Censorship

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Censorship: it’s one of the ugliest and most evil words in the English language, but particularly objectionable to writers.

There has been a lot of it in world history, often under totalitarian regimes – Hitler’s Germany, Chile under Pinochet, Cuba under Fidel Castro, and in Iran, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela…well, the list is long, but the reason is short: If you speak out against the current government, you are targeted, censored, and in some countries, arrested and killed.

Book banning, of course, has a long and ugly history. The Harry Potter books are particularly interesting. According to the American Library Association:

In an interesting twist, the Harry Potter books changed the focus of book challenges in schools and public libraries. Prior to 1999, most challenges had to do with sex, the human body or “inappropriate” language (Dunne), with most of the books themselves falling into the realistic fiction genre. Rowling’s books shifted the censors’ attention to fantasy with challenges asserting that Harry Potter glorified magic and the occult, confusing children and leading them to attempt to emulate the spells and curses they read about. There were some concerns over the violence and the increasingly dark tone of the later books in the series. But most of the censorship attempts aimed at Harry Potter were for religious reasons.

From 2000- 2009, the Harry Potter series topped the most frequently challenged list of 2000-2009.

But suppose, in the current climate of the U.S., the censorship isn’t the government, per se, or religious zealots, but social media platforms like Facebook?

I recently put up a post on Facebook that appeared initially on the blog. It was called The Playbook and features the book cover of Mein Kampt and compared Trump to Hitler.  About 4 hours after it went up, I received a notice from FB that it violated community standards and has been removed. I realize that FB may be overly cautious now because of the flack they’ve gotten from congress over the election, but c’mon, Hitler is one of the darkest pockets of world history. Since he and trump share some of the same characteristics, how does that violate “community standards?” Figures like Hitler and all his cronies throughout history need to be remembered and condemned.

Facebook also owns Instagram, which has its share of porn. How is porn okay for the community standards? I no longer follow people on Instagram with private accounts who follow me because all too often I then get a direct message from the person, which includes a naked photo and: click here for more naked pics of me. Or: Venmo me for a private view.

In the 21st century, here in the U.S., I find this type of censorship frightening.

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Star, the Cat, and Spirit Contact

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Our deceased animal buddies, just like our deceased loved ones, often contact us once they’re in spirit. Like with any such contact, though, we have to be aware, to believe that such contact is possible, and to be open to it.

In June 2018, Melisssa’s cat, Star had to be put down. She was nearly 21. When the vet went to their house to help her along, Melissa and John were playing an Azure Ray song, “November,” which was her favorite song and made her more comfortable. As Melissa explains, “She was asthmatic and had anxiety and we would put that record on and it would soothe her, sometimes on repeat in the middle of the night. She loved it a lot.”

“Six months to the day that she left us (she left 6/6/2018 and this happened on 12/6/2018), I was thinking about her and for some reason happened to google the Azure Ray site and noticed that there was going to be a show in Brooklyn. It was a sign from Star.  I think a Xmas ornament fell off the tree that evening – a star ornament, if I remember correctly.”

Usually, Melissa sees 11, like in the photo of Star above that’s her screen saver. And she saw it that afternoon when she learned about the Azure Ray concert at a small venue in Brooklyn. “So our cat sent us to a concert and on January 19, 2019, we went to the show.”

On the night of the show, the synchronicities began almost immediately. “When we arrived at the venue, I had to use the restroom, so I did. It’s one of those venues where people put stickers on the walls in the stalls and graffiti all over the place. The particular stall I chose had a giant ‘Melissa’ graffiti.A few minutes later, as I explored the venue, I found a 2011 penny on heads! After that, Jon told me that he had seen 11:11 on the microwave clock earlier that day.

“We then sat down for a beer and Stereolab came on the radio. I told Jon a story about a concert I went to years ago in Atlanta. Stereolab opened for Sonic Youth. The song ended and the next that played was Sonic Youth.

“Before the band went on, I had to use the restroom one more time, so I went to another bathroom in another part of the venue. Inside the random stall I looked up at the door and ssw a sticker for my  Kat’s non-profit. This may be a stretch synchro. We both live in Brooklyn and she had  been to this venue, but I still think it is significant because Kat was one of the few people that Star really liked and Kat would often watch her when we went out of town.

“A few days before the concert, I did message the band and asked them to play their song, ‘November’, which is the song that we had playing when Star left us. It was her favorite song and her favorite band.

“When the band came out, Jon reached in his pocket. He had brought one of Star’s toys with him to the show.

They did play the song and I cried the whole time.

At the end of the night, as I was going home, I looked at my phone. 11:11 PM.

And just to close this out…the next morning, I was reading about the two girls in the band  to see which one was which and guess what the debut solo album of one of them is called? “11:11”

It is also worth mentioning that about a week before this concert, Jon and I had almost the same exact dream. I saw an 11:11 that morning and he woke up at about that time as well. The dream was about Star. I could see and feel her. Our dreams were very, very similar.

“Also worth mentioning I see 11s ALL THE TIME, so much in fact, that I’ve started taking pictures and screenshots when I do, and try to document what happened that day and around seeing the 11s.”

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Coast to Coast!

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Trish and Rob

On Thurday Feb. 7 and into Friday, Feb. 8,  we’ll be on Coast to Coast to talk with George Noory about synchronicity and precognition. The time 3-5 am ET, and midnight – 2 am PT.  Hope you’ll join us! This will be our sixth appearance on Coast to Coast, including Rob’s appearance with Bruce Gernon to talk about their book about the Bermuda Triangle. The show has as many three million listeners in five countries, and is the largest night-time talk radio show.

From the Coast to Coast website:

Second Half: Experts in mysteries of the unknown including UFOs, and psychic phenomena, Trish and Rob MacGregor address their work on synchronicity and pre-cognition which started after researching alien encounters and abductions and the synchronicities that plague victims post-encounter. They have discovered that hunches and feelings could be signs from the universe about what is to come and will explain how to train your brain to recognize signs in order to enhance your innate precognitive abilities.

There’s an app called Coast to Coast AM Inside that lets you listen whenever you want.

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10th Anniversary!

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Trish and Rob

On February 4, 2009, we started this blog on synchronicity. Today is our 10th anniversary! Thanks to all of you who have contributed your knowledge and experiences and enhanced our knowledge of this wonderful phenomenon.

Here’s the link to it so you can see the great comments at the end. And here’s the full post.

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Most of us have experienced them – odd coincidences that seem like weird little hiccups in the cosmos.They usually grab our attention. But what, exactly, do they mean?

While we were writing our outline for a book on synchronicity, we stopped at our favorite cafe for a hit of morning Joe. As we sat outside, an elderly man approached us and handed us his card. It explained that he was deaf and was selling key chains. We bought one and on the back of the card found illustrations for sign language. On the way home, following the cue from the deaf man,we talked about synchronicity as a language of signs. Then we passed the local high school, where the digital sign at the entrance was announcing a class in sign language. This sign about sign language added a deeper layer to the synchronicity.

Initially, its meaning seemed to be that we were on the right track with our concept – approaching synchronicity as a language of signs. The next day, a writer friend e-mailed a synchronicity she’d experienced while working on her current novel. She said she had invited readers of her blog to submit any synchronicities they would like to share for inclusion in the book. So we decided to start this blog, a kind of digital sign announcing that we would love to hear your stories!

 

 

 

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More Spirit Contact

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Trish and Rob

As we talked about in Secrets of Spirit Contact, communication with the dead can happen in a number of ways. The mot common are through sounds, music, objects, visions, smells, and human intermediaries who are often mediums.

Throughout history, there have been some famous mediums. In the 20th century, though, the most documented medium was Edgar Cayce, dubbed “the sleeping prophet” by author Jess Stearn, who wrote about him.

Another famous medium was author Jane Roberts, who channeled Seth, “a personality essence no longer focused in physical reality.” Together, they wrote mote than 20 books on the nature of reality. Roberts died in 1983.

Esther Hicks, who channels a consortium of souls known as Abraham, is probably the most well-known medium of the 21st century. She has become a kind of cottage industry with books and workshops. John Edward is another well-known medium and author. At one time, he had a TV show in which he moved among his audience and did on the spot readings. He now does that at live performances.

But mediums can be found virtually anywhere and today at the dog park, I heard about a local medium from my friend Arlene.

In June 2013, Arlene’s older sister died and 7 months later, in January 2014, her mother died. About a year ago, she attended a large gathering with a West Palm Beach medium, Justin Terry. Everyone who attended paid $30 and was asked to write down the names of deceased loved ones with whom they desired contact. The medium also asked them to jot down a question. Arlene’s question was: “Does my mother know that I did the best I could to take care of her?” Her mom was in a nursing home then. The pieces of paper were folded, everyone put their initials on the back, and they went into a basket.

The medium moved around the crowd, the basket was brought up to him, and he selected them. Without opening them, he gave on the spot readings. When he stopped in front of Arlene, he said he was getting “…like Laverne and Shirley.”

Hit #1: her mother’s name was Shirley. That seized Arlene’s attention.

“I’m also picking up Barb. Barbara. And I’m getting a color with her. Gray.”

Hits #2 and 3. Her sister’s name was Barbara Gray.

“And I’m also getting Bobbie,” he said.

Hit #4 stunned Arlene. When she and her sister were growing up, they called each other “sis” or “sister,” and never used their given names. Only their older friends from New York had called Barbara “Bobbie.”

“Hardly anyone knew about that nickname,” she explained. “And he did answer my question. He said my mother knew I had done all I could and appreciated everything.”

Judy, a Canadian woman, was standing with us when Arlene told this story. She recently lost both her mother and husband within a few days of each other and her life has been chaotic, to say the least. “My husband,” she said, “went out with a bang. Literally.”

Her husband had been in a nursing home for the last six or eight months. He had Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and had been going steadily downhill. I’d last run into her at Whole Foods in the spring and this was the first time I’d seen her since then.

About an hour before her husband passed, she and her daughter had been asleep when a transformer box exploded outside their window. Shortly afterward, an attendant from the facility called and told them they should get to the facility. Judy feels the explosion of the transformer was her husband’s way of alerting them that he was dying.

 

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Indiana Jones Synchro…

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Trish made this collage of my Indiana Jones novels, which features Staff of Kings at the center and enlarged. That’s a joke of sorts, since the book was never published, and is considered among Indy fans as the Lost Indiana Jones novel.

I put the collage up on Instagram and a short time later,  I received a link to an on-line magazine with an article about lost tie-in novels, including Staff of Kings. At first glance, it seems that the person who sent it had seen my post and remembered the article and sent it to me. But that wasn’t it at all.

It was sent to me by the author of the article, telling me that it had just been published that morning. I doubt that he’d even seen the collage. Interestingly, it wasn’t a  case of cause and effect on his part or mine. In fact, I forgotten all about the article. The writer had interviewed me weeks earlier. Yet that was the day I posted the collage featuring the unpublished novel, the topic of the article.

Go figure. That’s how synchronicity works. Magic!

 

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Tarot of Sister Who

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Trish and Rob

I’ve never designed a tarot deck. But I own a lot of decks that capitalize on the classic Rider-Waite images with variations in the art, colors, design. My favorite of these is Tarot of the Cloisters, which I love because the deck is round, which means no card can be reversed. I figure there are enough negative cards in a typical tarot deck so that the only things reversed cards offer is more negativity. Who needs it?

My second favorite deck is just a regular Rider-Waite, but what makes it special is that it was owned by our friend, psychic Richard “Fids” Demian, whose sister sent me the deck after Fids died. When I use it, I feel that he’s the one speaking through the cards. Another favorite deck is the one that artist and eccentric Salvatore Dali designed. Many of the images on the cards are of Dali himself or his beloved wife. But even Dali stuck to the traditional suits and general meanings.

Designing a deck that deviates from the standard suits and  from the standard meanings is risky. You’re likely to be attacked by tarot purists who take exception to the smallest details – Your Magician doesn’t feature a chalice! Your Tower doesn’t have enough stuff falling out of it!

That said, Denver NeVaar has designed a deck that is fun and unusual. If you’re accustomed to reading traditional decks, The Tarot of Sister Who forces you to intuit the meanings in a different way. Take that card at the top of the post – The Prodigy. His counterpart in Tarot of the cloisters, the deck I use, is:

In the Rider Tarot, the Magician looks like this:

Regardless of the image, the meaning remains the same. The Magician is the alchemist, the transformer, and epitomizes the ability to translate ideas into action. When you draw this card, seemingly magical influences enter your life and you intuit or invent solutions to your most pressing problems. Synchronicities flourish. Your finances improve dramatically. You get the idea.

This deck also differs in that the minor suits are called Candles, Chalices, Thuribles, and Paraments instead of Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. Each suit is numbered 1-10, just like a traditional deck. But the court cards have different names. Instead of pages, knights, queens and kings, there are:  confessor, celebrant, angel, and saint. Denver  lays out his case for the differences in the book that accompanies the deck. And the meanings of the cards – all of them – are spot on.

The deck is available from The Game Crafter.  You’ll enjoy it!

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The Playbook

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Trish and Rob

The favorite playbook of authoritarian governments, dictators, and despots, is remarkably consistent.

First, you disparage the media and use it to spread your own “truth.” In Nazi Germany, this campaign was spearheaded Joseph Goebbels, who directed the government to seize control of all forms of communication: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, rallies, art, music, movies, and radio. Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media.

We can see evidence of this in trump’s constant and continual assault on the press as “fake news,” on the Mueller probe as a “witch hunt,” on intelligence personnel who criticize him. We see it in his wall rhetoric. His enemy list is  similar to what Nixon had in his final days.

In Nazi Germany, books were burned. During the spring of 1933, Nazi student organizations, professors, and librarians made up long lists of books they thought should not be read by Germans. On the night of May 10, 1933, Nazi raids on libraries and bookstores resulted in the burning of 25,000 books that included the works of Jewish writers Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, but also books by Hemingway, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis and even Helen Keller.

Trump hasn’t ordered book burnings yet, but he tried to stop the publication of Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury and of Omarosa’s book Unhinged. His attempts backfired spectacularly. Wolff’s book, published in January 2018, sold million of copies, has nearly 10,000 reviews and still comes in at 4 stars, and remains highly ranked on Amazon. Omarosa’s book, released on August 14, 2018  has 710  reviews as of today, January 28, and the reviews are still 4 stars. He has tweeted his rage against celebrities who have criticized him, against NFL players, against anyone and everyone who calls him out. He hasn’t started interment camps, unless you include the camps for children of immigrants at the border who are ripped away from their parents.

In Chile, under the regime of Augusto Pinochet, more than 3200 people were murdered by the state, more than 1,000 were disappeared, tens of thousands were tortured and hundreds of thousand fled into political exile. These figures are from an article in Nation.

In Venezuela, the names Chavez and Maduro are synonymous with the ruin of a country once flush and rich with natural resources – namely, oil. The other day at the dog park, we were sitting with a Venezuelan who had just pulled his 80-year-old mother out of the country because things have gotten so bad “there’s not even enough in the garbage to feed people.” I told him I’d lived in the country during the regime of Perez Jimenez, another brutal dictator who ruled in the 1950s with the same despotic playbook.

On the night Jimenez fled in 1958, with $250 million from the country’s coffers, my parents, sister and I watched his flight from our front porch, a trail of limos racing down mountain roads, headlights blazing in the dark. He ended up in the Dominican Republic, then Spain, then in Miami Beach, where he lived like a king.

Naomi Klein, whose book The Shock Doctrine, revealed the most egregious agenda of the Bush administration, certainly applies to the trump administration. Here she is, discussing trump as symptomatic of a larger problem.

 

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The Mystery of Directed Panspermia

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Francis Crick

How did humans come to exist on this planet? That’s a question that the late scientist Francis Crick often thought about, and he had a surprising conclusion. Crick, the co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, didn’t think much of the standard answer to that question from his peers in the world of science.

He rejected the theory commonly accepted by mainstream science that humans evolved over millions of years from lower creatures to become what we are today. He thought the idea of random molecules coming together to form humans was about as likely a scenario as a 747 jet being created as a result of a hurricane hitting a junkyard. In other words, it would be the synchronicity to end all synchronicities. But that’s not what Crick believed happened.

So how did Crick think humans came into existence? We came from elsewhere. In other words, we are extraterrestrial immigrants of sorts, according to Crick. He argued that there is no way that the DNA molecule could’ve gotten its start here on Earth. We are the result of what is now known as Directed Panspermia, the theory that organisms were deliberately transmitted to the earth by intelligent beings on another planet. Crick and a British chemist, Leslie Orgel, published a paper on it in July of 1973. They noted that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present time to say anything about the probability.

It’s fascinating that a prominent scientist would make this observation. While Crick recognized there is no scientific evidence to support his contention, there actually is hearsay evidence. And guess where it’s coming from? Crick’s scenario about humanity’s origins is the same thing that some “alien abductees”— those of us who claim to have been taken by alien beings against our wills—have reported that their abductors communicated. Their message,in essence, is: “We created you, but you have to live it.”

More about the theory of Directed Panspermia can be found here.

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Synchronicity & the Uranus transit into Taurus

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Trish and Rob

On March 6, at 12: 35 AM ET, Uranus enters Taurus, where it will be until 2026. Synchronicities will proliferate during this transit, particularly in regard to finances – both personally and globally.

Uranus represents unexpected events that occur seemingly out of nowhere, disrupt our lives, create chaos of one kind or another. It’s like a deep cleaning of our personal psyches and its purpose is to get rid of what no longer works for us so that the new can enter. It’s also about the visionary, the cutting edge, technology, the future. It facilitates every aspect of synchronicity, especially spirit communication, precognition, as well as other facets of the paranormal.

This transit initially will be jarring for many of us. At times like this, synchronicity can be our greatest ally. It confirms and affirms, sends up warning flags or reassures us of our paths. But we have to be aware and receptive and ready to act, according to where this transit will hit our birth charts.

Synchronicity, as defined by Carl Jung, is the coming together of similar inner and outer events in a way that is meaningful to the person who experiences it and that can’t be explained by cause and effect. In Jung’s universe, the paranormal falls under the synchro umbrella. So does divination – – the I Ching, tarot, astrology.

Perhaps the best explanation of how and why synchronicity works is found in quantum physics, in David Bohm’s concept of the implicate or enfolded order, a kind of primal soup that births everything in the universe, including space and time. He referred to our external reality as the explicate or unfolded order. Synchronicity is where the implicate and the explicate, the inner and outer, coincide. It’s our most visible and accessible path to understanding who we are.

The challenge with synchronicity often lies in our interpretation of what it means when we experience it. And interpretation will be key to successfully navigating this Uranus transit.

In the workshop we’ll cover:

The types of synchronicities you’re likely to experience according to your sign, the house in your chart that Uranus will transit, and the angles it will form to your sun, moon, and rising signs.

How to interpret cluster synchros – repeated incidents of numbers, objects, music, names. During this transit, clusters are likely to happen until you “get” the message.

Spirit contact – how synchronicity facilitates it, the various ways contact can occur, and how to create an inner climate that’s conducive to it and not freak out about it

Trickster synchronicities – what they are, how to recognize them, and interpreting them. Even though Uranus isn’t known as the trickster planet, it can trigger trickster synchros because of the sudden abruptness of its energy.

Tools for interpreting complex synchros that may occur over the 7 years of this transit.

I initially planned this workshop as 4 hours – an hour a week for 4 weeks. However, the astrology workshops I taught last spring usually ran an hour and a half, so that’s how I’ve scheduled it.

When: Monday, Feb. 4 (new moon in Aquarius) 11, 18, and Wednesday, Feb. 27, 7-8:30 PM ET

Where: private Facebook group

Price: $55, Venmo or Paypal

I’m asking everyone to send me 2 things before the workshop: your birth date (time, place, date) and your most recent bewildering or powerful synchronicity. Please let me know by January 31 if you’d like to attend. If you have a conflict with Mondays or the time,  I can adjust the schedule. I would like to complete this workshop before Mercury turns retrograde on March 5 and before Uranus enters Taurus!

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