Here and Now...What's Happening?

[astrid]

Loved this

[Carmody]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
What's for dinner? Fried Patty Pan Squash, Super Greens with Fresh Mozzarella, Organic Jasmine Brown Rice with Lentils and a Korma Curry Sauce!

That's a lot of work!

I just ate 'guy food':



And I'll probably throw one of these on top:



Ah, the simple meal.

[Flash]

Well, for the end the summer, here my own little raccoon story:

About a month ago, I was sitting in the living room, gently, silently reading (probably Avalon), when I hear the sliding screen patio door slide. I think: oh no, not again the neighbour's cat who has learn to slide the door. He is going to eat my cat's food.

But then, the noise made was sounding kind of strange, like much louder wood floor creaking and bigger ruflle. So I go in the kitchen, open the light and meet face to face with a very big adult raccoon. He looks at me straight in the eye, and did not move, almotst laughing at me.

I hissed at him (I must have some unknown genes), shout at him, he just would not go away and went back eating the cat's food. Finally I found a big exercice ball, and pitch it at him while hissing. He slowly left through the door he had opened.

I was very happy it was not a skunk. Both are our inner city friends, I live IN the city.

Here a funny video:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AUVq0JoyGME

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
What's for dinner? Fried Patty Pan Squash, Super Greens with Fresh Mozzarella, Organic Jasmine Brown Rice with Lentils and a Korma Curry Sauce!

That's a lot of work!

I just ate 'guy food':



And I'll probably throw one of these on top:



Ah, the simple meal.

How conveeeeeenient.
Guys who live in their heads don't need high maintenance.
One thing I like about being in Barbados is that I don't have to cook...cheese and crackers is a favorite of mine, too.
But no beer...I'm saving them for visitors.
Instead had a glass of golden apple juice, and added a shot of Old Parr Whiskey.
Medicinal as well as delicious. Have to finish the bottle before I leave here next week. Still half a bottle there...most likely my writing will be slurry these next few days...

[Marianne]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
What's for dinner? Fried Patty Pan Squash, Super Greens with Fresh Mozzarella, Organic Jasmine Brown Rice with Lentils and a Korma Curry Sauce!

BC -- that looks so delicious! Love the look of that curry sauce. Well done, I bet you had happy bellies at your house. : )

I made a new recipe tonight, sweet potato-spinach stir fry with garlic and sambal oelek (Asian chili sauce), served on basmati rice. And I marinated tofu slices in hoison sauce, mirin, and rice vinegar and pan sizzled them. It came out delicious. My son ate with us and loved it. He's always a good sport about my meatless meals.

I found some recipes for make-your-own curry sauce concentrate, formed into a ball and kept refrigerated, to use in making curry sauces as needed. I want to do that. I don't like the heat of some curry mixtures but love the flavor, so I'd like to adjust them to milder.

Your screen door is gorgeous!

WCBD, thanks for the soap encouragement. Yes, the basement smells wonderful ... making the soap and having it sitting around curing. It seeps upstairs too. People tell me the house smells like a health food / herb store. I love that, that's what I'm aiming for.

[Carmody]

Just heard this. Don't usually go for dancy stuff, but these lyrics are just too meaningful:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mUzVdRYHT64

hey!

it was night
it was day
it was life the old-fashioned way
it was different times, then how we want to be

lots of laughs
lots of cries
lots of tears and goodbyes
till we meet again
up in the sky....

hey!

got the spark
in the eye
got the will to live and never die
in the ancient times
before the gathering

out of sight
out of mind
as we bend the heartache back in time
till we dance again
up in the sky...

(edit: it takes abut 8-10 beers and a good half a pack of cigarettes to get there..., as in enjoy the big clubs, at all- then step outside and feel tired, disoriented, and deaf)

[astrid]

Terence Mckenna had the best Raccoon story.

He was growing his own mushrooms in jars of fermenting rye on his porch,
and one night he heard a racket and went out to find some Raccoons that had
figured out how to open the jars. They looked up at him, standing on two legs,
holding the jars with myclieum crumbs covering their faces.
He backed off, and left them too it, and within a short time they were
squawking and squealing as the mushrooms kicked in. ...
Low doses of Psilocybin increases arousal..

When he tells this its very very funny....

[benevolentcrow]

Posted by Marianne (here)

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
What's for dinner? Fried Patty Pan Squash, Super Greens with Fresh Mozzarella, Organic Jasmine Brown Rice with Lentils and a Korma Curry Sauce!

BC -- that looks so delicious! Love the look of that curry sauce. Well done, I bet you had happy bellies at your house. : )

I made a new recipe tonight, sweet potato-spinach stir fry with garlic and sambal oelek (Asian chili sauce), served on basmati rice. And I marinated tofu slices in hoison sauce, mirin, and rice vinegar and pan sizzled them. It came out delicious. My son ate with us and loved it. He's always a good sport about my meatless meals.

I found some recipes for make-your-own curry sauce concentrate, formed into a ball and kept refrigerated, to use in making curry sauces as needed. I want to do that. I don't like the heat of some curry mixtures but love the flavor, so I'd like to adjust them to milder.

Your screen door is gorgeous!

WCBD, thanks for the soap encouragement. Yes, the basement smells wonderful ... making the soap and having it sitting around curing. It seeps upstairs too. People tell me the house smells like a health food / herb store. I love that, that's what I'm aiming for.

Thanks Marianne, busy day here today, beautiful weather, love, love, love it! I am feeling good! (A couple of bottles of organic Pale Ale helps!) I have looked at soap recipes, sounds interesting, but complicated! Peace and love to all of the Villagers! A good night and pleasant dreams!

[Carmody]

People have asked me..since you say that you have helped some of the ones lost in the bardos..how do you reconcile that with the claims of others, who say that you should have seen someone, what are called 'angels by some? One story is not backed by the other, apparently.

Well, the issue does indeed clear itself, with the correct rumination on some of the salient details.

One being that if one is clear of their body, the feeling of exhilaration, expansion and freedom is quite, uhm,er, high. That the vibration, in that high, to rescue someone who is very much stuck in the horror of a death of when they where incarnated..that the vibration to reach them to sync with them so that they can see one another...is all wrong.

Not going to happen. (possibly non interference, as well) Also note that those who do rescue, do indeed communicate with the dead and convince them to 'go over', and then others assist.

How to reach one stuck in the moment of horror?

But..it might be possible, if an incarnated human duality could be of that mind and thus sync up with that world and that space, that vibration.

How did I help out with the Tsunami?

One must know that horror, in order to step into it.

At the age of 5 months, I nearly died in a bathtub. It is one of my deepest memories. Among other things. plus my last life lived, one of being beaten down every day, for the most part... and dying, lost, with nothing, not even clothes.

Like an athlete that must train to stay in the groove and at the leading edge...gotta stay tuned!

[RunningDeer]

Posted by astrid (here)
Terence Mckenna had the best Raccoon story.

He was growing his own mushrooms in jars of fermenting rye on his porch,
and one night he heard a racket and went out to find some Raccoons that had
figured out how to open the jars. They looked up at him, standing on two legs,
holding the jars with myclieum crumbs covering their faces.
He backed off, and left them too it, and within a short time they were
squawking and squealing as the mushrooms kicked in. ...
Low doses of Psilocybin increases arousal..

When he tells this its very very funny....

I've updated the list to included Flash and Terence Mckenna and Nora, a grand total of 10 folks with racoonie encounters.

[Guest]

Had a family of Raccoons that wintered every year under one of the structures on the property. They came out at night to snoop around for morsels and
to check the cats' dishes for food and water. I sat out on quiet late nights in the forest and listened to their little paws patter in the dirt and their sniffs
and snorts..... Watched them in the shadows waddle around the trees. Sometimes in the morning I would find the cats' dishes in the yard and the air tight dog
food container tossed onto the other side of the porch. They became quite aggressive. One of them -the large male walked onto the porch and I shooed him away and
he hissed at me; I jumped up and hissed back at him. He lumbered away.



Sometimes I let White Tail and his sister out after that encounter. The Raccoons made fast tracks up the big oaks and one time
they chased mamma and baby Racoons up a telephone pole. I hunted all over the yard looking for them in all of the trees.
Then I thought, I bet they scurried up one of the telephone poles. I shined the light at the pole and there they both were eyes glowing
midway up, mamma and baby clinging to the telephone pole.

After White Tail had his almost deadly encounter with the coyotes last Spring there haven't been any animals large or small in the yard. Although, since Southern Cal is having a dry hot summer and drought the Mountain Lions have been coming down from their remote locations in the higher elevations in search of deer,
small animals and water. They have been spotted down by a few of the creeks in the lower valleys and my neighbors have seen their tracks near their properties.







Love

Nora

[meeradas]

watching this:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc

thanks to this thread

[1inMany]

Finally. I'm caught up So much going on, all lovely. I missed you all!!!!!

Good Morning!

Little One has been kept me busy over this long weekend. Something is bothering him, I don't know what exactly, but it is probably the fact that Peanut hasn't been at peace for months. This child did not play with a single toy for three days. And in case you are wondering, that was not necessarily a good thing. He is obviously not in a comfort zone. The question "why?" has now been replaced with "what happens if?" I have so many things to do to catch up from this weekend, that I'm not sure where to start. Oh, yes I do come to think of it, I will sleep. All Day. I got the cute butterfly picture I shared, and I got the cutest video of him "catching" a frog. Now, to just figure out how to get them from my phone into the world...

Hubby got a snake bite a week ago. It was a baby snake, thank goodness, because it is painfully obvious it was a poisonous snake. I'm sorry he stumbled onto it inadvertently, but I'm glad it was not Little One or anyone else. Guess it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy? I thought I was reluctant to go out into the "yard" before...I was mistaken, because now I really don't want to venture off my perch.

@Mitzvah-about the popsicles...the closest I have come to one of your delicacies would be the frozen juice/puree pops at the grocery store. I'm sure those don't even come close, so I wouldn't know what flavor is my favorite. I know! Let's have a popsicle party and we will taste them all!

Here and Now...it is 4:15am. I woke up an hour ago from horrendous dreams and a presence in my room. These dreams have been coming for a few days. They are like a movie made of splices of many different movies, and they are filled with physical or emotional pain being inflicted on people I have never seen before. I don't know what to make of this. But I wake up full of sadness and all manner of emotions I have not been experiencing during the days. Makes a difficult start to a morning, hmmm? I am employing a technique used in therapy of flashback victims with PTSD, and that is to look around the room and name the objects I see. Get back to 3D reality and get out of the dream state fully. After coming out of it just a bit, I ran, not walked, to the Village. There is no better connection to here and now than the Here and Now.

Catching up on the goings on in the Village, I have felt a connection to each of you as I read your posts, and I sincerely thank you.

All the Love I can Muster in the 4:00am hour,

[Swan]

Good morning everybody,

As I sat on my cliff this morning in the wind and drops of rain, this came to mind:

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

In this video, Dennis Åberg, the discoverer of the baltic sea anomaly, explains that the expedition still hasn´t found a sponsor.

In the beginning he felt very optimistic about finding sponsors for further expeditions, but NOT ONE has turned up.

So now he must search other wrecks to try and find cargo of value so he can finance expeditions to the anomaly. He also can´t afford the equipment he needs.

They are leaving in a week for the last expedition of the year, before the weather gets too bad.

Anyway - this morning I was visualizing brave sponsors coming forth to Mr Åberg, and invite any villager who feels inclined to do the same!

[PurpleLama]

Last nights dream, we were in radio contact with each other as part of this worldwide radio/radar tracking system, somebody was shooting down ufos, ones that we understood to be friendlies, at the end one comes down in my area, 1inmany is shouting over the speaker that it's coming my way, I track it, determine it's path and where it will crash, then I'm out flying to the location on a search and rescue, I get to the vehicle which is badly damaged and get the thing to open up it's side, the being inside is injured, but not visibly and I teleport directly into (carmody's) a healing pool of water, she is unconscious and I fumble for a while to keep her face above water while removing her garments because I know the water must be making full contact with her body, once that's accomplished I start moving through the water in these wide, slow sweeping circles, careful not to let the water cover her face, this goes on for a while and eventually she begins to slowly regain consciousness, and when she makes eye contact I wake up

god bless the fae

[1inMany]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Last nights dream, we were in radio contact with each other as part of this worldwide radio/radar tracking system, somebody was shooting down ufos, ones that we understood to be friendlies, at the end one comes down in my area, 1inmany is shouting over the speaker that it's coming my way, I track it, determine it's path and where it will crash, then I'm out flying to the location on a search and rescue, I get to the vehicle which is badly damaged and get the thing to open up it's side, the being inside is injured, but not visibly and I teleport directly into (carmody's) a healing pool of water, she is unconscious and I fumble for a while to keep her face above water while removing her garments because I know the water must be making full contact with her body, once that's accomplished I start moving through the water in these wide, slow sweeping circles, careful not to let the water cover her face, this goes on for a while and eventually she begins to slowly regain consciousness, and when she makes eye contact I wake up

god bless the fae

I like your dream better!

[RunningDeer]

Fear is the theme from the “Daily Wisdom,” by: Rachel Willis from Archangel Michael.

"Fear doesn't protect you, it's the THOUGHT that fear protects you that causes you to check in with your intuition, rethink all your options to clarify your truth, hold firm in your knowingness of your personal needs, wants and rights/wrongs, and so on.



Very often in life, human beings seek options that are free from fear, not understanding that what they truly seek is the peace of a knowing solution. A step forwards that has more answers than questions. A path that resonates with their core and heartfelt desires. This will ALWAYS have some fears attached to it, for these are signposts to greater wisdom, insight, self-exploration, understanding and ultimately, mastery.



Without beginning the journey of heartfelt desire there can be no space to fulfill your dreams or soul potential, and that serves no one, least of all yourself."

Have a great day, Ya All!

L,
P'er

[PurpleLama]

I disagree with Michael on this one. It's the intuition that makes one check with the intuition, not the thought that fear protects you. Otherwise, the passage jives.

[1inMany]

Ahhhh. Do you hear that? Quiet. The human F-bomb machine has left the building. Phew. Hard to describe what that does to a person over a period of time.

Changed into my favorite daywear, my pajamas. Now, where's that to do list...

Doh, that's right, don't have one ZZZzzzzzz

[ulli]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
I disagree with Michael on this one. It's the intuition that makes one check with the intuition, not the thought that fear protects you. Otherwise, the passage jives.

This is where astrology comes in....
There were some scientific studies done once. Can't remember who did it.
They compared the alternating sun signs to extrovert and introvert typecasting of psychology.
So if your sun sign is Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius, then you are considered more extrovert,
and fear and caution play a lesser role in how the mind operates than if you are Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn o Pisces.
Of course the overall chart placing must also be factored in, as the sun sign alone doesnt make the full personality.
For instance, I have the sun in Capricorn, so in my 3D life I'm cautious and plan my actions well.
But my Leo Ascendant and Mars Mercury conjunction in Aquarius prompt me to use intuition instead of fear orientation.
So WCBD being Cancer would resonate with the idea that there is some room for fear, while someone with an air sign sun like PL wouldn't see it that way.