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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Precognition Through Creativity

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Our  friend Darren from Brisbane, Australia, who also blogs about synchronicity, sent us this radio clip with  author Peter May and a rather significant synchronicity concerning his book Lockdown. 

May wrote the book in 2005 in a kind of creative fever and finished it in six weeks. He talks about it in his introduction, how the book was rejected by British publishers for being too far out there, too implausible etc. Now here we are.

I think this is an instance of precognition through creativity. We have a chapter on that  in our book Sensing the Future.  Yes, it’s been 15 years since he wrote the book, but I don’t think the passage of linear time makes any difference.When May was writing this novel, he was in that timeless space where writers go when they’re really hooked into what they’re writing. The world. the characters. The circumstances. And sometimes, that timeless space lies in our linear future.

 

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New Moon in Taurus

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

The new moon in Taurus on April 22 should be interesting. No other sign is as patient or measured. Like Ferdinand, the bull in the children’s story, it takes a lot to shock Taurus out of that patience. In the kid’s story, a bee stung Ferdinand and he leaped to his feet and ran around, bucking and snorting like some bull in the ring. He acted so fiercely that a group of officials from Madrid decided he would be ideal for the ring. They loaded him into a cart and off he went.

Each of us has Taurus somewhere in our charts. In that area, we tend to be more patient, sometimes more stubborn or rigid, and we don’t give in easily to the demands of others. And it’s that area where we may have grown complacent. The event that shocks us out of it – the equivalent of our bee sting – may be the corona virus, the lockdown, and everything that has followed. As of tonight, April 17, nearly 2.5 million cases have been confirmed and the U.S. has the most cases in the world – over 700,000. Worldwide deaths stand at more than 154,000 and more than 37,000 Americans have died.

These mass events impact every aspect of our lives. This new moon at 3 degrees Taurus indicates that new opportunities and experiences will show up in the part of our lives where we are so deeply shocked. Since Uranus, the planet of sudden unforeseen events, conjuncts this new moon, the newness will show up without warning. But in the time of corona, when everything feels like it’s shifting and sliding, few things are certain, surprises arrive daily. So we have to be particularly vigilant for an event, person, emotion, or impulse that seems like an outlier. Seize it, scrutinize it, feel that fire I your belly before you say yes or no.

The North Node at 0 degrees Cancer – that horseshoe shape in the 7th house – is within a three degree sextile to this moon – a beneficial angle that facilitates the flow of energy between the two. The North Node represents the direction we should move toward during this new moon to help us evolve. The 7th house is about relationships, both business and personal, and Cancer is about home and family, your mom (and Mother Earth), about nurturing and intuition. So whatever newness this new moon in Taurus brings into your life, it’s about more than just you. It’s also about how everyone in your immediate environment is impacted.

 

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A Podcast with Heather Bristol, an animal communicator

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Trish and Rob

We had a terrific time talking with Heather and our daughter, Megan, who first introduced us.

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Past Life Memory?

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Trish and Rob

This Druze boy in Israel was born speaking English and doesn’t understand or speak the dialect of his parents. This story is incredible. Watch the whole thing. There’s an English speaker who communicates with the kid.

I sent the video to Carol Bowman, author and past life therapist. Turns out, someone had sent it to her some months ago. Here’s what she had to say about it. The Stevenson she’s referring to was Ian Stevenson, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia with whom she had worked.

“They (Stevenson) calls this xenoglossy—when someone speaks an unlearned language.  These cases in children are very rare.  This one is amazing.  I just can’t get over him sounding like an American kid.  Since I don’t understand what they’re saying, I’m wondering if made any statements about his former home, parents, etc.  I wonder if anyone has asked him how he knows English.  I hope someone follows up with this.”

 

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Tracking Corona

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Trish and Rob

On March 17 or 18, I listened to an Amy Goodman podcast from Democracy Now. She interviewed Avi Schiffmann, a 17-year-old kid from Seattle who had created a website that tracks the spread of corona.

Thanks to the way the designer created this, it updates more regularly than the CDC website or the site from John Hopkins. At some point in March, I did a blog post  on his website and double posted to Facebook. A few days after it went up, I got a warning from FB that the post violated one of their policies and only I could see it. I removed the post.
At any rate, I decided I wanted a record of how fast this virus spread. I took the photo at the top of his post on  March 19. The global number was under a quarter of a million.

Here’s one from three days later, March 22, then another for March 25, and then for tonight, April 14. I fully expect that by tomorrow the global number will be two million or more.

March 22: Global: 312,458

 

March 25: global 438,667 – more than 100,000 cases in just 3 days

April 14: Global, 1,930,262

For Florida, the picture looks like this.

April 4. At this point, other states were already locked down or in the process. But here, Governor DeSantis hadn’t bothered locking down the state or closing beaches so springs breakers had arrived in droves and left. Total confirmed cases in Florida: 11,111

Ten days later, today, April 14, those numbers have nearly doubled.
And are still rising.

And here, on April 15, just after midnight:

It took several months for the global number to reach a million. It took only 2 weeks to reached double that. And trump wants to open the country by May 1? Really?

 

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NIGEL’S SECRET JOURNAL – EPISODE 4

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

So not too long after I was born, a couple in Boca Raton – that means Rat’s Mouth in Spanish – put a deposit on me and my brother. They adopted us when we were eight weeks old and now that I’m two years old, I realize the Rat’s Mouth should have told me everything I needed to know about how that adoption would go.

Now, granted, we puppies aren’t easy to get used to if you live by a rigid schedule. And this couple did, both of them on the fast track in corporate jobs, getting maybe six hours of sleep at night that we interrupted with our need to move, pee, poop, you know, do the usual dog things.

At ten weeks, our humans gave up and we ended up with Mary Lou. She texted Trish and asked if she and Rob  would like another golden. Trish said she’d be right over. So did Caren Griffin. After all, there were two of us. Caren already had several dogs but was looking for a dog for her granddaughter, Jen, and her kids.

I can still remember those early moments in Mary Lou’s living room, the three ladies on the couch, watching us, me and my bro. I was just ten weeks old, didn’t have a clue about much of anything. Why had my humans brought me here? I didn’t want to live with this Mary Lou whose place didn’t have a yard, nowhere to sniff, run, play. But I understand I was being given a choice. So when this woman, Trish, held out her hand and said, “You’re a little beauty,” I went right over to her.

She lifted me into her lap. I liked the way she smelled and what those smells told me about her. She would be home a lot because she worked there, out of her house. So did her husband. She had a daughter who would love me at first sight just because I’m a Golden. I’m not sure what that means to humans, being a Golden, except that I have crinkled fur on my ears and I really dislike conflict. But how would humans know that?

So I go home with Trish. My reception is stellar. Rob loves me. The cats are okay with me. The humans already have a red Golden already, an older dude, Noah, who just ignores me at first. I follow him around, I do what he does, I am his protege. He is my mentor.
My bro, now called Sunny, and part of Jen’s family, meet one day at the dog park. We recognize each other. We play. We trade secrets. We understand that we have different paths. But when he leaves the park, a part of me sobs.

Noah feels my sorrow and comforts me. From that day forward, we are nearly inseparable, Noah and me. He tries to teach me about Squirrels, but I love my ball, my Frisbee, the things my humans toss for me. I love to run and retrieve. I love to run, period, especially when the air is cool, the sky is blue and infinite, and I understand where I fall in the scheme of things.

Now Noah is gone. I still see him around, though. He drops by to check on me and my humans, especially now with this virus stuff going on. The cats see him, too. When Megan’s dog, Nika, visits, we sometimes curl up together and late at night, Noah visits to curls up, too. He’s never far away. After all, he was Nika’s big brother when she was a puppy. She and I are connected through Noah. Even here at the beach a few months back, Noah was with me and Nika.

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Memes from lockdown – including Creepy Pasta Podcast!

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Trish and Rob

I’m putting our latest episode of The Mystical Underground here because it seems to belong with memes from this surreal time. Tony Caos is an original and his Freaky Attractions You Tube channel certainly reflects that!

 

 

Whole Foods, Orlando

Our grocery store, Publix

Thanks to Dave for sending some of these!

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Freaky Attractions

Posted on April 11, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Shortly after our podcast episode called, “Should OBE sex Be Considered Cheating?”we received an email from someone using the handle Freaky Attractions. Out podcast tech, Jon Posey, responded and began exchanging emails with Freaky, who is part of an internet sub-culture of writers who write horror stories in a genre known as Creepy Pasta. The stories appear on You Tube and are usually accompanied by related videos that the writers have found on the internet.

So Jon suggested that we interview Freaky Attractions for the The Mystical Underground. We agreed, though neither of us had ever heard of Creepy Pasta stories, which are told in first-person as if the writers are telling a true tale.

But wouldn’t you know it that a couple of synchronicities evolved. At the time Jon answered the first email from Freak Attractions, Jon was supposed to go to Seattle, but Comic-Con was cancelled, so he planned a trip to Disney World instead. This was shortly before the theme park shut down.  Synchronistically, he found that Freaky Attractions was writing weird theme park stories. That was what caught Jon’s attention and why he suggested we interview the writer for the podcast.

Not only did Jon have a synchro, but we did too. Trish, who had exchanged a couple of e-mails with Freaky Attractions, started looking more into his website and found his name. He had the same name as Megan’s former roommate, who  used to live in LA and wrote scripts. Jon said, “Well, that’s in Freaky’s profile, too.” That did it.

We realized that we’d been talking to the former roommate, who apparently thought we knew all along who he was. He’s an interesting guy with a big curiosity. When  he heard a couple of years ago that we were going to meet famed author Whitley Streiber for dinner in the spiritualist community of Cassadaga, Florida, he asked if he could tag along. So he and Megan both joined us. Interestingly, as we were realizing the identity of Freaky Attractions, we were also preparing for an interview that same day with…guess who? Whitley Streiber.

 

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Oneness

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Trish and Rob

In the meditation I lead at the beginning of my yoga classes, I often teach the Hamsa mantra, an ancient practice that dates back at least a couple of thousand years. It’s said that Buddha practiced the Hamsa mantra so I tell students that we’re joining a long tradition of meditators when we do the chant. Hamsa is a Sanskrit term that means “I am that,” or “I am all that is.” Essentially, it means that we are all interconnected at a deeper level. In fact, the word ‘yoga’ in Sanskrit means union—union of all beings.

That oneness or interconnection of all things might sometimes be hard to grasp when our experiences in the everyday world seem to show just the opposite—that a lot of things appear disconnected.

Yet, this philosophy has been around a long time. One of the precepts of shamanism, which goes back tens of thousands of years and has been handed down by primitive cultures throughout the world, is that consciousness exists in all things, including rocks and trees, and everything is interconnected in a web of life. That’s similar to Indra’s Net in Hindu mythology. It’s said that one tug on the god Indra’s net ripples throughout the Universe, everything being interconnected. In the Western World, 2,000 years ago, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “Everything is connected and the web is holy.”

So that’s an underlying principle of humanity, but how does it hold up in the world of science? Interestingly, that’s the subject of an article here in Scientific American entitled, “What Would Happen if Everyone Truly Believed that Everything is One.” The sub-title goes on to say:  “Research suggests a belief in oneness has broad implications for psychological functioning and compassion for those outside of our immediate circle.”

The article cites a couple of studies on the subject of oneness conducted by Kate Diebels and Mark Leary. In their first study, they set out to find how many of us actually believe in the “oneness of all things.” They found that only 20.3% of participants had thought about the oneness of all things “often” or “many times,” while 25.9% of people “seldom” thought about the oneness of all things, and 12.5% of people “never” had thought about it.

The researchers also created a 6-item “Belief in Oneness Scale” consisting of the following items:

  • Beyond surface appearances, everything is fundamentally one.
  • Although many seemingly separate things exist, they all are part of the same whole.
  • At the most basic level of reality, everything is one.
  • The separation among individual things is an illusion; in reality everything is one.
  • Everything is composed of the same basic substance, whether one thinks of it as spirit, consciousness, quantum processes, or whatever.
  • The same basic essence permeates everything that exists.

In their second study, the researchers looked at values and self-views that might be related to the belief in oneness. They found that a belief in oneness was related to values indicating a universal concern for the welfare of other people, as well as greater compassion for other people. A belief in oneness was also associated with feeling connected to others through a recognition of our common humanity, common problems, and common imperfections.

The author of the article notes the wide division in political beliefs that exist and concludes: “It might be beneficial for people all across the political spectrum to recognize and hold in mind a belief in oneness even as they are asserting their values and political belief. Only having “compassion” for those who are in your in-group, and vilifying or even becoming violent toward those who you perceive as the out-group, is not only antithetical to world peace more broadly, but is also counter-productive to political progress that advances the greater good of all humans on this planet.”

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