Here and Now...What's Happening?

[meeradas]

Beautiful

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cHeNscKZN0

A master of his craft.

[Iloveyou]

HUMAN by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

What makes us human?

2000 women and men from 60 countries, from the most different cultures and walks of life, telling a very personal story about women, love, work, poverty (vol. 1), about war (I highly recommand that), forgiving, homosexuality, family and life after death (vol.2), about happiness, education, disability, immigration, corruption and the meaning of life (vol. 3).

After having watched the first half of vol. 2 all the little sorrows have shrinked to the size of nanoparticles

It's more than four hours, but it works quite well to tune in at various points. If you make sure to start with vol. 1 and bear with it at least for the first seven minutes – I think I need not to say more.

https://www.youtube.com/user/HUMANthemovie2015

[Calz]

Posted by meeradas (here)
Beautiful

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cHeNscKZN0

A master of his craft.

Very very nice ... thanx for posting.

The initial first few seconds sounded more like a harp than a guitar.

[Calz]

Always loved this song.

I'll post the live "unplugged" version rather than the one(s) with the sexy images simply to appreciate the band ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yCfkqQ5O9mc

[Calz]

Sorry ... could not resist

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bF6ChLt8UeI

[Calz]

Ouch.

Tough crowd in the village tonight ...



perhaps they are sleeping ... perhaps we should wake them up???

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=e74Q5BLzzKQ

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Calz (here)
Ouch.

Tough crowd in the village tonight ...

It's been a tough week.
Staying away so I don't pass on the ickies.
She returns to cave.
............Going, going, gone ..........................................

[Selkie]

Posted by Calz (here)
Sorry ... could not resist

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bF6ChLt8UeI

I want to date that guy in the red tie who dances down the stairs!

[Shannon]

Here and now I am watching my 14 year old cat pass on from this earth...he is very weak and very quiet, his sister is making noise and really acting out, she must be upset.

This guy is such a good cat, I swear if he was a human, he would be the nicest guy ever. He is like the anti-cat, he is friendly and attentive, fetches, and acts very dog like. Not aloof or independent like most cats. I'm going to miss him so much. He was our first male baby, and I will always have a place for him in my heart...

I love you Stinky

[Hazelfern]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)

Posted by Calz (here)
Ouch.

Tough crowd in the village tonight ...

It's been a tough week.
Staying away so I don't pass on the ickies.
She returns to cave.
............Going, going, gone ..........................................

Absolutely impossible for Paula to pass on the ickies. Is that like leaking on the board?
I don't think you could ever do that. How are you doing with David Moorehouse presentation?
I put the head phones on, take a tablet and walk in the woods.
I also listen over and over and over (ADHD)
I am persistent however, once I make up my mind it's a sure thing.

[Hazelfern]

Posted by Saint Theresa (here)
Here and now I am watching my 14 year old cat pass on from this earth...he is very weak and very quiet, his sister is making noise and really acting out, she must be upset.

This guy is such a good cat, I swear if he was a human, he would be the nicest guy ever. He is like the anti-cat, he is friendly and attentive, fetches, and acts very dog like. Not aloof or independent like most cats. I'm going to miss him so much. He was our first male baby, and I will always have a place for him in my heart...

I love you Stinky

Heartfelt sorrow for the loss of your friend.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Saint Theresa (here)
Here and now I am watching my 14 year old cat pass on from this earth...he is very weak and very quiet, his sister is making noise and really acting out, she must be upset.

Sending Stinky, his sister
and the rest of the family
peace, strength and love.

Posted by Nonin (here)
Absolutely impossible for Paula to pass on the ickies. Is that like leaking on the board?
I don't think you could ever do that. How are you doing with David Moorehouse presentation?
I put the head phones on, take a tablet and walk in the woods.
I also listen over and over and over (ADHD)
I am persistent however, once I make up my mind it's a sure thing.

Thanks, Nonin. What’s confusing is I have nothing to be icky about. I’m not depressed. It’s feels gray. I’m unfocused. Might be that I’m picking up others’ vibe or vibes that are floating about. The remedy is distance from others and for others. It quickens the clearing process. The pace has picked up in the last six months. As fast as it comes on, it’s gone. Which is why I don’t usually say much.

I had another bout of heart pain Wednesday. That’s twice in two weeks. The zaps are between the heart, spine and radiates through the back muscles.

As for the David Moorehouse's remote viewing course? I only got to lesson two and a half. Truth be told, I wondered if there’s a connection between it and the above mentioned. So, I put it on hold. I sense an uptick of ‘visitors’, too. I acknowledge and then scram them.

♡

[Selkie]

Oh, St. T, I am so sorry! Your Stinky reminds me of my beloved Rickie, who passed 15 years ago. Rickie was very dog-like, too, and I miss him to this day. I wish Stinky a peaceful passing, and I feel for you and his sister

[RunningDeer]

Just remembered an anomaly this week with three clocks; one lost an hour, one gained an hour. The computer clock read 11:08, the kitchen clock showed 12:08, and the bathroom clock read 10:08. The two battery operated clocks don’t have a setting for automatic time change.

It’s hard to believe it’s Saturday. This week flew by. And where the bleep did September go?

(Ugh! I'm over posting. I hate when I do that.)

[Lost N Found]

Posted by Saint Theresa (here)
Here and now I am watching my 14 year old cat pass on from this earth...he is very weak and very quiet, his sister is making noise and really acting out, she must be upset.

This guy is such a good cat, I swear if he was a human, he would be the nicest guy ever. He is like the anti-cat, he is friendly and attentive, fetches, and acts very dog like. Not aloof or independent like most cats. I'm going to miss him so much. He was our first male baby, and I will always have a place for him in my heart...

I love you Stinky

I am just going to cry

[Carmody]

Posted by meeradas (here)
Beautiful

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cHeNscKZN0

A master of his craft.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5CPcEoskQI

And for a second cup of goodness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hew39sRf4Y

[ulli]

I found that losing my cat Gatsby was one of the most traumatic events to happen to me.
Two months later I joined Avalon and that helped me fill the void.
My sincere condolences and may you find the inner strength to come to terms with your loss.

[Elainie]

Posted by Saint Theresa (here)
Here and now I am watching my 14 year old cat pass on from this earth...he is very weak and very quiet, his sister is making noise and really acting out, she must be upset.

This guy is such a good cat, I swear if he was a human, he would be the nicest guy ever. He is like the anti-cat, he is friendly and attentive, fetches, and acts very dog like. Not aloof or independent like most cats. I'm going to miss him so much. He was our first male baby, and I will always have a place for him in my heart...

I love you Stinky

My sincere condolences, losing a pet is not just losing a pet - you have lost a family member and it takes time to heal. My cat Odin was killed several years ago by a neighbors dog (who also killed my other neighbor's cat this year as well) , on May 20th of this year my Italian greyhound was killed in front of my house. I still get those pangs in my heart from time to time.................time does heal and it helped me immensely to read/listen to Garnet Shulhauser's accounts of animals in the afterlife. http://www.garnetschulhauser.com/?page_id=237

[ulli]

Been posting quite a few of the wake-up calls that I found here on Avalon on my Facebook page, and noticed that several of my FB friends have followed links, and even got more involved.

This morning I posted this essay from Wade Frazier's page.
It's about what happened to the Free Energy heroes on their journey,
and the atrocities the cabal are capable of doing once they have a great innovative inventor on their radar.

http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#adamiak

[araucaria]

Just back from a break, let me weave a few strands together here relating to time and space – when and where, with particular reference to the weather. This is not one of my harder posts, more like an extended postcard with a spot of firsthand amateur journalism thrown in.

Being in the wrong place and the wrong time, we were in search of some warm sunshine and waited till last week on the basis of the ten-day forecast. Why a ten-day forecast should be at all accurate is a little baffling to me, since weather is inherently chaotic, i.e. unpredictable, being produced by multiple butterfly effects. But in this case it was spot on. Perhaps because stabler (cyclonic and anticyclonic) spells are by definition more resistant to such effects and therefore easier to forecast; or maybe there is more to it than that.

In French, le temps means both time and the weather, and the spatial metaphor is le ciel (the sky): just as you talk about the sky at night, the sky in daytime is what comes to us on a day-to-day basis from suborbital space. Weather-forecasting is la météo, and the very word meteorology suggests maybe not colloquial cats and dogs falling out of sky, maybe not even Fortean frogs and fishes, but at least meteors turning into meteorites – the ultimate in unpredictability: we may have some idea as to when, but not the foggiest notion as to where.

Driving is another unpredictable activity, especially with all the harvesters on the roads right now. It is made predictable by building six-lane highways on which you can convert miles into hours and work out expected arrival times. Based on this analogy, you wonder if something hasn’t been done to smooth out our weather patterns. But that would mean contradicting the proponents of anthropic climate change, whereby the manmade contribution is supposed to make weather less, not more predictable. That is not what we are seeing here.

And, just maybe, meddling with the weather, le temps, le ciel, may be a byproduct of interfering with time and space themselves. Time: improved forecasting presumably relies on better processing of the past (historical records), and the present (realtime satellite data). Space: it relies on data that is global (definitely), solar (probably), lunar (possibly) and astrological (unlikely, at least not publicly). Nonetheless, since not everything can be factored in, the future still involves a potential for change; hence expecting the unexpected, which still often materializes, is not the same as turning the unexpected into the expected. The present is the hinge between the old and the new.

Spatially, Bordeaux was our closest bet for warm sunshine, and we wanted to see the dynamic new city we keep hearing about. The current mayor, Alain Juppé, is a former prime minister and presidential hopeful for 2017, and although a conservative, he has certainly transformed the grim, grimy old city centre into something else. The grey old buildings have been cleaned up and the traffic diverted away; and the pale sandstone reflects the bright light beautifully, turning the place into somewhere attractive to outsiders, who are flocking in to stay – so much so that the old patrician families are tending to lose their influence. We were told this by a talkative shopkeeper from the other end of the country for whom such things are clearly a hot topic with her customers.

While not all change is necessarily good, when a current situation is gridlocked then change is necessary. Clearly the change here is mostly positive, since people are voting with their feet. But the question is, why are these politicians so manifestly capable at the local level, and these same people so hugely incapable at national level? Spot the differences: those are the areas that we need to work on. One major difference is the inertia of the civil service – unelected officials working to a longer timescale and so able to stymy and outstay any elected administration, to impose their diehard rejection of change. The British have turned it into a comedy show, inducing amused passivity. Alternative theorists might talk about ancient long-lived reptilian beings exercising a negative influence on us humans and draining our energy; this might also just be our reptilian brain protecting itself. If the civil service can be seen as an embodiment of that influence, then that is a huge system that can be reformed in a straightforward manner in our ordinary reality, either by legislating, or more simply by elected officials cutting through the red tape for once. Here in France, every two or three decades, we get a brief window of opportunity lasting about a year when radical reform is possible. One of these windows is due soon… Let’s do something with it, without waiting for Europe or any other stragglers.

Bordeaux is of course wine country, and we visited Saint-Emilion, an architecturally interesting town where much of the best wines are produced. Many of the top châteaux are to be found there, which, we were told, are mostly owned by large banking institutions, insurance corporations and the like. Why would fine wines be such a safe investment to cover possible insurance claims? There are two sides to this. On the one hand, the fat cats making these decisions are the ones who are quaffing the stuff. Just as they corner the best in technology, they corner the best in everything else. Hence, as both owners and consumers, they can artificially inflate prices as much as they like, since all this can do is price out the less overprivileged. For themselves, there is no financial outlay beyond from the left hand to the right hand.

On the other hand, this kind of good inflationary investment also makes the insurance claims proportionately more affordable – for while there is speculation on vintage wine, there is no corresponding speculation on the bricks and mortar and other materials requiring insurance cover. This is just one example of how the 1% über-rich form their breakaway civilization. Another way to achieve the same effect is of course to overcharge on insurance premiums, perhaps through actuaries using overblown statistics relating to supposedly increased risks of damage, most notably due to ‘climate change’. Hence some people would have a vested interest in hyping freak weather conditions – and we can see from our reliable long-range weather forecasts that this is what they are doing.

We also visited the nearby village of Montagne. The vendanges (grape harvest) were in full swing ten days early. This is nothing new: the dates are fairly flexible depending on the summer we’ve had. But something new did happen this year, reportedly the sunniest ever but with plenty of winter rain in the water table to supply the deep-rooted vines. We watched a wine-grower bringing in some of his first grapes, and to measure the sugar content, he collected a sample of the first juice from fruit crushed under its own weight at the bottom of a load. The usual level is about 11-12 mg/100ml to produce a wine containing 13-14% alcohol. But he came over to us to show this hydrometer bobbing up at 15.5. He was hardly overjoyed telling us he and all his colleagues were in uncharted territory this year, meaning that they had no experience in making claret out of grapes sweet enough to mature into vintage port. Normally speaking, more natural sugar is going to produce a better quality wine, but only because there is generally some room for improvement. Since we are talking about the very best, this is too much of a good thing and having a naturally fortified wine instead of one for drinking with food is not where they want to be. They might even have to dilute it, which is sacrilege because it would likely upset the whole balance of the must.

This marks the point where despite (or because of) the most ideal conditions ever, meaning an exceptional vintage for many, the very best may prove not to be the best at all. Therein perhaps lies a lesson for how an elite can be toppled from its perch with no outside help, as it were painting itself into a corner of perfection until it has nowhere to go. This has happened not through freak (bad) weather. Mother Nature has not freaked out, she has ‘freaked in’, with plenty of sunshine and no drought. The climate has not so much changed (for the worse) as it has perhaps matured into a less chaotic state.

Maybe the changes to the city of Bordeaux were a large butterfly helping along this effect, but in an unexpected way. Cleaning up all those buildings has increased its albedo: it is literally more radiant, reflecting off much more light than the old dirty stone ever could. And the influx of fresh blood has made the place much more vibrant: the ‘European Destination of the Year’. This is the way to go. By contrast, the recent flash flooding on the Riviera is more about too much concrete in unsuitable places than unusual weather conditions. Up to 8 inches of rain in 24 hrs is a common occurrence throughout the south-eastern region. For example, on the same day (3rd October) in 1988, there were 10 deaths in and around Nîmes. Climate change has little to do with weather patterns and is more about demolishing our old cast-in-concrete attitudes.