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    Sheesh, I don't know where this is coming from either. I don't even know why I feel compelled to share it. This is one of those...do I?...don't I?...back and forths that accompanies sharing things that get stuck in my head...I guess sharing it will make me feel better, lol, and leave it up to you whether you want to partake in the sharing...

    When I found Avalon, I was recovering from the worst mind...er, um...mind...messing-with...I had encountered in my life to that point. I had found an informational website reportedly authored by the self-proclaimed Bavarian Illuminati, and at the time I thought I had found "The Truth" and all the "enlightenment" (in the sense that with each light bulb, one becomes more aware of truth) that offers. Setting aside the information there, which I really don't want to revisit, as I became entangled in all this new information (new to me), I also became active on a forum, and in a movement, associated with that informational website. This was my first experience on a forum, and I felt like I had just walked into a college class, way over my head, and was a kindergartner.

    That movement imploded. Several people regrouped and tried to emerge and build a cohesive foundation and website that would serve to motivate people to change our world in a positive way. I was asked to be a part of this group, and in my naivete, I accepted the invitation.

    This group asked me to come up with a framework for a new educational system, very vague isn't it? After months and months and months and months of research and communication and asking questions and digging...I came up with a framework that I felt proud of, that I thought would improve the education of every child on earth. smh. It was only a framework, guidelines, and did not include one single idea that would encroach on anyone's right to individuality, even on any societal or cultural belief systems.

    And....alas. In the end, what did we all realize but that you can't get people off the couch? You just can't. They have to get up and get their lazy asses off the couch all by themselves. (And without people getting off the couch, there would be no real change.) So I walked away.

    (I just now realized where this is coming from. On Sunday, sorry-in four days, I will have been on Avalon for a year. Aha - retrospection that comes with anniversaries, birthdays, etc. That being the case, I would like to thank you, whoever you are reading this, for allowing me this moment.)

    ****. I'm stopping here. It seems there is something bothering me, and I think I will go figure out what it is....

    I want to say thank you, though, to those of you who welcomed me to the Village a year ago, into a magical place where I can still verify my sanity on occasion, or verify my insanity (lol)...share what is going on in my world and see that even though I am a hermit, a loner, and I don't want to discuss some of the "hard" stuff any more...I can still feel love and acceptance. And this has been a tough year of changes.

    So much gratitude here, so much love for this Village...

    Blessings to you all.
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    Carmody, giv me giv me giv me, lol ok: giv us giv us giv us...

    That is my point lately, why to pass a life trying to get somewhere you don't know exactly where and how, even why - this seems ridiculous.

    10 minutes anytime.

    edit: Today I do have a punch in my forehead (like a drilled punch)
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    Carmody, giv me giv me giv me, lol ok: giv us giv us giv us...

    That is my point lately, why to pass a life trying to get somewhere you don't know exactly where and how, even why - this seems ridiculous.

    10 minutes anytime.

    edit: Today I do have a punch in my forehead (like a drilled punch)


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    what a loss...but great reminder to revisit some good stuff, man I love this one so much:



    Perhaps it is why this one has been in my head all day (I associate these two tunes for some reason) before learning of his death, he had to have played with Grant Green, right?


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    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    Carmody, giv me giv me giv me, lol ok: giv us giv us giv us...

    That is my point lately, why to pass a life trying to get somewhere you don't know exactly where and how, even why - this seems ridiculous.

    10 minutes anytime.

    edit: Today I do have a punch in my forehead (like a drilled punch)


    Me too, me too, me too!!!!!!
    It is very simple.

    It is a sheet of paper, with a few dots on it.

    What you do, is you find the point in your eyesight, where 'the blind spot' exists.

    where the mind 'editorializes', and creates imagery.... that isn't actually there. Where the brain fills in the gap in the data.

    And then you play with this effect, for a few minutes, every day. So that you train your mind to not add the false data. Simply by putting up the piece of paper with the dot on it..and then realizing, consciously..the point at which the dot disappears, and then when the blind spot is passed..and the dot re-appears.

    And at this point, what one is doing, is returning to the pathways in visual programming and neural pathway wiring that one had as a small child, of the age of a few months to maybe 6 months or less.

    You see (pun intended) that you learned to create the false data, as a child. That possibly the wiring of the brain/eye was designed to do so, but one then becomes conscious of this..and lives it consciously.

    Then one is living in a world where vision is no longer edited. And the old pathways of the mind, the mind of the youngest, deepest parts of consciousness and unconsciousness/hindbrain, this begins to come back to the fore.

    The eye/brain combination and the associated wiring slowly becomes or returns to that of the newborn child, at the same time one is possessed of an adult trained mind.

    As this is then consciously lived, then the reflection of this truth begins to shape the mind into both old original pathways and new pathways in truth of what is and what is not. That one has in hand, absolute proof, living proof (and is living it as a knowing reflection) of mental editorialization in the physical process of visualization.

    Then one is in the process of unlearning the automaton aspects or the autonomous programmed aspects of the human mind. And then one finds out that for most people, they think that what the common state of life and mind is..is not the true adult stage, it is only the final juvenile stage, and that the true adult stage is conscious control and integration of all that I'm speaking on, right here.

    The caution, is that like the line in the film 6th sense, "I see dead people", this sort of thing will very likely begin to happen. Ie, small kids speaking with grandpa, even though he's been dead for 20 years. Those sorts of doors will begin to open again.

    What I found with the 3d television thing, was that there is an parallax echo effect, where the 3d effect is not perfect, and there are ghost images.

    After about 3 hours of playing a 3d game, that my mind and eye, as a pair, edited out the ghosting..and that I could not see it anymore.

    Until I concentrated heavily upon this situation, then it would slowly return, but NEVER as strong as it was, when i first sat down to play the game.

    Only in the next session, the next day, at the beginning, was the ghost image strong again.

    And that each day I play the games, the ghosting goes away more quickly, and it is harder and harder to bring it back into my visual notice.

    That I'm CREATING pathways in the mind, like exercise and learning. And that if I'm not careful, i will be adding extra editorialization skills in my vision, that ride unconsciously in me, that I might not want to have be there.

    That some might think of this as a learned skill, this 3d Television entrainment...but I might see it as a process of dumbing down my ability to see things as they are. That my vision might be learning to fit in with consensus situations, like that of children, slowly learning to not see or speak with grandpa. That they editorialize their hindbrain function into something that is actually, unreal. That grandpa is real, as a ethereal ghost, and that not seeing him and not speaking with him is the unreal part. The same as the eye brain issue, regarding the blind spot.

    (hearing, BTW ...is similar/same)

    In the same way that the human vision does not see the existing blind spot that is in the human eye... and fills it in with data that is not actually there.

    That this method of realizing, consciously, the human eye's blind spot, and what our mind does with and to it..that this, as realization, changes human thinking on what is real and what is not,and re-opens all the doors that have been closed in early childhood.

    That line about, when one finally becomes aware enough, strong enough, and willing enough..that the training wheels, all of them..finally come off..and one reaches the state of true adulthood. That one can turn the hind-brain functions on or off, and live in any given state.

    My point, is that to begin, we seem to 'feel' that we need a livable, solid proof of a sort. One we can personally live and be as, a form of continual reflection. This is what changes habit and changes 'mind'. to continually live with a reality of blind spot realization, consciously, all day. Just for a few weeks, as the old pathways of the mind are relived and re-integrated.

    Playing with the human mind/eye blind spot function, it can open that door, and keep it open. And it is a simple thing to do. However, caveat. Buyer beware. That's a very deep rabbit hole, there....

    I suggest that very few will actually do this. An actual existing and real blue-pill/red-pill situation is a bit frightening for most. You put that in front of people,as they may exist now,and they usually back down.

    They yearn but it is actually..when push comes to shove...well....

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    I got to thinking...I didn't mean to only thank the Villagers who welcomed me...I meant that thank you to everyone who has been part of this Village...some have left, and I miss them...some have stepped in for a moment, and stepped back out...some have come in and "set a spell"...some have hung hammocks ...some have moved on in...I love you and thank you all...



    I wonder if this spot on the paper, Carmody, is like the spot I see when I close my eyes? I suppose you can't answer that without seeing what I see...drat.
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    After listening to Blue Breakbeats twice, had to move on (sorry GG!)...some John Scofield (with MMW):


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    Heh, was looking at the song titles to this phenomonal album--John Scofield a Go Go with Madeski, Martin & Wood, highly recomended to anyone that never liked jazz...if you don't like this one--or the previously mentioned Grant Green - Blue Breakbeats, jazz may just not be for you...

    Anyway, I rarely look at song titles, but happened to just now as there's a short (2:13) kinda etheric (I can't think of a good word for creepy in a good way) track that sort of jostled me out of the trance the music had me in...the track is called: Kubrick.

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    Ravi Shankar just left the building.

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    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    I got to thinking...I didn't mean to only thank the Villagers who welcomed me...I meant that thank you to everyone who has been part of this Village...some have left, and I miss them...some have stepped in for a moment, and stepped back out...some have come in and "set a spell"...some have hung hammocks ...some have moved on in...I love you and thank you all...



    I wonder if this spot on the paper, Carmody, is like the spot I see when I close my eyes? I suppose you can't answer that without seeing what I see...drat.

    the spot you see, is a stereoscopic echo of the center high density rod and cone area in the human visual system.

    it appears to be slightly lighter or bright, as the 'persistence of vision' and the glucose levels in the eye are changing.

    The rods and cones of the eye, are a thin stalk, with neural ends that are photo sensitive. In that rod or cone, is a pathway for glucose to travel, so it can make it to the point where the active photo sensitive neural area can be refreshed with new glucose, so the neuron can fire. and then send a signal to the brain, where it can be decoded or coded into a 'recognizable image' in 'the mind's eye'.

    we get forms of reverse imagery in the eye, when we close our eyes after some very bright input. The neuron is not returning to complete rest states, immediately. Thus we get a reversed image, like a negative.

    the bright spot in the eye, is this persistence of image effect, in negative form. dark becomes bright and with the concentration of rods and cones, in the center of the eye's vision, I believe it is called the fovea.



    In the picture here, you can see the blind spot, where the nerves go out of the eye. it is just above the center spot, and it is just to the outside of the eye, toward the temple/eyebrow direction. Visually, that is, remember the image is reversed.

    This can be ascertained by gently pushing on the eye with a finger tip, when closed..and you will see a bright spot that is opposite, in both axis, to the place you are pushing on. or, alternatively..close one eye, and then gently push the corner of the eye, on one eye lid, and you will see your entire view pitch to one side and at an angle, as if the world was the surface of a boat,and the whole thing is in high seas and pitched about.

    So, with this image reversed in the brain, flipped, top for bottom. We are actually seeing everything upside down, but our brain flips it.

    I've watched TV at close range, so it filled my vision... with a flipped image and I did it long enough to see/have my mind flip it back. This takes a LONG time.

    Then I would look away from the TV, and my entire full visual reality was flipped upside down. As 'Bill the Cat' would say.. AACCCCKKKK!
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    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    Carmody, giv me giv me giv me, lol ok: giv us giv us giv us...

    That is my point lately, why to pass a life trying to get somewhere you don't know exactly where and how, even why - this seems ridiculous.

    10 minutes anytime.

    edit: Today I do have a punch in my forehead (like a drilled punch)


    Me too, me too, me too!!!!!!
    It is very simple.

    It is a sheet of paper, with a few dots on it.

    What you do, is you find the point in your eyesight, where 'the blind spot' exists.

    where the mind 'editorializes', and creates imagery.... that isn't actually there. Where the brain fills in the gap in the data.

    And then you play with this effect, for a few minutes, every day. So that you train your mind to not add the false data. Simply by putting up the piece of paper with the dot on it..and then realizing, consciously..the point at which the dot disappears, and then when the blind spot is passed..and the dot re-appears.

    And at this point, what one is doing, is returning to the pathways in visual programming and neural pathway wiring that one had as a small child, of the age of a few months to maybe 6 months or less.

    You see (pun intended) that you leaned to create the false data, as a child. That possibly the wiring of the brain/eye was designed to do so, but one then becomes conscious of this..and lives it consciously.

    Then one is living in a world where vision is no longer edited. And the old pathways of the mind, the mind of the youngest, deepest parts of consciousness and unconsciousness/hindbrain, this begins to come back to the fore.

    The eye/brain combination and the associated wiring slowly becomes or returns to that of the newborn child, at the same time one is possessed of an adult trained mind.

    As this is then consciously lived, then the reflection of this truth begins to shape the mind into both old original pathways and new pathways in truth of what is and what is not. That one has in hand, absolute proof, living proof (and is living it as a knowing reflection) of mental editorialization in the physical process of visualization.

    Then one is in the process of unlearning the automaton aspects or the autonomous programmed aspects of the human mind. And then one finds out that for most people, they think that what the common state of life and mind is..is not the true adult stage, it is only the final juvenile stage, and that the true adult stage is conscious control and integration of all that I'm speaking on, right here.

    The caution, is that like the line in the film 6th sense, "I see dead people", this sort of thing will very likely begin to happen. Ie, small kids speaking with grandpa, even though he's been dead for 20 years. Those sorts of doors will begin to open again.

    What I found with the 3d television thing, was that there is an parallax echo effect, where the 3d effect is not perfect, and there are ghost images.

    After about 3 hours of playing a 3d game, that my mind and eye, as a pair, edited out the ghosting..and that I could not see it anymore.

    Until I concentrated heavily upon this situation, then it would slowly return, but NEVER as strong as it was, when i first sat down to play the game.

    Only in the next session, the next day, at the beginning, was the ghost image strong again.

    And that each day I play the games, the ghosting goes away more quickly, and it is harder and harder to bring it back into my visual notice.

    That I'm CREATING pathways in the mind, like exercise and learning. And that if I'm not careful, i will be adding extra editorialization skills in my vision, that ride unconsciously in me, that I might not want to have be there.

    That some might think of this as a learned skill, this 3d Television entrainment...but I might see it as a process of dumbing down my ability to see things as they are. That my vision might be learning to fit in with consensus situations, like that of children, slowly learning to not see or speak with grandpa. That they editorialize their hindbrain function into something that is actually, unreal. That grandpa is real, as a ethereal ghost, and that not seeing him and not speaking with him is the unreal part. The same as the eye brain issue, regarding the blind spot.

    (hearing, BTW ...is similar/same)

    In the same way that the human vision does not see the existing blind spot that is in the human eye... and fills it in with data that is not actually there.

    That this method of realizing, consciously, the human eye's blind spot, and what our mind does with and to it..that this, as realization, changes human thinking on what is real and what is not,and re-opens all the doors that have been closed in early childhood.

    That line about, when one finally becomes aware enough, strong enough, and willing enough..that the training wheels, all of them..finally come off..and one reaches the state of true adulthood. That one can turn the hind-brain functions on or off, and live in any given state.

    My point, is that to begin, we seem to 'feel' that we need a livable, solid proof of a sort. One we can personally live and be as, a form of continual reflection. This is what changes habit and changes 'mind'. to continually live with a reality of blind spot realization, consciously, all day. Just for a few weeks, as the old pathways of the mind are relived and re-integrated.

    Playing with the human mind/eye blind spot function, it can open that door, and keep it open. And it is a simple thing to do. However, caveat. Buyer beware. That's a very deep rabbit hole, there....

    I suggest that very few will actually do this. An actual existing and real blue-pill/red-pill situation is a bit frightening for most. You put that in front of people,as they may exist now,and they usually back down.

    They yearn but it is actually..when push comes to shove...well....

    If we do it the cushion to pick us up is there, and you are coming with us Carmody? But I bet we will not know until we get there right? And then we will know how crazy this is! lol
    Starting on next week, I do have a month to practice - no work other than this. Of course this at the same time as cooking, cleaning, etc. but no work asking for mind actual paradigms to remain as they are. Time to see weird stuff. I have been breathless quite a few times in this lifetime, the cushion was not thick. So we will see.

    But the rewiring of the brain aspect and the time imparted that you give makes total sense.

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    Quote Posted by donk (here)
    Quote 6 hours of poker...what did you learn about yourself?
    Way more than I intended. I left wanting to learn if I'm getting better at detecting deception in others, and to test whether my "feeling of good fortune" had any merit.

    I wound up learning that my "luck" is only slightly more (or not at all) more random than my intent.

    I learned that people seem to want to help me, even in situations where we put ourselves in positions of competition, reinforcing my belief in the law of attraction.

    Also reinforced the truth that I am not good at lying, that people have a hard time believing one can be truthful all the time, and even successful deceptions usually bite you in the ass.

    Confirmed my theory you can have success at poker without lying, you just have to be be able to tell when others are (& be real patient)

    I learned 6 hrs is just about the perfect amount of time for a session, so should not tell myself the stupid lie of sitting for just a couple hours". And that I play much better when I'm not running to my car to blow my head up every 30-45 minutes.

    What I didn't learn was whether it feels "better" to win on the night, to have all your money in on one hand, to scoop all those chips in...than it feels bad to watch those same chips go to someone else's stack, to walk out down...which is why I'll be back. But even more, the journey is worth it...I learned a lot (appreciate the question ulli, really got me thinking), it was pleasant--good people--some even really interesting, "low" stakes, little drama (& what was there was not involving me so cod be watched with fascination & amusement), comfy casino, good times.
    And I equally appreciate a good answer.
    So you weren't just playing poker in your sleep...well done.

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    I figured it out, what's bothering me. I am in a state of transition. After thinking back over some of the undertakings I have buried myself in, or thrown my whole self into, spent chunks of my life on, I miss the sense of purpose. With purpose comes drive and motivation and a reason to go do something...anything lol...a meaning to this life, a reason for being here.

    After thinking back over the conclusion of the same undertakings, I also see I do not feel motivated to go find something new. With the conclusion of each of the time periods in which I lost myself in a purpose, came an emptiness and a sense of loss.

    I know I learned from every endeavor, but I also wonder what good is that knowledge if it can't be put to good use? I don't know enough to be considered an expert in any one thing, but I'm not a moron either. I must be in transition. Between big projects that won't go anywhere, lol. I guess we shall see...
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    Last one for today, I promise. I just remember how unapproachable jazz was for me back in the day--everyone had their favorite Miles or Coltrane or whoever classic jazz standards, and for whatever reason it took me a loooong time to get into it...but MMW, GG, Scofield, Bill Frisell (gosh I get the chills just thinking about how his music makes me feel) and this turned me around on the genre, which I hadn't revisited in a bit til the Brubeck reminder:


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    http://www.gizmag.com/reversing-gogg...de-down/21595/

    It is seemingly that...only through actual experience and living in the given moment, do we come to understand the reflection of what we truly are.

    http://www.psychkits.com/inversion_goggles.html

    it is a little tiny world of autonomous function, editorialization, self created falsification, and entrainment.

    In a nutshell, that is what it is like to live in a human body, as windows to the universe go.

    Is it any wonder that people are so easy to 'fool'?
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    Here and now it is 12:12pm MST on the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year, current temp is -12 degrees C in Calgary.


    Happy 12 day!
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    Thanks, meeradas...because I had to search who that was, that had left the building, I found this:



    This music is amazing, and she is so beautiful...

    Somewhere around five minutes in, her fingers are flying...this is truly...amazing.
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    Quote Posted by 1inMany (here)
    I figured it out, what's bothering me. I am in a state of transition. After thinking back over some of the undertakings I have buried myself in, or thrown my whole self into, spent chunks of my life on, I miss the sense of purpose. With purpose comes drive and motivation and a reason to go do something...anything lol...a meaning to this life, a reason for being here.

    After thinking back over the conclusion of the same undertakings, I also see I do not feel motivated to go find something new. With the conclusion of each of the time periods in which I lost myself in a purpose, came an emptiness and a sense of loss.

    I know I learned from every endeavor, but I also wonder what good is that knowledge if it can't be put to good use? I don't know enough to be considered an expert in any one thing, but I'm not a moron either. I must be in transition. Between big projects that won't go anywhere, lol. I guess we shall see...
    "True discovery lies in seeing with new eyes, not in finding new lands" --- Marcel Proust

    EDIT: Quote Author recalled and added EDIT2: Still got it wrong ... its right now though. I need a new memory - this one is broken ..
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    Recently I was at a friends house and they were watching one of the science channels that show programs, the stuff the universe is made of or how the earth was made..... Really not sure what the show was called or what channel it was on.
    And I was standing in the room. I don't watch TV. Personally I find it irritating, distracting and know it is a very dangerous control and programming mechanism.

    At first I was just listening to it (the voice of the narrator) and I kept hearing an echo -not a voice, an energy echo. (The energy felt distorted too. The frequency was jumbled up but directional.) Then I heard someone speaking or a voice taking form -the voice- but it didn't sound human at all.... it sounded like an automatized robotic voice -very hypnotic; then I turned toward the TV and watched a few seconds of it. What I saw was what was supposed to look like moving through space, stars galaxies, but it wasn't real. I started to have a physiological response to it and actually felt sick. I stood there for a few more seconds. Saying to my friend before I made my way out the door, do you feel that? it doesn't feel right. do you hear that? Their response was no, feel what hear what? Then I said you don't see that? No, see what? Why are you leaving? What are you talking about.
    I said you're being programmed and there is nothing real about it (the show) only maybe a couple of scientific facts mixed in by well known scientists in between the narrations.
    It was all very weird.

    Today, I need to stock more wood on the porch and in the house. I let it dwindle a little and a storm is heading in; we may get some snow up here in the mountains. I have relatives coming in and have been rearranging some more things in the house and cleaning. Appreciate every ones stories and posts.... 1inMany hope you are feeling better and I have a couple of firearm and shotgun stories myself some of them rather embarrassing and painful.

    Wishing everyone a beautiful and safe day.


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