Entanglement

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Trish and Rob

The other day at the dog park, a retired attorney, Spenser, showed up with his two dogs and his wife, a high school teacher who had the day off. As a former high school teacher, I asked her if she had to carry a gun yet. She laughed. “No. That’s why I’m still teaching.”

I also asked her about our governor’s “Don’t say gay” bill and the banned book issue. She said that for awhile, The Diary of Anne Frank was removed from the school library. Then it was brought back. She mentioned several other books but I don’t recall specific titles. The whole purpose of the banned books, she said, was so that white kids wouldn’t feel guilty about their own history.

Interesting, right?

But throughout our history, we have neglected certain segments of our own history when it comes to people of color. At the stops on the Florida turnpike, there are two restrooms for women, two for men. These date back to the days of segregation when blacks and whites had their own public restrooms. I remember traveling in Florida when I was a kid, on a family vacation, and being confronted with this weirdness – the separate bathrooms.

I also remember asking my dad about it when we were all back in the rental car. His response? “Blacks don’t have the same rights as whites. Someday they will, but right now they don’t.”

We’ve progressed beyond bathrooms. But if the supremes pass more “originalist” bans like abortion, then the rights people have gained in the last 50 years are going to go as extinct as the Dodo bird. We’ll be hurled back to the dark ages of the 1950s when birth control wasn’t legal, when women couldn’t open a bank account without the permission of a male relative, when most women supposedly went to college to find a husband, when we lived in a Leave it to Beaver and Marcus Welby, M.D. world.

In other words, in much simpler terms, this originalist interpretation of the law is that women aren’t equal to men, that they are chattel governed by men, that they must submit to the rule of men. In those terms, Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the abortion ban, is living in an alternate universe – that of 1860. He hasn’t entered the 21 century yet.

Right now, there are 299 election deniers running for office. They also tend to be anti-abortion. That isn’t what they call themselves, of course. In their own eyes, they are pro-life.

My hope is that the right to reproductive freedom hurls these jerks out of the running. My hope is that the Dems win both the house and the senate and codify abortion and voting rights and all the rest into law. Why should the majority have to live under the edicts of minority?

All these issues are interconnected, entangled.

 

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The Mystical Underground: Trish MacGregor: Star Power For November 2022

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Trish MacGregor: Star Power For November 2022”:

Join Trish for the November 2022 astrological forecast!

The written version is in the masthead. Buckle up, people. It’ll be a weird November.

 

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Crist vs DeSantis

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Trish and Rob

         

 

The choice for Florida governor should be easy – Charlie Crist or autocrat trump wanna be Ron DeSantis. You now, DeSantis is the guy who appeared in the ridiculous and hilarious ad as Tom Cruise in Top Gun.

DeSantis calls Florida the most free  state in the union. Uh-huh. That’s why he passed the Don’t say gay law, is banning books in schools, interfering in how teachers teach, did away with tenure in universities. He passed a law with new guidelines involving race- based discussions in businesses and schools, part of his campaign against critical race theory, an ideology he calls “pernicious.”

Like trump pretending to be a hurricane expert, DeSantis pretends to be an educational expert. He’s also incredibly cruel.

From the NY Times:

“In June, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a budget that set aside $12 million to create a program for transporting unauthorized migrants out of Florida. He touted it as the highlight of the state’s new spending when it came to immigration.

“But just three months later, the money was being used in a place far from Florida, in a very different way: rounding up Venezuelan asylum seekers on the streets of San Antonio and shipping them on private planes to Massachusetts.” Specifically, to the island of Martha’s Vineyard.

This political stunt was unconscionable. I was born and raised in Venezuela. The Venezuelan people have been living under autocrats since Chavez and now they have Maduro. The little news that comes out of the country is invariably sad and depressing.

According to the NYT, “Florida state records show that an airline charter company, Vertol Systems, was paid $615,000 on Sept. 8 and $950,000 less than two weeks later. The first payment was for “project 1” and the second payment for “projects two and three.” So far, Florida officials have acknowledged only the initial flights and have not spoken of plans for others.”

According to court records, Vertol was once represented by republican Matt Gaetz, another election denier and trump ally and now a close ally of DeSantis. In Gaetz, I see another corrupt politician, involved in sexual escapades and alleged sex trafficking that he has gotten away with.

The way these migrants were recruited – from San Antonio, Texas – is also ugly. A mysterious woman named Perla Huerta was hired to recruit them. Read about it. Here’s a link to the Times story.

Then we come to Hurricane Ian, where DeSantis really tried to act like he knew what he was doing. Even the My Pillow guy showed up in the aftermath of destruction in Fort Myers, apparently advertising his stupid pillows.

Under DeSantis, Florida’s property owners insurance has more than doubled from about $1900 a year to more than $4200. We got walloped and as a result, out mortgage went up $300. This year, more than 10 insurance countries have fled Florida. But for DeSantis, that’s a big ho-hum, no problem. Only now, just weeks out from the election, does DeSantis call a special session to deal with the insurance crisis in Florida. Don’t hold your breath.

Oh, and DeSantis is also a climate change denier and anti-choice. So much for Florida being the freest state in the nation.

In contrast, Charlie Crist is pro-choice, believes that voting is a right, and would reverse the DeSantis limits on mail ballots, and understands that the Republican attack on democracy is an emergency. In 2006, when he was elected governor, the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 had left the insurance market in turmoil. He called a special session in 2007 and worked with both parties to deliver solutions. Insurance companies were held accountable and rates were lowered by 10 percent.

I’ve lived in Florida since 1963, except for the years I was in college in upstate NY. During the years that Crist was governor, from 2007-2011, he was known as “Governor Green.” You know, environmentally active. DeSantis, by contrast, acts like the environment is one of his loyal constituents.

One of the best – and most humorous – comparisons I’ve read about Crist versus DeSantis was here.

So, fellow Floridians, vote BLUE for Crist. We can’t let DeSantis/Top Gun dude damage our state for another 6 six years. With his presidential aspirations for 2024, no telling what other cruel political stunts he’ll pull. His election police already bears a chilling resemblance to the Morality Police in Iran, to the Tonton Macoute in Haiti, the DINA in Pinochet’s Chile. He has the same bug that trump does – I wanna be a dictator or – even better – king!

 

 

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THE SHIFT

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Trish and Rob

Just out of sight and mostly outside the awareness of mainstream media, a shift in consciousness is underway that’s beyond religion, politics, and science as we know it now. It’s an accelerated perception shared by millions worldwide: we are all energetically entangled. What affects one, affects all.

Here in this sea of evolving awareness, we perceive intuitively, through the heart, and often experience astonishing coincidences or synchronicities. It’s here we might momentarily connect with a lost loved one, catch a glimpse of our future, or be nudged unexpectedly onto a different path. These wake-up calls alert us to a deeper matrix of reality.

Welcome to The Shift.

We based a lot of the material on our podcast interviews. We recognized   a thread that ran through every episode – that in spite of the bedlam in which we in the U.S. live right now, there’s hope that it ultimately ends with an evolution of humanity.

Available today on Amazon!

 

 

 

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November 8

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Trish and Rob

For months now, any thought of the midterm elections has left me feeling anxious and angry. How is it that a minority – white Christian Nationalists and their sympathizers, the election deniers and trump worshippers – is  now trying to dictate the majority?

The corrupt supreme court stripped women of their right to an abortion. It’s not about fetal heartbeats or the alleged personhood of fetuses. It’s about men controlling women and their health care. How can Alito’s wife even  stand the sight of him?

Thanks to the extraordinary work of the J6 committee, it’s now obvious that trump orchestrated the Jan 6 insurrection and intended it to end in a coup. Yeah, banana republic style. He didn’t succeed, but apparently hopes to give it another try in 2024.
Garland, I’m sure, has enough airtight evidence now to indict trump today. Oct. 17. Why is he supposedly waiting until after the election? Why adhere to any of the old norms when trump’s four years shattered most of them?

Which brings us to election day, November 8. As one astrologer said, “Why does it seem that every major U.S. general election lately coincides with a clusterf#ck of intense, confusing astro energies? The presidential election of 2020 will seem like a streamlined, shining example of seamless democratic progress compared to the doozy of a midterm…”

Why?

Well, on November 8, there’s a lunar eclipse in Taurus. It’s conjunct Uranus, the planet of sudden, unexpected events. Saturn in Aquarius squares Venus, Mercury, and the sun in scorpio. Mars is retrograde in Gemini. What does it all means? Chaos. Bedlam. A shit show.
Or, as this same astrologer – Michelle Perrin, writing in Llewellyn’s 2022 Daily Planet Guide writes,“Surprise upsets are featured, along with secretive machinations and backroom alliances, all of which could threaten to upset the stability of the democratic system. Confusion abounds, and with Mars retrograde, no one is really willing to step in, take charge, and pick up the pieces. This bewildering situation continues on Wednesday and Thursday… There could be longstanding shady dealings lingering in the background that threaten to blow the whole thing up.”

We have become a country of US against THEM. Did you hear or read trump’s recent anti-semetic rant? Or how about his remarks after Charlottesville? You know, good people on both sides? US against THEM. Black and white, right and left, jew and christian, there has to be an OTHER bad guy, different-looking.

The repugs stand for oppression. Look at  what Ron DeSantis is doing to Florida public education. Banning books. Signing Don’t say gay bills. Trying to act like he knows what he’s doing in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. He’s another wannabe autocrat like trump. Do what I say…

299 election deniers are running for office in these midterms. If even a fraction of them get in – as secretaries of state, governors, as senators – then we can expect more  chaos, more rebellion, more insurrections, more election deniers. The pathetic truth is that repugs can’t win popular elections. They bank on the electoral college, which should be abolished for the antiquated postscript that it is.

Think of the world’s most repressive regimes now. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia…those are the ones that leap immediately into my head. That’s only a fraction. Living in any of those countries, as a woman…no thanks. I’d rather be dead.

But that’s where this country is headed if the repugs seize control. Under them, climate change will progress until much of the country is uninhabitable. Grocery shelves will be bare more often. Food may become scarce. Government will intrude more deeply into our personal lives. Who you marry, who you love, where you can travel to and where you can live.

Repugs are being quite open about their agenda if they win back the house or senate or both. Get ride of Social Security and Medicare. Impeach Biden. Investigate the J6 group. Undo everything Biden has accomplished. Silly Kevin McCarthy apparently plans to put Marjorie Taylor Green in some important position if repugs win and he becomes majority leader. McCarthy, the guy who initiallylcondemned trump for the insurrection, then flew to Florida to kneel before his king – trump.

Under the extreme right, we’ll be living how Venezuelans live now under the Maduro regime. How Chileans lived under Pinochet. How Cubans have lived since 1959. How Italians lived under Mussolini, how Spaniards lived under Franco, how Germans lived under Hitler. How North Koreans live under Kim Jong-un. How Saudis live under MBS.

Fun, huh?

So vote BLUE.

 

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Power up

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

Philip Merry, author of 9 Keys of Synchronicity, has been conducting workshops in Singapore, where he lives, on Practical Synchronicity. His technique is designed to help clients develop their synchronicity skills. Here’s a story from Dr. Lakshmi Ramachandran, PhD.

She’s a Science Leadership Coach, developing effective future leaders in science and technology. She has 20 years of experience in science as a researcher, communicator, administrator and is an ICF and Belbin certified coach. She’s a specialist in empowering women in science.

“To develop my ideas I choose to withdraw from the external world and do a lot of reflection. I was fortunate to receive a signed copy of “The 9 Keys of Synchronicity” that aided my reflection.

“ A definition of synchronicity that I connect with in Philip’s book is ‘when an event happens to a person in a ‘non-causal’ (no logical cause) way and has meaning for the person in that it gives an answer to an issue the person is facing at that time. It’s often accompanied by intuition.

“So I was constantly asking myself this question: What do I need to know about myself/ this situation?  Yesterday morning, this thought occurred to me that these situations are making me ‘Power up from within’.

“ I am speaking up more, letting go more often than before, and I’m much more focused in my goals. I realized that POWER UP FROM WITHIN is the perfect title for my next Keynote speech that I’m writing.

“As I was walking into the building where my morning lecture was scheduled, I saw Subway add that read, ‘POWER UP FROM WITHIN,’ a clear affirmation that I needed.”

Her email if you’d like to contact her.

 

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The Mystical Underground: Candice Sanderson: Angels And Aliens

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Candice Sanderson: Angels And Aliens”:

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Candice M. Sanderson lives in Naples, Florida. Her life changed in a ten-minute period in August 2013 when she began to receive information from messengers from other-worldly sources. When her training as a psychologist failed to explain these events, she reluctantly followed the breadcrumbs down a path which resulted in extraordinary adventures into the unknown.

Candice first appeared with us on The Mystical Underground in 2020 when we talked about her first book “The Reluctant Messenger,” and we talked to her in February about “The Reluctant Messenger Returns,” which chronicles her expedition across a vast expanse of universal consciousness that led to new truths about life that she thought she had known so well. Her new series, “From the Reluctant Messenger,” highlights some of her more memorable explorations into other-dimensional spaces. The most recent one, called “Close Encounters,” takes a new, unexpected turn for Candice. Links to her YouTube channels and other social media platforms can be found on her website.

www.CandiceSanderson.com

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District Dive – & Afterward

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Trish and Rob

This photo, because of the lighting and that word DIVE above Bob Farley’s head, is like a doorway into an alternate reality.

While  I was visiting Megan for a couple of days, we wee supposed to meet her  gay friend Bob for dinner one evening, but he had to work late, so we met for a drink after Megan and I had a bite to eat. He’s one of my favorite people, a Pisces with a big heart and a clear sense of who he is.

He suggested we head to District Dive, a gay bar a short distance from where we’d met up. So we did. Given all the attacks in Florida recently against gays and transgenders by our Fascist hungry governor Ron DeSantis, I was curious to find out what impact it may have had on this population.

The music was loud – a constant throbbing before you even step inside. The two men at the front door asked for IDs nd when I handed mine over, I said, “C’mon, really?”

They both sort of laughed ad held up my license the way a cop might. One of the men brought two fingers to his eyes like DeNiro in the movie Meet the Parents. We all laughed.  Except for a couple of men on the other side of the bar, I was probably the oldest person in there.

I loved it. People were who they are. It’ s like they were all letting our silly governor know that his stupid “Don’t say gay” rule for schools is just political grandstanding, that there is a huge gay community in Florida that VOTES. Hello, Ronnie boy. Guess hwere you’re going in the 2022 election?

The following weekend, Hurricane Ian slammed into the west coast of Florida.  And DeSantis, who voted against  federal aid for NY and New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy, begged Biden for federal help for the state he governed. Hypocrite. But Biden came through.

The problem is that Ian is Florida’s future. Climate change is here. DeSantis just can’t admit that yet.

 

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The Nature of Consciousness

Posted on October 12, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

From early on, Hurricane Ian seemed to be headed for Florida’s west coast. Initially, parts of the east coast were inside the cone, but as the storm progressed, the track moved to the west and South Florida was in the clear. As Ian started closing in on the west coast and the National Hurricane Center began issuing more frequent positions, I realized I might have the opportunity to watch a hurricane unfold on live TV.

Until today, my experience of hurricanes has come from being hit by them or from writing about them in fiction. But on September 28, I watched MSNBC and NBC News for most of the day. That ease is due to more advanced technology but also, I think, to greater awareness about climate change. The need to watch this was that our daughter is in Orlando.

My binge of Ian taught me a couple of things. I found a synchronicity – which I wrote about – and also realized just how greatly climate change has impacted hurricanes now as opposed to those in, say, the Sixties. The first hurricane I experienced was in 1964, a year after my parents had left Venezuela and moved to Florida. Hurricane Cleo. I was spending the weekend in Coral Gables, with a friend from Venezuela, and the only thing I recall is that Judy’s parents put up hurricane shutters.

Over the years, of course, I’ve been through many more hurricanes, have used them in my novels, have studied them, been awed and humbled by then. And thanks to climate change, they have grown in intensity, unpredictability, and devastation. The oceans are warmer, scalding in some areas. The ocean currents wobble and shift and so do the upper winds.

For much of this hurricane season, it’s been quiet. This August, in fact, a month that usually features hurricanes, had none. That has happened only twice before. There were no tropical storms or hurricanes in the month of August in 1961 and 1997. These kind of inconsistencies bother me.

The media started talking about that, about what an unusual hurricane season it had been after so many dire predictions. So much attention was focused on the absence of hurricanes in August that September made up for it.

In August 2019, as Hurricane Dorian headed for Florida, a group of 13 of us meditated with the Crystal Skull that Bill Homan had brought to our home. The meditation’s focus was to push Dorian away form Florida. At the time, it was stalled and predicted to slam into Florida. That night, we meditated as a group, and then each one of us had the opportunity to meditate directly with the Mitchell-Hedges skull.

The next day, Dorian was on the move again, but away from South Florida. In retrospect, we realized we should have meditated on Dorian dying somewhere in the North Atlantic. Instead, it crashed into the Abacos in the Bahamas. But one of my suspicions was confirmed: these hurricanes possess some element of consciousness.

Then again, doesn’t most of nature? So why not hurricanes? Earthquakes? Flooding? Volcanic eruptions? The state of my plants seems to reflect my mood at times. Our pets pick up on our moods. Our consciousness helps create what we experience. Everything is entangled. What impacts one, impacts all.

 

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The Herniated Disc – A Mindblower

Posted on October 11, 2022 by Trish and Rob

photo from google – not from Erin

Megan, our daughter, has known Erin Schornagle since they both interned at Dolphins Plus in Key Largo, were they worked with, well, dolphins! They were 20 and 21 then, they’re now in their early 30s. At one time after Megan moved to Orlando, she and Erin were roommates. Over the years, she has heard us talking about synchronicity and has been experiencing them herself.

Recently, she experienced what I think of as a mind-blowing synchronicity.

First, some background. Erin’s stint at Dolphin plus eventually brought about an opportunity to work at Sea World after she graduated from college.  She worked there for more than 7 years and at least once a week did diving all day long (10 hour shift) for all the exhibits in the area. “We called it our ‘dive day.’ However, in my last few weeks with Sea World, I wanted overtime, so I signed up for shifts with the parks actual dive team, which is in charge of diving all over the entire park on a daily basis. So during the month of December and first week of January, it was more like 2 days a week average.” Basically, she gave her spinal column a workout. She has since left Sea World for another job.

years, dived several times a week to feed and care for the dolphins, rescued dolphins in the wild, and basically gave her spinal column a workout. She has since left Sea World for another job.

About 6 months ago, she started experiencing a lot of pain in her back. It got so bad that it became painful to sit in a car or jog or practice yoga. She found out the pain was caused by a herniated disc in her lumbar spine and tried various method to relieve the pain. But finally, Erin consented to a surgical procedure in August 2022.

I know nothing about back surgery. But just the idea of someone cutting into my spine makes me uneasy. Several months ago, we had dinner with a couple who had been rob’s yoga students for years. The wife, Susan, had terrible scoliosis of her spine and during Covid, spent 12 hours in surgery in Miami to correct it. So when Megan told us Erin was going to have back surgery, I thought of Susan.

From Erin:

“Two nights before my procedure, I met a group of friends for dinner, a nice outing before I started recovery. After this, the reality of the surgery was settling in and I felt slightly more nervous about it, in general. I had not been able to talk to anyone my age that had dealt with a problem like this and followed through with surgery.

“When I got home that night, I opened up my facebook feed one last time before bed and a photo post was the first thing to pop up on the screen. The photo was of a girl showing her lower back where there was a small scar – exactly what I knew my scar would look like (at least described to me by doctors). I went on to read the post, and was amazed when I read the following:

Injury, surgery, recovery, prevention. It’s a journey. And I started that journey at 22 years old.

Always an athlete as a child and young adult, I put my body through the ringer with no thought for injury prevention. Rest days? Yeah, I was young and didn’t need those. Stretching? Boring! I don’t really need it. No to low-impact days? I’m young!

Well, at 21 years old a doctor confirmed that I had a severely herniated a disc in my lower back. I spent about three years suffering before I even saw a doctor. Until I said I can’t do this any more. I won’t be able to walk by 30. I was developing a curve in my spine for carrying my back strangely so it wouldn’t hurt. I had to sleep in the same position every night with lots of Advil and some nights crying through the pain. Getting in and out of my low riding car was tough. Standing up after a 60 minute lecture in college? Excruciating and embarrassing that I had to limp for 5 minutes after standing before my back could support my upright position. It was a nightmare.

I tried a couple of therapies before ultimately I had a microdiscectomy. The two week recovery was HUMBLING, to put it politely. Then physical therapy afterwards was a challenge to slow myself down and really think about my body. I vowed I would protect my back from then on, heaven help me!

After years in athletics, it took an injury to make me realize that your body is actually fragile and you have to tend to it correctly. A strong core helps protect your back. Stretching helps protect your back. Hydration helps protect your back. Don’t think of fitness just as building muscle, think of it as tending and protecting its internal structure.

An injury took me out for a bit back then but ultimately taught me how to properly care for my body. This scar that I hate reminds me all the time to protect what I’ve been given.

Do you properly care for yours? Who’s with me?”

As Erin read this, she was thinking, OMG I’m with you. “Our situations were so similar going into the surgery – it was eerily similar. But it was such a relief to see someone expressing all things I was also experiencing, and being able to write them down. She had the surgery 10 years ago, and was celebrating that memory. I reached out to her right away and started asking questions, and she was very receptive and supportive.

“It was what I needed before the surgery. Thankfully in my case, my recovery period was not as severe as hers. My incision was actually internally stitched and then glued, while hers was stapled shut. Medicine moves so fast.”

This synchronicity proved to be informative and reassuring for Erin. It happened just two days before her surgery, so the timing was auspicious. It soothed whatever anxiety she was feeling. She got in and out of the clinic on the same day and we saw her about a week after the surgery, at Megan’s birthday dinner.

“I’ve got a good synchro for you, Trish,” she said when she arrived at the dinner.

I was thinking of our friend Susan – 12 hours in surgery to straighten her spine – and was shocked Erin was there. After dinner, we went to a bar to listen to music and Erin and I stepped outside so she could tell me all this.

It’s a mind-blower for several reasons:

She’s won’t ever forget it

It allowed her to perceive and experience synchronicity in a profoundly personal way

It defied the odds.

It changed how she perceives herself

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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