Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Guest]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
that is sore, right now, that spot on my upper lip.

Any conclusions?

Listening to this

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mU_K6po9gqo

I just checked, there was an eclipse series in the same 'window' of time in 1977, when I had that situation occur.

"It is the old wound, my King. It has never healed." -Lancelot, Excalibur, 1981

1977 there were some things overtly revealed to me and have come full circle.

When I was 9 years I went to some older relatives about these revelations and said to them that there was something going on with a younger relative of mine and that they needed some help. Back then who believed a 9 year old? Over the years between 1 1/2 and 9, I would in my young way try to tell them. Mostly, I stayed detached but with concern and trepidation at times that this younger relative was mostly unapproachable.... and over the years too. I was really protected.

Now it has come full circle.


Then the dream....about the big cats and one of my nieces (daughter of the above relative) this morning. Whom I practically raised. She loves animals and has several. In the dream everything was illuminated. The big cats pacing around me, I came upon a big pile of people and small animals sandwiched and layered together. On the top was my niece. When I asked her what are you doing? She jumped off of the top of the pile then all of the people & animals lifted up and circled and she said I am cold -we are cold. We came together and piled on top of each other to stay warm and now that you are here we will be able to stay warm. All of the animals and people stayed in the circle. My niece said there is more let me show you. She showed me more piles of cold, all the while the cats staying with me. When she was done the cats circled around me fast then I woke up.
What a mix.... I think she is asking me for help -there is more but that is part of it.

Love

Nora

[1inMany]

M shared this song with me, and I adore it. Quite powerful expression of the bipolar creative and expressive aspect. I have so much compassion, so much empathy for M even though i cannot imagine what life inside her head and heart must be like. Random sharing...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AtpJzMdu89A

Much Love,

[RunningDeer]

Posted by lightwalker (here)
[I put this in the healing thread.....well, just because love is the most powerful healer I know.
lightwalker

A fellow Avalonian added this vid a year ago called: "I Choose Love"
If you are out there, thank you, lightwalker

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

[modwiz]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Dost Thou wail, or shall I wail? Rather shall I weep at the fewness of Thy champions, O Thou Who hast caused the wailing of the worlds.

Yes, I hear it






There are several tablets where the message is about the whole universe crying because of what happened to Bahaullah. When he was tortured, head down, so as not to lose consciousness and had the soles of his feet lashed with metal rods several hundred times. Carmody mentioning the man in the hospital bed who had worn down the soles of his feet reminded me.
I think I just got cured from another set of doubts about Bahaullah having possibly been under mind control from secret societies, who wanted to create the new world order via a new religion.
There were two movements running parallel, both born in 1844. Both wanted a unified world. One was Marxism, the other came out of Persia and was Bahai. And the son of Bahaullah was asked to merge with the communist (then Bolshevik) movement, but he declined and was known to have said "they do not believe in God, and we do not believe in force".

Ulli, you know where the seat of the Bahai is today. The Bolsheviks now control it. The merge was accomplished.

[Guest]

I am traveling
am on one of those long lonely roads

Just watched one of the reddist moons I have ever seen rise over the horizon.

Love

Nora

[Calz]

Posted by Nora (here)
I am traveling
am on one of those long lonely roads

Just watched one of the reddist moons I have ever seen rise over the horizon.

Love

Nora

[Ernie Nemeth]

And thank you to whoever described the spiritual cleansing process as going into hell, then going into ecstasy. I have so put myself down for my regular_as_clockwork_bouts_of_weeping_especially_d uring_meditation, even though they do result in joy and a wider vision. I knew they were connected, the pain, then understanding and joy. Can't control it, and never wanted to stop it, but I felt ashamed.

No more.

Sierra

Every time I hear this tune...I weep. Often use it for cleansing my troubled soul. Very personal, very spiritual. My guides always rush to me, straight to my heart, whenever I hear it. In a whoosh, as PL might say. I find this album great for meditation and yoga.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lk7nhZHlbps

hugs

[ViralSpiral]

Posted by Nora (here)
I am traveling
am on one of those long lonely roads

Just watched one of the reddist moons I have ever seen rise over the horizon.

Love

Nora

The so-called Strawberry Moon, based on Native American folklore, will pass behind the Earth on Monday, June 4th in what should be a very interesting partial lunar eclipse to observe. In addition, this full Moon will be the first lunar eclipse of 2012.

Folklore of the Native Americans, specifically the Algonquin tribe, calls a full Moon in June a Strawberry Moon because of the relatively short harvesting season for strawberries in late spring, specifically in the month of June.

The Strawberry Moon is also called the Flower Moon, Honey Moon, Hot Moon, and Planting Moon. In Europe, the Strawberry Moon is called the Rose Moon.








Absolutely stunning pics Meerdas!! Make my heart sing. Where were they taken?

Shocking version this. The message however, is not

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AsNTmjlf1vI

I pictured a rainbow
You held in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw then plan
I wondered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

[eaglespirit]

WE are Here and Now...and There and Everywhere...ALL is within Our Insights to Change ALL
What Do You See to Be : )

[astrid]

Briefly checking in
It's been such a huge learning and transformative
trip thus far . The small group of us have bonded
through our at times very intimate shared healing
and learning. I got triggered a few times quite heavily
and had to work hard to get back to centre . One time
I thought I had actually inflicted harm on my " client "
but it turned out I had worked on her so deeply that
some long burried intrusions were activated which
were then able to be extracted.
Those with more of a natural bent towards psychopomp
and de possession work it turns out tend to bring these
issues to the surface relatively quickly . Which is all good
It just means that healing integration and a series of sessions
is often needed for it to be a holistic and complete process .
Of course many are looking for you to " fix" them
and to not have to be proactive in their own healing and
growth , which is the fast food mentality we are
living in .
But not in anyway the path to empowerment and true
healing and growth

Anyways .... Way too much to discuss here and now
I just hope I am taking enough notes the days are so
full and our trainer is so generous and complete with
what she is sharing with us .
Lucky for me that I can meet up with two of the
group back in Melbourne to keep the momentum
and learning growing .

Two more full days and then back to 3D and straight
into moving house ... Gulp

Tomorrow we go out bush for a ceremony

Also I bought some paintings direct from a local artist
Here the local indiginous art is big business with some major
galleries on every corner . I do wonder how much the
artists end up with why I bought direct .

More later
Love to all
Astrid

[ulli]

Posted by modwiz (here)

Ulli, you know where the seat of the Bahai is today. The Bolsheviks now control it. The merge was accomplished.

There is more to it than that. That take over could have been done wherever in the world the Bahais had established their center. Anyway, the world center was already there long before 1947 when Israel was founded.
After my first visit in 1986 I wondered about it, and I felt the heavily militarized presence of the state of Israel had been somehow manifested by a greater plan of God to protect the golden egg from the persecution from Islam.
To this day Baha'is are still being tortured in Iran where they are still using the Bastinado method, beating the soles of feet, even on young women. Most of the orders are given by the Muslem clergy. Bahaullah had forbidden clergy in religion, so of course such a teaching did not go down well with the Muslem clergy. Nor did the equality of women. Nor universal education.

In Bahaullahs lifetime a contract was made with the authorities to never teach the Bahai message inside of Palestine, nor later once it became Israel. This is still being adhered to. No books were distributed inside Israel and organized teaching can ever take place. Things may have changed since the advent of the Internet when everyone could find Bahai scripture online, including the people of Israel, although not in Hebrew.
But I know for a fact that before the year 2000 none of the Israelis, not even those who lived in Haifa, knew what was going on there at the world center. Of course they became more and more curious as they saw those huge construction projects all of a sudden. Even as these buildings went up all construction labour was imported from overseas, which the people in Israel resented as they needed the work. I was told by a young Jew in Haifa whom I met on a bus there.
I talked to several people who were all very curious and asked me endless questions, some of which I knew I wasn't allowed to answer. Since at any given time only 100 Baha'is could go on pilgrimage meeting a Bahai was a rare event for them.
So you see? The bigger picture is more complex. Why did Bahaullah make that promise?
The only thing that comes to mind is to never have anyone even think that there was a political connection between Zionism and the Baha'is. He knew the future. Many of his prophecies had come true, and are still coming true as we see the current collapse. He had foretold all of this. Including a non spiritual world super-state. He asked for patience, as it was not going to last.
Inside the communities where I lived nearly all the English speaking Baha'is seemed to ostracize me. At the time I used to think it was because I was German, or European. Everywhere I have lived I have encountered anti German attitudes. I had hoped the Bahais would be more tolerant, but I guess people are people. Their programs run deep. So I was always a bit isolated. But when I started noticing the shift towards a top down organization, as well as more pressure to get people to give money, that's when I saw the time had come to leave. Bahaullah said nothing was more despicable in the eyes of God than to solicit money in his name. So I noticed that more and more the original text was being ignored and some other ideology was beginning to replace it, one which did not look very wholesome to me.
I could go on and on, but will stop now. Remembing my stop exercise. My heart is still broken from what happened. I'm not the only one.


So there is more to it than that.

[Black Panther]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)


When I drew my totem, this was who I drew as my Left Spirit Guide

So that will make me your Left Spirit Guide
My birth number is 7 (5+2)

[1inMany]

Good Morning/Evening/Night/Afternoon...Good Now,

Have been in a heavy place. I sense it is lifting, my energy is lighter today. There are few avenues of release for me, few catalysts that work. Music, and sometimes movies, can touch the deepest recesses of my soul when nothing else seems to work. I recall from time to time reading that other Villagers get "stuck" needing to release some emotions and have difficulty finding the right key for the lock. So I wanted to share these 3 keys. First for release, second for hope, and third for inspiration. Disclaimer: sometimes I hit the play button but find I was not prepared sufficiently for what I am hearing/seeing. While it is possible these three pieces of music will not have any effect on the listener at all, I certainly would not like to think I had "brought anyone down"...so be warned that I find the first vid/song sad.

Much Love to my Village Family,

My release trigger:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lGF-HOZBGLU

Little ditty of hope:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ty4L9kEhTs0

Inspiring for me:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xXCLH8wOuYU

p.s. I ignore the religious content, and think in more universal terms...

p.s.2 I hope, with all my heart, that these help one single person the way they do me....

[ulli]

Posted by Black Panther (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)

So that will make me your left guide
My birth number is 7 (5+2)

If that is you then who is your left guide?

[Samsara]

The Sun is shining this morning and my heart is cleared of whatever was burdening it. I watched Baraka last night. I had lent it to my daughter a while back and she brought it back yesterday, along with many books (she's in the packing process so getting rid of any excess bagage). Again, it brought me to a very deep space. I never could look at the chicks scene but yet, watched human beings roaming through garbage piles. Are my eyes used to see the ugliness in this world ? This time I took my own responsibility in what I was seeing, while weeping and reciting ho'oponopono as a cleansing mantra.

I'm going to work at the Garden for a couple of hours. I did not got at all last week. Nobody else went to look after it either. It will be happy to see me.

Love to All on this Venus transit day.

[1inMany]

Here and Now...Creepy Crawlies...

My growing fear of these-here critters is making this house a prison. I have to deal with this. The question is how? It is the invasion of the no- 2- 4- 6- and 8-legged kind. I will not rule out critters of the 1- 3- 5- and 7- legged kind, though my “logic” tells me there are none.

I remember the evenings and nights when I first moved in. There was such indescribable beauty in the twilight, and it was my first glance at the millions of stars that led me into the yard to absorb the twinkles.

First came the possum. I was sitting outside enjoying the clean night air, breathing it in all the way to my toes. I saw the barn cat out of the corner of my eye, turned my head and started to greet him, and realized the eyes peering at me from a foot away were red. I think I jumped a couple of feet into the air from my perch.

Then there was the baby skunk. Not long after the possum, I had gotten the courage up to reclaim my perch, and lo and behold, 4 feet from me was a baby skunk, only visible because of the white stripe. Well, of course, I jumped a couple of feet into the air once again, but not really afraid of this one’s teeth.

At this point, the yard and the porch had become lookouts rather than relaxation spots. So, I was confined to my perch, with all the lights in the house on (as they would glow through the windows and illuminate all sides of the covered porch.

Then I saw the possum in the middle of the day, wobbling across the yard and directly to an opening in the support of the porch stairs, straight under the house.

Then came the water bugs. Anybody ever heard of water bugs? They aren’t water bugs, for crying out loud, they look like cockroaches on steroids, 4” long…and the suckers can fly! And the beautiful and fascinating 8-legged creatures? I’m on love wagon when they are not in my face, on my feet, or spinning webs so that anywhere I turn I walk through them…and for hours feel like something is crawling on me. They are all over the place outside, and now have invaded the inside. Fire ants? Eesh, yep everywhere.

So I started wearing my boots to sit outside, and while in my perch I hold a big stick and have another chair close by for easy reach. I feel like a lion tamer in a circus. But, at least I still can sit in my perch.

I do not want to hurt another living thing, yet “allowing” them their space has taken away every one of those moments I used to have and replaced them with being “on-guard” and at the ready at all times.

Last night while laying in bed, I felt a tickle on my face which I assumed to be a stray hair. Nope. I brushed it away with some force, and heard a “thud” on the floor.

Okay, that’s it. I am going to have to deal with this. I need my comfort back…

Much Love, and apologies ahead of time to all the creepy crawlies here, but look, I need some space! Please, please choose any of the ga-jillion trees around here…

[modwiz]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by modwiz (here)

Ulli, you know where the seat of the Bahai is today. The Bolsheviks now control it. The merge was accomplished.

There is more to it than that. That take over could have been done wherever in the world the Bahais had established their center. Anyway, the world center was already there long before 1947 when Israel was founded.
After my first visit in 1986 I wondered about it, and I felt the heavily militarized presence of the state of Israel had been somehow manifested by a greater plan of God to protect the golden egg from the persecution from Islam.
To this day Baha'is are still being tortured in Iran where they are still using the Bastinado method, beating the soles of feet, even on young women. Most of the orders are given by the Muslem clergy. Bahaullah had forbidden clergy in religion, so of course such a teaching did not go down well with the Muslem clergy. Nor did the equality of women. Nor universal education.

In Bahaullahs lifetime a contract was made with the authorities to never teach the Bahai message inside of Palestine, nor later once it became Israel. This is still being adhered to. No books were distributed inside Israel and organized teaching can ever take place. Things may have changed since the advent of the Internet when everyone could find Bahai scripture online, including the people of Israel, although not in Hebrew.
But I know for a fact that before the year 2000 none of the Israelis, not even those who lived in Haifa, knew what was going on there at the world center. Of course they became more and more curious as they saw those huge construction projects all of a sudden. Even as these buildings went up all construction labour was imported from overseas, which the people in Israel resented as they needed the work. I was told by a young Jew in Haifa whom I met on a bus there.
I talked to several people who were all very curious and asked me endless questions, some of which I knew I wasn't allowed to answer. Since at any given time only 100 Baha'is could go on pilgrimage meeting a Bahai was a rare event for them.
So you see? The bigger picture is more complex. Why did Bahaullah make that promise?
The only thing that comes to mind is to never have anyone even think that there was a political connection between Zionism and the Baha'is. He knew the future. Many of his prophecies had come true, and are still coming true as we see the current collapse. He had foretold all of this. Including a non spiritual world super-state. He asked for patience, as it was not going to last.
Inside the communities where I lived nearly all the English speaking Baha'is seemed to ostracize me. At the time I used to think it was because I was German, or European. Everywhere I have lived I have encountered anti German attitudes. I had hoped the Bahais would be more tolerant, but I guess people are people. Their programs run deep. So I was always a bit isolated. But when I started noticing the shift towards a top down organization, as well as more pressure to get people to give money, that's when I saw the time had come to leave. Bahaullah said nothing was more despicable in the eyes of God than to solicit money in his name. So I noticed that more and more the original text was being ignored and some other ideology was beginning to replace it, one which did not look very wholesome to me.
I could go on and on, but will stop now. Remembing my stop exercise. My heart is still broken from what happened. I'm not the only one.


So there is more to it than that.

Thank you for that clarification, Ulli.

[ulli]

I have heard some fascinating stories while there. One concerned Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who was assassinated for making peace with Palestine. He visited the Bahai World Center and this of course was a big deal for the Baha'is. The Universal house of Justice members accompanied him to the shrine where Bahaullah is buried which is normally closed to non Baha'is.
So he got a tour. At the end he asked to go back into the shrine by himself; he said he wanted to meditate. I was told that after granting his request all nine members waited outside, for 45 minutes, in the heat, while Rabin prayed alone inside the shrine. This was a big surprise for them.
They told us he was a very spiritual man. Perez was another story....quite the opposite.

[Sierra]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Good Morning/Evening/Night/Afternoon...Good Now,


Inspiring for me:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xXCLH8wOuYU

p.s. I ignore the religious content, and think in more universal terms...

p.s.2 I hope, with all my heart, that these help one single person the way they do me....

AWESOME!

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Posted by 1inMany (here)
Here and Now...Creepy Crawlies...

My growing fear of these-here critters is making this house a prison. I have to deal with this. The question is how? It is the invasion of the no- 2- 4- 6- and 8-legged kind. I will not rule out critters of the 1- 3- 5- and 7- legged kind, though my “logic” tells me there are none.

I remember the evenings and nights when I first moved in. There was such indescribable beauty in the twilight, and it was my first glance at the millions of stars that led me into the yard to absorb the twinkles.

First came the possum. I was sitting outside enjoying the clean night air, breathing it in all the way to my toes. I saw the barn cat out of the corner of my eye, turned my head and started to greet him, and realized the eyes peering at me from a foot away were red. I think I jumped a couple of feet into the air from my perch.

Then there was the baby skunk. Not long after the possum, I had gotten the courage up to reclaim my perch, and lo and behold, 4 feet from me was a baby skunk, only visible because of the white stripe. Well, of course, I jumped a couple of feet into the air once again, but not really afraid of this one’s teeth.

At this point, the yard and the porch had become lookouts rather than relaxation spots. So, I was confined to my perch, with all the lights in the house on (as they would glow through the windows and illuminate all sides of the covered porch.

Then I saw the possum in the middle of the day, wobbling across the yard and directly to an opening in the support of the porch stairs, straight under the house.

Then came the water bugs. Anybody ever heard of water bugs? They aren’t water bugs, for crying out loud, they look like cockroaches on steroids, 4” long…and the suckers can fly! And the beautiful and fascinating 8-legged creatures? I’m on love wagon when they are not in my face, on my feet, or spinning webs so that anywhere I turn I walk through them…and for hours feel like something is crawling on me. They are all over the place outside, and now have invaded the inside. Fire ants? Eesh, yep everywhere.

So I started wearing my boots to sit outside, and while in my perch I hold a big stick and have another chair close by for easy reach. I feel like a lion tamer in a circus. But, at least I still can sit in my perch.

I do not want to hurt another living thing, yet “allowing” them their space has taken away every one of those moments I used to have and replaced them with being “on-guard” and at the ready at all times.

Last night while laying in bed, I felt a tickle on my face which I assumed to be a stray hair. Nope. I brushed it away with some force, and heard a “thud” on the floor.

Okay, that’s it. I am going to have to deal with this. I need my comfort back…

Much Love, and apologies ahead of time to all the creepy crawlies here, but look, I need some space! Please, please choose any of the ga-jillion trees around here…

... falling over in hysterics ...

[Sierra]

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by Sierra (here)

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)
Why deaf? Sometimes one has to shine 100 torches before the vessel illuminates.

Great faith. Great doubt. Great effort. Bigger surrender.

Yes, in the end, all will come through. The family cannot move on if even one jiva is left behind. Nevertheless, we can be stubborn in our fixation of identity in shadow masks. One of the most difficult challenges is to let go of our compulsion to be "knowers". Few are willing to step into the Unknown and relinquish the urge to retain control. Knowledge is a leverage of the control mechanism, but it is precisely that mechanism which obstructs the light's expansion and penetration at the heart.

Thank goodness I am getting stupider and stupider (or the wiser I get, the more I know how ignorant I am ...)

"It's said,

'When you learn to be a big idiot,
then you start to have some skill;
Studying until you are as if stupid
is the beginning of real insight.'

If you can learn to be as if stupid, then no matter what Dharma door you cultivate you will attain samadhi and gain some realization. It's just because you are unable to be stupid that you cannot properly enter into samadhi and don't get any response from your cultivation."

~The Shurangama Mantra--
The Efficacious Language of Heaven and Earth
Lectures by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua


For Sierra, some recent views from the Paradise Garden:

Bob ... what is that?

My cousin Shannon has one of these in her yard. I made her take me to the Iris Farm, so I could get one, but they were all out this year ...

So many Towees in Paradise! It is WONDERFUL!

You have the BEST pictures ...