Here and Now...What's Happening?

[avid]

Hanging in the back-up ether is waiting to come home, fingers et al crossed, never give up, experts are here! Xxx

[ulli]

http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/w...ee-online.html

The Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky is now free online.

[RunningDeer]

Nineteen hours without electricity and water. Grateful for my back-up water and food reserves. The most prized possession is a battery powered fan. This is day five of 95F/ 35C temperatures with at least 4-5 more days of it. Silver-lining...low humidity today.

I went out to feed the pigeons and check on things from last evenings raging thunderstorm and high winds; lots of down branches and couple of trees up rooted. The grocery store and restaurant parking lots were filled with cars. I putt-putted up to the drive-in Dunkin’ Donuts for a black coffee to stave off an addiction headache.

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Time for a reset on coffee. I was off it for about eighteen months. Funny thing, it was a power outage that triggers me to fall off the wagon last summer. The storm made me do it. Silly to see that in writing, but will leave it.

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Posted by Sstarss (here)
Belated "Happy Birthday",
to our dearest Paula!
Loving blessings wrapped in golden joy.

[ulli]

Poor Paula. And here I'm considering wearing socks even in bed at nights. Eiderdown plus heavy blanket to add weight.
Why not investigate airfares to Costa Rica and visit us? You will cool off.
And I'm sure you'll even save money in the long run. We will look after you.
This is a formal invitation.

[ulli]

And here are some tweets from long ago to cheer y'all up a bit

http://www.demilked.com/funny-classi...val-reactions/

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
Poor Paula. And here I'm considering wearing socks even in bed at nights. Eiderdown plus heavy blanket to add weight.
Why not investigate airfares to Costa Rica and visit us? You will cool off.
And I'm sure you'll even save money in the long run. We will look after you.
This is a formal invitation.

Much appreciation for the invitation, Ulli.

I’m all travelled out. I’ve been in hermit mode for awhile and love-LOVE the lifestyle. For too long, I was over-committed. The downside is that it’s become increasing awkward with friend and family invitations. Some I’ve skirted. Some I’ve tiptoed out of.

There are moments when I wonder what will cause it to turn around. Other moments, I’m reminded that it is a welcomed blessing to be in the here and now, and it’ll sort itself out as it always has.

*****

I'm re-watching this. I purchased this about three(ish) years ago when the survival energies were in full swing. It’s still in the unopened box and so is the boat load of back-up cedar wood. The smart thing to do is do a practice run.

Biolite Campstove Review

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8pxT7jTGSs

[ulli]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Poor Paula. And here I'm considering wearing socks even in bed at nights. Eiderdown plus heavy blanket to add weight.
Why not investigate airfares to Costa Rica and visit us? You will cool off.
And I'm sure you'll even save money in the long run. We will look after you.
This is a formal invitation.

Much appreciation for the invitation, Ulli.

I’m all travelled out. I’ve been in hermit mode for awhile and love-LOVE the lifestyle. For too long, I was over-committed. The downside is that it’s become increasing awkward with friend and family invitations. Some I’ve skirted. Some I’ve tiptoed out of.

There are moments when I wonder what will cause it to turn around. Other moments, I’m reminded that it is a welcomed blessing to be in the here and now, and it’ll sort itself out as it always has.

That's ok.
Although you could still continue your hermit existence here. Own kitchen, bathroom, front door, etc.
We all give one another lots of space.
Remember, I'm used to being a hermit too, so not much of an entertainer.

[ulli]

I'm reposting this reply here, so as to make more readers aware of Carmody's thread "Elon Musk nails it...we live in a computer simulation."
So here is science currently...nano technology and 3D printing, and Carmody pushing the envelope further. Even using non-existing terms like infinity, and speaks of the value of assumptions. We are all about to become mystics, folks while using texhnologies to take us there.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1084144

Thanks Carmody and GalaxyHorse. I'm no expert in anything, just an ordinary dilletante, curious, and yet lacking the discipline to follow the protocols needed to become an expert. But I always wished that experts would switch between different fields of expertise, like Carmody is doing, and then connect their knowledge with their spiritual intuition.

And I always seek information where expert language is translated in lay terms and then use my intuition to wrap my head around it all.
So reading the above two posts meant some memory got triggered and I went looking for the paragraph below which I believe is relevant:
(From one of the Wingmakers sites)

"The physicist, David Bohm, once explained, “…the entire universe has to be thought of as an unbroken whole.” The structure of reality as implied by twentieth century physics shows us that the universe is indeed a vast tapestry of interdependent energetic fields in which we are active participants—not merely observers.
The energies that stream into our local galaxy are circulated through its magnetic field, touching our heliosphere (solar system’s magnetic field) and then touching our earth and then each of us, like a subtle shower of light. There will be no place to hide or avoid the incoming energetics. All will be touched by these new energies that have journeyed such vast distances to activate us into the collective intelligence we are designed to be.
It will not come to us like a switch turning on one day and then it is gone the next. Rather, it will occur over time and remain as long as we redistribute it amongst ourselves. Its influence will astonish us in terms of the degree in which our human family changes in our relation to time, space, religion, government, leadership, purpose, and our abilities to unite as a collective race focused on a mission of transcendence through unity.
There will be no Armageddon. Nor will we be swept up into the ascensionary wings of extraterrestrials. What awaits us is the higher order intelligence of our natural birthright pressing itself upon the field of earth. Humanity must unravel itself energetically to expose its natural purpose, not only upon earth, but upon the stars as well."

[ulli]

South Korea...the house of cards is collapsing.
Samsung's chairman caught in a sex scandal and in the aftermath all of the 0.01% are being implicated.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/engli...al/753580.html

[RunningDeer]

I had a hankering for chocolate brownies on my walk. What happened was on the drive over, unbeknown to me, I followed a guy that was smoking weed in his truck. My windows were closed and the fan was on high (no pun intended).

For those whose job is too watch...I didn’t inhale. I only smelled [it].

Logging off now. Still got the munchies.

[Flash]

Lollllll. Very funny. So this made for a good birthday!

Happy birthday a bit late Paula

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
I had a hankering for chocolate brownies on my walk. What happened was on the drive over, unbeknown to me, I followed a guy that was smoking weed in his truck. My windows were closed and the fan was on high (no pun intended).

For those whose job is too watch...I didn’t inhale. I only smelled [it].

Logging off now. Still got the munchies.

[transiten]

Hi folks! Popping in as soon as Mercury starts to slow down. I went to my favourite island today, my face is red as a crab. Actually used my Trangia kitchen- sync sync - for the first time in years today, boiled some water for coffee!

I've also been through hell and back twice but feeling great at the moment, better than years back, seems like the Lyme is loosing the game although I'm not totally assured of course. Will be back. So much love as Kaypacha says.

[transiten]

Running Dear Lol Lol Lol, I've got a neighbour who hired her apartment to a man from Gambia, guess if I smell weed every time I pass that door...

[onawah]

I just made my first batch of brownies in years and will polish it off today. It was the perfect thing for my chocolate addiction.
I've been trying to stick with raw cacao fudge, which is the healthiest way I've found of satisfying my craving, but I will at least dust my next batch of brownies off with some of the raw cacao powder.
It's my birthday this Friday ( I will be 68! can't believe I've lasted this long, and am still going pretty strong ) so I will indulge a bit.

Same kind of weather here in the Ozarks, though it's supposed to get down into the 80s next week, and might even rain.

This morning I got up at 7:15 (always a struggle for me as I am a night owl), got dressed, made my aloe, maca and spirulina morning smoothie and drank it, took my vitamins, got all my stuff ready for my first day at work, then sat on the porch waiting for my reserved ride with our local public transport van.
When it didn't show up, I called the depot and was informed that the transport van doesn't run on Sundays!
First time I've done that in years too, and the really ironic thing is that I thought it was the first day at my new job, which I'm always a bit nervous about.
Well, tomorrow is the first day and I know I'm going to feel foolish all day long today and tomorrow AM too when I have to do that go-to-work routine all over again and the van driver will be amused because they all will know by tomorrow that I missed a day.
Anyway, I decided to go back to bed for a nap, and I had a very realistic, real-time-and-place dream in which Kerry Cassidy came over and helped to fix my desktop computer (which has indeed crashed), and she got it going again but did something wrong and the printer suddenly started printing out all kinds of stuff and we couldn't get it to stop, so it kept on printing until it had used up my brand new ink cartridge and THEN it finally stopped.
A moment of panic and fluster, then we both just laughed and waited for the ghost in the machine to have its fun.
Then she complimented me on the decor in my living room and said she liked all my collages (which really are) hanging on the walls.
Then I excused myself to go pee, and had one of those things where you are sitting on the toilet getting ready to pee and then you realize that you are actually asleep and are going to wet the bed if you don't get up asap and get to the bathroom.
Curious morning!
I am going to take heed of what I just posted here this week, I hope: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1084218
...and stop devoting precious time and energy to things I cannot change, and get to work more on something I've been putting off doing--getting back to work on writing my life story, which I just resumed a week or so ago.
I drew a card the other night from my magical Vibrational Medicine pack https://www.amazon.com/Vibrational-M.../dp/0962471658
... which was about two things, Remembering and Direction (as in finding a new one).
I loved what Don Juan Matus instructed about recapitulation.
I feel so much power returning to me when I write about my past.
I don't dwell on it--there's nothing so painful anymore that I can't write about it, and it's such a good release when I do.
When recording an event from my teen aged years the other day, something I was very ashamed of and knew I had earned some bad karma over, it came home to me in a very humbling way how unwise it is to judge and condemn others.
Being human isn't easy.
Often things look very different in retrospective too, and I realize I can release something that never really meant what I thought it did.

Have a great week, villagers.

[lake]

Posted by ulli (here)
And here are some tweets from long ago to cheer y'all up a bit

http://www.demilked.com/funny-classi...val-reactions/

Thanks for that....it made me laugh, must say though when I saw the first image of the young girl holding the demon.......I immediately though how wonderful it is.
Beauty being only skin deep and the empathy the child must have! Amazing!
Look at her eyes....there is only a want for redemption for the beast.......a want for another chance a want for escape for the beast a want for a return....together!
Look at the beast.......it knows that the child has the power....but more it knows that it will eventually BE a part of the child's love and WILL !

Stunning, thank you.

Oh and the third image is probably one of the MOST scarier things I have seen!!! lol

Edit to add that maybe she is Sophia and the demon is her child in this bubble of a reality? the one that does not have knowledge of its mother?
Would like to know this paintings name, if anyone knows?

[RunningDeer]

Sending a shout out to EagleSpirit.
Cuz Dan, you just popped into my thoughts.

Posted by Flash (here)
Lollllll. Very funny. So this made for a good birthday!

Thanks, Flash. Ben & Jerry celebrated with me. The flavor was coffee with coffee bits.

I buzzed all night.

Posted by transiten (here)
…I’ve got a neighbour who hired her apartment to a man from Gambia, guess if I smell weed every time I pass that door…

High-high and transiten. Really happy to hear you are kicking butt with the Lyme stuff.

Posted by onawah (here)
I just made my first batch of brownies in years and will polish it off today. It was the perfect thing for my chocolate addiction.
I've been trying to stick with raw cacao fudge, which is the healthiest way I've found of satisfying my craving, but I will at least dust my next batch of brownies off with some of the raw cacao powder.
It's my birthday this Friday ( I will be 68! can't believe I've lasted this long, and am still going pretty strong ) so I will indulge a bit.

onawah, I'm sending more chocolate your way for an early happy birthday indulgence. I left off the raw cacao powder to save you some calories.

I also sent calming vibes your way for the new job.

[ulli]

Whoa, ladies, some great sharing there.
And Onawah, brilliant post...loved it. Did writing about your dream by any chance reveal to you that the Kerry Cassidy character was an aspect of yourself? As was the computer that needed fixing, as well as the printer that wouldn't stop and then finally did, all ending in a good ol' laugh?
Because that's how I have been analyzing my own dreams for the last thirty years, and have had no end of empowering insights as a result.
Can't emhasize this enough, and can't thank Fritz Perls ( founder of Gestalt Therapy) enough for having brought to us his teachings.
That wholeness, holiness, approach to life, as explained in so many different words, by Perls, Krishnamurti, Gurdjieff, Gnosticism, Wingmakers, and that led me to learn how to balance polarities, shelve apparently unacceptable concepts for a while instead of throwing them out, yet letting others react to their lives as they see fit, without judgement, and just toodle along my way, trusting in The Most High, whenever I have reached my own limits.
This is what has worked for me.

[ulli]

Posted by lake (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
And here are some tweets from long ago to cheer y'all up a bit

http://www.demilked.com/funny-classi...val-reactions/

Thanks for that....it made me laugh, must say though when I saw the first image of the young girl holding the demon.......I immediately though how wonderful it is.
Beauty being only skin deep and the empathy the child must have! Amazing!
Look at her eyes....there is only a want for redemption for the beast.......a want for another chance a want for escape for the beast a want for a return....together!
Look at the beast.......it knows that the child has the power....but more it knows that it will eventually BE a part of the child's love and WILL !

Stunning, thank you.

Oh and the third image is probably one of the MOST scarier things I have seen!!! lol

Edit to add that maybe she is Sophia and the demon is her child in this bubble of a reality? the one that does not have knowledge of its mother?
Would like to know this paintings name, if anyone knows?

I'm glad you liked it, lake.
The one that made me laugh out loud was the one with the barber.

And then I saw these photoshops from the Republican convention...funny too, for anyone who is following political stuff these days.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000023

[onawah]

Thanks Running Deer for the brownies (raw cacao actually doesn't have a lot of calories--it's the butter and honey in the fudge!) and thanks for the calming vibes--I need that! and thanks to Ulli for the insights, which sparked some reflection.
I have read some of Perls, though I am more into mysticism, Wicca, Zen, etc.
update: ...but also into Krishnamurti, Gurdjieff, Gnosticism, Wingmakers, etc.
But I am familiar with the theory that anyone who appears in our dreams is actually an aspect of one's self.
I think what the dream was about was the fact that, although I am a Leo, I have a lot of Gemini in my chart and though I used to be much more active, nowadays due to my disability (bad knees, ankles, etc. so it's painful when I am on my feet) I have kind of surrendered myself to the Geminisque factor and am spending way too much time online networking, signing petitions, doing activist work which I feel is of service to others, but I overdo it, and so am not serving myself well in that way.
That need to communicate is strong, but what is working best for me now in that regard is working on my life story.
I could really let the rest go and it would probably be good for me to do that.
(Sometimes I think it's better to be LESS in service to others!)
I need to get more creative with my writing and also get back to doing more collage work, which gets me out of my mental body and more into my imagination and heart.
Kerry demonstrated how it's good to have the computer in that she fixed it, but it can "run away with me" (I am compulsive with it), as the printer did in copying out stuff that wasn't really needed (repetitive work like signing petitions, sending letters to Congress, etc.).
And she complimented my collage work, which is something I know I should do more of because it gives me such deep satisfaction.
That message has been coming through loud and clear for awhile, but I'm just now really starting to act on it more, having resumed writing my life story after a couple of years of that being on the shelf, and making collages (just finished one and another presently in the works).

[RunningDeer]

One more in my thoughts.