Here and Now...What's Happening?

[astrid]

Ok... operation save the tree, is under way,
i spoke to an aborist who said that sometimes tress that fall like that
can happily keep growing, but it depends.
So i have cut it back to have more of a fighting chance,
and how it was fallen, over my veggie garden like that, means if it
survives i can actually use it as a frame for a green house in autumn.
So as often happens, it might be a very happy accident.

[Eram]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
I've been sending you a psychic invitation to come participate in this thread, here, for about a week, just to see it it would work, and here you are! Welcome, welcome, something tells me you are just as weird as me, which is a high compliment in my reality.

Posted by Nanoo Nanoo (here)
Its 930 am here

i have been up for about 4 hoours and after my morning meditation i watched my favorite scene from Pulp Fiction .


now i am dedating nuts and dates

I am also very excited about my life. I am enjoying it with every breath and on my mission to help others. this is a very rewarding process for me.

later today i will pick up my mountain bike from service and go for a ride in the forrest !

pece be unto you

Nanoo

awww.... and there I was, mistaking you for one of the few sane people.
You never can tell can you?

[Calz]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R9WTlP08LEg

[lookbeyond]

as a cucumber!

[Calz]

Sorry ... most definitely not "here and now" rather slipping into the past ... but great feel for "hippy daze" and I don't often post from home any more (where I can post music).

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8SuEbabLqOI

[Jenci]

On the subject of technology and enlightment.......


Mooji at 4.30 minutes, shattering some illusions about people thinking that that they can create a harmonious world ....

"While we have the notion of individuality and right and wrong and morals and immorals and these kinds of things we are going to be in a struggle and we cannot help.

We cannot come together as a people. We cannot. It has never happened before. That the human beings, so to speak or the human expression of consciousnessness, through their own endeavour based on the notion that they are individualities or individual nations different from each other, have the power, the capacity, the love, the understanding.....to use their powers to come together to create a harmonious world. It has never happened. It has never happened.



I'll leave you to watch the video for what he does say can help though.......

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7yk0ANlMmgI

source:https://youtube.com/watch?v=7yk0ANlMmgI

[ulli]

Posted by Calz (here)
Sorry ... most definitely not "here and now" rather slipping into the past ... but great feel for "hippy daze"

Truly groovy, Baby! Those were indeed the daze, when life was still simple and one could judge the cool people by the length of their hair and the establishment by their uptight facial expression. And the only people preparing for the end of the world were the Jehova's Witnesses.

[ulli]

Posted by Jenci (here)
On the subject of technology and enlightment.......


Mooji at 4.30 minutes, shattering some illusions about people thinking that that they can create a harmonious world ....

"While we have the notion of individuality and right and wrong and morals and immorals and these kinds of things we are going to be in a struggle and we cannot help.

We cannot come together as a people. We cannot. It has never happened before. That the human beings, so to speak or the human expression of consciousnessness, through their own endeavour based on the notion that they are individualities or individual nations different from each other, have the power, the capacity, the love, the understanding.....to use their powers to come together to create a harmonious world. It has never happened. It has never happened.



I'll leave you to watch the video for what he does say can help though.......

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7yk0ANlMmgI

source:https://youtube.com/watch?v=7yk0ANlMmgI

After having been an active member of Bahai communities I could never return to a "one man- many disciples" paradigm.
That's what church was about. Listening to gurus monologues is no different. The group thing is in my bones, but without clergy. Leadership coming from the grassroots.
Even though there have been many attempts to go back to the top- down model with an elite doing the bidding, if one looks at the progress of the last hundred years of the unification of mankind there are definitely stirrings in the right direction. The spread of the English language worldwide is contributing to unification, so is music.

I just watched this video of a New Zealand Bahai conference and again felt my spirit stirring, and the "unity in diversity" call coming through loud and clear. I'm so glad for YouTube because I can watch the unification progress from a safe distance where no one can put me on the spot about participation...which was always my biggest problem, me being too rebellious by nature.
This video shows the celebration of human diversity as well as people's willingness to unite, even though it is under the banner of an Iranian religion, the Bahai Faith.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iMo8pssrFM0

[Jenci]

I'm going to sound really old here but it is great to see young people waking up !

Just watched this video.....loved it. Sun gazing is not something I have ever done though

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0JXGbI4QsMg

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Jenci (here)
...Mooji at 4.30 minutes, shattering some illusions about people thinking that that they can create a harmonious world ....

{raising hand} I'm kinda guilty of holding that delusion, but I am aiming for a less disharmonious world, rather than a harmonious world.

Although I do get the point (at least intellectually) that divided the Buddhist schools into Mahayana and Hinayana (very simplistically stated, Hinayana being the school that says you can only enlighten yourself so just work on yourself), I would feel that I have abandoned my post if I were not working toward harmonious world (even knowing it cannot be totally be achieved) by disassembling disharmonious systems and replacing them (if a system needs to be) with less disharmonious systems.

Dennis

[Marianne]

Good morning Villagers and all,

One, your post the last page over cracked me up. I'm glad you're feeling better.

Here's another salad dressing that's healthy and tasty,
-- flax oil (the kind in the refrigerated case, with a cold-press date on it of less than three months)
-- ume plum vinegar (it's not really vinegar, more of a salty brine that's had ume plums infused in it)
Put it into the flax oil by drops, tasting to see how much you like. I do about 6:1 flax oil to ume.

Drizzle it on salad greens, raw veggies, steamed veggies, rice or pasta or potatoes, or grains like quinoa, millet, etc.

I got a headache Thursday night, I think from switching modes/food from vacation back to the work world. Trying to get back to eating better and think I took it too fast. This body doesn't switch as easily as it used to! But today is lovely, I have a local grown watermelon I'm about to juice. It was rainy this morning but the sun is starting to shine now.

My heart is full with love for you all.

Today I have to spend lots of time making soap. The botanical garden has sold all they bought from me, and they want more. It takes 3 weeks to cure. Perhaps I have a block against success -- I should've had some ready but I fiddled along and didn't.

I hope each one of us finds love today. If you don't, here's some from me ...

Love,
JB

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Jenci (here)
On the subject of technology and enlightment.......


Mooji at 4.30 minutes, shattering some illusions about people thinking that that they can create a harmonious world ....

"While we have the notion of individuality and right and wrong and morals and immorals and these kinds of things we are going to be in a struggle and we cannot help.

We cannot come together as a people. We cannot. It has never happened before. That the human beings, so to speak or the human expression of consciousnessness, through their own endeavour based on the notion that they are individualities or individual nations different from each other, have the power, the capacity, the love, the understanding.....to use their powers to come together to create a harmonious world. It has never happened. It has never happened.



I'll leave you to watch the video for what he does say can help though.......

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7yk0ANlMmgI

source:https://youtube.com/watch?v=7yk0ANlMmgI

Thanks for the Mooji vid. Like all his others and books, he says it so simply. Note to self: Schedule more Mooji time. And more letting go of Paula-ness. (again, again, again)

[Carmody]

Posted by Marianne (here)
Good morning Villagers and all,

One, your post the last page over cracked me up. I'm glad you're feeling better.

Here's another salad dressing that's healthy and tasty,
-- flax oil (the kind in the refrigerated case, with a cold-press date on it of less than three months)
-- ume plum vinegar (it's not really vinegar, more of a salty brine that's had ume plums infused in it)
Put it into the flax oil by drops, tasting to see how much you like. I do about 6:1 flax oil to ume.

Drizzle it on salad greens, raw veggies, steamed veggies, rice or pasta or potatoes, or grains like quinoa, millet, etc.

I got a headache Thursday night, I think from switching modes/food from vacation back to the work world. Trying to get back to eating better and think I took it too fast. This body doesn't switch as easily as it used to! But today is lovely, I have a local grown watermelon I'm about to juice. It was rainy this morning but the sun is starting to shine now.

My heart is full with love for you all.

Today I have to spend lots of time making soap. The botanical garden has sold all they bought from me, and they want more. It takes 3 weeks to cure. Perhaps I have a block against success -- I should've had some ready but I fiddled along and didn't.

I hope each one of us finds love today. If you don't, here's some from me ...

Love,
JB

commercial tip: slight hunger in the clients (lack of supply-temporary), that occurs for some given reason..is more effective than overt abundance.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Speaking of technology, I found this video linked from Whitley Strieber's website, Unknown Country, of a video compiled from photos taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover camera. It shows anomalous objects in the Martian sky. Interesting, but not making speculation.

http://www.unknowncountry.com/out-th...jects-sky-mars

Technology is as technology does. I am not sure what that statement means, but it was fun stating it. Which also means that Forrest Gump was smarter than I am.

"Which also means that Forrest Gump was smarter than I am."

Add me to the list. Forrest Gump is Buddha. Nothing, and no one to forgive because he hasn't judge any one or any of his life experiences. Both are cool dudes.

These are for you, Ataraxas. Note: no GMO'S in preparation, only high quality ingredients.

[Mark]

What would this world be if there were no ignorant people? If there were no selfish people? If there were no people at different levels of being, of knowledge, of experience? If there were no jealousy? If there were no anger? If there were no hatred?

What need would we have to be here? That would be some form of uni-mind collectivity, I think. The wars are a part of being here on this planet. A part of the separateness that we cultivate so doggedly.

Mooji said that he doesn't assign any special place to children, that they are just little people. Imagine if you come from that place of uni-mind collectivity, then you find yourself within a warm, watery place where you are within someone, feeling their emotions, hearing their voice, then you are thrust from that protection out into a cold, bright world and from then on, everyone around you is trying to make you more independent, more separate. Some mothers don't want to breast feed, parents don't want the child in the bed with them, then they don't want them in the room with them. We teach our children to eat on their own, to sit on their own, then to crawl alone, then to walk alone. Everything we do increases individuality, which is necessary to be here, to a certain degree.

A side effect of that grows to be separateness in society, depending upon how well that society institutionalizes community and collectivity. Some societies are better known for that. Societies where the elders are respected, where community is held to be one of the highest forms of human expression, where family is sacrosanct, where tradition and responsibility based upon a more egalitarian and spiritual understanding of what we are and why we are here is held as common knowledge. Pyramidal societies are the anti-thesis of that.

No matter the state of the society, individual consciousness remains an individual choice. Mooji spoke of the "living spirit" that both Buddha and Christ taught of. Not everyone is going to choose it and even though the institutions of society can be democratized and larger and larger agglomerations of power and control can and will form and evolve, as long as the diversity of the human experience remains the rule rather than the exception ignorant and hateful people will still find their way to power, societies will range between light and dark, atrocities will still happen, tears will still fall, laughter will rise and silent glades of natural beauty will still birth wonder in the hearts of the awakened.

[Marianne]

commercial tip: slight hunger in the clients (lack of supply-temporary), that occurs for some given reason..is more effective than overt abundance.

LOL ... Carmody, does that mean you think I'm eating a whole watermelon today? Thanks for the giggle, it's so nice after feeling bad.
I'm juicing it cause it's too darn big to fit in the refrigerator! And no one in the house will help me eat it. It was a gift, this HUGE melon. I buy smaller ones usually. I'll freeze the juice, I know that's not the best nutritionally but it's better than wasting it.

Is that TMI? Sorry.

Thanks for the tip, it's good advice ... I do like the feeling of being hungry, and try to balance it with my occasional low blood sugar from not eating/not eating the right thing.

[Mark]

Here's a really cool reading that made my day. LOL It kind of does fit in with my experience, I've had a free and well-favored existence and any karma I've experienced has been clearly related to my own previous actions in this lifetime.

Numerology Reading for Karmic Accumulation

Zero Karmic Accumulation

The Karmic Accumulation number is found by taking all the missing numbers in the name and then adding them together. What does it mean when no numbers are missing in the name at birth? Just because there are no numbers missing in your name does not mean there is no karma at all for you to deal with in this life. Yes, karma exists!

None of us would likely have chosen to incarnate presently if there was not some karmic imbalance in our evolution. As a general rule, a name with no missing number suggests a dharmic lifetime rather than one which is heavily karmic.

What is a dharmic lifetime? This means roughly that rather than having to spend so much time straightening out past imbalance, the individual will be able to concentrate more upon the furtherance of evolution and soul growth by opening new avenues of unfoldment and work; so zero is a karmic plus for the THINKING person.

This is a plateau period of one's evolution; you have to consciously make a choice as to how you wish to progress in consciousness. This is not as easy as it appears, because there is little push from within, and fewer specific needs to fulfill. You do not have the missing numbers to provide a focus or impetus for specific action. Unknowingly, one can begin to drift and lose control of destiny. If no effect is directed purposefully to your growth, then in subsequent lifetimes new missing numbers could occur and your wheel of karma would spin along through new cycles. With this combination, the individual has the chance to decide and accomplish what he/she feels from the soul to be most significant for unfoldment action. Use it fruitfully.

If there are no other areas of imbalance indicated in your chart, you may have in this life a unique opportunity to balance all patterns and experiences contained in the symbolism of the numbers. As a soul approaches cosmic consciousness, the need to incarnate will be completed. Much depends on your ability to master the traits of each number.

This is a life pattern where personality shortcomings must truly be brought into conscious focus and harmonized. You have a tremendous depth of awareness and take life events with a purposeful responsibility. A distinct sort of detachment and impersonal feelings pervades your attitude toward life; it is literally as if you have been through it all before and have begun to tire of earthly routine. It is difficult for you to sustain a prolonged interest or enthusiasm for mundane activities because the soul cries out to be free of this dimension, to move along in its destiny. All of a sudden, the sobering thought may overwhelm you - what a task it is to finish up the demands of this earthly plane.

You can be suspicious, critical, and moody. These qualities must now be transmitted into ones of optimism, hope and a trusting faith in higher guidance. Your logical procedure is to generalize by bringing the overview of wholeness down to each small part. When an adversary starts to pick at the details of your structure, you become uneasy and at times defenseless. Because of your expansive outlook and understanding of so many viewpoints toward life, it is easy for you to switch views or to succumb to another’s viewpoint for the sake of harmony even though you still disagree. Let this ambiguity work for you.

Motivation is an ingredient that often haunts you for there seem to be so many things you could do; yet, it is hard to decide. Be careful that your desire for release from this plane does not lead you into escapist behavior.

If you have not discovered your heart’s desire, the deeper teachings of metaphysical and related studies will be of great guidance and comfort. Learn to give thanks for all that comes to you and visualize the perfection in yourself, others, and each situation that arises in your life. You are closer than ever to the possibility of attaining that perfect goal.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Marianne (here)
Thanks for the tip, it's good advice ... I do like the feeling of being hungry, and try to balance it with my occasional low blood sugar from not eating/not eating the right thing.

I'm guessing Carmody had the soap making business in mind ... but I can't tell if Marianne is guessing the same thing and being sly, or if I'm "out to lunch".

[Marianne]

Posted by Paul (here)

Posted by Marianne (here)
Thanks for the tip, it's good advice ... I do like the feeling of being hungry, and try to balance it with my occasional low blood sugar from not eating/not eating the right thing.

I'm guessing Carmody had the soap making business in mind ... but I can't tell if Marianne is guessing the same thing and being sly, or if I'm "out to lunch".

Paul, I'm the one who's out to lunch! Anyway, it made me laugh.

Just when I thought I knew what Carmody was saying ...

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Jenci (here)
I'm going to sound really old here but it is great to see young people waking up !

Just watched this video.....loved it. Sun gazing is not something I have ever done though.

Thanks Jeanette, this sun gazing vid I watched a bit ago by Lisa Harrison. I always look forward to her interviews.

As for sun gazing myself, I tried, but it's not regular enough. On my walks, I keep my sunglass off for a little while. I've got blue-green eyes, so there's sensitivity to light. (so I've read, hard to know any different)

And there's the vanity thing, if I'm squinting, then I'm adding to the map that's writing itself onto my face.

Discussed in the first 4-5 minutes:

- How there’s a campaign to prevent us from receiving the sun’s energy to receive sun physically, emotional, mentally, and spiritually.
- How Lisa experiences wisdom and clarity from sun gazing.
- Four simple things to participate in the ascension process you do need anything more than: what you get from the sun, connecting to Mother Earth, connecting to your heart and being yourself.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j54ccEW0yv0

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j54ccEW0yv0

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
What do you all think about dolphins and whales?
They certainly do not use technology and they are also not responsible for all that is out of whack on this planet. There is plenty of indication to be found that these creatures are as conscious as men, if not more.

Great dolphins vids, Wakytweaky. By the vid #3, it summed up my thoughts on dolphins. They have higher consciousness like us, if not more so (dare I say) from what I see in the human species as a whole these days. This is based on my personal list of what’s important for a loving community: supportive and compassionate. Dolphins make great teachers and are here for that purpose.