Here and Now...What's Happening?

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Jean-Luc (here)
I had an OBE yesterday and talked to Mara while going downhill. She told me she enjoyed the hike very much but that it was a little tiring and that next time she wouldn't mind trying this:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iqZUoZpRv3A

Dan, Pretty Purdy might enjoy a look-see. I sent it off to family and friends with doggies.

Thanks, Jean-Luc. I carried my Wolfie in a backpack, too. Though, the only flying we did, was when he was a paid customer under the seat of an airplane. He traveled much better than me.

<3

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by gripreaper (here)

Posted by Calz (here)
Coming to grips with the fact that most everything you have learned and been taught your whole life is rubbish ... ah now ... *that* is the cold reality of the shove off the edge of the cliff that it takes to awaken some.

Its a tough transition to make, vesting an entire lifetime on a lie and finding out it is all lies. Most cannot do it because they are too vested, and it is too painful. I went through every emotion known to man in my dark night of the soul. At one point I was throwing things at the walls and screaming and cussing at everything, at other times I wept till I fell asleep from exhaustion. I lost all my identities and all the support systems and anchors which held me in the matrix.

After months of these feelings pouring out of me, one day I was sitting there in a pool of tears on the floor, and there was NOTHING left. Then who was sitting there? THAT was the moment I realized the essence of my soul is who I am and everything else is a holographic construct of what was occurring in my mind. All of the realities I had created had manifested in front of me and were shrouded with identities I had the created.

If I'm not a father, a husband, a construction worker, a friend, an enemy, a son, a citizen, an asshole, a homeowner, a spiritual warrior, an empath, an enlightened soul, or any of these identities, I still AM. My "I AM" showed up, that which I have always been and always will be. From there I no longer identified with these archetypes and all that was left was the present moment and the feeling of being present in that moment without attachment.

That's when I began to laugh at everything. I don't know why, but for awhile everything was funny. Driving down the freeway, stuck in traffic at 5 miles an hour, on my way to a job, was so funny, the absurdity of it all, yet it was okay. It was just fine, since I'm eternal and have all the time in the world, and I will never cease to exist but only transit, it just became funny. Looking at the faces of those around me who were lost in the matrix and so intense at what they were doing, gave me a sense of "well, it's their path, their choice, their reality, their identity, and they have all the time in the world to do that for ten lifetimes if they choose. It's all fine with me."

When time has no meaning and everything is just experience and none of it matters and yet, it all seems perfect, then what's to get all wound up about? This is only one lifetime in a hundred or more, so I don't "have to" do or be anything in particular. I can just "be" and I can just "do"... the yin and yang of the dance. I'm right where I am and there's no place else I should or need to be. Life can take any turn and life can go left or right or whatever, since all roads lead to the summit, so to speak. There is no "wrong" turn, no perfect choice, no wrong choice, no need to be anxious.

This moment and these words on this screen are just what comes out of me and that's the essence of this moment. That's all it is.

This isn't a gem, it's a gem mine. Thanks for sharing this Grip.

Dennis

[1inMany]

What a supportive lot you are. Thank you

The visit with the surgeon went well. As well as such things go. Surgery will be next week. The procedure will be a heart cath to begin with. Likely two stents, plus whatever else they find. If he is out in an hour, that's all they needed to do. And some type of medicine for the rest of his life. If it takes 6-8 hours, it was bypass surgery they did. They wanted to schedule it for Tuesday, but Mike declined. He asked them to try for Wednesday. Tuesday is the court date to finalize the divorce. Apparentlly, that is a priority for him.

Just a quick update, here and now.

Much Love,

[giovonni]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
What a supportive lot you are. Thank you

The visit with the surgeon went well. As well as such things go. Surgery will be next week. The procedure will be a heart cath to begin with. Likely two stents, plus whatever else they find. If he is out in an hour, that's all they needed to do. And some type of medicine for the rest of his life. If it takes 6-8 hours, it was bypass surgery they did. They wanted to schedule it for Tuesday, but Mike declined. He asked them to try for Wednesday. Tuesday is the court date to finalize the divorce. Apparentlly, that is a priority for him.

Just a quick update, here and now.

Much Love,

Since i miss a lot on this thread, i had no idea your family was going through all this combined stressful stuff ... Having gone through both a painful divorce and bypass surgery ... i would still take the surgery first every time ... i pray Mike has his priorities correct ...

Blessing/Love to your family my Friend

[1inMany]

Posted by giovonni (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
What a supportive lot you are. Thank you

The visit with the surgeon went well. As well as such things go. Surgery will be next week. The procedure will be a heart cath to begin with. Likely two stents, plus whatever else they find. If he is out in an hour, that's all they needed to do. And some type of medicine for the rest of his life. If it takes 6-8 hours, it was bypass surgery they did. They wanted to schedule it for Tuesday, but Mike declined. He asked them to try for Wednesday. Tuesday is the court date to finalize the divorce. Apparentlly, that is a priority for him.

Just a quick update, here and now.

Much Love,

Since i miss a lot on this thread, i had no idea your family was going through all this combined stressful stuff ... Having gone through both a painful divorce and bypass surgery ... i would still take the surgery first every time ... i pray Mike has his priorities correct ...

Blessing/Love to your family my Friend

That is the choice I would make as well, gio. I'm with you, I pray he does. It doesn't appear so, which is probably why he has these issues in the first place.

Yes, difficult year for our family. There's more stress than those two things, haha. I asked a friend of mine the other day whether I was dealing with a whole lot of crap, or whether it was the cancerian me being overly emotional. Because I honestly can't tell, and I was open to hear that I need to look at things differently. She gave me the objective/not really objective assessment that yes, I have a lot of stressful situations playing out all around me.

I sure chose to handle a *lot* in this lifetime, as did my family. Apparently. That's the only conclusion I can come to.

And I still would like to have a chit chat with myself to ask why in the hell I chose this. Haha

Oh, and gio...thanks for stepping into the village here lately. I have enjoyed your presence and have appreciated your input

[ulli]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
What a supportive lot you are. Thank you

The visit with the surgeon went well. As well as such things go. Surgery will be next week. The procedure will be a heart cath to begin with. Likely two stents, plus whatever else they find. If he is out in an hour, that's all they needed to do. And some type of medicine for the rest of his life. If it takes 6-8 hours, it was bypass surgery they did. They wanted to schedule it for Tuesday, but Mike declined. He asked them to try for Wednesday. Tuesday is the court date to finalize the divorce. Apparentlly, that is a priority for him.

Just a quick update, here and now.

Much Love,

Well, One, hang in there! Don't even think of it in those terms.
That court date was already set, while the surgery date could still be chosen.
Unless he went through a full turn-around and change of plans...
Please, One, let him go. Let him go. Let him go. Start thinking "Good riddance!"
Think not of his wonderful qualities, and don't allow sentimental memories of the past to suck you into a swamp.
Think of the moments when he has hurt you, and kill the past.

I know, Cancerians can't do that naturally, since they remember nice stuff, unlike us Capricorns who only remember the nasty stuff, and so must march on in a never-ending search for a better life.
So both signs have to make a lot of extra effort, when it comes to balancing memories,
and get rid of that planetary compulsion.
Once this has been learnt, what happens is what is called a moment of enlightenment.
But unless this has been learnt partners of Cancerians will always feel stifled after a while and long for freedom.

My astrology is based on finding the hidden Self, which can be done by rising above our planets,
where none of these influences and patterns can affect us any longer.
That means to study astrology to find out what features our personality expresses
which are typical of the sun sign, moon sign, or ascendant, or any of the planets,
and then every time some of these traits surface, one can make a choice.

Like, do I HAVE to be like this? Is THIS what always gets on people's nerves?
Is THIS what drives everyone away??? Gurdjieff taught to find our chief feature..
the thing we can't see, but everyone else can.
And I found that there is no better method to find what this is than astrology.

Each sign expresses features that have such a nerve-wrecking effect on others.
Each sign has an opposite sign, which, if we study it carefully, and even practice to emulate it,
will give us clues as to where that perfect balance point be.

My opposite is Cancer, (yep) and for the last 15 years I have been surrounding myself more with Cancarians,
while in the past they drove me nuts. You and Paula have been very healthy for me and given me lots of insights.
My son's mother-in-law from who I am renting the Barbados apartment has sun in Cancer and Moon in Leo.
I learnt to cook. To BE in my own kitchen just that leedel bit longer, and try to actually enjoy it. To enjoy food.
To become domesticated, instead of plotting to build empires.

Now that my mum has gone I can say I miss her, but before I always felt relief when she left after her visits.
She also was a Leo /Cancer mix, with a powerful and clingy personality
who knew how to make one feel like sh!t. I thought of her as an emotional blackmailer.
Just simply too emotional, and I couldn't take that.
But that's because I severely lack in that department, being an introverted lone wolf.
Brain in a fish bowl.
But I'm working on it.
My son would have loved to have had you as a mum, instead of me.

[ulli]

Posted by 1inMany (here)

Posted by giovonni (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
What a supportive lot you are. Thank you

The visit with the surgeon went well. As well as such things go. Surgery will be next week. The procedure will be a heart cath to begin with. Likely two stents, plus whatever else they find. If he is out in an hour, that's all they needed to do. And some type of medicine for the rest of his life. If it takes 6-8 hours, it was bypass surgery they did. They wanted to schedule it for Tuesday, but Mike declined. He asked them to try for Wednesday. Tuesday is the court date to finalize the divorce. Apparentlly, that is a priority for him.

Just a quick update, here and now.

Much Love,

Since i miss a lot on this thread, i had no idea your family was going through all this combined stressful stuff ... Having gone through both a painful divorce and bypass surgery ... i would still take the surgery first every time ... i pray Mike has his priorities correct ...

Blessing/Love to your family my Friend

That is the choice I would make as well, gio. I'm with you, I pray he does. It doesn't appear so, which is probably why he has these issues in the first place.

Yes, difficult year for our family. There's more stress than those two things, haha. I asked a friend of mine the other day whether I was dealing with a whole lot of crap, or whether it was the cancerian me being overly emotional. Because I honestly can't tell, and I was open to hear that I need to look at things differently. She gave me the objective/not really objective assessment that yes, I have a lot of stressful situations playing out all around me.

I sure chose to handle a *lot* in this lifetime, as did my family. Apparently. That's the only conclusion I can come to.

And I still would like to have a chit chat with myself to ask why in the hell I chose this. Haha

Oh, and gio...thanks for stepping into the village here lately. I have enjoyed your presence and have appreciated your input

It may be true that we chose our lives before we come here, and it may also be true that we can change everything, if we want.

Once you discover that there exist synchronicities, and manifestations,
which are evidently linked to us as they appear as regular patterns,
you must ask yourself where do the unwanted ones come from.
Because they are always either one, or the other. Wanted (surprise!) and unwanted (shock).

My conclusion was that the unwanted ones came from my own subconscious self.
They are my projections.
Since I took on this belief, the universe has been accommodating me with interesting learning moments,
but a lot less stress than I had before.

[giovonni]

Was reading this article earlier this morning ~ Kinda fits in Here in the Now ...



What You Are Not Being Told About The Secret & Law Of Attraction ?

[ulli]

Interesting article. I always wanted to write about the LOA myself, but have been too lazy to do so.
Small forum posts is all I can manage.
The first time I came across the LOA was when reading the Baha'i Writings.
At a talk given in 1912 Abdu'l-Bahá said that everything worked by the law of attraction.
Later Shoghi Effendi, his grandson, expounded further, in the Five Steps of Prayer...how visualizing outcome and acting as if it all had already come to pass would then bring about the desired effects.

The main thing is to realize that such a system, such a universe which responds to our deepest wishes, must have had a source, a designer, and that this source is ONE. Not something or someone which is itself created. Beyond time.
So while the OT Jehovah might well have been a powerful alien, he ain't the ONE.

Anyway, the Secret was about manifesting materialistic wishes, and there is nothing wrong with that, IMO, except that they are done too general.
"I wanna be rich" is more general than "I wanna go to Miami", as richness has more to do with understanding the LOA properly than with having cash in an untrustworthy bank.
Even "I wanna go to Miami" can be many different things, as for some it means living under a bridge.

So being very very specific, and knowing why one is asking, and not only as an escape from the Now conditions, but rather as a path of fulfillment of all that potential which is hidden within us, like a mine full of gems.....

[RunningDeer]

Hi my name is ‘Pilling Popping Paula’.

I’m on this viscous cycle since Sunday when I injured my back from installing dinosaur air conditioner. I’m mainlining Advil which causes heartburn so I pop Zantac. I eat to prevent heartburn on an empty stomach. But I have a feeling it is also because the pills cause phantom hunger. At another level, I’m pissed because of this out of control hunger and grazing.

So here’s the second reason for posting. Of late, I’m processing about this holographic game we participate in. Before popping pills I noticed and even more so now with the body laced with this Advil/Zantac cocktail that the body eats the food, but like in the Matrix, it’s programed to ‘taste/enjoy’ it.

For the last couple of nights, I recalled that it is a programmed response. When I step back from this perspective, I only remember the crunch, texture, warmth AND the program that it tastes good.

On that note, over the next several day, I’ll add wine. My sister and hubby have arrived from their drive cross country, California to Rhode Island. Yeah! So it’s a get together with all the sibling in the dance and duel theater from bars to homes to oh, yes! more…lots more FOOD!

Oh! one last timely note: just now what I thought was a hawk swooped down and circled about a foot by my window. She landed on the lawn and then walked around the driveway it's a turkey vulture a.k.a California Condor! The vulture/condor disappeared under the pine trees. Probably scouting out unchaperoned nests.

PS I often wonder if people think I make this stuff up. If anything I down play it.

<3
UPDATE: please use this link @ shamanicjourney.com

[giovonni]

The way i have come into manifesting those things i would desire in my life ... begins with an 'Always' ... i literally assume what ever i require (need) ... Is always available and just focus intently upon it ... The it does come ... but Not always as i had first Imagined ...

PS ~ note one of my ongoing desires is to always have peace of mind.

Post Note ~ Enjoy this time with your family Paula pills/wine/food and All !

[ulli]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
Hi my name is ‘Pilling Popping Paula’.

I’m on this viscous cycle since Sunday when I injured my back from installing dinosaur air conditioner. I’m mainlining Advil which causes heartburn so I pop Zantac. I eat to prevent heartburn on an empty stomach. But I have a feeling it is also because the pills cause phantom hunger. At another level, I’m pissed because of this out of control hunger and grazing.

So here’s the second reason for posting. Of late, I’m processing about this holographic game we participate in. Before popping pills I noticed and even more so now with the body laced with this Advil/Zantac cocktail that the body eats the food, but like in the Matrix, it’s programed to ‘taste/enjoy’ it.

For the last couple of nights, I recalled that it is a programmed response. When I step back from this perspective, I only remember the crunch, texture, warmth AND the program that it tastes good.

On that note, over the next several day, I’ll add wine. My sister and hubby have arrived from their drive cross country, California to Rhode Island. Yeah! So it’s a get together with all the sibling in the dance and duel theater from bars to homes to oh, yes! more…lots more FOOD!

Oh! one last timely note: just now what I thought was a hawk swooped down and circled about a foot by my window. She landed on the lawn and then walked around the driveway it's a turkey vulture a.k.a California Condor! The vulture/condor disappeared under the pine trees. Probably scouting out unchaperoned nests.

PS I often wonder if people think I make this stuff up. If anything I down play it.

<3

Excerpt From: Steven D. Farmer. “Animal Spirit Guides.” - Turkey Vulture/California Condor

• You’ll find that your tastes, cravings, and possibly your entire diet will soon change, so pay close attention to your body’s response when you eat certain foods.
• You’ll find yourself being more visually perceptive, to the point of seeing auras around others.
• It’s a good opportunity to sort out and eliminate that which doesn’t “smell right” in your life.
• Because of your metaphysical gifts, others don’t understand you and may irrationally fear you, so they tend to keep their distance.

Well, I know for sure you are not making this up.
I also downplay my own version of similar experiences.
The afternoon of the humming bird, for instance, just as I was getting serious about taking that kiosk,
I found a barely alive enormous lizard in my living room. This one was about the length of hand to elbow,
Turned black, which they do when paralyzed by fear, and the cat sitting nearby. I gently moved him into a garbage bin, and took him to a dense shrub in the garden where no cat could enter.
A few hours later I checked on him, to see if he had made it, and he was still there, but dead. Soon after I got the email about the rent increase of the mall kiosk.
The lizard within me (business-money grabbing self) had died. It was fun being a lizard for a few hours. The humming bird sure indicated all the ups and downs, as you had written then. Yesterday I noticed that neither Chico's wife nor daughter were at his funeral. So I made it up the stone path to their humble abode (you would call it a shack, but to them it's a castle as it has concrete walls. Every wall in there was plastered with pictures of Jesus, Mary and the present Pope. The widow poured her sorrow into me for the longest time, clinging like a koala. Telling me how much she loved me, between heart wrenching sobs. I hardly knew her, only know her daughter, who comes to me on Thursdays to clean my house and get spoiled.

This family had an incredibly hard life. There was a tragic traffic accident twenty years ago, where the one who now works for me lost half of her face. She can barely speak. Her emotional development stopped there and then, and to my surprise what she remembers most is not the agony of the many operations to save her life, but the resentful feelings that no one told her for three weeks that her sister had died in the accident. And she so badly wanted to know what had happened to her sister. But of course she was too sick, and lost her voice anyway, so she couldn't ask. So I had to gently point out to her how it must have felt for her mother, to have lost one daughter, and that she withheld the sad news from the other only because she didn't want to add to her suffering while she was still fighting for her life.

And instead of taking flowers I put a crisp brand-new 50,000 colones bill (about $100) in an envelope, something they may never have seen in their lives, and left it there.
Also told her that if she wanted I would give her another days work, to help make up for the lost income, now the father was gone...and her face really lit up then. One only has to give people hope, so that they can face the future.

Next thing when I got home the guy from Barbados whatsapped me...he was served a writ, to vacate the premises of the shop within four weeks. Needs $2000.... Urgent urgent...total panic...poor guy. And Simon is not being of help being in the next world. Totally relying on me to sort it all out.

Hey, maybe I should put Peter's story online, and get a collection fund going. So the hummingbird came into my house trying to tell me something, and then the cat killed the biggest reptile that has ever been brought into my house....and there is no connection between these events and omens?
As Nora would say...we are all connected.

[RunningDeer]

UPDATE: please use this link @ shamanicjourney.com

[christian]

Check this out...

Posted by christian (here)
I'm on the ground in Copenhagen... Essentially, it's all very relaxed, nice, and cute... Very likeable! Gonna make a movie out of all the material I'm gathering, here just a little something, because I think it's particularly nice.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8krpbfnIr9s

[ulli]

Involved right now with construction and also making a new collection of jewellery.
Maybe someone else can help out with this thread.
My thoughts are with all those who are suffering, Marianne, 1inMany, Calz,
and also right here, where I live...Chico's family who are grieving,
and since last night we know that our beloved don Boscoe has a brain tumour.
He is our favourite waiter who many years ago worked in the family restaurant,
and is now bringing us Cesar salad and pizza in a nearby hotel where they have an Italian restaurant
and where we go once a week to eat.
Maybe we can direct some special healing towards him. He is 68.

[Carmody]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EC-VFIiSgk4

[Wind]

I think that these were profound messages...

This World Affairs reading was given in 1932: As the Spirit of God once moved to bring peace and harmony out of chaos, so must the Spirit move over the earth and magnify itself in the hearts, minds and souls of men [and women] to bring peace, harmony and understanding, that they may dwell together in a way that will bring that peace, that harmony, that can only come with all having the one Ideal; not the one idea, but "Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thine heart, thy neighbor AS thyself!" This [is] the whole law, this [is] the whole answer to the world, to each and every soul. That is the answer to the world conditions as they exist today. (Reading 3976-8)

~ Passive patience, to be sure, has its place; but consider patience rather from the precepts of God's relationship to man: love unbounded is patience. Love manifested is patience. Endurance at times is patience, consistence ever is patience...

Time, space, and patience, then, are those channels through which man as a finite mind may become aware of the infinite.

For each phase of time, each phase of space, is dependent as one atom upon another. And there is no vacuum, for this, as may be indicated in the universe, is an impossibility with God. Then there is no time, there is no space, when patience becomes manifested in love. (Reading 3161-1)

- Edgar Cayce

[Carmody]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q4XxaWXsO78

[ulli]

[ulli]

I meant to post this video. Santos Bonacci talking to the press after he was freed on bail.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfrTb2GUeOw