Here and Now...What's Happening?

[1inMany]

Oh, goodie! Beach boys keeping me company while I do laundry!

All your fault, donk...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=d8rd53WuojE

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
I think the four-letter word WORK was invented by Germans, although there it is called ARBEIT.
And living in Latin America, where people are considered lazy by German standards,

Arbeit is a word I often use with my daughter working on her thesis on WWII deportees - to end a coffee break or a meal. Of course the slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' (work will set you free) is a cruel mockery of the original formula 'the truth will set you free'.

Remember I went from German indoctrination from two sides...a Nazi trained mother and a liberal "classics" trained father,
who refused to join the Nazi Party, then a socialist education (not all teachers at our school were socialists, but quite a few of mine were, and they were pretty cool people,) then off I went to Hippie life in Swinging London, then the fashion scene before getting the spiritual wake-up call, causing me to leave my lucrative fashion business, and finally discovering that the world will always need governments but that the current system was defective.
So next, enter Bahai, and I stuck it out long enough to learn all about the system of the Councils of Nine...
The future world federation. Which makes sense to me even to this day, even though I left the Bahais behind more than twelve years ago. They have distorted the essence of the system, hijackers took over. Not sure yet if they were Archons, Reptilians, but they sure are in there to this day. Hypocrisy reigns.

Back to the "ARBEIT macht frei" slogan...
There is a similar Baha'i principle, "work is worship"...
but of course this sentence lends itself to a variety of interpretations.
Since I see the word "work" more as 'vocation', and not as "job",
and equally I see the word 'worship' as a state of being (in love) with one's highest calling,
I therefore have no problem with the slogan, as I feel reconciled with these things on a personal level.

My problem arises when someone else tries to impose their own particular interpretation on me, not allowing me my own option. Which is why today I am no longer a member of the Bahai faith.
There are simply too many people in there who have never worked in any other capaicity than as employees,
at someone else's beck and call....and cannot understand me or my interpretation of the writings...
how could they understand someone like me, who has been free since I was 21 years old,
when I got fired from my last job, and swore never to be employed again, but do my work, my way.
All I want now is that everyone on the planet can also become free,
which doesn't always mean to be self employed, mind you,
but that is another post.
True inner freedom is the ticket out of jail.

[donk]

Well, I swore it was your “M” button I read about ulli…but with your R and E…I got synced up again:

Driving home from work the other day on a part of 95 that is all marshy and woodlands (I got to think a couple miles on “overpass” highway, nothing but foliage below) a giant C130 comes over the horizon flying low, as this comes on the radio:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_mSmOcmk7uQ

I am just picturing the beast unloading the orange on all the green below…

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Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
I think the four-letter word WORK was invented by Germans, although there it is called ARBEIT.
And living in Latin America, where people are considered lazy by German standards,

Arbeit is a word I often use with my daughter working on her thesis on WWII deportees - to end a coffee break or a meal. Of course the slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' (work will set you free) is a cruel mockery of the original formula 'the truth will set you free'.

Remember I went from German indoctrination from two sides...a Nazi trained mother and a liberal "classics" trained father,
who refused to join the Nazi Party, then a socialist education (not all teachers at our school were socialists, but quite a few of mine were, and they were pretty cool people,) then off I went to Hippie life in Swinging London, then the fashion scene before getting the spiritual wake-up call, causing me to leave my lucrative fashion business, and finally discovering that the world will always need governments but that the current system was defective.
So next, enter Bahai, and I stuck it out long enough to learn all about the system of the Councils of Nine...
The future world federation. Which makes sense to me even to this day, even though I left the Bahais behind more than twelve years ago. They have distorted the essence of the system, hijackers took over. Not sure yet if they were Archons, Reptilians, but they sure are in there to this day. Hypocrisy reigns.

Back to the "ARBEIT macht frei" slogan...
There is a similar Baha'i principle, "work is worship"...
but of course this sentence lends itself to a variety of interpretations.
Since I see the word "work" more as 'vocation', and not as "job",
and equally I see the word 'worship' as a state of being (in love) with one's highest calling,
I therefore have no problem with the slogan, as I feel reconciled with these things on a personal level.

My problem arises when someone else tries to impose their own particular interpretation on me, not allowing me my own option. Which is why today I am no longer a member of the Bahai faith.
There are simply too many people in there who have never worked in any other capaicity than as employees,
at someone else's beck and call....and cannot understand me or my interpretation of the writings...
how could they understand someone like me, who has been free since I was 21 years old,
when I got fired from my last job, and swore never to be employed again, but do my work, my way.
All I want now is that everyone on the planet can also become free,
which doesn't always mean to be self employed, mind you,
but that is another post.
True inner freedom is the ticket out of jail.

Don't have time to answer right now but guess if my history is very much like yours, including my mothers "linkings"....But she has changed, she asked me for forgivness from the other side...

[donk]

One more...really been digging on this one lately...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LFasFq4GJYM

it's nice to see lyrics like this resonating with the masses

[Calz]

Posted by 1inMany (here)

Oh, goodie! Beach boys keeping me company while I do laundry!

Fav group as a kid ... (tho I escaped doing laundry in those daze)

Saved my 25 cents a week allowance to buy their 45 singles ... and when I was extra careful saved up for their albums ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RJ551UrIXEY

[donk]

I'm sorry, but I'm buying whatever this camel is selling--this kills me every time:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kWBhP0EQ1lA

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by donk (here)

Sync again! This post like the one where i said i would change timelines also ended up on a new page

It's get real sync-y up in here (I think I actually switched timelines while reading that post, and mine, quoting that, ended up on the top of the page)... we're gonna have to name the village Syncville or Syncburgh or Syncvania or Syncistan or something

Oh noooo. Sounds too much like "sinking",
I don't want this to become a sinking Earthship.

That made me think of this funny commercial: "What are you sinking about?" Ha!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
I think the four-letter word WORK was invented by Germans, although there it is called ARBEIT.
And living in Latin America, where people are considered lazy by German standards,

Arbeit is a word I often use with my daughter working on her thesis on WWII deportees - to end a coffee break or a meal. Of course the slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' (work will set you free) is a cruel mockery of the original formula 'the truth will set you free'.

Whenever I take a break from gardening, or working in the office, I always say to get myself going a line from Max Frisch's "Biedermann und die Brandstifter": "Wieder an die Arbeit, Sepp."

Of course, they are going around and committing arson for their "Arbeit", but it always gets me back to work with a smile.

[Calz]

Great article ... long but worth it

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Shamanic Ecstasy


By Alberto Villoldo

Several decades ago, I was a medical anthropologist doing research in the Amazon rainforest. My salary and expenses were paid for by a research grant from a pharmaceutical company hoping to find the bark or root that could become the next great cancer cure. After all, the jungle is nature’s pharmacy, filled with exotic plants whose powers have yet to be discovered. I spent many months canoeing to villages that had seldom seen a white man and wherever I went, I found there was no cancer or heart disease, even in the elders of the communities. Clearly, the indigenous people of the area knew something about health that we westerners didn’t know. What was their secret?

I returned home with my backpack empty, and my sponsor could not accept that I hadn’t brought back the key ingredient for a blockbuster drug that would make all of us rich and save some lives at the same time. However, I did return with insights from having been taught the wisdom of the shamans by several mentors who took me under their wing. I learned there was a magic ingredient to health that could be found in the rainforest, but it would not fit in a backpack. It was shamanic medicine. It was, the shamans told me, the medicine that would allow a person to become like the jaguar. And it could only be found in the invisible world of Spirit.

At the time, I had difficulty understanding what they were trying to explain to me. It was only after years of studying with indigenous healers, or shamans, that I began to comprehend what they were talking about.

Shamanic medicine refers to the benefits you receive when you experience the merging of your individual consciousness with all consciousness and all creation. This happens during special brain-mind states. The new perspective you develop as a result of this ecstatic, exhilarating experience is like an awakening to a new reality that has been hidden from you: the invisible world of your soul and Spirit. For the Buddhists the natural outcome of this experience is compassion. For the shaman, it is stewardship of the Earth. The experience of bliss, while wonderful, is not a goal. Dreaming a world of healing and beauty into being is.

Once you’ve experienced the invisible world, you recognize that you have been duped into believing the visible world of the senses, the body, and the mind is the only reality. In fact, it’s not even the dominant reality unless you choose to perceive it as such. The invisible and visible worlds are always connected to each other, and you can travel between them once you’ve opened your eyes to the portal: your primeval consciousness.

Shamanic medicine works by raising the quality of the luminous energy field (LEF) that surrounds your physical body and tells your molecules, cells, and genes what to do. The LEF can be thought of as the software that informs your DNA, the hardware, to repair your body. Before taking shamanic medicine, your LEF simply creates your body (and your psych-spiritual reality) according to the instructions you inherited from your parents. It replicates the heart conditions, the breast conditions, and the psychological stories and dramas that cut across generations. Despite our longing to see ourselves as different, better, more enlightened than our parents, we continue to live out their pathetic health and psychological issues. We live the way they lived and die the way they died.

The LEF mediates between your brain, where you experience yourself as a distinct individual with your own unique awareness, and Spirit, where we are all One.

The LEF is the instrument through which you dream the world into being. It consists of light and vibration, so whatever you vibrate in your LEF, you create in the world. When we raise the quality of our LEF we can begin to express the genes for health and longevity. We can lead more original lives. Your inability to forgive your mother or your former spouse and move on causes a mark in your LEF that remains there after the physical body dies, so it's carried into the next lifetime. This wound will draw you to the parents you'll be born through, or a similar spouse, in order to manifest the family that will allow you the opportunity to heal yourself. If you don't take advantage of the opportunity to upgrade the quality of the information in your LEF, and choose instead to stay stuck in the same old belief of Mom ruined my life, or the stork dropped me off at the wrong home, the wound remains unhealed, and you wind up with the reasons why you can't have what you want. In the East this is known as karma. Not a good way to go through life. Much better to take shamanic medicine.

But this is much harder to do today than it was 100 years ago, or even during the time of our Paleolithic ancestors from 10,000 years ago, who lived longer, healthier lives than we do. This is because our brains have been damaged by toxins, heavy metals, and stress. We can no longer access the brain-mind states necessary to experience unity with all creation, and upgrade the quality of our LEF. No matter how long we meditate or how many times we chant OM the invisible world of Spirit eludes us. Avalon has been lost in the mist. The sacred Machu Picchu has vanished into the jungle.

In the West, psychology has become very focused on what happens in our minds, and neuroscience on what happens in our brains, and we have forgotten about Spirit. Shamanic medicine awakens you to the invisible world of energy where everything is intertwined, an entangled Universe where every thought you have impacts every molecule in the cosmos, including every cell in your body. After you’ve experienced it, you cease to identify exclusively with your body and your roles in the visible, physical world. You are born into a new life, one in which you recognize your Christ-like, Buddha-like, eternal nature. This process of awakening can also be described as killing the infidel: the self that doesn’t believe in the invisible world and is certain that the predatory world of mortals competing for limited planetary resources is all that exists.

When you experience shamanic medicine, you come to recognize what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious that exists within you. You recognize that you’re not just intertwined with all of Creation; it is inside you. How can you harm the earth when you and the earth are inseparable? How can you not attend to your own well-being if you care about the earth and your fellow beings? The idea that you have to look out for number one, and damage the earth or hurt others in order to survive, is incomprehensible once you’ve experienced shamanic medicine.

Shamanic medicine allows you to realize that everything in your life is something you’ve chosen to dream into being—including the sense that you are a separate being, or the emotional pain and suffering you may be experiencing. Even the apparent schism between the visible world of the senses and the invisible world of Spirit is an illusion you have created. It’s a helpful illusion when trying to operate in everyday life. It’s not exactly easy to work through a To Do list when you are in a state of Timelessness and Oneness with all, experiencing your interconnectedness with the cosmos. But once you experience your interconnectedness with all, what you put on your To Do list will change—and your ability to follow it and not unknowingly sabotage yourself will improve.

Shamanic medicine allows you to move easily and fluidly between the two worlds and balance the work of the visible world with the non-doing of the invisible world. If you need to rest, you rest. If you need to summon all your might to take action, you summon it and act. You focus on everyday activities or choose to experience your unity with Spirit again—whatever it is you need in any particular moment. And whatever you are doing or not doing, you are fully present in the experience instead of longing for or thinking about whether there is something better out there. Then, your dreams are no longer rescue fantasies that involve other people changing their behavior and attitudes. Instead, you have visions of living authentically and imaginatively, liberated from the dictates of your culture or your fear. You begin to dream a new world into being.

Awakening Your Invisible Self

When we sleep, we are awake in our dreams. When we are awake, we are sound asleep in the invisible field where dreams happen. Dreams, and the ecstatic experience women occasionally have during childbirth, are the only way ordinary persons have to learn about the invisible realm. And even these images and experiences are often fleeting, leaving us as we make our way to the coffee maker from the bedroom. When we dream we are in a timeless world, one minute encountering our long-deceased parents, the next traversing some fantastic yet familiar landscape. Shamanic medicine awakens the awareness of your invisible self, a self devoid of body or form, which resides outside of ordinary time. Have you noticed how you never have a physical body in your dreams? How you never bump into tables or chairs, how you are simply pure awareness? Even if you are falling or flying, there is no-body falling, only a sense of falling or flight. This is how you are in the invisible world, which is a selfless expanse, infinite and blissful. It is only in the visible world that we bump into tables, fall off cliffs or encounter suffering and disease.

The problem is TIME. Time belongs to the visible world, while timelessness belongs to the invisible realm. Yet in reality, we always reside in timelessness, dropping in to the visible world of time and physical matter in the course of our many incarnations, in our journey toward omniscience. Paradoxically, we can only make progress in our journey to omniscience during our lifetimes in the visible world. Thus the shamans insistence on our responsibility for the physical well-being and stewardship of all life, and of Mother Earth.

The visible and invisible realms always remain in balance in a subtle dance between life and death, form and formlessness, time and infinity. These are topics that in the West we have associated with religion. Yet shamanism is not a religion. Shamanism is more concerned with creation than with the Creator, about understanding the nature of the self unfettered from the limitation of time. The two can coexist, but you don’t need the template of religion to be aware of your spiritual nature and allow it to inform you. There’s an old proverb: “Don’t point your finger at the moon and mistake your finger for the moon.” Religion is the pointing finger. Spirituality is glimpsing the moon. And shamanic medicine is the understanding that you are both the finger and the moon.


More: http://www.earth-heal.com/index.php/...c-ecstasy.html

[ulli]

Posted by Calz (here)

More: http://www.earth-heal.com/index.php/...c-ecstasy.html

Very good, indeed. The only objection I had was about this sentence:
it made me go 'huh?' and scratch my head:

No matter how long we meditate or how many times we chant OM the invisible world of Spirit eludes us. Avalon has been lost in the mist. The sacred Machu Picchu has vanished into the jungle.

[Wind]

The numbers just keep showing up... Every single day of my life since of my awakening, almost all the time. The more I go with the flow the more I see the numbers.

333, 3333 - This sign indicates that your Spirit Guides agree with your thoughts and feelings and could be interpreted as a Cosmic 'Yes!' to questions you have asked or ideas you may have.

[Calz]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FhljTM6vuEU

[Rocky_Shorz]

for those who didn't notice my post in spirituality, I wanted to share it here with the village.

I liked this from B4

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rfSZpyfyu34

the claim is, a person visiting the holy lands in 67 was approached by ETs who gave them an image of Jesus and his disciples before going to Jerusalem to face his destiny... ETs or Essenes... ;-) Maybe they are the Nordic time travelers back from 30,000 years in our future...

I'm told the author of the video has the 3rd person wrong, maybe to allow it to be shown to the public, download the video and grab a copy of the image, it might never be seen again...

can that really be Mary carrying a baby basket as Jesus was heading to Jerusalem to be killed?



zoom in, the baby's face is looking at the camera, arm hanging out over the side of the basket...

ooh this just keeps getting better...

[RunningDeer]

Great movie from way back when. Dan33, if you are out there...hallo.

Medicine Man Trailer

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQs9NrHc7qo

[donk]

So I was thinking about (trying to research, actually, came up not much) the expression “possession is nine tenths of the law”…and Ness calls me to tell how haunted the townhouse she is was cleaning for a friend was (noises all over—especially footsteps, trashbag kept moving, the biggest was when she left a mirror she just cleaned to investigate footsteps there were handprints on the mirror when she came back)….

Anyway, thinking about the SPELLing that particular word, and the idea of possession, and external (evil) forces at play…just kind syncy for a syncy kinda day, I guess….not sure it’s THAT related, but had just gotten finished the excellent interview I posted over here…


...speaking of synchronicity...I wonder if it's related that the amount of mundane issues consuming my consciousness is pretty much inversly proportional to the amount of "extraoridanary" ones...does that mean I am just a drama queen that needs problems, a problem vacuum that abhorrs peace?

[ulli]

Posted by Rocky_Shorz (here)
for those who didn't notice my post in spirituality, I wanted to share it here with the village.

I liked this from B4

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rfSZpyfyu34

the claim is, a person visiting the holy lands in 67 was approached by ETs who gave them an image of Jesus and his disciples before going to Jerusalem to face his destiny... ETs or Essenes... ;-) Maybe they are the Nordic time travelers back from 30,000 years in our future...

I'm told the author of the video has the 3rd person wrong, maybe to allow it to be shown to the public, download the video and grab a copy of the image, it might never be seen again...

can that really be Mary carrying a baby basket as Jesus was heading to Jerusalem to be killed?



zoom in, the baby's face is looking at the camera, arm hanging out over the side of the basket...

ooh this just keeps getting better...

I saw this on the other thread. Interesting, and could be valuable for anyone who needs confirmations about the reality of Christ's existence. Skeptics will be always skeptics. But seekers shall find, thats what He Himself once promised, long time ago. And that's how everything works. Each person is responsible for setting their own compass and find that link to the highest guidance there is.
That's how the whole creation was made. Attitude is everything.

[Calz]

Wow ... and I take pleasure in zooming in on some blue jeans ... guess I have a few lifetimes to go eh?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qpwcajk-dUU

[Rocky_Shorz]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by Rocky_Shorz (here)
for those who didn't notice my post in spirituality, I wanted to share it here with the village.

I liked this from B4

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rfSZpyfyu34

the claim is, a person visiting the holy lands in 67 was approached by ETs who gave them an image of Jesus and his disciples before going to Jerusalem to face his destiny... ETs or Essenes... ;-) Maybe they are the Nordic time travelers back from 30,000 years in our future...

I'm told the author of the video has the 3rd person wrong, maybe to allow it to be shown to the public, download the video and grab a copy of the image, it might never be seen again...

can that really be Mary carrying a baby basket as Jesus was heading to Jerusalem to be killed?



zoom in, the baby's face is looking at the camera, arm hanging out over the side of the basket...

ooh this just keeps getting better...

I saw this on the other thread. Interesting, and could be valuable for anyone who needs confirmations about the reality of Christ's existence. Skeptics will be always skeptics. But seekers shall find, thats what He Himself once promised, long time ago. And that's how everything works. Each person is responsible for setting their own compass and find that link to the highest guidance there is.
That's how the whole creation was made. Attitude is everything.

I guess the message I was sharing didn't come through...

this has nothing to do with a confirmation of Christ's existence, this is a hint to Christ's child that has never been mentioned since churches began...

[ulli]

Posted by Rocky_Shorz (here)

this has nothing to do with a confirmation of Christ's existence, this is a hint to Christ's child that has never been mentioned since churches began...

I saw that, Rocky, but didn't really feel like going there.
It would open up all sorts of questions about bloodlines, which could then lead to points of disagreements about how relevant that question is today.
I can see that the Church had their reasons for suppressing the truth about such sacred heritage, but I also feel now that in the last 2000 years humanity has progressed sufficiently to not have to rely on leadership which comes from the purity of a bloodline, or even one person leadership, for that matter. I believe strongly in groups working together in unity and harmony, to map the future for the collective. But since you brought it up, what would you say now is the significance? A Da Vinci Code type hunt for Jesus' relatives?