Here and Now...What's Happening?

[1inMany]

This situation reminds me of a time....when peanut was 14, Em was 6. We lived in an apartment, and Em was right outside the window playing. She came running in distraught, to say the last, and talking so fast that all I got was "and Tasia and that bulldog." I said, well, I'm sure everything's fine. Calm down, sweetie. And Peanut (her friend and boyfriend following behind) said, "No, Mom, it's a pitbull." That was not good news in this area.

By the time I made it to the door, Peanut had sprinted out the door, run across the grounds, pushed the pitbull off of Tasia, scooped up the 4 year old girl, and was sprinting home, pitbull ripping her jeans and snarling and grabbing at her legs with his teeth...which were bloody, as was Tasia's face.

And the two friends just stood watching the whole thing from the door.

smh

Peanut reached out to protect a woman from being beaten, and she goes to jail...that girl last week testified against a thug and then he killed her...wtf? How can we expect for our young adults to choose to reach out and help humanity, when all they get is the punishment? While the sh*theads walk away...

Trying to remain centered here.

Very proud mama, but incensed at the same time.

All my love and gratitude to you all for helping, I really, really do not know what I would do without you....

[RunningDeer]

Light streaming and protection surrounds
you in all ways, Peanut
And to all concerned on the home front.

[another bob]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
How can we expect for our young adults to choose to reach out and help humanity, when all they get is the punishment? While the sh*theads walk away......

Unless we realize that this life will never seem "fair", based upon our limited and time-bound human perspective, we run the risk of being driven mad by the evidence of existential experience alone.

[1inMany]

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
How can we expect for our young adults to choose to reach out and help humanity, when all they get is the punishment? While the sh*theads walk away......

Unless we realize that this life will never seem "fair", based upon our limited and time-bound human perspective, we run the risk of being driven mad by the evidence of existential experience alone.

Okay, A-Bob, that's true. But I believe we are turning a corner, and I am believing in the goodness in humanity again, and I have faith that fairness will return. At least the fairness that accompanies life when we all care about each other that much

[1inMany]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Peanut used her taser gun thingy on a very big man who was about to abuse his wife, and SHE is the one in jail. Awaiting release...

The wife would not stand by her, and apparently went home with the man ...

Her problem is likely the preemptive action, regarding the law. The abuse had to begin, and only then would her perceived situation be any better.

She made a judgement call, and I'd of probably done the same myself, without even taking the time to blink. (slap leather, hip shot, it's over)

I have a feeling she may have been aware of this aspect. And that all involved may have similar respect for her decision. Except for the 'soon to have been' guilty man, of course.

Yeah, I would have too probably. It's an odd situation with this legal system. I can't imagine with her heart that she could have watched an actual beating before doing something. I couldn't watch one either :/ I guess it is a catch 22, and I completely understand her actions. Which means, I will be traveling to court as a show of support, and as her cheerleader, even though I rather doubt this will just go away...

[Carmody]

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
How can we expect for our young adults to choose to reach out and help humanity, when all they get is the punishment? While the sh*theads walk away......

Unless we realize that this life will never seem "fair", based upon our limited and time-bound human perspective, we run the risk of being driven mad by the evidence of existential experience alone.

Absolutely. In the Civil war I tried to do the right thing, from being between a rock and a hard place. In the end, my solutions should have been better, a thing I did not get to understand until I was dead. some of that remained unprocessed,and this life is progressive, in those sequences, and the mark of it is AMT IV/A4, with the explosive temper to match, in the genetic origins on one family side. I won't even hurt a fly and never do. I toss them outside, with apologies. Even under duress, I won't act. Hurting others, well, not the best thing to be doing in front of me.

When I was a kid, I'd take a beating and never fight back, shaking from the emotions. What is little understood, is not that I could not strike back, but I was afraid that I would. Frozen with fear that I would strike back.

[another bob]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
I have faith that fairness will return.

I know fairness has never been absent, it's only our angle of vision that suggests otherwise.

Posted by 1inMany (here)
At least the fairness that accompanies life when we all care about each other that much

I sympathize, Sister. May all beings recognize how much they are cared for, even now!

Blessings!

[another bob]

I talk about it sometimes with Him, all the suffering in the world.

"Dear God," I have prayed, "how is it possible all the horrors I have seen, all the atrocities you allow man to commit when you – God -- are ever standing so near and could help us? Could we not hear your voice say 'No' with such love and power never again would we harm?"

And my Lord replied, "Who would understand if I said that I cannot bear to confine a wing, and not let it learn from the course it chooses."

But what of a man walking lost in a forest weeping and calling your name for help, and unknown to him he is heading for a covered pit with sharp spears in it that will maim his flesh when he crashes through the trap?

"Yes, why don't I remove every object from this world that could cause someone to weep? Yes, why don't I speak in a way that could save a life?”

I opened up my mouth and the Infinite ran to the edges of space -- and all possibilities are contained therein, all possibilities, even sorrow.

”In the end, nothing that ever caused one pain will exist, No one will begrudge Me.

The Absolute Innocence of all within my Creation takes a while to understand."

~ Catherine of Siena
(1347-1380)

[Anchor]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
How can we expect for our young adults to choose to reach out and help humanity, when all they get is the punishment? While the sh*theads walk away......

Unless we realize that this life will never seem "fair", based upon our limited and time-bound human perspective, we run the risk of being driven mad by the evidence of existential experience alone.

Absolutely. In the Civil war I tried to do the right thing, from being between a rock and a hard place. In the end, my solutions should have been better, a thing I did not get to understand until I was dead. some of that remained unprocessed,and this life is progressive, in those sequences, and the mark of it is AMT IV/A4, with the explosive temper to match, in the genetic origins on one family side. I won't even hurt a fly and never do. I toss them outside, with apologies. Even under duress, I won't act. Hurting others, well, not the best thing to be doing in front of me.

When I was a kid, I'd take a beating and never fight back, shaking from the emotions. What is little understood, is not that I could not strike back, but I was afraid that I would. Frozen with fear that I would strike back.

Same sort of thing happened to me after I learned martial arts and then one day found out another mode of what I could really do when I let a bunch of chi rip into a brick I was learning how to break and turned a good portion of it into dust.

At the end of it all and the layers of fair, unfair, woulda, coulda, shoulda - we get choices.

Some are skillful, some turn out not to be so skillful.

Life does however, go on.

[Anchor]

Posted by Free Will (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kc8dFQWyod0

Thankyou for this, and that channel on YouTube is filled with good things. I will enjoy watching a lot of the videos there next week.

[1inMany]

Daily I am reminded of how far I have to go. At the same time I am reminded of who I am. Hard to be both. Maybe it gets easier?

Who knows when all the details will come out. Not my deal, I'm "just" the periphery haha. I see the wisdom...I hear it...and I thank you all for it.

Lessons to learn all around.

Love,

p.s. I could feel the help that was sent, and I am grateful. I know I keep saying that word, but thank you doesn't quite do it.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Daily I am reminded of how far I have to go. At the same time I am reminded of who I am. Hard to be both. Maybe it gets easier?

Who knows when all the details will come out. Not my deal, I'm "just" the periphery haha. I see the wisdom...I hear it...and I thank you all for it.

Lessons to learn all around.

Love,

p.s. I could feel the help that was sent, and I am grateful. I know I keep saying that word, but thank you doesn't quite do it.

Hi 1inMany, just touching base with you....

Daily I am reminded of how far I have to go.

I think of it like taking off mittens, boots, hat, coat, etc. Rid all those layers that suffocate, only to discover I'm already there/here.

You've had a full week and COYOTE and PRAYING MANTIS popped into it. These are some of the sentences that jumped out at me.

COYOTE
- You’re a survivor, capable of living through almost any experience.
- You’re a natural teacher, teaching mainly by example; and as you age, you gain greater and greater wisdom.
- Rather than fighting or running from this situation, it will work out better if you adjust to it.
- Look for the lessons in the turmoil you’re experiencing.

PRAYING MANTIS
- Listen to your instincts as to when to more forward and when to retreat.
- You practice the art of stillness, and you’re so good at it that you’re able to quiet your outer mind and draw upon the internal and spiritual resources that become more available when this is done.

Much Love,
Paula

[amandapoet]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Daily I am reminded of how far I have to go. At the same time I am reminded of who I am. Hard to be both. Maybe it gets easier?

Who knows when all the details will come out. Not my deal, I'm "just" the periphery haha. I see the wisdom...I hear it...and I thank you all for it.

Lessons to learn all around.

Love,

p.s. I could feel the help that was sent, and I am grateful. I know I keep saying that word, but thank you doesn't quite do it.

Hi 1inMany, just touching base with you....

Daily I am reminded of how far I have to go.

I think of it like taking off mittens, boots, hat, coat, etc. Rid all those layers that suffocate, only to discover I'm already there/here.

You've had a full week and COYOTE and PRAYING MANTIS popped into it. These are some of the sentences that jumped out at me.

COYOTE
- You’re a survivor, capable of living through almost any experience.
- You’re a natural teacher, teaching mainly by example; and as you age, you gain greater and greater wisdom.
- Rather than fighting or running from this situation, it will work out better if you adjust to it.
- Look for the lessons in the turmoil you’re experiencing.

PRAYING MANTIS
- Listen to your instincts as to when to more forward and when to retreat.
- You practice the art of stillness, and you’re so good at it that you’re able to quiet your outer mind and draw upon the internal and spiritual resources that become more available when this is done.

Much Love,
Paula

I just have to say I am always left awed and inspired when I read your interpretations/ encouragement-- even if it does not apply to directly to my situation I always find some sort of relevance to it. Again thank you for what you bring to the village

[RunningDeer]

Oh, wow! Thank you, Amanda Poet. I am touched by your kind words!

Blessings,
Paula

Posted by amandapoet (here)

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Daily I am reminded of how far I have to go. At the same time I am reminded of who I am. Hard to be both. Maybe it gets easier?

Who knows when all the details will come out. Not my deal, I'm "just" the periphery haha. I see the wisdom...I hear it...and I thank you all for it.

Lessons to learn all around.

Love,

p.s. I could feel the help that was sent, and I am grateful. I know I keep saying that word, but thank you doesn't quite do it.

Hi 1inMany, just touching base with you....

Daily I am reminded of how far I have to go.

I think of it like taking off mittens, boots, hat, coat, etc. Rid all those layers that suffocate, only to discover I'm already there/here.

You've had a full week and COYOTE and PRAYING MANTIS popped into it. These are some of the sentences that jumped out at me.

COYOTE
- You’re a survivor, capable of living through almost any experience.
- You’re a natural teacher, teaching mainly by example; and as you age, you gain greater and greater wisdom.
- Rather than fighting or running from this situation, it will work out better if you adjust to it.
- Look for the lessons in the turmoil you’re experiencing.

PRAYING MANTIS
- Listen to your instincts as to when to more forward and when to retreat.
- You practice the art of stillness, and you’re so good at it that you’re able to quiet your outer mind and draw upon the internal and spiritual resources that become more available when this is done.

Much Love,
Paula

I just have to say I am always left awed and inspired when I read your interpretations/ encouragement-- even if it does not apply to directly to my situation I always find some sort of relevance to it. Again thank you for what you bring to the village

[Carmody]

Some days I feel like I want to be truly effective. I miss the direct contact of assisting souls in their leave-taking. That commitment to be working with the hardest cases, the most lost, the most damaged, the ones requiring the direct overlay of this one into the core of what is happening to the other. Yet I am here, and I wonder if they ever know, even though it bears no import.

Oddly enough, or not surprisingly...it is the human part, the duality part that wants this rush of knowing, as a form of re-reinforcement of being able to do something positive that has real meaning to self.

(my horoscope says I should be a 'professional greeter', hah....Robert Hand, you have no idea how deep this sort of thing actually goes....or maybe you do)

And that while wearing the duality skin.... the temptation of abuse of such a connectivity is possibly a problem for some, but really, not so, for this one... in the final analysis. Humanity must repair itself, one by one, in a slowly rising awareness. to step inside an unwanted one, and simply jerk their hand on the wheel for a second and ...slam..into the rock face. whoops. Ahh..the human dreams. *Sigh* No, not to be done. So close, yet so far. I can't even warn them, 'be good, or I'll hand you your ass in a hat'. Nothing. It has to be done clean.

But we are getting closer. To the point that these words of such things can be now on the open public record, so that awareness can slowly build. We are getting to the sharper part of the curve, where things really begin to change. That the mass of awareness is increasing to the point that such public statements are not the problem they used to be.

I remember speaking with Hiram, an ex moderator here, about the situation when Charles arrived. I said it is as if things are picking up, and the serious and real 'heavy hitters' are starting to arrive on the scene, and he agreed that it seemed that way. At the same time, I don't know exactly what that means, if anything at all.

The understanding is that we have all been the victim and the persecutor at some time or another, and probably hundreds to thousands of times. Which makes me wonder...where did I pick up such a skill set? which is part of why I love this film so much and this particular song.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ornnAaYF9k

Am I a sad old soul eater from some other incarnation or space, retired from that imbalance as an experience .....who is one of the ones that has the character and capacity for the job 'that need be done'? One of the ones who has been everything and every potential across many places and spaces? From this place, I only get glimpses, I don't get to know. I Mean, I understand all the technology that humanity does not have. I remember the light, it's intensity, it's feel, it's all encompassing aspects. I remember the sound of the light. All of it.

The other side of that coin of capacity..... is knowing and living the price to be paid if foolishness attempts to reign. 'Here's your mop', the universe says. 'If you **** up, you clean it up'.

[ulli]

Blade Runner always reminds me of when I was living in London..always somewhere in Central London, and had 12 different addresses in 15 years...as I made my way up the social ladder...sometimes was buying the paper to look at home rentals just a few days after moving into a flat, and knew I could not live there...there were so many layers and levels....and even my dreams back then had a Blade Runner quality about them...now it all feels as if it happened in another life altogether, and I haven't been able to face going back...the unearthly technology you speak of...it was there, too...
Like England, the mountains of Costa Rica are damp and clammy and misty, but there is another feeling here...very raw and completely different, and Blade Runner is so far away it just has no reality in this place at all.
Here the errors of Europe and the US are being perceived by a rapidly awakening population who are scrambling to avoid falling into those traps, while snatching only those bits they find useful...
and who are thus managing to stay at the No 1 spot on the list of the happiest people on the planet.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1095831

[meeradas]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Frozen with fear that I would strike back.

I can relate.

[PurpleLama]

Posted by meeradas (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
Frozen with fear that I would strike back.

I can relate.

Me, three.

[PurpleLama]

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[Jenci]

Posted by Anchor (here)

Posted by Free Will (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kc8dFQWyod0

Thankyou for this, and that channel on YouTube is filled with good things. I will enjoy watching a lot of the videos there next week.

This was a really good interview, thanks for posting. In it Krishna Das talks about his time with Ram Dass and how he sent him to Neem Karoli Baba and he tells the story of how the Westerners who were there visiting him ended up being the ones who sang Hare Krishna chants for the guru. He talks about how bored he was with the repetitive singing but also explains why this was so important.

I thought it was a great background story to the video that Anchor had posted earlier

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

source:https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1E67...layer_embedded


Jeanette