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    Quote Posted by cccme (here)
    Ullie, this was not directed at you or Carter. Some people have to act due to the inequality if they see. But this inequality is systematic. I just can't see how bashing ANYONE is helpful at this time. If your treated unfairly then act on it. Women can be just as mean and dictatorial then men, I have seen it first hand so men do not have the upper hand on manipulative and cunning behavior, both sexes can and do play that game.
    So then it was directed at Flash.
    My impression is that she is tired herself, of having had to battle on her own.
    And maybe she is not whining, but reaching for help, for solutions, for suggestions.
    Don't you remember that she is still looking for a job, and having a hard time finding one?
    I could tell her to get out of scarcity thinking, but I know she is already working on it. I could tell her to be more patient, but I already know her well enough that she is working on that, too.
    So she sounded a bit hopeless.
    I will send her waves of hope and confidence and luck to triumph over all the other applicants.
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    Hi, everyone! I would like to wish everyone around this great planet of ours a great day! May it filled with PEACE and HAPPINESS.

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    Hodgepodge Post-its

    Today, I purchased a bed quilt and living room curtains, sheers and panels that keeps the sun out. If this summer follows the extreme pattern of winter then the panels are a cost saving investment. Feels like a brand new home.

    I took the back roads to get to the store and noted that the road was filled with litter. I was annoyed because people should at least be aware enough not to toss garbage out the window. Who’s going to clean it? Universe manifested (sort of). On my trip back to return items there was a huge street cleaner that looked like a Zamboni with a long line of impatient drivers on this small country. Never saw one before in the twenty plus years I’ve lived here.

    Continuing with hodgepodge…

    I’m noticing that out of the blue I get light headed and catch myself leave the body. Then a slight involuntary jerking movement happens. Reentry like when you go off to sleep.

    I'm seeing beautiful watery-metallic blue flashes and auras pop-up in my face, in my periphery or in trees. Sometimes I catch the same color or purplish aura in my fingers and hands like when I lock my car door or open the sun roof.

    For the last month, my body requires a lot of sleep. Active dreams. A lot of strangers in new surrounding converse with me. As it is the 24 hour day is now more like 12 hours.

    All this certainly keeps things interesting.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    So then it was directed at Flash.
    My impression is that she is tired herself, of having had to battle on her own.
    And maybe she is not whining, but reaching for help, for solutions, for suggestions.
    Don't you remembers that she is still looking for a job, and having a hard time finding one?
    I could tell her to get out of scarcity thinking, but I know she is already working on it. I could tell her to be more patient, but I already know her well enough that she is working on that, too.
    So she sounded a bit hopeless.
    I will send her waves of hope and confidence and luck to triumph over all the other applicants.
    I’d add Flash is in a life transition as well with Mini-Flash not so mini and more. Young woman going off to college. The Mom label has shifted. So has her time and energy in a sense even though you never stop worry about your kids.

    Time’s freed up to hava-a-look at how to change health habits (based on prior concerns and posts). And/or there’s a much needed new sense of purpose. It’s funny how that’s when the old issues tend to rise up.

    Broom-time.

    Then…time for new roads and a redo of labels of “Who am I?" "And what’s next?”

    <3

    PS Sorry for talking behind your back, Flash. I continue to send you high frequencies.
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    Please Running Dear and Ulli, don't excuse me.

    I am just not digesting the moral high ground on high horses that CCME has taken. She does not know me at all, we never even exchanged through writing in some threads, so how, in this world, does she allows herself to judge others and judge where they are at?

    I was mentionning some facts amongst some semi-jokes, making fun as well. Why would it me my mishap or mistake for mentioning what most women on that planet live through, and lots in much worst circumstances than mine?

    I am not backtracking because someone says boo!

    I do not need to be excused/forgiven, she does.

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    Edit: i must add thank you for your concern both of you, Running deer and Ulli.

    Just noticed I mistakenly wrote Running Dear above , well.. I am not changing because I think it anyhow.
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    The Goldens are back. Yes!!!!



    I had an awesome dream last night about two Golden Eagles. They were soaring inward and outward above me interwoven in a beautiful dance. Sparks flying from their shimmering wings. Amazing. Just wow can't believe it.

    Seeing a lot of our winged friends lately, yes even a Golden, a Falcon and the Great Horned Owls.


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    Quote Posted by Truthseeker85 (here)
    Hi, everyone! I would like to wish everyone around this great planet of ours a great day! May it filled with PEACE and HAPPINESS.
    Same to you!! And to the planet.

    I do remember having said something similar in the past: about finding balance between inner masculine-feminine as well as in the outside world. We can't replace one imbalance for another one, which is what will inevitably happen if we passionately jump into change.

    And due credit to the males for helping to make this one of the best forums, if not the best, in the world, to be at as a woman.

    Hodge Podge Lodge



    That was pleasant reading, Paula.

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    Here and now...debating with myself whether to make a post on Gio's Matrix/Terminator origin thread.
    One of those conspiracy stories where the debunkers win, in my view. So it's a bit of a hot potato.
    Nah, better not go there.....

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    Quote Posted by cccme (here)
    I am a women and I have been on this forum for quite some time. I have never had problems posting here even if this is basically a male forum. I just can't get into the male vs female thing anymore, I see we are all people attempting to figure out what the hell is going on here, and this goes beyond gender. The male vs female thing is old paradigm in my opinion and I just will not go there, been their done that let's move on. I see this as a form of whining sorry but I do, let's blame....... and polarize so we can play the victim. The divide and conquer thing just get's a person in a weak position. We all need to see each other as human beings and stop pointing fingers and going past old unfair patterns, I am so over that.
    Let's move on, shall we.
    I didn’t take offense at cccme’s opinions. They’re similar to what I’ve stated. I don’t have a need to comment and get tired of hearing my broken record.
    • I can't get into the male vs female thing anymore
    • we are all people attempting to figure out what the hell is going on here
    • this goes beyond gender
    • The male vs female thing is old paradigm
    • I just will not go there, been their done that let's move on
    • polarize
    • The divide and conquer thing just get's a person in a weak position
    • see each other as human beings
    • stop pointing fingers
    • going past old unfair patterns
    • so over that
    • Let's move on

    Males and females are more alike than different. Often it’s the language that creates hot zones like the words: strengthens and weaknesses. Instead, each of us has areas that we perform more effective in. Thought patterns were intentionally engrained and entrained in us to make certain of the divisions in humanity.

    "Busted, you bastards. I see now. Walking. Walking away now, you bastards."

    As the higher frequencies fill us, our thought patterns clear. The focus of left-right paradigms will naturally be replaced with emphasis on the growth in perceptions, creative ideas, and solutions. Awareness and knowledge will certainly help move it along.

    It’s happening daily in my own life. It’s small to the outside world, but I do and see things in ways that have me say, “How’d I not see that before?” I actually catch myself in the middle of the 'doing'.

    This is beyond intelligence. It’s about being receptive to the higher frequencies. Be open to and ground them within the body-spirit vehicle. Allow the frequency and allow yourself to break down the energetic templates that were designed to keep us in lock-down from natural humanity and intelligence.

    <3
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    Quote Posted by Violet (here)
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    That was pleasant reading, Paula.
    Thanks, Violet. More and more these day, I catch myself saying, "I'm playing house." The same feeling like when I use to pretend 'play house and school' when I was younger. It's still all pretend.

    If I can't have a tree fort then this is pretty close to my place.

    For now, it'll be my new screen saver.
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    Hello karelia. You came into my thoughts yesterday. Thanks for the confirmation.

    I like it when you're around and have missed your presence.


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    Claudia!!!

    Adore you!!!


    Violet, that is the prettiest tiny cabin...

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    A visit from Karelia? Hey, next we'll see is a post!?!?!?
    (ulli, fingers crossed...)

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    I meant to share this...
    I had the most vivid dream last night about meeting Graham Hancock.
    We were on the family farm, and in the dream my Grandfather and father were still alive.

    Hancock was visiting and I had to get everyone their drinks, like juices, water, coffee....
    And I was fascinated and felt honored that such an eminent scholar had dropped by.

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    Blessings to George Ann Hughes who passed away. Love and peace be with you.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Hancock was visiting and I had to get everyone their drinks, like juices, water, coffee....
    And I was fascinated and felt honored that such an eminent scholar had dropped by.
    I've been a fan of Graham's for a couple of years now after I heard and read his theories about the pyramids and the past (advanced) civilizations,
    I really admire his integrity. It's always interesting to follow his journeys in Facebook.

    Just a few days ago I received his book about the flooded kingdoms of the past. I showed it to my mother and to my surprise she started to read it before I had the chance although she never tends to read english books (and that book is really big). When I asked my parents what they thought about those underwater formations, both of them thought that they certainly were not natural. I told them that the last time those ruins were above sea level, was about 12 000 years ago.

    "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there." ~ George Harrison

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    I'm sitting in the middle of an exact cross-section of two major intersecting Ley lines eating corn chips and salsa (an American South Western favorite -staplel) reviewing older PA threads on timelines and the human soul listening to a bit of Velvet Underground Mazzy Star & Pink Floyd (Soulful) and thinking about the "gender issues" that have come up on this thread.

    another Falcon crossed my path today.







    aahh shoot one more.... one of the best ever



    Love

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    So nice to see you back here, Nora. Just as I was wondering what happened to the original crowd of this thread, who understood what we were doing, and why.

    Because I sincerely feel that Marianne's leaving, (caused by someone who had no idea what this forum was about, yet even managed to collect a number of supporters, and even enablers) has hurt this forum as a whole.

    Which is why I am now sharing my thoughts, and my wish that people here reevaluate for themselves the purpose of Bill's vision, (backed up by his team of moderators) and the place this forum occupies in the context of the science/political/mystical world at large.
    Why are we here, now?
    And of course that is the most important question anyone could ask themselves, isn't it?

    And when a person finds the answer then the next realization is that alone one can achieve nothing, no matter how bright one's light.
    There have to be supporters; people in agreement with one's view, or better still, people who have come to the same vision all on their own, and also realized that only as a united group can anything be accomplished.

    Of course here (on this forum) we have quite a few who are still stuck in all sorts of different thinking modes...
    that all is Maya, illusion, hence there is no point even trying. Just let's all sit here and meditate forever, and /or shoot down anyone who believes that this world is anything other than a fleeting soap bubble, about to pop at anytime.

    So here I am, spelling out the obvious again, about the point of it all. And that unless a person can see where Bill is going, don't even bother to gatecrash his Avalon party, and unless someone can see where Wade Frazier is going, don't ruin his choir song with bad notes, and unless you can see where ulli was going with her here and now thread, don't attempt to hijack it.
    And if they do, at least find out for themselves why they believe it was necessary, because if they can explain themselves it means they knew what they were doing, and why, in the largest context they could imagine.

    I am all ears, and looking forward to hear their version.
    Just don't expect to win approval if it doesn't fit in with the overall direction of Avalon.

    P.S. one more clarification. I realize that in the past I posted humor and even frivolous stuff that appeared to be light entertainment. This was designed to infuse lightness into the spirit of the core group, and not to reduce the energy to the level of girlie magazines. I now realize my mistake in this. It sent the wrong signals and thus it backfired, big-time.
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    Thank you Ulli. I have been busy of late, but I have been wanting to comment on the discussion here over the last few days – nothing substantive, but simply to support the importance of its taking place. Your post gives me a handle to latch onto, although this is still going to be a half-baked post..

    I have been held back by the male temptation to respond to attacks on the forum generally, its founder and also a number of prominent members, any collective effort towards a common goal being described as sycophantic. As you point out, the accusation of sycophancy – which we are told can be expressed in such a simple way, believe it or not, as making donations – is an insult to the intelligence of Avalon members and is hardly characteristic of the ‘supporters’ you describe:

    Quote people in agreement with one's view, or better still, people who have come to the same vision all on their own, and also realized that only as a united group can anything be accomplished
    As to the role of this thread in the overall scheme of things, I see it this way. Simple friendly chatting – leading of course into more substantive discussions – is not only the way forward: it is actually the goal too. So we start by doing that – in a sense, all the rest is literature, i.e. a malleable reflection of this one hard reality. I have no particular detailed vision of what a desirable future would be like, but one thing is certain, everyone engaging in friendly exchanges will be an essential ingredient of it. It may then be surprising to some that this modest aim is not to everyone’s liking; it will be less surprising to realize that this divide operates on masculine vs feminine lines. We are talking about an activity that women do best whereas what men often do best can often be disruptive. It is a position of disarming weakness that becomes apparently threatening when it gains strength, notably in numbers. The fact that the recent disruption was caused by a young woman does not invalidate this idea. On the contrary, her behavior may be seen as reflecting a certain inability to integrate the masculine (and equally the feminine) either externally or internally. Meanwhile males here like myself are working to make that happen both for themselves and for others. This is never easy, which is why it is important as a priority to create a conducive environment for this to happen, as Ulli has done. When this has been made to work, then it will be time enough to investigate what is left of bigger picture substance.

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    Default Re: Here and Now...What's Happening?

    Quote Posted by araucaria (here)
    Thank you Ulli. I have been busy of late, but I have been wanting to comment on the discussion here over the last few days – nothing substantive, but simply to support the importance of its taking place. Your post gives me a handle to latch onto, although this is still going to be a half-baked post..

    I have been held back by the male temptation to respond to attacks on the forum generally, its founder and also a number of prominent members, any collective effort towards a common goal being described as sycophantic. As you point out, the accusation of sycophancy – which we are told can be expressed in such a simple way, believe it or not, as making donations – is an insult to the intelligence of Avalon members and is hardly characteristic of the ‘supporters’ you describe:

    Quote people in agreement with one's view, or better still, people who have come to the same vision all on their own, and also realized that only as a united group can anything be accomplished
    As to the role of this thread in the overall scheme of things, I see it this way. Simple friendly chatting – leading of course into more substantive discussions – is not only the way forward: it is actually the goal too. So we start by doing that – in a sense, all the rest is literature, i.e. a malleable reflection of this one hard reality. I have no particular detailed vision of what a desirable future would be like, but one thing is certain, everyone engaging in friendly exchanges will be an essential ingredient of it. It may then be surprising to some that this modest aim is not to everyone’s liking; it will be less surprising to realize that this divide operates on masculine vs feminine lines. We are talking about an activity that women do best whereas what men often do best can often be disruptive. It is a position of disarming weakness that becomes apparently threatening when it gains strength, notably in numbers. The fact that the recent disruption was caused by a young woman does not invalidate this idea. On the contrary, her behavior may be seen as reflecting a certain inability to integrate the masculine (and equally the feminine) either externally or internally. Meanwhile males here like myself are working to make that happen both for themselves and for others. This is never easy, which is why it is important as a priority to create a conducive environment for this to happen, as Ulli has done. When this has been made to work, then it will be time enough to investigate what is left of bigger picture substance.
    Thanks, araucaria.
    What I forgot to mention, and it does need extra emphasis, is that we are talking about several steps here. The simplest way to describe this is
    Step 1--- everyone step into their here and now.
    Step 2---everyone observe this here and now (their personal one) and then fit this into the larger context of how they would like to see their personal as well as collective future Here and Now.

    Yesterday Facebook surprised me by reposting what I had posted exactly one year ago to the day,
    the beginning of our construction of Cabin 1,
    which later had Cabin 2 added,
    and later still the connecting part between the two.
    Later still came our decision to move into those cabins ourselves,
    and give up the thought of renting them out to tenants.
    That plan was replaced by one of creating a botanical garden.

    Our reasoning being that my GP husband would never be at peace after hours,
    as simply living in the proximity of a doctor could actually make some people sick,
    believe it or not, so that they can then make full use of the opportunity of "doctor in the house".
    I learnt the hard way not to fall into that trap again, but many others haven't.
    He would therefore always be on call.

    I'm sharing all this as an example of how this process works;
    of thinking, of planning, of doing, of knowing what one is doing and why.
    There are always two principal contexts, ones own 3D security,
    and the collective society; IOW, one's role in creating a better society for all.

    Mankind was created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization. ~Baha'u'llah

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