Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Hollering at you. Much love 1InMany. Love love love love....

[Dennis Leahy]

Just had my second inadvertant, accidental confirmation of the power of acupuncture.

The first was 40 years ago... having picked up a palm frond after a storm, and was dragging it along when my friend stepped on it - impaling a sharp spine into my hand back near the base of the thumb. My thumb and part of my hand instantly went numb, and remained numb for a while.

Just now, I was walking through the house, and my right big toe went numb, but with an underlying nearly electrical sensation. I sat down and started rubbing my foot and toe, thinking a nerve had gone wonky, when (very luckily) I felt the end of what I thought was a tiny splinter beneath my toe "knuckle." It was difficult to pull out (embedded well), but when I got it out, the toe instantly regained normal feeling. It turned out to be a very small diameter but stiff piece of wire.

I think the Universe is trying to tell me to follow-up on my thoughts of visiting an acupuncturist. I know it works!

Dennis

[araucaria]

Here's an 'extraterrestrial geek' does the 40-year-old Rubik's cube in an average 12 seconds

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QIwqRc7DFzk

[RunningDeer]

Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gOtlN4pNArk

[RunningDeer]

Posted by araucaria (here)
Here's an 'extraterrestrial geek' does the 40-year-old Rubik's cube in an average 12 seconds

My son use to do the Rubik's cube back in the day, but I couldn't even with the "how to" book.

On another note:

88F/31C for the weekend. Popped an Advil about 12 minutes ago. My back said it wasn't ready to put in that stupid air conditioner so early in the morning. Something about maybe after a cup of tea and a few stretches.

"No worries," I said "we've got some heavy weight lifter Angels."

(It's something I worry about every May and September. )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvEnIkz82A0

<3

[ulli]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)
Here's an 'extraterrestrial geek' does the 40-year-old Rubik's cube in an average 12 seconds

My son use to do the Rubik's cube back in the day, but I couldn't even with the "how to" book.

On another note:

88F/31C for the weekend. Popped an Advil about 12 minutes ago. My back said it wasn't ready to put in that stupid air conditioner so early in the morning. Something about maybe after a cup of tea and a few stretches.

"No worries," I said "we've got some heavy weight lifter Angels."

(It's something I worry about every May and September. )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvEnIkz82A0

<3

You might need to plan this carefully, since each year the task will become more taxing.
Electric fans weigh less than A/Cs.
When in Barbados which has really hot afternoons most of the year
I ignore the A/C option in favor of a ceiling fan, and if it gets any hotter, I add a well-positioned floor fan.

Can't stand A/C and especially in a car, it still shocks my body to the point that I can get the flu.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
You might need to plan this carefully, since each year the task will become more taxing.
Electric fans weigh less than A/Cs.
When in Barbados which has really hot afternoons most of the year
I ignore the A/C option in favor of a ceiling fan, and if it gets any hotter, I add a well-positioned floor fan.

Can't stand A/C and especially in a car, it still shocks my body to the point that I can get the flu.

I live in a huge, old Victorian home on the second floor. The heat beats down on the roof and the heat from the community dryer in the basement comes up into my bedroom.

It’s the humidity that’s brutal. I’m way, way cranky when it’s humid. I can’t stand myself. Fans aren’t enough and I miss the fresh air.

When I first moved in, I installed a big ceiling fan. My ex-hubby held it while I did the electrical magic. That made a big difference. Now that fan is 19 years older. (And so are we.)

A couple of years back, I purchased one of those air conditioners that are on wheels in preparation for the day for whichever went kaput first: the old body or the old air conditioner. But the weather is hotter in the last several years, and some weeks, I've had to use both. I’m sure part of it is because I’m getting older. I close off the bedroom and use fans when I can. It keeps the cost down, too.

I park that big old dinosaur air conditioner on top of my bureau which is right by the window. So, I only need about 20 seconds to get from there to the window sill. Grrr, those 12-16 inches feel like life times.

Last summer, I dragged my big, old monster TV down the stairs, across the lawns to the dumpster on a taupe. But I couldn’t lift it. I asked my neighbor if he and his buddy could chuck it into the dumpster. He said any time I need help just let him know. One thing worst than aging, is asking for help. (I’m embarrassed to admit that.)

<3

UPDATE: Geez, I used a lot of "olds" in this post. Can't imagine why.

[ulli]

This expresses how I feel today:

[RunningDeer]

If it seems quite it's because it's Memorial Day in USA, a three day weekend. And the unofficial kick off for summer where all the parks open, folks picnic, camp, cook outs and plant gardens.

My sister, hubby and four dogs are driving across country from California to Rhode Island in their camper. They're about 2/3 of the way. I'll be nice to catch up with them.

[Carmody]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LqRZ2_w56U0

Reminds me of the time I did 9 hours of crazy high speed driving in a blizzard, on closed highways..with this one on repeat the whole time:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ga_noF6Dxw

(the last two minutes are missing, and those two minutes are what makes the 'flow' work.

We can get confirmation at times, and we did with this one, with some of you dreaming of the whole thing. (my crazy driving)(Which I love. It's a meditation of the 'now')

Why do we love this Inception bit so much? (1.3 million hits, so far)

Probably... we want the relief, we want the trueness of the knowing. We want out of the pressure, we want the mediation, the now in perfection, the escape, the leaving. To me, never mourn the dead, as when they are gone, they are, in that moment, more alive than you are now. To walk in the city, with that song on headphones, to ride the buses, the subways, to travel to the roofs of buildings, to catch the glint of the light, to feel the bustle of the night, to fly through them on wings of knowing and peace. Ah, there is not much like it. This the mercy and the peace the dead know, that we do not. Only the mediation of it can take us to it's edge. The relief from.... time.

To remember and be in it every day, that is one method that helps. to always take out the time.. to ... lose time. To find time gone, non existent. To take that past, and the projection to future, that search for reflection - to take that burden off.

One of the top comments:

It's all a nightmare. I wait for it to end. But this roller coaster I'm riding is too long of a ride. I've forgotten the minor uphills that determined how fast I'd go down. All I know is I want to get off this ride. Or at least enjoy it. It's beginning to be too much to bear. It's going to fast and too far down. And I've lost control. Sometimes I just wanna jump off. But I'm too afraid I'll hurt the passengers that I've rode the entire way with. The one's I've gotten to connect with. I don't know how the rest of this roller coaster will be like. And I don't know how it will end. All I can do is wait. And brave through. Make the best of it. I refuse to chicken out. I'll face the fears of the roller coaster. And stay with those passengers for as long as I can.

[Carmody]

This is the part we lose in true spiritual form. Part of the 'relief' we receive when in spiritual form. The part of having the body imprint in astral form or when suffering a potent death. The part that allows us to operate, and also the 'bain' of our lives, when attempting to change. The very thing that is responsible for what is known as 'senior moments'. As we grow, more complex tasks can be relegated to being in the hindbrain. The five senses reside there, in their derived patterns of flow and objectified/subjective/grouped/learned function. It's where addiction comes from, where madness comes from, acts of evil and so on. The doorway that is opened in hypnosis. The buried autonomous/automatic part of our function. the part that can be up to 88% of our day to day life. That consciousness is only 12% of our overall complex function. Unless we pay attention.


Opening up that boundary is a notable part of what allows us to change.

Although lots of animals are smart, humans are even smarter. How and why do we think and act so differently from other species?

A young boy's efforts while learning to walk have suggested a new explanation, in a new journal paper jointly authored by his father and grandfather, both academics at the University of Sydney.

In the latest issue of the scientific journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience, the son-and-father team Mac and Rick Shine suggest that the big difference between humans and other species may lie in how we use our brains for routine tasks.

They advance the idea that the key to exploiting the awesome processing power of our brain's most distinctive feature - the cortex - may have been to liberate it from the drudgery of controlling routine activities.

And that's where young Tyler Shine, now two years old, comes into the story. When Tyler was first learning to walk, his doting father and grandfather noticed that every step took Tyler's full attention.

But before too long, walking became routine, and Tyler was able to start noticing other things around him. He was better at maintaining his balance, which freed up his attention to focus on more interesting tasks, like trying to get into mischief.

It's good to see them broach the subject, every now and then.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-brains.html

When we look at the world and realize that 88% of everyone's daily function is of such a nature, then it becomes easy to see why it is difficult for this world to change. The part we don't realize is even there, our derived patterns of function, our built systems of being - those core components are the larger source of our problem.

This is part of what I began to understand in my teens: The internal systems of imprint, pattern, learning, and limits.

You might note that a near 100% of the human world has no conscious recognition of this point. Yet it is core -fundamental (in the absolute sense) to humanity's dilemma.

[Carmody]

Now I have to stop and get a squirrel out of my clothes dryer. It came in via the air vent, and fell down the smooth part of the hose, into the plastic accordion part. I heard this bit of noise and realized I had a squirrel exploring the house's exterior walls, and popping into 'holes' it found.

I think it is the same one that tried to pry the screen door open yesterday. I'm tempted to turn the dryer on, but we know that won't work. Besides the sheer uncaring nastiness that such an act would be. I'll have to get the animal cage from the garage and take the hose off in the house.. and have it run into the cage. If I can be so lucky.

This should be interesting. Especially if it gets loose in the house. Which it may.

OK.

Turns out it was a bird.

Off it goes.

[ulli]

I could never stand banal routines, like standing up in a kitchen and washing dishes or peeling potatoes,
and my hatred of housework was what propelled me forward in my early twenties to where I could be financially independent.
So I was never marriage material for the ordinary bloke out there, except for those who actually found my money-making ability useful for their own agenda.
But now that I accept reality I also know that as long as I'm in a body I will have to deal with some routine tasks, like grooming, eating, getting around,
stuff that no one else can do for me.
And might as well do all that with gusto.

What is important is to know one's agenda, one's quest, and what to do with added freedoms. I've never been anti-technology,
and as long as it allows one to free new space for activities that have never been done before the exploration of an infinite universe can continue unfettered.
As the Wingmakers message stated:
We are leaving behind the state of "survivor" mode and entering an era of "explorer" mode.

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Now I have to stop and get a squirrel out of my clothes dryer. It came in via the air vent, and fell down the smooth part of the hose, into the plastic accordion part. I heard this bit of noise and realized I had a squirrel exploring the house's exterior walls, and popping into 'holes' it found.

I think it is the same one that tired to pry the screen door open yesterday. I'm tempted to turn the dryer on, but we know that won't work. Besides the sheer uncaring nastiness that such an act would be. I'll have to get the animal cage from the garage and take the hose off in the house.. and have it run into the cage. If I can be so lucky.

This should be interesting. Especially if it gets loose in the house. Which it may.

OK.

Turns out it was a bird.

Off it goes.

Ah, how much better to discover what was thought to be a squirrel was actually a bird, rather than the other way around.
Although I understand there are some squirrels who are learning to fly.

[Carmody]

Trying to get that message across is a bit of a problem.

when we whip out the weapon of esoteric philosophy, will the monkey recognize it for what it is? In most cases, no, not right away.

They live too much in the hindbrain, not knowing what consciousness is, they pick it up like a child picking up a cat by a single hind leg.

Always one of my favorite scenarios:

"Freeze!", you yell, and hold up your philosophy books and point them at the person. "Put down the Monkey! ... Step away from the Monkey!"

"The attack was vicious in the extreme. I dunno what happened. I put six rounds pf Plato in that Monkey's chest, and it just kept on coming....it seems that nothing would slow it down."

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Trying to get that message across is a bit of a problem.

when we whip out the weapon of esoteric philosophy, will the monkey recognize it for what it is? In most cases, no, not right away.

They live too much in the hindbrain, not knowing what consciousness is, they pick it up like a child picking up a cat by a single hind leg.

Always one of my favorite scenarios:

"Freeze!", you yell, and hold up your philosophy books and point them at the person. "Put down the Monkey! ... Step away from the Monkey!"

"The attack was vicious in the extreme. I dunno what happened. I put six rounds pf Plato in that Monkey's chest, and it just kept on coming....it seems that nothing would slow it down."

Thats why work has to be done on all three parts equally. (Instinctive, emotional, mental)
Not that I can say I have succeeded, but at least if I do go down I will go down fighting.

So I do manual work I like. Weeding, or create jewellery.
If someone sees me with my beads they will see the squirrel in me.

What I need help with is to make me go to the gym, and walk, or run, or swim, or get on that bicycle...
that would help with overall balancing, and might shut up the monkey mind for ten minutes.

[1inMany]

Thank you for the pm, dear friend. I have been living with feeling responsible for nearly killing the here and now. That was a heavy moment I shared, and I see that now. At the time, it came out. That's what happens. Sometimes, okay most of the time, okay nearly all of the time, I do not know what will come out until it has. And then there it sits.

So I have refrained from sharing further. Trust me when I say, no one wants to hear what has been going on in my here and now. I'm anxiously awaiting K's awakening. Wow, I sure did put a positive spin on that one. Go, me.

Mike encountered a bit of a snaffoo dealing with the doctors. Seems they cannot agree on which option to do first. Thursday morning he will have a consult with the surgeon. They will schedule the heart cath then. While doing the heart cath, they will fix what they find. It might be stents are necessary, in which case I will safely deliver him home shortly thereafter. It might be that he needs bypass(es), in which case I will camp at the hospital for a while. Days, I understand.

So what am I doing, here an now? Meditation, religiously. That's what. And staying in the current moment the best I can. So many people rely on me. I know this. I am not always successful. But I know very well that worry sends my power and my energy off to a place that is helpful for no one. Loving everyone from this place, from the center of the multi-dimensional being I Am, that is where my strength is. A worthwhile endeavor.

Also, I am focusing on what I know to be true. What has come to me in the weeks before the latest crises hit. Yes, Mike's health is only one of them. I could express some of it, but... the experiences I have had would be quite unbelievable. I do know things are shifting. I do know more of who I am than I ever have. I do know I am an Agent of Universe. I do know I am honored. I do know I am grateful. I do know I am an Angel, although I hesitate to use that word. It is the closest I can come, next to wizard...which is still a little unbelievable even to me.

I do know the Universe has things in hand. And I do know that I have to Trust. That in order for things to be set right, upheaval is necessary. And when viewed from this higher perspective, there is a peace with All that Is. Now, and here (haha), keeping myself in this place...quite a challenge since I have chosen this human experience at the same time. And cancer no less, smh.

Much Love, dear Village friends.

I'm keeping you all in my heart. Nora...Marianne...Dennis and his mum...After all, the energy for which I am a vessel is Infinte.

[ulli]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Thank you for the pm, dear friend. I have been living with feeling responsible for nearly killing the here and now. That was a heavy moment I shared, and I see that now. At the time, it came out. That's what happens. Sometimes, okay most of the time, okay nearly all of the time, I do not know what will come out until it has. And then there it sits.

So I have refrained from sharing further. Trust me when I say, no one wants to hear what has been going on in my here and now. I'm anxiously awaiting K's awakening. Wow, I sure did put a positive spin on that one. Go, me.

Mike encountered a bit of a snaffoo dealing with the doctors. Seems they cannot agree on which option to do first. Thursday morning he will have a consult with the surgeon. They will schedule the heart cath then. While doing the heart cath, they will fix what they find. It might be stents are necessary, in which case I will safely deliver him home shortly thereafter. It might be that he needs bypass(es), in which case I will camp at the hospital for a while. Days, I understand.

So what am I doing, here an now? Meditation, religiously. That's what. And staying in the current moment the best I can. So many people rely on me. I know this. I am not always successful. But I know very well that worry sends my power and my energy off to a place that is helpful for no one. Loving everyone from this place, from the center of the multi-dimensional being I Am, that is where my strength is. A worthwhile endeavor.

Also, I am focusing on what I know to be true. What has come to me in the weeks before the latest crises hit. Yes, Mike's health is only one of them. I could express some of it, but... the experiences I have had would be quite unbelievable. I do know things are shifting. I do know more of who I am than I ever have. I do know I am an Agent of Universe. I do know I am honored. I do know I am grateful. I do know I am an Angel, although I hesitate to use that word. It is the closest I can come, next to wizard...which is still a little unbelievable even to me.

I do know the Universe has things in hand. And I do know that I have to Trust. That in order for things to be set right, upheaval is necessary. And when viewed from this higher perspective, there is a peace with All that Is. Now, and here (haha), keeping myself in this place...quite a challenge since I have chosen this human experience at the same time. And cancer no less, smh.

Much Love, dear Village friends.

I'm keeping you all in my heart. Nora...Marianne...Dennis and his mum...After all, the energy for which I am a vessel is Infinte.

Please, never ever think that what kills this thread is anything to do with your reports.
Never even think that this thread can be killed---
But sometimes people need to take breathers.
remember, what is- IS.

How can we move forward if we don't allow ourselves
to look at the present moment and all its implications?
Share away, you have my green light.

[Flash]

Found by Milneman, got to see what we can do about ETs

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ybXrrTX3LuI

[Carmody]

I've never mentioned it, but for months, I've had this outside my door, for about ..12 hours, minimum, almost every day. For the past 2-3-4 months. A long time now. Longer, actually.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qz8YO9Yhnd4

They're putting in a new hyperspace bypass.

It's a good morning alarm clock - there's that, at least.