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    Default Re: Deep in Foxfire Hollow (meanderings of a slightly crazy mountain woman)

    Am really enjoying this thread!

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    G'day Blufire,
    Thanks for the thread, I'd missed it previously so please can this post be considered a
    We did similar about a decade ago (though in Oz of course) and I must admit I enjoy your posts and the fact you "walk the walk".
    Very refreshing.
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    This thread is an online diary of sorts of what Blufire is trying to accomplish today...regarding this thread:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...682#post443682

    bumpity bump bump bump

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    Thanks, Dusty! You must be very proud...

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    Just bumping this most excellent thread. And thanks for the inspiration.

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    Blufire, you are amazing. I admire your intent and values. You are indeed a survivor and no doubt will lead many others towards a sustainable future. You take care now.
    I look forward to more of your log book.

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    We all learn or establish new patterns of thinking and living in different ways. For me the beginning stages of growth and forming a new personal paradigm is reading and researching. I begin to dream and envision the concepts that my puny brain fathoms from the massive amounts of reading I do. But the only way for me to see the new vision or paradigm manifest is by physically Doing It . . . . hands on sweat equity. I have learned over the years that this hands on approach helps greatly to work the bugs out and form a good foundation from which to build. Sometimes you have to completely demolish the foundation and start over . . . .no harm in that . . . .why continue to “beat the dead horse” if it ain’t working.

    I get really frustrated and aggravated when there are months and years of talking, debating, pontification, analyzing, eschatological espousing and arguing. Most times individuals get all mired up in their one personal belief and opinions and eventually the beautiful, powerful, brilliant design fades away.

    So here in this tiny Appalachian coal mining town I am happily and busily implementing some of these brilliant ideas I have read and studied . . . .one of them being right here on Avalon. Last week I had a brief deep disappointment and hurt when I was in no certain terms told I was not the shiny needle in a haystack for this individual but a rusty nail (my comparison). I had to smile at myself and gratefully (in my heart) thank him for reminding me who I am. I much rather be the “rusty nail” . . . .it is who I am and much proud of it. So one day he may catch notice of some very wonderful things that are happening here . . . . if anything else it will maybe “piss him off” enough, because I will more than likely be decimating his brilliant ideas, that he will become involved and come straighten me out.

    This past week my excitement ramped up a couple notches. One of my little schemes to enable the folks here to have a renewable resource that will not only benefit them but heal this strip mined ravaged land is using these steep mountain slops to plant indigenous endangered medicinal herbs. It will take at least three to five years to prepare the slopes, plant and for the herbs to be ready for careful harvest. So during these three or five years I hope to carefully instill a “new way” of thinking on how to use this resource. The “old way” would be to sell them for a few dollars that is regulated by the market. This is the usual paradigm that keeps us locked into the perpetual monetary driven slave system. My ultimate goal is to implement a resource driven economy within this little mountain town. I’m not completely sure how I will achieve this but if I wait until I “figure it out” or worse wait until I find someone to help me figure it out . . . it will not happen. I have some very strong foundational ideas . . . some gleaned from a very intelligent PA member that I am implementing.

    And so, my rear end, knees and back are killing me today from climbing up and down many mountain slopes this week taking soil samples and plotting our first growing areas . . . . and it feels wonderful.

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    Gosh, blufire, I truely envy your grint and go get'em! Won't you let us in on who this PA member is? I sure could learn a thing or two, too!
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    Action without vision just passes the time.
    Vision with action can change the world." Joel Arthur Barker

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    Blufire,

    Just in case you and your associates determine to build new shelter, while at the same time avoid using carbon fuels... Here is a succinct history of free-HVAC (free-energy heating and cooling built into housing)... I was going to do a thread but free-energy-interests on Avalon is mostly research science and sociology. My nephew built this website summarizing some remarkable examples in quick reads.
    http://fugadeideas.org/paccs/
    Scroll down to the link title-- Tom's PAHS home ... A do-it-yourselfer who is not so far from you. (To prove it works at your latitude). Or other links for a wide variety of proofs, history and structural ideas.

    http://harmoniouspalette.com/CostFre...cientHVAC.html
    Basically, insulate the the whole house lot, not just the house--Thats it -- Free HVAC--annualized comfort
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    I have been ‘pushing’ the last several days for guidance from those I have had contact with since my childhood.

    Guidance on where to go from this thread : https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...and-Technology How do I communicate what I see so clearly in my own mind?

    How do I not get drawn into the drama, fear and unproductive debates and pontification?

    How do I tell all of you what I see and know who we are and who we will be?

    How do I communicate to you that we will make it ‘this time’? But that the journey to ‘making it’ this time includes acknowledging, pragmatic acceptance and working with those you all seem to view with extreme hatred, revulsion and as the evil ones.

    When I say I have been ‘pushing’ the last several days, the only way I can describe this (been doing since I was around 10 or 11) is I retreat deep inside myself, I fold over and over into my soul until it is utterly silent and everything around me is the color of alabaster. When I get to this place I wait and see what appears. Most of the time I ‘see’ nothing but always become very centered and peaceful. Sometimes I see one of two images or pictures, these I retain fully and have carried these images with me and they overtime have become powerful messages. Sometimes the images and pictures come so quickly and explosively that when I ‘come back’ I am ill for many days. These I have only begun to remember the last couple years when I returned to the mountains and they are clarifying rapidly.

    Meditation? No I don’t think so because it is always connected to my childhood encounters . . . . I believe it is the way ‘they’ communicate with me and only in the last few years have I finally understood this.

    Sometimes (more often now) I see the pictures when I dream. But in my dreams I begin by descending into a cavern, the walls of the cavern are alabaster or lined in what appears to be ‘mother of pearl’ . . . . in is stunningly beautiful. The sides of the cavern have a spiral walkway carved in them and they spiral to the left (this is important) when I reach the end or bottom of the spiral, alabaster walkway I am standing in a cupped area almost like a large bowl.

    Off to what is always the right side of the cavern is a tunnel . . . . I have never gone into the tunnel . . . I am not afraid of the tunnel . . .I have no emotion at all to the tunnel. It is very warm and smells to me like honeysuckle. Many times there is a man in the tunnel with me . . . .this ‘man’ has appeared many many times over the years and I know he is my primary guide. He is not associated with those who contact me . . . .he is my spiritual guide. He stands off to the left in the cavern and smiles and his eyes are bright and pleasant. When I see him I know what I am experiencing is good and right and deeply spiritual and wisdom manifests from the knowledge I hear and see.

    Gripreaper is right my childhood encounters were with the Greys and what most view as reptilians. These were physical and will descibe more later.

    And what I find utterly and totally confusing and actually makes me angry is how the reptilians are viewed . . .they are reviled, hated, despised . . . every evil and negative thought and emotion and expression that can be cast their way.

    I do not see them this way. This is in no way my experience or expression of them. I actually and truly see them in ‘no way’. What I feel about them is ‘nothing’. The only thing I can describe as a feeling is what I said above regarding what I see.

    But what gripreaper and no one else has picked up is I also have had encounters with at least one ‘other’ alien race.

    These encounters come in the form of a beautiful blue orb that is the size of a beach ball. This blue orb changes in color from a deep jewel blue to brilliant white fire. This is where my avatar comes from ‘blufire’

    My spiritual guide is also there during these encounters and these are always physical encounters. As in the blue orb appears right before me, out of the blue so to speak.

    Until last night.

    Last night before going to bed I drank a tea that is very dream inducing. I have always had good success with this tea concoction . . . but I do not use it often . . .only when I feel ‘pushed’ to do so. My great grandmother gave me the recipe to this tea; she was a mountain wise woman and healer. The main ingredient primarily only grows here in the Appalachians and it has only been ready to harvest the last couple of weeks.

    Last night in a deep dream state not only did I descend into the alabaster cavern; the blue orb appeared before me when I reached the bowl area of the cave. My spirit guide was sitting halfway down the spiral walkway with his feet hanging over the side swinging them back and forth and smiling.

    My guide has only communicated three times in this lifetime and last night was the third. He does not speak to me . . . .he writes in the air. He wrote a bible verse that was the bible verse that began my journey into the world of ‘almost knowns’

    Genesis 1:26

    The verse says “Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

    So I stand in an alabaster cavern with the warm honeysuckle breeze coming from the tunnel and with the blue orb ramping up to a blinding white and my spirit guide now laughing in shear delight.

    What do you ‘hear’ when you read this encounter?

    I am at peace and even more convinced of what I have been shown as a child and remembered as an adult. We will make it this time, but not without a difficult journey . . .but a journey we must travel for the future generations of our incredible planet.

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    Blufire, thanks for sharing your very heartfelt story with us. It’s as genuine and real as anything I’ve ever read.

    I too know within the very deepest part of my being, which transcends space and time that we will all return to wholeness with our individuated consciousness intact. Who “we will all” means to me, is the sentient beings with heart and soul who collectively agreed to this journey of descending into the deepest densities of matter and form, the slowest oscillations between the polarities, agreed to experience each of these extreme polarities in all of their manifested utter horror and beauty, and then agreed to merge and hold this fullness of the electromagnetic light spectrum experience within our bodies and return to wholeness, conscious and full of light.

    How sentient beings do this, is by developing the lower Siddhis powers of clairevoyance, claireaudience, and clairsentience. These altered states, as you have indicated, can be attained by going from the waking beta frequency state, into theta, and then delta being the most pure and unobstructed light frequency. We enter delta frequency every night when we sleep, although most of us sleep unconscious. Those who enter the ”annanda Brahma”, the bliss of creation, the spaciousness of the grand Sophia, the source field, have learned balance of both polarities of the positive and negative, the divine feminine and masculine, the source field for matriarchal nesting creation as well as the patriarchal inertia to manifest. Not only must there be the masculine inertia and life force to create, but there must also be the feminine vessel, the “nesting” within the source field.

    The speed of these energetic oscillations, as well as the intention, determines the form which the manifestation takes. Energy can neither be created or destroyed, but only formed and transformed. The density of the light determines at what dimension the form manifests, or whether it can be seen with the naked eye. So, duality exists in the slowest and densest forms of matter, and as we move into the faster and purer light forms, we enter what we call “higher dimensions” and at a certain speed, duality disappears.

    Yet, we are only capable at this density in the waking beta speed, to see a very small portion of the electromagnetic light spectrum. While we are conscious (I find that funny) we see and feel very little, are lost in the ramblings of the mind, and in the carnal survival and desires of the body. This is where most of mankind resides.

    Duality does not disappear, the seven colors of the rainbow, into pure white light until the speed of light and the intention is pure. Within the dimensions just above 3D, we still find duality of all kinds, polarized manifestations with varied intentions, agendas, attachments, and karma. Yogi’s and Yogini’s have said that there are 13 dimensions and duality remains until at least the 6th dimension. Those who have attained the full upper Siddhis practices of levitation, bi-location and teleportation are said to have entered “Heaven’s Gate” the pure bliss of creation called ‘samadhi’. There is only one Niyama to enter heaven’s gate, and that is: for the sake of my own elevation and the elevation of all life, I shall strive to be harmless to myself and others

    I have no doubt that you live by this Niyama and have reached the delta state in your deepest being, are pure of heart and intent. This comes through as you tell your story.

    Quote Posted by blufire (here)
    My guide has only communicated three times in this lifetime and last night was the third. He does not speak to me . . . .he writes in the air. He wrote a bible verse that was the bible verse that began my journey into the world of ‘almost knowns’
    Genesis 1:26
    The verse says “Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
    So I stand in an alabaster cavern with the warm honeysuckle breeze coming from the tunnel and with the blue orb ramping up to a blinding white and my spirit guide now laughing in shear delight.
    What do you ‘hear’ when you read this encounter?
    I can only relate my own experience and understanding when it comes to this bible verse. The god's of the bible, the Elohim, are not the pure annanda Brahma of creation from the highest spectrum of light. My understanding is they came here from “the skies”, took the daughters of men unto themselves, and hybridized the natural indigenous humans of this earth into a chimerical being, splicing their alien DNA together with the DNA of mankind. In this process, only two strands of our DNA are active, and 90% of our brains are not in use.

    This manipulation of the genome, and the historical record, which exists in all of the ancient texts and scrolls, the ancient archeological record, and the ancient monuments all over the world, indicates that mankind is the only species on the planet which is not in balance with nature due to this manipulation of the genome. Although the record also indicates that they brought science, astrology, agriculture, medicine, and a host of other technologies which caused mankind to “leap forward” in evolution, it is questionable whether these beings are sentient, have mankind’s best interest at heart, or are using mankind as a slave species and treat us as “chattel” for their corporate machinations. History would indicate as such.

    Now, there are 7 billion of us and counting, over 90% stuck in survival mode, rapidly reproducing themselves exponentially, and consuming the planet like a virus consumes its host. Who are these aliens who altered the natural progression of nature and are now faced with the imminent results of their machinations? Who gave these aliens this planet and who gave the controllers dominion over the earth as described in the bible?

    We can say we allowed it, acquiesced to it, and are comfortable with the patriarchal paradigm of scarcity and control we find ourselves in, and just let the controllers fix the F’up mess they made, unless and until this agenda includes genocide of the existing chimerical beings they created and a new human 2.0 put in its place on a terraformed planet with genetically altered plants, animals and humans.

    I’m pretty sure I didn’t sign up for that. I’m more inclined to offer free energy, stewardship of this planet based on a paradigm of abundance, sentience and conscious evolution which negates the need to cannibalize our host, and the alchemy of tapping into the source field with the Niyama of harmlessness to all sentient beings.

    Those energetic forms, archetypes and symbols we have created in our patriarchal unbalanced and polarized state can return to the source field without individuated consciousness as far as I am concerned, as they were not sentient to begin with and will lose nothing as a result. Once we decide we have had enough of the game of opposites in its extreme utter horror on the one hand, and abject bliss on the other, and choose to abandon the beliefs, archetypes and symbols which hold these forms within the hologram of creation, then we can clean up our planet and experience the joy of unity consciousness.

    Keep on. Joy “IS” the path.
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    PLEASE NOTE

    From this point and on I am going to respond to relevant threads on this thread of mine.

    I feel I need to keep all information I am ‘remembering’ in one spot so that it can be referred to more easily and also so I don’t frustrate and aggravate other members if I post on their threads.

    Also too, I feel if one is so inclined, they can read back through this thread and see how I have morphed over the last few years.

    Oddly and amusingly (in a way) when I started this thread and chose the title I was not being flippant in saying ‘meanderings of a slightly crazy mountain woman’ . . . . I literally thought and feel I was/am going a little crazy with how quickly I am being ‘pushed to remember”.

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    This is my response/post regarding this thread:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...g-Human-Beings

    This portion is from Bill’s post #3
    Quote Some abductions are benevolent inasmuch as the abductee is 'shown' possible visions of the future by ETs, but then is made to forget it. The intention seems often to be to 'wake up' the abducted person and motivate them to take proactive action, maybe without even knowing why. The abductees in these cases are often 'drawn' emotionally to others who have had the same experience (maybe even in the same craft, at the same time).
    At this point in my life experience I believe with every fiber of my being that I am one of these people.

    I want to be clear from the start that I do not use or focus on terms, thoughts, emotions like ‘abduction’ and ‘benevolent’ or 'evil'.

    When I removed (as much as humanly possible) human genetically and dualistic ingrained terms, thoughts, emotions I began to remember more quickly and more clearly what the ET’s showed me as a child and teenager.

    I do not feel in any way I have been abducted. I do not have painful or negative feelings with my interactions with these different ET’s. I actually ‘feel’ nothing . . . it only feels benign or neutral and somehow androgynous (?). I believe this is on purpose so that I as a human and a female human do not ‘muddy up’ what I was shown. I believe this is on purpose so in interpreting what I was shown is as accurate as ‘humanly’ possible.

    I was made to forget what I was shown until about two years ago. I was being pushed or drawn though to return to the mountains where this contact happened as much as 10 years ago and life changes occurred rapidly to encourage and enable me make this move quicker . . . . right down to finding the perfect property in the mountains to move to and selling my farm (in 2 months) in Kansas (over 500,000) in March of 2009 (after the economic crash of 2008) to a family that literally paid cash.

    I believe I am being ‘woke up’ or being enabled to remember rapidly now and it almost feels (often) panicked that I remember as fast as possible.

    My dilemma is that what I am remembering does not fall into accepted boundaries here on Avalon and I am finding it difficult in trying to communicate.

    Two things (right now) that keep being repeated over an over in my mind is “We will make it this time” and this means not only the humans that populate planet Earth but the Beings who are visiting and live here with us

    And

    “They are not evil (malevolent) or benevolent” The grays/reptiles say this about the ‘blue orb’ et’s and the ‘blue orb’ et’s say this about the grays/reptiles.

    The different ET’s are supporting each other.

    So this post is to affirm that I am one of those humans that was contacted and made to forget until I had the life experience and knowledge from my research and life experience to be made to ‘remember’ now . . . .at this time and place and to remember quickly now and to take proactive motivated action . . . . and Bill is right . . .I am not sure really at this point why.
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    Oh I have joined and left groups! But, Sleepy, I really get your post. Except for Carmody - I don't understand it, but his posts do not confuse me.

    I once wrote a poem that ended with:

    "Leave us on the outskirts if you must
    But leave us together."

    Regards all.

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    I thought I would introduce the new additions to our family homestead here in Foxfire Hollow.

    Belle (on right) and Mae will be providing us and neighbors with all the raw milk, butter, butter milk, cream, cheese, yogurt and other wonderful products for many years to come.

    Belle is due to have her baby any day now and Mae is due to calve in March.

    These gals are the perfect dairy breed for a small farm, Belle is a Jersey Guernsey cross and Mae is a full blooded Guernsey . . . . lots of thick yummy cream come from these type breeds.

    They are fairly wild with having spent the first years of their life on a strip pit high wall, but they are calming down quickly with handling several times a day and copious amounts of love and treats.

    I cannot say how happy I am to have a milk cow (let alone two!) again.
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    Mae had her first baby last night . . . a big handsome boy. I actually was a bit surprised that Mae calved before Belle. Belle is absolutely huge and to the point she brushes both sides of the stanchion where I feed them and where they will be milked. I think Belle is going to have twins she is so big!

    And of course Mae waited until the biggest snow storm to go into labor! Belle will probably go into labor in the next 2 or 3 days, usually when one has a baby it triggers other pregnant animals to give birth.

    This is the first Bovine Baby born on my Virginia farm and he needs a really special name and so I would like my Avalon family to help name this new addition to the farm!

    So what do you say folks? What should we name this big baby bovine boy?
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    I'd name him "Pax"...the name they gave the snowstorm.... it also means "peace"....

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    I like these because he is a boy and has red markings ...

    Meleager "burning fire"

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    Congrats, Mamma! He's beautiful! Hello Little One.

    "Nutmeg" would be my choice.



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