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The Mystical Underground: PMH Atwater: The Forever Angels
A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “PMH Atwater: The Forever Angels”:
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P. M. H. Atwater, one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies. She began her work in 1978 after experiencing three near-death experiences herself. She has written eighteen books on the subject.
“Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of the Story” wraps up her early work with nearly 5,000 adult and child experiencers of near-death states, while further exploring her theory about transformations of consciousness.
Her book called “The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences,” was featured in an online version of Newsweek Magazine; and “The New Children and Near-States” along with “The Forever Angels: Near-Death Experiences in Childhood and Their Lifelong Impact,” which we will focus on today== offers a new perspective child experiencers.
PMH has received numerous awards and honors for her work. In 2010, she was awarded the Nancy E. Bush Award for Literary Excellence and the Lifetime Achievement and Special Services Award, both from the International Association For Near-Death Studies.
She became a researcher in the field of near-death studies after hearing a powerful voice urge her on during her third NDE. She has a monthly newsletter that you can sign up for free.
van Gogh Immersion Exhibit in Miami
This van Gogh exhibit is showing in various places throughout the country. If you get a chance to see it, by all means do so. The videos I took were too long to get on the blog, but these stills give you some sense of the man’s stunning genius.
Everything is moving as you enter – the images on the floor, the walls, in front of you. You’re pretty much walking into van Gogh’s colorful world. He sold only one painting in his lifetime.
On 15 May 1990 The Portrait of Doctor Gachet was sold within three minutes for $82.5 million (U.S.) to Ryoei Saito, Japan’s second-largest paper manufacturer.
Another one from the exhibit:
FB Memory Synchro
Rick is in the red-shirt to my right.
If you’re on Facebook, you probably know about the memory pics that appear on your home page. You can either ignore them or share. They typically are from that date from another year.
They seem to pop up about once week. Very common occurrence on FB, in other words. But not always commonplace experience for the receiver.
Take the photo above from July 19, 2015 that was sent to me as a memory on July 19, six years later. For me, it was remarkable, because just before going to my FB page to look up something and seeing that memory pic, I had been talking with a friend, Bruce, on Messenger – the second guy from the left in the photo above. He’s from the neighborhood where I grew up, was in my kindergarten class and was a roommate for awhile during my college years. We’ve kept in touch.
Bruce had sent me a series of pics on Messenger from the memorial for our mutual old friend, Rick. He’s the guy in the red t-shirt. That was the last time I saw him. I couldn’t attend the memorial, which was 2,000 miles away, but it was as if Rick was sending a hello from the other side with the pic above showing up as a FB memory.
The Mystical Underground: Juliet Trail: Compassion Revolution
A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Juliet Trail: Compassion Revolution”:
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Juliet Trail is the Managing Director of The Coincidence Project, which is dedicated to advancing the use and understanding of coincidence, synchronicity, serendipity, and Simulpathity. Juliet is also the founder and director of Courageous Compassion Connection, an initiative dedicated to bringing contemplative practices and approaches to diverse groups and individuals in the service of resilience, wholeness, healing, and compassion for all beings.
She has 19 years of experience in leadership, organizational development, and contemplative education in higher education at the University of Virginia and New Mexico State University. Her Ph.D. from UVA focused on Network Enablers: empowering individuals who enable the success of others across their professional roles and networks. She is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion teacher and is also a poet and singer who explores the intersections of creativity and contemplation in her two bands, Unheard Sirens Inc. and Phoenix Noir.
FLORIDA’S STATS
I’ve been following Florida’s stats on Covid cases since the beginning of the pandemic. IO use Worldometer. Today, July 28, 2021, the count was 17, 589 new cases, with 56 deaths for the state, 398 deaths for the country, and that’s without all states reporting.
When I cite this statistic to friends who think the pandemic is overblown they shrug and usually reply, “Well, not as many people are dying.” As though that justifies – well, something.
And that’s true. With 49 percent of the country vaccinated, there aren’t as many deaths now. But even one death is tragic. Every number represents a family impacted by the person’s death. And just because the numbers of death has gone down, case numbers are rising daily. On July 28, the total number of new cases in the U.S. was 92,485.
I’ve been vaccinated and still were a mask when I’m indoors. At the gym, though, I remove my mask if the place isn’t crowded and I’m not close to anyone else on a machine. But everywhere else, mask on. If it’s true that the vaccinated can still transmit the virus to the unvaccinated, then it would be selfish of me to NOT were a mask.
But this is Florida, where our idiotic governor has declared no masks mandates, and vowed the state will never shut down again. He even sued the CDC about their mandates concerning cruise ships. Many of them leave from Florida ports and want to be able to implement protocols about who is vaccinated – and who isn’t.
DeSantis is a mini trump married to an ex-Fox News host, and doesn’t have a clue about governing anything. He acts like some delusional Ayn Rand character who believes that true capitalism is screwing your competition – in the case of DeSantis, the “competition” is the people of Florida.
The only person on his cabinet who speaks the truth about anything is Dem Nicki Fried, a lawyer and the 12th Florida commissioner of agriculture since 2019. She points out that DeSantis instructed the Florida Department of Health to stop providing daily numbers on anything related to Covid. Now, with the number of cases rising along with positivity rates – (17%) – her department will now be collecting daily figures from the CDC and posting them to the public.
I noticed that the dailies started up about a week ago.
If you know family or friends who haven’t been vaccinated, do what you can to change their minds. Don’t get annoyed or angry, as I often do. Don’t make it emotional. Give them facts. CDC statistics. Be left-brained. We had two Pfizers back in March. We haven’t grown extra heads or limbs. If Bill Gates is on a chip somewhere in those vaccines, then I feel bad for him if he’s watching us. Not much happening here Bill. No inventions you can buy. I haven’t gotten sick.
Mask up and get vaccinated. Otherwise, we’ll still be having these conversations into 2023.
The 3 Aliens
In October 2001, Nancy Pickard and I attended an Eric Pearl workshop in Alabama. Pearl wrote The Reconnection, about how he’d discovered that his chiropractic treatments of patients was resulting in spontaneous healings of other ailments. His discovery eventually led to the development of a healing technique he began teaching to the public. It involved complicated hand movements over and around a person’s body and energy field without touching the physical body.
It was held in an auditorium where medical tables were set up. Several hundred people attended. During the first day of the workshop, Pearl demonstrated various hand movements, then asked people to pair up with a stranger. “One of you will stretch out on the table,” Pearl instructed. “And the other will perform these hand movements.” And he demonstrated the movements.
I paired up with a woman nearby, a total stranger, and got on the table first. As she worked on me, I felt waves sweeping over me, then light shot out of my skull and penetrated the ceiling of the room. At the top of this column of light were three aliens – not hostile, just very curious about what was going on. They seemed to be talking among themselves about what they were seeing.
They resembled the aliens on the cover of our book, Aliens in the Backyard, which was published in 2013, a dozen years later.
These three aliens appeared three years later during Hurricane Frances, which battered South Florida for hours. We had boarded up the house, had our supplies and a cooler ready in case the power went off, had gassed up our cars, and brought in the animals – a dog, cats, a bird. It was 2004 and our daughter, Megan, was still in high school.
That night, as Frances raged, Rob, Megan, and the animals slept in our bedroom and I lay there, wide awake, listening to the howling wind. Exhausted, unable to fall asleep, I worried that the storm would rip off the skylight panels that I could hear vibrating madly in the wind. I worried that the front door might be ripped off, that the water accumulating in the street in front of our house would keep rising and eventually reach the front door.
I finally shut my eyes briefly and suddenly, the top of my skull felt like it blew off and the column of light shot out of it and pierced the bedroom ceiling. At the top of this light column were the same three aliens, peering down, watching. Oddly, I found comfort in their presence and instantly fell asleep. When I woke up four hours later, the storm had moved on. The sun shone. The house was intact.
I haven’t seen those three aliens since.
Past Lives of Animals
In March 2019, our beloved Golden Retriever, Noah, passed away from cancer of the spleen. I wrote about it here. Not long afterward, I had a reading with animal communicator Heather Bristol and a year later, after we’d started our podcast, she was a guest on The Mystical Underground.
During that reading with Heather, she mentioned that Noah had been with us before – as a squirrel in our backyard and as one of our cats. The inter-species reincarnation is a detail some animal communicators don’t believe in and I loved the fact that Heather did. After all, why not? She believes that human and animal souls can choose whatever physical form they want. And Noah as a squirrel made a kind of intuitive sense. His greatest passions were chasing Frisbees – and squirrels.
Whenever he spotted a squirrel scrambling up a tree or along the fence, his barking was the clarion call to every other dog in the park to join him in the chase. None of them ever caught a squirrel and the squirrels made fun of them, scampering higher into the branches where even a dog with wings couldn’t catch them.
So yes. Yes, I could imagine Noah as a squirrel in our backyard.
Noah as one of the many cats we’ve had over the years? Sure.
When I asked if Noah would return to us at some point, Heather said he would.But maybe not as a dog.
I’m vigilant. And waiting. So are Nigel and Nika.
August Star Power
If you prefer the written forecast, it’s in the masthead. Enjoy!