Five Minutes of Pleasure

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 According to neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of “The Female Brain,” men think about sex every 52 seconds. Meanwhile, women tend to think about sex once a day. (Ha! says Trish.)
 
So, being a guy, I figured it wasn’t really synchronicity when a woman at the gym obliviously made a remark that could be interpreted as a double entendre. We were talking about diet. Since she is in training for an upcoming competition, I was curious about what she ate. She said the most difficult time was the evening, when it would be so easy to grab a bag of potato chips while watching television. 

I suppose we’d been talking about a minute–at least 52 seconds at that point–when she added: “But for five minutes of pleasure, it’s not worth it.” With that she excused herself and walked away.

Her last comment was overheard by a guy who’d just arrived in that corner of the gym, and didn’t know what we’d been talking about. He gazed after the woman, then turned to me. “Did I hear that right? Five minutes of pleasure? I think it would be worth it.”

“She apparently doesn’t think so.” Then I explained what we’d been talking about. We laughed a bit about that. Then, as if on cue, Synchronicity, by the Police, came on the gym’s sound system. So maybe it was one after all.

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The 3040 Synchronicity

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 Soul Cards


 Clusters of numbers, names, words, phrases, songs, objects, and events are one of the most curious aspects of synchronicity. When it happens, noted author Frank Joseph, you invariably feel “that something important, perhaps even divine, is trying to communicate through the numerical symbol.”

Jung, who experienced many numerical synchronicities throughout his life, believed that numbers represent “an archetype of order which has become conscious.” The meanings of  such clusters may not be immediately apparent when you experience them. But by interpreting them as metaphors, by doing some research and using your intuition, you can gain clarity and a deeper appreciation for how your inner self, your unconscious,
guides you.

 We’ve done quite a few posts on the synchronicity of numbers. Some of the more common and famous number clusters we’ve written about  involve 11,111, or 11:11; 23; 27; and 137. The other day, we received a really cool number synchronicity from Butternut Squash. We’re posted several of her synchronicites – here and here. 

She was in Kathmandu, Nepal, on a search for the jewelry she purchases there and then sells through her business in Ohio. When you read Butternut’s blog, though, you get a sense that her trips to Nepal are about connecting with the people and the culture of that country. A soul journey, perhaps. So it’s intriguing that her number synchronicity – 3040 – adds up to a 7. My understanding of 7 is that it’s a deeply spiritual number.

In February,  Butternut dropped us an email about a synchronicity concerning 3040 and we speculated about what the 7s could mean. The other night she wrote from Nepal with an update.

“Do you remember that I wrote a check for $3040.00 on check number 3040 and I was pondering the lucky number 7?  Well, it turns out that the next day my husband received a call that he had passed his licensing exam.  It was the completion of a 10 year retraining process in clinical psychology.  This has been the preoccupation of both our minds for years.

“Also,  a dear friend of mine, without prompting, called and announced that she was joining me on the trip to Nepal.  She managed to arrange this journey with less than 2 weeks before our departure date.

“The very same day, I arrived in Chicago at my hotel where the hotel announcement board proudly proclaimed me as the winner of the customer of the day with a free upgrade to a luxury room.  Stupidly, I did not buy a lottery ticket!”

I wrote Butternut and asked if she recalled the exact dates and was she back from Nepal yet? “Not back yet,” she wrote. “You are getting messages from Kathmandu. Power is intermittent and internet service is sketchy. The date of the check was 2/18/10 but all the good stuff happened on 2/19/10. I forgot to also say that I found a great pair of hiking shoes on the same wonderful day. That’s not a big deal for most people, but I haven’t been able to find a decent pair of shoes that don’t hurt my feet and can fit my inserts for about 7 years! 

“Got to go. A friend is picking us up for breakfast soon…rice, curry, lentil soup, and yak mile tea. Yum!”

We wondered if her boots were size 7s, but by then the Internet connection with Kathmandu was gone.

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Planetary Empaths

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Trish and Rob

We’ve posted a number of synchronicities on how animals seem to be able to predict catastrophes like earthquakes. But what about people who are planetary empaths, who feel physical symptoms of a pending quakes hours or even days before it occurs?

Over the years, we’ve known several individuals who possessed this ability. Our friend, Renie Wiley, sometimes experienced intense migraines and vivid precognitive dreams before a planetary disaster. Connie Cannon, a retired ER nurse and psychic,  often writes us when her symptoms begin, just so we have a record of it.  When I asked her to describe the symptoms in detail for this post, she did.

“Prior to higher magnitude earthquakes, no matter where they are going to occur on the earth, I begin to experience a sense of impending doom.  This is quickly followed by an “edginess”, and then the physical symptoms kick in.  My ears will click and ring and sometimes thump; walking becomes a real issue, as if I’m trying to walk on a rocking, undulating boat in water although my floors are perfectly level and I must hold onto the walls to keep my balance; the nausea is a sea-sickness type of nausea.  Although I do have advancing Parkinson’s Disease, there is a distinct difference between the PD symptoms and the planetary event warnings.

“When the event is going to be a significant volcanic eruption, I experience a severe and sudden localized head-ache…and I do not have headaches otherwise, fortunately.  When my head hurts, on one side or the other, I can be sure a volcano is rumbling and ready to spew.  I also get extremely nauseous and very hot prior to the eruption.  My head will seem “foggy”, and I can actually smell dust where none exist.
The compelling thing is that I don’t know precisely where or when the event is going to happen.  Just that it is.  And the more people who are going to transition, the worse my symptoms.

“Another interesting aspect is that once the “release” occurs, once the event happens, my symptoms disappear as if by magic.  But they begin and build until it manifests.”

D Page,  a psychic and Dharma student in California, also experiences symptoms before a catastrophe. On February 27, her post says that since 2004, her left ear “registers high pitched rings prior to earthquakes all over the globe.When this phenomena first started happening, I talked to my lama, Lama Chodak Gyatso Nubpa. I told him I was hearing high pitch ringing 1-3 days before significant quakes, occasionally with accompanying visions of disaster and lossof human life. He verified that this was real. Being a new, immature student, I asked if he could take this phenomena away! No, he said. He did give me practices  to do, consisting of mantras and meditations, to help those beings who are dying and suffering.”

Before the Chilean earthquake, the ringing in her ear was absent.”Instead, I was very dizzy, with severe ear pain yesterday. I spent the afternoon and evening on the couch. With the Haiti quake and aftershocks, I heard the ringing in the left ear, but I did not have visions.”

D ends her post with wise words from a Dharma practice:

“May sickness war, famine, and suffering be decreased for every being.”
                  -Red Tara  Practice (Chagdud Gonpa)

Does anyone else experience these kinds of symptoms before global catastrophes occur?

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On A Lighter Note

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

                            Is this the final word on 2012??!

UPDATE:
Jim Banholzer notes that the massive Hadron Collider that smashes protons at Cern will be shut down for repairs at the end of 2011. You might remember that some people speculated that turning on the collider would create a black hole and destroy the planet. Didn’t happen. But what about next time? It’ll be down for a year.They’ll turn it back around, oh, Dec. 21, 2012.
***
Here’s a little prayer that the scientist in Walker Percy’s novel, Love in the Ruins, recites:

“Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men.
“Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction.
“Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.”

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Robin Hood exposed

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Recently we wrote about Johnny B. Goode, the South Florida man who is mentally disturbed and, at last count, had been arrested 50 times in recent months. His most recent arrested happened an hour after a reporter had interviewed him about all of his arrests.

Now comes Robin Hood — Robin Josua Hood, a thief who was arrested in Denver in January for stealing three baseball caps from a record store. We are left to wonder if the 34-year-old Robin Hood really needed three caps, or…was he planning on giving away a couple of them to hatless, hapless street people? Apparently, Robin Hood was living incognito at the time. Instead of hiding in Sherwood Forest, he was using someone else’s ID when police arrested him. But they soon uncovered the truth, that they had nabbed Robin Hood.

Thanks to Jim Banholzer for alerting us to this news item.

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7 Secrets of Synchronicity

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Here’s our book cover. That’s a doorway, not a tombstone! 😉
Not the greatest, but better than an earlier version that we didn’t even want to put up here. We’re happy the publisher was willing to change it.

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Rains of Fish

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Charles Fort spent most of his life studying anomalous phenomena – events that fall outside accepted theories and beliefs. Some of the phenomena he studied included: ball lightning, teleportation, spontaneous fires, UFOs, unexplained disappearances, giant wheels of light in the ocean, rains of frogs and fish.

In Wikipedia, he is cited as probably the first person to attribute unexplained disappearances to alien abductions. He also wrote about the interconnectedness of nature and synchronicity, which is where this story falls.

Lajamanu lies in the northern territory of the Australian outback. In Late February, the town’s 650 residents were treated to a Fortean event when hundreds of white fish – perch – landed in the town. People were apparently picking them up everywhere. One resident, Christine Balmer, said the fish were alive when they hit the ground. Even though perch are common throughout this area, the nearest river is 326 miles away. In fact, Lajamanu is located at the edge of the Tamani desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest lakes and even farther away from the coast.

According to a local meteorologist, conditions were ideal for a tornado, which could have whipped the fish upward from lakes or rivers and deposited them elsewhere. But there was no tornado.

This same town experienced raining fish in 1974 and 2004. The original story is here.

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A Trucker’s Tale – Redux

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Some of you might recall a post from last July called,  A Trucker’s Tale,  in which Jim Banholzer  told a puzzling story about how his truck has broken down at the exact same rural location three times over a 15-year period. Guess what? Jim is back with a sequel. If you click the link and go to the latest comment, you’ll find that Jim has again broken down at that same spot.

A very strange synchronicity. It sounds like the Bermuda Triangle of truck stops. Only it’s not really a truck stop. Then there’s also a reference to the nature of the sky above this spot when these things happen. A good story, but you wouldn’t want it to happen to you.

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Does Something Wicked This Way Come?

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Painting by Emil Nolde

 (Thanks to Gypsy for the lead on this cool artist!)

Precognition is one of the most intriguing aspects of psychic phenomena and of synchronicity.  In a nutshell, precognition is knowledge of an event before it occurs.

This knowledge can come in any shape or form – through hunches, visions, an inner certainty, during meditation or any other altered state of consciousness. Many of us have experienced precognition, often when our lives are in transition.

A common venue for precognition seems to be in dreams. In this story, two women who don’t know each other – but who know us – sent us notes on dreams they had that share uncanny similarities.

On 2/2/10-2/5/10, Gypsy Woman had a series of dreams  in which she was definitely an observer, watching a raging, “ravaging, muddy body of water,” where fully clothed bodies are being swept away. “The river is so muddy, red brown, and there are men in white shirts, one to my left with jet black hair, and other men are standing by helplessly. They seem to be East Indian, the  men in short-sleeved white shirts, the women in what look like saris. It’s pretty vivid.”

This morning – 3/6/10 – we received an email from Connie Cannon. You’ll notice the similarities to Gypsy’s dream:

“I was an “observer” in this dream, standing on the bank of a raging, muddy, furiously flooding river, and saw actor Matt Damon’s face go floating by in the water.  His best friend Ben Afflect was in the dream somewhere, as were other famous people.  In the background, the hymn AMAZING GRACE kept playing over and over. When I woke up, it felt more universal than personal.”

Connie is a numerologist and  always begins her dream interpretations with numbers. So she started with a breakdown of Matt Damon’s name.  “Matt Damon is 9-11.  Which indicates either emergency or could mean the day of the disaster 9-11-2001.  His whole name number is 38, which could mean the date March (3) 8, which is today. His initials are M D, which could of course mean medical emergency and may be a personal rather than a universal message.

“However, in reading his bio, I discovered that Matt Damon’s uncle swam the English Channel on 8-29-2004, at age 70, to raise money for children in Haiti, and that Matt and Ben are both involved in Haiti relief efforts now.  This raises the question if something massive will be hitting Haiti again in the near future, or something of that magnitude will be hitting somewhere else in the near future.  Damon’s wife is from Argentina.”

Connie continues, in  the language of numerology, where I’m not very conversant. But you’ll get the general idea. “Haiti, btw, is an 11.  For the record, earthquake is a vertical 26 and a horizontal 44….what else would it be????  Also, just for the record, Matt Damon’s BD is a 26 when added single number-by-number, but is a 44 when added correctly…using the month as its whole number rather than reducing it.  And as stated earlier, Damon’s NN vertically is 38, but his horizontal (vowels + consonants) is a 29, and Haiti is a 29/11 both vertically and horizontally.”
 
At this point in Connie’s email, I’m recognizing  parallels to Gypsy’s email from a month ago. So I forwarded Connie’s email to Gypsy. She wrote back:

“Cold shivers! Incredible! This person was also the observer on the bank in the dream and uses some of the same words “raging, muddy – face floating” – and the South American/Haiti thing – the people I saw were darker skinned with black hair and wore clothing different than ours, the women in longer clothing, I think I said like saris. Also, my dream had no personal connection to me. Like your friend, it seemed more universal – not personal.”
 
In a subsequent email, Connie continued: “Based on this and other synchronicities within the context of my dream and my past experiences with such precognitive dreams, I would venture a guess that something pretty
wild is brewing.  It may be Monday, 3-8.  But that isn’t necessarily the correct interpretation.  More likely it’s a catastrophe along the lines of 9-11 and the Haiti quake.  World changing event, whether natural or man-made.  I’m getting a lot of 3s, and we know the planet shifted three degrees on its axis (with the Haitian quake) but it shifted seven degrees on its axis in the 2004 quake and tsunami.  Not sure what is being indicated by the 3s, but they are non-stop for several weeks, both waking and sleeping messages. I’d say, again, something massively life-altering is brewing. Probably imminent or I wouldn’t get the “emergency” number, which for me in my dreams is always predicted by 9-11. Duh!”

So we’ll see. Anyone else have any foreboding dreams that fit this general description?

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Is There Life After Death?

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Trish and Rob

The question of whether there is life after death has been debated for decades. Now, in a new book, radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long contends that if you look at the scientific evidence, the answer is a resounding yes.

For the past decade, Dr. Long  has been researching near-death experiences, cataloging the stories of 1,600 people who have had such experiences. In an interview with Time, he says  that “medicine cannot account for the consistencies in the accounts reported by people all over the world.”

In the book – and in the Time interview – Long says that a near-death experience (NDE) has two components. The individual has to be near death, that is, “physically compromised so severely that they would not improve,” which often means the person is clinically dead, without a heartbeat and not breathing. The second component is that while the individual is in this state, he has an experience that is “generally lucid and highly organized.”

Dr. Raymond Moody brought this phenomenon to the attention of the general public in 1975, with the publication of his groundbreaking book Life After Life. Ever since, the debate has raged. Long and his wife, Jody, have a website that is the largest NDE website in the world, where they post every NDE story exactly as it’s told to them.  He says that his research has convinced him absolutely that there is life after death and that knowledge helps him to face the devastating disease with more courage. “I can be a better physician for my patients.”

Here is Gypsy’s post about her powerful NDE.

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