A Mass Event synchro

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Every time there’s a mass event, we notice synchronicities that pop up, and this one recently jumped out at us concerning the coronavirus. There was a hotel in southeastern China that was being used as a coronavirus quarantine center. People with symptoms were housed there temporarily to avoid exposing others. Maybe you heard. The hotel collapsed, killing 20 people.

Eighty people were inside the building in Quanzhou when it came down. Nine escaped, while 71 people were trapped. It seems symbolic of the collapse of economies and our everyday way of life here and elsewhere in the wake of the pandemic.

According to CNN,at the time of the collapse, 58 people were under quarantine in the hotel and all had tested negative for novel coronavirus. There were also 16 hotel staff and six car dealership employees on site.

The building’s owner is in police custody, according to state news agency Xinhua. The hotel was a seven-story steel structure, built in 2013 and converted to a hotel in 2018. The owner began renovating the first floor in January. Workers called the owner around 7 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 7, and told him a pillar had became distorted during construction, according to reports. The building collapsed a few minutes later. Quanzhou is about 600 miles from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China, where more than 3,000 people have died from the virus.

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Episode 8 of The Mystical Underground Podcast

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

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Life as Movie Script

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

If life right now was a movie script, we would be in Act 2, what author Blake Snyder in Save the Cat, calls the upside world. This world is where the hero has left the status quo world (which may have happened on January 21, 2017 when trump was inaugurated as the 45th president) and tries to fix things – but in the wrong way. The hero is acting on his or her wants, not needs.

In The Hunger Games, it’s where Katniss enters the Capitol. For us, it’s where much of the country is in lockdown mode, consumerism has come to a glaring, screeching halt, and people are told to work from home or to go home and not come back until the country opens up again. For us, this upside world is riddled with uncertainty – no unemployment, no sick leave, no pay checks, no hugs, inadequate health insurance – or none at all – and we’re in the midst of a presidential election.

In this upside down world of Act 2, the current president is a pathological liar who initially calls this pandemic a democratic hoax, then changes his tune – sort of – and tries to act like he knows what’s going on. The hero – us, the American people – think we should wait until the election to get rid of this demented man. That’s the wrong way to fix thing. That’s what Act 2 is about. What lesson is the hero supposed to learn in Act 2? Well, according to Save the Cat, we should figure out how to fix things the right way, based on our needs.

So how do we, the heroes, do that? We must use our collective power – more than 330 million of us – to take back democracy before it dies altogether. According to Snyder, we have to go through some trials first. Like:

as of 1 a.m. March 22, the confirmed cases globally, are more than 312,000  with nearly 27,000 in the U.S., more than 12,000 cases in NY, more than 53,000 cases in Italy and, well, on and on. In Florida, there are 763 cases, a 13.6% rise in the last 24 hours. But our governor, Ron De Santis, a trump sycophant, didn’t bother closing beaches because, you know, all those spring breakers mean $ to the state! So local officials in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties closed the beaches. But on Florida’s west coast, beaches are open! C’mon down, you silly college kids. De Santis, to his credit, tries to act like a leader, but fails miserably. No state lockdown. And he pats trump on the back at every opportunity.

I think we’re now at what Snyder calls the midpoint of this script, where the stakes are raised. It’s the crossroad. But what raises those stakes? Several hundred thousand more infections? Thousands of deaths? Hospitals increasingly overwhelmed by lack of supplies and necessary equipment? A scarcity of nurses and doctors because they’re in quarantine or dead? A complete breakdown of the economy?

While the senate argues over what the stimulus package should be for corporations, as it was in the 2008 bailout for banks and Wall Street, (this time for airlines and cruise ships) individuals are gasping on dust. And then, in Save the Cat, the hero realizes what to do. Invoke the 25th amendment. In a nutshell, it means the president is removed because he(she) is unfit for office.

How does the hero does this? How do we do this? By rejecting this entire scenario as our story. We do this through  sheer numbers – more than 330 million of us – who rise up with a unified voice. But how? How? By believing that we can do it. That collective belief may be our most powerful tool.

We can’t allow this travesty to continue:

Can we get to the break into Act 3 before everything breaks down? Can the hero win and the evil guys be led away in orange jumpsuits? We’re not there.

Not yet.

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Should OBE Sex Be Considered Cheating?

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Trish and Rob

This is one of the most unusual interviews we’ve done so far.

Wes Meeks, a former cop, talks about his numerous out of body travels, some of the most bizarre OBEs we’ve heard of!

 

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Dystopia and Synchronicity

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

In many ways, life right now feels like a Dystopian novel. So much uncertainty, so much misinformation. The profound undercurrent of fear is reflected in the panicked buying that has left grocery store shelves bare, stripped of paper products – toilet paper, paper towels, Kleenex, even paper napkins. The meat section at our local Publix was cleaned out, there’s no rice, the canned goods have been winnowed down, and the water aisle is empty. Certain vitamins and cold remedies are also gone – vitamin C, all the varieties of Nyquill, Advil, Tylenol… But hey, there’s plenty of Corona beer!

When I was a kid in Venezuela, political turmoil – i.e. revolution – used to shut down Caracas. I remember going to the market – the auto mercado – with my mother to buy food and supplies. But by the time we arrived, the shelves were usually more cleaned out than what I’m seeing in markets around here.

For South Floridians, I think the panicked buying relates to what you do when a cat 5 hurricane is headed your way. Bottled water and bags of ice go first. Then batteries and flashlights and backup power for cell phones. Then paper products. Then anything that won’t spoil. The big difference is that with a hurricane, you can pretty much count on losing power, so you don’t buy frozen goods. You buy what can go into a cooler of ice and can sit in your pantry for months without spoiling. You make sure you have enough cash to buy stuff when you can’t use your ATM. But hurricanes roar in and then leave and eventually, life is restored to normal – although I’m not sure life will ever return to normal for the Abacos.

With the threat of this virus, though, it’s not a matter of hours or even several days. It’s not even a month. One estimate I heard from a physician this evening was 18 months. Imagine it: a year and a half of such awful uncertainty, of people confined to their homes, their communities, the country basically quarantined, towns shuttered, businesses closed, air travel at a standstill, cruise ships abandoned, cars rotting in driveways, kids home schooled, roads empty, crops dying before they’re harvested,..well, you get the picture.
It’s not the nukes or whatever it was in The Stand or kids hunting kids in The Hunger Games or the burning of books in Farenheit 451. And it’s not yet The Road. It’s close to the virus in Robin Cook’s Outbreak, except this is Corona, not Ebola.

But suppose what’s really happening is a massive shift from one paradigm to another and we’re caught in the middle of it as the transition occurs? What we need is information to feed our left brains so that our intuition – dreams, gut hunches, visions, insights – can kick into high gear. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Maybe the first thing we have to do is awaken intuitively.

First, though, here’s something for the left brain. I recently ran across an article by Amy Goodman, a journalist for Democracy Now, about a 7-year old boy from Seattle whoo created a website about the statistics for this virus – it’s at the top of this post. More than 40 million hits so far. I’ve been checking it against the federal and state statistics and am now using it as my first reference.

Now: for the right brain. Pay attention to the synchronicities happening in your life. In pivotal times, they tend to flourish. They’re messengers. They manifest themselves as impulses, hunches, visions, repetitive numbers, names, encounters, people…They’re sometimes subtle, sometimes in your face. Ignore them at your own peril.

And: for the skeptic brain. Even you will experience synchros that seize you.
For the holographic brain: You have the pieces of the puzzle. Now just put the puzzle together,

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The Language of Poe’s Death

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Edgar Allan Poe’s death in 1849 at the age of 40 is an unsolved mystery. He was found slumped on a curb outside an Irish pub by a friend, a doctor, who reported that he was wearing cheap ill-fitting clothing unlike his usual attire. He spent several days in hospital in a state of delirium before dying. Theories about the cause of his death have included suicide, murder, cholera, hypoglycemia, rabies, syphilis, influenza, and alcohol poisoning.

But an article in Neurosciencenews.com presents research by psychologist Dr. Ryan Boyd from Lancaster university and his colleague – Hannah Dean from the University of Texas at Austin that suggests that Poe did not commit suicide.

Their evidence is computational analysis of language used by Poe. They found that Poe’s psychological markers of depression were not consistent with suicide. Their research has now been published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Dr Boyd said: “My hunch is that he was indeed spiralling into a depression toward the end of his life, but that he didn’t kill himself.”

Using computerized language analysis, they analysed 309 of Poe’s personal letters, 49 poems, and 63 short stories and investigated whether a pattern of linguistic cues consistent with depression and suicidal cognition were discernible throughout the writer’s life, particularly in his final years.

They focused on five measures which have been established as diagnostic of depression and/or suicidality;

Increased use of first-person singular pronouns (e.g., words like I, me, and my)

Increased use of negative emotion words (bad, sad, angry)

More cognitive processing words (think, understand, know)

Fewer positive emotion words (happy, good, terrific)

Fewer first-person plural pronouns (we, us, our).

These linguistic markers of depression spiked during negative events in Poe’s life, like the death of his wife. Past research has shown that depressive language patterns tend to dramatically rise leading up to one’s death by suicide, however, this pattern did not consistently emerge in the last year of Poe’s life.

Poe was known to have suffered from regular bouts of severe depression and also had drug and alcohol problems. He lost his parents as a two year old and was devastated first by the death of his foster mother and then by that of his own wife Virginia Clemm Poe in 1847.

The researchers concluded: “Significant, consistent patterns of depression were not found and do not support suicide as a cause of death. However, linguistic evidence was found suggesting the presence of several potential depressive episodes over the course of Poe’s life – these episodes were the most pronounced during years of Poe’s greatest success, as well as those following the death of his late wife.”

“Our analyses suggest that he struggled deeply with success, with linguistic markers of depression peaking during the times of his greatest fame and popularity in 1843, 1845 and 1849.”Poe

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Corona, Saturn/Pluto, and #23

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Trish and Rob

The Corona virus and  astrology. So what are the stars telling us? Go back to January 12, when Saturn and Pluto were exactly conjunct at 23 degrees in Capricorn. As I wrote last November about this conjunction: Saturn represents structures, self-discipline, responsibility, and karma – a word I really dislike. Pluto governs profound and permanent change, regeneration, obsession, destruction, and power. This conjunction occurs in earth-sign Capricorn, which rules – among other things – government, structures, the status quo.

These two planets have been approaching an exact conjunction since late January 2019, when they were just seven degrees apart. It’s like a game of tag with these two. Gonna catch you, Saturn cackles, then it turns retrogrades and appears to go backward relative to Earth. But during the second week of January 2020, the conjunction becomes exact. This also coincidences with the first eclipse of 2020, a lunar eclipse in Cancer on January 10.

So, if we take the meanings of these two planets at face value, Pluto’s destructive power arrived as a virus – a kind of terrorist – and knocked the status quo – government, structures intended to deal with pandemics – on its face. Pluto exposes what is hidden beneath the surface and it certainly has done that with the trump administration. The man who congratulates his own greatness every opportunity he gets, the man who announced several weeks ago that the virus was a hoax, said today, on March 16, that it might be July, maybe August, before things get better. That’s a far cry from “hoax.”

From the firing of CDC employees – 500 of them – to the dismantling of structures intended to deal with health crises, this administration is completely unprepared for this kind of terrorist. So mayors and governors are making determinations about their communities, cities, and states. The pathetic part of this is that the administration has offered few guidelines other than trump telling the states to find their own ventilators.
Jan 12 was the only time in 2020 these 2 planets are exactly conjunct, at 23 degrees Capricorn. Interestingly, that number has a rather odd and mystical history.

William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, claimed he had known a Captain Clark in Tangier around 1960, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. That very evening, a new bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another Captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23. A synchronicity. The enigma of this number was the topic of an early post on our blog in 2009.

But when it comes to enigmatic numbers, my first source for insight is The I Ching, a Chinese divination system that dates back at least 5,000 years. Even though I’ve been using the Ching since I was 18, I’m still a beginner. I know only two women who are absolute masters of this divination system – author Nancy Pickard, and artist and writer Adele Aldridge who is illustrating and interpreting every line and hexagram in the I Ching on her website

In the I Ching, hexagram 23 is called Splitting Apart. The hexagram looks like this:
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Here’s the beginning of the interpretation in the Richard Wilhelm translation of the I Ching, to which Carl Jung wrote the introduction in 1949:

The dark lines are about to mount upward and overthrow the last firm, light line by exerting a disintegrating influence on it. The inferior, dark forces overcome what is superior and strong, not by direct means, but by undermining it gradually and imperceptibly, so that it finally collapses.

The lines of the hexagram present the image of a house, the top line being the roof, and because the roof is being shattered the house collapses.
The Judgement: Splitting Apart. It does not further anyone to go anywhere.

Go to Adele’s website for her interp of hexagram 23 or Google it.
So, Saturn and Pluto and 23, here we are.

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One Lucky Guy

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Every so often we come across an older story from the news that is worth reviving. This one is an incredible series of life-and-death synchronicities, of astonishing luck that wouldn’t stop. Thanks to Jane Clifford of Wales for alerting us to this one.

In 1999, Bill Morgan, a 37-year-old truck driver in Australia, had an allergic reaction to a drug he was given after surviving an accident in his truck. His heart stopped and he was dead for 14 minutes before he was revived. However, he remained comatose and considering how long he’d been clinically dead, doctors twice recommended that life support be removed, allowing him to die.

Astonishingly, after 12 days, he miraculously came out of his coma and was fine. He suffered no brain damage or other long term problems from the event.

Feeling pretty lucky after his recovery, Morgan asked his long-time girlfriend to marry him, and she agreed. To celebrate, he bought a lotto ticket and won a car worth $17,000. (Valued at about $23,000 in today’s dollars.)

An Australian new program heard about Morgan’s streak of luck and decided to do a story on him. The reporter asked Morgan to buy another scratch-off and recreate his lotto win by showing  the same reaction he had to winning the car. This time, however, the results were even more astonishing. The lotto ticket he picked was worth $250,000! (That’s $361,000 today.) Quite a story.

 

 

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The Spirit of Tom Cutbush

Posted on March 14, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Janice and Tom Cutbush on their honeymoon

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I met Janice Cutbush and her husband, Tom, in the late 1970s, when I was dating a man from her hometown whom she’d grown up with. She and I hit it off immediately.  She and Tom and their two young kids at the time later visited me when I lived in Vero Beach and we saw each other periodically over the years.Then in 1996, at the age of 50, Tom died.

In our book Secrets of Spirit Communication, we included a story about spirit contact Janice had with Tom that involved a lonely loon at Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks.  We met her and her present husband, Steve, for dinner recently and I asked her if there had been any more contact from Tom. She sent me four experiences. Here’s the first one:

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My husband Tom died suddenly of a heart attack one sunny April day in 1996 when we were jogging together. He was 50 years old. I was 49. We were less than a half mile from our home. Married 28 years, we were high school sweethearts and so together for 3 years before we married at the young ages of 21 and 23.

He had been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation when he was 47 but was told he could live a normal life span. Not true for him because he had bad genetics. His dad had died suddenly of a heart attack when he was only 41. Tom was 14 when his dad died. This event haunted and scarred him. He had a premonition of his own early demise and was always saying things like, “When I die, you can remarry, but make sure he’s a good guy.” Or “You have to do everything now. Don’t put off anything you want to do.”

I never actually believed he would die young like his dad because he had a much healthier lifestyle than his father. He’d quit smoking at 30 and stopped drinking caffeine and alcohol when he was 45. And he’d always been an exerciser. But that Sunday morning his worst prediction came true. We were almost home from our run and I said, “I’m going to stop here.” He replied, “I’m going a little farther.” Those were his last words before he collapsed in the street.

The next hour became a blur-ambulance, EMTs, CPR and the ride to the hospital in the ambulance while praying the Hail Mary. When I was first allowed to see him, he had passed. I will never forget his face; he looked like he had just fought the battle of a lifetime and lost. His expression was one of pure exhaustion, not peace. I felt terrible. I never got to say goodbye to him or tell him how much I loved him and our life together despite its ups and downs. I was in shock and traumatized and would be for at least a year afterward.

My first communication with Tom came in the form of a dream visitation about 3 weeks after he’d passed. The dream was so vivid, I remember it even today 24 years later. I dreamed I was driving in the desert and I came upon a deep chasm. I didn’t know how I was going to cross it. Then 3 men appeared and told me not to worry because they would build me a bridge. And they did except the bridge was made of sand. I took a leap of faith and drove across the sand bridge in my dream. In typical dream-like fashion the bridge didn’t collapse.

I drove till I reached a small house with an open porch and a man with white hair and beard was sitting on it. He welcomed me and asked if I would like a glass of red wine. I said yes and he handed me a glass. Then he said, “There’s someone here to see you.” The door opened and there was Tom all dressed in a suit, looking handsome and smiling. I went to him and he enveloped me with a warm hug. Then I awakened, but the dream was so real that I could still feel his warmth when I woke.

This dream was so authentic, I felt as though I had made contact with Tom in the next world. His smile told me he was happy in the afterlife, and it comforted me greatly to know he was content.

 

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Moments with Marianne

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Trish and Rob

We spent a delightful hour talking with Marianne Pestana about our new book, Phenomena: Harnessing Your Psychic Powers.  She’s knowledgeable about the paranormal and her show – Moments with Marianne – is always fun.

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