Here and Now...What's Happening?

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Posted by Jean-Marie (here)
I woke this morning in the middle of a strange dream that I remembered. I was in a high rise hotel and there were dragons flying around outside. I was trying to pull the shades down and lock the doors because they were going to get in if they saw us. There were other people there with me, but no one I recognized. I was running and locking doors behind me. Two of them got in. They were small (no bigger than a horse) but I ran through a door and locked them out. At one point I tried to escape via the hallway and when I opened the door I was face to face with a white pale looking dragon. No flames, no fire. I was terrified and slammed and bolted the door.

Anyone good at dream interpretations????

Thank you!

-jean-marie

Very weird dream........

Good morning Jean-Marie,

I'm no expert on dream interpretation.

You may have some strong gifts spiritually and psychically that need to be actualized here on earth.
I would say your High Spiritual-self is pushing the envelope. What are you afraid of and/or resisting?

(There are some strong potent energies in the aethers right now helping us to move forward.). Cool dream.


Love

Nora

[donk]

AW MAN Meeradas, that sounds like fun...I heard this one on the radio this past weekend, always puts a hop in my step

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

[ulli]

Posted by Jean-Marie (here)
I woke this morning in the middle of a strange dream that I remembered. I was in a high rise hotel and there were dragons flying around outside. I was trying to pull the shades down and lock the doors because they were going to get in if they saw us. There were other people there with me, but no one I recognized. I was running and locking doors behind me. Two of them got in. They were small (no bigger than a horse) but I ran through a door and locked them out. At one point I tried to escape via the hallway and when I opened the door I was face to face with a white pale looking dragon. No flames, no fire. I was terrified and slammed and bolted the door.

Anyone good at dream interpretations????

Thank you!

-jean-marie

Very weird dream........

The dragon needs to be seen as a rejected aspect of yourself.

Maybe to do with your ancient heritage, or ancestors.

In any case he need not be feared.

Ask him to come back soon and show you his skills.

He might like that, and comply.

[RunningDeer]

Experiencing beyond concrete, provable here and nows. Respecting guidelines of thread.

FYI: I check in from time to time. And watching the count down to the 2 million mark.

L,
Pauler <3

[Robin]

I have an insight that I would like to share with you all, that was shared to me earlier this year, which positively changed the way I view diction and perception.

It is obvious that we live in a masculine-dominated world, and it is this way for a reason. This is obvious, but do people understand why?

One of the ways the controllers of this world create a male-dominated world is to instill vocabulary in the human tapestry to guide the way people perceive the world around them. All languages are derived from a central source, which is the Tower of Babel, coincidentally the time when the thirteen controlling bloodlines began manipulating humanity by putting themselves into positions of power.

ALL languages are meticulously contrived to confuse and separate humans from one another. Every word is constructed etymologically to mean something, and these words hold the intention that was placed in them by their source. One of the best examples, which Mark Passio explains beautifully, is that the word "government" literally means "mind-control" when you break down the suffixes to their Latin roots.

Going back to my point, have you all noticed that in most languages, the masculine form of a word is used to denote a group of individuals, irregardless of the male-female ratio in the group? In Spanish, for instance, the word "ellos" is used to refer to "them," which can refer to a group of ALL men or a group of both men AND women. In this word, the masculine is given precedence. But most people don't think about it or think that it is a big deal.

Have you noticed that in English, most people refer to a group of individuals as "guys"? Think about it. When you address members on the forum, do you typically use the phrase "you guys" or "hey guys" when addressing a group? Look over your comment history and I'd bet that you would be surprised. I notice female members use the word "guys" to address a group of female members on the forum, without thinking twice about it.

So why are you all giving men precedence over women, whether it is conscious or subconscious behavior? If you believe in equality and egalitarianism, why do you all continue to use the word "guys", which refers to men, when addressing a whole group?

Instead, I encourage you all to use the phrase "you all" when confronting a group. This leaves out any gender bias, and includes both men and women on an equal level. I know that it may make you feel like a cowboy from Texas (hey ya'll!), but doesn't this sound better? Men AND Women, Women AND Men, are equal, and I personally feel this equality in my being every time I address a group by saying "you all."

Understanding etymology and philology has opened my eyes to my everyday actions and my oration, and it has become very plain to me why humanity is in the condition it is in. If we don't understand why we say the things that we do, and what it all means, then how can we understand what, how, and why we live in a male-dominated world built on slavery?

I hope you all are well, and I hope that this insight comes across as insightful!

[ulli]

Posted by SamwiseTheBrave (here)
I have an insight that I would like to share with you all, that was shared to me earlier this year, which positively changed the way I view diction and perception.



I hope you all are well, and I hope that this insight comes across as insightful!

Indeed. And it is wonderful that you are pointing this out to everyone.


Listening to Rupert Sheldrake PHD




http://expandedconsciousness.com/201...etween-humans/

For some reason my Youtube embedder no longer works

trying the other icon:

http://expandedconsciousness.com/201...etween-humans/

Nope

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by SamwiseTheBrave (here)
I have an insight that I would like to share with you all, that was shared to me earlier this year, which positively changed the way I view diction and perception.



I hope you all are well, and I hope that this insight comes across as insightful!

Indeed. And it is wonderful that you are pointing this out to everyone.


Listening to Rupert Sheldrake PHD




http://expandedconsciousness.com/201...etween-humans/

For some reason my Youtube embedder no longer works

trying the other icon:

http://expandedconsciousness.com/201...etween-humans/

Nope

Didja mean this vid?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JnA8GUtXpXY

Dennis

[ulli]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)

Didja mean this vid?

Dennis

Duh...I was so engrossed listening that I didn't realise I was pasting the URL of the whole website rather than the actual video.
Thanks, Dennis.

He is talking about people like us Villagers, even, and our mental telepathic connection....

[Robin]

I just watched Bill Gate's video about vaccines, and I kid you not, there were 666 "likes" for the video. Talk about synchronicity! Yikes!

[eaglespirit]

Good Points SamwiseTheBrave...I try my best to watch this gender matter that matters!

But then again I have an advantage... I grew up with 5 Sisters
They are extremely loving Women that are as 'tough' or 'tougher' then the toughest guy around...
add their empathy and woman-ness to that toughness and they can and are changing the world from their hearts and teaching by simply doing without want for reward.

[araucaria]

I’ve mentioned this before, but we have two antecedents for Sheldrake’s work in Mark Twain’s Mental Telegraphy http://www.twainquotes.com/Mental_telegraphy.html and Paul Auster’s The Red Notebook http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463.The_Red_Notebook

Samwise, your thoughts on language are very welcome. You basically present two insights into language, not one, and as a language specialist myself, I would comment differently on each. While broadly in agreement with the second, I have to disagree with your first point, but I think you will find my disagreement highly empowering. I think one needs to beware of the Jordan Maxwell brand of popular etymology. He means well, but he simply does not understand how languages evolve. The Tower of Babel was perhaps a controlled demolition of communications, but there is nothing contrived about the outcome of a demolition. A demolition is by definition the passage from the orderly state of metal beams, concrete slabs etc. to a cloud of rubble. What happens to the rubble is uncontrolled and depends on outside circumstances. Some may fall over water and get wet; some may rise up in the wind and be scattered over a long distance, while the rest lands in a hopelessly disordered heap on the spot, where if left alone, it might evolve into a semi-natural pyramid.

Take Latin, spoken across the Roman Empire. As the empire crumbled, it evolved differently in various places that were no longer in communication – into French, Spanish and Italian. Far from being contrived, these languages evolved as the people spoke them, while the PTB continued to operate in Latin. You find large numbers of popular terms gradually becoming more acceptable; this is language rising from the grassroots. Let me give you an example. The French word tête meaning head has replaced the word chef (which is all we have left from the Latin caput). It comes from the Latin testa meaning shell and hence skull; imagine the informal word ‘nut’ gradually becoming the accepted English word for the head. Le chef is the chief or the boss, so we see both how popular language takes over, and how abstract ideas are conveyed by outmoded concrete terminology. Now take the word gouvernail, which has nothing to do with government (gouvernement): it simply means a rudder; so, etymologically speaking, a government would actually be no more than a steering committee, but for the authoritarian behaviour of leaders like the ‘Great Helmsman’ Chairman Mao. In other words, it is not our language subverting our culture, it is our controllers’ behaviour that is subverting our language and trying to wrench it out of our hands. I’m afraid Maxwell and Passio are falling into this trap. Similarly, the suffix –ment (Latin –mentum, which is neuter in gender) has nothing to do with mens mentis, a feminine noun meaning mind. It is actually derived from –men, itself derived from the Greek suffix –ma, which is merely a suffix, carrying no more meaning than the English plural –s. You need to understand that parts of a sign system have always served a purely grammatical purpose. For example, Egyptian hieroglyphs use a box called a cartouche to tell you that it contains someone’s name. So in actual fact, to claim that government is not simply steerage but mind control is in itself a subliminal form of mind control – reverse engineering language to match the current reality. True government is steering a course and we are getting back to that.

On the issue of gender, which is an issue that we can all individually do something about, I accept that I for one am not being careful enough. I will try to do better. On the more general point, I would agree with you that language is phallocentric, but again, is it a control mechanism to establish a patriarchal society or is it simply a reflection of that society? It seems like a bit of both. If the womenfolk are nowhere to be seen, then largely masculine vocabulary will be used to describe the largely masculine situation. But nowadays, we wouldn’t say that more careful language has led to greater freedom for women, it is the other way round. What happened was that women’s liberation came first, notably by males shooting themselves in the foot by going to war, thereby opening up a host of new jobs to the ladies, and eventually enabling them to fashion how we speak to adjust to this new situation. The term ‘gender’ has replaced the term ‘sex’, not just because of the overexposure of sexuality, but because grammatical gender has a third, neuter or neutral term that can be useful in referring to people of either sex. However, the fact that the concrete solutions will inevitably vary from language to language suggests that no one is in control and that we are free to mould our speech to adapt it to our thoughts.

In English for example, the tendency is to gravitate towards the neutral. Instead of having chairmen and where appropriate chairwomen, we have chairs, which is not particularly flattering for anyone. It is politically incorrect to talk about actresses: they are now actors. So, I suppose if you want to say ‘as the actress said to the bishop’, you now say ‘as the actor said to the bishop’. No comment. German, which has a neuter gender, presumably operates differently. French, which has a very pronounced masculine/feminine divide, certainly does. The sentence ‘cette femme est toute fière d’être française’ tells us five times over that we are referring to a female. So, not only do we still have actresses, but many masculine words now have feminine forms: le maire (mayor) > la maire, le professeur (teacher) > la professeure, l’auteur (author) > l’auteure etc etc. Such usage has come from the grassroots and of course is, or was, frowned upon by the reactionary chauvinist French Academy, which thinks it’s in control, but actually controls nothing.

This is all relevant to transsexual issues. One may understandably be unsure whether subtler gender distinctions in people are being allowed to express themselves better now, or whether sometimes it is not the reverse: confusing language leading to confused identities. And you can now formulate statements with multiple novel ambiguities. ‘The actress became a bishop’ (sex change or female bishop?), or more politically correctly, ‘The actor became a bishop’ (man or woman? man then woman? woman then man?). Fortunately, these days even a man can get his knickers in a twist without cross-dressing .

So Sam’s basic message is correct that we can and must be more thoughtful and careful in our use of language. We also need to take it back by being more creative and poetic; which is what we are trying to do here, both by seeing things differently and by talking things into change.

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)
I’ve mentioned this before, but we have two antecedents for Sheldrake’s work in Mark Twain’s Mental Telegraphy http://www.twainquotes.com/Mental_telegraphy.html and Paul Auster’s The Red Notebook http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463.The_Red_Notebook

Samwise, your thoughts on language are very welcome. You basically present two insights into language, not one, and as a language specialist myself, I would comment differently on each. While broadly in agreement with the second, I have to disagree with your first point, but I think you will find my disagreement highly empowering. I think one needs to beware of the Jordan Maxwell brand of popular etymology. He means well, but he simply does not understand how languages evolve. The Tower of Babel was perhaps a controlled demolition of communications, but there is nothing contrived about the outcome of a demolition. A demolition is by definition the passage from the orderly state of metal beams, concrete slabs etc. to a cloud of rubble. What happens to the rubble is uncontrolled and depends on outside circumstances. Some may fall over water and get wet; some may rise up in the wind and be scattered over a long distance, while the rest lands in a hopelessly disordered heap on the spot, where if left alone, it might evolve into a semi-natural pyramid.

Take Latin, spoken across the Roman Empire. As the empire crumbled, it evolved differently in various places that were no longer in communication – into French, Spanish and Italian. Far from being contrived, these languages evolved as the people spoke them, while the PTB continued to operate in Latin. You find large numbers of popular terms gradually becoming more acceptable; this is language rising from the grassroots. Let me give you an example. The French word tête meaning head has replaced the word chef (which is all we have left from the Latin caput). It comes from the Latin testa meaning shell and hence skull; imagine the informal word ‘nut’ gradually becoming the accepted English word for the head. Le chef is the chief or the boss, so we see both how popular language takes over, and how abstract ideas are conveyed by outmoded concrete terminology. Now take the word gouvernail, which has nothing to do with government (gouvernement): it simply means a rudder; so, etymologically speaking, a government would actually be no more than a steering committee, but for the authoritarian behaviour of leaders like the ‘Great Helmsman’ Chairman Mao. In other words, it is not our language subverting our culture, it is our controllers’ behaviour that is subverting our language and trying to wrench it out of our hands. I’m afraid Maxwell and Passio are falling into this trap. Similarly, the suffix –ment (Latin –mentum, which is neuter in gender) has nothing to do with mens mentis, a feminine noun meaning mind. It is actually derived from –men, itself derived from the Greek suffix –ma, which is merely a suffix, carrying no more meaning than the English plural –s. You need to understand that parts of a sign system have always served a purely grammatical purpose. For example, Egyptian hieroglyphs use a box called a cartouche to tell you that it contains someone’s name. So in actual fact, to claim that government is not simply steerage but mind control is in itself a subliminal form of mind control – reverse engineering language to match the current reality. True government is steering a course and we are getting back to that.
snip....

Great post, araucaria, and certainly managed to kickstart my brain this morning. Not a moment too soon.
So what about someone like me, who had to learn other languages while moving from one country to another, but never quite well enough to blend in with the grassroots crowd in these countries. I love the fact that there is a version the elite use to keep people on one page.
And as you said, it is the grassroots people who create these endless alterations and new forms of self expression. Why is this? Is all of this variation then stemming from an urge to distinguish themselves from the next man/woman, when in fact language was really meant as a bridge, initially? Ok, language is used for baby talk, for intimacy, to trigger feelings of familiarity. Here in Barbados with is only 20 miles long from north point to south point, the people up north have a different accent from the people in the south.

My own natural lingo has become something hardly anyone understands. I think in astrological terms. So, I had Mercury transiting over my natal Saturn recently. Sharing this info with anyone who is not an astrologer is totally pointless. Yet, for astrologers who are collecting data about Saturn this can trigger a stimulating conversation, as they might be curious as to how that transit manifested in real life events.
Meanwhile I'm looking forward to a world where the gender issue no longer exists,
despite the fact that language continues to use male and female and neutral terms.

But even in my ideal world there would still be some clashes,
as I can't see astronomers ever coming around to accepting astrology,
nor would I want to do away with their telescopes.

[araucaria]

Talking of Mark Twain and language and gender issues, here is his ‘Extracts from Adam’s Diary’ (you have to read it through to the end).
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-st...ExtrAdam.shtml

And here is Eve’s diary:
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-st...EvesDiar.shtml

If you think alphabetical order for Adam and Eve is phallocentric, please feel free to reverse it.

[ulli]

This was meant for another thread...
but maybe it's useful here as well...

There are no accidents.

"Me too. Crying is healing."

[meeradas]

For a couple of reasons, here's zhe new Keiser Report:

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

[ulli]

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)

Robert Sheckely's take on that one:
Mindswap

[eaglespirit]

Good Morning : )
Well, I swear from the highest good that I am the luckiest man on the planet...and I am not sharing this openly to brag or promote any form of jealousy but simply because I have to let it be known. The last 7 years of my life have been intensely gratifying and uplifting in the most intense and grateful of ways.
From losing my Son and Mom in the summer of 2003 and the events to follow on my journey and the gift of seeing the other world that is right in front of us in early 2007 on that Nipmuc Hill right next to my hometown that was such a sacred and special place to them. I was given an endearing gift of recourse from my remorse that was and still is beyond my imaginings of any kind that it could happen here on earth...from connecting with my Son's Spirit and the Natve American world(other) of wonder.
That world of wonder that is hidden right in front of us is unfolding in all of its higher beauty now. All we have to do is make some very quiet times for ourselves in our favorite places in nature and consciously increase the awareness of it from our hearts...and help one another any way we may in the now in front of us. I was graciously given an early showing, thats all...it is coming now for all of us. I have been getting feelings of its presence and strong happenings of synchronicity that are showing things are about to shift to that higher road the Native Americans have always talked about and most all have lived.
Between my seizures and accidents of late last year and early this year and my utter shock at still being here on Mother Earth and my rapid recovery is testimony enough in and of itself. But from the new connections I have been making with loving people and sharing my story and they sharing theirs and we being on a similar path and us having to bring it out in the open has been the current key to bring it all to more life. It is time to bring these things out, it is time to commend one another and fully step up and into what and who we are. There is not a thing to worry about as far as being curtailed by the system(lower road) we have been coerced to follow. As long as we are operating in the higher road way of unconditional love there is not a thing that can slow us down...I and many others have been shown this in real time and in real life and all we have to do is share and help and simply do it more and more one by one together.
I Love All of You!

[1inMany]

Thought I would try this, I used to enjoy doing this. Haven't figured out how to do it on this tablet yet. Here goes.



Apparently I still can't figure it out. I see the image, but oddly it is not the one I chose. sigh

Well, maybe there's a reason this is the one that shows.

Thank you, Oh Holy Cow

[1inMany]

As I reflect on that particular message, I am smacked with "God's Grace"...oh boy :/

Here and Now, there are concepts that I am having trouble with. You guessed it, God...God's Grace...repeatedly it has come up in recent weeks. Months, more accurately. Sheesh.

I am told that god, or Universe, whatever word one is comfortable with in communicating this concept, is benevolent. That there is a benevolent force, omnipresent. A working force for the Higher good. Of All, likely. Huh. Well, maybe, I guess.

M, being so darned perceptive, asked what was bothering me the other day. Also being as persistent as she is, I could not escape answering her. So I gave her a very benign answer. That my life was not supposed to end up like this. In all her wisdom, which is ever surprising and surpasses her 18 years, she offered that perhaps my life up until this point was not what it was supposed to be, and the recent detachments and changes and upheavals were to set it right. Huh.

As I sit with things, and try to move myself to meditate again, I send Much Love.