Healing Spirits

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Back in the late 1980s, I ran across a book called Joy’s Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey. The author’s personal story is compelling, particularly in the way he used it to change his life and develop a healing technique.  We use his story in our new book, Synchronicity and the Other Side because it illustrates how people who have been cured of serious illnesses through often attribute their healing to their higher selves, to the ways in which their souls or spirits spoke to them through their bodies.

 In 1975, W. Brugh Joy had a flourishing medical practice in Los Angeles, life was good. Then shortly before his thirty-fifth birthday, he was diagnosed with chronic relapsing pancreatitis, and there was no cure.This disease causes debilitating abdominal pain that may persist for several days, as it did for Joy. He knew the disease was unpredictable, that it might end abruptly on its own or that an attack could turn into fulminating pancreatitis, which had a mortality rate at that time of eighty percent. With each attack Joy probed his own psyche, struggling to understand why he was manifesting a disease that could severely restrict his activities or lead to his demise.

  
“I examined the stresses in my life, but they were inconsequential in comparison to the disease process and thus not powerful enough to lead to it. I talked to my body, trying to find some symbolic aspect that a malfunctioning pancreas might reflect, but nothing appeared. I simply could not see the dynamics of my problem.”
One Saturday morning while working on some medical charts in his office, he felt a powerful urge to enter into meditation. Even though he meditated daily, this urge was exceptionally strong, so he finished up what he was doing and began meditating. “A vortex of energy, of a magnitude I had never before experienced, reverberated through my body and threw my awareness into a super heightened state. Then a loud voice said, in essence: Your experience and training as an orthodox physician is completed. It’s over. The time has come for you to embark on a rededication of your Beingness to a deeper commitment and action.”
The voice proceeded to lay out the journeys Brugh would be taking – Findhorn, England, Egypt, India, Nepal, trips that would “reawaken old soul memories.” The voice told him that his vision of being a physician was distorted and overemphasized “the body and external causes and ignored the journey of the soul.” He was to start studying alternative healing techniques and practices so that he could develop  a more integrated approach to healing.
The experience was so powerful that within six weeks, Joy had resigned from his medical practice and walked away from all that was familiar to him. “The wellspring that nourished my awareness was the knowing – the absolute knowing – that the course of action I was following was true to my soul.” When he arrived in Findhorn, his first destination, he realized he hadn’t had a single attack of abdominal pain since that voice first spoke to him.
His body had spoken and its message was clear: it was time to restore his soul. Joy went on to write several books – Joy’s Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey is the best known – and for years conducted workshops on his healing techniques.
Michael Crichton, in his book Travels, has a chapter called Cactus Teachings, which is about the Brugh Joy retreat that he attended in 1982. It’s one of the best chapters in the book and provides a powerful glimpse of the techniques Joy used. The conference was held at a facility in the desert and early on, Joy had told the attendees to walk in the desert until they found a rock, tree, or plant with whom they felt a particular kinship. Then they were supposed “to spend time with this teacher, and talk with the teacher and learn what the teacher had to teach us.” So Crichton set out to find his teacher.
As other attendees excitedly reported finding a teacher, Crichton got annoyed because he hadn’t. He finally found a cactus in an artificial rock garden in a meditation room.”I didn’t like the cactus,” he wrote. It was common, a sort of phallic cactus shape like lots of thorns. It was rather battered, with scars on one side. It was not in any way an attractive cactus.”
Days passed. Crichton kept talking to the cactus, visiting it, but the cactus refused to speak to him. the cactus never spoke to him. Then finally one day on his way to the meditation room, he thought that if the cactus was really his teacher, it would speak to him. “And the cactus said, ‘When are you going to stop running around and talk?’ Irritably. Like a grouchy old man.”

After this, Crichton kept firing questions at the cactus. It refused to speak to him. Every day, the same thing happened: no response. The conference continued, Crichton was exposed to new things – healing techniques, chakras, perceptual changes, the tarot, the I Ching. “On the final day of the conference, I visited the cactus to say good-bye. The cactus was just sitting there. I wouldn’t speak to me.” Crichton told the cactus that he appreciated what it had shown him and said he’d enjoyed spending time with it. “Which wasn’t exactly true because I felt frustrated a lot of the time, but I thought it was more or less true.” Still no response.

“Then I realized that from its position in the garden, the cactus could never see the sun set. The cactus had been years in that position and been deprived of seeing sunsets. I burst into tears. And then the cactus said, ‘It”s been good having you here with me.’ Then I really cried.”

Eight months after that conference, Crichton’s life had completely turned around. He had changed his relationships, residence, work, diet, habits, interests, exercise, goals – in fact, anything in his life that could be changed, was changed. “These changes were so sweeping that I couldn’t see what was happening while I was in the midst of them. And there was another change, too. I’ve become very fond of cacti, and I always have some around, wherever I live.”

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UFOs over Moscow and London?

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Stanley Fuhlman,a retired Canadian NORAD officer, predicted the UFO sightings of October 13, 2010 in NYC and other place – the video for the NYC sightings is below, He died on December 19 of pancreatic cancer. Among his final predictions was one about UFO sightings over Moscow in early January 2011, followed a week later by sightings over London.

When we first read about the October 13 prediction,  we thought it would be great if it happened, but so many predictions never come to anything. Then the news hit about the  UFOs over NYC, on that date, witnessed by thousands. So, it will be interesting to see what comes of this prediction.

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Make it So: Us and 2012

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Nearly twenty-five years ago, on August 16-17, 1987, the Harmonic Convergence drew people from all over the world to supposed power spots on the planet. I remember that the evening news had a piece about Machu Picchu and the people who had gathered there to welcome the new energy that was allegedly being ushered into human consciousness. If memory serves, it got a brief mention on the evening news because actress, author and New Age proponent Shirley MacLaine believed it was important. The mention, I should add, was a kind of – Ha-ha, look at these weirdos.

I’m pretty sure the news piece mentioned Jose Arguelles and  his book, The Mayan Factor, because Arguelles was credited with starting the first  “globally synchronized meditation.”

So at dawn on August 16, 1987, Rob and I met our friend and psychic Renie Wiley on a Lauderdale beach with a whole lot of other weirdos to celebrate and welcome this new energy into the world. I remember thinking that I must be insane to be up before dawn and on a beach to watch the sun rise. I don’t do dawn. I’m an owl, always have been, and when I have to go to bed before eleven to get up at a certain time, I hardly sleep at all.

As I watched the sun punch a hole in the horizon that morning, I was sleep deprived, but also aware that something felt very different. Maybe it was the energy of the crowd, maybe it was the energy of whatever was rushing toward us. But I do know that something changed for me that day, something internal, a tectonic shift in beliefs. Two years and a few weeks after that dawn on the beach, Megan was born, we moved, our lives went through a complete revolution. Our writing changed, became more psychic, esoteric, and delved into the areas that interested us.  It’s as if who Rob and I really are became more obvious, prominent, pervasive.

Now here we are, in 2012. I feel that same momentum, that same strangeness and yet a weird familiarity. The 5,126-year astrological cycle the Mayans knew about comes to end on December 21, 2012. There are some fascinating synchros involving the date, but the one that takes the cake, is that the Mayan calendar ends at 11:11 UT on December 21, 2012. The 11:11 element is something we’ve written about in our books and here on the blog. Think: portal, spiritual evolution, heightened awareness and psychic ability.

I look to  astrology, since that’s what the Mayan calendar was based on, and, wondered what transits would signal Armageddon, the worst possible scenario, the end of life on earth. Well, I’m happy to report I just don’t see it.

The nearest approximation might be the financial meltdown in 2008 that  has impacted the global economy ever since – the fallout of the Bush administration policies which have been extended, to some degree, by the Obama administration. While we have seen evidence of the mass paradigm shifting – the first black president, for instance,  the acknowledgement that emotions are intimately tied to physical health, the advances in physics- we have also seen the physical evidence that triggers such paradigm shifts.

Natural disasters are on the rise. Rebellion and revolution are in the air we breathe. Climate change is a fact, not a theory, and it no longer matters, really, what’s causing it. It’s here, it’s real, and it’s going to impact every one of us, in some way.

Astrologically, we seem to be at the dawn of an era. Talk to Uranus about that. On March 11, 2011, it entered Aries, the sign of the warrior.

As the planet of sudden and unexpected change, it’s one of the slower moving outer planets, so its affect on our lives is greater than the inner planets that move more quickly – the moon, sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars.  Uranus stays in a sign for seven years, but because of retrogrades won’t leave Aries until early March 2019. So, we’re talking eight years here. Eight years of massive, monumental change.

In many ways, I think Uranus defines humanity – we seek to individuate from our families and early childhood conditioning; at a certain age we rebel against the status quo; we learn that we are intuitive, unique, and we either reject or accept our individual power.  On a collective level, Uranus awakens us. So, on March 11, 2011, the day that Uranus entered Aries, , a 9.0 quake in Japan  triggered a tsunami that devastated a nuclear power plant.

I think this event defined the next seven years globally, collectively, for humanity. The world isn’t going to end, but for some of us, it will feel as if it has.  We may experience personal loss and tragedy – but we’ll also experience unprecedented insights, psychic connections to people of like minds, and a profound grasp of how we, as individuals, not only fit into the larger picture, but help to define it

Uranus also rules the technology that unites us, that allows us to communicate instantly with friends on the other side of the world, with people we may have newer met whose beliefs parallel our own. Uranus governs the planetary empaths,  individuals who are so attuned to the changes within the planet that they experience physical symptoms. I think they are a leap in our evolution, in our collective consciousness, a product of Uranus in Aries. Uranus governs rebellion and revolution and its impact is evident in the Arab spring, in the Occupy movement, in movies like The Ides of March, The Help, and Midnight in Paris.

Find out where Uranus lies in your natal chart,  where Aries is, and that’s where you, as an individual, as one person, one voice, can make a significant difference. https://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi

So, we don’t see the end of the world. But there’s sure going to be a lot of hype about it and the closer we get to the alleged end date, the stranger events will be. More natural disasters may come about as a result of global warming and the corporate hold on our lives. Thanks to trickster Mercury, the presidential election of November 2012 is probably going to be weird, unsettled, and will provide some insight into the hoopla surrounding 12/21/12.

But if we all stay true to who we are, do what we can to alleviate the suffering of others, take our cues from dreams, visions, synchronicity, and don’t compromise our individuality to fit into some collective idea of who we should be,  we’ll come out on the other side as the whole, integrated individuals that we are. That’s our hope. That’s our conviction. As Jean Luc Picard used to say in the Star Trek sagas, the best line for visualization I’ve ever heard: Make it so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence

 

https://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/honshu20110311/

 

 

 

 

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Posted on January 1, 2011 by Trish and Rob

  Happy New Year to all of you


from the MacGregor clan!

When we put up the date for this, it was a bit startling: 1-1-11. 

Any takers?  We’ve done several posts on these numbers– here , here, for starters.

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How’d Everyone Do on Predictions for 2010?

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 On January 5 and 27, 2010, we did posts on predictions for 2010. In the first post, we gave our predictions and in the second, we compiled a list of the predictions all of YOU had made. Here’s the list. How’d we do? Well, not too badly! The Dems didn’t hold onto the house during the mid-term elections, but still hold the senate; Alaska did NOT secede from the union; yellowstone did NOT erupt; no attempt on Obama’s life; not sure who #21 is; #19 happened, but without the close encoounters theme( over NYC, October 10, 2010); Palin didn’t divorce the hubby.

1. Erratic weather patterns and weather-related issues increasing
2. Major natural disasters.
3. Earthquake on west coast
4. Yellowstone volcano erupts
5. Another terrorist event
6. Energy going against those who seek to cover up true intentions
7.Speculation that the Dem’s agenda all along was to feed new clients to insurance  companies and that the public option was never a serious possibility
8. Assassination attempt on Obama
9. Dick Cheney makes major effort to be spokesman for GOP by tapping into  fanatical anti-Obama rhetoric
10. Despite anti-Obama, fanatical rhetoric, Obama ends up on top
11.  More people preparing for disasters – urban survivalists?
12. Sara Palin divorces hubby when he’s found with another woman
13. More Big Brother moves from the government
14. Alaska will secede from the union
15. Palin will lead revolt over people’s right to bear arms
16. About mid-year there will be a new technology for digital media that will  unblock journalism bias and send talking heads running for cover.
17. More information forthcoming on global warming and its “actual or real” cause
18. Something happens to or with the electrical power in this country
19. UFOs appear in broad daylight )playing the theme notes from “close encounters”)
20. The younger generation (20-30’s) are going to actually read and understand these massive political programs instead of accepting summaries from others.
21. A major sports figure will emerge as a leading Republican, possibly aiming for the White House. He’ll have a short name, a likable smile, and seem very down-to-earth.
22.  Obama will face tough scrutiny in the fall from both the right and the left.  His popularity will hit a low point. After the election, he starts to regain  momentum and does something quite surprising.
23. The Dems barely hold onto Congress in the midterm elections
24. The mind/body connection research takes new, unexpected turns

HAPPY 2011 TO EVERYONE! Let’s dream a better world into existence!

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Jung’s Red Book and the Singing Bowl

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Trish and Rob
From Jung’s Red Book

Each of us received something unexpected for Christmas, a genuine surprise. Trish received Jung’s Red Book. It was created between the years of 1914-1930 and was, by his own description, a record of his “confrontation with the unconscious.” It weighs nearly 9 pounds, measures 15.7 x12x 1.9 inches, has 212 colored illustrations.Unfortunately, it’s written in German, but in a calligraphy as stunning as the illustrations.

There are 178 pages in English called Liber Novus – New Book – that include an introduction to Jung’s work and some translations from Jung’s German entries. As explained in the intro: “The overall theme of the book is how Jung regains his soul and overcomes the contemporary malaise of spiritual alienation. This is ultimately achieved through enabling the rebirth of a new image of God in his soul and developing a new worldview in the form of a psychological and theological cosmology.” The entries depict Jung’s process of individuation, an important component in synchronicity, as well as the genesis of his concept of the Self, the collective unconscious, his concept of archetypes, his experiences with precognition. The dreams and inner dialogues really give you a sense of how he confronted his unconscious.

This illustration reminds me of the tree of life. You can get a sense of the calligraphy on the left – in German. But you don’t have to read German to be struck by this image.

From a section called, Soul and God: “Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language. One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it? Scholarliness alone is not enough; there is a knowledge of the heart that gives deeper insight.”

While looking for a special Christmas present for Rob, I was poking around on butternut squash’s blog, where she writes about her fascinating trips to Nepal. Not only does she buy jewelry there from the local people, she is involved in creating a library for local schools. Her Tibetan jewelry and other wares from that country are exhibited on her other blog, where I first saw a Tibetan singing bowl and knew that was the gift. Rob will be teaching a new meditation class in January and I could just hear the rich tone of a singing bowl at the beginning and end of each class.

So I called Jeri one day from the parking lot of a grocery store. She asked me some questions about Rob’s personality, his interests,and said she would find the right bowl for him. She later said she tested 20 bowls and found the one she thought would fit him. When she mailed the gift, she enclosed an explanatory letter: “Other than clothing and a prayer wheel, the singing bowl might have been a monk’s only possession. Everything that the monk needed he could obtain with his bowl because it was his begging bowl and the bowl out of which every meal was consumed. So it is very vividly represents both the physical life of the owner in providing for his physical requirements as well as the spiritual life of the owner as a meditation tool.”

The bowl is old and bowls like the one you’re about to see and hear aren’t being produced anymore. Jeri says that “old” means it was made anywhere between 1800 and 1950. She also mentioned that sometimes the monk who owned the bowl may drop in for a visit. We’re hopeful!

Here are the bowl and the tone:

Happy 2011!!

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Hilary and the Earthquakes

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Cj, who comments frequently on this blog, alerted us to this story about Hillary Clinton and earthquakes. It’s one of those global synchros that we talk about in 7 Secrets.
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During her entire tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton has been pursued by quakes. In February 2009, during her first trip to Japan as America’s premiere diplomat,  she was shaken awake by a minor quake. Four months later in Honduras, she was treated to a 5.0 quake.In October 2009, Clinton was in Pakistan at the  same time that her husband was and experienced more quakes. Days before the 8.8. quake struck Chile, Clinton was supposed to visit, and that quake put her plans on hold. Yet, she still managed a brief stop in Chile to assess the relief effort.

The history of Hilary Clinton and quakes is detailed here, and prompts us to wonder if the dramatic events of the 2008 election are still playing out for her.  How this will translate beyond 2010 remains an intriguing enigma.

We should add that Hillary herself is an earthmover. According to the USA Today-Gallup poll released Monday, Hillary is the most-admired woman for the ninth straight year. Number 2 this year: Sarah Palin, followed by Oprah Winfrey.

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Spooked!

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Trish and Rob

We opened the newspaper on a recent Friday to a section called ACCENT that has ‘soft’ news, consumer info, and entertainment. At the top of page 2 was a picture of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (they had the names backwards, but we figured it out – we’ve seen plenty of those two). Bumping up next to Angelina was a religious column–the God Squad–with this headline: Do ghosts exist? Judeo-Christian tradition says no.

What a let down. Here we are in the midst of writing a book about synchronicity and contact with the other side, and the newspaper informs us that we’re barking up the wrong tree, so to speak. In  spite of all the books and all the testimony from ancient times to the present, God Squad columnist Rabbi Marc Gelman informs its readers there are no ghosts. But what about angels? Aren’t they part of Judeo-Christain tradition? Rabbi Gellman tells us that “angels are not ghosts, nor are they good dead guys. Angels are spiritual beings who help God run the world and keep track of our lives.”

Okay, now we know it’s not Obama or the Republicans running things in the U.S. We can blame the angels for the high unemployment, enormous deficit, and the war-mongering. But the God Squad was just getting warmed up.

We learn from the rabbi that guardian angels are either “cheering us on or ratting us out,” depending on our behavior. Hm, they must not have very much to do. Some of them apparently weren’t looking forward to their work following us around and became demons, “angels who didn’t want God to create us in the first place.”

But let’s move on to ghosts. “Ghosts are supposedly the souls of dead people ‘trapped’ in this world, unable to proceed to their final destination in heaven or hell. Both Judaism and Christianity hold to the belief that ghosts are not real because souls can’t linger in the world after death. According to Hebrews 9:27, our destiny is to die once and then face judgment.”

Apparently the God Squad isn’t high on the idea of purgatory, which seems like a traditional religious way of explaining phenomena such as ghosts.

Now for all the mediums and medium-goers out there, the rabbi has this to say: “Consulting the dead is a sin.” He added that most psychics are charlatans “using grief to extract money from vulnerable people.” We could say the same about religions.

Finally, the rabbi concludes: “I believe that consulting with ghosts or spirits wherever they reside is a spiritual boundary mistake. We’re in the world of the living until we die, and our total focus must be on this world.”

It sounds as if Rabbi Gelman wrote himself out of a job with that last comment. However, he’s probably telling us not to question religious authorities or to explore spirituality on our own. Our next book on spirit contact coming out in 2011 probably won’t be looked upon  favorably by those of like mind.

For our part, we suggest you keep your  feet on the ground and your head in the sky and beware of priests, gurus and rabbis telling you otherwise.

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On the third day of Christmas..

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Trish and Rob

…my true love gave to me…
three girls in prom dresses holding chickens.

 If hundreds of people start Googling: Girls in prom dresses holding chickens, we’ll let you know.

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On the second day of Christmas…

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 …we explore the space between with an interesting article about how we are all one.

It made me realize that former U.S. senate candidate Christine (‘I am not a witch’) O’Donnell actually said something quite astonishingly on the mark in that same silly campaign ad when she ended it saying: ‘I am you.’

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