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    If you ever need a cup of sugar, I'll gladly run out to the store for some. (marshmallows, too.)








    NOOOOOOOO, don't do this to me.
    Excuse me while to go stock up on more sugar and marshmallows.
    Note to self: gramcrackers and chocolate, too.
    ............Going, going, gone..........................................

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    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
    Well, in my personal experience of crossing the barrier between dimensions and time, the geometric patterns are key.

    The energies cross through the dimensional boundaries by being frequentially and vibrationally connected. Oscillations, differentials. So the essence is the geometry of music or organized data, or organized intelligence.

    It's vortex in, and vortex out, and they form a 'quanta'. And this is frequentially and geometrically related to the next quanta, and across dimensions.

    Seeing geometric patterns is, in my experience, a key component. IMO, This is why the Freemasons have a black and white tiled floor in their temples.


    Tesla dreampt of geometric patterns and mandalas, every time he closed his eyes.

    He was witnessing the engines of creation in their raw form.
    I`ve drawn them as doodle since I was small. In class, sitting listening to things, idle mind fill. My fingers and the pen would begin drawing geometric shapes comprising larger forms, circles, triangles, flourishes. But it wasn`t until I was older that I recognized the connection between my doodles and what I would see behind closed lids. Is there a way to consciously interact with these figures, I wonder. Do they respond to conscious attempts to manipulate them. I must confess, I`ve never tried.

    I wonder, Carmody - or anybody else - if you`ve ever had the experience of looking up into a clear blue sky and, at the center of your vision`s focus, seeing a vortex spinning, like a tunnel leading away from you and into the infinite, conforming to rules of perspective and the vanishing point. If you look elsewhere, the tunnel then appears there after a few moments of focusing. It seems to me to be an artifact of some sort of perception, it is comprised of dark lines and, again, geometric patterns, moving, spiraling away from me and into the distance. I`ve considered the possibility that something may be wrong with my eyes, as I do wear glasses, but I`ve never heard of such a thing reported anywhere before.

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    Quote Posted by another bob (here)
    My sincere apologies for the disturbance, Folks! It was certainly unintended, but I take responsibility for it, and will be more circumspect in future comments.

    Blessings to all!

    Another bob deserves to be heard, too.
    I objected to the court hearings happening on the Village Green,
    so now they are happening at a Different Happening...Now and Then.
    Still, I have to add a few words to those who glimpsed what went on here:

    Since it is my policy to find the win-win ending I decided to visit the Pub.
    Things are coming along, and so far communications haven't broken down.

    The reason I visited the Pub and actually posted there is because comments about me were made there...
    the very same type of thing Another bob is being accused of doing in the Here and Now.
    My sense of justice is rather subtle and not always am I inclined to turn the other cheek,
    as that would leave unresolved residue behind.

    So my thing here is an eye for an eye. Better than a life for an eye.
    We can give support to whoever we believe deserves it....
    I understand that Songsie gets support because of her rough childhood, and that is all well and good,
    and I also am taking that factor into account.

    Meanwhile I support another Bob because he has been a gentleman
    and really not anywhere near as bad as he has been made out to be.

    Neither has Carmody, who despite severe provocation managed to walk away from the scene without taking the matter further.
    Carmody is just as sensitive as the best of us, and didn't deserve to be treated the way he did.
    The pub people need to learn fair play, and apply their ability to forgive to everyone involved, not only to themselves.

    So another thread was opened for another happening....a Different Happening...Now and Then...
    good title if you ask me.
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    LOL Yes, it can drive you nuts or at least make you look crazy! The thing is, the quick movement sometimes looks like birds in the sky or animals in the grass or on the street or in the house, but I`m starting to get it now. This conversation is taking me back to childhood and my first memories of this, and also, why I repressed it. I can remember lying in the bed at night on the military base, Iraklion Air Station, on the isle of Crete, Greece, lying facing the wall with my back to the open space and feeling a consciousness there, observing me. Absolute terror, knowing something was there but that it was not physical. On top of that, to begin experiencing sleep paralysis, my body going numb, vibrations filling me, if lying on my back, a weight seeming to settle on my chest. All of this taken together, it is little wonder to me now that I spent years following that fighting sleep paralysis and totally repressing the memory of watching the shadows dance and knowing nobody would believe me.

    I`m sure you`re right about what the energies are, although I wouldn`t say that I can see ghosts, I don`t get that sense. They always feel alien and inscrutable, I don`t feel noticed at all, it`s as if I am just observing the regular passage of time, watching the traffic as it goes about its business, beyond my ability to understand. I can understand why such siddhis have often been considered distractions to a spiritual path, especially if the key of understanding is eventually included in the experience.
    Wow, reaching back into the recesses of memory, I am remembering some things long forgotten.

    They never frightened me...rather, they felt more of a comfort and delight than anything else. I have memory of a time at about 3 years of age attempting to get to sleep and trying to picture how large or small I was in comparison to this earth...after learning about planets that day. The energies began 'swarming', almost like a cluster of gnats, and I began to envision a large dark closet and I being a teeny tiny dust mote within it. The 'closet' grew until I could envision the vastness of space and universes, and I still was that teeny tiny dust mote within it. I have no words to explain the expansiveness I felt or how wonderful the feelings that I was a part of something so great.

    After that first experience, I found I could recreate it on demand whenever I felt like I didn't belong, didn't fit in here.

    Interesting.

    That begs the question, was it the energies that led me to the envisioning or something else? If it was the energies, that would open up the possibility that they can communicate on some level.

    Thanks, Rahkyt, for opening the door to that memory.

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    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    I found J's McDonalds name badge. I cried. I still have it.
    It'll take me days to get my words back so let this be my way to say what I can't right now:

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    Gifted teacher is a threat to those that see them "as rocking the boat".

    She pounds her fist as she continues, "You must follow the script layed out in this here declaration of goals and objectives that we, the teachers, all put together in stupid, time filled meetings that only a few really did the work while the rest discussed where should we go for lunch?" (too long a sentence - screw it)

    Those are the teachers that are called to the principal's office to hear justification as to why you went off script. Where they, the establishment, twist each word of Truth to be use against them.
    For me it was being called into the office of the head of the department. I used to show `what the bleep do we know`, `zeitgeist`and various other movies to challenge the students knowledge every semester. The classes were Introduction to World Geography and Introduction to Physical Geography. Videos about Inner Earth Agartha, the newest research on climate and the sun and space weather. It was wonderful seeing the eyes light up of many students, but, invariably, almost every semester I would get at least one complaint from a student or group of students that were offended by something they`d seen in a video I`d shown. Usually it was the part of zeitgeist that talks about the astrological connections of Christianity and the solar savior. One student even told me that it was a plot of the devil, even though the other solar Christ figures came `before Christ`.

    The devil must be a time traveler.

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    Quote Posted by Rahkyt (here)
    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
    Well, in my personal experience of crossing the barrier between dimensions and time, the geometric patterns are key.

    The energies cross through the dimensional boundaries by being frequentially and vibrationally connected. Oscillations, differentials. So the essence is the geometry of music or organized data, or organized intelligence.

    It's vortex in, and vortex out, and they form a 'quanta'. And this is frequentially and geometrically related to the next quanta, and across dimensions.

    Seeing geometric patterns is, in my experience, a key component. IMO, This is why the Freemasons have a black and white tiled floor in their temples.


    Tesla dreampt of geometric patterns and mandalas, every time he closed his eyes.

    He was witnessing the engines of creation in their raw form.
    I`ve drawn them as doodle since I was small. In class, sitting listening to things, idle mind fill. My fingers and the pen would begin drawing geometric shapes comprising larger forms, circles, triangles, flourishes. But it wasn`t until I was older that I recognized the connection between my doodles and what I would see behind closed lids. Is there a way to consciously interact with these figures, I wonder. Do they respond to conscious attempts to manipulate them. I must confess, I`ve never tried.

    I wonder, Carmody - or anybody else - if you`ve ever had the experience of looking up into a clear blue sky and, at the center of your vision`s focus, seeing a vortex spinning, like a tunnel leading away from you and into the infinite, conforming to rules of perspective and the vanishing point. If you look elsewhere, the tunnel then appears there after a few moments of focusing. It seems to me to be an artifact of some sort of perception, it is comprised of dark lines and, again, geometric patterns, moving, spiraling away from me and into the distance. I`ve considered the possibility that something may be wrong with my eyes, as I do wear glasses, but I`ve never heard of such a thing reported anywhere before.
    Funny that you mention mandalas, Carmody. I see mandalas, shifting, morphing, almost like a kaleidescope, especially when I meditate. And I've doodled vortexes always, without thinking.

    Rahkyt, yes, vortexes comprised of geometric patterns in layers of different colors, black, white, blue, red and yellow, spiraling away and almost shifting as it flows into the distance...easiest to see while looking into clear skies, and once seen appears to remain in place. Someone once said they thought it was a visual migraine, but that never set quite right with me. I've sometimes felt that if I could fly, I would enter the vortex and find out where it comes out.

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    Quote Posted by Rahkyt (here)
    1inMany, I just want to acknowledge your beautiful, soulful tales and your compassionate and giving heart. as an ex-educator myself, who left the academy once i realized what i would have to give up to belong, i feel your pain. I hope you are given the opportunity to engage in your soul`s work and help those who come into your sphere again someday. Energy like yours is needed. Bless.
    NOOOOOO.... Not you, too, Rahkyt! I can't take anymore.... I'll be forced to go out for Ben&Jerry's! And that'll just trigger a 3 day binge.

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    Most of us probably have already seen Jill Bolte Taylor's "TED" talk about her experience with a stroke - that shut down her left brain and allowed her to break free from her body's little envelope. (If you haven't seen it, well, there are not all that many videos that I place in the "must see" category, but this is one.)

    For those of us that have seen it, perhaps it is time to re-visit?


    Jill Bolte Taylor: "Stroke of Insight"

    Dennis
    p.s. I am watching it, "here and now."


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    Quote Posted by another bob (here)
    My sincere apologies for the disturbance, Folks! It was certainly unintended, but I take responsibility for it, and will be more circumspect in future comments.

    Blessings to all!
    For you, Bob.

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    Oooooh, you just had to mention Ben and Jerry's, WCBD. On our third day of 90+ degree temperatures here and a nice, cold bowl of ice cream sounds so refreshing and yummy, I may just have to run out for some.

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    My mother had the toughest job of all, in those areas of education.

    Supply teacher for high schools, for over 20 years.

    Why, she could cause a painful and provocative teenager to explode into flames, with just a glance.
    Interdimensional Civil Servant

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    A beautiful warm morning in the forest and no tremors so far.
    Today into the mundane.....house work and paying bills.

    Appreciate everyones' brilliance

    I love you guys


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    Quote Posted by Belle (here)
    Oooooh, you just had to mention Ben and Jerry's, WCBD. On our third day of 90+ degree temperatures here and a nice, cold bowl of ice cream sounds so refreshing and yummy, I may just have to run out for some.
    Belle, let me save you a trip to the store. Like chocolate? Gotcha a spare. There was a 2 fer 1 sale.

    But why is only one showing you asked? Tee... 2-1=1

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    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    Well, shart, okay...

    These souls were capable ... are capable ... of showing their light to the world. First, they need help realizing there is truly a light in there... One time, my own daughter was the victim of a crime at the hands of a teenage boy. One of the students in the school, in the leadership program but not one of "my" students, came and asked, "Ms. Jinjer...you know who did this? You want me to take care of it for you?" EEEEEEKKKKK....N-N-N-N-NOOOOO."

    I almost went back and deleted these posts. I am struggling with this because I am a little off the thread focus...

    In two years, the district had never received ONE SINGLE complaint about me. No one here probably realizes this, but that is absolutely unheard of. Every special education teacher or coordinator gets a complaint now and then. Nope. So, what did the district do? They came to me with the instruction to go through the students' files and re-code them. The coding of students was/is, of course, tied to the funding of the school.

    First of all, that's illegal. Secondly, there is no way in hell I was going to stop loving these kids and providing exactly what they needed. So, they retaliated...took away special education services from one of my daughters (which is also illegal) and took away high school credits earned from my other daughter (which was illegal)...and that was only the beginning.

    I fought for my kiddos until the day I was fired. I fought until I could fight no more. The governmental department that oversees all school districts (Texas Education Agency) was on my speed dial. The district got violation after violation. And I was invited to attend a forum in Austin about the process...only a handful of people from across the state were invited.

    In the end, the school had to make many, many changes....and had to be educated in legal practices. And, I was awarded back pay. And every single student I had paid for it.

    That, my friend, is why I don't teach.
    You are not off thread focus. This is a very important piece of ... why we are going down in flames. The blasted system is more important than the kids. My sister has gone through the same bitter ostracism process. There are cameras and microphones in all the classes now, and she announces to the class (when she substitutes, since they forced her out of her full time job) the cameras and microphones are illegal. She works in a system where the superintendent tells principals they will be fired if they allow bi-lingual teachers in a predominantly spanish speaking poverty stricken area. She withholds permission slips from the parents that want to move their children into classes where the teacher speaks both English and Spanish.

    One of the things most of the teachers do is DROP the scores of their seven worst students when they do that blasted national test. My sister NEVER drops a student and STILL her student's scores are the highest in the district. Students come to her for help with their troubles outside the system as well. And the other teachers blast her for helping. She has been in the Who's Who of teachers twice, and the other teachers hate her for it.

    It was interesting house hunting with her. SO many people wanted her for a tenant, because she was a "teacher". Little do they know, most teachers (according to my sister) are horrific abusers to the poor farm worker's children.

    Ugh. Have to hold back tears, and slow my heart rate.

    I could tell you some pretty funny gossip re the grand jury and the -----, but that would identify and nail my sister's hide to the barn door ...

    Squashing you 1.

    Sierra
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    I'm liken' this Carmody....


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    Quote Posted by another bob (here)
    My sincere apologies for the disturbance, Folks! It was certainly unintended, but I take responsibility for it, and will be more circumspect in future comments.

    Blessings to all!
    Dude ... don't you dare not be you. Your usual polite, funny, intelligent, sharing self who did no harm on that thread (and I know, I plowed through the thread looking for the offense).

    You and Carmody just ran into some problems as far as I can tell, because (???) you drifted off the straight and narrow "allowed" path of conversation??? Really, just guessing here. Reading the thread did not lead to understanding ...



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    Quote Posted by Sierra (here)
    you drifted off the straight and narrow
    More like marching straight into an arrow



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    decided to order a whole Armada of these for all of us:



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