Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by ulli (here)
You know Dennis, although I am inclined to think the way you do, as opposed to the regimented drilling...
I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that neither way is better than the other.
Both are just 'something/anything' that they end up selecting their MO from.

The only thing that matters in life is awakening, and neither one of those methods prepare for that event.
Awakening happens when a consciousness raising event occurs out of the blue, unplanned, unexpected,
and suddenly the inner eyes are opened.
And wherever people are at that moment they often attribute what was happening right then to being the cause,
but that could still be an error.
The other day a guy told me that some balsamic vinegar that cost $600 a bottle caused his awakening...(Yeah, right!)
Like the Purple Village Lama says...it's best to uphold the mystery of life.

I know what you're saying, but programming a mind in menial rote regurgitation cannot possibly be conducive to awakening - any more than it is preparation for life, other than "life" in a cubicle (the modern equivalent of a factory job.)

It is true that a few people have deep spiritual awakenings when they have lived under torture and emotion-snapping duress - like child victims repeatedly raped and beaten. So, one could say that the experience "gave them" or "brought them to" their awakening - and it might be true...but cannot be condoned as a benign method.

School teaches competition - shouldn't we be teaching cooperation instead? School teaches and rewards memorization - shouldn't we be teaching creative thinking and creative problem solving instead? School chops children's days into small time chunks that (like television) train the mind not to focus to fruition or a sense of completion. Homework robs families of parent/child interaction time. Schools make learning seem like drudgery rather than being exciting and compelling.

So yes, kids CAN take any pathway and still arrive at a place where they are whole, unique, compassionate, awake and aware beings. But why put all of them through a gauntlet that aims at homogenization, obedience, and devoid of free-thinking exercise?

Dennis

[ulli]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
You know Dennis, although I am inclined to think the way you do, as opposed to the regimented drilling...
I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that neither way is better than the other.
Both are just 'something/anything' that they end up selecting their MO from.

The only thing that matters in life is awakening, and neither one of those methods prepare for that event.
Awakening happens when a consciousness raising event occurs out of the blue, unplanned, unexpected,
and suddenly the inner eyes are opened.
And wherever people are at that moment they often attribute what was happening right then to being the cause,
but that could still be an error.
The other day a guy told me that some balsamic vinegar that cost $600 a bottle caused his awakening...(Yeah, right!)
Like the Purple Village Lama says...it's best to uphold the mystery of life.

I know what you're saying, but programming a mind in menial rote regurgitation cannot possibly be conducive to awakening - any more than it is preparation for life, other than "life" in a cubicle (the modern equivalent of a factory job.)

It is true that a few people have deep spiritual awakenings when they have lived under torture and emotion-snapping duress - like child victims repeatedly raped and beaten. So, one could say that the experience "gave them" or "brought them to" their awakening - and it might be true...but cannot be condoned as a benign method.

School teaches competition - shouldn't we be teaching cooperation instead? School teaches and rewards memorization - shouldn't we be teaching creative thinking and creative problem solving instead? School chops children's days into small time chunks that (like television) train the mind not to focus to fruition or a sense of completion. Homework robs families of parent/child interaction time. Schools make learning seem like drudgery rather than being exciting and compelling.

So yes, kids CAN take any pathway and still arrive at a place where they are whole, unique, compassionate, awake and aware beings. But why put all of them through a gauntlet that aims at homogenization, obedience, and devoid of free-thinking exercise?

Dennis

Ok, Dennis I can't argue with you. You are right, of course.
We do need to make a better world for our kids.
The points you made here are the ones that have to be held up especially high:

1) School teaches competition - shouldn't we be teaching cooperation instead?

2) School teaches and rewards memorization - shouldn't we be teaching creative thinking and creative problem solving instead?

3) School chops children's days into small time chunks that (like television) train the mind not to focus to fruition or a sense of completion.

4) Homework robs families of parent/child interaction time. Schools make learning seem like drudgery rather than being exciting and compelling.

[eaglespirit]

Have I told You All "I Love You" Today ?!

...and Dennis, it will ALL be over soon and Your Daughter will BE monumental in the Rhythm of Newness : )

[chocolate]

Regarding homeschooling I have very little to say. But what Marianne said I think is very true- you need the social friction to be able later on the 'integrate' somehow. Even if I pretend to be different and anti-social, I still could be a well accepted companion. I can manage, not without difficulty, but still. But the more I work online (at home or long-distance work), the less able I feel to be 'social' .

Ulli, I hope you will find the time to do a bracelet or something else for me. I will send all 'specifications and measurements' , I mean, seriously. I have a good amount of silver/copper jewelry with gemstones, so I am a good customer for your business. I sometimes buy a pair of earrings, or a ring, and later on manage to somehow create a set with other adequate additions.

I full-heartedly wish you lots of happy customers.
I just remember something: https://www.etsy.com/?ref=si_home. I am sure you know about it, but just in case. If by any chance you are already there, send me your name.



eaglespirit, your love is contagious.

[Carmody]

Yes, all those things (regimented group schooling) break the natural path of growth and unfolding in the human mind.

By the time I was 13, I looked at that whole mess, and said to myself "the the whole lot of you... and this entire thing... can just take a long hard suck on my ass."

And I went off and figured out how to build my mind for intelligence. As I knew by then, that my mind was very plastic and slowly getting less plastic, so I had to begin building the processes for that task, within myself. I was not interested in waiting, and allowing those particular parameters to be my flow and life. To have those parameters put forth by the school system I was in, to have them shape my intelligence. I put myself in charge by consciously removing myself from their methods and ways.

Which, Dennis, you seem to have instilled similar things in your daughter. A mindspace where she can 'one step remove' herself from the process and it's intent. Which is critical. IMO.

If one allows themselves to be herded as a food animal, a work animal, then they will shape themselves as one. it really is that simple. and IMO, the sooner that one breaks from such herding, the better off they will be.

But I Do think that there is some aspect of self realization that might be required.

We can get into the thorny issue of people being given a reality on a silver platter, one where the life has zero challenges..and well..what's that worth? I do like challenges in this life and this body was and is designed for challenges. And if it is a challenge to break free, then so be it.

The other side of the coin is that we ARE stepping into over unity technologies.... and such things in unprepared minds, well, I shudder to think of the potentials for disaster.

The problem and solution with over unity is that no matter who you are and what you represent and what your mind is like, every facet of life is enabled to a maximal degree. The tangents in potential, go off the charts.

The ONLY ones who don't get what they want... are those who control people, as that is what they lose. The ones who fence people in and basically... farm them.

Governments, corporations, utilities, energy, media, secret societies, military, religions, academia/education, medicine/medical, crime, sports, entertainment....all of them 'farm' people.

Those people in them (involved in the farming endeavors), who are involved in the highest level of control and concentrated power in those systems, they lose their position... and all that is under them, all they are connected to that makes their life what it is.

It can then be seen why we have such a problem with the eradication, or even the shifting of the system as it stands today.

[ulli]

Astrid just asked me to ask all Villagers for healing for her dog Louis...he is having another health crisis.

[donk]

There & then, about a half dozen here & nows ago, I was beating myself up about not being able to communicate something to Ness. Someone offered me a chocolate, and I realized I was thinking poetically about the situation--so I wrote it down (thanks choc for hte inspiration, turns out you aren't the only one that likes when writing gets sappy poetic):

We chose to walk
Hand in hand
A path beset on all sides
Fraught with trouble
Joy and puzzles
And everything in between.

We thought it’d be easy
Destiny’d just take us
Set us down, lovingly
Into pain free bliss.

I found out this:
There is no destination
And the ride ain’t always easy
The path not in front of us my Love.

Wanna know where?
I’m wrong about most things
But this one, I think I got right…
Dare to listen?

I wish I could offer
A spoon dipped in sugar
Just shove down the medicine
But that’s not the point
(and there is no spoon!)

The meds be the healing,
The process itself
And my hand can be the sugar
But it will never be enough.
YOU have to take the plunge!
(Which means you gotta let go of my hand)

The path has always been within
(And so have all the demons)
Once you learn to navigate
The wonderful, murky road
Smelling the flowers
While dodging the bullets
Staying detached from it all.

Once you can swim
The inner stream without fear
Ride the wave
In loving detachment…the rest comes easy.

I will always be at your side
Doing my best, to help you pull yourself up
Whenever you slip or fall
I just can’t push
You have to want it
Take the plunge
A journey starts with one step
And becomes something else
Every time you lose focus.

FOCUS. Know thyself.
You are love.
Love is truth.

[Dennis Leahy]

I have been honored to have been invited to a few First Nation/Indigenous North American ceremonies (drumming, dancing, smudging), and because I have a 14 year-old daughter, have been exposed to some music that is ...um, not my beat...but still I've learned to see its art form.

So what is the unlikely meeting and melting of dubstep and First Nation shamanism?

(This made me think of a few Villagers...)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=05O73uOE_bE

Dennis

[Carmody]

http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad

[Wind]

"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YoD792L4auQ

[Shezbeth]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
I have been honored to have been invited to a few First Nation/Indigenous North American ceremonies (drumming, dancing, smudging), and because I have a 14 year-old daughter, have been exposed to some music that is ...um, not my beat...but still I've learned to see its art form.

So what is the unlikely meeting and melting of dubstep and First Nation shamanism?

(This made me think of a few Villagers...)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=05O73uOE_bE

Dennis

Thank you, that was beautiful.

When I first was exposed to dubstep, I was concerned about the frequencies involved and how the music could be utilized malevolently against people in a variety of ways. Those concerns are not unfounded, but by your post I am beginning to recognize an alternative perception wherein there are equally uplifting and liberating frequencies as there are depressing and enslaving; That just as there are efforts to contain and restrain, there are equal efforts to relinquish and release.

Moreover, this is a media that is increasingly appreciated/adopted by younger individuals, and there is nothing inherently amiss with new forms of expression.

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Humming that Elton John ditty, I'm Still Standin'

Careful, you might get the song stuck in people's heads,... erm, too late.

[Carmody]

Like anything that is balanced, it cuts both ways.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OuZHW1syl4M

[Wind]

It's so simple, but yet at times hard to grasp.

[Marianne]

Thanks Wind ... good reminders there.
Can't sleep ... looking for something good. Found it:

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

and the joy of Bob Ross and his happy little clouds, happy little trees ....

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

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)
http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad

Bookmarked it. Perfect sounds. Thanks.

[ulli]

True, in my case. Venus retrograde, in my own sign.
Thanks, Michael Lutin.

The difference between Venus retrograde and Venus direct:
strange isn't it when you think of how you feel now
in relation to how you felt a week or two weeks ago?
It's like it all happened 100 years ago
That's what planetary stations do
They expand and contract time
Venus retrograde takes you into the past
Venus direct propels you back to the future
It's like it was 100 years ago but just a week and a half

[ulli]

Hmmmm.....

Conspiracy theory course being offered at Oxford High School
http://www.collective-evolution.com/...d-high-school/

[Wind]

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity." - Paulo Coelho

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZpFY5mDy8pI

[chocolate]

Wind as always is gentle. (love)

Reading my stash of news I found two interesting pieces I want to share, here and Now!:
One of the most significant prehistoric (Native American) sites in the United States found in Miami
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-...ent+Origins%29
A Good Will Hunting snippet:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gMI_hBgkx2k

And a gift for Wind:

[Wind]

Thank you, dear chocolate!