The Cosmic Journal and Yanik Silver

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

 

In late December, we received an email from Yanik Silver through this blog and he asked if he could send us a copy of his new book ahout synchornicity.  The book arrived early in the new year and what a delight it is! Yank illustrated it, the pages are handwritten, and and filled with wisdom. The journal can also be used as an oracle. Ask a question, open the journal at random, point at the page.

I emailed my thanks for this wonderful book and he sent along this synchronicity connected to the writing of the journal.

From Yanik:

What started as an interesting experiment turned into something much bigger than I could have imagined…

Every night for 108 nights, I illustrated a new journal entry.

Originally I saw a challenge online for 100-days of art but I didn’t really think I could do it with all my travel and other things going on. I remember writing in my own journal, I might as well do it and see what happens. But instead of just 100, I wanted to make it more meaningful for me.

In the yogic tradition 108 is a sacred number. I do 108 sun salutations each summer solstice and 108 is a powerful number in many ancient traditions

So many nights I really didn’t want to sit down and work on a new entry. Sometimes it meant a few 4 AM nights, but I made that commitment. I remember one night I literally fell asleep as I drawing a quote and my pen slipped but the entry ended up being so much more powerful with that “on-purpose mistake.”

I did just for myself.

These were direct downloads. Normally, I’d meditate and then just see what wanted to come through me. Pretty personal and sometimes a bit out there.

 

Sometimes I couldn’t believe “I” had written it. It just flowed through me. I didn’t intend to publish them but as I slowly shared a few with friends, they would love them. Then very hesitantly I put a couple out and got a great response. And then I showed them to a friend who invested in a limited run published, thereby ensuring I actually paid attention and made it a real book.

I’ve never had a project like this. I never had a specific order to the pages when I wrote them for myself, it was just whatever showed up that night. After I sent the original journal to get scanned, I got back contact sheets of these little 2”x 2” squares for each page. My entire kitchen island was covered in these thumbnails figuring out the divine order.

 

And I knew I was on the right track because I finished sorted the order at exactly 1:11AM.

I then created left-hand prompt pages for the Journal over several days and also finished them at exactly 1:11AM. Wow!! It’s not like I had an alarm and decided to stop at a certain point, it was just divine timing.

But that still isn’t the end of the story…

One of my good friends introduced me to the president of Hay House publishing (the same people that publish Wayne Dyer) and after a quick breakfast meeting, he said he’s never seen anything quite like this. So I immediately fast tracked a book deal for the Cosmic Journal and an oracle deck (coming out later in 2020).

As I was reviewing old journal entries from years back, I stumbled upon this page I drew about Carl Jung from his mysterious Red Book. Jung really wrestling with his “science” and “spiritual” side and The Red Book was published posthumously because he didn’t believe he would be taken seriously as a therapist if he shared everything he channeled. This oversized volume is magnificent with his gorgeous illustrations and calligraphy, he labeled this period of time as fodder for his most meaningful work.

 

I had doodled a little comic bubble having Jung telling me, “Create Your Own Red Book,” which I feel like the Cosmic Journal really is. And then I did a double-take…111 again! I had to look it up in the Red Book and 111 was the number of the illustration I doodled of the snake and it was plate #111 in there. Love it.

I’ve started referring to the Cosmic Journal as, “The galactic instruction manual you were missing when you were born to fulfill your destiny.”

You can read it cover to cover or flip to a page at “random” like an Oracle to see the perfect message awaiting you from the Universe. I’ve been stunned each time I’ve done this. I’ve had so many synchronicities occur giving me moments of awe and wonder.

 

 

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Florida’s Medical Marijuana Cards

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

In 2016, Floridians overwhelmingly voted in favor of a constitutional amendment to allow medical marijuana. At least 60 percent of voters had to cast a ballot in favor of the amendment, and that happened. But in 2017, Gov. Rick Scott – now a Florida senator – signed a law that banned marijuana smoking in all forms.

That ban was overturned when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation to repeal it.
Shortly after DeSantis took office in January, he called on the Florida legislature to send a bill to his desk that would legalize medical marijuana by March 15. That happened. It’s now legal in Florida to obtain a medical marijuana card.

There are plenty of doctors to choose from and for the most part, they’re pricey. Several of our friends got their cards, so we asked for the names of the doctors they used. The services ranged from $99 a visit to $249. In addition to the doctor’s visit, the state card costs $77. I chose the doc who charged $99, who was about 12 miles south of our house.

I was early for my appointment and had to fill out a 14-page history on myself. One of the sections included why I thought I would benefit from medical marijuana. I cited an arthritic ankle, which had been sprained many times over the years. The orthopedic doc I’d seen several weeks earlier diagnosed it as osteoarthritis and didn’t understand how I was still able to walk. He scheduled me for an MRI because the X-ray didn’t show enough detail. It turned out my health insurance didn’t cover the particular facility he recommended. I looked for an alternative and ended up in Dr. Wolff’s office on Halloween, the day that Mercury turned retrograde.

“So what other stuff do you have besides your ankle?” he asked.

“Anxiety about trump.”

He laughed. “Yeah, me, too.” He proceeded to tell me about his wife’s experience with a trumper during the test that led up to her open heart surgery.

Once he approved me for basically everything, he explained I would receive an email confirmation about my eligibility in about two weeks and could use that to go to a dispensary. He also advised that I should try the various hybrid products that had both THC and CBD.

My email arrived on November 14. What I learned is simple: medical marijuana is now a booming business. From the local doc to the state card to the number of business dispensaries, weed sells. The business is lucrative. And legal.

Card holders are permitted 2.5 ounces of weed – now termed flower – a month. That’s more than a pound a year, enough to last me a decade. But more importantly are the products offered by these dispensaries. At a dispensary here in Wellington, I bought something called pain relief cream, which is 1:1 THC/CBD. This stuff is amazing, better than Advil, better than anything prescribed by the orthopedic guy who originally saw me. It cost $65 for a 1.7 ounce tube as opposed to the orthopod’s prescription for $100, which didn’t do much.

I returned to the dispensary a week later to see what else they had for pain relief and got a product with a stronger dosage, 250 mg of THC, 25 of CBD. The young man who waited on me informed me I had over 13,000 milligrams left of pain relief gel products. Yes, the state restricts the topical stuff too. But here’s the thing.

When I wake in the morning, my ankle feels fine, swelling is minimal. As I move around through my day, it swells but discomfort is an afterthought. At the gym, I barely notice anything. Today when I went to the dispensary the place was jammed. Yes, some of these people may have been there just to get weed, but so what? Marijuana is not heroine, not cocaine, not oxycontin. It’s what the hippies knew way back when the Vietnam War was raging and the Beatles were still alive. It’s the high that pushes you into the groove of no pain, no discomfort, no hostility, no negatives, just embrace joy.

And hey, my ankle is doing fine!

But here’s an irony. My hairdresser, Angie, told me about a Colombian product sold on Amazon, a homeopathic remedy for inflamation that’s made from marigolds, It’s called Dololed, costs $24 on Amazon, and it essentially has cured my ankle. Inflammation is way down, I can walk normally. And the medical weed card has nothing to do with this.

 

 

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Heart breaker…

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Philip Merry, a Brit with a cheery name who lives in Singapore, is someone we’ve known by way of  the internet for years, ever since he reached out to us after reading The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity. At the time, Philip was working on his Ph.d in psychology and writing his thesis on synchronicity. For years, he has led self-help seminars and workshops throughout Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

He has teamed with the HeartMath Institute, where researchers have provided breakthrough research linking the physical heart to the spiritual (energetic) heart. To that end, Philip recently was the keynote speaker at the group’s annual conference, this year held in Cancun. That’s a synchronicity of sorts for us since we are writing a book now called Heart I.Q.—Get Out of Your Head and Let Your Heart Lead you to Happiness.

Maybe it’s a double synchronicity since Philip has published a book on happiness. In fact, it was that book that triggered a prophetic moment for him. He was signing the book for a friend at an event and wrote in part, “Keep on breaking hearts.” At the time, he didn’t know why he wrote that. Here’s what he said about it.

“When I sign my book – I am guided what to write – the words just come to me – it feels like I am downloading the words from an energy field.

“In Mexico last month when signing my book for a friend I was guided to write “keep on breaking hearts” (see actual words above) – a strange message, but I just went with the flow. A week later my friend was at a talk where the theme was ‘breaking hearts’ – the speaker said, Hearts must be broken in order to release their light.” My friend wrote to me saying, ‘the idea made a lot of sense to me, and in that very moment I understood why you were inspired to write that for me.’ When you are guided to say or do something – pay attention – your words may be a prophecy of things to come.”

Good advice, Philip.

 

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Welcome to 2020 and the beginning of a new decade!

January has some interesting astrological events that you can read about in the masthead and in upcoming posts.

We’ve also created a website – phenomena111.com – for our non-fiction books on synchronicity and the paranormal. It will include  upcoming books and radio shows/podcast where we’ll be talking about our newest book, Phenomena: Harnessing Your Psychic Abilities.

The print edition of the book will be out this month.

 

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What If – excerpts from Phenomena

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Trish and Rob

AMAZON: KINDLE, $4.99

W HAT IF you had married your high school sweetie…WHAT IF your daughter had been a son… WHAT IF you had majored in what you love…

WHAT IF is probably one of the major questions in our lives.

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Nearly two decades into the twenty-first century, more and more people are accepting the reality of paranormal experiences, according to the polls. While mainstream science and skeptics argue that you shouldn’t trust your own experiences related to the paranormal, it is those personal encounters with the paranormal that turn people into believers. Meanwhile, more and more scientists, through their research and own experiences, are endorsing the validity of visions, of phenomena. Even taboo subjects such as UFOs and alien encounters are on the table for consideration.

The power of the Internet and social media, websites and blogs, online magazines, and podcasts, have made it easy to connect with others worldwide who have experienced what you have. Fear of ridicule is a fading anachronism of the past.

A Google search for “radio shows and podcasts that focus on the paranormal” returned nearly forty-two million links. A search for “websites, blogs, and online magazines about the paranormal” delivers more than eight million links. When you limit the search to “UFOs,” the hits for radio shows and podcasts is about three and a half million. If you simply Google “synchronicity,” more than eight million links come up. All told, Google delivers sixty plus million links for the types of experiences included in this book.

That’s a lot of company! Maybe some of those millions have only experienced hunches or dreams that seemed to presage a future event or a powerful synchronicity that seized their attention. But they’re open minded and interested in these events and experiences.

This growing collective curiosity and fascination with the mysterious and unknown is everywhere in popular culture. TV shows like Stranger Things to Travelers, Timeless, Dark, and Project Bluebook reflect the notion that reality is vastly different from what we’ve been taught. Movies like The Matrix, Twelve Monkeys, Inception, Get Out and Us carry these ideas about the paranormal into even newer and stranger territory that compel us to speculate about what ifs.

What if, as the Many Worlds Theory contends, there are worlds that spin off from every decision we make? Suppose there’s a version of you living a life where you didn’t marry your current spouse? Where you had three kids? Where your mother didn’t die from complications of Alzheimer’s?

What if it’s possible to cure cancer and other diseases through the focus of our minds and emotions?

What if there are people who can move objects with their minds, see into the future, feel planetary or manmade disasters hours, days or even weeks before they occur?

It begins to sound as if we’re all living in a Stephen King novel, where nothing is the way it should be, the way we were taught.

Perhaps the true nature of what it means to be human is found in these what if scenarios, where a new paradigm intends to be born regardless of the way the old paradigm pushes against it, criticizes and ridicules.

Throughout history, people have been guided by visions, trances, dreams, spirit contact. Mystical experiences are about journeys beyond our physical limitations, beyond the everyday world, journeys in which we recognize the interconnectedness of all things, and come away with a sense of peace and universal love, an awareness of a guiding force, a sense of being changed. Even though our culture seems permeated with polarizing points of view, at a deeper level we are all manifested from the same Genie bottle of consciousness.

We all have psychic abilities to one degree or another. We are more than just our physical bodies. We can tap into a collective soup of knowledge and wisdom that expands who we are and what we can do. We aren’t all Marvel super heroes, but the potential exists in each and every one of us to become more than who we currently are.

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Max’s Synchronistic License Plates

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Back in early November, we were guests on skeptico hosted by Alex Tsakiris. So far, it has been one of our favorite interviews. Alex knows his stuff, knows his audience, knows how to keep things moving. We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about the show. Alex has an impressively engaged audience.

This evening, on the winter solstice, we received a fascinating email from Max Clarke, whose website  is crowded with synchronicities, many of them connected to license plates. He heard us on Alex’s show, which was episode 432:

Max’s writing is funny, insightful, and the background of his interests parallels ours – synchronicities, of course, the I Ching, the Seth books, the trickster… And OMG the real license plates he has photographed over the years add new meaning to this type of synchro.

His posts go back to 2007, and begin with a visit to Alcatraz where – and I bet you didn’t know this – Sean Connery had a cabin during the filming of The Rock. Max explores the world of San Francisco with an eye for the unusual, the mystical, the strange, and his posts have these license plates that are mind-blowing.

Here’s one that I love. It happened when Max was driving an airport shuttle van:

One day I visited a bookstore for something new to read. The subject was Taoism. I bought a book about Taoism because the Tao was important to British metaphysical writer Stuart Wilde. The book was written by a Chinese master of Taoism.

The day after I bought the Taoism book, my first passenger in San Francisco was named Tao. Driving to that first pickup, I probably thought, “Wow! Tao!”  Probably had trouble keeping the shuttle van in my lane, too.

A month later, I bought a more advanced book about Taoism, written by the same Taoist master. It cost a little more than the first volume, but I didn’t care. Taoism was a fascinating system, and the extra dollars were giving me extra ancient Chinese wisdom.
And the next day, another passenger named Tao.

Pow! Tao! Wow!

And then I spent forty bucks or so to buy the Taoist master’s book about the I Ching…a thick hardcover volume  about divination and the hexagrams. It cost as much as the two books combined, but I did not care. Imagine the wisdom I would absorb from the big book….

The next day, I could not wait to enter the dispatcher’s office and see the reservation card for my first pickup of the day. I was sure there would be a Wow! Pow! Tao! moment.
My first passenger of the day had a non-Tao name like Mr. Blah-Blah. Maybe Mr. Ho-Hum, or maybe Steven Snoozer. Possibly the name was Ennui… Biff Ennui.

Not one thing that day or that week connected with the I Ching…no name or license plate or song on the radio or company name.

But I let it go. My greed for another great Tao moment may have frightened it off. When you absolutely need something, the burning desire can  push it away. So can entitlement, which was not present when I purchased the first two books.

A year or two later, though, I was driving in San Francisco and spotted a car with the plate TAO.

Nice, very nice. Got a couple of shots near the Transamerica Pyramid. Too bad the car was in the distance. though, and the plate was nearly unreadable.

Years after TAO, I met the owner of a license plate QIAN. I thought it might be her name, similar to Guan Yin. Nope. She said that was a reference to the I CHING. In fact, it was the name of the first hexagram of the I Ching. It represented force, creative action, initiatory power.

Excellent plate, and the lady behind the wheel made a nice first impression. Poised with an easy smile.

So visit his website  and feast on 12 years of posts that are humorous, insightful, and filled with synchronicities, many of them concerning license plates. His material is fascinating.

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Solar Eclipse in Capricorn

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Today’s solar eclipse (12/26) occurs at 12:13 AM ET, and a day earlier PT, at 9;13 PT on December 25. It’s at 4 degrees Capricorn, is the last eclipse of 2019, it’s a beauty!

Solar eclipses indicate new opportunities, new people, new chapters opening in our lives. And on the day of this eclipse, more than half the zodiac is in earth sign Capricorn – you can see the party in the 3rd and 4th house. From left to right, the planets are the moon, sun, Jupiter and then Saturn and Pluto in the 4th house. Notice that Jupiter is just one degree away form the eclipse degree – technically conjunct – and that makes this eclipse a great way to end 2019.

Jupiter governs luck, abundance, prosperity, expansion, higher education, spirituality, foreign cultures and people. It entered Capricorn on December 3, where it will be for the next year, and will expand some area of your life.

You may feel the effects of this solar eclipse several days on either side of the exact date. To find out how the eclipse impacts your sign specifically, check the forecasts in the masthead.

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Happy Holidays!

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Happy holidays from us to all of you!

Our tree this year is a bit lopsided, but it means well.

We hope your holidays are happy and abundant and insightful.

Now, get ready for the solar eclipse in Capricorn on Dec 25/26, depending on where you live, and that post will be up on December 26.

 

 

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Another Spirit Contact Story

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Trish and Rob

23324331 – moment of death

Instagram sometimes yields some fascinating synchros. This one comes from a man on IG – let’s call him Jim – who has had some powerful spirit contact experiences. This one happened when he was 13.

“There was an event that altered the course of my life at the age of 13 (1975, the summer before I started high school). I went on an organized bus trip to the Indiana Dunes and my childhood best friend (lived across the street) died of suffocation by accidentally getting buried in sand from a hole he and another boy were digging.

Incidentally, this led to my first paranormal experience. A few months after the accident at the dunes, I was awakened one morning by someone shaking my shoulder. It was my friend Jim who had died. I had been having difficulty coping and he told me he was just fine, and that I needed to start to move on and live my life again.

“After I got up that morning, I told my mom about what happened and she didn’t judge. I later learned that my mom called Jim’s mom on the phone (they are still friends to this day) and told her of the visitation. After hearing what happened, she told my mom that the night before my experience with Jim, she (knowing I was having a difficult time) prayed to him that he might help me.”

This experience apparently opened Jim to the possibility that what we see and perceive with our five senses is definitely not the full story.

 

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Michael Moore’s New Podcast

Posted on December 21, 2019 by Trish and Rob

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/michael-moore-useful-idiots-2020-election-donald-trump-929152/

Ever since I saw Bowling for Columbine and then Farenheit 911 and Sicko, I’ve been an avid fan of Michael Moore. He speaks his truth an d is never afraid to do so. I remember how at the end of Farenheit 911, everyone in the theater applauded. Same with Sicko.

Now he has a podcast called Rumble and it’s available on a number of different platforms.

I downloaded it on Podbean, 4 episodes so far. The first one is called Let’s Rumble. Episode 2: We ARE on  the Wrong Side. Episode 3: Last Train out of DC. This one was recorded while Moore was on a train leaving D.C. after sitting in on the impeachment proceedings. Episode 4: Now Yous Can’t Leave, a long conversation with Robert De Niro.

I’ve listened to bits of each of them and I think I’m going to start with episode 3 and then move on to episode 4. This is the first week of his podcasts.

Wow! A welcome addition!

And happy winter solstice, our shortest day of the year!

 

 

 

 

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