Touch

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Trish and Rob

We watched Touch, a new show on Fox, featuring Keifer Sutherland – formerly of 24.  The setup is simple: Sutherland is Martin Bohm (any relationship to David?), the single father of an 11-year old son, Jake, played by David Mazouz, who is autistic and mute and can apparently  predict the future.  One of Jake’s constants is Fibonacci numbers.

The Fox publicity department describes the series this way: “A drama that blends science and spirituality to explore the hidden connections which bind together all of humanity. At the center of this distinctive new series is a widower and single father whose quest to reach his emotionally challenged 11-year-old son will shape the destiny of the entire planet.” The description leaves out a vital element: synchronicity. And yet, synchronicity is the driving force of the plot – the mystical essence –  obvious through this pilot/trailer episode.

The father’s last name, Bohm, brings to mind David Bohm, the physicist who believed in a deeper order in the universe, an implicate order, out of which everything else, even time, is born. Andrew Teller (probably a nod to Edward Teller, the theoretical physicist), played by Danny Glover, is an eccentric professor who specializes in children gifted in math and  numbers. He  helps Sutherland begin to piece things together after his son is institutionalized by child welfare services. His home is on Tesla Avenue. Glover says Jake doesn’t have a need to speak because he can see everything – past, present, future – and can see how we are all interconnected.

The interconnections in this  teaser episode involve a restaurant equipment salesman who loses his cell phone,  a young man in Iraq, a woman at a cell phone company, and an ex-fireman who wins the lottery. We subsequently discover he is a traumatized ex-fireman who, on 9-11, found Keifer’s wife in the World Trade Center and tried to rescue her. There’s a bigger picture emerging and Jake sees it all, but can only express it in numbers.

There are echoes of Heroes in this show, which isn’t surprising since Tim Kring, who created that show, wrote the script for this. Kring understands connections and synchronicity  and we enjoyed the first season of Heroes. But it got to a point where so many characters had such extreme psi abilities that it became unrealistic and we stopped watching. There are also elements of Lost in this show, the essential mystery of what’s going on, what’s going to happen, what it all means.

Everyone is interconnected. The businessman desperately wants to recover his cell phone because it contains his only photos of his deceased daughter. The cell phone operator, in attempting to track down a lost cell phone, connects with the kid in Iraq who is about to become a suicide bomber, using the lost cell phone, which has traveled the world. Even the cell phone operator was recorded singing a song on that phone!  The story is complex, multi-layered and moves rapidly.

The connecting numbers involved throughout the scenario are 318, which appear on a lotto ticket, a school bus that crashes and the children are saved by the fireman, who won the lotto! And there’re more number connections.

You’ve got to drop your sense of disbelief, but if you do, it’s quite a ride. A show that addresses synchronicity, psychic ability, and the interconnectedness of humanity in a way that is, ultimately, about a relationship between a father and the  son with whom he so desperately wants to communicate. We’ll be tuning in for the premiere on March 19.

Here’s an oddity. The morning after watching the show and getting involved with 318, I (Rob) read an article that included repeated references to 38. They appeared in an article called Uncoiling the Snake, by Glorida Feman Orenstein, which details her journey into shamanism in Lapland. It was sent to us by Lauren Raines, who posts here frequently.

Orenstein was born 3/8/38. Her childhood address was 138 51 Hoover Avenue. She was married on 8/3/58. She visited a sacred site near the North Pole on 8/3/89. March 8 is also International Women’s Day and Orenstein had become a feminist scholar and activist. The last date she saw her mother alive was 8/30/83.

So, far out as the Touch premise might seem for some viewers and reviewers, the above example – vaguely linked numerically to Touch – shows that, yes, such things do happen in real life as well as fiction.

 

 

 

 

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The Power of Words

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Trish and Rob

I was reading over a  book proposal Trish and I putting together called The Law of Attraction Oracle. I came to a section about the power of words, got distracted, and was thumped with a synchronicity.

The section begins in this manner:

“Language, spoken or written, possesses subtle power, like the moon’s influence on tides. Words invoke action that create change. “The pen is mightier than the sword is a familiar adage that originated in 1839 as a line in a play by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton.”

I read on, then paused after reading the following paragraph.

“The way we speak can reveal our deeper beliefs and those beliefs,when backed with strong emotion, are the magnets that attract what we experience. Many of us have such habitual ways of speaking about certain topics that we speak without giving it much thought. So if you live with other people, ask them to point out whenever you say something that sounds as if it reflects  a deep belief, particularly if what you say is negative.”

I took a break, glanced at Facebook, perused the list of comments, and one immediately caught my attention. It was a link to an article that psychic Marla Frees had put up. The title of the article was: “How to Use the Power of Words as a Blessing.”

I was stunned by the synchro and clicked on the article by Sandra Ingerman, who is a Western shaman and author, one whose writings and recordings have resonated with me. Here in part is what she wrote:

“The teaching that our words can either bless or curse is thousands of years old. This teaching is part of all spiritual traditions. Through our thoughts and words we can bless ourselves and others….

“I encourage you during this month to listen to phrases and words that seem to strike a chord in you. Try and bring more awareness and listen to the words that come out of your mouth. Notice if the words and phrases you use come from a true place of blessing within. Or do you speak phrases and words that come from habit and don’t truly reflect what you would you like to communicate and create for yourself and others.

“I know so many people who are afraid to tell friends or loved ones about a new idea they have or a new project they are thinking about undertaking. For often when we share something that is considered “edgy” by others their immediate response is, “You are crazy” or “That will never work.” When we respond in this way we usually really don’t consider the excitement of the other person in following their passion. And we end up taking power from their dream instead of feeding the energy with adding our support and enthusiasm. Often people feel “shot down” by other’s responses and this can end up cursing those we love and want to support.”

Good stuff. It all fit together as if part of the same work. Here Sandra’s complete article.

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More than 2,000 military vehicles

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Trish and Rob

This train was filmed in southern California, not far from Camp Pendleton. Someone on You Tube commented that the tanks and vehicles may not be headed to the Mideast because they’re green camouflage rather than the color of dirt and sand.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Anteater and the Goat

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Trish and Rob

Rob’s new meditation class started on January 10, the first of six. It’s held in a yoga studio, which is more conducive to meditation than the studio at our gym.  There were ten of us, a multi-cultural group, and the energy felt positive.

Rob started off with breathing exercises and a deep relaxation and visualization. I was tired from our trip from Orlando and entered a relaxed state easily. At some point, I no longer heard Rob’s voice. Suddenly, a tremendous anteater loped up to me, a beautiful creature  with black and white fur and a very long snout. He got right in my face, like he wanted to play, and it startled me. I leaned back to get a better look at him, then he turned away and trotted off.

I realized he had a rope around his neck that slapped the ground as he moved, and that he was following a goat,  which also had a leash or a rope around its neck. I had the impression the two were escapees from a zoo or from someone’s backyard, and that they were on a quest of some kind. The goat was definitely the leader and they were enjoying their new found freedom.

In 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, there’s a chapter on animals as messengers and oracles. I’ve never experienced anything concerning anteaters or goats, so when I got home, I started Googling. Anteaters have a variety of meanings: an ability to find lost objects, curiosity, “rooting around” to find solutions, business relationships, finances, a celebration of completeness or wholeness, important to harness your energies, difficult business arrangements.

I felt no negativity connected to this anteater. He was friendly, cute, furry. I think the black and white color of his fur is significant in some way; maybe it points to an issue that is black or white. The rooting around aspect of the anteater resonates for me. I tend to root around for answers and insights until I find what I need. The “difficult business relationship” mentioned on one site also felt right. A publisher has owed us money for five months and has provided any number of excuses – check lost, check reissued but sent to the wrong department, check on the way.

When I Googled goat, a lot of Biblical links came up and most of them were negative – the goat as symbolic of the devil, evil and so on. But when I went to shamanic or animal totem sites, I found several definitions that resonate. Goats are sure-footed and always get to where they want to go, one step at a time. When they encounter obstacles, they find a way around them until they reach the patch of  delicious grass, the summit. I have a Capricorn moon and Capricorn’s animal is the goat.

The fact that both animals were “escapees,” on some sort of quest, suggests freedom to pursue a quest or a goal. I had entered the meditation with a question: how can I boost the sales of my novels? I think I got my answer.

 

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Norwegian Woods

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Trish and Rob

This eerie tale comes from Toasterlad and the far north of Norway. It sounds similar to the Third Man Factor in which everyone believes there is an extra person among them. Yet the TMF occurs when people are under great stress. These folks were playing games and drinking beer. Maybe it was in the beer. A good story nonetheless.

Thanks to Jim Banholzer for alerting us.

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About two years ago, a colleague of mine invited me and some of her friends on a two day trip in a cabin for the weekend. The plan was to drink beer, eat food and play board games and Guitar Hero. A nice weekend, indeed.

We get there in the early afternoon, around 16:00, and start settling inn. Some are outside bringing in wood and tending to the fireplace, some are making the beds ready and some are cleaning the living-room or shoveling snow on the porch. In other words, we weren’t all in the same room at the same time for the first hour or two.

At around 19:00, we settle down for dinner. There was taco on the menu, so it was a collective effort to make it ready with people cutting up vegetables, cooking the meat and setting the table. Because we all had a few beers during the time at the cabin, people were constantly going to the outhouse. This meant that the first time we’re all together in the same room for a good period of time was during dinner.

When we ate, the mood was good and we were all chatty. Talking about what we were going to play afterwards and just generally getting to know each other. Because we were so many, we had to use some chairs from the kitchen area and eat in the living room. There was a couch with room for three people, one with room for two, a chair plus two chairs from the kitchen. The seating arrangements made it possible for seven people to sit comfortably, without anyone having to use the middle seat in the three-seater.

After the feast of cheese, meat and salsa we were all sitting around the table chatting and playing a board game. Suddenly, my colleague asked “Hey, where is…uh… Who sat there?” pointing at the empty living room chair. “Oh, that was….uh… I’m not sure.” one of the guys said. “It was that guy from… uh.” My colleague answered.

We all swore that there were seven of us on the trip, but we couldn’t remember who the last person was. There wasn’t a dinner plate for that seating, and it didn’t look like anyone had been there. We started to count who came here in what car, and the number we came up with added up to six. At the same time, we had brought in the two chairs from the kitchen because there wasn’t room enough in the living room, and we had said no to some people wanting to go on the trip because the cabin only had seven beds.

We were quite sure that there were seven of us, but there was no evidence of us being more than six people. There was no seventh plate, seventh backpack or anything. Still, we had bought enough food for seven people, had made seven beds and were damn sure that someone had been sitting in the empty seat. We had no recollection of this person, but all agreed it was a man, not a woman.

This happened during spring in the far north of Norway, and if it wasn’t for the longer hours of daylight and how close the cabin was to our city, we would have been totally freaked out.

I still have no idea of who the seventh person should be, but I still find it odd that all of us were sure of there being a seventh person – a man – on this trip. I guess he went out of the matrix, and the matrix adjusted itself.

Six people was staying in a cabin, but we swore we were seven when we came.

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The Republican Debate – NOT a synchro

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Trish and Rob

 

Monday night, we watched the Republican debate. I don’t recommend this  torture to any political progressive. But we felt it was time to really listen to these four candidates to find out who is the craziest.

The candidates, as they stood on the stage, from left to right:  Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul.  The debate was in Tampa, Florida, so there was a lot of talk about immigration, the housing meltdown, and unemployment. The verdict?

We liked most of what Ron Paul said about foreign policy issues. He sounded reasonable. Brian Williams asked what each candidate would do if Castro died and half a million Cubans descended on South Florida. Ron Paul said that the sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Cuba for the last 50 years serve no purpose, that there’s no cold war going on. We trade with Russian, with China, so why not with Cuba? The imposed sanctions have only empowered Castro and impoverished the Cuban people. He’s against war – all of them, any of them.    And we agreed with him on the role of the Federal Reserve  and what caused the financial meltdown in 2008. But on social issues, forget it.

Mitt Romney is rather pathetic. The guy will be 65 years old in March, has been running for president for about twenty years, says he wants to be CEO of the country. That last part really tells you all you need to know about Mitt. He would run the U.S. like a business – maybe like Staples or Sports Authority, two companies he started while working as a vulture capitalist. Born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, he’s the  consummate flip-flopper on everything. He’s the guy who, after the family dog pooped in the back seat of the car during a family vacation, put the dog in a roof carrier. Yes, you read that correctly. A roof carrier.  What’s that tell you about him? Even worse, Mitt is a vulture capitalist, you know, one of those guys who sweeps in, takes over  companies, fires a bunch of people, takes tons of $ out of the company, declares bankruptcy, and walks. His ideas about running the country like a business is exactly what George W Bush tried to do. And look where that put us –  in the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Mitt’s response about Castro’s death? He’ll go to “another land” when he dies.

Then there’s Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania. A family values sort of guy.  He’s the young looking guy in the sweater vest, whose mouth dimples when he smiles. Now let me tell you, those dimples are cute. But they aren’t presidential. And neither is the fact that when his wife miscarried one of her children, she and Santorum took the miscarried fetus (20 weeks) home, so the other children could meet her. What do you say to a miscarriage?  How do you develop any warm and fuzzy relationship with a miscarriage? I frankly couldn’t hear much of what he was saying; my inner political bitch was shrieking and pulling out her hair. But I did catch a few gems: war and more war, especially a war with Iran and let the free market regulate itself (sure, didn’t that work great under Bush?)

Then there’s Newt, the former speaker of the house, a good-ole boy in American politics who touts family values even though he’s on wife number 3 (a Barbie doll with a helmet hairdo), who allegedly asked wife 2 for a divorce when she was undergoing chemo for  breast cancer. With one of his wives – hard to keep track – he asked for an open marriage, the wife said forget it.  Whatever, the guy is 68, left his position as speaker of the house when his fellow Repugs voted him out for ethics’ violations. But he claims he’s got those family values down pat now, that he has seen the light since he married wife 3 and became a Catholic. She’s the blonde who apparently had a six-year affair with Newt before he ditched wife 2. She usually stands next to or behind him, the one with the very strange helmet hairdo that looks as though it’s pasted into place with tons of hairspray and goo. She’s wide-eyed (contacts?) and those eyes are always on Newt. She’s undoubtedly entertaining visions of being first lady.

Of the four men, Newt is the most disturbing. He’s more intelligent than Bush, thinks and speaks well on his feet, is boisterous and self-confident enough to convince some people that he should be prez. This guy worked as a lobbyist for Freddy Mac – but claims he wasn’t a lobbyist, that he was an historian. Huh? An historian is paid 25 grand a month to the tune of more than a million bucks?

And he’s leading in the polls. For me, Newt as prez would result in a country, a world, that would be like something out of a science fiction movie – Soylent Green, maybe, or Minority Report or, frankly, any of the books that Philip K. Dick wrote.  No, I take that back. If any of these candidates become prez, the American people are screwed and the world enters a new, heightened phase of chaos, war, greater disparity between rich and poor.

Obama may not be perfect, he’s not the true progressive many of us thought he was. We were snowed by his rhetoric. I wish he weren’t so prone to “bipartisan votes,” I wish he hadn’t bragged about killing Bin Laden, I wish he would cancel all wars, close Gitmo, cancel the Patriot Act that Bush implemented. I wish he weren’t so willing to compromise. I wish, I wish. But the bottom line is that Obama still gets my vote in 2012. He might prove to be the light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. He’ll have his chance to tell us about what will be coming in a second term when he gives his state of the union speech.    It’ll be a relief to hear something other than all the right-wing babble coming out of these debates and primaries.

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Solar Storm

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Trish and Rob

 

According to this article,your GPS, cell phone, air travel, and maybe your electricity may be impacted tomorrow morning by the largest solar radiation storm that the planet has encountered in seven years. According to NOAA – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center – a solar flare erupted on Sunday, January 22, and was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, “the name given to a blob of the sun’s atmosphere that lifts off with the explosion and goes speeding out into interplanetary space,” says Terry Onsager, a NOAA physicist.What comes to mind with that description is like a scene from The Exorcist – projectile vomit. But it’s invisible. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the weakest, this storm is expected to be around a 2 or 3.

Not surprisingly, we received an email this evening from one of the planetary empaths. She says she has been practically incapacitated for the last 36 hours and sent us a link to an article about the solar storm. Since these storms can mess up geomagnetic fields, it makes sense that some empaths might be feeling the effects.

Frankly, I can’t understand how these empaths get through a single day, much less a month or an entire year, in any sort of coherent way. They are so intimately attuned to fluctuations in the planetary texture that they are  bombarded  by physical sensations that are connected to what affects the planet. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, 9-11: they feel any kind of natural or man-made disaster.If you’re one of these empaths, we’d love to hear from you.

For the rest of us, we had better not rely on our GPS devices to get us to where we want to go tomorrow.

 

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Another New Moon!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Trish and Rob

 

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Today, January 23, there’s another new moon, this one in Aquarius.  New moons occur once a month and are always times to anticipate. They spell new opportunities, new chapters in our lives, new, new new.

Aquarius is an intriguing sign – idiosyncratic, a humanitarian, thinks way outside the box, a visionary, independent. Aquarius enjoys group activities that concern his interests and passions, but would otherwise prefer  doing his own thing, as his own pace.

As usual, go here to find out where this new moon falls in your chart. (In other words, which house Aquarius is in your natal chart.) Then read on:

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Aries/1st house: If you are born near March 22, with five days on either side, then you’re in for a real treat. New opportunities don’t just head your way; they fall in your lap, land on your doorstep, in your inbox. Friends are extremely helpful and may play vital roles in helping you achieve your desire. The suddenness to events may take you by surprise, but you’re ready to seize whatever comes your way.

Taurus/2nd house: New financial opportunities surface.  You have to be on your toes, though, ready to recognize opportunity when it knocks. Inner, hidden stuff may surface that actually helps clarify your goals, desires, wishes and dreams. If you don’t meditate yet, then start on the day of this new moon. Thanks to the angle Uranus makes to this new moon, there’s an unexpected suddenness to these opportunities.

Gemini/3rd house:  Yes, indeed, you are about to experience a new opportunity in something you love – communication! It may be a new  writing or speaking project of some kind. You  could sell an article, a novel, a screenplay, or suddenly your blog gets a hundred thousand hits. You may have an opportunity for foreign travel with perks – a free place to stay, for instance. Your worldview does an abrupt 180.

Cancer/4th house: This new moon jerks you out of your comfortable routine. You’re suddenly able to see the world the way others around you do. Your partner could and a raise – new income. Your mortgage comes through. You see a ghost, communicate with your dead father. The abruptness of events may be jarring, but the opportunities are very sweet, indeed.

Leo/5th house: New creative opportunities surface and, again, there’s an unexpected suddenness to this, so you should be vigilant so you can seize the opportunity as it appears. There could also be new opportunities with  children or grandchildren, with what you do for fun and pleasure, and in romance/love. Don’t shrug off coincidence as some random glitch in the universe’s digestive system. These synchros hold messages for you. You could find a new business partner – or you and your significant other  deepen your commitment to each other.

Virgo/6th house: New work opportunities, the very thing you Virgos love. Work, work, work. As the perfectionist of the zodiac, your gold standard now pays off. You get a raise, a promotion, or change jobs for something that really suits you.  New opportunities emerge in communication, too, and whatever it is, it’s a new venue for you.

Libra/7th house:  Well, Libra, you’ve got a choice and you know how crazy choices make you. New opportunities surface in your love life, your creative life, with your kids, your social life. If you don’t have kids but want to start a family, then this new moon could make it happen. To my Libra friend who is experiencing trouble with her mother’s illness, listen up: new opportunities and possibilities for your mom’s care seem to come out of nowhere. Your partner/spouse is helpful.

Scorpio/8th house: Your new opportunities come in the domestic area. If your home is for sale, it sells. If you’ve found your dream home, you buy it. You’re able to get a mortgage, home owner’s insurance, whatever else you need. But because you’re a Scorpio or have this new moon in your eighth house,  new opportunities also come through metaphysics, research and investigation, your intuition, through the big cosmic questions: what happens when you die? Can the living and the dead communicate? This is Scorpio’s natural terrain.

Sagittarius/9th house: New opportunities surface in communication, publishing, higher education, overseas travel. It’s never just one area for you that’s impacted by a new moon. You wear so many hats that even your mother isn’t sure who arrives at the front door on a given day. Uranus in fellow fire sign Aries forms a beneficial angle to this new moon and lends itself to unexpected suddenness with whatever unfolds.

Capricorn/10th house: Think of this new moon as your career and financial infusion –or is that transfusion?  Either one is good. New professional and financial opportunities surface that impact your domestic environment. Sounds as though a pay raise or promotion enables you do some work around your house  or property or enables you do put out money for a family member. Parent? Partner? Child? Regardless, the new opportunities strengthen you financially and professionally.

Aquarius/11th house:  Just once a year, there’s a new moon in each sign and January 23 is your new moon. Plan for it.  Make a list of what you would like to manifest, be as specific or as general as your intuition directs. Friends and group participation are helpful, but the but the real power to manifest lies in you. What do you want/desire more than anything else? Give it some thought. Back the desire with strong emotion. Then step aside and let the universe deliver.

Pisces/12th house: New opportunities surface to delve into your own unconscious, to work behind the scenes doing something you love. Whatever  it is comes about so rapidly that if you blink, it’s gone.  Therapy, meditation, dream recall are all valuable tools now. There’s something new emerging on the financial front, too, and it’s positive, affirming, and right in line with your magnificent imagination and intuition. Be on your toes, Pisces. You don’t want to miss this opportunity.

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Haunting synchro

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Trish and Rob

This one is not about ghosts…well, it is in a way.

At 7 p.m. EST last night, Newt Gingrich was named the winner of the South Carolina Republican primary. An hour later, on Turner Classic Movies, Letter to Three Wives, came on. We assume these movies are programmed well in advance.

For those not paying close attention to American GOP politics, Gingrich’s achilles’ heel is his legacy of three wives and the sordid way he left the first two. He was in the midst of an extra-marital affair with future wife three (future ex-wife?) when he was leading the attack on President Clinton for his affair with M.L. This past week, wife two in a tell-all interview with ABC exposed Newt’s request for an open marriage while he was acting outraged about Clinton’s tryst.

So on the night that this hypocrite turned the tide in the primary fight for the GOP nomination in his favor, he was awarded with a little haunting synchro from the invisible world.

All that said, his private life is the least of our worries if this unstable egotist who spewed a dozen lies during his victory speech last night, is elected to the highest office in the land.

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Princess Di’s Ghost or an Optical Illusion?

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Trish and Rob

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