So Many Esperanzas

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Shortly before my novel, Esperanza, first came out, I created a Google alert for the word. I never realized just how many Esperanzas there are. The word means hope in Spanish, which may be why there are so many alerts for it. Hope seems to be something the world needs.

First, there was Camp Esperanza, where the families of the trapped Chilean miners were living until the miners were rescued.

Then there was the daughter born to one of the miners while he was still trapped. He and his wife named the baby Esperanza. She was born on September 14, 2010, the same day my novel was published.

Ray, who comments on our blog, then alerted us to a personal synchronicity he’d experienced about the book.While he was sitting in a Starbucks reading Esperanza, a song with that title came on the radio. It’s sung by Enrique Iglesias.

Many of the alerts I receive are about Esperanza Spalding, whom I’d never heard of until these alerts starting arriving in the mailbox. And wow, can this woman sing. She’s a 23-year-old musical prodigy who has been performing since she was 15. In the novel’s sequel, I’m using her as a character’s favorite musician.

Some of the other alerts are both inspiring and comical: an Esperanza scholarship; a water polo team named Esperanza; a college named Esperanza that’s looking for an accounting specialist!

ADDENDUM
We have to add Natalie’s Esperanza synchro from a couple of days ago. It’s a good one.

“Just popped in to tell you that while i was commenting here this morning, a voice in my ear told me that Esperanza was ready for me to pick up from the library. I ordered it two weeks ago and they said it would be at least a month wait, so I haven’t bothered checking my P.O box for the notification slip. I also realised that I had not changed my email address for them to notify me that way.

I thanked the ‘Spook’ and left for work. On the way, I stopped by the Post office and checked my box. What was in there? The notification slip for Esperanza that had arrived only hours before. 🙂

“When I got to work, I unpacked my stuff, and drew a card for the day: It was synchronicity. Gotta love it. :D”

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Mary and Debra

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 Matisse’s The Dream

 It’s always a treat to post one of D Page’s synchros from her fascinating blog, mythic musings. We ran across this one and asked if we could repost it. It beautifully illustrates that our connections with loved ones who pass on are never severed by death.
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Halloween was my grandmother Mary’s birthday, so it became my favorite childhood holiday. It was a birthday she’d share with her best friend for life – Emily.

   We were very close when she died in my late 20’s (late 1980’s). We had made an agreement, and renewed the agreement many times: whoever died first would contact the other. The week before she died she called me (in San Diego) from her home in Toronto, Canada. “Debra, I want you to promise me that if I die, and you have made plans to be somewhere, or do something, don’t cancel the plans. And don’t bother sending flowers. I won’t be there to see them anyway.” (She had always felt that flower arrangements were a terrible waste of money.)  I was a little perplexed as to why she said these things, but I gave her my word. With her, if you gave your word you had to carry it through!

The next weekend, my husband and I had reservations to attend a Medieval Times event in Los Angeles on Saturday. On the Friday night before , my father called  and said “Your grandmother is dead.”  No details… nothing. I was in a terrible  state of grief. I told my husband about my conversation with her the week before, and we agreed to attend the event, as I promised her.

     That night I fell into a fitful sleep. Suddenly, I found my self in a lucid dreaming state, and my grandmother was standing there. Don’t ask me why, but I blurted out “Gram, why are you in a hospital gown?”

“Because I died in the hospital,” she replied in a matter of fact way. At this point it was clear that our relationship was exactly the same… nothing had changed due to her new “condition”. She waved her arm and was shown real-time scenes of my Aunt, Uncle and cousins in her condo in Toronto, Canada. They were sorting things things into boxes to keep, or give to the Salvation Army. Then the scene changed, and we were on a boat crossing a river. There was a beautiful glass or crystal city on an island in the distance. Halfway across the river, she said (in her no nonsense way); “This is as far as you can come with me.” I started crying as she enfolded me in her arms.  I woke up in my room, smelling her rose perfume.

We did go to Medieval Times, which is something my grandmother would have loved. She was very into all things British, especially the Queens. It was very hard for me to go through with that day. I kept crying. On Sunday, my cousin, whom I had seen in the vision, called to give me the Memorial details. I told her I wouldn’t be attending. I also her about my grandmother’s visit and what I had seen her and her family doing in the vision. She gasped, and said that it was true… and they did give boxes of stuff to the Salvation Army.

Time passed. Then, I started having repeated visits from my grandmother. She kept showing me the same scene: In a dresser drawer there were many envelopes and small boxes. She urgently wanted me to see something.

This was repeated periodically for over 11 years. I had no way of knowing where this dresser was. I knew it wasn’t something my cousins or my father knew anything about. The only remaining relative in Canada was an uncle who was somewhat reclusive, and I had no way of contacting him.

On February 29, 2000 (leap day), a small package arrived via US mail. It was postmarked Toronto, Canada. Inside was a small blue box containing silver medallion of Queen Elizabeth, commemorating the 1976 Montreal Olympics. There was a very sweet note from my elusive uncle. “You grandmother always wanted you to have this. You were loved very much.”  I knew this would be the end of the repeated dream episodes of urgently searching through the drawer.

Though those episodes were over, Mary still visits me. I can feel her loving presence and  smell her rose perfume.

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The Medium and the Message and Paradigm Shifts

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 The visual medium primes our collective consciousness in a unique way. Through TV and movies, we can vicariously experience anything screenwriters can imagine. Love, sex, birth, death, UFO abductions, the end of the world: moviemakers and TV shows dish it out and we gobble it up. But on a deeper level, these shows and movies help to make us more receptive to new beliefs.

Many of the blogs I visit and many of the people who comment on this blog sense that a shift is coming. It’s not a 2012 end-of-the-world scenario so much as it is a paradigm shift, where these new beliefs reach a tipping point and spill over into mass consciousness. Many things can bring about this shift in beliefs: wars, racial or religious oppression, natural disasters, external events so tragic and dramatic that we simply can’t ignore what’s going on.
Right now, our world is so polarized that people seem to be really looking for answers, insights, definition. The visual medium of TV and movies may be pushing us toward a tipping point in belief systems.
Think back for a moment on the TV show 24. Did the African-American president in Jack Bower’s world set the stage for the election of the first African-American president in the U.S.? Are shows like The X-Files, The 4400, V, The Event, V,  preparing us for contact and/or disclosure? What about movies like The Sixth Sense, Dead Again, Siesta, and Hereafter?  Do they urge us to think more deeply about life after death, spirit contact, and reincarnation? Do they open our minds to new possibilities? Over time, a tipping point is reached on certain ideas and they are more readily accepted into the mainstream.
Books also serve this function. A book you read thirty years ago might have pushed your life in a new direction. A book your mother read you when you were three might be with you even now. Books, I think, tend to work on us over larger tracks of time, whereas visual mediums are more immediate.  
Then there’s the Internet: lightning quick connections to people on the other side of the world, to information that newspapers and TV news simply don’t have the space and time to cover. In many ways, the Internet really is Indra’s net. The ancient Hindu mystics said everything in the universe was inextricably interconnected, and they used Indra’s net to illustrate the concept. “If the net is multi-dimensional, the points where the strings of the net connect would be like intersecting points from which one could access the whole net. One tug pulls the whole net, one tug connects you to the whole net. Basically, that is how synchronicity works,” writes Shawn Randall, Synchronicity in Your Life.
Perhaps more than books and movies and TV, the Internet is what will ultimately bring about a paradigm shift. We can now stream our TV shows, movies, download our ebooks. With You Tube, we can see a video that someone in China took of a UFO or follow someone’s trek through the Himalayas.  In blogging, we congregate with like-minded individuals and share our experiences and ideas. You never know how a post you write or a comment you make may alter someone’s beliefs. In a sense, the Internet enables us to combine visual and printed mediums at the speed of light.

We do, indeed, live in interesting times!
–          Trish
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The Paranormal War on Terror

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Secret documents reveal that the British Ministry of Defense has been studying the paranormal and other unexplained scientific phenomenon for use in the war against terror.

The ARTICLE below uses the British release of the TV show The Fringe as a hook – Fringe as in fringe science. We were deeply disappointed by the show. You expect something paranormal to be explored. It never happens. It’s all about gadgets and technology. No one has any psychic abilities in The Fringe. In fact, any mention of the psychic phenomena in the show is quickly dismissed. The previews of the show (in the U.S. ) were totally misleading.

Maybe others have a better attitude about The Fringe. We stopped watching after three episodes. Maybe it got better.

The article is more interesting than the TV show in terms of  paranormal content.

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Orbs or Water Droplets on Shuttle?

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

On Friday, November 5, the space shuttle Discovery was to have made its final mission. The launch was scrubbed, though, when engineers spotted a leak that allows dangerous levels of hydrogen gas to build up around the orbiter. It’s now scheduled for November 30.

However, take a look at this video. There may be other reasons for the mission being scrubbed. This video looks like it was taken of a TV screen, during the mission countdown. It’s intriguing.

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Augustine’s Latest

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Perception is in the eye of the beholder. Case in point: most people don’t see much similarity between Nigeria and the U.S., or the two men pictured above. Augustine Togonu-Bickerstet is the exception. Augustine has sent us numerous e-mails linking Nigerian figures with American ones. His latest takes a geographical twist in which he has found ‘some interesting developments’ between New York state and Oyo state. We’ll let you be the judge.

  
So hang on. Here goes:

New York City in New York state is the largest city of the U.S. Ibadan City in Oyo state is the largest city in Nigeria.

New York City is  the publishing capital of the US. and Ibadan the publishing capital of Nigeria.

In New York, there is a well known monument to Liberty-The Statue of Liberty. In Ibadan, there is also a well known monument to Liberty-The Liberty Stadium.

New York state and Oyo state have the best places for agricultural research of their respective countries. In New York, it is Cornell University in Ithaca and in Oyo state it is the  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture(IITA).

New York City is the cultural capital of the U.S. Ibadan City used to be the cultural capital of Nigeria.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was  governor of New York state and James Ajibola Ige was governor of  Oyo state. Both of them served for four years.

Roosevelt became president of the United States and Ige was a presidential aspirant.

Franklin Roosevelt’s s father, James Roosevelt, invested in the railway business, while Bola Iges’s father, Solomom Ige, was a railway officer.

Roosevelt and Ige were both lawyers.

Rooosevelt and Ige have both been described as orators.

Roosevelt and Ige both died in office: Roosevelt as president, Ige as attorney general and minister of justice.

The governor’s office of  New York is at Albany., and the governor’s office of Oyo state is at Agodi.

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We might add to this list: Ibadan City, and elsewhere in Nigeria, is the home of the infamous Nigerian money scam, while NYC is the home of Wall Street, known for a few of its own scams, including taking large amounts of government bailout money and paying huge bonuses to corporate executives, who drove their companies into bankruptcy.

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The Dog and the Dolphin

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Even though this video has been on you tube for about a year, I first saw it on maggie’s secret garden a few days ago. There’s just something incredibly moving about friendships that develop between species.

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Babies and their Birth Dates

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Judi Hertling alerted us to this story.

By synchronicity standards, a Michigan couple have three unusual kids. Their first child, a girl, carried to full term, was born on 8/8/08.

Baby 2, a son, was unplanned. The doctors induced mom on September 8, but the boy waited until 9/9/09 to enter the world.

Baby 3, a girl was due on November 4, 2010, but labor was induced on October 9 and the girl waited until 10/10/10 to be born.

From a synchronicity view, these kids have a jump on the rest of us!


The original story is here.

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Synchro Bucks!

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Here’s a neat synchro from a neighbor,who has a son in college.It was a Saturday morning and he was driving to the bank with a $25 check to deposit into his son’s account. The check had been a b-day gift from his  aunt, but Tom didn’t have any deposit slips at college. So the check ended up with Dad weeks after his son’s birthday.

It turned out the bank wasn’t open on Saturdays. So he headed back home thinking, as he’s  driving, Why am I dealing with this $25 check? Why not something bigger, he thought. Why not dream? It should be a check for $250, or $2,500, or $25,000, or…$250,000. Why not?

A short time after he got home, he picked up the mail, and found a mysterious envelope from a lawyer in Denver. It was addressed to his son, but he figured he better open it. He did so warily, wondering if his son had somehow taken a trip to Denver without telling his parents and gotten into trouble. His eyes widened as he read through the letter and flipped through the other pages enclosed. He could hardly believe what he  read. Tom had just inherited $25,000 from a third cousin, whom he’d met once when he was nine.

Wow! Magic. A $25 check turns into $25,000 with minutes. Synchronicity and the laws of attraction come through! Neighbor guy definitely wins the synchro jacket. A good example of getting what you focus on. Hm, let me try that.

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John and the Wild Parrots

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Daz, who comments frequently here, left this synchronicity under a post with dozens of comments. We didn’t want it to get lost, so we’ve made it a separate post. There’s a synchronicity on our end, too, with this story.

A few days ago, Daz’s father-in-law, John, died suddenly of a heart attack that came out of the blue.  “He often said he didn’t believe in life after death. and my wife is a fence sitter on the subject, but I would like to pass on this synchronicity which happened today, which was quite a remarkable ‘coincidence.’ John loved to feed the wild parrots, magpies, kookaburras and other birds that would drop by his house every day. They actually sat near his veranda railing, waiting to be fed.
“Just earlier this week, my mother-in-law was telling us all today how he loved when the parrots would do their mating dance and he would imitate the male who would wobble up behind the female and then flap it’s wings up and down (a bit like a dirty old man flapping his raincoat). This would send him into hysterics.
“I was going to say then (but I didn’t) that maybe we should look for a sign involving a parrot, since this was an animal he often joked about coming back as, even though he believed once you are dead you are dead.
“Anyway, my mother-in-law wanted to have the TV going to try and take her mind off the raw emotion and it was on “Australia’s Funniest Home Videos” and what should come on the screen…you probably guessed it…two parrots trying their mating dance out on an artificial parrot.
What are the odds?
“It’s amazing how synchronous events like this can bring some comfort in a time of crisis, not so much for me, as I already believed in an afterlife, but to my wife and mother-in-Law. I also bought a copy of “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill” this week because it was on special from $34 to $10,which I am going to watch now, because I haven’t ever seen it before and I have had it on my to-do list for years and what better time than now?

“Farewell John. We’ll miss you.”

When Daz’s comment was posted, I was working on a chapter in our new book called Animals Attuned, about how animals are often vehicles for spirit contact. I was thinking I was going to be short on stories and hoped I could find one more that involved birds. Daz provided it.  Thank you, Daz and John! Here’s a video of the mating dance he refers to.

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