Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by Nora (here)
Mending the Sacred Hoop of Life

It is a good time to be alive

Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, 1863-1950

"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking."
Earth Prayer

"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you -- the two-legged, the four-legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live.
"You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. You have made me cross the good road and road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things."
Hey! Lean to hear my feeble voice.
At the center of the sacred hoop
You have said that I should make the tree to bloom.

With tears running, O Great Spirit, my Grandfather,
With running eyes I must say
The tree has never bloomed

Here I stand, and the tree is withered.
Again, I recall the great vision you gave me.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives.
Nourish it then
That it may leaf
And bloom
And fill with singing birds!

Hear me, that the people may once again
Find the good road
And the shielding tree.



The Sunset


Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy...
But anywhere is the center of the world.



A long time ago my father told me what his father had told him, that there was once a Lakota holy man, called "Drinks Water", who dreamed what was to be... He dreamed that the four-leggeds were going back to the Earth, and that a strange race would weave a web all around the Lakotas. He said, "You shall live in square gray houses, in a barren land..." Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. (1932)


References:
Black Elk : A Man with a Vision/Carol Greene. Chicago:Children's Press, 1990.
Neihardt, John G.; Black Elk Speaks; 1989; the life story of a beloved Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux.
Turtle, Eagle Walking, story and paintings; Keepers of the Fire, Journey to the Tree of Life; 1987; based on Black Elks Vision.
Black Elk Speaks
Sacred Pipe
Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala

Black Elk's Story



"Hopefully, we can all quickly begin the task of mending The Sacred Hoop of Life in Black Elk's vision and begin working together to save the Earth Mother, ourselves and all things. Let us stop killing each other and the world around us.... Instead, let us become Spiritual warriors fighting our greatest enemy - ourselves...."
http://siouxme.com/blackelk.html

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

Love


Nora

The indigenous peoples will become cherished again, there is no doubt in my mind.
There is even a Bahai prophecy that states that they will become the leaders of mankind.
If society falls apart we may well have to rely on their survival knowledge.

[astrid]

On train to visit the city for a few hours
Loving the chance to sit still for a while
This morning was frantic but at least this
whole moving business is over in a few days
Truck on Friday to get my fridge and mattresses
two days of cleaning and weeding and then
the fun part setting up new spaces .

Part of my town was closed off earlier as there is a tv series
being filmed there I googled up on it and the whole show
is being shot here over a couple of months .
I wonder if they need any extras , could be fun

[meeradas]

Posted by dan33 (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2UHFIu6aikk

I'm not a ""soccer"" fan... but this one here nearly made me one:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C7mXGMcpA0g

"Excellence. In whatever it is that your doing."

---

Chingon?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xLm18xL0l2Q

[Marianne]

Posted by DeDukshyn (here)

Posted by dan33 (here)

...and please, do not be distracted.

Sorry about that. Perhaps I'll sit and watch for a while ...

Hey D, don't be quiet for too long ...

I stayed up late and got up early ... I can feel an afternoon nap coming on ... can I hide under my desk?

'Windy and warm' - Doc & Merle Watson

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w0d6nUXRKoU

[eaglespirit]

Had a dream...We are connecting and interlocking in oneness of telepathic light surges that are creating a circuitry so strong and impenetrable that we are empowering all of like-minded-selfless-love to create a flow of wave-like-web-like energy that is spiraling to the upper echelons reaching a source that is helping the enchantment on Mother Earth reach out and within wherever there is need in the moment in the now.
Each of us simply sends and receives the transmissions where and when and how needed...group therapy is taking on a whole new light.
Aho!

[astrid]

http://truthfall.com/baltic-anomaly-...ufo-discovery/

This story is getting more and more interesting



"From the different reports and interviews given we have amassed the following details of the anomaly.

Completely circular plate-like exterior.
180 metres in circumference.
Object is 200ft accross mushroom shaped comprising a thick pillar rising 8 metres out of the seabed with a 4 metre thick dome on top (like a mushroom shape) – rising a total of 12 metres (approx 40 feet) high above the surrounding seabed.
Cavities-like corridors inside the object.
Straight and smooth walls in certain areas with many right angles.
There are visible formations on top of the object, which are set at a 90 degree angle and look like passageways or walls, as well as something that looks like it could be a staircase.
Stone circles, like “fireplaces”, of hard black “almost petrified” burnt looking stone each a few inches in diameter, like 4 or 5 pearls in a necklace in various arrangements on top of the dome.
Spherical object nicknamed “The Meringue” (pictured below) is 4 metres wide and sits on top of the object.

Twenty-five centimetre hole on top of the object, it’s not known yet where it leads or what if anything is inside.
Long runway or “skid marks” leading to object point north

The latest revelations of right angles, walls with absolutely smooth surfaces and cavities-like corridors inside the object are if possible, far stranger than any UFO could ever hope to be. In fact a UFO find would now seem positively mundane...... "

New expedition planned in approx 2 weeks

More via link

[RunningDeer]

Back in the summer of 1986, through power naps and contemplation and watching pictures come across my mind, a story wrote itself. It was before I had a quality computer, so I backed up my material on to a tape recorder.

I submitted the finished product to several places. Letters that came back explaining that it didn’t fit the sci-fi genre. While waiting for the “next rejection”, I discovered an old bookstore. Books ‘talk’ to me. This one particular one, on the top shelf said, “Pick me, pick me.” I was dumbfounded, because it was about two different expeditions that came up with the same conclusion. I don’t recall the title but it was something like “The Hollow Earth”. Their accounts had been woven into my writings, where ships were sucked into this vortex at the poles. Tall people took care of the shipwrecked castaways and sent them back, with only a vague recollection and a pack (sp?) that no one was to speak of it.

I write this because the book was about how one society was driven below the Earth to live out their days. They had radiation poison and were deformed. This class didn’t have access to the medications. Unbeknownst to the “elite” above, this society thrived and used materials from their environment and healed everyone. Their intuitive powers where just a part of who they had evolved into. This race was thousands of years old and many lived to be 700-800 years. By the twentieth century, their mission was to come to the surface and assist individuals who exhibited love, kindness, generosity, etc. The goal was to prepare them to help others that were awakening. Too, the ancient society were preparing to come up in larger numbers to integrate above. The ending was that those with evolving energies joined with the ancient society in their world because too many were not ready to let go of the anger and fighting and class divisions.

Do parts sound familiar today? I’d be the first to admit that by today’s standards, it’s elementary. Back then, at least for someone like me who only read philosophy books, it was an interesting journey. I rationalized that I was influenced by films and books such as, “The Lost Horizon”, “Shangri-La”, “The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You.” But there were details that were different from this material. A couple of years ago, I came across, “The Hollow Earth,” by Dianne Robbins. That book has some similar information. It served to confirm what my gut and experiences told me some 24 years earlier. On some level, I seem to recall this even when I was young.

I've experienced some fun things. I have no need to prove them to anyone. I believe that everyone has the same ability if they only step out of their own way. Toss out the labels. Open to the possibility. It will show itself. Even more so now with this new energy that’s unlocking the strands of DNA. Opening up the charkas. Or however you perceive it. Spend time and energy on what’s within or ultimately not within. Just jump. That’s what we’re here for IMO.

Some may think I'm an Airy-fairy, New Age-y, Pollyanna, BUT I know my next stop. It's a place where all are ageless, total health, loving communities, manifesting whatever is needed, surrounded by beauty and air filled with fragrances, thought communications with all life, etc. If you can dream it, it’s there where I am and many others.

It’s Mother Earth and Her Children.

[ulli]

Posted by meeradas (here)

Posted by dan33 (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2UHFIu6aikk

I'm not a ""soccer"" fan... but this one here nearly made me one:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C7mXGMcpA0g

"Excellence. In whatever it is that your doing."

---

Chingon?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xLm18xL0l2Q

WTF are you trying to do, Meeradas? Legend football AND Mariarchis?
You're turning my husband into an Avalonian, possibly even a Here and Nower
He'll encroach into the only space left to me. Thanks God I'm off to Barbados for a two-month marriage break.
(but even there... six skypes a day:..."what are you DOING, darrrling??")

[RunningDeer]

WhiteFeather posted this information from the “Kundalini Rising” thread. It’s with Lisa Renee, on Ascension and suggestions for each of us. I listened a couple of months ago and this time around, it sit even deeper. This vid is Part 3 of 5.

Thanks, WF.

Lisa Renee on VERITAS: Ascension

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aTTTs248AbE

I've added Part 5 because it was a bit tricky to find.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1QeSl4lJhjo

[RunningDeer]

Oops, this is not needed.

[ulli]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)
Back in the summer of 1986, through power naps and contemplation and watching pictures come across my mind, a story wrote itself. It was before I had a quality computer, so I backed up my material on to a tape recorder.

I submitted the finished product to several places. Letters that came back explaining that it didn’t fit the sci-fi genre. While waiting for the “next rejection”, I discovered an old bookstore. Books ‘talk’ to me. This one particular one, on the top shelf said, “Pick me, pick me.” I was dumbfounded, because it was about two different expeditions that came up with the same conclusion. I don’t recall the title but it was something like “The Hollow Earth”. Their accounts had been woven into my writings, where ships were sucked into this vortex at the poles. Tall people took care of the shipwrecked castaways and sent them back, with only a vague recollection and a pack (sp?) that no one was to speak of it.

I write this because the book was about how one society was driven below the Earth to live out their days. They had radiation poison and were deformed. This class didn’t have access to the medications. Unbeknownst to the “elite” above, this society thrived and used materials from their environment and healed everyone. Their intuitive powers where just a part of who they had evolved into. This race was thousands of years old and many lived to be 700-800 years. By the twentieth century, their mission was to come to the surface and assist individuals who exhibited love, kindness, generosity, etc. The goal was to prepare them to help others that were awakening. Too, the ancient society were preparing to come up in larger numbers to integrate above. The ending was that those with evolving energies joined with the ancient society in their world because too many were not ready to let go of the anger and fighting and class divisions.

Do part sound familiar today? I’d be the first to admit that by today’s standards, it’s elementary. Back then, at least for someone like me who only read philosophy books, it was an interesting journey. I rationalized that I was influenced by films and books such as, “The Lost Horizon”, “Shangri-La”, “The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You.” But there were details that were different from this material. A couple of years ago, I came across, “The Hollow Earth,” by Dianne Robbins. That book has some similar information. It served to confirm what my gut and experiences told me some 24 years earlier. On some level, I seem to recall this even when I was young.

I've experienced some fun things. I have no need to prove them to anyone. I believe that everyone has the same ability if they only step out of their own way. Toss out the labels. Open to the possibility. It will show itself. Even more so now with this new energy that’s unlocking the strands of DNA. Opening up the charkas. Or however you perceive it. Spend time and energy on what’s within or ultimately not within. Just jump. That’s what we’re here for IMO.

Some may think I'm an Airy-fairy, New Age-y, Pollyanna, BUT I know my next stop. It's a place where all are ageless, total health, loving communities, manifesting whatever is needed, surrounded by beauty and air filled with fragrances, thought communications with all life, etc. If you can dream it, it’s there where I am and many others.

It’s Mother Earth and Her Children.

Very good, WCBD. There are so many important theories confirmed here.
About deprivation leading to innovation, for one.
I had never heard of the Hollow Earth theory before 1979, when I attended a conference held by the London University,
where they had psychologists meet with astrologers for mutual challenging, as well as discussing and comparing
(Gee just now I'm realizing how very special that event really was...attended by Professor Hans Eysenck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck) and Michel Gauquelin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Gauquelin). Within weeks of that event I also had met Dr.Courtenay-Mayers,
who guided my self-discovery with the help of the Gurdjieff work. He had been the doctor during Gurdjieff's last weeks in Paris before passing away in 1949.

My point is this:
What I didn't see at the time, but do now. Hindsight is such fun.
The Gurdjieff work represented the inner world of the individual, and the Hollow Earth people I met represented the next level up, of the same principle:
namely: YES, there IS an inner world.
As above, so below. And it is no coincidence that both showed up on the screen of my life in the same time period.
I know this is very obscure, but I know some of the Villagers know what I'm saying.

A year later I moved to the tiny island of Barbados, taking dozens of books, to study and practice both Gurdjieff and astrology, all by myself,
free from interferences from the outside world.
It was easy for me as I have a liking for statistics, which I compiled in my head as i went along and grew in experience.

Then the next giant step: Applying the keyword that had come to me back in 1977, in my first awakening:
BOTH. Whatever one contemplates, if it has an opposite, it must be integrated at all cost, as it is always BOTH.
BOTH BOTH BOTH
Inner AND outer.
High AND low
Black AND white
BOTH ends of the stick have their place, or, as Gurdjieff used to say, "every stick has two ends".

[astrid]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SNhs0Ik8xKQ

[ulli]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Barbados for two months.

Wait........ Ulli!
In case you haven't run out the door... ...hey, enjoy Barbados & Family and Friends! We'll keep the light on for ya.

Hearts,
WhiteCrowBlackDeer

Do you really think I would go there if it meant I will be off-line?
( I'll remove this post if you remove yours)

[RunningDeer]

In this Hollow Earth there are no words for such things as ugly or beauty. Opposites are transcended. As above, so below, Mother Earth is a circle with no ends, no opposites. I feel most are there. It's just parts of us are waking still.

Sometimes I get impatient. I settle down when Eagle Spirit shares his inner knowing. My stomach jumps, my heart pounds. It's outward confirmation of my inner knowing. Thank you, Eagle Spirit.

Posted by ulli (here)
Very good, WCBD. There are so many important theories confirmed here.
About deprivation leading to innovation, for one.
I had never heard of the Hollow Earth theory before 1979, when I attended a conference held by the London University,
where they had psychologists meet with astrologers for mutual challenging, as well as discussing and comparing
(Gee just now I'm realizing how very special that event really was...attended by Professor Hans Eysenck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck) and Michel Gauquelin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Gauquelin). Within weeks of that event I also had met Dr.Courtenay-Mayers,
who guided my self-discovery with the help of the Gurdjieff work. He had been the doctor during Gurdjieff's last weeks in Paris before passing away in 1949.

My point is this:
What I didn't see at the time, but do now. Hindsight is such fun.
The Gurdjieff work represented the inner world of the individual, and the Hollow Earth people I met represented the next level up, of the same principle:
namely: YES, there IS an inner world.
As above, so below. And it is no coincidence that both showed up on the screen of my life in the same time period.
I know this is very obscure, but I know some of the Villagers know what I'm saying.

A year later I moved to the tiny island of Barbados, taking dozens of books, to study and practice both Gurdjieff and astrology, all by myself,
free from interferences from the outside world.
It was easy for me as I have a liking for statistics, which I compiled in my head as i went along and grew in experience.

Then the next giant step: Applying the keyword that had come to me back in 1977, in my first awakening:
BOTH. Whatever one contemplates, if it has an opposite, it must be integrated at all cost, as it is always BOTH.
BOTH BOTH BOTH
Inner AND outer.
High AND low
Black AND white
BOTH ends of the stick have their place, or, as Gurdjieff used to say, "every stick has two ends".

[RunningDeer]

Oops, this is not needed.

[ulli]

Hoping to be online for the entire two months that I'm gone. And that the Internet speed there has also been upped, so that I can watch Youtubes without interruptions.

[benevolentcrow]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Barbados for two months.

Wait........ Ulli!
In case you haven't run out the door... ...hey, enjoy Barbados & Family and Friends! We'll keep the light on for ya.

Hearts,
WhiteCrowBlackDeer

Do you really think I would go there if it meant I will be off-line?
( I'll remove this post if you remove yours)

Nope, post stays. I still wish for you a relaxing trip. And I'm still leaving you a heart hug...

I'm having a problem with the part about me being absent from the forum for two months, when I have clarified that I will be around.
Why would you want such a misleading statement to stay up?

I am reading this as take a vacation, you deserve it and have a wonderful time. Hope you are still able to post but if you don't as much we will understand you are with family in a beautiful place. (Of course you already live in a beautiful place.) We are always anxious to read what you have to say. We look forward daily to your input! The Hear and Now would not be the same without you! WE LOVE YOU ULLI!

[RunningDeer]

Posted by astrid (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SNhs0Ik8xKQ

Thank you, Astrid,

I listened 3 times...oh confession, 4 times. (which points to possible blind spots)

Everyone in one-on-one relationship please “be kind and rewind”. If it’s meant to be that good-byes are part of partners’ growth, then welcome to your new journey(s).

For the rest, I see this time as a chance to deepen within and between. Cleansing helps Us All. Thank you in advance.

For All, I send Love Light...

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
I'm having a problem with the part about me being absent from the forum for two months, when I have clarified that I will be around.
Why would you want such a misleading statement to stay up?

Ulli, sometimes, you read parts of my post differently than I've intended. I've remove it (them) for you.

[another bob]

Wow, I was away for a day, and find so much to catch up on! I hold this Village in my heart at all times, and pray that all will come to realize their own natural magnificence in each little test and challenge they offer to themselves! What an amazing life we have, so much to be grateful for, even the hard stuff (maybe especially the hard stuff, eh!).

I love you all!