The Mystical Underground: Davina Kotulski: Manna From Heaven

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Davina Kotulski: Manna From Heaven”:

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Davina Kotulski is a licensed clinical psychologist, life coach, spiritual counselor, award-winning author and speaker, and nationally known LGBT rights leader. She received her Ph.D. in psychology in 1996 and worked for 13 years in a federal women’s prison. Her novel “Behind Barbed Eyes,” based on her prison-work, won the 2016 Nautilus Gold Award for Fiction.

Dr. Kotulski received the Saints Alive award from the Metropolitan Community Church in San Francisco for her leadership in the marriage equality movement and for her seminal book “Why You Should Give a Damn About Gay Marriage.”

In 2018, she was on “Please Understand Me,” a Sarah Silverman production, where comedians hash out the problems of their fake relationship with a real therapist.

Her book “It’s Never Too Late to Be Your Self: Follow Your Inner Compass and Take Back Your Life” won the 2018 Nautilus Silver Award for Self-Help and was a finalist for self-help in the 2019 International Book Awards.

Now she has a new book out that we want to talk about: “THE MANNA PARADIGM SHIFT: Creating the Consciousness of Abundance and Freedom.”

She has a private therapy practice in Los Angeles and an international life coaching practice. She facilitates spiritual and psychological self-empowerment webinars and workshops around the country.

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Odd Synchro

 

This one is from Carol Bowman, author of Children’s Past Lives and Return from Heaven.

Every Christmas, Carol’s editor at Harper Collins, Larry Ashmead, would give out a notebook filled with photocopies of weird newspaper articles, letters, and photos. Carol’s husband, Steve, was cleaning out their attic and and came across one of the notebooks. He had it on the kitchen table for them to look at.

“After we read a page, we used it for paper on the floor of our bird’s cage. Steve came up to my office late this afternoon. I was on FB and showed him this article about a French woman who lived to be 122 (or close to that). When she was 90, a lawyer agreed to buy her apartment for 2500 euros a month for the duration of her life. The lawyer was 47 at the time. The lawyer ended up dying at 77, and the woman lived on. The lawyer’s widow had to keep paying the old woman because they had a contract, which stated they had to pay her until she died.”

Steve went back downstairs and looked at Larry’s notebook. It was opened up to the story of the French woman from an article from the year 2000.

What are the odds?

Carol felt it didn’t have any particular meaning. But my take is different. I think it refers to the new book she’s starting.

Here’s the story about the French woman.

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Coast to Coast

 

Rob and I will be on Coast to Coast tonight/tomorrow, from 3-5 AM Eastern time.

We’ll be talking about our book Phenomena, available from Amazon in   print, kindle, and audio. Hope you night owls can join us!

You can listen on their website

Here’s a 14-minute clip of the show I just found.

 

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The Doves

 

Animals and birds often play significant roles in synchronicity. A pair of doves served that purpose for Kenneth Harris. He was the director and founder of  a mind -body wellness education center that employed multiple practitioners teaching a variety of classes from yoga , meditation, etc etc . “I primarily did all the adjusting chiropractic vitalistic based and on separate off days offered energy healing sessions called Attunement.”

He’s now an author of Synchronicity: The Magic, the Mystery, the Meaning. 

One morning he and his wife Judy  walked down to the beach in Bonita Springs. A pair of doves landed on the sand in front of him and hung out longer than he expected. He wondered if there was a message.

Later that day, he and Judy walked back to the beach to watch the sun set. A young woman was also on the beach, enjoying the sunset, and she and Ken started talking. She was from Paraguay. Her name? Paz. In English, Paz means peace. And what do doves represent? Peace.

When Paz found out that Ken was a chiropractor whose focus was on energy healing, she told him she’d been searching for an energy healer!

So the doves were part of something that hadn’t happened yet, signs of a precognitive event. Paz represented the event. But even she walked away with something – she’d found a healer.

Paz and Ken

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March Astrological Forecast

MARCH

The best news about March is that Mercury is now direct and won’t turn retrograde again until May 29! So now all your projects and endeavors can move forward again without glitches.

March begins with energetic Mars entering Gemini on the 3rd, a signal that it’s time to have some fun and chat up a storm with friends/family through Zoom or facetime.
On March 4, Mercury and Jupiter meet up in Aquarius, so there’s a marked expansion in communication.

The new moon in Pisces on March 13 is closely conjunct Neptune and Venus, so there’s a dreamy, romantic quality to the day that makes it easier to imagine what you desire – and to attract it.

On March 20, the spring equinox, Jupiter in Aquarius trines the moon in Gemini, and the Sun enters fire sign Aries, bringing a whole new energy into our lives. Do something special for yourself! Also, Saturn trines Mars, Mercury and Uranus sextile each other. Check your sign to see how all this impacts you.

March 28 features a full moon in Libra that trines Saturn in Aquarius. Something is completed and you’ve built a solid foundation with whatever you’ve been working on. This moon is also widely trine Mars, so motivation is your middle name.

We’re moving closer or are in the midst of a paradigm shift. Pay close attention to how you feel, what you think, and ask yourself how you can help during this pandemic.

For the forecast specific to signs, look here.

Here’s the audio version:

 

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The Friendly Mockingbird

The temperature here this morning was 37 – COLD for  South Florida. But by this afternoon, it was 70, ideal for a bike ride. One leg of my route takes me down a two-lane road to the local police station. The station parking lot is next to a canal, so there are usually wading birds poking around. But today, there was a mockingbird pecking at something in this hedge.

I stopped at the curb to snap a photo, inched closer, closer, and this cute little thing  just stayed where he was,  looking at me. I wondered just how close I could get to him before he flew off. So I kept inching closer.

I was thinking about a zoom meet-up earlier in the day with  Dr. Bernie Beitman, the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to undertake a serious study of synchronicity., and his coincidence group. He had organized the meet-up with  other people from various parts of the world who are writing about, researching, or involved in some way in the study of synchronicity. One of the women – from Mexico – told an incredible story about her synchronicities with a fox that had wandered into her backyard repeatedly and with whom she developed a kind of friendship. And then I encountered this mockingbird.

The bird let me get very close to him and I snapped the photo above. Then, as I inched even closer, he flew down to the edge of the canal. When I got home 20 minutes later and was walking my bike into the garage, I heard a bird chirping loudly and repeatedly. I glanced back  and saw wings fluttering in a nearby bush.

The bush is filled with some type of berry and the bird was feasting. I finally got a good look at him. A mockingbird. I was able to get close to him, but he was in the leaves and hard to see.

Will there be a third? Will this be a cluster?

I looked up the esoteric meaning for mockingbird:

“When the Mockingbird comes into our lives it can be a message that we need to rethink how we work, interact and communicate with others.  Are we accommodating?  Are we being flexible?  The Mockingbird way is to listen first, then respond.  This is one of its greatest lessons for humans.”

Message received!

 

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The Trickster

The Trickster. Remember him? Smeagol? The elf with the pointed hat? Kokopelli?

Sometimes when we’re talking about synchronicities and the trickster comes up, people have questions. Even though most of us know what a trickster is – or have an image of one from TV and movies, maybe a kind of elfin figure wearing a pointed hat or it looks like Smeagol, the gollum, in The Lord of the Rings. But tricksters come in all shapes and sizes and they aren’t necessarily human. Some trickster synchros are events.

In November 2019, the Veneto regional council, which is located on Venice’s Grand Canal, was flooded for the first time in its history – just after it rejected measures to combat climate change.

The historic Italian city has been brought to its knees by the worst flooding there in more than 50 years. And the council chamber in Ferro Fini Palace started to take in water around 10 p.m. local time, as councilors were debating the 2020 regional budget.

According to the deputy chairman of the environment committee, “Ironically, the chamber was flooded two minutes after the majority League, Brothers of Italy, and Forza Italia parties rejected our amendments to tackle climate change.”

This sure sounds like a trickster synchro. The regional council rejects measures to combat climate change and that ole trickster cackles, “Really, dudes?” A heartbeat or two later, the council chamber floods.

On a personal level, the trickster archetype can be animal or human, male or female, and is found throughout the mythology and folklore of all cultures. From the Native American coyote to the court jester and clown, from Kokopelli, Loki, Tezcatlipoca, Saci, Edshu and others, the trickster across cultures share similar characteristics. He’s playful but sometimes mean, sympathetic, outrageous and humorous because he does things outside of the boundaries of what society considers accepted behavior.

“Tricksters relish the disruption of the status quo, turning the ordinary world into chaos with their quick turns of phrase and physical antics,” wrote Joseph Campbell. “Although they may not change during the course of their journeys, their world and its inhabitants are transformed by their antics. The Trickster uses laughter to make characters see the absurdity of the situation, and perhaps force a change.”

Look how the trickster worked for Will Rogers, humorist, actor and writer.

He died in a plane crash with his aviator buddy, Wiley Post, shortly after taking off from a lagoon in Point Barrow, Alaska. Rogers’s typewriter was found in the debris, a piece of paper rolled into it, and the last word he typed was death. Even Rogers probably got a kick out of that one.

Or how about these?

Hours after famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton proclaimed in an important meeting with religious leaders that the times ahead were electrifying, he died by electrocution while sitting in the bathtub.

The last movie that John Huston directed before his death was called The Dead. The last book of poetry that Anne Sexton published before she committed suicide in 1974 was entitled The Death Notebooks.

At the time of his death, Philip K. Dick was working on a novel entitled The Owl in Daylight. In esoteric traditions, the owl is considered a messenger between the living and the dead. The last song that Hank Williams wrote was Angel of Death. When he died, he had a hit single at the top of the charts: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive.

Trickster synchros aren’t confined to just death and dying. Mythologist Joseph Campbell considered the trickster one of the most significant figures in Native American folklore. It “represents this power of the dynamic of the total psyche to overthrow programs… the trickster is an upsetting factor,” Campbell wrote, “…he breaks through….”

What’s interesting about that phrase, he breaks through, is that the often personal nature of trickster synchros are so in your face and wryly ironic that they break through whatever resistance you may harbor about a particular issue or relationship. You can’t help but laugh at yourself.

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The Mystical Underground: Catriona MacGregor: Secrets Of A Celtic Mystic

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Catriona MacGregor: Secrets Of A Celtic Mystic”:

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Catriona MacGregor is the author of a new book out this week called “Secrets of a Celtic Mystic: Sacred Earth Prophecy.” Her earlier book, “Partnering with Nature: The Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth,” won a gold medal from the Nautilus Book Awards, which recognizes world-changing books that promote positive social change.

In her books, Catriona explores the magic of nature and our precarious relationship with the “outdoors” from the perspective of a scientist, an environmental journalist, and a nature guide. She treats us to astonishing stories of how nature heals and shows us the path to “re-wilding,” a revolution in consciousness and a reckoning with the “feminine” values of compassion, intuition, and planetary survival.
Catriona has extensive experience in habitat management and species conservation and is leading a resilient forests initiative to apply innovative and bold solutions to forest & species management. She is a visionary bridge-builder between nature and humankind – and an intuitive mystic.

https://www.catrionamacgregor.org

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A Synchro Jackpot

 

This may not exactly be a jackpot story, but it definitely is a synchronicity of the Lotto kind.

A couple of weeks ago, we met Paula and Lloyd, our dog park buddies, at Darbster’s, a vegan restaurant named after the owners’ dog. The setting is a dichotomy – next to a canal that is peaceful and pretty, but adjacent to Federal Highway in West Palm Beach, which is noisy.

That first evening, the four of us sat outside, with our dog Nigel, as our only pooch. I’d thoughtLloyd was going to bring his dog, Abby, but he thought we’d agreed no dogs. My bad. Mercury was retrograde, communications got screwed up.

On the way home, Rob and I stropped by a gas station so I could buy a couple of Loteria $2 scratch offs. The station didn’t have any. So I bought a pair of $2 scratch offs called Gold Rush. Rob won a hundred bucks.

Two weeks later, the four of us met again at Darbster’s. This time, Nigel and Abby were with us. On her way home, Paula stopped at a gas station and bought a Gold Rush. And yes, she won a hundred bucks.

What are the odds?

Well, the Florida Lottery tells us that there’s a 1 in 796 chance of winning $100 with the $2 Gold Rush card. Paula bought a $10 Gold Rush card, which has much better odds: 1 in 71.

Already, Darbster’s feels like a hub of quantum physics, right?  Already, it figures into what is starting to feel like a cluster synchro. When we meet a third time, with all our dogs present, it’s Lloyd’s turn to buy a Gold Rush on his way home. If he does and wins a hundred bucks, then what’s the message?

These are the kind of synchros that beg for closer scrutiny!

Stay tuned.

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The Wisdom of Shiva

We were about to interview psychologist Davina Kotulski about her new book, The Manna Paradigm Shift: Creating the Consciousness of Abundance and Freedom on our podcast, The Mystical Underground. The book is about taking chances, stepping off the cliff, to find your true self and to pursue your dreams. Essentially, it requires destroying the old ways to create the new.

But Mercury Retrograde kicked in and a technical glitch with Skype resulted in a delay. While our tech magician/producer Jon Posey worked on the problem, we took a break. As I headed back to my office, I stopped at a bookcase in the family room and for some reason I snatched a book off the shelf that caught my eye and opened it at random. The book is called, The Wisdom Codes: Ancient Words to Rewire Out Brains and Heal our Hearts, by Gregg Braden. I thought the title sounded somewhat harmonious with the wisdom our guest was providing in The Manna Paradigm Shift.

On the page I opened was a sub-heading called The Hindu Mantra of Strength. It was about a well-known simple Hindu mantra: Om Namah Shivaya. It honors Shiva, one of the three primary deities in the Hindu tradition. Shiva is often referred to as the destroyer god who works in concert with Brahma, the creator, and Vishnu, the preserver. She balances energies and provides powerful harmony among the three primal forces.

Braden writes: “While it’s true that Shiva is frequently described as the destroyer, a deeper exploration of Hindu tradition reveal that the name is often appended with the name transformer as well. And while the qualities, destruction and transformation, are often used interchangeably, it may be more accurate to describe them as part of a sequence rather than substitutes for one another.”

In other words, what might be seen as destruction of the old ways leads to transformation, the new way of being. As Braden put it: “By invoking the power of Shiva in our lives, we destroy our old ideas of self-limitation and free ourselves to transform into new expressions of ourselves that embody our deepest strengths.”

I was interested in talking to Davina about these concepts and how they relate to The Manna Paradigm Shift, but like I said it was Mercury retrograde. Jon told us the problem with Skype was continuing, so we postponed the interview for three weeks. When the time comes, we’ll see how “manna from heaven” and the destroyer god Shiva fit together. That podcast episode will be up here in The Mystical Underground some time in March.

 

 

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