Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Violet]

@Ulli & Araucaria: you guys were both equally and epically Johnning there...
Love your sense of humor, Ulli.
@RunningDeer: I first read that van to say "Carbside"...
@Calz: Reading as such, be it now increasingly virtual, still happens frequently, not? Paperback reading, though, is much more relaxing somehow.

[1inMany]

Good morning, here and now.

Oh, sure, we all do plenty of reading. Just not maybe to the extent or of the subject matter we would like, or we were once called to. I remember when I was teaching. I used to spend so much money, out of my own pocket, for all the new issues of popular magazines and set them on a side table by the couch and comfy chairs in my classroom. And after work was completed, my kiddos could go curl up and read. Funny, what the actual reading levels were...as opposed to what the grumpy uncaring teachers believed. An idea given me in a workshop for educators there.

Certainly not existentialist philosophy. But by goodness they were reading.



I forgot now what it was I stepped into the village for. Hahaha. So like me.

Oh Paula, give me those converses and I will be a happy camper. Though there was a time I would have paid a pretty penny for some of those others...

[1inMany]

Oh. Right. I remember what was on my mind this morning. Pondering what is real. That's what I was doing. And why I feel such resistance when I even *think* about getting back to meditation. I'm not sure if I took one step forward and two back, or vice versa. But damn me for letting up on it when I was doing it so regularly.

Carmody talked a while back about the necessity of a fire sale. All must go. Here I sit, wondering what all means. All....what exactly? I figure, ego and mind must be brought under My control. But...there are so many attachments. Okay, mainly it is my family. I have achieved some level of detachment, so I'm not drawn in when most things come up. But, I wonder about how far to let all that go. What if....what if....there is some kind of trauma in the life of someone close to me. And what if I feel pulled in to help with this? Really, am I helping at all?

Last visit to Mississippi, Lotusblossom and I were talking about sending Angels to someone. You know, how I talk about doing from time to time. And I got to wondering, if we all have Higher Guidance, and we all have Higher Ups with us, watching, and to some extent directing the traffic in our lives for whatever reason (learning lessons, not allowing certain things to happen if they aren't supposed to)...then why would these Angels appear to me and go when sent? Is that even necessary?

And what she came up with was that there is always help available, but we have to ask. So if someone is unaware, still sawing logs where Higher matters are concerned, then they won't ask. So sending Angels is an option open to me, sending help for them when they do not know to ask for help themselves.

I don't know whether this is correct or not, but certainly made sense at the time. I may never know why. I should stop asking, likely.

So, are they real? Are there degrees of reality? Some things more real than others? Is every single thing I experience *not* real?

Just a little light contemplation, here and now.

Much Love,

[eaglespirit]

Happy Birthday One!!!

Anything and everything You encounter is as real as Your Heart sees fit!!
Go With It : )



Ggggeeeeessssshhhhhhhhhh...I step out for a minute and a whole new chapter arises Here, Now!!!

[genevieve]

Where is everybody?


Peace Love Joy & Harmony,
genevieve

[RunningDeer]

Posted by genevieve (here)
Where is everybody?


Peace Love Joy & Harmony,
genevieve

It's the kick off of a three day 4th of July holiday weekend. The market was jammed early today with everyone loading up on picnic goodies and such.

And for many, many in the USA, it's also their one and only two week vacation for the whole year! Oh man, that's soooooo gotta change!

<3

[giovonni]

Yes indeedy ... It's a long holiday weekend here in the states ...

Sorry, it's still to early for Me ...

[Mark]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Pondering what is real. That's what I was doing. And why I feel such resistance when I even *think* about getting back to meditation. I'm not sure if I took one step forward and two back, or vice versa. But damn me for letting up on it when I was doing it so regularly.

I certainly fee this. Yoga, meditation, energy work, art, music, writing. Al things that I do, regularly, over a span of a lifetime.

Over the span of a month, or even a year, if I met someone new, they would swear - from their experience of me - that I knew absolutely nothing about any of the above. I find there is a time and a place for everything. For that reason I don't sweat it when I don't meditate for a while, when I don't do yoga for a while, when I don't write, do artwork, make music or do energy work.

These are all skill-sets I suppose, things which occur in their time. Other times, other things are done. When I don't do certain of the above skill-sets, sometimes I'll think about them, perhaps miss them. But, I know it is time to do them, when the up-welling of impetus to do them increases, when they cross my mind more and more and it becomes an overriding imperative rather than a random thought here and there.

All things in the Now moment I suppose.

As of Right Now, whatever I am doing or not doing, All Is Well.

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
... 4th of July holiday weekend. ...

Happy Smedley Butler Day!

Dennis

[gripreaper]

OK, my fourth of July rant and rave, as an American citizen of the United States, I go in for some football, some beer, and a whole lot more they told us in school about how great we are, standing for freedom and liberty and truth. Edward Bernay’s was brilliant in his social engineering, giving each major city a stadium to host the bread and circus we would become.

Fourth of July was our celebration of freedom, freedom from tyranny and an alleged sovereignty from the British, who were the world superpower at the time. I’ve looked back into the last 300 years of history on this country as deep as about anybody on Avalon, and I’ve found that all of the history taught in the schools is not the deep true history. Global interests had their designs on that too.

At the turn of the century we were a fairly agrarian population of about 100 million with a gross GDP of 2 trillion a year, to a hundred years later with 300 million population, the GDP now about 14 trillion a year. That’s no accident. We’ve seen all of the electric and oil grid expansion, the electronic age, and the digital age in this generation I was born into it in 1952.

Why was this country allowed to be so prosperous, so quickly? You might say ton’s of intuition and ingenuity backed by money, or importing all the smartest minds around the world here about 50 years ago, what’s up with that? We kept up with the bills of this country and made a bunch of stuff, real helpful stuff by sincere genuine people, and we sent a bunch of the value added upstream to wherever those trillions go.

Tons of those trillions went into building our own cages, the downside to powered interest having the best digital grid no one could have imagined, and all their underground funded machinations which occur above the average mind. WE poured trillions into that hole too.

Most American’s do care and just want to be left alone to live the Camelot of the last 50 years, and know that their neighbors can too, all around the world. The last 100 years of prosperity came at the hands of the Federal Reserve Debit/credit system, with interest, for every dollar entering commerce. They began to take it all back after 9-11, and then some more.

We no longer hold assets as individuals in this country, and a lot of my fellow citizens don’t really get what that means, or believes that. The currency, which everyone knows Wall Street shenanigans stole in the last decade, is riddled with debt. Everyone has family or friends who are or were affected by the big “Whoosh!” of digital dollars which just went away from that alleged “asset” side of the ledger. That’s gone.

We gave that to the banksters a long time ago. We also lost the industrial base from the last 50 years, and parts of this country have been feeling down for decades, while others grew and prospered. Those of my generation who embraced the digital age all took home a nice hunk of cheese, while the rest of us just “worked” every day.

I just got off work. Yes, I am still an indentured worker bee in exchange for Federal Reserve Notes, which I summarily turn around and give most of it back for bills I can’t escape. We’re not any different in that regard from the rest of the world, and that has changed drastically in the last 50 years. I look at the 20 something kids facing a fully digital database today, and it razzles me to think of how they are going to embrace it and handle it.

The America we’ve loved and the country it has become couldn’t be more divergent. I still want to go see my family and play with my grandkids, drink some lemonade, bar-b-que, eat chips, and blow off some fireworks, and ask the kids how they are doing. Maybe they can tell me how they see things.

The main revelation I hope emerges from this holiday, is that we are all people on this planet and things are global, and we need to recognize that the movements on the chess board are deliberate, funded and executed according to the fully digitized system’s ability to collate huge amounts of data into datasets which meet specific criteria, and be deliberate.

In some ways, I’m staunchly American, and in other ways I’m a soul on planet earth, and finally I’m appalled at how the globalist agenda and the agency of this country to that agenda, has evolved since Roosevelt and the New Deal. Sure, a lot happened in the mid 1800’s to indenture this continent, and again in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act, but the events put in place after the bankster recession of the 30’s, really sealed it, coupled with the digital age. The changes in just the last ten years alone are staggering.

Yea, Fourth of July is a day off from work. I’m gonna go see the grandkids’, and mingle with millions of other vehicles on the interstate highway system. I’m gonna make a second leg and go see one of my sisters.

America, you still got moxi and you still had the only taste of a “semblance” of freedom, whether real or imagined. We lived it. I’m gonna live it this weekend with a little energetic twist. I’m gonna speak my truth no matter what.

All ya’ll, have a good weekend too.

[giovonni]

Cheers Kevin (gripreaper)



As my friend Jay Gilliland (brother of) keeps reminding me ...

Cos he spends half here and half there ...

There's always ...
Note~ Jay and his lovely daughter ~ though his Mexican girlfriend is just as pretty ...

Mexico

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2e_huGmZJ3g

[Calz]

Timing ... synchronicity ... isn't life amazing???

I came here to post another ... "as the life turns" ... regarding my fading marriage and aside from more brown hair that photo isn't to damn far from my and wifee.


Anyhoo ... won't dribble ... wifee and I have come to a "peace treaty" of sorts to stay togegther for this year to allow for several family matters to come together. That is our priority and it feels pretty good to come to a gut level understanding and honesty.


We have all heard the cliché saying "I love you enough to let you go" and that is where I am at.


Give me and our family respect to allow it to happen then go satisfy the freedom of your youth that I experienced that you have not.


I am okay with that provided my kids are respected.


She's hot ... and I am getting old .... but she has a good soul ... just much more attached to the physical than me and we cannot seem to bridge that gap. Nice if she could have gleaned that our meat suit is disposed of every lifetime and that what matters is what goes on after ... but clearly that is for her to learn in another lifetime.

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

[ulli]

[Violet]

Hi, just hopping in to let you know that I've updated my album with the latest "sketches" (watercoloured).

For those who don't know, these are visualisations of things I saw in my mind and that I'm looking to glue together in a meaningful whole. Some of these things are not so random as I would like them to be.

Thanks for thinking along

[dan33]

BRYAN FERRY'S WEEK. Maximum Planetary Transit 5th july 21:00. Barcelona.

Trine Uranus - Pluto - Saturn in Libra.

Sextile Venus - Aries in Capricorn.

Dodecahedron Neptune in Pisces .



Thanks Violet for your picture

[eaglespirit]

Well said Grip...may we now show some how some way that Love is the way, the only way.

[Violet]

You're welcome, Dan33 Does it ring a bell with you?

[ulli]

John Lennon's Imagine as a comic strip

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/07/...mic-strip.html

[ulli]

[1inMany]

Good morning. Sometimes there are no words, you know? I am grateful, this much I have words for. Miss K has left whatshisname behind. She has moved her stuff to Mike's house, as much as she and M could get yesterday. And Mike helped with some of the big stuff.

I expected that when this finally happened, I would be elated. I would likely jump up and down and whoop and holler and feel like throwing a party. Instead, my eyes leaked a little. For a few seconds. I was not overcome with any emotion, in particular. Odd. But really, that was a relief.

Much love, sitting in gratitude,