Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by astrid (here)
So that's what the party was in my dream,

I was invited to a party that was in a forest with animals dancing and
music and a big fire in the middle, so beautiful...

Happy Birthday to all the Village,
lets all stand and raise our glasses shall we??

Here's cheers to the future of the new world, of which we are all very much a part of

Big love to all of you !

Did your dream forest look like this:?



Or maybe like this?

[another bob]

Posted by Sierra (here)
UPDATE: David is on medical leave for four weeks. He is going to group therapy five days a week 9am – 3pm. He is being put on Prozac for long term depression, a temporary med for anxiety, and I have not yet found out about the third med. He can’t drink, since it is a depressive. We came home (he from meeting with the shrink, me from the dentist where I find out my cracked and infected tooth cannot be saved (Yay!) so I can get a bridge!) last night and he zooted me all evening long. He is hopeful for the first time in years.

Village, thank you so much for the miracles. I do believe he is going to be all right. One way or the other… He is asking and getting support, and us Villagers know how important that is!

Wonderful news, Thank you for letting us know, Sister, and continued intent for the best for you both!

Blessings!


PS: If you have any misgivings about your current dentist, we found an excellent one here in Paradise that Mazie has been using (she just was there yesterday, btw). http://www.skywayfamilydental.com/

[ulli]

Getting carried away dreaming about Astrid's dream here....

[RunningDeer]

Oh, Sierra, I am sooooo happy for your news! Yeah, David!
Four weeks, perfect.
Magic in the forest.
Zoot, zoot, zoot, zoot.

Posted by Sierra (here)
UPDATE: David is on medical leave for four weeks. He is going to group therapy five days a week 9am – 3pm. He is being put on Prozac for long term depression, a temporary med for anxiety, and I have not yet found out about the third med. He can’t drink, since it is a depressive. We came home (he from meeting with the shrink, me from the dentist where I find out my cracked and infected tooth cannot be saved (Yay!) so I can get a bridge!) last night and he zooted me all evening long. He is hopeful for the first time in years.

Village, thank you so much for the miracles. I do believe he is going to be all right. One way or the other… He is asking and getting support, and us Villagers know how important that is!

[astrid]

Sierra thats great news,
asking for help is a big step on the path of self transformation,
he will be ok, you will see.

[astrid]

Posted by ulli (here)
Getting carried away dreaming about Astrid's dream here....

Yep those sort of colors it was quite something,
i will go back to it a bit later on and find out what it was all about,
love how i can do that now.. journey back to dreams for more info,
its very cool

love to all

[Mark]

How weird is that? Astrid's post reminded me that I had a dream about a party this morning also. Mine wasnt so nice, though ... it was on the edge of some sort of canal, dark water, people were dressed quite garishly, they all seemed to be the sort you'd see at a Hollywood affair. I remember not fitting in and diving in the water to retrieve something someone purposefully lost, knowing it was done for the amusement of banal people. I'd had to search the water previously for a dead body and there was a monster truck driving under water. The party and my service to the amusement of the guests was the culmination of the dream.

[Anchor]

I am a bit late with this but welcome Free Will.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YDUXE9-SS4s

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YDUXE9-SS4s

Please watch in HD if you can, and if you dont like the song, do at least check out 20s from 3:08 - with your speakers and subwoofers ON


There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance take,
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance.

A planet of playthings,
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
"The stars aren't aligned,
Or the gods are malign..."
Blame is better to give than receive.

Chorus
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill.


There are those who think that they were dealt a losing hand,
The cards were stacked against them; they weren't born in Lotusland.

All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate.
Kicked in the face,
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate.

Chorus

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete.
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet.

Chorus

[another bob]

[Guest]

Happy Birthday to all of the Villagers. I cannot believe it has been a year now.

And Happy Virgo Birthdays too.

Welcome to all of the people new to the Village.

Haven't posted in the Village for a while now. I have been busy with tasks (some of which are much more arduous than I originally thought) and allowing the events of the beginning of Summer to gel....
but always thinking of and say a prayer for everyone.

Soon, I will be writing about good hot fires and making good hot soups.

The last 2 days in the forest have been hot, blustery and dry. There is a mild warm Sana Ana wind blowing through SoCal. The winds have been strong enough to blow the acorns off of the Red Oaks and the pine cones off the tall Pines. Lots of accessible food for all of the little critters.

Here is a picture of the area, dense scrub oak, Manzanita, Red Oak, Pine -old growth forest. There is also a splattering of White Willow and Cottonwood trees in the lower wet valleys.

Oak hollow


and plenty of local friends




Had a dream a couple of nights ago..... a man was killing trees. Some of them large. He would either turn them into deadwood then pull them out or cut and pull them while they were still alive. I was deeply upset and furious. I went outside shouting at him to stop. He didn't really care, he just kept killing them. I had to wake myself out of the dream.


Love

Nora

[meeradas]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
That calls for a standing ovation!

Posted by Belle (here)
Standing Ovations?
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Great.

Posted by Free Will (here)
i made some buttons for the occasion.

NICE!

Posted by donk (here)
Sometimes saying no, denying someone (not enabling), is serving them by not helping....

True. One might still get punched for it [by them], though.

Posted by Paul (here)
my magic powers enable me to re-order posts on threads.

!!
Good you're unbribable.

Posted by Anchor (here)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YDUXE9-SS4s

Mountainous thanks for this!
And, it reminded me of my friends here touring with Kansas at the moment...

[araucaria]

Posted by Paul (here)

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
2000 will be yours Ulli, we just ask Paul to close the thread for everyone but for you !

No need to do that ... my magic powers enable me to re-order posts on threads.

Hi Paul, you can do that?

Erm, you couldn't by any chance see a way to exercising your magic powers around the 19k mark on the bottom of page 950?

No you couldn't? I see.

Oh well, I shall just have learn to live with being the perpetrator of that dastardly deed.

[Anchor]

I LOVE YOU.

I LOVE YOU ALL.

I listened to this. It is nearly 15m long, but it is worth it.

It started turning me into a blubbing puddle releasing tears of joy and then lifted my heart in joy.

Listen to all it all and basically I hope you melt into the joy I experienced.

I am so happy to be in the most exiting incarnation ever, in the best of the best of creations, on a freaking amazing planet, surrounded by such masses in interconnected angelic entities vibrating with the original rhythms of the source of creation.

Even the crap times can be set aside in moments of joy. We are not lost.

We cannot be beaten.

Let light pour forth.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1E67YWZbWU

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1E67...eature=related

Thankyou all.

Thankyou Gaia!

Thankyou Krishna Das!

[Eram]

Posted by Anchor (here)
I LOVE YOU.

I LOVE YOU ALL.

I listened to this. It is nearly 15m long, but it is worth it.

It started turning me into a blubbing puddle releasing tears of joy and then lifted my heart in joy.

Listen to all it all and basically I hope you melt into the joy I experienced.

I am so happy to be in the most exiting incarnation ever, in the best of the best of creations, on a freaking amazing planet, surrounded by such masses in interconnected angelic entities vibrating with the original rhythms of the source of creation.

Even the crap times can be set aside in moments of joy. We are not lost.

We cannot be beaten.

Let light pour forth.

Thankyou all.

Thankyou Gaia!

Thankyou Krishna Das!

I am still listening while writing this, but that's very beautiful John.

It reminds me of the Satsang weekend that I attended a few weeks ago. There where talented music players there who created music like this and also in Slavic language. It was very elevating, especially listening and singing as a group (70/80 people).
Together with the presence of Prajnaparamita it opened my heart like never before and I still feel the benefits from attending that weekend.
Had a few big insights in the weeks after.

Thank you for putting this up and for your message!

[meeradas]

Posted by Anchor (here)
Thankyou

John, you might like this or that, too
[both very different, but]

[PurpleLama]

I feel like anchor, a big ol' crybaby, thank you for that maha mantra. When the song started, my eyes first were drawn to the little statue of Lord Caitanya with his arms raised in praise, the higher up to the image of young Krsna standing on the lotus, playing his flute, and next thing I know I'm collecting myself from the puddle of my tears. Thank you, John, that was freakin' awesome. I can't wait to show Playdo!

[PurpleLama]

Usually, youtube will not work when I am home, tin roof and bad reception in the neighborhood, and that video played the whole fifteen minutes, and only froze once to load, at the moment when the picture showed Krsna holding hands with Christ, hahahahaha. Hare Hare Krsna Krsna Hare Hare RAMA RAMA

[Samsara]

Happy Birthday Village ! Thank you Ulli for creating this space, thank you all who dwell here and now. You are all awesome.

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I must have been attracted somehow, since I joined avalon during the same time.... hmm.

My daughter sends her love and gratitude to you all. Saying goodbye to a friend is not easy, even when knowing that it is "seulement un au.. revoir" (till we meet again). My grandson is taking things ok, saying to his mother why are you crying, Kandu is now with Jesus (very catholic peruvian famillia on dad's side ... I really don't mind since I just happen to Love the guy very much). But then, yesterday morning he asked if Kandu was there. A lot to take in for a little man.

Thank you Anchor for that. I was in a vapor like morning until I listened. I'm now ready for a day of training... I always liked these blue people.

Zoot Zoot Zoot !

[ulli]

Posted by Rahkyt (here)
How weird is that? Astrid's post reminded me that I had a dream about a party this morning also. Mine wasnt so nice, though ... it was on the edge of some sort of canal, dark water, people were dressed quite garishly, they all seemed to be the sort you'd see at a Hollywood affair. I remember not fitting in and diving in the water to retrieve something someone purposefully lost, knowing it was done for the amusement of banal people. I'd had to search the water previously for a dead body and there was a monster truck driving under water. The party and my service to the amusement of the guests was the culmination of the dream.

This does not surprise me at all, Rahkyt. With Scorpios the rabbitt hole goes deeper than with the other signs,
just as Pluto (Scorpio's ruling planet) is further away than the other planets.
So for a Scorpio to attain internal unification means more work is needed to really surrender, to lay down the fear, the resistance, the attitude of 'us versus them'. Inner tension constantly demands that Someone has to keep watch, right?
Which is why Scorpios make powerful leaders, are the most trusted night watch men...

YET

When all desire for personal power is replaced with the certitude that a Higher Power exists, when that trust is attained, then something happens within....,
And for a brief moment the dream landscape might just reveal that the true underlying reality is perfect and ok.
I know you know all that already, I just thought someone needed to remind you that when it is not there in a dream that the dream becomes the bearer of an important message, which can only be decoded by taking each single feature of the dream and, one by one, identify with it. Because the dream and all it's parts are YOU, and you created it, all of it.

[Belle]

After posting the "Standing Ovations" picture, I wondered if anyone would 'get it'.

I still have one of the original, first production version of the Ovation guitar.

A trip down memory lane....many years ago I worked at Kaman Aerospace in Bloomfield, CT for a brief time. Charlie Kaman's (the creator of the Ovation guitar) office was on the second floor, just above my office. As new versions of the guitar were presented to him, he would try them out...wow, he was amazing! He could play anything...spanish guitar, classical, blues, etc...he played it all extremely well. The sweet sounds could be heard all through the building.

The story goes that he was on a flight in one of the helicopters the company made...with his guitar, of course...and loved the sound the rounded top of the helicopter made of his playing. He attempted to recreate that sound in a guitar...hence the rounded back. His son was the one who eventually ran the Ovation division of the company.

During the time I worked there, there was a piano in the lobby which I would play on occasion...he was trying to branch out into other instruments at the time. Thankfully, they dropped the piano idea and focused on guitars...the cabinet was absolutely gorgeous, but the sound and action was horrible!

Charlie was a beautiful soul. He would walk through the building, stopping to chat along the way, caring about the people who worked for him and appreciating the job each and every one of us did.

Charlie passed fairly recently. Maybe that's why loving thoughts of him keep popping up.

Here and Now remembering a special soul who left quite an impression on a young girl so many years ago.