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    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)

    Hmmm. Well, I could I suppose. Lord knows I sure post everything else here lmao. I don't want to disturb the wonderful vibes in here, and I'm afraid it's kinda long........

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    I was in Barbados when you first posted this tune...strong impact then and again, now. Trying to shrug it off even as I'm listening....
    Feeling it's impact is contradicting to what I was just going to write to ViralSpiral about not needing any props to get to meditative states, since all props only are reminders of their own impermanence. Which in turn can cause the mind to continue in it's demands to be given more stuff to chew on.
    Thus even when being inside the most glorious forest the mind might be wailing that 'soon soon all this will come to an end'...
    which is another one of those mind lies.
    Needy little fella, the mind...
    i use such things as self hypnotic triggers, to begin the process of stilling the inner voice. In the same way that a hypnotist will establish a system of taking a person 'down', then one can slip into the correct state easier, faster, more often.

    In the same way that a tune that might have been playing on the radio in a car, in a moment of shared joy, just before the crash that damaged the body and killed the other..in the same way that tune horrifies and brings the moment back..

    ...one can use such triggers, triggers into the doorway that can be built into the self as an established path, to get down to the the work of fixing and opening the self.

    When I was working with the path of one who helps people leave this place cleanly, I used a series of specific triggers to bring that state to the fore.

    this is one of them (and most of the film, as a spin down self hypnotic)
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    Is that a new crop circle?
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    For the skate to fully operate, one must also be consuming the high vitamin butter oil. Unless one has fresh raw milk as a regular part of the diet, that is.
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    As for pineal gland activation, I've mentioned using the atomidine, and of all the things I've tried over the years, this is the one thing I will never put back down. One of the number one things about the detoxified iodine aka atomidine is it fully supports glandular function, especially of the endocrine, or ductless glands, of which the pineal is one. The glands work in sequence together, and the energy that reaches the top starts at the bottom. A fully decalcified pineal will do no good if none of the other glands are also working properly.

    I've also taken the fermented skate liver oil, that contains Dr. Peterson's activator x, or whatever they call it, so I can't say that's not a contributing factor, as well. I will say my stepfather was lined up to have hip replacement surgery, but in the last check up the docs decided his hip wasn't so bad after all, after he'd been taking the skate for about a month or so. The skate is best taken in combination to the high vitamin butter oil, from the same source, by all accounts.

    I also have been spiking my bottled spring water with the celtic sea salt, and this also seems to be a significant factor, and it's delicious (thanks for the idea, zebra). The salt seems to be enhancing/balancing the conductivity of the body's energy system.

    We've been phasing meat more and more out of our diet, which is good, I think. Last nights dreams ended with a short scene in a restaurant, and I chose a piece of fried chicken breast, and I was shocked when I was shown that this small chunk of fried meat was going to cost me twenty eight dollars and some change. I questioned the price and the black woman running the place assured me the price was correct, and then said mostly old people eat that stuff, as an aside. The message being the high cost of eating meat. It was the first meat we'd eaten in several days, last night, and it was indeed chicken.

    If anybody has any good ideas on what to do with kelp powder, I'm all ears, as the higher ups have also insisted on that becoming part of our diet as well, so I have a few pounds coming. I've yet to research what to do with it, which I will also do.

    For anti inflammatory properties, I must sing again the praises of alka thyme, from heritage. I seriously underplayed the severity of the burns I received last sunday, that were mostly healed within just a few hours, by using first the atomidine, then the alka thyme. The burns were easily third degree, as I was indicating by comparing them to the sparkler bomb incident.

    I can see how a pristine, living water system, a natural clear stream or brook, could have remarkable healing properties. Makes perfect sense, to me.

    From the material gleaned from Jay Weidner, and the Book of Aquarius, it seems the preferred method of distillation would be slow, involving very low heat, non conductive materials, and no electric elements, for the preserving of the life force that rises from the water. Dew collection would be quite preferrable to distilling municipal water sources, as well.

    Funny, astrid actually made an appearance in my dream last night, a group of us were having a discussion in my mom's living room, and she was seated closest to me. I liken this to an energetic contact that was made a while back, that I would discuss perhaps through PM.
    Since you are taking atomidine, your iodine needs will be met and this need is one of the primary reasons to use kelp. That said, kelp has many minerals/nutrients as most sea vegetable do. Another thing often missed is the fact that things like kelp are almost pure protein per weight. The small amount, per weight, we consume makes this fact somewhat ignorable in the bigger scheme. As for use, sprinkling on foods or in soups.stews is one way, but the inescapable 'taste of the sea' will be evident and not necessarily a gustatory plus. So, if you already have powder consider buying a package of empty capsules and filling them with the powder to ingest all the kelp you want without the unique flavor.

    With your iodine intake your could skip the kelp, IMO. You will be able to source your other minerals and vitamins from a healthy diet rich in green leafies.
    Thanks for this wealth of info on 3rd eye decalcificationing. I since have been utilizing Green Pasteurs Skatefish oil as recommended by some members here including Bill Ryan. I have come to understand in the past few months that Black Shilajit may possibly be considered in aiding to help open the 3rd eye as well. Has anyone on this topic ventured with this mineral. Im going to purchase soon. Keep me posted. Great Info on The Pineal Gland Here. Wanishi.

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    Okey dokey, here's the deal (haha). If this is too long or if anybody feels it would be more appropriate elsewhere, I'm absolutely happy to delete and start it.....um...somewhere else. But, you'll have to give me suggestions

    I used to live in the world of five senses. My “reality” consisted of anything experienced through those. If that was “asleep,” then my dreams were my reality…vivid, disturbing, elating…turbulent. I could not have sought a new or different reality, as I did not know one existed. It has sought me.

    Waking up from that reality has been one of the most difficult, confusing, and traumatic experiences I have ever had. The very foundation on which I was firmly planted has been not only shaken but violently cracked and demolished by the jackhammer aha! moments.

    I lived my first 40 years believing to the depths of my soul that there was good in everyone. I always looked for it, always found it, so I always believed it. This belief was the first piece of foundation to crack. In that moment of realization, I lost my footing and became painfully aware that there were very few people like me, people in the world who still protect and defend and care for those who are not able to do so for themselves.

    I felt alone, isolated, and called my only friend in the world sobbing at the thought that I was a freak. She assured me, of course, that there are other people in the world like us but they have become fewer and farther between. I was not the freak for fighting for what I believed in, for fighting for the rights of my children. I was beaten down and tired.

    Within months of this phone call, this friend, who was the Principal at a charter school 45 minutes from my home, had recruited me to fill a vacant position for her. I decided to give it a go, thrilled to have her respect and support.

    As a special education teacher, I found a special niche with kids from 10-21 years old who had been thrown away. I had my friend’s full support in reaching out to these kids and saw life changing results.

    With the school’s Principal (my friend) behind me, I found myself fighting my school district over money-making changes they wanted to implement in the treatment of my students, and as a mother I found myself fighting their retaliation on my birth children. It was as if I opened my eyes one day and found myself in a situation I had not chosen, not as a victim but as a warrior. I had the distinct feeling I was being protected (though illnesses and deaths were occurring in the families on the perimeter), but I could not understand why I was in this role. I was just me, certainly ill-prepared for any kind of battle.

    One day in court, I looked at the opposing party’s table in front of the judge, about 20 feet away. There were three people at the table and two people sitting in chairs behind the table but in front of the railing that separated the spectators. I was sitting alone, my attorney was standing at the podium speaking to the judge across the room. At some point, a chord must have been struck, and the two people previously seated literally jumped up and joined the other three people at the table, all standing by this time as well. They, the five of them, appeared to be clawing at each other trying to each one have the loudest voice so the judge would listen…”No, me! No, me! No, listen to me!”

    I looked at this pathetic sight, I won’t lie I was scared to death, and saw what I will call a bleed-through for lack of a better word. At the same time and in the same space as these five greedy and power-hungry people were fighting for the judge’s attention, I saw five jackals. It was like seeing a hologram that was shorting out, both a person and a jackal existing at the same moment in the same space. That jackhammer almost scared me to death. I was not scared of the people. I was not scared by the jackals. I became painfully aware that I was fighting something much bigger and more powerful than I could have realized, and that scared me.

    When I finally got the nerve up, I told my friend and my husband what I saw that day in court. To my astonishment, neither doubted what I relayed to them. In fact, they both shared with me some experiences they had, starting with the day I started work at the school and escalating as the battle gained momentum. Shadow people, great beings of light, orbs, presences…all sorts of things the likes of which I don’t think I had even heard of at that time.

    So goes my journey. Aha! Boom! Aha! Boom!

    People choose different methods of gaining knowledge. Some choose meditation and strongly urge everyone else to use the same method since it has held true for them. Some choose astrology, maybe the movement of the stars and planets explain or clarify or bring insight. Some people choose to study UFOs and/or beings from other planets, times, dimensions, vibrations. Others choose to study ancient civilizations and their enduring prophecies. There is also the study of mythological beings and/or stories, and the study of sacred geometry and symbols.

    I’ve decided only one thing. Maybe the veil is not one big “curtain.” Maybe each person’s veil is as unique as they are. Wouldn’t that explain the different truths?

    I’m sharing this in hopes that others have had less-than-subtle moments of awakening. There are many, many people who are confident in where they are, sure of what is happening, excited at the coming changes…these people “know.” Surely, surely, I am not the only one that isn’t sure and certain? I’m hoping against hope that there are other people who can reassure me there is light at the end of this tunnel, that it’s not totally abnormal to have chosen, somewhere in the planning of this life, to be rudely awakened rather than sweetly and lovingly brought around.

    Thank you for reading this, and taking time to share if you feel compelled.

    All my Love,

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    The crop circle spider is at least a few years old, I followed to the source and it was a forum post somewhere from 2010, so it's at least that old.

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    Good Morning

    This morning I committed to writing one of my awakening experiences. I want to share it in hopes of hearing I am not the only one having a "rude awakening" lol. I was going to post it, but I can't decide where. Any suggestions?

    Much Love,
    Where?
    Right here, of course.
    When?
    Right now, of course.
    Duh!


    P.S. Oops....I just saw it...you did it.
    Good girl...

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    Yes, each path is different. with the ego intact, it will tell you, or you will be compelled to go down the given path you need to go down, in order to get done the things you need to get done..according to the way you have decided to incarnate and learn lessons.

    Which is dictated by the the prior incarnations that one has chosen and lived through..and so has added to their record of experience and being.

    The doorway of the shortcut always exists, if one should realize it and decide to take it.

    And that is the doorway that meditation presents. If one has had enough of the varied incarnations and meandering path... and feels that they can take it on, successfully, or in whatever capacity they decide to try -at.

    It is never enforced, that would be unworkable...but it's availability is announced as existing.

    For example, the path of astrology, potently so... is tied to the unrealized state.

    In the so called 'enlightened' state, one can begin to step away form the astrological path, to some degree.
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    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    Good Morning

    This morning I committed to writing one of my awakening experiences. I want to share it in hopes of hearing I am not the only one having a "rude awakening" lol. I was going to post it, but I can't decide where. Any suggestions?

    Much Love,
    You could post it in the Spirituality section imo.

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    never mind!
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    Quote Posted by PurpleLama (here)
    The crop circle spider is at least a few years old, I followed to the source and it was a forum post somewhere from 2010, so it's at least that old.

    interesting. for if one emplaces the electromagnetic fields that are stressed between two circular objects... and then there is a lensing one between them, it would not look all that different. (see the small one?)

    As in earth, venus and the sun.
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    I was in Barbados when you first posted this tune...strong impact then and again, now. Trying to shrug it off even as I'm listening....
    Feeling it's impact is contradicting to what I was just going to write to ViralSpiral about not needing any props to get to meditative states, since all props only are reminders of their own impermanence. Which in turn can cause the mind to continue in it's demands to be given more stuff to chew on.
    Thus even when being inside the most glorious forest the mind might be wailing that 'soon soon all this will come to an end'...
    which is another one of those mind lies.
    Needy little fella, the mind...
    i use such things as self hypnotic triggers, to begin the process of stilling the inner voice. In the same way that a hypnotist will establish a system of taking a person 'down', then one can slip into the correct state easier, faster, more often.

    In the same way that a tune that might have been playing on the radio in a car, in a moment of shared joy, just before the crash that damaged the body and killed the other..in the same way that tune horrifies and brings the moment back..

    ...one can use such triggers, triggers into the doorway that can be built into the self as an established path, to get down to the the work of fixing and opening the self.

    When I was working with the path of one who helps people leave this place cleanly, I used a series of specific triggers to bring that state to the fore.

    this is one of them (and most of the film, as a spin down self hypnotic)
    I have the CD but never watched the video. Triggered all sorts of stuff for me...and so did the Youtube comments underneath, as well.
    The poverty/starvation thing is the hardest part to deal with of all... and also a reminder of our own voluntarily reduced standard of living
    as we pour all own own income into wages...for workers we don't really need,
    since we are quite capable of living a simple life.
    But if we don't give them the jobs that feed their endless parade of new children
    which they pop out year after year despite our efforts to teach contraception....
    who will?
    It is so overwhelming that one is left wanting to escape from it all.

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    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
    Yes, each path is different. with the ego intact, it will tell you, or you will be compelled to go down the given path you need to go down, in order to get done the things you need to get done..according to the way you have decided to incarnate and learn lessons.

    Which is dictated by the the prior incarnations that one has chosen and lived through..and so has added to their record of experience and being.

    The doorway of the shortcut always exists, if one should realize it and decide to take it.


    And that is the doorway that meditation presents. If one has had enough of the varied incarnations and meandering path... and feels that they can take it on, successfully, or in whatever capacity they decide to try -at.

    It is never enforced, that would be unworkable...but it's availability is announced as existing.

    For example, the path of astrology, potently so... is tied to the unrealized state.

    In the 'enlightened', one can begin to step away form the astrological path, to some degree.

    About two years ago, when I was sufficiently "healed" of the battle wounds, I tried in earnest. Did you know that there are 45,000 ways and reasons to meditate? Okay, maybe a few shy of that, but to someone just embarking....there is meditation for: contact with spirit guides, opening chakras, obe, raising one's vibration, getting ready for ascension, relaxation...sorry, that's just off the top of my head. So, I started. I picked one. And every single time, I fell asleep (haha). So, I tried at a different time of day, at a different place in my home, for different reasons. I've tried those tones, bowls, guided and not...it isn't coming. I did get close twice. Really, really close once...in my third eye I saw some funky symbols in all colors and they got closer and closer...the excitement brought me straight back here lol. I finally got frustrated and quit. I have dipped my toe in the waters of so many things that I feel....just....stuck. I finally decided it was just not time yet.

    I'm certainly not opposed to trying again, I figure one of these days it will be the designated time. I hesitate because I have enough frustration. But...
    Life is a road we don't travel alone. But everyone's on their own journey home.

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    Baraka is an amazing piece of work, and beautifully constructed. Worth, very much so, seeing it in it's entirety, in one sitting. No disturbances, calm, focused.

    As for mediation, Just plain and simple stilling of the inner voice. the end. ...and it is the beginning.

    Nothing more, but certainly nothing less.

    As stated, the path of choice is the path of choice.
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    Good Morning

    This morning I committed to writing one of my awakening experiences. I want to share it in hopes of hearing I am not the only one having a "rude awakening" lol. I was going to post it, but I can't decide where. Any suggestions?

    Much Love,
    You could post it in the Spirituality section imo.

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    never mind!

    as well as ....

    Thanks for sharing 1iM. As Carmody postulated: many juveniles, a long way from home.

    My sister sent me this:


    Four frogs sat upon a log that lay floating on the edge of a river. Suddenly the log was caught by the current and swept slowly down the stream. The frogs were delighted and absorbed, for never before had they sailed.

    At length the first frog spoke, and said, "This is indeed a most marvelous log. It moves as if alive. No such log was ever known before."

    Then the second frog spoke, and said, "Nay, my friend, the log is like other logs, and does not move. It is the river, that is walking to the sea, and carries us and the log with it."

    And the third frog spoke, and said, " It is neither the log nor the river that moves. The moving is in our thinking. For without thought nothing moves."

    And the three frogs began to wrangle about what was really moving. The quarrel grew hotter and louder, but they could not agree.

    Then they turned to the fourth frog, who up to this time had been listening attentively but holding his peace, and they asked his opinion.

    And the fourth frog said, "Each of you is right, and none of you is wrong. The moving is in the log and the water and our thinking also."

    And the three frogs became very angry, for none of them was willing to admit that his was not the whole truth, and that the other two were not wholly wrong.

    Then the strange thing happened. The three frogs got together and pushed the fourth frog off the log into the river.

    ~ Kahlil Gibran
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    Ye ha for Tom!

    I run in these circles, these days. I dont know what I'd do without my sweet little woman.
    She's an inspiriration, and she has done more work than anyone I know in the area of personal development.
    And purely without guile, without ego, without study. Simply because she wanted to improve.
    Wish I could just will a thing like that, and then make it so...

    Thanks for all the great back and forth, Carmody, Ulli, VS (for the most part). I'm listening - and taking mental notes.

    This is for all those sweet loving women out there, thanks for all you do to make our world just a little bit more bearable.

    Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

    Free will can only be as free as the mind that conceives it.

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    Quote Posted by ViralSpiral (here)
    Quote Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    Good Morning

    This morning I committed to writing one of my awakening experiences. I want to share it in hopes of hearing I am not the only one having a "rude awakening" lol. I was going to post it, but I can't decide where. Any suggestions?

    Much Love,
    You could post it in the Spirituality section imo.

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    never mind!

    as well as ....

    Thanks for sharing 1iM. As Carmody postulated: many juveniles, a long way from home.

    My sister sent me this:


    Four frogs sat upon a log that lay floating on the edge of a river. Suddenly the log was caught by the current and swept slowly down the stream. The frogs were delighted and absorbed, for never before had they sailed.

    At length the first frog spoke, and said, "This is indeed a most marvelous log. It moves as if alive. No such log was ever known before."

    Then the second frog spoke, and said, "Nay, my friend, the log is like other logs, and does not move. It is the river, that is walking to the sea, and carries us and the log with it."

    And the third frog spoke, and said, " It is neither the log nor the river that moves. The moving is in our thinking. For without thought nothing moves."

    And the three frogs began to wrangle about what was really moving. The quarrel grew hotter and louder, but they could not agree.

    Then they turned to the fourth frog, who up to this time had been listening attentively but holding his peace, and they asked his opinion.

    And the fourth frog said, "Each of you is right, and none of you is wrong. The moving is in the log and the water and our thinking also."

    And the three frogs became very angry, for none of them was willing to admit that his was not the whole truth, and that the other two were not wholly wrong.

    Then the strange thing happened. The three frogs got together and pushed the fourth frog off the log into the river.

    ~ Kahlil Gibran
    from Poems, Parables and Drawings

    My bet is that the 4th walked across the water...



    I identify with that fourth frog, lol, because one source of internal struggle for me, which is extremely strong, is that I see that everyone is "right" lol...I see the value in all those different areas, all the sources of knowledge...

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    Carmody,
    Quote Yes, each path is different. with the ego intact, it will tell you, or you will be compelled to go down the given path you need to go down, in order to get done the things you need to get done..according to the way you have decided to incarnate and learn lessons.

    Which is dictated by the the prior incarnations that one has chosen and lived through..and so has added to their record of experience and being.

    The doorway of the shortcut always exists, if one should realize it and decide to take it.
    If meditation is a shortcut, and it is chosen, then aren't the lessons one was supposed to learn still unlearned? What is it a shortcut to?
    Life is a road we don't travel alone. But everyone's on their own journey home.

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    Quote Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)

    This is for all those sweet loving women out there, thanks for all you do to make our world just a little bit more bearable.

    *flirt*
    you married?








    Thank you, you're welcome, and right back at ya!


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    .... be gentle with your anger. Sixto Rodriguez, Cape Town 20.02.2013

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    Baraka is the film that has had the most impact on me. I was introduced to it by some young friends at school. It was a rough period for me then and "they" wanted me to go back to work. I told "them" I wanted to go to school, so I took an horticultural production (production horticole) professional course instead. My emotions were at "fleur de peau" and this film moved me to a place I had never been before. It still does.

    Ron Fricke has worked on another film since, Samsara. It is coming out soon.

    http://barakasamsara.com/

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    In some aspects, meditation as self examination leads to a sight of further lessons, and an integration thereof, that amounts to learning the lesson without the physical experience/interaction that would otherwise be necessary to "meet the self."

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