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    Happy birthday Ulli and long life with lots of joy

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    OMG, I just came out of the shower and found all these greetings.
    You are all too, too sweet!!
    No matter what they say about attention grabbing...
    when it is offered it does make one feel good.
    Must be the ol' ego.

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    Another year older today. Thought I'd adjust my hair as well as my avatar.
    Happy Birthday, Ulli!
    Love your new do. Fresh. Good style for the shape of your face.


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    Happy Birthday Ulli!




    I hope all of your Birthday dreams and wishes come true!
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    So far no one else has brought up this angle around here. But I'm also interested in the overall dynamics of the agenda being played out here...the West with its partially permissive society versus Islam with it's partially fiercely defended traditions.
    Freedom of expression taken to extremes is another form of extremism. The alternative is not between saying your piece and holding your peace. Silence does not automatically mean consent and speaking out does not necessarily mean dissent. On the contrary, silence is a good way of withholding agreement without breeding conflict, and quietly voicing one’s thoughts is a good way of building agreement instead of breeding conflict.

    What is needed is a non-rhetorical use of communication. Cartoons are non-rhetorical when they raise a laugh. Political cartoons are highly rhetorical when they make a point, as they have to do. Cabu explains in an interview that a picture has none of the refinement of a thousand words: a cartoon has the two seconds it takes to read the caption in which to state its case; it goes off like a bomb. In other words, it is ultimately totally unsubtle and insensitive; probably not the way to go, or at least the pitfalls are understandable.

    Freedom of expression is a valid principle in excluding any external restraint on what one might say. Another valid principle for living together in harmony calls for self-imposed restraint against saying things that might prove hurtful for whatever reason however irrational. We all have buttons that we don’t like people pressing, and so we refrain from pressing theirs. My wife is scared of mice, so I avoid triggering that phobia. It has something to do with the need to feel important, more important. As the saying goes, it is nice to be important, but most of all it is important to be nice.

    ‘Nice’ is a word that has been totally diluted of any significant content, hence it is the first word you are taught to avoid when seeking a decent writing style. To me, being nice means a combination of all the nobler things denoted by its more powerful synonyms, making it the most powerful word in the language. It does not mean however sweeping one’s darker side under the carpet.

    ‘Partial permissiveness’ is a useful notion here. A good while back I made several posts on the Puritan-Catholic wars of Elizabethan England as played out in the works of Shakespeare. Briefly restated, the Puritanical view is unable to reconcile the various aspects of the (divine) feminine, the pure mother and wife with the whore, the impure sexual being. Hence the rape of Lucretia or the murder of Desdemona, to name two straightforward examples.

    Apparently this is still unfinished business. In the 17th century you had the civil war leading to the Puritans overthrowing the Catholic king Charles I, followed by the restoration of his son Charles II. As I recall, the founding fathers of America were a Puritanical exodus out of that mess. The US is to this day a hugely puritanical country, with the one radical exception of California, a state that couldn’t be pushed any further west. As I pointed out in the other thread, the Charlie Hebdo culture is also a pure product of the rebellious sixties closer to California than to the east coast or midwest.

    For the Puritanical culture this repressed feminine has always been the enemy. They said on Wednesday that they were killing no women (a lie). I showed on Monday how there was no paradox in filling huge men-only graveyards by repressing one’s own feminine side. The gulf between the clean, upright aura of respectability and the hidden dark side has reached an extreme with the utter depravity of the sexual goings-on now coming to light; compared with that, the rape of Lucretia is on a level with the crime of a TV personality. Islamist fundamentalists are naturally in danger of being sucked in through that part of the agenda to the extent that their attitude to women fits in with it.

    But we are all in danger of getting sucked in one way or another, including even the mildest ‘everyone-does-it’ forms of corruption. This is when we finally get past the ‘what can we do about the evil cabal agenda?’ to getting our own houses in order, which is the answer to that question. The next thing to understand is that you become squeaky clean not because you have to, but because you understand enough to want to.

    So, contrary to what many are thinking, this week was not another 911. America sees things in terms of wealth, and with all due respect 911 was like having a pickpocket steal its wallet, resulting in a chase to catch the thief. The French version is more to do with an insult to our intelligence: this attack says, You people think you’re clever, but actually you’re pretty dumb. I think that this criticism is valid in proportion as the method of formulating it was vile. The world has traditionally looked to France as one source of intelligent thinking, but she has been falling dismally short of that expectation for quite some time now. This intellectual bankruptcy is what now needs to be put right on a global scale. Understanding, like charity, begins at home: we have been dumb, but we’re going to be smarter, all of us.

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    Happy Birthday Ulli!
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    Quote Posted by araucaria (here)
    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    So far no one else has brought up this angle around here. But I'm also interested in the overall dynamics of the agenda being played out here...the West with its partially permissive society versus Islam with it's partially fiercely defended traditions.
    Freedom of expression taken to extremes is another form of extremism. The alternative is not between saying your piece and holding your peace. Silence does not automatically mean consent and speaking out does not necessarily mean dissent. On the contrary, silence is a good way of withholding agreement without breeding conflict, and quietly voicing one’s thoughts is a good way of building agreement instead of breeding conflict.

    What is needed is a non-rhetorical use of communication. Cartoons are non-rhetorical when they raise a laugh. Political cartoons are highly rhetorical when they make a point, as they have to do. Cabu explains in an interview that a picture has none of the refinement of a thousand words: a cartoon has the two seconds it takes to read the caption in which to state its case; it goes off like a bomb. In other words, it is ultimately totally unsubtle and insensitive; probably not the way to go, or at least the pitfalls are understandable.

    Freedom of expression is a valid principle in excluding any external restraint on what one might say. Another valid principle for living together in harmony calls for self-imposed restraint against saying things that might prove hurtful for whatever reason however irrational. We all have buttons that we don’t like people pressing, and so we refrain from pressing theirs. My wife is scared of mice, so I avoid triggering that phobia. It has something to do with the need to feel important, more important. As the saying goes, it is nice to be important, but most of all it is important to be nice.

    ‘Nice’ is a word that has been totally diluted of any significant content, hence it is the first word you are taught to avoid when seeking a decent writing style. To me, being nice means a combination of all the nobler things denoted by its more powerful synonyms, making it the most powerful word in the language. It does not mean however sweeping one’s darker side under the carpet.

    ‘Partial permissiveness’ is a useful notion here. A good while back I made several posts on the Puritan-Catholic wars of Elizabethan England as played out in the works of Shakespeare. Briefly restated, the Puritanical view is unable to reconcile the various aspects of the (divine) feminine, the pure mother and wife with the whore, the impure sexual being. Hence the rape of Lucretia or the murder of Desdemona, to name two straightforward examples.

    Apparently this is still unfinished business. In the 17th century you had the civil war leading to the Puritans overthrowing the Catholic king Charles I, followed by the restoration of his son Charles II. As I recall, the founding fathers of America were a Puritanical exodus out of that mess. The US is to this day a hugely puritanical country, with the one radical exception of California, a state that couldn’t be pushed any further west. As I pointed out in the other thread, the Charlie Hebdo culture is also a pure product of the rebellious sixties closer to California than to the east coast or midwest.

    For the Puritanical culture this repressed feminine has always been the enemy. They said on Wednesday that they were killing no women (a lie). I showed on Monday how there was no paradox in filling huge men-only graveyards by repressing one’s own feminine side. The gulf between the clean, upright aura of respectability and the hidden dark side has reached an extreme with the utter depravity of the sexual goings-on now coming to light; compared with that, the rape of Lucretia is on a level with the crime of a TV personality. Islamist fundamentalists are naturally in danger of being sucked in through that part of the agenda to the extent that their attitude to women fits in with it.

    But we are all in danger of getting sucked in one way or another, including even the mildest ‘everyone-does-it’ forms of corruption. This is when we finally get past the ‘what can we do about the evil cabal agenda?’ to getting our own houses in order, which is the answer to that question. The next thing to understand is that you become squeaky clean not because you have to, but because you understand enough to want to.

    So, contrary to what many are thinking, this week was not another 911. America sees things in terms of wealth, and with all due respect 911 was like having a pickpocket steal its wallet, resulting in a chase to catch the thief. The French version is more to do with an insult to our intelligence: this attack says, You people think you’re clever, but actually you’re pretty dumb. I think that this criticism is valid in proportion as the method of formulating it was vile. The world has traditionally looked to France as one source of intelligent thinking, but she has been falling dismally short of that expectation for quite some time now. This intellectual bankruptcy is what now needs to be put right on a global scale. Understanding, like charity, begins at home: we have been dumb, but we’re going to be smarter, all of us.

    The building of 'range' in the individual. Reach, if that is a more understood word. Stretch, range, reach, volumetric capacity.

    Intelligence relies upon not one set value but range in sum total of capacity.

    It's about strength of cohesion vs range of dilution. The closer to the breaking point the greater the intelligence the greater the capacity, in ultimate outcome.

    Well adjusted does not mean a bump on a rock (if you will) that has experienced nothing, but a bump on a rock (if you will) that has been and existed as all manner of things.

    ....the rape of Lucretia

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg9buWTwCcI
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    Quote Posted by araucaria (here)
    Quote Posted by ulli (here)

    I didn't know that more children are born at full moon.
    Full moon means there is an axis…the energies of the sun come into the earth from one side,
    and the energies of the moon from the opposite.
    So here we come to my favorite personal subject, that astrology is not so much about 12 signs, but about six axis of two signs each:
    signs which either complement one another (provided there is an open attitude and love) or reject one another outright,
    due to the aversion of one's own repressed and unacknowledged tendencies.


    Also, as Carmody has indicated, whatever your birth moon, (Jewish) circumcision is deliberately timed one week later in order, as I recall, to cause most damage.

    Last year, I had ideas of starting a thread on what might be done about the Moon: if it came here under its own steam, there shouldn’t be a problem getting rid of it – beyond putting it in reverse gear out of its parking orbit. That was the feasibility part, but I was also thinking of the desirability aspect. We are told all the good things that the Moon does for us, but is that really the case and shouldn’t we have a referendum on independence?

    I think I’ll rephrase that ….
    Ritual circumcision linked to increased risk of autism in young boys
    Quote Painful experiences in neonates have been shown in animal and human studies to be associated with long-term alterations in pain perception, a characteristic often encountered among children with ASD.

    "Possible mechanisms linking early life pain and stress to an increased risk of neurodevelopmental, behavioural or psychological problems in later life remain incompletely conceptualised," said Professor Frisch. "Given the widespread practice of non-therapeutic circumcision in infancy and childhood around the world, our findings should prompt other researchers to examine the possibility that circumcision trauma in infancy or early childhood might carry an increased risk of serious neurodevelopmental and psychological consequences."


    Quote We are told all the good things that the Moon does for us, but is that really the case and shouldn’t we have a referendum on independence?
    Which of course, is related to the Stockholm syndrome aspect of parasitical encumbrance that has been endured over a relatively significant timeframe. Once the secondary or ancillary structures that surround the unfolding of the event ..emerge..then we get to the feeling of loss and fear of unknowns that can prevent the group and individual 'breaking loose' from the obviously ill and negative 'tradition'. Ie, once out of a falsified jail term/sentence... and set loose in the world, again..free..the rolling of the freedom dice does indeed leave a person or group feeling nervous about futures which are open and uncharted. For some. Others may prefer freedoms, freedoms based on new states of knowing/histories.
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    Quote Posted by araucaria (here)
    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    So far no one else has brought up this angle around here. But I'm also interested in the overall dynamics of the agenda being played out here...the West with its partially permissive society versus Islam with it's partially fiercely defended traditions.
    Freedom of expression taken to extremes is another form of extremism. The alternative is not between saying your piece and holding your peace. Silence does not automatically mean consent and speaking out does not necessarily mean dissent. On the contrary, silence is a good way of withholding agreement without breeding conflict, and quietly voicing one’s thoughts is a good way of building agreement instead of breeding conflict.

    What is needed is a non-rhetorical use of communication. Cartoons are non-rhetorical when they raise a laugh. Political cartoons are highly rhetorical when they make a point, as they have to do. Cabu explains in an interview that a picture has none of the refinement of a thousand words: a cartoon has the two seconds it takes to read the caption in which to state its case; it goes off like a bomb. In other words, it is ultimately totally unsubtle and insensitive; probably not the way to go, or at least the pitfalls are understandable.

    Freedom of expression is a valid principle in excluding any external restraint on what one might say. Another valid principle for living together in harmony calls for self-imposed restraint against saying things that might prove hurtful for whatever reason however irrational. We all have buttons that we don’t like people pressing, and so we refrain from pressing theirs. My wife is scared of mice, so I avoid triggering that phobia. It has something to do with the need to feel important, more important. As the saying goes, it is nice to be important, but most of all it is important to be nice.

    ‘Nice’ is a word that has been totally diluted of any significant content, hence it is the first word you are taught to avoid when seeking a decent writing style. To me, being nice means a combination of all the nobler things denoted by its more powerful synonyms, making it the most powerful word in the language. It does not mean however sweeping one’s darker side under the carpet.

    ‘Partial permissiveness’ is a useful notion here. A good while back I made several posts on the Puritan-Catholic wars of Elizabethan England as played out in the works of Shakespeare. Briefly restated, the Puritanical view is unable to reconcile the various aspects of the (divine) feminine, the pure mother and wife with the whore, the impure sexual being. Hence the rape of Lucretia or the murder of Desdemona, to name two straightforward examples.

    Apparently this is still unfinished business. In the 17th century you had the civil war leading to the Puritans overthrowing the Catholic king Charles I, followed by the restoration of his son Charles II. As I recall, the founding fathers of America were a Puritanical exodus out of that mess. The US is to this day a hugely puritanical country, with the one radical exception of California, a state that couldn’t be pushed any further west. As I pointed out in the other thread, the Charlie Hebdo culture is also a pure product of the rebellious sixties closer to California than to the east coast or midwest.

    For the Puritanical culture this repressed feminine has always been the enemy. They said on Wednesday that they were killing no women (a lie). I showed on Monday how there was no paradox in filling huge men-only graveyards by repressing one’s own feminine side. The gulf between the clean, upright aura of respectability and the hidden dark side has reached an extreme with the utter depravity of the sexual goings-on now coming to light; compared with that, the rape of Lucretia is on a level with the crime of a TV personality. Islamist fundamentalists are naturally in danger of being sucked in through that part of the agenda to the extent that their attitude to women fits in with it.

    But we are all in danger of getting sucked in one way or another, including even the mildest ‘everyone-does-it’ forms of corruption. This is when we finally get past the ‘what can we do about the evil cabal agenda?’ to getting our own houses in order, which is the answer to that question. The next thing to understand is that you become squeaky clean not because you have to, but because you understand enough to want to.

    So, contrary to what many are thinking, this week was not another 911. America sees things in terms of wealth, and with all due respect 911 was like having a pickpocket steal its wallet, resulting in a chase to catch the thief. The French version is more to do with an insult to our intelligence: this attack says, You people think you’re clever, but actually you’re pretty dumb. I think that this criticism is valid in proportion as the method of formulating it was vile. The world has traditionally looked to France as one source of intelligent thinking, but she has been falling dismally short of that expectation for quite some time now. This intellectual bankruptcy is what now needs to be put right on a global scale. Understanding, like charity, begins at home: we have been dumb, but we’re going to be smarter, all of us.

    Lots of stuff in here to comment on, but will try and restrain myself, as there are other priorities calling for my attention.

    One comment...
    Quote The US is to this day a hugely puritanical country, with the one radical exception of California, a state that couldn’t be pushed any further west.
    while I agree, I would like to add one thought. The ships which brought large crowds of immigrants across the Atlantic not only ferried puritans and other victims of the reformation wars, (i.e.protestants and their bibles) but also large numbers of criminals who were running from the hangman in their home country.
    These two groups formed two distinct camps, both of which thrived, and which led to mega churches as well as organized crime.
    The indigenous, and also imported slaves, as well as migrant workers from south of the border form the lower part of the pyramid thus constructed.
    My question is how the puritans blended with the criminal gang to form today's elite?

    This statement of yours
    Quote But we are all in danger of getting sucked in one way or another, including even the mildest ‘everyone-does-it’ forms of corruption. This is when we finally get past the ‘what can we do about the evil cabal agenda?’ to getting our own houses in order, which is the answer to that question. The next thing to understand is that you become squeaky clean not because you have to, but because you understand enough to want to.
    brought up another thought, namely this:
    the fact that people focus so much on the cabal being evil is a sign that they themselves haven't yet learnt to tame their inner saboteur...
    that part of their own person which undermines all efforts to rise up in that inner pyramid of personal power.
    When that internal personal government is fully established inside a certain percentage of earthlings, then the outer world will follow suit automatically.

    As above, so below.

    P.S. I wasn't intending this last paragraph to be a personal dig at you, araucaria, but more at the alternative community as a whole.
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    WRT Free Speech.....

    To me, continental humor is pretty much of the same flavor though each country does it in their own unique tonal variation of it. French humor seems to venture more into the extreme end of that continuum, the end that a lot of mid-western American’s, for example, would find too raw and taste-less for their own sensitivities; that is with the exception of those who enjoy black humor. Then again, a lot of French humor is rather banal so IMHO, they seem to go from one extreme to the other when it comes to what they consider funny.

    But just like “The Onion” would be on the extreme polar end of American satire, it would still be considered trite compared to the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” which is a far-reaching version of French humor in its rawest form. WRT this current incident, it will be interesting how France is going to approach this over-reaching form of humor that magazine uses without trampling on such notions as ‘freedom of expression’. They certainly DO curtail that already with their banning of the burka but I’ve got a hunch they are not going to see any irony in that one … at all.

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    The building of 'range' in the individual. Reach, if that is a more understood word. Stretch, range, reach, volumetric capacity.

    Intelligence relies upon not one set value but range in sum total of capacity.

    It's about strength of cohesion vs range of dilution. The closer to the breaking point the greater the intelligence the greater the capacity, in ultimate outcome.

    I suppose by "strength of cohesion" you are referring to the ability to connect dots, rather than just piling on of information.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)

    The building of 'range' in the individual. Reach, if that is a more understood word. Stretch, range, reach, volumetric capacity.

    Intelligence relies upon not one set value but range in sum total of capacity.

    It's about strength of cohesion vs range of dilution. The closer to the breaking point the greater the intelligence the greater the capacity, in ultimate outcome.

    I suppose by "strength of cohesion" you are referring to the ability to connect dots, rather than just piling on of information.
    A little further than that.

    ie, that a person who has not gone 'insane' (absolute and total breakdown, no vestige of return left), who has not, at least once wholly broken with reality, to have come to the edge, within their idea of self..the hope of returning to coherence...... that centric and unventured being has no idea of their limits.

    To come so close to that state, that the taste of it is full and all encompassing.

    And then return. Return to this flesh, this vessel, this container, this limited box.

    The idea that truth only comes when all hope is lost, when all flesh driven attempts at cohesion leave the field of existence, that they leave as a form of colorant and driver or filter of human existence.

    Until that moment comes, in some basic and real form, for the individual and humanity in general, until that time..the room and capacity for parasitical encumbrance of the individual and group...will remain.
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    The building of 'range' in the individual. Reach, if that is a more understood word. Stretch, range, reach, volumetric capacity.

    Intelligence relies upon not one set value but range in sum total of capacity.

    It's about strength of cohesion vs range of dilution. The closer to the breaking point the greater the intelligence the greater the capacity, in ultimate outcome.

    I suppose by "strength of cohesion" you are referring to the ability to connect dots, rather than just piling on of information.
    A little further than that.

    ie, that a person who has not gone 'insane' (absolute and total breakdown, no vestige of return left), who has not, at least once wholly broken with reality, to have come to the edge, within their idea of self..the hope of returning to coherence...... has no idea of their limits.

    To come so close to that state, that the taste of it is full and all encompassing.

    And then return. Return to this flesh, this vessel, this container, this limited box.

    The idea that truth only comes when all hope is lost, when all flesh driven attempts at cohesion leave the field of existence, that they leave as a form of colorant and driver or filter of human existence.
    In other words, living on the edge, dying multiple times every day...hmm...tell me about it...
    Story of my life. As I get older I tend to avoid this more and more, unfortunately.

    But then just looking ahead and facing the next planetary transit, as I'm doing right now,
    (Neptune opposite natal Saturn, Uranus square Jupiter) takes care of enough internal challenges...

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    Of course, the clarity comes in the still and quiet, the moments and times of recovery, the place where the contemplation can take place. Where the experiences are extrapolated into new growth.

    the body can only handle so much, so to nurse or husband the episodes and times of stress.

    Thus... the cyclic nature of astrology, and it's manifold directions and potentials in outcomes.

    You know my chart. I be surfin' big waves.



    The other day I read something that made me feel a bit guilty. That I was not there, to help, and hoped that some other had the strength to help in such a dire situation. not just strength, per se, but also experience. To have experienced enough things, and to have the cohesion required to flow through the depth of intensity in polarities of the moment, for it would be required in such a scenario. I mentioned that i had done so before and of course, most, with limited experience, would dismiss such a statement as an outright falsification and self delusion. that such a horror could exist for an individual ...and to add in the OBE astral aspects of such involvement. to live in that state of horror, and then enter the situation wholly, to assist in the creation of calm, for the clean exit in 'right states'... so that given being whom is lost in the moment, lost into lower realms, so that outcome....simply does not happen. I offer, for the record... that the physicality of this premise point, as a reality, really does happen.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...police-college

    Quote “The situation is catastrophic. We arrived to find bodies piled on top of each other,” a paramedic at the scene told Reuters as ambulances took casualties away.

    “We found the top part of one person yelling, while his bottom half was completely severed.”
    To circle back to my point, the body, the vessel... can only handle so much, and the extremes must be put away (at least for a time) so the information can be processed. The cyclic and manifold (multifaceted) nature of astrology, as the record of imprint of temporal and existential flow in this 3d time/quantum based realm.

    Can't save them all, nor should anyone try (but the attempt is educational)....but some can be helped. The capacity to be free to roll the dice, means that potential for failure must also be 'real'.
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    Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
    Of course, the clarity comes in the still and quiet, the moments and times of recovery, the place where the contemplation can take place. Where the experiences are extrapolated into new growth.

    the body can only handle so much, so to nurse or husband the episodes and times of stress.

    Thus... the cyclic nature of astrology, and it's manifold directions and potentials in outcomes.

    You know my chart. I be surfin' big waves.

    Mine is nothing like yours, yet intense enough (sharp right angles, and also trines) to also prompt me to seek answers to the apparent absurdities in my life.
    Hence, like you I discovered astrology, and there they were....the most incredible set of answers and explanations I could ever have dreamt of.

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    Like this post from Ulli.
    Thanks.

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post895707

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    Over thirty years ago I had two major hallucinations, one of which involved a tarantula and the other was about a massive react angular stone, black, the identical one which appeared in the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey.
    I remember both incidences clearly. I had just fallen asleep, and forgotten to turn off the bedside light.
    Suddenly I woke up, in time to see a massive spider run along to top of our curtain rail. Needless to say, such spiders didn't exist in Central London apartments. I knew it was a vision, or hallucination, although seemed real. While still contemplating the event my then husband woke up, with a scream of terror, sitting bolt upright in bed. And said "OMG, did you see that huge spider?" So that made me wonder about where this vision originated from.

    Around that same time, another night, I had gone to comfort my newborn baby in the room next door, and fallen asleep on his bed. When suddenly I woke up with another hallucination, of this huge metallic looking highly polished stone, sitting on the window sill.
    I knew about how brain waves, when in alpha, could perceive other-dimensional stuff between sleeping and waking. Later that day, at breakfast, my son's nanny who was living with us, and her room was near the entrance of the apartment, told us how she had had a weird vision that night, of some kind of a poltergeist breaking down the front door and with a lot of noise heading down to where our bedrooms were. When we checked the hours of our strange experiences they were the same.

    Later when my astrology teacher called me about something she said she noticed that my telephone was being tapped. She told me that the (British) government had a multi-story building with at least 200 people working day and night, doing surveillance by tapping personal phone lines, and that astrologers were high on their list. She also thought that my new interest in astrology would have aroused their interest. I'm now wondering if all those events were connected, as they tie in with what you have been sharing here.
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    The flow of conversion here and now, is important for me,
    Carmody and Ulli...gracious gratitude : )

    As my ebbs(discerning it) and flows(touching it) have been intense,
    and I had to slow down the sharing,
    as it was scaring, some others.

    All is well as the well fills for us to gather on yet higher ground.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Another year older today. Thought I'd adjust my hair as well as my avatar.
    We are one !

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