go into the very same business yourself, in the very same town. hmm. Just something you might want check out. eh?

love and peace
sirdipswitch

[Marianne]

Welcome to the village, Sirdipswitch!

Make yourself at home.

Love,
JB

[Ernie Nemeth]

Hi all,

For me Tom was exactly opposite my experience, which kinda made sense to me. I liked the letting go an old dream part.

Otherwise its all work, here - and overtime, until further notice. Ten hour days, six days a week. Appetite has increased enormously. Putting on a bit of weight. Bills are paid, there's money in the kitty, too. So alls good. It has taken a certain mindset, that I dilligently apply all day. Kind of nice riding to work on the streetcar as the sun comes up over the downtown skycrappers. Cranes everywhere you look means lots of construction going on. But it's so hot, phew!

Little Alexis is still ill. I'm not sure if she is better at all. Judy, her mom, my sister, wrote me the first ever email describing the course of Alexis' treatment. I recommended Chiro and that is something the doctors are also saying. She's been to a lot of specialists and they simply do not know what is wrong with her. It's so sad, but I try and maintain a loving thought of her as much as possible.

But the connection is having other effects and Mary, my older sister, called me the next day. We don't talk much - this would have been the first contact since around January this year.
Then my neice called, Nicole, Mary's daughter. Nicole invited me to a diaper party for her brother, Aaron, whose wife is about to have a child.
I half expect my parents to call soon. But I did talk to my daughter and her mom, separately as well this week. Family dynamics really blows my mind. It is an area where I've always gone by feel. Now that I've learned this dynamics thing I see the effects of changes in the normal interplay. Maybe I'll use them more often...

So much has gone on in this thread of late that it is almost unprecedented. I had a bit of a bleedthrough at that most heated time with the contention that got stirred up. I PMed purplelama, without knowing anything had happened and said a few things that, oddly, included both the main people involved in that bit of nastiness.

I just wanted to Quickly add that I was so envious of Anotherbob, his insights, his language and sageness, and most of all his poetry. I'm just blown away by it. So I just wanted to say before I'm called for dinner, Bob I love your poetry and enjoy your accounts of your journeys and musings about life and life with Mazie.

So grand to see new faces and old friends joining in as well.

I'm so hungry and Val just called. Bye for now all.

Hugs.

[write4change]

I have been away a week and a half. Some not so good stuff happened. It was things I should have taken care of sooner but my fear got in the way. At least having to deal with it, showed me how much fear was justified or not. It cost me about 300 dollars more than it should have if I had just volunteered to take care of it. My thinking was so clouded I think I need a lawyer and I think it will cost me a lot more than 300 dollars. The one good thing about me is that I am persistant and I keep plugging and slowly but surely I am fixing everything.

I am writing this now most to tell what happened Tuesday night. I am still appalled. I don't know if I should blame myself totally or just the way people are now. Tuesday night it is about 10:30PM and very hot in Los Angeles and I have my front door open in the sense that only the barred door is locked and closed and thus you can see into my living room. I am on the computer. There is a knock on the door and I have no idea who this is or why but I go to the door and turn on all the lights. It is an older black woman with gray in her corn rows. She begs can you please help me I got off work and missed the last connecting bus and I can't go any further and I need to call my aunty to come and get me and my cell phone battery is down can I please please use your phone. I have empathy for what this is like so I let her in thinking she is only a little more adjile than I am.

She uses my phone and then asks if she can use the bathroom. I say let me get up and turn on the light because everything right now is highly clutterred. She comes back from the bathroom and says I really need a drink of water and so I get up again to go in the kitchen and get a bottle out of the frig. When I get back she says her aunty can't come now and could I please take her to a major intersection. This is after I refuse to take her to two different 24 hour stores. I agree to it. I take her and I get back and go to bed. In the morning I realize that while she was using the bathroom she took my watch and rings which I took off to take a bath. Then I realize that while I was in the kitchen getting water she went through my purse and took my coin purse for the laundry with about ten dollars in it. She also took two debit cards and she took another handmade expensive bracelet from the cocktail table.

I have now cleaned everything up so I can pay attention which I can't do with clutter. I am the only white person living within blocks and the hispanics never ask me for anything but the black people ask for money, medicine, food, etc. all the time. In the beginning, I was generous and tried to help and found the more I did the worse it got. So when I would stop they would retaliate in the strangest ways mostly embarassing stupid scenes. But I have more grit than they expected and I could and did get right back in their faces. We went some round with the police etc and they learned to leave me alone on a whole.

But after this last event, I am swearing never to help another black person for any reason. I cannot tell the good from the bad. What I do notice is that when I am in the grocery store or home depot or kmart parking lots, they approach me all the time but they do not approach their own and when they do--they are kicked to the curb. I am just really tired right now about the good the bad and the ugly. I really need to move out of the neighborhood. I am 7 blocks from where Rodney Kind was beatean but I have rent control and a private garage which is very rare. I moved from Santa Clarita so I could keep my independence. It was a rich area and the poor there are obviously targeted. I cannot believe how much this country targets the poor because the rich are unwilling to pay their fair share. Here in LA they just raised all the fines for parking, etc. All the things the poor get caught up in and then have their cars impounded for failing to pay etc. They just had a jubilee as the police call it sending squads out at night in groups to canvass the poor areas for expired plates etc. Just unbelievable what hoops they make the poor jump through and the contempt and bitterness displayed by all.

So all of this is just a part of my problems. I have no internet or phone at home and have no idea why. Cannot contact anyone that way. I am not behind in any of my bills etc. I recently purchased a new cell at Best Buy one with a reserve plan meaning you can purchase and store your months phone. After buying 4 cards at 50 dollars each and the sservice clerk scratches off all the numbers etc -- turns out the phone I purchased does not qualify for this plan----and so it goes. And that is not working so I have to go back down to best buy and the geeks. It will be a while before all this is straightened out.

Thank you for listening.

[DeDukshyn]

I think Jesus said - "if someone steals your pants - give him your shirt too" ... something like that. I think it was a lesson in "possessions" and judgement. I never read the verse but it has been preached to me a few times and it makes sense to me ... sorry to hear of your ordeal though ... take care! ;) Blessings!

Edit: Also, if someone is invited into your home .. you're allowed to watch them like a hawk, and if they ask to be alone anywhere in your house, ask to see their ID, or reserve the right to say no. You can still be trusting and safe at the same time - it is just a little more work ... my 2 cents ;)

[1inMany]

Thank you for listening.

Oh, Write, my heart breaks hearing about this. I lived in California years ago, but identify with your story more from my stay in the Dallas area. I am so glad you shared, and I'm terribly sorry this crap has happened. I am not racist by any means, but I understand what you are saying because it seems to me that sometimes a person not normally considered a minority is a minority amongst a larger particular ethnic group...and it seems the "difference" is taken advantage of. (If that makes sense) And on top of that, with all the inner-city buzz it is so hard to find anyone who is investigating spiritual or otherworldly happenings, let alone awakening in any way. I absolutely hate it that there are still places - everywhere actually - that one needs to keep an eye on people...watching for theft or being on the watch for others up to something. I think that is changing, personally...but not quickly enough.

I have no words of wisdom, but I do have a heart...and a shoulder for you...and will listen any time you need it.

Much Love to you,

[DeDukshyn]

Hi villagers,

I continued my attempts for astral travel tonight. I figured out a strategy for the prevention of the frustration road, that seems to be working.
Much more relaxation exercises and much less willpower in my efforts :).
It seems that a part of my is really afraid of all this. When I enter the first stage of astral travel, 'the vibrational state', I become a little hyperventilational like. My heart rate rises to 120 or so and my breathing becomes real quick. So I've got to solve this blockade somehow and I think the best way to go is just to keep on trying and let everything that arises come to me without judgement or an attempt to get rid of it.

Anyway... I just fell asleep in the end and woke up this morning... My dreams were vivid though and all about showering, brushing teeth and get dressed.. weird I thought.. Until I realised that this was something in me that was trying to wake me up in the dream. Everything was about my waking up rituals in 3D. When I figured that out I just laughed... so funny how that works!

There is not a fixed time for learning to astral travel, but many people seem to have their first success in about a month.


@ Marianne..... I pray for you mother.

@ Ulli... holiday pics please :)

Oh and yesterday I read about 9eagle9, how she seems to have landed in another time line where she suddenly didn't plant any squash, because all the plants have disappeared out of her garden. Couldn't help but think about where PurpleLama was, the night they disappeared ;)

Just about missed this post .. thanks for the update, and yes I agree - no time-frame for learning to astral travel. I feel similar - I feel it is very important, but the urgency is lower down on the scale. I read somewhere here on Avalon - an important post way back - maybe by Jake, that (paraphrased) if only the masses could be taught to astral travel ... everything else would fall into place ... so true. ;)

Keep us posted on your travels! I'm still working on mine - if I get anything cool to report back - it will be done!

And BTW all of you who know me as DeDukshyn - My name is Mike, it's easier to write ;)

[DeDukshyn]

Just had Rainbows, hail / thunder / lightning and Sun all in a single session!! Yeah baby!! Yeah!!! I loooove nature ;)

[DeBron]

Rubbing my legs from the Peachtree Road Race. 6 miles of people cheering, running, and just having a good time. Definitely will do that again.

[DeDukshyn]

Rubbing my legs from the Peachtree Road Race. 6 miles of people cheering, running, and just having a good time. Definitely will do that again.

Sounds great! 6 miles? you have my respect! ;) Excellent and congrats! ;)

[Anchor]

Thank you for listening.

No problem.

What is going to happen to us, is going to happen to us. The best any of us can do is hope that we can move through the experience with as much grace as possible and learn as much as possible.

You honor us with the opportunity to experience your dance vicariously.



---
I posted this a few pages back...
---
You are not part of a material universe.
You are part of a thought.
You are dancing in a ballroom in which there is no material.
You are dancing thoughts.
You move your body, your mind, and your spirit in somewhat eccentric patterns for you have not completely grasped the concept that you are part of the original thought.

(link) (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=516187&viewfull=1#post516187)
---

Whenever I find myself loosing my perspective that "all is well" I come back to this passage from the Law Of One:

"In truth there is no right or wrong. There is no polarity for all will be, as you would say, reconciled at some point in your dance through the mind/body/spirit complex which you amuse yourself by distorting in various ways at this time. This distortion is not in any case necessary. It is chosen by each of you as an alternative to understanding the complete unity of thought which binds all things. You are not speaking of similar or somewhat like entities or things. You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, light/love. You are. This is the Law of One."

And if I am lucky, in that recollection, I glimpse for a quanta of perception the divine order in things and the simple fact that this is all how I wanted it to be - no matter how hard things get.

[DeDukshyn]

Its easy to miss posts on this thread without realizing it ... so thanks to Anchor for posting a refresher link, and JB - the soup was incredible (keep in mind I'm a big fan of fresh dill ;-) -- on my list of regulars for sure, although it still needs a little refining. Next time I make Zumma borscht, I'll keep record and post my recipe (Which is pretty much grandma's - doesn't get better)

[Mark]

IBut after this last event, I am swearing never to help another black person for any reason.

That's too bad. I hope your life gets better.

[Carmody]

IBut after this last event, I am swearing never to help another black person for any reason.

That's too bad. I hope your life gets better.

Yes, good or bad comes in all shapes and sizes, etc.

[Mark]

am not racist by any means, but I understand what you are saying because it seems to me that sometimes a person not normally considered a minority is a minority amongst a larger particular ethnic group...and it seems the "difference" is taken advantage of. (If that makes sense) And on top of that, with all the inner-city buzz it is so hard to find anyone who is investigating spiritual or otherworldly happenings, let alone awakening in any way. I absolutely hate it that there are still places - everywhere actually - that one needs to keep an eye on people...watching for theft or being on the watch for others up to something. I think that is changing, personally...but not quickly enough.

Yes. It's funny, I just left a thread where someone said Adam in the bible was the beginning of the white race and I had to ask if they really believed that. Not that it matters, I don't mind what anybody believes, nor does W's comment offend me personally.

While her experience and her feelings after seem extreme, I totally understand where she is coming from. I think a lot of people have bad experiences with particular kinds of people and they hold it against the rest of them for the rest of their lives. They can't tell the good from the bad. It's sad to see that happen but it does, more often than a lot of people would be comfortable saying.

A lot of black people feel the same way about white people. They don't trust a one of 'em. Life experience has shown them that they are indeed at the bottom of the social rung. This is probably a version of that same thing that W's feeling. These people have gone thru that same experience emotively if not in exact replication of the event; of losing jobs, or being taken advantage of, of being put down, looked down upon. And so they see W and they think, I'm taking this one. The thing is, tho', W was seen as a mark. Being kind-hearted was why she got taken. If the black folks in their neighborhood didn't know better and kick them to the curb from the getgo, they would get taken too.

Drugs are a terrible thing. Living in poverty is a terrible thing. Being stuck in a city and being in pure survival mode all the time can make you lose touch with your soul. The loss of empathy is the last sign that you're heart has hardened and these times are so terrible a whole lotta hearts have grown hard as rocks, no matter the ethnicity.

Something has to change.

[Carmody]

am not racist by any means, but I understand what you are saying because it seems to me that sometimes a person not normally considered a minority is a minority amongst a larger particular ethnic group...and it seems the "difference" is taken advantage of. (If that makes sense) And on top of that, with all the inner-city buzz it is so hard to find anyone who is investigating spiritual or otherworldly happenings, let alone awakening in any way. I absolutely hate it that there are still places - everywhere actually - that one needs to keep an eye on people...watching for theft or being on the watch for others up to something. I think that is changing, personally...but not quickly enough.

Yes. It's funny, I just left a thread where someone said Adam in the bible was the beginning of the white race and I had to ask if they really believed that. Not that it matters, I don't mind what anybody believes, nor does W's comment offend me personally.

While her experience and her feelings after seem extreme, I totally understand where she is coming from. I think a lot of people have bad experiences with particular kinds of people and they hold it against the rest of them for the rest of their lives. They can't tell the good from the bad. It's sad to see that happen but it does, more often than a lot of people would be comfortable saying.

A lot of black people feel the same way about white people. They don't trust a one of 'em. Life experience has shown them that they are indeed at the bottom of the social rung. This is probably a version of that same thing that W's feeling. These people have gone thru that same experience emotively if not in exact replication of the event; of losing jobs, or being taken advantage of, of being put down, looked down upon. And so they see W and they think, I'm taking this one. The thing is, tho', W was seen as a mark. Being kind-hearted was why she got taken. If the black folks in their neighborhood didn't know better and kick them to the curb from the getgo, they would get taken too.

Drugs are a terrible thing. Living in poverty is a terrible thing. Being stuck in a city and being in pure survival mode all the time can make you lose touch with your soul. The loss of empathy is the last sign that you're heart has hardened and these times are so terrible a whole lotta hearts have grown hard as rocks, no matter the ethnicity.

Something has to change.

i have native friends. I've been targeted by natives..or in a 'white' crowd..found a few of them targeting natives. And so on. Only as a kid though, while growing up in a given town. I'd never be around anyone, as a friend..who was even remotely of such a leaning. In this life, I am of mixed ethnicity.

In the last, well.... what might be termed humanoid, but alien to humans. Prior to that, Louisiana Indian/French. 'makes no nevermind', as they say.

[astrid]

new from Hang Massive

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[meeradas]

While I was away in Alice

triggered this:

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Thanks Astrid - for the reminder

It's a good life, with music.

Here's the original:

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[ViralSpiral]

Great pics everyone!! Thanks for sharing.

And the music! That last Hang Massive was HUGE :)

Write4change - thats a real shame. I am sorry it happened. Hoʻoponopono


http://www.ymcacambridgekw.ca/en/culturaldiversity/resources/diversity.jpg





I was born and grew up in apartheid South Africa. Many people saw through the system. Like this band that is now on auto-replay in my head :cool:



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p.s. latest doodle

[astrid]

MOre

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and @meeradas, i used to see the Oils live when they first started,
they were incredible.

[meeradas]

i used to see the Oils live when they first started, they were incredible.

I bet they were!
We played everything up to "Red Sails..." in the bar i worked in [in Berlin/ the 80s].
Am re-listening to all of it now. Good times.

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PS: Looking fwd to see this one: http://www.shihadmovie.com/

[Belle]

IBut after this last event, I am swearing never to help another black person for any reason.

That's too bad. I hope your life gets better.

Yes, good or bad comes in all shapes and sizes, etc.

So sorry for your experience, write. I'm really sorry you feel that way.


"That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained..."

—English translation of 1963 Speech delivered to the United Nations by Haile Selassie I (Ras Tafari) and popularized in a song called War by Bob Marley.

[ulli]

I had a long, involved dream last night, but only brought the very last part back to recollection. In a field, close to a forest, I came upon one of my old framing counters, which I had to clean out my personal items, as I was leaving it behind, and I discovered a long forgotten envelope that contained a hundred dollar bill and some coins, much to my surprise.

This morning, at work, shortly after opening the store, the owner (who lives two hours drive away) comes walking in the door. She proceeds to give the most demoralizing pep talk she has ever given, and basically threatens all of our livlihoods. She said several times that one friday she will have to call and tell us to close the doors because she won't have the money to meet payroll. This coming from a woman who is a millionaire.

So, my Universe, lead the way, comes not from PerkyLama but ResolvedLama, as I know how the universe works and it does appear a change of scenery may be at hand. I am very good at what I do, but am bound by contract by this woman not or work at any similar business within fifty miles for two years after I stop working for her. Fortunately I already live twenty miles south of here, so looking further south it is! If I can manage to get my gardening to be productive enough, hell, I might just do that. Work wise, it's the only thing I've done that gives more satisfaction than the day job, anyway.

We shall see, and again, Universe, Lead the way!

It WILL work out for you, and you have the Villagers to back you up.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZWyj3SMx3ZUSGybSHK3uDWMTrfmV4DrhxWYU60_ojgqckjapXRQ

[1inMany]

Good Morning,

I know I have posted this before, but it seems rather fitting this morning.

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Much Love,

[1inMany]

Please allow me a blast from the past:

M9BNoNFKCBI

[1inMany]

tbZDjnWtK1A

[1inMany]

Last one...I swear ;)

bvFLKyAGzzI

Peace,

[benevolentcrow]

Sorry for your experience Write4change. I hope you soften at some point. Never say never. One experience could change your outlook again. Many blessings sent your way.

And a child shall lead them.

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid,
and the calf and the lion and the fatling together,
and a little child shall lead them.

[PurpleLama]

You betcha.




I had a long, involved dream last night, but only brought the very last part back to recollection. In a field, close to a forest, I came upon one of my old framing counters, which I had to clean out my personal items, as I was leaving it behind, and I discovered a long forgotten envelope that contained a hundred dollar bill and some coins, much to my surprise.

This morning, at work, shortly after opening the store, the owner (who lives two hours drive away) comes walking in the door. She proceeds to give the most demoralizing pep talk she has ever given, and basically threatens all of our livlihoods. She said several times that one friday she will have to call and tell us to close the doors because she won't have the money to meet payroll. This coming from a woman who is a millionaire.

So, my Universe, lead the way, comes not from PerkyLama but ResolvedLama, as I know how the universe works and it does appear a change of scenery may be at hand. I am very good at what I do, but am bound by contract by this woman not or work at any similar business within fifty miles for two years after I stop working for her. Fortunately I already live twenty miles south of here, so looking further south it is! If I can manage to get my gardening to be productive enough, hell, I might just do that. Work wise, it's the only thing I've done that gives more satisfaction than the day job, anyway.

We shall see, and again, Universe, Lead the way!

It WILL work out for you, and you have the Villagers to back you up.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZWyj3SMx3ZUSGybSHK3uDWMTrfmV4DrhxWYU60_ojgqckjapXRQ

[dan33]

Interesting :cool:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?44393-Thrive-What-On-Earth-Will-It-Take&p=476717&viewfull=1#post476717

[Mark]

In the Village,
Souls weep, creep and fly
across skies soaring through illusory ties
to Earth
a rebirth of community
the decision to live in unity
despite the tribulations of life's surprises
love realizes we're all of one heart.

In the Village,
experience calls
laughter transcends and hate stalls
while manatees solemnly imbibe
and cat tribes meow in delight
recipes of life bless
lives lived in the Light
leaving behind scenes of fright
opening sublime discourse of
wrong vs right

In the Village,
people are real
still learning still making mistakes
but ever yearning to be
the totality of who they are
free from the banality of fallen
stars ...

In the Village.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17292&d=1341599400

[Belle]

That was absolutely beautiful, Rahkyt. You actually brought tears to my eyes with your poetry...that you see us in such Light, capturing the spirit of the Village so well.

Love you, Brother (if I may call you that)...and love to all Villagers.

Now where are those tissues......

[mojo]

You write wonderfully Rahkyt and I've noticed a real positive outlook where you post....thanks

[ulli]

In the Village,
Souls weep, creep and fly
across skies soaring through illusory ties
to Earth
a rebirth of community
the decision to live in unity
despite the tribulations of life's surprises
love realizes we're all of one heart.

In the Village,
experience calls
laughter transcends and hate stalls
while manatees solemnly imbibe
and cat tribes meow in delight
recipes of life bless
lives lived in the Light
leaving behind scenes of fright
opening sublime discourse of
wrong vs right

In the Village,
people are real
still learning still making mistakes
but ever yearning to be
the totality of who they are
free from the banality of fallen
stars ...

In the Village.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17292&d=1341599400

That was very very nice, Rahkyt. And I'm happy that the thread is being kept alive by such as yourself, and all the others.
I would miss this Village so much if ever there was an Internet interruption...
lets not even think such a horrible thought.

I'm just coming down from my travel high and needed a long nap. Tropical climate drains energy,
and yesterday was also the busiest day ever, with settling in, on the phone to friends,
going out to lunch with my grandsons, doing my jewelry business, picking up a new client who has a great shop
on the south coast of the island.
In the evening I was invited by my son's parents-in-law to a huge function hosted at the Venezuelan Embassy here...
their Independence Day. With a traditional ensemble called Trapiche. Had fun.

[dan33]

RUSSIAN OMELETTE from the movie AIRBAG.

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[Lisab]

So glad your having fun Ulli. rahknyt so beautiful. Thankyou. Your presence in the village is soothing. So glad your back our prodigal one!!
Miss Calz and Mod.

[dan33]

Yes, wonderful. Thanks Rahykt.

Like the picture you choose.

[ulli]

This group I saw last night was recently formed. Not everyone's taste.
Only one Video on Youtube, with just 98 views so far.
It looks like they recorded it in a mall, and not dressed up like last night, on that big stage.
The music is South American village music,
with more Flamenco influence from Spain, than indigenous. Cute dancers.

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[another bob]

I have been away a week and a half. Some not so good stuff happened. ...Thank you for listening.


Greetings, Dear Villagers and All Various and Assorted Visible and Invisible Sentient Beings!

I have been pre-occupied with a gaggle of in-laws lately, but did feel moved to respond to Write4Change.


Hello W!

Of course, you have to go with what feels right to you, but if I may, I'd like to offer another perspective or two on the situation within which you have found yourself entagled, and thoughtfully shared with us here. I have often said that everything that comes our way is both a gift and a test. Unquestionably, sometimes it might not look anything like an actual gift, but I mean "gift" in the sense of an opportunity provided for us to grow and evolve.

That's also the reason for life tests -- to bring buried stuff to the surface and show us something about ourselves that may have been previously obscured by mind's habitual superimpositions. The fruit of these gifts/tests will be unique to each. For example, maybe it was time to learn something about mindfulness, maybe about trust, maybe about clinging to possessions, or any number of other possibilities. Only you will know, by inquiring into your own reactivity. Wherever the reactions stick, that shows us where we still have work yet to do.

From another angle, this kind of experience you have recently been put through might even provide an opportunity to pay off old debts, in the sense of ripening karma. One attitude, when faced with apparently difficult situations like being robbed, is to consider that this may be pay-back for transgressions we ourselves once committed, and so be glad that the scales are finally being balanced in that regard. For anyone who has ever finally paid off a credit card debt, there's a certain satisfaction and relief that comes with the experience.

There are no random events in consciousness, and none of us are excused from the results of past deeds. Although it's pointless to speculate "why", or to try and trace back to the origination of any effect, be assured that there is a law in play in this realm, and whether we agree or not, it is a just one. Seeds planted will come to fruit, and that is unavoidable. What is avoidable is the suffering we attach to the play of karmic functioning.

Upon inspection, we can observe that this suffering arises simultaneous with our clinging to the sense of "me" and "mine". With the fixation of identity on the "me story", we will inevitably have to deal with the "other story". With the appearance of "the other", fear arises. It really doesn't matter what skin color or socio-economic class the other happens to represent. That is all just costume and prop. What matters is the conditioned fantasy of interpretation on perception that creates the sense of separation in consciousness, and consequent urge to protect and defend what's "mine". By penetrating that fiction, the sense of a suffering self (victim) that arises in any experience like yours can be seen through and transcended.

And yes, it's easy enough to say, but hard to do. That's one of the main reasons we keep coming back to these kinds of situations, and will keep coming back -- until every nook and cranny of our being that would have us believe we are the victim is illuminated by a love that carries us beyond entrenched and limiting concepts like "me vs them", and grants us the direct recognition that, regardless of what may seem to be the case at any given moment, all is well.

Finally, just to round out the consideration, there is the Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they said sympathetically.

"May be," the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. "How wonderful," the neighbors exclaimed.

"May be," replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.

"May be," answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.

"May be," said the farmer.


Blessings!

[dan33]

Thanks meeradas.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17273&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1341053481


From 3:50 to 3:56 you can listen a PurpleLama sound Effect
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[Mark]

RUSSIAN OMELETTE from the movie AIRBAG.

Ok Dan, that clip was hilarious.

Great souls in this space, it's a privilege to share it with you each.

Ulli, the band was awesome! That music makes you want to get up and dance even if you don't know how!

AB, the clarity of your expression remains transcendent.

Bless!

[eaglespirit]

Coming Together, Going Solo, Bringing Love, Leaving Love, Taking Love...
One by One By One...Together, Now...
Endlessly
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/w3wRJ0mXfGY/0.jpg!

[dan33]

RUSSIAN OMELETTE from the movie AIRBAG.

Ok Dan, that clip was hilarious.

Great souls in this space, it's a privilege to share it with you each.



Ulli, the band was awesome! That music makes you want to get up and dance even if you don't know how!

AB, the clarity of your expression remains transcendent.

Bless!

You can see below Carlos Arguiñano. A great Chef. He was the producer of Airbag.

(Oye, Rahykt!, vente a Bilbao y nos tomamos tu y yo unos vinitos y unas tortillas.) :)

5MtHsCX09yA

[Sierra]

In the Village,
Souls weep, creep and fly
across skies soaring through illusory ties
to Earth
a rebirth of community
the decision to live in unity
despite the tribulations of life's surprises
love realizes we're all of one heart.

In the Village,
experience calls
laughter transcends and hate stalls
while manatees solemnly imbibe
and cat tribes meow in delight
recipes of life bless
lives lived in the Light
leaving behind scenes of fright
opening sublime discourse of
wrong vs right

In the Village,
people are real
still learning still making mistakes
but ever yearning to be
the totality of who they are
free from the banality of fallen
stars ...

In the Village.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17292&d=1341599400

Loved your poem, loved your picture. Tears in my eyes. :hug:

Sierra

[Mark]

That lil twilight village looks so inviting, doesn't it? Just like this space. Bless, sistren!

[astrid]

Chocolate moose anyone??

CAsYwW7pt7o

[astrid]

Speaking of food,
I'm thinking of doing another fast, just a short one.
The last few weeks with the moving and all,
my eating habits had lapsed into some questionable fast foods.
Which means that I'm now back with those awful cravings for carbs, ugh.

I figure a week should do it.
This weekend I'm aiming to also set up my practitioner space, so i will
use the next two days to prep.

So far the unpacking is going ok, I'm having fun setting up my kitchen,
as i have loads of retro things, that i didn't really get to display much in
all my Victorian houses.

I'm more thinking here to use loads of color, a bit like a Pedro Almodavar, Film set,
the kitchen has these shelves with curly brackets, which straight away made me
think "Spanish restaurant".

[778 neighbour of some guy]

Chocolate moose anyone??

CAsYwW7pt7o

Thank you so much, you just made my night worthwhile here at work, heeheehee:cool:

lf3BNRF9ICc

[astrid]

popcorn anyone???

B7UmUX68KtE

[astrid]

ohhh Beaker was my second favorite

hA4TiL9L0hc

[Belle]

What a day. I've been so in sync with the ebb flow of the Village today, it's almost scary.

Astrid started it with the Hang Massive video...that music takes me to a gentle, loving, peaceful place inside...love it.

After posting the quote from Haile Selassie I, just had to visit youtube for Marley's "War"...it was "Redemption Song" that kept me humming until...

1inMany's vid's. "Imagine" by Playing for Change...an assured lump in my throat every time.

Then benevolentcrow just had to attach that DIVERSITY thumbnail...

By the time I read Rahkyt's poem...guess what happened? Yep...heart fell out...opened so wide it could not contain the love within and became a part of All. The feelings of Oneness, Unity and Love were so overwhelming...the giving and receiving all at once. Words can't describe...well, other than blubbering like an idiot for a while...

After pulling it together with as much dignity as I could muster, lo and behold, there's dan33's RUSSIAN OMELET...giggles.

Ulli's foot tapping flamenco...

AB's words to write that included one of my favorite stories...the one about the farmer...

almost lost it again at eaglespirit's love spiral,

but saved by the muppets video's.

Laughter, nice ending.

What a ride!...emotions at the very surface today riding the waves created by the Village.

God, I love this place!

Love you all.

[another bob]

VdKM_RJXmKM

[Unified Serenity]

I just love the Spanish Guitar and pan pipes, relaxing to some songs:

rQKCiuSR2F8

0FUSKO_6NFA

[WhiteFeather]

May the longtime sun shine upon you. All love surround you. And the pure, pure light that's within you Guide your way home.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gexkiDmQa9I&list=UUZk0uuH_RXwu2WMK7mocpvQ&index=7&feature=plcp

[write4change]

am not racist by any means, but I understand what you are saying because it seems to me that sometimes a person not normally considered a minority is a minority amongst a larger particular ethnic group...and it seems the "difference" is taken advantage of. (If that makes sense) And on top of that, with all the inner-city buzz it is so hard to find anyone who is investigating spiritual or otherworldly happenings, let alone awakening in any way. I absolutely hate it that there are still places - everywhere actually - that one needs to keep an eye on people...watching for theft or being on the watch for others up to something. I think that is changing, personally...but not quickly enough.

Yes. It's funny, I just left a thread where someone said Adam in the bible was the beginning of the white race and I had to ask if they really believed that. Not that it matters, I don't mind what anybody believes, nor does W's comment offend me personally.

While her experience and her feelings after seem extreme, I totally understand where she is coming from. I think a lot of people have bad experiences with particular kinds of people and they hold it against the rest of them for the rest of their lives. They can't tell the good from the bad. It's sad to see that happen but it does, more often than a lot of people would be comfortable saying.

A lot of black people feel the same way about white people. They don't trust a one of 'em. Life experience has shown them that they are indeed at the bottom of the social rung. This is probably a version of that same thing that W's feeling. These people have gone thru that same experience emotively if not in exact replication of the event; of losing jobs, or being taken advantage of, of being put down, looked down upon. And so they see W and they think, I'm taking this one. The thing is, tho', W was seen as a mark. Being kind-hearted was why she got taken. If the black folks in their neighborhood didn't know better and kick them to the curb from the getgo, they would get taken too.

Drugs are a terrible thing. Living in poverty is a terrible thing. Being stuck in a city and being in pure survival mode all the time can make you lose touch with your soul. The loss of empathy is the last sign that you're heart has hardened and these times are so terrible a whole lotta hearts have grown hard as rocks, no matter the ethnicity.

Something has to change.

I spent several hours with a black woman today I met a few weeks ago in Goodwill that I took home because she could not make it on the bus and I also treated her to lunch. We had a long talk about what is going on in the neighborhood and what our backgrounds are--we are about the same age. I told her what happened and how I just have to move etc.

I have started doing design work again and it takes some time to get oriented to whose who and what the going rates and prices are. In LA even set designers go to Goodwill first and work our way down. We also do a lot of business with Ross and Marshall's because they have such an easy exchange and refund policy so you don't have to eat things that don't work.

She has recently taken over a flower shop as an antique collectible place. It has been unused for 15 years and is part of big complex also much underutilized. So they are giving it to her free for a year to see what she can do with it. It also has a big one bedroom in the back of the store that needs an enormous amount of repair. So we are discussing it all and tomorrow we are going to one of her contacts for cut glass and I will take her to one of mine for reupholstery.

What she essentially said is there is a Grand Canyon between middle class blacks and ghetto blacks and no one seems to want to recognize the problem much less deal with it.

So while I sounded bad, I think I remain not racist. As I said to her I put my life on the line in many ways even with my parents for pushing integration of recreation facilities on military basis. In 1961, I was elected the first girl president of the youth of the chapel. That is where I first met black people we could pray and sing together just not swim, recreate or go to movies together. This is where I learned all the sterotypes of black people I had been taught was wrong.

I also added that I have come to realize that while I would still die for Sidney Poitier--I will not give the time of day to Dennis Rodman and she said she understood exactly what I meant.

Any way life and the discusssion goes on. I now have my phone back up. The internet at the office. Need phone at the office and internet at home. Still working on it.

[write4change]

I have been away a week and a half. Some not so good stuff happened. ...Thank you for listening.


Greetings, Dear Villagers and All Various and Assorted Visible and Invisible Sentient Beings!

I have been pre-occupied with a gaggle of in-laws lately, but did feel moved to respond to Write4Change.


Hello W!

Of course, you have to go with what feels right to you, but if I may, I'd like to offer another perspective or two on the situation within which you have found yourself entagled, and thoughtfully shared with us here. I have often said that everything that comes our way is both a gift and a test. Unquestionably, sometimes it might not look anything like an actual gift, but I mean "gift" in the sense of an opportunity provided for us to grow and evolve.

That's also the reason for life tests -- to bring buried stuff to the surface and show us something about ourselves that may have been previously obscured by mind's habitual superimpositions. The fruit of these gifts/tests will be unique to each. For example, maybe it was time to learn something about mindfulness, maybe about trust, maybe about clinging to possessions, or any number of other possibilities. Only you will know, by inquiring into your own reactivity. Wherever the reactions stick, that shows us where we still have work yet to do.

From another angle, this kind of experience you have recently been put through might even provide an opportunity to pay off old debts, in the sense of ripening karma. One attitude, when faced with apparently difficult situations like being robbed, is to consider that this may be pay-back for transgressions we ourselves once committed, and so be glad that the scales are finally being balanced in that regard. For anyone who has ever finally paid off a credit card debt, there's a certain satisfaction and relief that comes with the experience.

There are no random events in consciousness, and none of us are excused from the results of past deeds. Although it's pointless to speculate "why", or to try and trace back to the origination of any effect, be assured that there is a law in play in this realm, and whether we agree or not, it is a just one. Seeds planted will come to fruit, and that is unavoidable. What is avoidable is the suffering we attach to the play of karmic functioning.

Upon inspection, we can observe that this suffering arises simultaneous with our clinging to the sense of "me" and "mine". With the fixation of identity on the "me story", we will inevitably have to deal with the "other story". With the appearance of "the other", fear arises. It really doesn't matter what skin color or socio-economic class the other happens to represent. That is all just costume and prop. What matters is the conditioned fantasy of interpretation on perception that creates the sense of separation in consciousness, and consequent urge to protect and defend what's "mine". By penetrating that fiction, the sense of a suffering self (victim) that arises in any experience like yours can be seen through and transcended.

And yes, it's easy enough to say, but hard to do. That's one of the main reasons we keep coming back to these kinds of situations, and will keep coming back -- until every nook and cranny of our being that would have us believe we are the victim is illuminated by a love that carries us beyond entrenched and limiting concepts like "me vs them", and grants us the direct recognition that, regardless of what may seem to be the case at any given moment, all is well.

Finally, just to round out the consideration, there is the Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they said sympathetically.

"May be," the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. "How wonderful," the neighbors exclaimed.

"May be," replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.

"May be," answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.

"May be," said the farmer.


Blessings!

I started teaching at 20 at an all black high school in South San Antonio. I understood a lot of the problems then and I still understand a lot of the problems now. I always always ask what is my part in this.

I have not yet decided if writing about what people usually do not want to attend to is a valid theory or not. I am not impulisve and I have the willingness to contiue to learn and let things play out. I read you a lot and give some serious thinking to a lot of your posts.

What remains true right now is that I feel I no longer have the time nor the money to risk in a way that there is nothing to be accomplished by the doing right now. I tend to say yes more than no and somethimes saying no is claiming and retaining your power not throwing it away. Right now I feel like I have spent too much of my time throwing a way my power which is not why I was given it in the first place. Throwing away power is being irresponsible.

I spent the whole next day cleaning the house when before I felt too exhausted to do so and I was the only one dealing with it. Clutter starting to board on chaos. There is no focus in chaos which is why this could occur. While I have cleaned up my part in that--I still feel a fool to open the door and for sure none of my neighbors would have.

How bad is the world. Tonight at 6PM coming back from eating I am on the far left side first in front of the stop light. The light is green. Before I can go--a car crosses in front of me and hits the motorcylist---a young man--that is on my right. The motorcylist flies up and over and bike slides a 1oo feet away. The guy is writhing on the ground. No one is doing anything. So I put the car in park and look at everybody in their cars and pantomine dial the police and emts and I go to the guy. The cars all start honking. I talk to him--tell him I am a retired nurse. He is injured but not in danger of dying on the spot. I have seen some of those. The cars are still honking so when I get confirmation calls are made and people are now coming over. I get back in my car and drive off with these guys still honking.

The price of caring seems to be too much of everything--even time. I am exhausted.

[another bob]

The price of caring seems to be too much of everything--even time. I am exhausted.

Dear W,

Sounds like you've been on the front lines long enough. Perhaps it's time for retreat, to restore your spirit, and regain your intrinsic power. When we're that exhausted from the struggle, it's much more difficult to make proper judgments, and that's when we tend to make mistakes. If you can find a place to rest and restore your balance, even to be nurtured, that would certainly be helpful. The more challenging times are immediately ahead of us, and we need to be strong and prepared to weather them. We need to understand the true source of our power, and realize it is always with us.

Moreover, there is great Help always available, but we need to ask for it. Each of us is surrounded by that Help, but a particular letting go of fixed beliefs is often necessary. The world is neither good nor bad. Those are notions we are perpetually carrying around that weigh us down and wear us out, because they are the ideas born of a mind that perpetuates ceaseless conflict and division. That very mind needs to be investigated, to see if what appears to be the case (that the world is bad) is really so, but to do so requires some strength and concentration.

If I could be with you now I would offer you a good massage, and a warm cup of tea. Since I cannot, all I can offer you is my prayer and intent that you are able to find a way to restore yourself, tap into your Help, maybe get out of the fray for awhile, and find some nurturing, maybe in nature, or perhaps with a healing community. If none of those options are possible, at least know that you have support here in this Village, and that means more than most of us realize.

Blessings!

[ViralSpiral]

May the longtime sun shine upon you. All love surround you. And the pure, pure light that's within you Guide your way home.

gexkiDmQa9I




One of my favourite Irish blessings, and mantra singers! Thank you for bringing her voice to the here and now!

♥♥♥


Abu Camp, Botswana, 2010

[meeradas]

Please allow me a blast from the past: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI

OMG,
One, after you posted these...
i must post this one here:

0sHaQxEMM_g

[Arrgh... forgive me]

[ulli]

May the longtime sun shine upon you. All love surround you. And the pure, pure light that's within you Guide your way home.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gexkiDmQa9I&list=UUZk0uuH_RXwu2WMK7mocpvQ&index=7&feature=plcp


Happy Avalon Anniversary, WhiteFeather.
You are are great contributor, bringing shipments of good vibes, consistently.

[ulli]

Please allow me a blast from the past: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI

OMG,
One, after you posted these...
i must post this one here:

0sHaQxEMM_g


[Arrgh... forgive me]


Arrgh has forgiven you. Weird experience it was...not a bad song, and quite well produced.
But to think I once had hair like that...
Shudder.
Somehow I was reminded of those Madame boutiques that call themselves "Elegance", yet
never quite get there.

[meeradas]

But to think I once had hair like that...
Shudder.

Who hadn't? [Arrgh, again... still have on my ancient motorbike license]
Yes, this is a bit "Spinal Tap (http://youtu.be/NeGteg74mjw)"...

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'Nuff now!

[ulli]

What she essentially said is there is a Grand Canyon between middle class blacks and ghetto blacks and no one seems to want to recognize the problem much less deal with it.



It's an educational issue, and exists in all parts of the planet, and has nothing to do with race.
If the Hispanics in the US are less inclined to rip people off, it's because they are immigrants who have already decided to take charge of their lives. That puts them a notch higher on the food chain, and is the first step towards true middle class life styles.
But if you visit Central America you will see the same problem, literally, there are deep canyons, river gorges, and on one side is the ghetto, and on the other are expensive modern condos and stately mansions with three car garages.
And many people are trying to do something about it, generation after generation. But few real results.
Bottom line is teen pregnancies, with absent or often violent fathers and mothers who indulge their sons and mistreat their daughters, who become emotionally deprived and as a result become pregnant at 15 just because they need someone to touch them.
Whats strange is that all have TV and cell phones. The TV shows teach them what they are missing out on,
which is confirmed every time that look at the view across the canyon.
Meanwhile on the other side people have all the money, but a horrible view,
one which only serves as a reminder of their worst fears, to slip back into poverty.
There will always be poor people on this planet, its the law of diversity, and they exist to test the rest of us.
The current extreme starvation and homelessness poverty is a symptom of a dying dualistic culture.

The only answer is not to wait for a corporation to come in and open sweat shops, but for ordinary middle class folks to employ poor people directly as staff as soon as one has a decent job. We spend $1000 a month on workmen we don't need, just to provide families with a basic income. And still, before they are thirty years old they have four children, perpetuating their dire straights situation.
Nowadays what makes matters worse is that the wealthy no longer want a house with large grounds, as that would mean having to deal with, God forbid, "workers", who might not want to work but will show up for work on pay day.

[ulli]

ViralSpiral,
Your Africa pictures are so good. Hey, what about making an album on your profile page?

[ulli]

Today's NextWorldTV

There are ordinances that allow for keeping goats in certain
cities in the US. The laws on the books in Berkeley, CA
were simply never updated since 1918 so the lucky homesteaders
never had to fight for it.

Mateo Rutherford describes the cyclical agriculture. "There
is no such thing in nature as waste.  Our garden's trash is
our goats' treasure, and our goats trash is our garden's
treasure.  You can't buy soil this rich."

Denver, Hillsborogh, OR and many more cities are fighting for
The right to keep goats in the city.
http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/urban-initiatives/urban-goats.html

[PurpleLama]

In last nights dream, I was in my yard at twilight and the plants I've been tending had grown so huge, larger than life, as they say.

[1inMany]

Good Morning , Village :)

Woke up to Mama's wild kisses this morning. It's cool to see the love radiating from her, but I do wish she understood "okay, that's enough, I love you, too." I cannot bring myself to make phone calls about her, but it is becoming necessary. The sores on the back of her neck are not going away. She has been eating - a LOT actually - but no so much that I suspect worms. She ate 5 cups of food the other day, in comparison Devin eats 2-3. She is a little smaller than he is, but she is solid...heavy! She is drying up from her puppies, she must have just had them when she found us. She is getting protective, standing in the driveway barking at invisible intruders. But the whining...I wish I knew the reason so I could help somehow. I did learn an important lesson yesterday, don't let Devin out until her food is gone...

There is this bird, quite beautiful, I think I have mentioned it...gray and black and white, and it flies it looks like it has vertical stripes. It likes to sit on the very top of the tallest tree in the front yard, and until now has impressed me with its many songs. I am not impressed with this squawk thing it does while it is dive bombing the dogs. Nope. Mama will be resting peacefully in grass/weeds, and here comes the squawk. That squawk is not so bad at first, but then the rhythmic repitition will get at me after awhile. Sometimes the danged bird follows Devin around the whole 3 acres....squawk, then dive, then squawk, then dive. That bird gets uncomfortably close to Mama, and there is no reason for it. I've tried shooing it away before, but to no avail. Yesterday, though, It just pissed me off. I stood up and said, "You stop that, right this minute. Leave her alone!"

And I'll be damned, the bird flew away.

That's new.

Wish it worked with the mower....Mow! haha

Lately, I would be happy eating a bowl of granola for brunch and a salad for dinner. But my girls think they need a real meal and once in a while I will cook. Ick. I gave cooking up during a very busy time in my life, and Hubby got to missing dinner...so he started asking me how to make this and that. The first 10 years of our marriage, I cooked. That past 9, he has :D Anyway, last night I made quesadillas and cherry pie with ice cream. Here's hoping that will do them for another few weeks. Haha

Yesterday's signing ceremony did not go as planned. Investor decided to add something to the Letter of Intent last minute. Then he signed it and sent it to Boss. I see trouble coming. It is what it is, and whatever will be will be. Doris Day. I used to sing that whole song when I was very, very little. Still love it.

Love to all my family here,

[Anchor]

Its getting cold, it is winter and I am in the central tablelands, so it will be below zero degree's C tonight. Yesterday morning it was -2degC.

This morning - up early, hitch the trailer and hit up Bunnings for 20 x 2.4m, 200x50mm ironwood sleepers. Man those suckers are heavy - especially after you moved 8 and there is still 12 more to load :) Lucky a guy from Bunning's ended up helping me or I may have flaked out and had to turn in my man badge ;)

Today though, once the sun had got up it was warmer outside the house than in it.

After an early lunch it was 11 degrees C and with shirtsleeves rolled as we ripped the last of the weeds out the area of the vege patch that has been out of commission but in which a new mega raised bed will be built, 12m x 1.2m. Destined for Asparagus and Rhubarb among other things.

We got our dehydrator, and to test it we had some shop bought apples and some kiwi fruit (both organic, but tbh the apples were not that great).

One drawer of kiwi, two of apple slices. Just put it on an hour ago, and the smell coming from it is rather amazing.

Soon though our apple trees will provide the input - rather than the shops!

I have been reading about all the cool things you can do with a dehydrator - making all kinds of yummy stuff.

One thing though, running it off grid may be a challenge - it is 600W and needs to run for 12hrs, so that could end up being 4-7kwh of power - not easy to come by in the winter - some generator may be required tomorrow. This weekend I am running from the grid so as not to kill my batteries. I have a power meter between the wall socket and the dehydrator mains lead so I can see how much it uses doing the test.

Very tired now.

Movie and bed.

[Belle]

Don't know what I'd do without my dehydrator. Our home is tiny...not much room to store all the canning I would like to do. Dehydrating has been the answer.

A good resource to get started can be found here: http://dehydrate2store.com/

Made homemade "fruit roll-ups" for my children when they were young...now making them for my grandchildren. Just pureed fresh fruit, pour into dehydrator trays lined with waxed paper or plastic wrap and dehydrate. Sweet and chewy. Yum!

[Mark]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17301&d=1341665166

[Mark]

What she essentially said is there is a Grand Canyon between middle class blacks and ghetto blacks and no one seems to want to recognize the problem much less deal with it.

So while I sounded bad, I think I remain not racist. As I said to her I put my life on the line in many ways even with my parents for pushing integration of recreation facilities on military basis. In 1961, I was elected the first girl president of the youth of the chapel. That is where I first met black people we could pray and sing together just not swim, recreate or go to movies together. This is where I learned all the sterotypes of black people I had been taught was wrong.

I guess I have to thank you personally, then, as I was a military brat (air force) my whole life and grew up taking red cross swimming lessons at base pools around the world. Kicked it in the youth centers, played b-ball in the gyms, enjoyed the golf courses for free and kissed many cute girls in the movie theaters. So thank you for your service! :hug:

If she told you that nobody wants to recognize it then she hasn't been paying a lot of attention to what Bill Cosby has been saying in recent years and I would find that unusual since everybody listens to Bill Cosby. The thing is, it is a discussion that blacks generally have amongst ourselves as such things are generally misconstrued in the msm and the public sphere as they are eager to highlight any and all conflict and negativity. She probably didn't want to put the business out there to that extent.


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

People recognize it but there is little that can be done about it. The system of capitalism must have its haves and have-nots. There must be those who support the system at every level to serve those who benefit at the highest levels. It is the structure of the pyramid, it is how it is designed. Those that you engage in the inner-city are those who are beneath the support level. Many of the Hispanics - as Ulli says in her post - are still in the support level. The system has been not-so-slowly marginalizing the overall black population for a long time to the point that many claim genocide. And the evidence is there for any who wish to open their eyes and see it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZrot0Z_drs&feature=fvst

You are presented with such a karmic opportunity through your tribulations. The quiet work of a life lived true to humanity.


And many people are trying to do something about it, generation after generation. But few real results.

Human nature versus the system. We love to love each other, we love our children but we live in an inhumane world economic system that doesn't allow people to just live. That doesn't provide people with the means to just live their lives. A vast machine.

We'll see how long it lasts past these desperate days. My money's on total system dissolution.

[Jenci]

Afternoon all.

Just got back from seeing the new Spiderman movie. It was fantastic. There were plenty of emotional scenes as well as action and a love story which had my 9 year old son hiding behind his hands cringing, lol.

It's a story about cross species genetics. Of course I thought it would be about the crossing of a spider with a human, which it was but the main story was the Reptilian Agenda. It was about putting lizard DNA into human to make the perfect species.

Anyway I won't say any more, don't want to spoil it for anyone.

Watching movies awake and aware is a whole different experience these days.

Right at the end there's a teacher taking the class and she says "They say in fiction there are only 10 plots but I say that's not true. There's only one plot and that is Who Am I ?" hmmm.....

:)
Jeanette

[Mark]

What I wouldn't do to be down on a beautiful beach right about now.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jsw_r0hILQ

[Taurean]

Hillary Clinton says Afghanistan 'major non-Nato ally'


Afghanistan is designated the latest "major non-Nato ally" for the US, Hillary Clinton announces in Kabul, allowing it to buy advanced US weaponry.


Looks like Hilary's been polishing up her bartering skills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18750732

Opium Wars reversed ?


The cost of these forces, more than $4bn a year, will continue to be met by foreign donors for many years to come.

Questions remain about the ability of the new Afghan forces because of poor literacy, drug addiction and the continued threat of infiltration by the Taliban.

You just could not make this kind of stuff up really

[ulli]

I was there earlier. Water was blue, blue blue...


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[1inMany]

Jenci-I know what you mean! Em (who is 13) and I recently saw MIB...the first two I saw pre-awakening of any kind. The third one was just a few weeks ago, and I would call myself awakened exactly, but much moreso than before. And I LOVED this movie! Interdimensional beings of love, time travel, parallel universes...WOW! Em left amazed because she could see how these things might really be possible :) I didn't befuddle her by telling her it does happen, she is a little squeamish still about extra-terrestrrial topics. M (who is 16), on the other hand, has had first hand experience with them, and there is no one alive that could convince her they are imaginary!

Rahkyt - One of my all time favorite songs/videos!!! And, I would also love to be at a beach today...instead of cleaning this house!

Ulli - oh, I'm jealous! Send me some of that ocean air via telepathy or something lol...

Hope everyone is enjoying their day :) (Or resting peacefully)

Much Love,

[ulli]

Ok, here is the song that came out the same year I moved there, 1982.
I lived there for ten years, before moving to Costa Rica. But I was so homesick I had to make arrangements to return somehow, and now I live in both places.
Husband is coming at the end of the month and will stay with me for three weeks.

Living in two countries is not easy, but I see it as an exercise to remain alert, to remember how the universe works if you only send out a request, and focus on producing enough jewelry that pays for my flights and my rent.
It's really not that expensive...Lots of poor people here who have to get by on very little, and who show me how it's done.

And miraculously it works out just enough, to the cent, nearly.
I even managed to buy a small car, a Suzuki Alto, tiny car....

45qgP18fIVk

[another bob]

A new blog entry:

http://feelingtoinfinity.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/spiritual-authority-2/





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[ulli]

Music night....
I bet there is no one here who has ever heard of Tintern Abbey...
a psychedelic 60s band that never went anywhere, but had promise

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[another bob]

Music night....

Have another hit . . .


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[smithersjones]

Appologies, i dont want to put a "downer" on this thread, as i understood it, this thread is for us to convey as is now?
I hope ive got it right, MODS or OP please delete if ive got it wrong.

It is pouring with rain outside, it is so quiet though other than the noise of the rain.
Im feeling so down, useless & depressed and have done for some time now.
Ive got a beautifull family whom i love and they love me,
to others it may seem like i have it all, but i just cannot shake off this feeling.
Sorry for that rant!

[Marianne]

Smithersjones, you are in the right place here.

Depression doesn't need a reason to be ... everything in the world can be good and right, and it doesn't matter.

I have seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.) that can cause depression in the darker fall and winter months when there's less light. It's treated with a super-bright light I sit by for 15 minutes in the morning, during the seasons of fading light. S.A.D. is more common in the northern latitudes, and the further north, the higher prevalence of it. Since I moved to a southern (U.S.) climate, it has improved dramatically. But memories of it cling, and I always have to try and help those who suffer from depression if I can.

Some of the things that helped me: Doing 'shadow' work can help enormously. Being completely honest with yourself about your emotions is essential. Talking about it was freeing for me. There are many reasons for hope.

Talk to us, you'll find loving and sympathetic souls here.

Love,
Marianne

[lookbeyond]

:happy:Dear smithersjones,
i dont know if you want a reply or not, but you are heard. I think very few people can claim they dont go thru rough patches.I know i do-regularly.Some of it is a result of internal turmoil and obviously some as a consequence of external events. As ive grown older ive tried to keep the big picture in mind to reground myself, daily,or often as necessary.With the inner stuff, i think we are all a work in progress. I find my life a challenge, happiness and sadness, the main thing is to be able to function in your world, keep in motion.I now try to view my difficulties as "tests" in this 3D world, sometimes looking at them this way helps one thru- an element of personal detachment.

Blessings, lookbeyond

[astrid]

"DNSChanger - how not to lose your internet connection on July 9 "

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/06/dnschanger-how-not-to-lose-your-internet-connection-on-july-9/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=status+message&utm_campaign=naked+security

"On Monday, July 9, the much-talked-about DNS Changer 'internet blackout' will take place.

Hundreds of thousands of computer users could potentially be affected, if they don't take action now."

First i heard of this one.. might be worth looking into

[meeradas]

"DNSChanger - how not to lose your internet connection on July 9 "
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/06/dnschanger-how-not-to-lose-your-internet-connection-on-july-9/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=status+message&utm_campaign=naked+security

First i heard of this one.. might be worth looking into

Done and safe. Thanks A, wasn't aware of that one.

[ulli]

There are so any different kinds and causes of depressions.
Some occur in people with over-active brains and can be remedied by an extra nap, just to rest the brain.

Others are the result of negative thoughts. No one knows where thoughts arise, but if they are consistently negative they might come from other entities via teleathy and need o be dealt with spiritually, ie meditation and prayer. Or replaced with positive thoughts, which means inner dialogue, and mental battles.

Or if temporary, they could be the result of real legitimate problems which are overwhelming the person, but must be dealt with, systematically. The sooner, the better.

Astrology has shown that in most cases of depression the planet Saturn is involved. This would require checking for the relationship between Saturn (restrictive influence) and Jupiter ( hopes, expansion, lucky breaks) in the birth chart. Also Saturn's angle to Mercury, which rules thoughts, plans, concepts.

Another cause of depression is alcohol. Many don't understand that alcohol acts as a depressant which will provide one with a short term lift, yet in the long term is a downer.

Right now Pluto is at 8 degrees of Capricorn and Uranus is at 8 degrees of Aries, and people with planets on that spot or at right angles to either will be feeling the crunch.

I have been in a depression-free period for quite some time now, but already know when the next one will hit. Once Saturn enters Scorpio in the autumn my Aquarian Mars and Mercury conjunction will be affected.
So I can plan now how to prepare myself. For example, I could take on a mind-project that is extremely demanding, like designing a house, by just using the Internet and Sketchup software. Since I am neither a trained architect nor engineer the challenge provided would absorb the Saturnian energies in a positive way and protect me from more morose thoughts.
In any case, creativity is the best protection against depressions.

Since no one can escape suffering altogether the least one can do to protect oneself is by consciously choosing in which form one wants to suffer. Gurdjieff called it voluntary suffering.

[Eram]

Good morning Village,

Heavy rain pouring down during the night and still. Thunder and Lightning to go with it.
So... You're not alone in the circumstances smithersjones.

a certain mood may jump on us once in a while and the trick is not to judge it, or try to get rid of the feeling.
Just go with it as it presents itself without acting upon it too much.

The more energy you put into the 'wanting it to go away', the more energy the mood will receive and the bigger it will become.

In fact, when you just look at it without judgement it might even become an interesting ride for a short time where in a few hidden emotions come to surface where they can see some hard needed day light.


Have a wonderful day every one!



@Astrid,
I checked and I'm in the clear too. thank you.


edit to add:



Another cause of depression is alcohol. Many don't understand that alcohol acts as a depressant which will provide one with a short term lift, yet in the long term is a downer.



Totally agreed with that Ulli.
When I used to drink, it definitely had that sort of impact on my moods.


Since no one can escape suffering altogether the least one can do to protect oneself is by consciously choosing in which form one wants to suffer. Gurdjieff called it voluntary suffering.

That's a nice one ...
embrace the suffering :hug:

[Jenci]

A new blog entry:

http://feelingtoinfinity.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/spiritual-authority-2/


Very good, thank you Bob :)


Jeanette

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Music night....
I bet there is no one here who has ever heard of Tintern Abbey...
a psychedelic 60s band that never went anywhere, but had promise



No, not heard of the band Ulli but I used to live very close by the place itself.

http://www.castlewales.com/tintern.html


Jeanette

[Jenci]

Very good interview with Stuart Wilde begins at 40 minutes - he talks about everything, UFO, dimensions, entitites, 2012, healing etc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uii9YA_EeE&feature=player_detailpage


Jeanette

[astrid]

BTW...Hang Massive have their new album up for " choose your price"
which i thought was a cool idea...

http://hangmusic.org/music

[Darla Ken Pearce]

~ Greetings to all Villagers ~

What is this about Modwitz leaving? It's been so busy at home lately to check into the "Here and Now." We have five new kittens and last night, we were asked to take in a little Poodle/Maltese puppy taken off "Doggie Death Row" to foster for nine days. Her name is "Cashmere" named because she has fur like cashmere. She was abused by her previous owner and taken to the pound.

She needed a place to stay for this time as her new adoptive family lives in California and her plane ticket is not for nine days before she can join them. My daughter, Jenn, saves these little dogs all the time ~ and always volunteers us for special cases and Cashmere happens to be one of them.

We are always learning to 'stretch and grow' for just 'one more.' It's not always easy but life never turns out as we have so neatly planned. Does it? And it's okay. So forgive me coming in blind to the Village and most of what's been happening here. I have not had time to catch up or keep up with the Village either.

Since reading Bill's new thread ~ I share your sadness ~ but there is nothing new in this regard. Thankfully ~ all darkness is leaving from Earth not just in those who have greatly harmed us but in ~ each of us ~ as well. We each are working through the last dregs of negativity in our own bodies and hearts and it's to be expected. Solar flares are literally "blasting" it out of us. This too, shall pass...like Earth we can heal, too.

So what I would like to add tonight is a video ~ It is 3:30 a.m. here but the new little baby is not used to being free yet and she is wakeful, wandering around like the little lost puppy that she is and so I am giving her some time and space to roam, she's been locked up in cages and needs time to get used to this freedom to be even if it is late for me and I could use some sleep.

My video is about starting each day without the baggage of old issues that happened in some other "yesterday." We are to let all these fall away from us.

We can learn to live in the "Now" and start fresh each day. We do not need to bring forward our old burdens. We are given a gift of a new day and it starts fresh, "sparkly, and new."

We are able to leave our worries, our woes, and our cares behind and begin again with a new Sunrise, each one can be a Beautiful Sunrise. I wrote the lyrics because whenever I am feeling heavy and overburdened, it is always because I have brought my "yesterday baggage" into this new day and this moment ~ as well. But we don't have to do this.

Even now at this odd hour, I am weary but my "weariness" comes from old memories of trials raising seven children and never feeling there were enough hours in the day to do all that is required. Then, I learned to cherish the nights and not wish for them to end. This is all my past "stuff." An old pattern that is so easy to slip into I hardly notice I am doing it.

So here I am in the middle of the night, weary again, but it's not coming from this added responsibility at all, it's coming from the memory of "tiredness" from previous days.

Yet, before the sun comes up I will sleep again and when I awaken realize that a new day has begun and I can choose to fill it with joy and freshness or not. I can also choose to let past days color it instead. Each day we get to choose again.

So I am here to share this new video I made about a "Beautiful Sunrise" we are gifted each day. It features the beautiful music of Eamonn Karran. If we keep reminding each other, maybe we can remember to do this and really start fresh.

So I hope it cheers up your day, this remembrance that we are not to carry forward anything but good thoughts and we can easily leave our burdens behind. They do not belong in the NOW of this new morning's "Beautiful Sunrise.

Much love to all here! Be well and allow your hearts to experience great joy simply because we can do it, so why not? xoxoxox

_TnAIxLDBxo

[meeradas]

There's sth about this village...
Don't know about you, but i have the feeling that we're
together here for a way, way longer time than only since last Sept.

Feels like ages.
Feels good.

[was just browsing some 'early' pages]

[ulli]

Lovely to see you Darla. And its so cheery that you are still rescuing animals
and setting a great example for others to follow.

As long as diversity exists there will be a need for rescues,
giving an opportunity to bring happiness to both sides.
There is no feeling greater than when someone feels safe after a long period of hardship,
and that feeling is then transmitted to all those who were involved
in being helpful.
This is the secret of teamwork and group consciousness.

[Sierra]

~ Greetings to all Villagers ~

What is this about Modwitz leaving? It's been so busy at home lately to check into the "Here and Now." We have five new kittens and last night, we were asked to take in a little Poodle/Maltese puppy taken off "Doggie Death Row" to foster for nine days. Her name is "Cashmere" named because she has fur like cashmere. She was abused by her previous owner and taken to the pound.


Hi Darla, :kiss:

I don't *think* Modwiz is leaving, he said he was going to take a vacation. Please hug and thank Jenn for her habit of rescuing little ones. :hug: I hope Cashmere can grasp that life is going to be much much better, and she can let go of the past.

Sierra :wave:

[Sierra]

No, not heard of the band Ulli but I used to live very close by the place itself.

http://www.castlewales.com/tintern.html


Jeanette

Well, that was gorgeous Jenci! I loved the green carpet ... :) I guess from what you said, you no longer live near Tintern Abbey. Are you still living in beautiful countryside?

[Jenci]

No, not heard of the band Ulli but I used to live very close by the place itself.

http://www.castlewales.com/tintern.html


Jeanette

Well, that was gorgeous Jenci! I loved the green carpet ... :) I guess from what you said, you no longer live near Tintern Abbey. Are you still living in beautiful countryside?


No Sierra, I am in England now, not Wales. I live in a town but it's still quite a green town and the countryside is not far. :)

Jeanette

[ViralSpiral]

I agree Meeredas. Care to join me for coffee? Milk? Sugar?

Here a wonderful viral spiral

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[another bob]

Care to join me for coffee? Milk? Sugar?


We'll bring the spoons . . .


http://i48.tinypic.com/wk1wrb.jpg

[Marianne]

Good morning everybody!

The garden tomatoes are coming in. Here's what they were 3 weeks ago.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17176&thumb=1&d=1341096866
And now here they are. Nature is amazing, isn't it?
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17308&thumb=1&d=1341756715
Hang in there, everyone who has garden babies who are still in process of producing veggies. Sending you good vibes for delicious, abundant harvests!

My brother Curtis dropped by this morning. We ate some sweet, juicy cantaloupe (from the store). Sunday dinner is cooking in the oven; I'll take it to Mom's later.

I'm playing with Tarot this morning. I got two new reference books yesterday.
I pulled a card for the village today.
http://www.masquedman.com/readings/cards/rwood/rws4.jpg
The four of swords (Robin Wood deck) which means take a respite. Don't let the image throw you ... it's just a time of rest so you can come back refreshed. Rest and re-evaluate where you are. Seems right for a Sunday when many have the day off. Or those who are working today, try to catch some time for yourself.

Love to all,
JB

[benevolentcrow]

Getting close to completing projects. Chicken coop doors are going on and wire is going up. Garden is late in the process but getting there. Details and clean up. We are have great weather here in the Pacific NW. First photo is the gate on our new covered back deck. Busy, busy!! All is well.

Marianne, those tomatoes are beautiful! Yumm!

[smithersjones]

Smithersjones, you are in the right place here.

Depression doesn't need a reason to be ... everything in the world can be good and right, and it doesn't matter.
Talk to us, you'll find loving and sympathetic souls here.
Thankyou ever so much, its a big help!


Dear smithersjones,
i dont know if you want a reply or not, but you are heard. I think very few people can claim they dont go thru rough patches.
Again, thank you , it is really heartwarming knowing that ive made contact with people who have taken the time to reply and seem to know how im feeling?

[Mark]

Hey villagers, hope everybody's having a wonderful day! Just dropping through really quick to say hi. Went for a wonderful run this morning out in the forest, then stopped at the sandy beach to enjoy the breeze coming off the water. There was an older gentleman sitting nearby staring out at all of the dog people by the water. For some reason, I felt drawn to him. When he walked by us, I said hello. He smiled and stopped to talk for a while. After we went through the banalities he began to open up to us, as people seem to do for some reason, telling us about his life, his relationships, how he had had so much and lost everything. Eventually the conversation got around to politics and the world, economics and then, ancient aliens. LOL

It's funny the people you meet. The ones who have had a chance to get out of the rat race and sit back and look around them to see what's going on. It seems for people in the olde generations, they have no one to talk to about these things so it is a blessing for them to be able to open up and share what they are learning about the deeper aspects of things. I felt honored to be able to listen to him, to let him open up and speak about such things.

It turns out he owns a shop where he sells t-shirts and he is interested in getting some of Sira and I's designs, so it might turn into a business relationship.

Go figure.

You never know who you're going to meet or what's going to happen when you step out of the door in the morning.

Blessings, villagers!

Oh, I took some pics yesterday of a great car show here in town, I'll post some up later for those who like classic cars! I'm out!

[dan33]

Good morning everybody!

The garden tomatoes are coming in. Here's what they were 3 weeks ago.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17176&thumb=1&d=1341096866
And now here they are. Nature is amazing, isn't it?
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17308&thumb=1&d=1341756715
Hang in there, everyone who has garden babies who are still in process of producing veggies. Sending you good vibes for delicious, abundant harvests!

My brother Curtis dropped by this morning. We ate some sweet, juicy cantaloupe (from the store). Sunday dinner is cooking in the oven; I'll take it to Mom's later.

I'm playing with Tarot this morning. I got two new reference books yesterday.
I pulled a card for the village today.
http://www.masquedman.com/readings/cards/rwood/rws4.jpg
The four of swords (Robin Wood deck) which means take a respite. Don't let the image throw you ... it's just a time of rest so you can come back refreshed. Rest and re-evaluate where you are. Seems right for a Sunday when many have the day off. Or those who are working today, try to catch some time for yourself.

Love to all,
JB
Thanks Marianne :)
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[dan33]

What a great day yesterday. Such a wonderful lecture by David Topí. I found him in Avalon.
He spoke about the world control system for 8 hours.

[Sierra]

Getting close to completing projects. Chicken coop doors are going on and wire is going up. Garden is late in the process but getting there. Details and clean up. We are have great weather here in the Pacific NW. First photo is the gate on our new covered back deck. Busy, busy!! All is well.

Marianne, those tomatoes are beautiful! Yumm!

Gee, Purple Lama is going to LOVE your chicken coop!

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Good morning everybody!

The garden tomatoes are coming in.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17308&thumb=1&d=1341756715

Love to all,
JB

Oh <moan> ... those tomatoes, those tomatoes ...

[ulli]

I don't want to go on about what a good time I'm having in case I make someone jealous.

[another bob]

In any case, creativity is the best protection against depressions.

One would assume so, and yet why are so many creative-type personalities known for moodiness and depression?

After some investigation, my conclusion at this point is that a common factor in the prevalence of depression is organic in nature, typically spawned by chemical imbalances. Certainly, the average diet of folks these days is a contributor to the imbalance, but there are of course other environmental factors (like seasonal affect) that contribute to the pervasive dis-ease. One has only to look at the statistics on obesity increases to recognize that something is terribly wrong in this regard. Ironically, diet books regularly top best seller lists, but even though the immediate factors leading to depression may be organic, there is a still deeper root to the matter that needs to be addressed.

Undeniably, we live in a depressing culture, in that it is cut off from the heart & soul, being largely characterized by greed, envy, ignorance, fear, cut-throat competitiveness, hatred, and other bummer traits and tendencies. Temporary hits of pleasure (aquisitions, conquests, material advancement) only accentuate the habitual background suffering of a soul-less culture. The psychiatrist R.D. Laing once noted that mental disorders were an appropriate response to a mentally disordered culture, and he certainly makes a good point.

2500 years ago, Buddha diagnosed the human situation pretty accurately, when he noted that, regardless of whether things seem to be going pretty well, or not well at all, human life fundamentally is dissatisfying (dukkha). He then went on to provide a reason for that (grasping and aversion), and an antidote (the 8-Fold Path). Of course, there are all sorts of variations on such themes, but the main point is that all dis-ease is "spiritual" at the core, and therein lies the path to healing.

[benevolentcrow]

Quote Posted by ulli (here)
In any case, creativity is the best protection against depressions.

We are prone to depression here in the North West with the gray days. I find whether sun or gray D3 is a savior! That and staying busy + being outside!!!!

[Sierra]

<The Lady in Red stomps down the village path muttering, fuming ... swerves into the money barn, grabs a tenner, charges back out and down the hill to the village general store, buys the biggest, thickest, softest pillow she can find, stomps back out to the quay, sits down, takes a deep breath, buries her head in the pillow ...

and SCREAMS. >

I feel better.

Oh Ulli, please torture us with all the fun you are having! It is delightful that you are having a blast!

[smithersjones]

2500 years ago, Buddha diagnosed the human situation pretty accurately, when he noted that, regardless of whether things seem to be going pretty well, or not well at all, human life fundamentally is dissatisfying (dukkha). He then went on to provide a reason for that (grasping and aversion), and an antidote (the 8-Fold Path). Of course, there are all sorts of variations on such themes, but the main point is that all dis-ease is "spiritual" at the core, and therein lies the path to healing.

Excellent quote there another Bob!
Ive just finished reading a few books on Buddhism, after a few times in hospital going back over the last few years i was lucky enough to meet a family who were Buddhist, they, one day brought me up a small statue for my bedside to keep me safe during one of my operations, i did like the way of the Buddhist, very calming.
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." another quote from Buddha
Thanks again Bob

[ulli]

@another bob
One thing about the high which is induced by creativity...
once a person starts to compete with themselves then ego enters.
Like, 'Last weeks high was good but not good enough.'
And that then leads to addiction.
So I guess it depends what is understood by creativity.
Maybe a better word would be productivity...dealing with one's own world, no matter how mundane the task.

[another bob]

I don't want to go on about what a good time I'm having in case I make someone jealous.

On the other hand, sharing your joy could be contagious!


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[another bob]

@another bob
One thing about the high which is induced by creativity...
once a person starts to compete with themselves then ego enters.
Like, 'Last weeks high was good but not good enough.'
And that then leads to addiction.
So I guess it depends what is understood by creativity.
Maybe a better word would be productivity...dealing with one's own world, no matter how mundane the task.

Hiya Ulli!

I understand what you are getting at, and yet there is still something of the sense of dilemma when folks suggest "keeping busy and productive". It certainly might address some symptoms, but there is still an avoidance involved. The question is, what is being avoided, that we need to keep busy so as not to have to face it?

[DeDukshyn]

@another bob
One thing about the high which is induced by creativity...
once a person starts to compete with themselves then ego enters.
Like, 'Last weeks high was good but not good enough.'
And that then leads to addiction.
So I guess it depends what is understood by creativity.
Maybe a better word would be productivity...dealing with one's own world, no matter how mundane the task.

Hiya Ulli!

I understand what you are getting at, and yet there is still something of the sense of dilemma when folks suggest "keeping busy and productive". It certainly might address some symptoms, but there is still an avoidance involved. The question is, what is being avoided, that we need to keep busy so as not to have to face it?

As an artist "who wasn't", I can totally see where Ulli is coming from. I find in myself I get an unimaginable flow of creativity,and the high comes with it is just as unimaginable and I often times have difficulty in "aiming it" at something truly productive, because I'm not sure where I should be aiming it. I have so many outlets available to me that I more often then not, get confused, and utilize that energy in a way that is less than optimal for the continuation of that creativity. I feel like I really live the effect Ulli is trying to get at.

However, that is just another challenge for me to be able to overcome -- something I must do to receive my gifts fully. I find I actually avoid the use of my gifts ... maybe deep down I feel unworthy ... seems likely. ;) So both your points of view on this hit me in the face like a sack of hammers .. ;) Thanks! hahaha! ;)

[DeDukshyn]

I just got about 50,000 i.u's of D3 ... awesomely hot and sunny day in Calgary -- some rich mofo bought the weather for the Calgary Stampede, I'm sure ... not complainin' tho ;) Afternoon at the waterpark with kids was awesome!

[Sierra]

I just got about 50,000 i.u's of D3 ... awesomely hot and sunny day in Calgary -- some rich mofo bought the weather for the Calgary Stampede, I'm sure ... not complainin' tho ;) Afternoon at the waterpark with kids was awesome!

KingAnthony was there yesterday. :)

[eaglespirit]

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/396914_245144362269884_859986262_n.jpg

Native Prayer to the Four Directions

Great Spirit of Light,
come to me out of the East (red)
with the power of the rising sun.
Let there be light in my words,
let there be light on my path that I walk.
Let me remember always
that you give the gift of a new day.
And never let me be burdened with sorrow
by not starting over again.


Great Spirit of Love,
come to me with the power of the North (white).
Make me courageous when the cold wind falls upon me.
Give me strength and endurance
for everything that is harsh,
everything that hurts,
everything that makes me squint.
Let me move through life
ready to take what comes from the north.

Great Life-Giving Spirit,
I face the West (black),
the direction of sundown.
Let me remember everyday that the moment will come
when my sun will go down.
Never let me forget that I must fade into you.
Give me a beautiful color,
give me a great sky for setting,
so that when it is my time to meet you,
I can come with glory.

Great Spirit of Creation,
send me the warm and soothing winds from the South (yellow).
Comfort me and caress me when I am tired and cold.
Unfold me like the gentle breezes
that unfold the leaves on the trees.
As you give to all the earth your warm, moving wind,
give to me,
so that I may grow close to you in warmth.

[Eram]

@another bob
One thing about the high which is induced by creativity...
once a person starts to compete with themselves then ego enters.
Like, 'Last weeks high was good but not good enough.'
And that then leads to addiction.
So I guess it depends what is understood by creativity.
Maybe a better word would be productivity...dealing with one's own world, no matter how mundane the task.

Hiya Ulli!

I understand what you are getting at, and yet there is still something of the sense of dilemma when folks suggest "keeping busy and productive". It certainly might address some symptoms, but there is still an avoidance involved. The question is, what is being avoided, that we need to keep busy so as not to have to face it?

http://cdn.abovethelaw.com/uploads/2011/08/man-looking-in-the-mirror.jpg

[meeradas]

i should be asleep right now.
Instead i'm browsing "there and then", again.

Apart from that, nothing's happening here worth being typed into being.

PS: Some random old artwork of mine

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=4588&d=1297761235

[Belle]

Good morning! Beautiful morning on the lake...still water, cool temperature for this time of year, bright sun still rising. Ahh, so peaceful. Good way to start a busy day.

Yesterday I mentioned to someone that in the time away from posting on PA, I somehow found my authentic voice. Now what's been rolling around in the background of my thoughts is how did that happen? Was it all the shadow work? More time spent in nature...more grounding? To those of an astrological bent...could I have somehow reconciled the 'conflict' of a fire sign sun and water sign moon? Not that it matters, but I find it interesting when I can see changes in myself that seem to have happened effortlessly. Has that happened to anyone else?

[ulli]

Being in the here and now will do that in a very short time, Belle.
Remember how focus will attract that which is being focused on.
Here and now is reality, just as the authentic self, which is your best friend,
is also your immediate reality.
Authentic=real.

Thanks for confirming that this thread was the right step as a logical follow-up to investigating cover-ups.
The feeling of total powerlessness experienced after discovering our collective vulnerability has to lead somewhere:
and that is to the discovery that we all have power after all...inside our authentic selves.
And that power, when pooled by an enlightened group, can stir asteroids, as well as topple tyrants...without bloodshed.

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@another bob
One thing about the high which is induced by creativity...
once a person starts to compete with themselves then ego enters.
Like, 'Last weeks high was good but not good enough.'
And that then leads to addiction.
So I guess it depends what is understood by creativity.
Maybe a better word would be productivity...dealing with one's own world, no matter how mundane the task.

Hiya Ulli!

I understand what you are getting at, and yet there is still something of the sense of dilemma when folks suggest "keeping busy and productive". It certainly might address some symptoms, but there is still an avoidance involved. The question is, what is being avoided, that we need to keep busy so as not to have to face it?

http://cdn.abovethelaw.com/uploads/2011/08/man-looking-in-the-mirror.jpg

Hey, I didn't realize Bob was THAT handsome... (hehe, ;))

[Sierra]

i should be asleep right now.
Instead i'm browsing "there and then", again.

Apart from that, nothing's happening here worth being typed into being.

PS: Some random old artwork of mine

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=4588&d=1297761235

Wow Meeradas. That is quite the mandala. I love it.

Sierra

[another bob]

Mazie's two latest grandchildren, Emerson and Ryder, exploring the mechanics of interpersonal relationships. Later, Emerson pulled Ryder's flower down over her eyes, in response to her yanking his teething ring.


http://i47.tinypic.com/348gk5g.jpg

[Jenci]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/08/article-0-13F9D95A000005DC-585_634x931.jpg


source:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170611/That-s-dry-Squirrel-shelters-rain-umbrella.html

[1inMany]

Good Morning,

I don't know what's wrong with me today. Instead of the butterflies in my stomach that usually accompany anxiety in general, there is a cement mixer. I am emotional, crying little sad tears. I am waging war on the beautiful, miraculous, creepy freaking hand-sized spiders that are invading the inside of my house. NOT the deal, guys. Four of them in a day has thrown me completely out of my comfort zone so much that I can't even sit down without watching the floor, the corners, the walls...this is MY house. You are welcome here, OUTSIDE. And I will NO LONGER be uncomfortable in my OWN home. GO AWAY!!!!! (Insert ho'oponopono here).

I am trying to get centered. I had to take xanax for the first time in two months and feel yucky for needing it. Why? I have to go into town, and "I" am very resistant to this idea. First stop is my neighbor's store on main street to ask her if she will help Mama (I have no idea what she needs). I have heard she has natural abilities with animals. Next stop will be the old hardware store where old men gather to swap gossip, because they will know the best way to keep critters outside. And to top it all off, we need a few things around here so I will have to go to the store. I will take a box of tissue with me so that I will reward myself with a good cry between stops if I can just not cry while I'm face to face with people. Wish me luck.

Difficult to remember "it's okay" when it doesn't feel like it.

Love,

[PurpleLama]

Good luck with the spiders. This is the Year of the Daddy Long Legs, at my house. A few weeks ago, I went to start a fire in the alter and hundreds of them came boiling out. Last year was Year of the Spider, and the year before was Year of the Millepede.

[1inMany]

I can remember when I was young...I would sit for hours and play with Daddy Longlegs and June Bugs and Rolly Pollies and Lady Bugs and all manner of other creatures. In my little world, the words poisonous and ugly did not exist. Oh, I'm sure these types of creatures existed, but they were just outside my little world. My parents would take us camping, and when I got tired of not catching fish I would play with the minnows. Even the dead ones, which I laugh at now. I would carve out roads in the dirt and use old shells for the houses. Oh, things were simple then.

Have a piece of jet in one pocket, three pieces of obsidian in the other, and am once again wearing a 2" amethyst point...my baby...wore this for a year or two until the chain broke. After the big dizzy spell and weird other sh!t, I replaced the chain. She's all clean and charged up! And permanently around me :)

Off I go....

[another bob]

I am waging war on the beautiful, miraculous, creepy freaking hand-sized spiders that are invading the inside of my house. home.



This may not work for everyone, but it might be worth a try.

Back when I first left the monastery (1974), I didn't have much money, and so rented an apartment in San Francisco that I could afford. As I was soon to find out one night when I went into the kitchen and turned on the light, the apartment also came with a large contigent of cockroaches. Talking to some neighbors, I learned that the problem was epidemic throughout the building.

Consequently, I decided to act directly, and caught one of the bugs. I then had a chat with it, and indicated that I would release it outside, and in return, I expected it would spread the word among the cockroach community that my apartment was off-limits.

I then released it, and the next day, I found the apartment to be pleasantly roach-free. It remained that way as long as I lived there (about a year). When I was troubled by other bugs down through the years, I did the same, and it usually worked, although ants seem to be on another wave-length, and hard to reach.

We allow certain spiders, like Hoppers, because Mazie likes them, and they stay out of the way (based on a similar agreement, that they keep a low profile). You might try to catch one of your spiders and try reasoning in the above manner. You never know . . .


:yo:

[another bob]

We are finally expecting a good crop of fruits this year from the garden, after waiting several years for the trees and bushes to mature, including:


Asian Pears

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Concord Grapes

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Figs

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Blueberries

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[another bob]

Here are some more shots from this morning of our Paradise garden:



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[Marianne]

I am waging war on the beautiful, miraculous, creepy freaking hand-sized spiders that are invading the inside of my house. home.

This may not work for everyone, but it might be worth a try.

Back when I first left the monastery (1974), I didn't have much money, and so rented an apartment in San Francisco that I could afford. As I was soon to find out one night when I went into the kitchen and turned on the light, the apartment also came with a large contigent of cockroaches. Talking to some neighbors, I learned that the problem was epidemic throughout the building.

Consequently, I decided to act directly, and caught one of the bugs. I then had a chat with it, and indicated that I would release it outside, and in return, I expected it would spread the word among the cockroach community that my apartment was off-limits.

I then released it, and the next day, I found the apartment to be pleasantly roach-free. It remained that way as long as I lived there (about a year). When I was troubled by other bugs down through the years, I did the same, and it usually worked, although ants seem to be on another wave-length, and hard to reach.

We allow certain spiders, like Hoppers, because Mazie likes them, and they stay out of the way (based on a similar agreement, that they keep a low profile). You might try to catch one of your spiders and try reasoning in the above manner. You never know . . .


:yo:

Abob, I've seen similar. My teacher, Wendy Fogg, explained how she did this, and that it worked for her for all except wasps. She found their energy to be self centered and she couldn't make an agreement with them. I notice the same when they fly by me, there's no communication ... in their own world and no interest in a human. I can feel some sort of communion with others. I know what you mean about the ants ... maybe it's the hive mind, where communicating with just one doesn't work. My SO always puts out those little black plastic ant catchers, so I try to keep them from ever showing up by keeping sweet/greasy things under wraps. So far this year it's been successful!

Emily, the neighbor's cat, has been eating with us. The neighbor is a young guy, I found out he has a new love who lives 2 hours away and is spending lots of time there... poor little Emily is forgotten, I think he knows I'll feed her. She comes in for strokes, and she has a beautiful purr. Cat purrs are healthy and healing for humans, we were talking about that in the thread awhile ago, weren't we? Emily's very sweet ... there was a small cricket on the kitchen floor, he's been hanging around this weekend ... I've heard crickets are lucky to have in the house. I don't know if that's true, but I like their presence so let him stay as long as he wishes. Emily trotted into the kitchen when I let her in for feeding, and rushed by the cricket, giving him a cursory once-over, then let him be. I loved that, live and let live.

Emily and her cricket:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=17324&d=1341874720


My son has found a house not too far away that he can afford, we are hoping he can get the paperwork lined up to buy it. It has a garage, and fruit trees, and enough land around it.

Keeping Nora in my thoughts. And everyone else ... haven't read the thread much today .... except AB, what gorgeous photos. :)

Love to all,
JB

[another bob]

My teacher, Wendy Fogg, explained how she did this, and that it worked for her for all except wasps. She found their energy to be self centered and she couldn't make an agreement with them. I notice the same when they fly by me, there's no communication ... in their own world and no interest in a human.

Thanks for that nice post, M!

I know what you mean about wasps, so I indicate to them that they have no place here, and that seems to keep them from settling down. Of course, I don't mind if they visit, but that's it!

Today Mazie and I were sitting in the yard and a blue-headed bee landed in front of us. Neither of us had ever seen one before. It's head was literally bright blue, and Mazie at first thought it was a horse fly, but I said, "Look closer . . " It then turned itself sideways to show that it was indeed a bee. We watched it for some time, admiring it's blue head, and then it flew away.

I tried to google blue head bees, but there's nothing on them. I am wondering if anybody else has seen one?

[Fred Steeves]

We have a decent sized screened in porch out back, and it gives me great pleasure to set free dragon flies and such, who become trapped inside. It's really cool how they go from utter despair, to flying quickly to the sky and disappearing, free at last.(Kind of like what we're after huh?)

I didn't used to be that way, and there is a marked difference in how I now relate to nature. Or maybe more accurately how it relates to me? Hmmm. There is a communication, a harmony, however one wishes to describe it. Whether it be the feel of the earth beneath your feet, the touch of a breeze, or a raindrop. Not all the time of course, but it's there for sure.

When "as above so below" starts to really sink in, it begins to be realized that whether a planet, a human, or an atom, there is no difference. These "little" beings that we love to fumigate, want to live as desperately as we do. By the way we treat those under our control, makes me wonder just what really did happen to us.

[another bob]

When "as above so below" starts to really sink in, it begins to be realized that whether a planet, a human, or an atom, there is no difference. These "little" beings that we love to fumigate, want to live as desperately as we do.


When I took up photography as a hobby, Mazie suggested I try to get some insect shots close-up. She said that this would help me to appreciate little lives. She was right!

http://www.pbase.com/1heart/small_voyagers



http://i50.tinypic.com/uu5nq.jpg

[Samsara]

What a wonderful time I had! I am so grateful. So many beauty full women, a loving land, sacred ceremonies, soulful sharing, heart to heart hugs and kisses, much laughing, some crying, dancing, singing, delicious food (each vegetarian meal was a pleasure party of the mouth), some sleeping… , all in all, wholeness. I made many new friends, renewed with old ones. So much blessings.

Our Inipi Ceremony was held yesterday morning at dawn. I was doorkeeper and asked that no mosquitoes or deer flies come and spoil the time of those of us staying outside. To my surprise, not one came to annoy us. Not one, not even a buzz around the ears. Well… that’s a first for me. Usually, at dawn, these buggers are ferocious. WooHoo !

As the sun rose along with the prayers, I thought of EagleSpirit. May I say...your name suits you well.

I also can acknowledge the road I have travelled since my first Circle of Women back in 1999. My heart is not as heavy as it was, I see clearer skies, and I now can say that it is good to be me.

We are all related.

http://www.designsbywillow.com/site/Images/HeavenEarth.jpg
Credit: http://www.designsbywillow.com/site/new_home.htm

[astrid]

I was looking up the Aussie Black Wattle, and came across this article,
me thinks i might try this, has to be a useful skill surely......

"A description of how to light a fire by rubbing two sticks together using the bow drill method."

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/fires.htmlhttp://

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/firesm.jpg

[DeDukshyn]

All this about bugs ... I'll say, some spiders are ok to have around - they keep the nasty insects in check. I'm not o huge fan of any bugs but Jumping spiders, Dragonflies, and crickets are numbers 1,1, and 1 on my list -- the y all eat more annoying bugs ;) - so I welcome them all. There's a species of spiders I haven't been fairing with well recently though - they seem really bent on "getting me" and I've had a few nasty bites, nothing major though - after all I'm 100,0000 times bigger, so they don't bother me much ;)

I definitely support AB's, Marianne's and other's techniques - I've been able to relieve myself of all but one single species of mosquito in that method (mwhahahahha!), and even that one species will prefer others over me at first ;) I've rid my house of fruit flies a few times via a similar method ... once I just killed them all psychically ... felt bad after that though ...

[DeDukshyn]

I was looking up the Aussie Black Wattle, and came across this article,
me thinks i might try this, has to be a useful skill surely......

"A description of how to light a fire by rubbing two sticks together using the bow drill method."

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/fires.htmlhttp://

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/firesm.jpg

The link failed, but I was taught the "fancy" bow method of starting fire as well in school -- nature arts class or something obviously - not all Canadians get taught this important of stuff, lol, although I wish they did ...

[1inMany]

Whew. Made it through this roller coaster emotional day. I think I have decided that the difference between unhealthy and healthy detachment is allowing these kinds of days. I seem to be sitting back and observing things lately, even situations that used to be close to my heart. When I worry that maybe I am too detached, a day like today comes along offering little bits of human emotion. I've learned, by living with some family members who become unstable at times, to detach as a means of survival. I have also learned to allow emotions to come when I know they are there. I have a lot of growing and learning to do here.

The best purchase today was the can of expanding foam! Since this place is settling, cracks are becoming apparent. I'll fill them up, and that will help so much! That, and some of the pipes are surrounded by big gaps instead of any type of filler...this will be my first priority. I have to get my mojo back, I can't quite get into my zone lately. It may be time to sage again...very busy week with Peanut needing another visit to the oral surgeon. Her bone graft is showing. OUCH. Being pulled every which way...but as soon as I can catch my breath I think a sage is in order...followed by lighting all these candles. I got candles of every color this time. I don't know why I did, but I'm excited about it lol.

Just for the record, lol, I took 3 grasshoppers outside today and set them free in the grass. Daily occurrence. There is no chance that I have the hutzpa to capture one of these 8 legged friends, but I do send intentions when I find them (after I peel myself off the ceiling they become much more loving intentions). I leave them alone awhile too, so they have a chance to get back out. Breaking another broom is really a last resort...I feel bad if something has to lose it's life here, too.

Anyway, I survived the day. I'm exhausted though, so off to bed...

Much Love,

[Dennis Leahy]

This may not work for everyone, but it might be worth a try.

Back when I first left the monastery (1974), I didn't have much money, and so rented an apartment in San Francisco that I could afford. As I was soon to find out one night when I went into the kitchen and turned on the light, the apartment also came with a large contigent of cockroaches. Talking to some neighbors, I learned that the problem was epidemic throughout the building.

Consequently, I decided to act directly, and caught one of the bugs. I then had a chat with it, and indicated that I would release it outside, and in return, I expected it would spread the word among the cockroach community that my apartment was off-limits.

I then released it, and the next day, I found the apartment to be pleasantly roach-free. It remained that way as long as I lived there (about a year). When I was troubled by other bugs down through the years, I did the same, and it usually worked, although ants seem to be on another wave-length, and hard to reach.

We allow certain spiders, like Hoppers, because Mazie likes them, and they stay out of the way (based on a similar agreement, that they keep a low profile). You might try to catch one of your spiders and try reasoning in the above manner. You never know . . .


:yo:
Childhood storybook: "Martin's Mice (http://books.google.com/books/about/Martin_s_mice.html?id=Ak0MAQAAMAAJ)" had the same premise. I never imagined it might actually be true.


For those that fear bees, a fun exercise is to find a bumblebee on a flower, on a chilly morning. They are quite sluggish, and you can pet them. If you pet a bumblebee, you can never have the same level of fear. Don't try this with hornets or wasps though, unless it is approximately -273°K. They do indeed have a whole different view of the world than bees. "Sting first, and ask questions later." When they land indoors, they are escorted outdoors after capture in a drinking glass with a piece of paper. When released, none have ever flown back towards me - always away. So, even these 'tough guys' in the bug kingdom show gratitude.

I agree with Mazie on the hopping spiders. I once heard a spider expert say the hopping spiders will never bite you. I sometimes let them hop onto me for a "human-back" ride to the great outdoors, where I presume their dietary options are more diverse and plentiful.

Dennis

[Jenci]

I leave them alone awhile too, so they have a chance to get back out. Breaking another broom is really a last resort...I feel bad if something has to lose it's life here, too.




Hi 1inMany

I use a spider catcher for removing spiders from the house. No broken brooms or dead spiders :)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003VJP5WA/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000G04RDK&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0FDMQ5EDHGQBDRGWPWH3

[Eram]

Abob, I've seen similar. My teacher, Wendy Fogg, explained how she did this, and that it worked for her for all except wasps. She found their energy to be self centered and she couldn't make an agreement with them. I notice the same when they fly by me, there's no communication ... in their own world and no interest in a human. I can feel some sort of communion with others. I know what you mean about the ants ... maybe it's the hive mind, where communicating with just one doesn't work. My SO always puts out those little black plastic ant catchers, so I try to keep them from ever showing up by keeping sweet/greasy things under wraps. So far this year it's been successful!
JB


Since the stories about cockroaches, ants and wasps have so many synchronicity to me, I will share what my girlfriend experienced with them.

She discovered her telepathic ability not too long ago and she has been practising ever since, mostly with animals.
She too found out that ants and wasps are hard to negotiate with. Ants do respond when threatened with death though. A few times when we wanted to make a camp fire on places where ants nests were, she warned them up front (several hours) and indeed, they packed up their nests (eggs and all) and stamped off :).

Wasps don't even negotiate when threatened with death. We had a wasps nest in de barn last year, like they do ever so often and I usually use poison to get rid of them because I'm afraid for our kids. So last year my mate suggested she give it a try and persuede them to move along. The nest was still small, so not much energy would have been lost to them.
She connected with them and indeed they were not keen in communicating with her, like... 'what do you want girl, don't you know you are disturbing us?' She explained that they could not stay there and that they had to find another place and that we would poison them if they wouldn't. There was a little talking back and forth in which they repeatedly asked the same question. "why can't we stay here, we want to stay here'. In the end they even stopped communication. She couldn't get through to them any more.

So, sadly... I poisoned them in the end after we tried to get them to move for four days. Pretty impressive that they didn't even yield in the prospect of death doesn't it?
Funny thing is... After that we haven't seen one single nest of them in or around our house, so the communication might have worked in the end, but only after they lost a whole hive over it.

[astrid]

I was looking up the Aussie Black Wattle, and came across this article,
me thinks i might try this, has to be a useful skill surely......

"A description of how to light a fire by rubbing two sticks together using the bow drill method."

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/fires.htmlhttp://

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/firesm.jpg

The link failed, but I was taught the "fancy" bow method of starting fire as well in school -- nature arts class or something obviously - not all Canadians get taught this important of stuff, lol, although I wish they did ...

whoops.. sorry... try this one

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/fires.html

[Eram]

I just saw this video in a thread from M2143 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?47181-shaya7111-My-Alien-contact-story-The-whole-story--video-).

This message is so important at this point in time. So many people who are sincerely trying to find answers and truth fall for the traps that she speaks of.
She talks about awakening and the truth that is in every one of us and that people should stop listening to people who present themselves as spiritual teachers, but are merely trying to be worshipped. I wont name names here, but there are so many of them... so many so called spiritual teachers that give you the feeling that you need things or people to get to the next level or understanding.

Her message is powerful.

plsdtDg_MZI

[ulli]

I just saw this video in a thread from M2143 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?47181-shaya7111-My-Alien-contact-story-The-whole-story--video-).

This message is so important at this point in time. So many people who are sincerely trying to find answers and truth fall for the traps that she speaks of.
She talks about awakening and the truth that is in every one of us and that people should stop listening to people who present themselves as spiritual teachers, but are merely trying to be worshipped. I wont name names here, but there are so many of them... so many so called spiritual teachers that give you the feeling that you need things or people to get to the next level or understanding.

Her message is powerful.

plsdtDg_MZI

If you think her message is powerful you only give away your own power. ;)
But joking aside, what I want to see is real Youtubes that show real Reptilians and real Nordics in combat.
Maybe not in my life time?

In the ninties I was reading about aliens who absorbed food through their skin, and such food was mainly human or animal blood.

And what happened to my vision?

I thought that by 2012 disclosure had long ago happened, that aliens would be walking among us, and MacDonalds would be selling MacBloodBuckets.

[PurpleLama]

Most notable of all the dream events from last night, I was digging deep into the ground, loose soil (soul), and finding many objects made of precious metals and gems, and as I went deeper the objects became larger and had more spiritual iconographic natures. Crosses (not crucifixes) statues of buddhas, stars, mandalas, pyramids, ect, ect.

My wife walks up to me as I'm finishing my excavation a few meters down, and I say " Look, we never have to worry about anything ever again"

[Eram]

If you think her message is powerful you only give away your own power. ;)
But joking aside, what I want to see is real Youtubes that show real Reptilians and real Nordics in combat.
Maybe not in my life time?

In the ninties I was reading about aliens who absorbed food through their skin, and such food was mainly human or animal blood.

And what happened to my vision?

I thought that by 2012 disclosure had long ago happened, that aliens would be walking among us, and MacDonalds would be selling MacBloodBuckets.

Well, there is a big difference between people who want to be worshipped (presenting themselves as spiritual teachers) and people who warn us for them and explain how this mechanism works isn't it?
There are people with knowledge that wish for other people to become awake and with knowledge, and there are people who want to be important and use their intellectual understandings of spirituality for that.
I don't feel an energetic pull when I watch her video. do you?

any way. macbloodbuckets at mac Donalds,.... yikes!!!
Hope to never live to see that day....


another thing:
I ran over a snake the other day with the car. I saw it too late and crushed the end of it's tale.
In Belgium where I live are not many snakes and this one looked like a viper of some sort. heart shaped head, blueish/silver-ish with black stripes.
Looking on google didn't get me to learn what kind of snake it was.
so... does any one here know what it means when one runs into a snake? :) I mean... symbolic meanings.

[ulli]

[QUOTE=ulli;519236]


Well, there is a big difference between people who want to be worshipped (presenting themselves as spiritual teachers) and people who warn us for them and explain how this mechanism works isn't it?
There are people with knowledge that wish for other people to become awake and with knowledge, and there are people who want to be important and use their intellectual understandings of spirituality for that.
I don't feel an energetic pull when I watch her video. do you?

any way. macbloodbuckets at mac Donalds,.... yikes!!!
Hope to never live to see that day....


another thing:
I ran over a snake the other day with the car. I saw it too late and crushed the end of it's tale.
In Belgium where I live are not many snakes and this one looked like a viper of some sort. heart shaped head, blueish/silver-ish with black stripes.
Looking on google didn't get me to learn what kind of snake it was.
so... does any one here know what it means when one runs into a snake? :)


Since you asked...yes, I did feel an energetic pull. And I felt my resistance to it, and turned her off.
There are many possible layers here.
The obvious one is that I don't need to be warned against this sort of thing.
So my time and energy we're being involved and I decided to reprioritize.
The second element is that women often don't respond to videos of other women
unless they can get a mothering experience from it or, if they are still young, help them with finding their identity.
Guys, on the other hand, are known to like blondes....hmmm...
Third...this whole idea of needing to warn people...a bit close to home....my thirty year astrology experience has left me with many many memories of playing such a role myself. And at this point in my life I just want to leave that role to others.
Right here on this forum are endless examples of members playing the savior role, of needing to point out the disinformation.
Are they succeeding?
I believe it is enough to share that the Internet started out a lot purer than it is now. In the nineties I was using Netscape as a browser and the first time I searched UFOs the answer was that there were 457 websites with that term, and I went wow. And started reading them all. And they were mostly genuine experiences. Disinformation agents and book writers with seminar tours to help sell their books only came along later. It's how it is when things become diluted.
Each path is different, and each person can only find and walk
on their paths as they find questions within them,
with a clear idea of what it is they are looking for.

Then they discover that the universe supplies the answers,
and in a most surprising way. But until then confusion has to be part of the game...
Until the desire for clarity becomes totally dominant.

[meeradas]

... blue head bees... I am wondering if anybody else has seen one?

I've had them here, two years ago!
Bright blue and turquoise heads. Never seen or heard of such. Beautiful.
But they had something else about them that was different. Movements.
Slowish but determined. Kinda bio-robotic.

It was totally devastating to find out after the summer,
that i had killed all of their offspring unintentionally.

Wanting to stop them starting a hive in a wooden beam of my balcony,
i sealed the little crack in the beam with duct tape.
Much too late, as i found out when i released the old tape -
it had dozens of little dead bees glued to it [who had no blue heads, btw].

Did i feel miserable... never seen 'em again since. No wonder.

PS: The beam is sealed shut now with some resin, to avoid further tragedies.

[ulli]

My 83-year-old father-in-law had his Toyota Forerunner stolen from under him yesterday.
He had placed a for sale ad in the paper, and got a call.
During the test drive he was told to get out of the car.
Then the guy took off, leaving the old man stranded.
Sorry if this bums you out....but please send a wave of good energy
in his direction...

[PurpleLama]

BXF9A3oWnho

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
You better get yourself together darling
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughing at fools like me
Who on earth d'you think you are?
A superstar? Well right you are

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Every one, come on

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Every one you meet
Why in the world are we here?
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there?
When you're everywhere
Come and get your share

But we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
And we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on

Yeah yeah, alright, ah haa, aaaahh

But we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
And we all shine on
On and on and on on and on
But we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
But we all shine on

[ulli]

The latest: these guys have now been making intimidating calls to one of my sisters-in-law, demanding cash, in which case the car will be returned.

[WhiteFeather]

I just saw this video in a thread from M2143 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?47181-shaya7111-My-Alien-contact-story-The-whole-story--video-).

This message is so important at this point in time. So many people who are sincerely trying to find answers and truth fall for the traps that she speaks of.
She talks about awakening and the truth that is in every one of us and that people should stop listening to people who present themselves as spiritual teachers, but are merely trying to be worshipped. I wont name names here, but there are so many of them... so many so called spiritual teachers that give you the feeling that you need things or people to get to the next level or understanding.

Her message is powerful.

plsdtDg_MZI
Very Resonating Video! Wanishi..... I agree we need no stones, wands, teachers etc. What had contributed in raising my vibrations were several factors. Getting more acquainted with nature (Grounding) and truly respecting all parts and walks of nature. Changing my Diet to Vegetarian. Meditation. Listening to peaceful soothing sounds as The Native Indian Flute, Reiki, Zen, Feng Shui and Solfeggio Tones. It Gives me a good buzz. : ) Im enclosing some of my videos if you dont mind.


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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCw6nwRnJIo

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

[PurpleLama]

Reminded by one of our friends, here and now, of what was one of the few threads started by our retired friend, Playdo:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?28353-Experience-in-Hampi-Karnataka-India-at-the-Temple-and-Birthplace-of-Hanuman&p=288275&viewfull=1#post288275

In my opinion, the OP and the implication of it, is one of the most important on Avalon.

[1inMany]

Good Morning, Village :)

Going into the city today. Apparently, Peanut has a new boyfriend and he has asked her to go fishing tonight. She loves to fish. She says this guy is a sweet little ole country boy...I sure hope so. Maybe it is time for her to have some relief, to have someone who sees how truly amazing she is :) Anyway, M will babysit for her...I was planning on dropping her off and coming back home, but as it is our 19th wedding anniversary, a surprise overnight might be in order! I asked Em if she would like to go with us and spend the night, and she requested to stay here by herself for the night. It's a sign :)

It is drippy outside, must have rained overnight. It is misty and foggy. LOVE IT! It smells like dirt, that's what rain smells like to me...

Thanks, Jenci for the link :) Mike told me yesterday I need to get one of those thingies too, so it may be the way to go!

Much Love to Everybody,

[1inMany]

Oh, and how I forgot to share this, I do not know lol. Boss and Investor have both signed the Letter of Intent. The clock started ticking yesterday, once the agreement was signed by both, on a 90-day deadline. In 90 days or less, the purchase will be finalized and the money will change hands. And Mike will be finally away from Boss. We have tentative plans to sage the entire office, which houses 40 or 50 employees, on the first Sunday morning his furniture is gone.

I cannot tell you the gratitude we both feel for the "bump" (as Mike calls it) that the Village offered in this situation. Honestly, I am full of gratitude because I have had my husband back for the last few weeks. M has noticed the positive difference as well. Mike is full of hope and excitement for the future again, because for him this signed agreement assures that our finances will look up.

In the meantime, co-worker is also absolutely certain that he can produce a Letter of Intent from his cousin, the Investor, to finance a buy-out. The deal in place is one in which the Investors will own the company, buying it from Boss. The investors will have all the equity. The co-worker's cousin is working on financing of a different type. He wants to finance an actual Management Buyout, whereby Mike, D, and the co-worker will all own 25% of the company, the last 25% being the ownership of the Investors. The cousin is motivated to do this to assure that co-worker and his family are taken care of. There will be profit made, be sure, but his motivation is quite different than the current investors. Co-worker and his cousin are certain they can produce a Letter of Intent fairly soon with a 30-day ticker. Thus, it becomes a better deal in terms of putting cash in Boss' hands though no more cash than is currently offered. The ownership interest appeals to Mike, as he has been at the helm of the company for 8 years.

The excitement, for Mike, comes from the knowledge that as of today the worst case scenario is the deal on the table, and it (First and Foremost) gets Boss away from our family. The worst case is perfect.

I am tickled pink. I have seen such a transformation in my husband, and I am grateful! No negativity hanging around him.

The funny part is that I sound like I am totally immersed in this. Totally invested and entangled. But, really, in the back of my mind I am wondering if any of this matters because we are, as human beings and members of a greater family than that, on the verge of a shift in consciousness... and will any of this current situation even matter in 6 months time...in 2 years time? Um, I rather doubt it lol. I do think, though, this deal is key for Mike on his path... probably more important that any of us realize, because this man is truly a spiritual being. He has inklings of his past lives, experiences bleed throughs of other...universes? timelines?... travels consciously while he sleeps... has been asked to help in otherworldly ways and has always agreed to... I feel in my heart that the work situation with Boss has been a very negative influence for him as a person, a block, a situation that has kept him so emotionally and physically strained, and the responsibility of caring for other family members on him as well, that he has not been able to spread his wings so to speak. Yes, all this is as it should be, however I think, somehow I know, it might be time for his next period of growth.

And I am blessed and excited to be allowed to watch...experience it vicariously...and I sit ready to feel the light that is just about to free itself from inside him...

Much Love, and so much gratitude (again lol)!