The Blanket and the Lama

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Trish and Rob

This story was posted on Debra Page’s mythic musing blog and I liked it so much I asked her if we could repost it. We’ve posted several of her synchros – Reindeer Woman and Laryssa are the ones that come immediately to mind. In this one, something created with love is returned with love several years later. The story comes full circle.
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When I first met Lama Gyatso in his home in Los Angeles April 2004, I knew with complete certainty that my search for an authentic spiritual teacher was over. After taking refuge (vows) from him, I went home an did what every country girl does  when they love someone: I crocheted him a burgundy and cream afghan (blanket).( I knew nothing about Tibetan customs!) Through the years, the afghan would be on his lap while he gave teachings from his seat in the shrine room.

Lama Chodak Gayatso Nubpa left this Earth last fall. Lama told me before he left, “Don’t worry, you will always be in my Mindstream, no matter what.” I believe him.

This year has been very difficult as my illness, CFS/ME, has been wreaking havoc on my body. I have become 90% housebound, and very weak. I was going through a disheartening period this summer. In early August, my friend, artist Teresa Mill called me. She said she knew I was having a hard time with my illness and insomnia during the nights, but that she had something that may help me.

She arrived at my home with a blanket and some photos. She handed me the photos: they were of my beloved Lama on Coronado Beach, here in San Diego! She explained that she had attended a sand mandala ceremony that he had performed at the beach, sometime in the early or mid-1990’s. Teresa and I met in 2002, in the San Diego art scene. After I had connected with Lama Gyatso in 2004, she told me how she had met him at a sand mandala ceremony in San Diego.

What she didn’t tell me was this: during the ceremony on the beach, Lama Gyatso had become cold. She had given him her blanket and he wrapped himself in it. After the ceremony, the blanket was handed back to her. An attendant told her to take care of the blanket, because it was now an artifact holding many blessings.  Teresa kept the blanket, and did not see Lama Gyatso again.

Teresa gave me this very blanket , knowing how much I love my Lama. She wanted this blanket to comfort me.  This is when I told her, “The first thing I did for Lama, after accepting him as my teacher, was hand crochet him a blanket.” We both laughed at the wonder of it: two blankets ,two friends, many years…. and I know I am still in his Mindstream.

Thank you, Teresa, for a beautiful act of compassion and being part of a story filled with blessings.

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9-11 and the 11s

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Yes, it’s 9-11 again and worth mentioning some of the numerous synchronicities related to that fateful date. If I had a chance to interview Khalid Sheik Mohammed , who is supposedly behind the planning of the World Trade Center attack, I would ask whether or not the Sept. 11 date was picked intentionally to coincide with the 911 emergency number. Maybe, maybe not.

Whether or not the date itself was a synchronicity, there were countless synchronicities related to 9-11. We wrote in 7 Secrets about the many dreams and premonitions that were recorded related to the tragedy . The use of 9-11 and the World Trade Center in flames in movies seems shocking now.  For instance, in the 1996 film Independence Day, a scene depicts the president and his family being evacuated in Air Force One. Actor Jeff Goldblum opens his laptop to watch the countdown and the camera cuts to a close up of the clock: 9:11:01.

Then there’s the 11 factor, starting with the Twin Towers, which appeared  as a giant #11 reaching the sky.

– The first plane striking the World Trade Center was Flight #11.

– Flight 11 carried 92 passengers. 9+2=11.

– Flight #77, which also struck the other tower carried 65 passengers. 6+5=11.>>9-11 adds up to 11.

– New York is the 11th state.

– New York City has 11 letters.

– So does Afghanistan.

–  George W Bush also has 11 letters.

– Sept. 11 is the 254th day of the year. Those numbers add up to 11.

– 911 days separated the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and the train bombing in Madrid, which happened on 3-11-2004. Those numbers add up to 11.

These synchronicities and many more have appeared on the internet in various versions over the years, but they remain something to ponder on, especially on 9-11.

Finally, here’s what the skeptics say about all of the above. Writing for Snopes.com, Barbara Mikkelson expresses the philosophy of randomness. “… it is but human nature to search for patterns even where none exist. We attempt to impose a gestalt on randomness because chaos is impossible to comprehend, hence our fascination with recurrent themes. We feel something of great import is going on if a particular number comes up time and again, and we are unsettled by it.”

Ms. Mikkelson goes on to say suggest that such an attitude is nonsense, that everything is random and we don’t want to accept it. It’s basically the atheist creed that there is no greater reality, nothing exists outside of the physical realm. It’s a limiting belief, but one that still prevails in mainstream science. It’s a belief that only the mundane world of cause and effect exists.

However, when we recognize synchronicity, it allows us to move our awareness temporarily to a deeper level beyond the every day world where we appear to be separate entities and everything happens through cause and effect, where we seem surrounded by meaningless chaos. Synchronicity is a connecting point to an underlying reality that transcends cause and effect, even space and time.

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God Speaks to the Holy Cowboy

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Look closely at this man. Imagine him with a .40 caliber pistol strapped to his hip. Then imagine him on a horse, shouting and waving a lit torch as he tears around his Dove World Outreach Center, burning Quarans. That’s his way of commemorating the 9th anniversary of 9-11. But God speaks to him. God is telling him to do this..or not to do this. He and the 50 followers of his church are praying about this, but even the criticism of world leaders, he says, probably won’t deter him.

The fire department in Gainesville, Florida have denied him a permit to burn the Quarans. But Holy Cowboy says his attorneys have told him he can carry on with the burning even if the city denies the  permits. It sounds like the lawyers are talking to God, too.

The synchronicity here bears the dark trickster’s fingerprints. A church that has dove in its name – the universal symbol for peace –  intends to engage in an act that will spark violence. Then again, what were the crusades? How many atrocities have been committed in the name of religion?

Personally, I wish Holy Cowboy and the other idiots like him would just ride off into the sunset and that clouds of dust would swallow them.

Watch Jon Stewart put this guy in his place!

Update. We were going to post this on 9/11, but decided to go a day early because the situation appears to be in flux. The burning has supposedly been cancelled. Or has it? 

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Radio Waves

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

I was supposed to talk about synchronicity yesterday (Thursday) on Dreamland. The show would include me (Rob) and hosts Anne Streiber and Starfire Tor. It was to begin at 4 p.m. At 4:01, I got a call that they were cancelling due to technical glitches. That’s the second time the show has been canceled, later to be re-scheduled. Oh well.

So a few hours later, I went on Facebook and right away noticed Starfire Tor had posted something new. Here’s what she said:  

“I was thinking about synchronicity, which figures into a show I would have recorded today but that’s postponed because of some technical weirdness. Here’s my question for you. What was the last synchronicity that you had? Was it verbal, visual, a time prompt, or something with tech or on the net? Reply back with your sync. Maybe complete strangers have had similar syncs.”

Okay, I’ve never met Starfire, never talked to her, so I guess I’m a complete stranger, and yes, I have had a similar sync. So here’s how I commented: 

“How about this one: I too was going to talk on the radio about synchronicity…and it was postponed. Oops, same show. lol.”

So then I went to my own Facebook page and put this up: “Twice now I was about to do a radio show on synchronicity on Dreamland and the show was canceled. This time it was technical difficulties, an echoing sound in the system. That’s that kind of stuff that happens during Mercury retrograde..and guess what, it’s Mercury retrograde. Synchronicity.”
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Readers of Starfire Tor’s Facebook page have added a surprising number of interesting synchros. If you’re on Facebook, you should be able to access her wall.

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The Lottery and the Circus

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 In between rewrites, I blog surf. Today, I dropped by Clarity’s blog. We posted one of her synchros recently.I like this synchronicity for its layers, and for Clarity’s utter,well,clarity, about  what was coming up. I also like it because it involves clusters and her son. Kid synchros are always the best of the best.
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This is one of my more profound synchronicity experiences – it happened in 2006.

On the 5th of April 2006, my son turned five. We decided that a trip to the circus would be a great way to celebrate him so we ordered five tickets and invited my ‘in-laws’ (my partner and I are not married).

A couple of days earlier, I had just read about a true synchronicity which is supposed to be defined as two coincidences coming together at the exact same time – wham! OK, so the day before our circus trip, I am sitting in our kitchen looking through a magazine and just as I turn to a page about the circus we’re going to, my partner steps into the kitchen waving the circus tickets in his hand at me (he’d just returned from picking them up). Wham! There it was; a true synchronicity! Now, this gave me a feeling that something out of the ordinary could happen on that circus trip because according to the piece I’d read about true synchronicity this was often a prediction of coming important events. This experience really filled me with excitement.

The next day we’re on our way to the circus. I’m sitting in the car, studying the circus program and the first time I look out of the window I see a big number above a gate: 22. I’ve had a thing with 22’s for years and they often mean: pay attention! ..so when the next 22 caught my eye; this time above a door, I just knew that something was brewing. But what??

The next time I look out of the window my eyes are drawn to the number 17A above a door. I tell you, it was like a magnet – I simply couldn’t get my eyes off that number until we’d passed it. This really made me smile at myself; I was beginning to see numbers everywhere. Perhaps a mild psychosis would be a more fitting diagnosis than a synchronicity-shower ..I have often had my doubts 🙂

Eventually, we arrived at the circus – we’d managed to get some excellent seats. I let my in-laws get seated first, then my partner, then my son, and as I’m about to sit down, I notice the number of my seat it’s 17A . OMG!!!! The same number as the one I couldn’t take my eyes off – and I hadn’t even seen the numbers on the tickets as my partner had put them straight in his wallet after he’d waved them at me ..and I have good eyes but not THAT good! How weird! I think I fell more than I sat down in my seat, being a bit dizzy by this incredible coincidence. The feeling that something out of the ordinary was going to happen got stronger – I just knew – KNEW – that something was going to happen. But what??

So the show began – and it was great. Halfway through, there was a break and my son and I ran around behind the scenes and in and out between all the circus wagons. From the corner of my eye, I see my partner’s dad being all busy, writing something down on our tickets. He tells me he’s writing our names and postal codes so we can participate in the lottery at the end of the break.

BINGO! I just knew what would happen then. WE WILL WIN THE LOTTERY! And it’s not like I ever win those kinds of things ..and the chances were not incredibly high either as we were up against almost 1800 other participants. But there was absolutely NO doubt in my mind. WE WOULD WIN THAT LOTTERY!

After the break, my son and hurry back to our seats and I’m just SO incredibly excited. I want to sit on my ‘lucky’ seat – number 17A – (not very grown up, I know – haha)…….but my son insists on sitting there instead. Grrrr, how annoying! But of course I give in and let the spoiled brat have MY seat! (said with a loving smile). A few minutes later, a clown announces the name of the winner of the lottery: he calls my son’s name! OH MY GOD!!! My son had insisted on sitting on 17A, the lucky seat, and he also turned out to be the winner. How well it all fitted together. And what a strange world we live in! But this synchronicity affair wasn’t quite over yet. There were additional layers in that synchronicity to be discovered.

Now, someone had to go pick up the prize: five tickets to an amusement park. My son was too tired, my partner too scared and his parents too shy, so I volunteered. I went down into the circus arena and as I was standing down there talking to the clown, being handed the tickets, it suddenly hit me that almost 2000 people were looking at us and it didn’t bother me at all.

Now, you may be the type of person who is at ease with talking in front of a large crowd but in my case I’d actually suffered from stage fright for years. Just a few weeks before the circus trip, someone had predicted that I would one day do talks in front of a crowd and I had replied: “Not with my stage fright!” Well, now I knew that I couldn’t use that excuse 🙂

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The Orange Centipede

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Trish and Rob

This is the first post we’ve done that involves an orange centipede as an animal messenger. Renee Prince sent it. We recently posted her synchro about a life-changing encounter with a dolphin.

We aren’t sure what to make of this encounter with a centipede.These critters are arthropods. Their skeletons are on the outside of their bodies and they have segmented, jointed legs. They are often called “thousand leggers” because…well, at first glance, that’s how many legs they seem to have! They actually have a pair of legs for each body segment, which translates into 30 to 70 legs. They’re carnivorous, have awful eyesight, but are apparently awesome hunters with a keen sense of smell that nab their prey with pincers that inject venom. They’re actually good to have around your house because they nab creatures like roaches, spiders, moths, and flies. The largest centipede in the world is the Amazonian giant centipede, which can reach a foot in length and feasts on bats, rodents, and spiders.

Centipedes don’t reproduce in the normal way. The males deposit sperm and then engage in courtship dances that are supposed to entice females to engulf the sperm. Weird, but there you have it.With all this i mind, here’s Renee’s story:
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A month ago my mother woke up to see an orange centipede on her pillow right next to her face, apparently looking at her.  She shot out of bed (not surprisingly), and the centipede quickly scurried out of sight.  
A week later to the day, the same thing happened again. In an unthinking (and now regretted) reaction, my mother slapped at it, but it escaped. She hopes she didn’t offend the centipede, as she now thinks there must be something meaningful that the centipede wanted to communicate to her.
Sunday I went hiking by myself up in the mountains, and at the small state park nature store, while buying a hiking book, I noticed a sign saying “Small Animals 40 Cents” on a little basket filled with plastic creatures. Right on top was an orange centipede, which of course I bought and gave to my mother. 
This synchronicity has made her even more obsessed with finding out what meaning an orange centipede might hold.
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Renee asked if I had any insights about the centipede’s message. I looked in Animal Totems, the  book I co-authored with Millie Gemondo and here’s what it said: “When frightened or worried, you become introverted and and run and hide. Fight your fears. Although you’re usually a gentle soul, you tend to get emotionally stressed out. You may be running at full speed in your life. Slow down so you can listen and heed your own advice.”

Does anyone have additional insights?
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The Illuminati revived

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati

Our friend Peter Levenda, author of the mysterious Sinister Forces trilogy, writes us about another trilogy that we read years ago…Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. Admittedly, this post is somewhat obscure,especially if you’ve never heard of this novel about this secret society, but we’ll let Peter explain it.
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In the past few days I have begun re-reading a classic from the 1970s:  the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea.  I originally read the trilogy when it came out in 1975, and it made a deep impression on me then, as it did to literally hundreds of people I knew in those days.  The themes of the books are wildly various but involve virtually every spiritual path, political conspiracy, organized crime scenario, rock music reference, etc. that were known at the time.  The plot revolves around the existence — real or imagined — of the Illuminati, which are today once again a focus of attention.  

The Illuminati began in Bavaria in 1776, created by a professor of theology at the University of Ingolstadt, Adam Weishaupt.  They were later suppressed by the Elector of Bavaria, but not before the Illuminati had made inroads into local Masonic groups and — it has been alleged — were instigators of the French Revolution.  In fact, in a letter to a correspondent, President George Washington refers to them by name and states that he is aware they are operating in America, as well.  Churchill later blamed the Illuminati for the Russian Revolution, mentioning them and Weishaupt by name, in an article he wrote for a British newspaper. 

Okay, so I began re-reading the entire trilogy again this past week after thirty-five years.  At the same time, I decided to buy a copy of the New York Times to do the crossword puzzle.  You have to know that I have not bought a copy of the Times in many years.  First, it was because I lived overseas.  Then, after I moved back to the States, living in Florida the very idea of the Times seemed somehow remote.  But here I was, a copy of Illuminatus! on the table before me, as I sat down to do the crossword in a local coffee shop on August 17.
And what do I see?  The clue for 18-down is “Independent, in Ingolstadt.”  The answer, of course, is Frei (the German word for “Free”)  … but Ingolstadt is an obscure reference, and because of my reading it seemed particularly strange to come across it at that time.  I should also mention that in the past month I have been discussing a project for one of the cable channels concerning the Illuminati, which is probably why I began reading Illuminatus! even though it is basically a fantasy novel wrapped in a philosophical treatise inside an occult text … but that’s another story!  The central concern of most of the characters in the novel is the idea of liberty, and what constitutes liberty and freedom (politically, spiritually, emotionally, etc) in modern society, so the clue for 18-down was even more apt.
I highly recommend a re-read of this classic novel.  Wilson and Shea basically predicted our present predicament and the paranoia, the political and economic references, the prophecy concerning how Americans would begin to lose their privacy and liberties due to a series of terrorist acts on US soil, etc. are eerie, considering the novel was published in 1975… 
Imminentize (or, possibly, Immanentize) the Eschaton!
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The Illuminati was revived and popularized by Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, but the Illuminatus trilogy remains the classic novel on the mysterious group that promoted scientific ideas that contradicted church doctrine.
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Entanglement

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Trish and Rob

                     Entangled  photons

Several scientific experiments conducted in recent years hold intriguing implications about the nature of reality. Specifically, these experiments illustrate what researchers call “observer-dependent effects,” where the minds and knowledge of the experimenters effect the outcome of the experiment.

In 2002, an experiment was carried out that tested the communication between a pair of photons – whether they would be either a particle or a wave. The researchers extended the distance that one of the photons would have to travel to reach its detector, which means the other photon would hit its detector first.”The photons taking this path already finished their journeys – they either collapse into a particle or don’t before their twin encounters a scrambling device,” writes Robert Lanza, author of Biocentrism. “Somehow, the particles acted on this information before it happened, and across distances simultaneously. They decided not to become particles before their twin ever encountered the scrambler.”

To me, non-scientist that I am, this sounds a lot like telepathy and seems to support the contention that everything is connected.

Another experiment conducted in France in 2007 illustrated the effect that researchers have on their own experiments, something scientists call observer-dependent effects. In this experiment, photons were shot into an apparatus. Before they passed a beam splitter, they had to decide whether to behave like particles or like waves. Once the photons passed through the splitter, the experimenter randomly switched a second beam splitter on and off. The experimenter’s choice, his random switching of the splitter, “determined what the particle actually did at the fork in the past,” says Lanza.  “Paradoxically, whether events happened in the past may not be determined until sometimes in your future – and may even depend on actions you haven’t taken yet.”

The parallels between these experiments, the Seth material, and even some of the Hicks/Abraham material is stunning. In Seth Speaks, Seth talks about probable selves, probably realities, probable events. “Your thoughts and emotions go forth from you not only in all physical directions, but in directions that are quite invisible to you…You are also the receiver of other such signals coming from other probabilities that are connected with your own, but you choose which of those probable actions you want to make real or physical in your system…”

Both Seth and Abraham caution against dwelling on negative aspects in your life or negative events that have happened in the past. Abraham advises us to reach for “better feeling thoughts” so that we alter our vibrations, and attract the positive aspects that we desire. Seth says that when we focus on the negative, we set up “negative webs of probabilities” that don’t have to occur. “You can theoretically alter your own past as you have known it.” You do this by changing it first in your mind, in the present and this alters not only the nature of the event, but its effect on yourself and others.  Sounds like those photons, right?

As we’ve talked a lot about in this blog, it’s possible to tune into these future probabilities through dreams – or through synchronicities.Let’s say you have a dream about something in the future that terrifies you so deeply that you make adjustments in your present that actually prevent that event from occurring. “Such a dream is a message from a probable self who did experience the event.”

It’s always illuminating to find correlations between science and mysticism.

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Ghost Train and the Dark Trickster

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Trish and Rob

                                       (Iredell County photo)

At 2 AM on August 27, 1891, just two miles from Statesville, North Carolina, passenger train number 9 plunged 65 feet through a bridge, killing 20 passengers, seriously injuring 9, and leaving 20 other passengers badly bruised and traumatized. This wreck started the Ghost Train legend, which contends that every year on the anniversary of the wreck, the doomed train returns to haunt the tracks where the wreck occurred.

According to an article on WBTV.com,  “people have reportedly heard grinding metal, screaming passengers, and a watchman’s light.”

Skip ahead 119 years, to August 27, 2010. A dozen amateur ghost hunters were on the tracks around 2: 45 AM, hoping to catch sight of the ghost train. As a train came around a curve on Bostonian’s Bridge, the group didn’t get out of the way. They believed that what they were seeing was the legendary ghost train and couldn’t hurt them.  By the time they realized the train was real, the group started running east, away from the train. All but three people escaped the bridge. A 29-year-old man was killed and two others were injured.

This tragic story has the dark trickster’s fingerprints all over it.

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Sky Bars, Joy, and Mom and Dad

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 We’ve posted several of Janice’s synchronicities. The most recent was  The Loon of Fourth Lake. This one addresses spirit contact and involves a situation that is familiar to many boomers.
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I have been dealing more and more lately with the care of my 92 year old mom, who has been having mild to moderate memory and cognitive impairment. I promised my dad I would take care of her, but it is a difficult promise to keep. I’ve been thinking a lot about my dad and wondering what he would want me to do. I think he has been sending me messages.

Last week when I was driving home from visiting my daughter, I stopped to get some coffee and the man in front of me was buying a Sky Bar. My dad used to love that candy and was always singing the jingle-“Sky Bar, it’s the four in one bar.” I haven’t eaten a Sky Bar in years or thought about him singing the jingle, so of course I bought one too.

Then I got in the car and was thinking about how he always made everything fun, even the worst chores.

How can I make taking care of mom less of a job? As I was pondering this question, a car drove by me with the license plate CK JOY.  Seek joy! I knew he was giving me a message to let more joy in my life even tho’ it is stressful right now.
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