Here and Now...What's Happening?

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Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
"The Seal of the Saints-Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn Arabi" is the book I referred to on the previous page. Its been six or seven years, so I will read it again before passing it to 1, and after she gets done I will mail it to Playdo if he hasn't read it. Very important to our class of Wizardry, IMO. It might have been given to me by the Baptist, but I honestly don't recall, it may have been another aquisition by my "Zen method of book selection" whereby I stand in front of a large shelf of books and let my eyes go out of focus and wait until I see a flash of light, and pick out the book behind it.


I generally avoid the topics of Archons and the Matrix movies. I have a contrary view to what most people would hold, hereabouts. Most look at these subjects and see vital information for understanding the reality we live in, for me the opposite is true. All are MEMEs that hold us in the prison, that formed the very bars of it. Nowhere are there powers we are subject to except for those of our own making, which we have forgotten. It is so easy to see the Matrix, but how hard is it to see that it is simply the mental realm and entirely our own creation for entertaining the concepts in the God-forsaken movie to start with? What are Archons as a popular meme except for thought forms we devised ourself and lost power over the instant we ascribed them to some outside force?

Listen to what Eagle-Dan says about the Solar Christed Self. That is much closer to what is real.

Thanks for the reminder, Lama. I'm battling some of my inner archons right now,
and the meme I have to transform that that 1% versus 99% meme.

Writing this down is my first step towards recovery.
But my nerves are extra frail right now, as there has been a constant noise barrage from a home remodel job next door. The walls of the houses here were made of pure cement to withstand hurricanes, and the new neighbors want to turn all the windows into doors. The banging and hammering and drilling noises have been constant, for weeks now, and I'm thinking of escaping for good, especially as my family relations have taken a turn south after I accidentally let it be known that I considered Jim Humble and his MMS the real deal, due to tons of anecdotal evidence. I'm a nervous wreck.
I could do with a hug...

Big hugs for you then Ulli, and some.

While I agree with PL, I also think things like archons have to be dealt with. When you get a splinter in your finger, that foreign body is not a part of the reality of you, but it will sure give you hell until you deal with it. If you allow skin to grow over it, you will just have to cut into the skin. But when it does suddenly pop out, what relief!

Thanks Purplelama and Ulli, you are both waking me up. Yes, the matrix is our own making, as well as the 99%/1% meme. - i had to check meme to make sure we had the same meaning: cultural item repeatedly transmitted - synonyms: buzzword, trend, concept, craze, fad, fashion, idea, kick, meteor, vogue - although i do not understand what meteor has to do with it lollll. All the above definition being made of air, they are from our own creation literally.

Therefore, the meme 99%/1% is our own too, having a 3D impact into matter. The slave mentality perpetrated again in our own psyche. Up to us to chose.

[donk]

I named the new kitty Blue, a tribute to one of my favorite dogs—owned by a dear friend that I lived with in college. Years later, when I got my first very own dog—she got pissed when I named her Maggie, which was her other dog’s name. We straightened that out though, her baby’s name was really Sugar Magnolia (her other dog, momma, actual full name is Stella Blue), mine was actually Margaret Simpson—cuz she was a little Chiuaha mix that would never get bigger than baby size.

Anyways, my Blue is not a tribute to the Grateful Dead, just Stella that I miss dearly, the fact that he’s kinda bluish (my youngest’s friend said “hey you got a Russian Blue!” and he responded “how did you know his name?”…not realizing there it was the name of a breed—I hadn’t either), this song from one of my all time favorite performers:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BE2eEjTfTeQ

…and a memory I have: of that same friend’s best friend V (who I also was very close with) first time bringing her daughter to our “new” house on campus. It was so sweet when the beautiful two year old grabbed my hand and had me sit on the recliner with her and show me her favorite TV Show “Blue’s Clues” which I had never seen up til then, Stella at our feet, and baby Maggie out back with her 10 siblings. Her mom (my close friend) was trying to be “closer” than friends at that time, and I wonder how the fact I rejected her (cuz she had a kid) played into my decision to NOT reject my current babys’ mama.

That sweet 2 year old is currently a jaded teen considering that same college, Stella and Maggie have moved on from this plane of existence, and me and V have been in and out of (separate) rocky relationships… I realize I have only seen her two times in the past decade, and both times she just happened to be visiting the West Coast when I was…hard to think it was coincidence. …(who am I to tell fate how it’s supposed to go?)

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
I could do with a hug...

Ulli, here's a big one coming your way...

<3

[donk]

So here at work, a lot of the youtube videos won’t play off of the website, in order to view (listen to) them, they must be embedded on the forum. When getting the link for “True Blue”, YT recommended this one I have never heard before…which I am posting with the dual purpose of hearing the song and putting the title’s concept up to the consideration of the Village, it kinda goes with my little story:

A line allows progress, a circle does not…

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=a96uvZXRVsQ

[PurpleLama]

donk, I had a Root Doctor explain to me once, how things like Free Will and Good and Evil don't really exist, how really there is only Fate, and Fate can be manipulated if one knows how.


I will come back along and expand on my previous post re: archons and matrices, as soon as I am able. Workaday world seems extra demanding all of a sudden, imagine that.

[Carmody]

That whole collective ego thing, confronting itself, in all it's little reflected 'individualized' bits. Makes for a tricky bit of mass self-confrontation. Slow going is the minimum to expect, with all the potential error paths being played out.

This could only happen when the collective communication system comes into existence, like we have right now.

[1inMany]

But...thought forms we devised and lost control over, and collective ego...those sound like two different things.

[dan33]

I saw yesterday LUCY.
Intersting movie but a little bit "cold", although has many visual-thoughs. Rise the level, so it's god (instead of the action -commercial-)

Luc Besson (the director) is an excellent "chef". I like his movies. Always leave a mark of their influences. I felt during the movie: "Ghost in the Shell", Kubrick, Tarantino ( a chef who is able to make a dish with all the ingredients and flavors of the world but anyone on the planet will recognice their origin), Takeshi Kitano, Jodorowsky ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MVt32qoyhi0

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xyCwz2EML5Y

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3LNvXjb44-U

[dan33]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DP2AMiI8-WY

Mixed your PurpleLamas video with Carmody's ambient theme. I mean, play at the same time.

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

Thanks a lot PurpleLama and Carmody (the Purple Team)


Resin incense is the source of the smoke emitting from the top. Mostly dragons blood, this time.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U8mJwgPiarg

[dan33]

Posted by dan33 (here)
I saw yesterday LUCY.
Intersting movie but a little bit "cold", although has many visual-thoughs. Rise the level, so it's god

Interesting Mistake.

[Marianne]

Dan33, I rarely get a chance to watch a movie. Someday I'll have to catch up with the classics and blockbusters so I'll know what you all are conversing about!

I do like to listen to music.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=86bO53-gpFs

BIX BEIDERBECKE of Davenport, Iowa - SINGIN' THE BLUES
In HQ

Bix was a talented cornet player from the 1920s.

'the collective communication system' -- is Carmody talking about the internet?

[Roisin]

When someone like Dan Rather goes on CNN to make the following statement, he's definitely putting his life at risk...

Dan Rather Gives Pro-War Pundits A Reality Check

Dan Rather issued a stern warning on Sunday to pundits who have beating the drums for war lately: if you aren't willing to send your kid to war, just stop talking.

Rather appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources," and told host Brian Stelter that it "unsettles" him to hear the growing calls for U.S. intervention around the world. When asked whether the calls for war were getting stronger, he said that they have been more "accentuated" recently, and that he was compelled to speak out as a "citizen."

"My first question to anyone who is on television saying, "We have to get tough, we need to put boots on the ground and we need to go to war in one of these places" is, I will hear you out if you tell me you are prepared to send your son, your daughter, your grandson, your granddaughter to that war of which you are beating the drums," Rather continued. "If you aren't, I have no patience with you, and don't even talk to me."

Unfortunately for Rather, the discussion on the Sunday morning political shows was probably not what he wanted to hear. They were dominated by guests warning that the Islamic State could launch an attack on the United States, and urging the White House to escalate its offensive beyond airstrikes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5710517.html

[Carmody]

(not really a here and now moment ^)

listening to:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VWU6xDjnbWo

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I'm listening right now to a Steppenwolf soundboard from 1972 in Gothenburg Sweden. I think this song, not from that exact show, is relevant to the topic Here and Now. It's never too late to start all over again....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2hU3Sc6p0ms

[skyflower]

Here, listening to Edith Piaf. Had to turn the ac on. It's still hot. Villagers, please send some rain up and down Cali.
Now, feeling relaxed , and GRATEFUL. It's been awhile since I felt gratitude. These past two, three months have been rough on me. With everything going on in Gaza, Ukraine, even here....maybe I picked up on those frequencies? My Workplace has always been "difficult" but I dealt with it. However, lately, i have been having a hard time to keep my cool.

Here and now, maybe I need to see life through rose tinted glasses...if ever so slightly.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kFzViYkZAz4

[Nat_Lee]

Just here and now .....

I'm very tired but cant not go to sleep....
Yeah ! Here in Montréal Canada

In my office at home, just writing and that is about it ....

I'm a sleepy head ....
ok going to ''dodo'' .......ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..............

ciao
Love you all !

[Violet]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Here and now, listening to and watching some things that make me feel really good. Reading things that make me feel really good. Not emotionally good, although certainly my mood is lighter. But soul-good. Familiar.

Experiencing gratitude. Experiencing hope, and a force that makes my energy tingle. Ahhhhh.

Much Love,

Congratulations.

I was up earlier than usual and finally seemed to be freed from that awful designer's block I had been suffering from.
Made three gorgeous necklaces so far today, with oranges, purples and greens.

Eaglespirit
when one works next to the suffering crowd, shoulder to shoulder, and shows some understanding for their plight,
for them that is the best therapy.
And in our poverty-stricken valley in Costa Rica the people are just not used to being shown kindness,
so when they get it their tears start to flow and they grab you and cling like Koala bears.

If I were ever to now start a factory there, these people would offer to work for less than minimum wage which is $2.50 an hour,
just to get the love and understanding and occasional hand-outs.
This is what it has come to.
Stories about the upcoming Costa Rica economy are not to be trusted...
one just needs to look at the rural areas.
Food and gas prices have been rising faster than coffee pickers' wages.

Belgian news yesterday: prices are no longer increasing and the European Central Bank declares this trend a worrisome situation for when prices drop people delay bigger purchases and that in turn negatively affects the economy which in turn affects the consumer back again...

Whatever that means.

[araucaria]

Posted by Violet (here)
Belgian news yesterday: prices are no longer increasing and the European Central Bank declares this trend a worrisome situation for when prices drop people delay bigger purchases and that in turn negatively affects the economy which in turn affects the consumer back again...

Whatever that means.

It means that the monetary rollercoaster has come to an end. Time to get off.

When inflation got out of hand, you spent your wheelbarrowloads of Deutschmarks as quickly as possible before the price went up (every day). When deflation gets out of hand, you hold onto your dwindling cash for as long as possible on the basis that the price will come down. But no one is selling any more unless they really have to. And no one is making things, because they either won’t sell or they may sell at cost price or below, so what’s the point?

[eaglespirit]

...and as to Marianne's bringing back the link of those ELF writings here, Thank You!
I had forgotten just how wonderful and 'to the point' it is : )
...
There is no savior to come, no rescue from the heavens, no outside authority that will liberate our human souls, whether that be through the classical religions, contemporary new age ephemeral distractions, or through today's ever so much more sophisticated, subtle and insidious methods of intellectual distractions as we have witnessed in recent years. We must face ourselves to our root and our core until we are cleansed through such self-knowledge and through self-forgiveness, when, knowing ourselves to be fully empowered, co-creative beings in union with our own spark of Divinity, we reclaim our sovereign authority, shed the skin of the artificially overlaid illusion of our supposed state of separation and fragmentation, and walk fully embodied once again upon this sweet Earth. When such a state is achieved we shall one by one proceed forward to set this Earth free, and once She and We are free, our inheritance shall be the Stars! Self-knowledge is vital in this regard, self-forgiveness indispensable.

http://earthcouncil244.proboards.com...ons-2-lockdown

[araucaria]

Posted by skyflower (here)
Here, listening to Edith Piaf. Had to turn the ac on. It's still hot. Villagers, please send some rain up and down Cali.

Still no rain in California? We know a little about the healing process involved in rainmaking. Here is an earlier post of mine:

Posted by araucaria (here)
The art historian Aby Warburg studied the Hopi Indians’ rainmaking ceremony, which involves large numbers of snakes.

Here the dancers and the live animal form a magical unity, and the surprising thing is that the Indians have found in these dance ceremonies a way of handling the most dangerous of all animals, the rattlesnake, so that it can be tamed without violence, so that the creature will participate willingly—or at least without making use of its aggressive abilities, unless provoked—in ceremonies lasting for days. This would surely lead to catastrophe in the hands of Europeans

Commenting on a drawing made for him by one of the Hopi, he says:

The 4 rings signify that whoever approaches the serpent and does not tell the truth, drops dead before one can count to 4

This would tend to confirm the common sense idea that a preacher who is killed by the snake that he claims is harmless was preaching BS, which is first and foremost fatal to that person. But why anyone would play around with poisonous snakes in the first place? Here is his [Warburg’s] explanation:

For the snake is not only, as Cushing’s Indians would say, the fatal bite in readiness or fulfilment, destroying without mercy; the snake also reveals by its own ability to cast off its slough, slipping, as it were, out of its own mortal remains, how a body can leave its skin and yet continue to live. It can slither into the earth and re-emerge. The return from within the earth, from where the dead rest, along with the capacity for bodily renewal, makes the snake the most natural symbol of immortality and of rebirth from sickness and mortal anguish.

In order to make rain, in California or wherever, we need to learn to tame without violence as an alternative to the prevalent ‘kill-or-be-killed’ mentality. ‘The poisonous reptile’, wrote Aby Warburg, ‘symbolizes the inner and outer demoniac forces that humanity must overcome. […] The American of today is no longer afraid of the rattlesnake. He kills it; in any case, he does not worship it. It now faces extermination’. Warburg saw himself as a kind of lightning rod, not least within his own banker family, and would therefore naturally be drawn to the water-serpent symbolism.