Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Carmody]

listening to:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_DZaXFpq1b8

Just a little thought on the lessons in life...(it's own form of fun in the form of ping-pong)(the shrug of the shoulders, and the 'ah well, is what it is', kinda thing)(a 170 year stretch three-life-long thought for this one)

[another bob]

Posted by Carmody (here)
listening to:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_DZaXFpq1b8

Just a little thought on the lessons in life...(it's own form of fun in the form of ping-pong)(the shrug of the shoulders, and the 'ah well, is what it is', kinda thing)(a 170 year stretch three-life-long thought for this one)

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)
I'm experiencing an awkward moment and holding my breath and reminding myself to breath. Was that too much to share? I may have used up my share chips. Awkward...

I'm remembering how the teachers at school wouldn't look at me as if I had some sort of disease that they'd catch. Then I realized they didn't know how or what to say. One time I was walking down an empty corridor just days after this whole thing and another teacher came around the corner walking in my direction. He kept looking at the empty walls and floor. He seems relieved when I said hello. Truth be told I would rather be me in that corridor than he. It was awkward.

Okay, I'm rambling... You probably can guess why. I'm signing off, but have to report, there's no need for Ben & Jerry's this evening. Night, night...

And I'm leaving you with this heart and a huge thanks.



Peace,
WhiteCrowBlackDeer

Thank you so much for this. You know what I'm going through this week.

Your eyes look out of his face in that photo.

*fades back into the forest*

[astrid]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHTOM5WrvUU

Thanks Tom

[Samsara]

Thank you Astrid. Thank you Tom. Last night I dreamt I was receiving a key that I had requested in 2009... and Tom talks of 2009. The mantra for this week is almost word to word to what I have received while getting Healing Touch treatment on Monday.

"I am no longer alone on the shore of the sea, for I called forth and she has answered me."

Interesting times....

[Carmody]

Ray Bradbury has moved on, and over the next while.. more will likely be leaving (the few that remain). Many of them were born in a 'period' of time, and came into prominence in that time of the rise of Sci-fi.

Some of those books are very interesting, regarding what they tried to say. For example, someone who might also be leaving soon.. Frederik Pohl.

Man Plus

In the not-too-distant future, a cold war threatens to turn hot. Colonization of Mars seems to be mankind's only hope of surviving certain Armageddon. To facilitate this, the American government begins a cyborg program to create a being capable of surviving the harsh Martian environment: Man Plus. After the death of the first candidate, due to the project supervisors forgetting to enhance his brain's ability to process sensory input to cope with the new stimuli he is receiving, Roger Torraway becomes the heart of the program.

In order to survive in the thin Martian atmosphere, Roger Torraway's body must be replaced with an artificial one. At every step he becomes more and more disconnected from humanity, unable to feel things in his new body. It is only after arriving on Mars that his new body begins to make sense to him. It is perfectly adapted to this new world, and thus he becomes perfectly separated from his old world, and from humanity.

The success of the Martian mission spurs similar cyborg programs in other spacefaring nations. It is revealed that the computer networks of Earth have become sentient, and that ensuring humanity's survival will guarantee theirs as well. In the end, the network is puzzled...it appears that something else was behind the push to space, a mystery even to the machines.

~~~~~~~~~
(published 1976)

The book, by it's very nature, was inconclusive, and the reading and conclusion was unsettled. As unknowns couched in unknowns can only be. It is a good meditation on the idea of separation within the self only to realize that all is as it should be, regarding the capacity to clear the self of illusion..and then to holistically become, to return...knowingly ... to what one is.

I expect that near millions, in the end, have likely read it...thus... the seeds are planted.

[benevolentcrow]

Good morning. We have had an unusually cold spring here in the Pacific Northwest.

My tomato plants are only 5" high! Ordered a LED plant light for them. Rain till the end of June predicted.

My Extra Fancy Bantam Chicks are thriving in their little brooder box. Working on the chicken coop.

Just keeping life simple!

Haven't been attuned, had chakras or meridian points re-aligned. Not into drinking spirulina or distilling water. These are all good things mind you. Too busy in the hollow! All is well...

Good words to live by.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
Waving at Astrid....Hola!

Just found this neat TED talk, about how to build creative confidence.

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_kelle...onfidence.html

That's powerful, Ulli. Thanks. This vid and book goes nicely with your find.

“The Unfoldment: The Organic Path to Clarity, Power, and Transformation,” by Neil Kramer

The book that speaks on how and why our imagination was not encouraged in school, family and society. It was by design. And how to delete the old tape once you have the whole picture. It's opened my eyes even more about the controls from political forces to advertisement to history.

It’s a kind of book that you jump right to the chapters that you’d like and it just spiders out. Kramer’s so good at explaining things that I make myself put the book down so it will last longer. Each chapter is chock full and I want to give it time to digest.

This is the vid that convinced me that to look into what Neil Kramer has to offer:

"Neil Kramer - The Unfoldment"

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

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[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Ray Bradbury has moved on, and over the next while.. more will likely be leaving (the few that remain). Many of them were born in a 'period' of time, and came into prominence in that time of the rise of Sci-fi.

Some of those books are very interesting, regarding what they tried to say. For example, someone who might also be leaving soon.. Frederik Pohl.

Man Plus

In the not-too-distant future, a cold war threatens to turn hot. Colonization of Mars seems to be mankind's only hope of surviving certain Armageddon. To facilitate this, the American government begins a cyborg program to create a being capable of surviving the harsh Martian environment: Man Plus. After the death of the first candidate, due to the project supervisors forgetting to enhance his brain's ability to process sensory input to cope with the new stimuli he is receiving, Roger Torraway becomes the heart of the program.

In order to survive in the thin Martian atmosphere, Roger Torraway's body must be replaced with an artificial one. At every step he becomes more and more disconnected from humanity, unable to feel things in his new body. It is only after arriving on Mars that his new body begins to make sense to him. It is perfectly adapted to this new world, and thus he becomes perfectly separated from his old world, and from humanity.

The success of the Martian mission spurs similar cyborg programs in other spacefaring nations. It is revealed that the computer networks of Earth have become sentient, and that ensuring humanity's survival will guarantee theirs as well. In the end, the network is puzzled...it appears that something else was behind the push to space, a mystery even to the machines.

~~~~~~~~~
(published 1976)

The book, by it's very nature, was inconclusive, and the reading and conclusion was unsettled. As unknowns couched in unknowns can only be. It is a good meditation on the idea of separation within the self only to realize that all is as it should be, regarding the capacity to clear the self of illusion..and then to holistically become, to return...knowingly ... to what one is.

I expect that near millions, in the end, have likely read it...thus... the seeds are planted.

Indeed. My own reading phases were very distinct, and SCI-Fi was a major slice of that cake.
Thus seeds were planted which not only sprouted into how to become the perfect flower,
(something the fashion world taught me in far more ways than people who are fashion victims can ever realize),
but later how to blend into a larger garden.

Of course one must always remember that just after the seeds have been planted all that is there to see is a lot of dirt...
so "patience, patience".....

[ulli]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Waving at Astrid....Hola!

Just found this neat TED talk, about how to build creative confidence.

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_kelle...onfidence.html

That's powerful, Ulli. Thanks. This vid and book goes nicely with your find.

“The Unfoldment: The Organic Path to Clarity, Power, and Transformation,” by Neil Kramer

The book that speaks on how and why our imagination was not encouraged in school, family and society. It was by design. And how to delete the old tape once you have the whole picture. It's opened my eyes even more about the controls from political forces to advertisement to history.

It’s a kind of book that you jump right to the chapters that you’d like and it just spiders out. Kramer’s so good at explaining things that I make myself put the book down. Each chapter is chock full and I want to give it time to digest.

This is the vid that convinced me that to look into what Neil Kramer has to offer:

Red Ice Radio - Neil Kramer - Hour 1 - Participating in the Unfoldment

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EwuK3Q_UgR8

Yeah, Neil Kramer really sums it up, I mean, where I am currently at.
I even managed to train myself to get used to his accent.
(Didn't I just post that interview recently?)

[astrid]

Tonight we had a fire cermony and I must
say that today was the highlight for me as
far as altered states go.
To many transformative moments to mention
and now to return back to my home base .. Going
to be Interesting to see how it all translates and weaves
it's way back into reality . One things for sure I will not be the
same

But I cant wait to see my dogs - i missed them
terribly . I hope they are both ok after being kenneled
for 11 days it's been so cold and wet back home by
all reports . So I suspect I will be juggling moving
furniture with bathing poodles this weekend as the
serious house moving begins .
In theory it may be good for grounding me after
spending so much time off planet. But in reality
it's a huge job requiring many hands as i have
not enough time to be my normal stubbornly
independent self .

[Carmody]

Posted by astrid (here)
... to be my normal stubbornly
independent self.

When one is knowingly in the Bardo(s) doing whatever one may be doing, this is a baseline requirement.

It goes something like this:

Part of being an energetic cloud of self organized data, riding like a surfer..on the edge of multidimensional egress and flow, where this flow is the force of life and the energetics of continuance..and thus the point of being..this capacity to hold stubbornly together ----is the essence of life itself. Balance is key.

We come here to learn distinctions on what integration behavior is, regarding separation, demarcation, unity, integration, what such things mean and are -- in a universe where one is made up of self organized energies.

Energies that must be deeply and near unconsciously held, in order to 'be'. Here, on this 3d earth, we learn those things that are shall we say..acceptable and not acceptable..within the context of integration with other energetic based beings. And so on.

[ulli]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
Good morning. We have had an unusually cold spring here in the Pacific Northwest.

My tomato plants are only 5" high! Ordered a LED plant light for them. Rain till the end of June predicted.

My Extra Fancy Bantam Chicks are thriving in their little brooder box. Working on the chicken coop.

Just keeping life simple!

Haven't been attuned, had chakras or meridian points re-aligned. Not into drinking spirulina or distilling water. These are all good things mind you. Too busy in the hollow! All is well...

Good words to live by.

Love those ten commandments.

The word respect jumps right out of the page at me...
as I was going to muse about respect just yesterday, but didn't find the time.

Respect is a Capricorn thing...most Caps are good at being respectful and usually suffer when they don't receive it back.

But as I said earlier, each sign has a specific keyword..., which means the other 11 signs can learn something from that sign.
Aries: daring
Taurus: hospitable
Gemini: connecting
Cancer: nurturing
Leo: loving
Virgo: teaching
Libra: refining
Scorpio: protecting
Sagittarius: tolerating
Capricorn: respecting
Aquarius: innovating
Pisces: fantasizing

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
Yeah, Neil Kramer really sums it up, I mean, where I am currently at.
I even managed to train myself to get used to his accent.
(Didn't I just post that interview recently?)

You may have. I loose track of where the sources come from. I take down links if I don't have time to watch and revisit.

It seems that I've lost the art of multi-tasking.

Another good sign of growing, growing, growing.

[astrid]

Bugger just lost a long post responding to what Carmody
just posted . How annoying ...oh well

Must sleep now
Tomorrow I fly on the big bird back home

Laters

[benevolentcrow]

Benevolentchicken?

[another bob]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Here, on this 3d earth, we learn those things that are shall we say..acceptable and not acceptable..within the context of integration with other energetic based beings. And so on.

Yes, to learn how to behave and play nice.

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Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
Benevolentchicken?

[RunningDeer]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
Benevolentchicken?

Benevolent Crow, I'm lovin' the dude/dudess there, and I'm diggin' the new avatar.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
Benevolentchicken?

Escher(esk)

[ulli]

Before I bother the moderators...I thought I first check with the friends on this thread....
At the bottom left of this page there is something called "Quick Style Chooser" and out of the three options I use "Avalon Breeze"... .it is the only option with black text on white background.
Since this morning it has changed, and the bar above the messages now has lots of tiny thought bubbles which makes it impossible to read the post number at the time it was posted. Also, the page background is no longer dark blue but has a pale blue design pattern. This has only happened on my iPad, not the laptop. I have already turned the iPad on and off, but it makes no difference.
Just wondered if it is just me....