The Mystical Underground: Andy Paquette: Dreamer (Episode 1)

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Andy Paquette: Dreamer (Episode 1)”:

Join Trish and Rob for the first part of a conversation with…

Andy Paquette is the author of “Dreams: 20 Years of Psychic Dreams” as well as a research paper on the spiritual content of dreams for King’s College in London. In his research,
he used a dataset comprised of 34 dream journals that contained 12, 224 dream records that you produced over a period of 27 years. His intention was to explore the relationship between veridical and spiritual content in dreams.

He’s also an artist and as he describes it, “My background is all about making pictures: drawings, paintings, and photographs. I like to shoot athletes in part because I wasn’t allowed to participate in sports as a kid, but also because the culture of sports is rich in drama, excitement, inspiration, and even humor.”

He’s known primarily for his work as a CG artist in the feature film and video game industry. He also has worked as a comic book artist. Born in 1965 in St. Paul, Minnesota, he has lived in several states within the US, primarily New York, Maine, California, Minnesota, and Arizona.

https://www.paqart.com

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Talking Gratitude

We recently interviewed Amelía Aeon Karris for The Mystical Underground podcast. We talked about her book, Synchronicity: Unlock Your Divine Destiny. But we didn’t get a chance to talk to her about any of the numerous self-help exercises she includes in the book. So here’s one of them that deals with gradtitude and neurolinguistic programming.

“The feeling of being happy (or simply being at peace with yourself) is connected to feelings of gratitude. Gratitude can be practiced and exercised, just like a muscle. The more you consciously conjure up feelings of gratitude, the brighter your outlook becomes. When you begin to exercise your gratitude muscle, you will learn how to open yourself to the blessings life brings, no matter what the situation may be.

“This technique is so simple that many people are reluctant to try it, thinking anything this easy cannot possible work. However, the proof is in the results. Try it to understand how effective it is.

“Begin exercising your gratitude muscle throughout your day, and watch the Universe pour its blessings upon you. . It’s easy, and it works. You can download this handy Emotional Guidance Scale to help you out with this exercise at: KnowTheSelf.com/workbook.”

Here are the five basic steps:

1) Listen to what you tell yourself all day long. What type of commentary fills the empty spaces in your mind? If you are not sure, look at yourself in the mirror and you will hear that voice start to chatter. Or simply sit quietly and listen to the thoughts that keep recurring in the background.

2) Choose to change the channel. Many people have been operating on autopilot their whole lives, not realizing they have the power to choose what to think about. When you hear those negative, subconscious tapes running, decide to think about something positive. Find something to be grateful for. It could be as simple as a pretty flower, or the smile of a young person. No matter how bad things seem, there is always something beautiful within reach for which to be grateful.

3) Find something to be grateful for. It could be as simple as a pretty flower, or the smile of a young person. No matter how bad things seem, there is always something beautiful within reach for which to be grateful.

4) Design a set of positive power statements for yourself. Neurolinguistic programming is a simple science that yields extraordinary results. Feed yourself some positive power statements every time you look in the mirror, and notice how it begins to shift your reality. See the power statement examples below to get you going, or create your own. T

5) Trust in the process, and give it a chance. Decide to implement this new healthy habit for the next 30 days. You could find a buddy to exercise your gratitude muscle and positive power statements with, too. This process is a soothing balm to the soul and a gift to your spirit.

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Of course, we have to close by saying, Thank you, Amelía for the great interview and all stories and exercises that you include in your book.

 

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The Flathead Lake Monster

Now that Rob and I have received both doses of Pfizer more than a month ago, we’ve planned a trip to northwest Montana. We haven’t been on a plane since our trip to Cartagena, Colombia in 2018 and are really looking forward to it.

The area is where Glacier National Park is located. Just to the southeast of the park is Flathead Lake, source of an urban legend about a lake monster nicknamed Flessie, after Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. It’s a Kutenai traditional legend and the story goes like this, from Wikipedia:

The first native tribe in the area lived on an island in the middle of the lake. One winter while crossing the frozen lake to move camp, two girls saw antlers approximately two feet in length protruding through the frozen ice. Thinking the antlers belonged to some animal, the girls decided to chop them off and take them.

They used sharp-edged rocks to cut through the ice when the antlers suddenly started shaking, the ice around them split open, and the head of a monster appeared through the ice shaking its giant antlers. The girls used their special powers to transform into a ball and a buckskin target to escape the monster, but half of the tribe drowned in the lake, which is said to be the reason why there are so few Kutenai people. The narrative holds that the Kutenai never strayed far from the lakeshore after that, and white settlers later reported occasionally seeing the monster.

The first sighting was in 1889 and since then, more than a hundred sightings have been reported. The creature described as being 30 to 40 feet long, serpent=like as it undulates through the water, and has steel black eyes. The last sighting occurred in 2017.

This spot is definitely one I’d love to see.

 

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The Mystical Underground: Rob MacGregor: The Quebec UFO Encounter (Episode 2)

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Rob MacGregor: The Quebec UFO Encounter (Episode 2)”:

Join Rob for the second and final part of “The Quebec UFO Encounter”…

“In the spring of 2012, we published a 9-part detailed story here of a French Canadian couple’s close encounter with a UFO and the startling aftermath involving a psychic explosion and emotional breakdown of the man, Charles Fontaine. The series of articles led to our book, Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions, and Synchronicity.”

The Quebec UFO Encounter – 10 years later

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Happy Birthday!

ROB!

In November of this year, I will have known you for 40 years. It’s been a wild, psychic, synchronistic ride – quantum entanglement in our  holographic universe!

Now we’re headed to Montana.  Happy birthday to a wonderful husband, creative partner, adventurer, and  dad!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Source and Significance of Coincidences

In Sharon Hewitt Rawlette’s terrific book, The Source and Significance of Coincidences, she has a fascinating chapter called Yet to be Born.

She writes “While after-death communication is quite frequently considered as an explanation for coincidences, there is another similar explanation that is much more rarely explored -pre-birth communication. As the name suggests, this kind of communication comes from children before they are born, and often before they are even conceived.”

In our book, Secrets of Spirit Communication, we touched on this topic, but Sharon has explored it more deeply. She recounts how a friend of hers, Anna, now in her early twenties, still remembers being elsewhere before she was born and “ feeling the love and encouragement of a whole group of friendly beings gathered behind her. She also recalls a moment in which she felt she was ‘diverted to a different path,’ which she describes like moving on to the next step of some sort of natural progression.

“Anna connects this memory to something she said to her mother when she was a young child. Although Anna is Caucasian American, her mother confirmed to me that, when Anna was still a toddler, Anna told her something along the lines of, ‘You’re lucky to have me, because God was going to send me to China.’ While Anna doesn’t now have any pre- birth memories specifically related to China, she does remember that, at the moment when she felt her pre-birth shift to a new path, she was in a place that was very orange and sky-like, perhaps with some clouds, and that she was alone with one particular being. She imagines this is the being that, as a child, she described as ‘God.’

“When the shift to the new path happened, Anna felt her attention shift to the right, and the orange color of her surroundings became much whiter and more vivid. She also remembers a feeling that she was going to be trying something new, and she could feel the excitement of many other beings regarding this new adventure, as well as their willingness to support her and not judge her if she made mistakes.”

Sharon points out that while some people may find these kinds of stories somewhat far-fetched, there’s a growing body of evidence in the spontaneous reports of young children. Parents often dismiss these reports as fantasy, but researchers have discovered there’s a consistency to these stories and some of them provide verifiable pre-birth details. In Memories of Heaven: Children’s Astounding Recollection of the Time Before They Came to Earth, Wayne Dyer and Dee Garnes wrote about such cases. A sampling:

Janis Monachina’s daughter remembered her grandmother’s deceased twin. She said, “Yes, I was swinging with her in the clouds before I came. We were picking out my family and wearing pretty white dresses.
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When Michele Mira and her husband were showing their three-year-old 
son photos of his deceased grandfathers, he said about his father’s father, “I know him—he’s Poppy Henry. I saw him on my way to you.”

Rawlett’s book is one of the most comprehensive sources of information I’ve found on the many aspects of synchronicity.

 

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Nearing Completion

 

For years now, Adele Aldridge has been working on I Ching Meditations: A Woman’s Book of Changes. She not only interprets the hexagrams and each of the six lines, she also illustrates them – 7 illustrations per hexagram for a grand total of 448!

She’s nearing the end of this monumental undertaking, working on the final line of hexagram 64. She emailed me earlier today about an incredible synchronicity related to it:

“Every morning I throw an I Ching to see what the day may bring or advise. Good research. I am planning on posting line 6 of Hex 64 today. The I Ching I got today is Hexagram 1 changing to 64! Now does that make one a believer or what! I am stunned.”

The first hexagram in the I Ching is entitled The Creative and Hexagram 64 is entitled Nearing Completion. She has come full circle. Below is the podcast we did with Adele about her work. Use the link above to check out her work.

The Mystical Underground: Adele Aldridge: The Art Of the I Ching

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The Mystical Underground: Sharon Hewitt Rawlette: The Source And Significance Of Coincidences

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Sharon Hewitt Rawlette: The Source And Significance Of Coincidences”:

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, a writer and philosopher fascinated by coincidences, those strange, enigmatic experiences that are so often personally meaningful and yet push the boundaries of what we consider scientifically possible. Her May 2019 book “The Source and Significance of Coincidences” presents a wealth of evidence concerning the statistical significance of coincidences, their range of probable causes, and how we can best interpret their implications for our lives. She also writes about coincidences on her “Psychology Today” blog, “Mysteries of Consciousness,” and she has presented some of my most recent research at the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

In May 2020 she published a memoir, “The Supreme Victory of the Heart,” about her first encounters with meaningful coincidence, which happened in the difficult months after her French fiancé told her about an old flame who had come back into his life. She has also written several personal essays on the topics of relationships, spirituality, and the environment, which have appeared in Salon, Orion, and other places. While she now lives back in the rural area of eastern Virginia where she grew up, she spent almost all of her 20s elsewhere: getting a Ph.D. in philosophy at New York University, falling in love in Paris, teaching philosophy at Brandeis University outside Boston, and living on a 200-year-old retired dairy farm in Brittany, France. All of these experiences have found their way into her writing, in one way or another.

https://sharonrawlette.wordpress.com

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Synchronicities about synchronicity

 

 

Because we write and talk about synchronicity, every so often we experience synchronicities about synchronicity.

That was what happened to me recently just before I joined Trish and others on a Zoom conference call for Bernard Beitman’s Synchronicity Project. I had been somewhat hesitant to get involved in the project because it was mostly composed of psychologist, psychiatrists and therapists–academics and medical professionals. I knew what they had to say would be interesting, but wasn’t sure that wanted to spend 90 minutes of my day listening to conversations about the difference between happy people and psychotics – both of whom experience synchronicities and react to them in different ways.

It turned out that this session spent some time on the difference between synchros that showed you were on the right path and those that warned you that you might be on the wrong path. That was interesting to me because just a few minutes before going onto Zoom I had gotten an e-mail message from Jane Clifford, a psychic healer who lives in Wales. It consisted of a 3-minute You Tube video of the channeler known as Bashar who was talking about that very subject – two types of synchros, the ones showing you that you were on the right path and the ones warning you that you might be taking a wrong turn.

In other words, a synchronicity about synchronicity…and I guess it was good guidance, telling me to go on Zoom.

We also talked about how synchronicities can manifest through altered states of consciousness and I offered an example of how being fully focused on a fictive tale I was writing recently – a horror story involved a Spider Woman cult that’s gone bad.

Lots of spiders involved in the tale, and after working on it intensely for a couple of hours the other day, I sat back and noticed for the first time a large spider web stretched between my desk and a nearby bookcase. A short time later, I got up and went to the bathroom where I found a large brown recluse clinging to the wall.So those were like manifestations from fiction into the everyday world.

 

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Mockingbird Revisited

Bernie Beitman, M.D. a visiting psychiatric professor at the University of Virginia, has done something unique. He has created the Coincidence Project, a group of people who write about and explore this phenomena and meet the first Thursday of every month via Zoom. My unusual encounter with a mockingbird happened on the same day that I attended my first Zoom meeting.

This occurred during an afternoon bike ride that takes me down a side street that ends at a police station that faces a canal. That afternoon, my cell buzzed as I turned into the station, and I stopped to see that I’d gotten a spam call. I glanced up and saw a mockingbird in the nearby bushes. I moved my bike closer and closer and the bird didn’t fly away. It made that sound these little guys make and I interpreted it as, “Hey, hi.” So I moved closer and took more photos.

It eventually moved farther down into the bushes, away from me, and when I got home, I researched the esoteric meaning of mocking bird. It’s about communication, mimicry, how we can tweak our own method of communication by expanding it.

At the time, I didn’t understand the message. Combined, Rob and I have written hundreds of books. The written word is how we communicate. But in Feb 202,0, we started a podcast, The Mystical Underground. And now this mockingbird encounter was asking for something else? That very day, I’d attended my first Coincidence Project Zoom. I’m not much of a joiner, but I committed to attending the first Thursday of the month and I realized the mockingbird was a kind of confirmation of that decision.

At the first Zoom, I suggested we do a Coincidence Cafe every third Saturday. More casual. Bring your own coffee, tea, wine and share your stories with other people who are experiencing the same types of things that you are. Bernie is onto something here. So many of us experience this weirdness and feel isolated in our experiences, unable or unwilling to talk about it with others for fear of being ridiculed. At the Coincident Cafe, we’re all on the same page.

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