Panic Buying

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

In mid-March or so, as people began realizing that corona was actually a pandemic and not a “democratic hoax,” panic buying in Floridan really ratcheted upward and paper products seemed to vanish more quickly than they were produced. The great mystery was about the run on toilet paper.

It serves only two purposes, really, to blow your nose or to use in the bathroom. We can’t eat or freeze it. It went faster than rice, canned goods, even beer and wine. Fortunately, I’d found a sale about a week before this panic buying started and we had enough to last us awhile – but not until summer. Or fall. Or through the end of the year. So I was always on the lookout.

Then, last week, I went to our local Publix in the early afternoon and in the paper aisle, I found a palette of TP that had just been put out. Limit: 2 rolls of a 12-pack. I bought the limit. A masked woman in the aisle also helped herself to two packs. “Wow, are we lucky or what?” she murmured as she pushed her cart past mine.

A few days later, a friend told me Winn Dixie had paper towels. I drove six miles to the store and yes, they had towels. One per customer for a buck. It’s the skinniest roll of paper towels I’ve ever seen, but hey, so what. Today, a new moon day, I stopped at a Walgreen’s and discover PAPER TOWELS. TOILET PAPER. Didn’t need the latter, but bought the limit – 2 – of fat paper towels.

In the bigger picture, these are small, laughable triumphs that I’ve experienced in the aftermath of hurricanes. But the aftermath of a storm is relatively brief – 10 days is the most I personally recall, after Wilma, when the power grid around here went down. Andrew in 1992 was worse and so was Karina in 2005. For Puerto Rico, the aftermath of Hurricane Maria was like Armageddon and featured trump tossing rolls of paper towels to people in a crowd.

From friends in various part of the country, I read about their particular shortages and concerns. Right now, in those states that are planning to reopen  or already have,  I hear:

How’re tattoo parlors, nail salons. hair salons, and massage parlors going to practice social distancing?

It doesn’t look like anyone on Jacksonville Beach is social distancing.

Huh?

I’m staying put even if the governor opens the state.

Cases in Florida continue to rise – more than 35,000 as of May 2. Worldwide: nearly three and a half million. Deaths in the U.S : more than 67,000. Worldwide: nearly a quarter of a million. Up, up. Not down. That’s nowhere near the 50 million dead from the Spanish influenza. But the bottom line is that we don’t know the truth total of cases because the millions of tests  a day the administration has been touting  aren’t there.

So here we are, waiting for a new normal with many speculations about what it may look like.

P.S. May 8 – on Monday, May 11, Florida begins its phase 1 of the reopen plan. Tonight, there are 39,999 cases of corona in our state  and over 4 million worldwide. The policy seems to be, Pretend it’s the flu. Pretend it doesn’t exist. Go forward, folks. And good luck. You’re on your own. 

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Covid-19 and the Dark Side of Humanity

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Trish and Rob

We recently read a fascinating article in the April 10 on-line edition of Psychology Today that relates the nefarious virus plaguing us with the dark side of the human sub-conscious. It was written by psychiatrist Dr. Bernard Beitman, who is the premier academic researcher focusing on synchronicity.

In it, he writes: “COVID-19 reflects the worst in our human psyche. Insidious and destructive, it promotes only its own survival and propagation. Its damaging effects on human society and human bodies are irrelevant to its purpose. These characteristics parallel the human effects on the natural world. Both the virus and humans are like parasites destroying their host.”

Powerful words. Noting the devastating threat that the virus poses as it runs through the population, Beitman says that a similar threat has been growing inside the human psyche. The destruction of our own habitat by the perceived need for economic growth has set humanity on a suicide course. Lurking in our sub-conscious is the perceived need to dominate nature and unless we deal with it quickly we will be facing the eradication of humanity. You can read the entire article here.

Trish and I have been a guest a couple of times on Bernie’s podcast, Connecting with Coincidence, and he will be a guest on The Mystical Underground, this Sunday.We’re really looking forward to that interview.

Interestingly, when I typed ‘psychiatrist’ above, the word program did an auto correct changing it psychiatrist to ‘psychic artist’. I kind of like that.

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Two Different Realities

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

Here’s an interesting example of 2 realities, expressed perfectly in headlines. This one is from CNBC, published on May 5.

The coronavirus has mutated and appears to be more contagious now, new study finds

This same news headline appeared on Fox News on May 5

New mutation indicates that coronavirus might be weakening, study says

These are apparently two different studies. The CNBC headline focuses on a study done at Los Alamos National Laboratory by computational biologist Betty Korber, the lead author. “The study has yet to be peer-reviewed, but the researchers noted that news of the mutation was of “urgent concern” considering the more than 100 vaccines in the process of being developed to prevent Covid-19.”

The Fox News headline focuses on a study at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute. The lead study author, Dr. Efren Lim, is  an assistant professor at the  nstitute, and his team use a new technology called next-generation sequencing to rapidly read the genetic code of the coronavirus, referred to scientists as SARS-CoV-2.

The article notes, “However, it’s too soon to say whether the novel coronavirus is beginning to lose its potency, according to the researchers.”

Two different news sites, two different studies, two different conclusions. If you politicize these headlines, the republicans will seize on the Fox News article as proof that trump’s push to reopen the country is justified. The democrats will seize on the CNBC as an argument for why we shouldn’t reopen too soon.

But in the end, we have to decide for ourselves. As of this evening at nearly 9 PM, the number of COVID cases in the U.S. stands at 1,237,579, with 72, 264 deaths. Globally, the numbers stand at: 3,724,511 with 258,026 deaths. These stats are from the worldometer

About a month ago, on April 5, those stats stood at: more than 337,000 cases in the U.S. and 9,605 deaths. Worldwide, those stats were: 1,271,875 cases and 68,437.
What will these stats look like a month from now, on June 5, with most states now reopening? Do the math.

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A New Episode of The Mystical Underground

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Dr. Susan Yantorno is a retired veterinarian living in Sarasota, Florida. For three decades, she   has experienced repeated encounters with both physical and nonphysical intelligences from elsewhere, hundreds of which have been shared experiences with loved ones, friends, co-workers and strangers.

 

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SENSING THE FUTURE

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Precognition is the least understood of psychic experiences, but also occurs the most frequently. The greatest misconceptions about precognition  are that it isn’t really possible or it’s an ability that’s accessible only to talent psychics. Yet we all experience it – perhaps as a sense of foreboding, a premonition, an impulse or an urge to do something that seems unreasonable or maybe even irrational. But we often dismiss such feelings as random and meaningless. As a result, we fail to benefit from an insight or miss an opportunity.

Have you sensed the future? If so, we’d love to hear about it!

“Conventional wisdom claims tha we can’t tell the future. In this exciting and empowering book, Trish and Rob MacGregor take the conventional  wisdom and put it where it belongs – right in the trash!

– Whitley Strieber, author of Communion and The Afterlife Revolution

Now available at Amazon.

 

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Contact from Dad

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

We recently posted a spirit contact story from our friend, Janice Cutbush, about her contact with her first husband, Tom. This one is about Janice’s contact with her dad, many years after he passed. It illustrates, I think, how our contact with dead loved ones can persist for months and years.

From Janice:

My dad was not much of a talker; he communicated more by doing. But he was always there for me. He was my rock. Even after he became debilitated from kidney disease and a stroke, he still tried to help me out. Once when I was widowed and struggling to adjust to life alone, and he had had a stroke, he saw me trying to take my canoe off the top of my car by myself. He walked out of his house, which was next door to mine, with his cane and was trying to come up my driveway to help me. I burst into tears when I saw him. He knew he wasn’t capable of helping me, but still wanted to try. That’s the way he was.

So it was a bit of a surprise to me when I started getting messages from him after he died. The first one arrived as a dream visitation.

A few weeks before my son’s wedding in Colorado, I had a very vivid dream about my dad, one that woke me up and felt so real I could feel his warmth. He was all dressed up in suit and tie. My dad was not a suit and tie kind of guy. He was more of a Pendleton and chino type. He liked to be comfortable and ready to work if someone needed his help. But in the dream, he looked very handsome in a Dean Martin kind of way with a full head of dark hair, tanned and spry.

During this dreamy encounter, I asked him why he was all dressed up. He replied, “I’m going to a very special occasion.” And then he disappeared as quickly as a wisp of smoke. When I woke up, I knew he was telling me that he would be at my son’s wedding. This was his first grandson to marry after he died.

My father loved weddings because he loved to dance and get buzzed. Some of my fondest memories of him were at family weddings where he would dance and sing and spin around. He loved my son Tom and had always been especially proud of him. The morning of the wedding, my mother told me she had had a dream of dad. She said it felt like a visitation like mine. He had whispered to her but she couldn’t understand him. This was very unusual because my mother claimed she never dreamed and had never dreamed of my dad after he died. It gave me great comfort to know that he was there, watching over his favorite grandson’s wedding.

The second message came years later when my mother was no longer well enough to live alone. My brother and I were trying to piece together care for her among the two of us, our spouses and hired help. It wasn’t easy and it was making us both miserable. We didn’t feel she was safe alone and she refused to leave her house. One day while driving home from Albany, I stopped for gas on the highway, and ran into the shop to get a chocolate bar.
The first bar I saw was a Sky Bar. It immediately made me think of my dad. When we were growing up, he used to sing commercial jingles to us. “Sky bar-it’s the four in one bar.”

That one always stuck in my head and forever after would remind me of him. So here I was trying to figure out how to deal with mom and he was trying to tell me something.
My dad was mostly upbeat until he got sick and always could make my mom laugh. What was the message of the Sky Bar? I didn’t have long to wait. I got back in the car and a few miles down the road, a car with this license plate passed me-“CK-JOY.” Seek joy-that was his message! I never look at license plates so I knew it was more than a coincidence especially after the Sky Bar greeting in the gas station.

My father was trying to tell me to somehow find joy while caring for my mother. My friend, Trish, a writer and astrologer, would tell me it was a synchronicity or spiritual appointment. According to her, there is no such thing as a coincidence. Whatever it was, I know that my dad had made contact with me and was still watching over us. He was letting me know that there is joy even when life throws us challenges. I hoped that from his vantage point, he also had found joy.

 

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The 11th Dimension

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

This is a fascinating video of Michio Kaku as he explains according to string theory, his specialty—his day job, he calls it—there are 11 dimensions. Not 12 or 13, but 11, because after 11 the instability and anomalies that appear make such dimension unfeasible. Probably, for most of us, this all seems quite theoretical and non-practical in human terms. I mean what the hell is the 11th dimension like?

I’m not sure of the answer to that, but when I heard Kaku talking about the 11th dimension, it sort of blew my mind and reminded me—Rob—of an experience I had in 1992 that actually involved the 11th dimension in a strange way. Here’s the story. I may have mentioned here in the past, because it was such a startling experience, but not in this context, which is somewhat of a verification—or a synchronicity, or both!

I had just joined a group of people sitting around a campfire at night in the desert. Carlos Castaneda was running the show, lecturing everyone about dreaming. I thought that was interesting because I’d read all of his books up to that point and he’d never said anything about dreams or dreaming. Trish and I had written a couple of books about dreams and so I’d done quite a bit of research. Something CC said didn’t seem accurate to me and so I offered a different opinion.

He turned, stared at me with a cold look and said: “You’re in 11th dimension kindergarten. Get out!”

With that, I gasped, sat up in bed sweating, and looked around confused. I was sure that I’d just been in the desert with that group, here I was at home in bed and wide awake. After a few seconds, I realized that of course I was home. I hadn’t gone on a trip anywhere. But the experience had been so real that I realized I must’ve been on an out-of-body journey. The story doesn’t quite end there.

About six months later, Trish and I were at the national bookseller’s convention—then known as Bouchercon—in Miami. We were walking down one of the aisles in the convention center, and I looked up to see a poster in front of one of the publisher’s booths. Castaneda had a new book out…The Art of Dreaming.

I’ve always wondered about the comment about the 11th dimension, and now Kaku zeroed in on that very dimension.

 

 

 

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Star Power Astrological Forecast May 2020

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Here’s the astrological scoop for May, in audio:

 

And for the print version, in the masthead.

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Mystical Underground Podcast with Carol Bowman

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

We originally divided this podcast into two parts. But because of scheduling conflicts, we didn’t have a chance to post the second part.  So here’s the full podcat with past life regression therapist and author Carol Bowman.

 

 

 

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Lysol and Clorox, Anyone?

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Trish and Rob

What COVID-19 has revealed is that the man who presently occupies the white house is actually the virus that may destroy this country and democracy. It has revealed that no one is really in charge.

Trump and his administration are unable and too incompetent to handle a health crisis that has already killed more than 50,000 Americans. In fact, trump has finally come up against a foe that he can’t defeat. He can’t sue it, shame or humiliate it, can’t refuse to pay it by declaring bankruptcy, can’t con it, can’t call upon his supporters to take up arms against it. He can’t intelligently articulate much of anything about the corona virus except his usual lies – plenty of ventilators, plenty of PPEs, more testing than any other country, he and his team are doing a great job, a better job than anyone else.

Instead of allowing the health professionals to speak at these briefings, he gets up there in his orange makeup, his yellow hair, and touts “cures.” First, it was hydroxychloroquine, a drug to treat malaria that Fox News also touted at every opportunity. From The Guardian:
“The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

“In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body.” He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19.”

“A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!” He went on to say: “Is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that.”

The president of the U.S. is saying this. Chug your Lysol and Clorox, folks, and cleanse your body of the virus. The statement was so shocking in its stupidity, so dangerous, that Lysol and other disinfectant companies quickly issued warnings about NOT drinking or inhaling their product.

Dr. Brix sat off to the side, looking so stricken she probably would’t have cared if the floor under her chair had collapsed. Memes popped up about Lysol gummies, Clorox IVs, and trump became the joke of the Internet. The next say he said he was just “being sarcastic: to see how the fake news would report this.

The truly stunning part of this is that trump loyalists, trump cultists, immediately believed this absurdity. That it was sarcasm.

In many ways, trump is another Jim Jones, a cult leader who, in 1978, ordered his followers to drink a cyanide-poisoned Kool Aid that killed the 918 members of his Guyana commune, 304 of them children. Trump loyalists imbibe his version of that Kool-Aid daily, with the help of his enabler, Fox News and its anchors – Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and of course, the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs.
All of you Republican senators out there who voted to acquit him, are you feeling any shame yet? Any remorse? Are you drinking something something else these days like, you know, SCIENCE?

Corona is a Spanish word that means crown, the very thing trump has always coveted. But a crown disguised as an autocrat, a dictator, a Putin or Kim – “I have absolute power to…(fill in the blank, trump has probably said it at one time or another) – and now that he sees the opportunity possibly slipping away, he’s panicking.

So to you trump loyalists, you cultists, you people who defend his policies, run to your closest grocery store and buy your Lysol and Clorox. Keep them close just in case someone coughs or sneezes on you. Then start chugging.

 

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