Like attracts Like

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

Yes, like attracts like, even when you don’t like it.

Case in point, two Muslim religious leaders en route to a conference in Charlotte, N.C. on Islamophobia are removed from the airplane by the pilot. No doubt the religious leaders were focused on anti-Muslim sentiments in the U.S. when they experienced the growing phenomenon first-hand.

Since the pilot probably didn’t know the nature of the event they were planning to attend, it’s also a case of synchronicity – two related events coming together outside of cause and effect.

Here’s the story as reported by the Charlotte Observer.

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Two Muslim religious leaders on their way to a Charlotte conference on “Islamophobia” said they were removed from a commercial flight Friday because the pilot refused to fly with them on board.

Imams Masudur Rahman, an adjunct professor of Arabic at the University of Memphis, and Mohamed Zaghloul said they and their bags were checked twice by security agents at the Memphis airport before boarding the 8:40 a.m. Delta Connection Flight 5452 to Charlotte.

Rahman said the plane left the gate and was taxiing to the runway when the pilot came over the intercom. “The pilot said: ‘There is an issue. We need to return to the gate,'” Rahman said.

A Transportation Security Administration spokesman confirmed the incident Friday and said it was not that agency’s decision to deny boarding.

“They were screened and cleared to fly,” said TSA spokesman Jon Allen in Atlanta. “The decision to deny boarding was made by the airline, not TSA.”

A Delta Air Lines spokeswoman said the flight was operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, based in Atlanta.

Jarek Beem, spokesman for Atlantic Southeast Airlines, the Delta Connection carrier that was operating the flight, told The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis that the incident was under investigation.

He said the airline regretted any inconvenience to passengers, and that the airline takes passenger security very seriously. He would not comment on specifics of the case.

The imams were flying to Charlotte to attend the North American Imams Federation 2011 Conference this weekend. Organizers said more than 150 religious leaders from across the country will meet through Sunday to discuss prejudice and fear of Islam or Muslims.

“The conference is about ‘Islamophobia,’ so it’s ironic that these guys were stopped on their way here because of this same issue,” said Jibril Hough of the Islamic Center of Charlotte. “These guys definitely have something to talk about.”

After catching another flight and arriving at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport Friday night, Rahman recounted the incident to reporters.

Dressed in traditional Muslim clothing, Rahman said a Delta official apologized to them after they were removed from the plane Friday morning. He said the official told them that the pilot said some passengers were concerned about them on the flight.

Their attorney, Mo Idlibi, said there was no reason not to allow his clients to fly on the plane after several different security checks.

“I’d really like to know what the pilot based it on.”

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the men called the council after the incident. Hooper said his group would review the incident to see if further action is warranted.

Calling it a “Juan Williams thing,” a reference to the fired PBS correspondent who said he was leery of flying with people in Muslim garb, Hooper added, “I think it’s possible the whole bin Laden situation factored into this with heightened sensitivity all around.”

Rahman said the experience reminded him of Rosa Parks and her famous 1955 stand against riding in the back of an Alabama bus because she was black.

“That racism, I felt today in the plane,” he said. “And that should not happen to anyone.”

Staff writer Meghan Cooke and The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal contributed. Editor’s note: Comments have been disabled due multiple abuse reports. Please refrain from profanity, obscenity, spam, name-calling or attacking others for their views.

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The last paragraph from the Charlotte Observer’s web editor suggests that Islamophobia is also rampant on the Internet.

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Happy Mother’s Day

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Trish and Rob

May your day be filled with beauty and joy!

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Vibration and Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Cuban artist Abel Matos

The movie Limitless is about a writer who stumbles upon a drug that enables him to use something like 97 percent of his brain. He has been blocked for months on a novel, but when he takes the drug, he’s able to write the novel in several days.  One young woman in the film who had used the drug, delivered a memorable line that describes it: “I read Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality in forty-five minutes.”

Rob and I laughed about that afterward. Wow, 45 minutes? And he wrote a novel in a matter of days? Maybe we need that drug.

I’ve been working my way through Greene’s book for weeks, reading a little here, a little there, and trying to digest and understand the material in between. This evening, I read something about string theory that really resonated for me.

Prior to string theory, Greene explains, the standard view envisioned “nature’s fundamental ingredients as point particles – dots with no internal structure – governed by the equations of quantum field theory. With each distinct species of particle is associated a distinct species of field. String theory challenges this picture by suggesting that the particles are not dots. Instead, the theory proposes that they’re “tiny, stringlike vibrating filaments.” Whether you’re looking inside any elementary particle or inside an electron or a quark, Greene contends you’ll find a string.

The theory argues that even though the strings within different kinds of particles are identical, the patterns of their vibration differ. “Much as different vibrational patterns of strings on a guitar produce different musical notes, different vibrational patterns of filaments in string theory produce different particle properties. In fact, the theory encourages us to think of a vibrating string not merely as dictating the properties of its host particle but rather as being the particle.”

As soon as I read this, I was struck by how similar this sounds to the Seth material and to a lot of what is written in the Abraham/Hicks books. In The Nature of Personal Reality, Seth talks about feeling tones, which he defines as “your emotional attitudes toward yourself and life in general. They give the overall emotional coloration that characterizes what happens to you. You are what happens to you. “ Even though our emotions fluctuate constantly, Seth says that beneath these transitory feelings are feelings that are unique to each of us, “that are like deep musical chords.”

Sometimes, these unique feeling tones surface, “but in great, long rhythms. You cannot call them negative or positive. They are instead tones of your being…they represent the core from which you form your experience.”

In the Abraham/Hicks material, a lot is written about the importance of emotions as a gauge of whether we’re in the vortex – a swirl of vibrating frequencies that represent the best of who we were – or outside of the vortex. When you’re feeling low or depressed, for instance, you’re outside of the vortex. That’s when the Abraham material suggests that you reach for “better feeling thoughts,” which raise your vibration/frequency.

String theory’s argument that particles are strings echoes Michael Talbot’s brilliant book, The Holographic Universe, where he makes an impressive case for the idea that we are all connected or, to paraphrase John Lennon, that we are all one. Greene addresses the holographic idea in a later chapter, where he talks about theoretical physics and the holographic multiverse.

During a conversation in 1998 with the legendary physicist John Wheeler, Greene asked what he thought the dominant theme in physics would be in future decades. Wheeler summed it up in one word: Information. As Greene explains, physics traditionally focuses on things – planets, atoms, rocks, particles – and then investigates “the forces that affect their behavior and govern their interactions.”  Yet, Wheeler “believed that information…forms an irreductible kernel at the heart of reality.”

Information, then, possesses its own vibration, its own frequency. “…the universe can be thought of as an information processor,” Greene writes. “It takes  information regarding how things are now and produces information delineating how things will be at the next now, and then now after that. Our senses become aware of such processing by detecting how the physical environment changes over time.”

Perhaps this explains why synchronicity is more frequent during times of major transitions in our lives: we have new information, a new frequency enters the picture. And at some profound level, that information transforms a root belief that we hold. It might explain a spontaneous remission of cancer, an abrupt rags to riches scenario, a pregnancy that occurs just before an adoption is finalized. It may also explain why some ideas reach tipping points and a new paradigm is ushered in.

I don’t know that Brian Greene would agree with these speculations from a non-scientist, but this book certainly stimulates  a lot of what if possibilities.

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Cluster Synchro

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Trish and Rob

What’s with May 1st, anyway? This sure looks like a global cluster synchro to us!

On May 1, 1945, Hitler’s death was announced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZICBPh0wc

 

On May 1, 2003, Bush announced that the mission was accomplished. Here he is in his flight suit on the U.S.S. Lincoln.

On May 1, 2011, Obama announced that Bin Laden is dead.

 

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A Synchro Pun

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Trish and Rob

In The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, we suggested interpreting signs and symbols appearing in your waking life as if you were interpreting a dream. Sometimes dreams catch our attention through puns.

For example, if a girl dreams that her boyfriend has a lion in the back of his house, it could mean that he is ly-in’ to her about something.  If you dream of a bear accompanying you to work, maybe it means that you need strength and power in the workplace. As a pun, it suggests that you can’t bear it. If you dream you’re on a train, but you never take trains in real life, it could mean that you’re in training. Aren’t we all?

These sort of puns can flow right into our waking lives, appearing as synchronicity. Here’s a dramatic synchro-pun that was related in Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster, by Allan Combs and Mark Holland.

A Texas motorcycle patrolman, named Allen Falby, was severely injured when his motorcycle struck the back of a truck. Alfred Smith pulled over after seeing the accident and saw that Falby had a deep gash in his leg. So he used his tie as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. His action probably saved the patrolman’s life.

Five years later, the two men met again. This time Smith was badly injured in a car accident. Falby was first on the scene and found Smith bleeding badly from one leg. He applied a tourniquet and after the bleeding stopped looked closely at Smith’s face and recognized the man who had saved his life.  Later, Falby jokingly commented, “One good tourniquet deserves another.”

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Megan’s Left Foot

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Trish and Rob

On the evening of Friday, April 29, we were leaving the dog park and saw a young man hobbling in on crutches, with a boot on his foot, his dog darting along ahead of him. He’s someone we see periodically at the park, so we stopped and asked if he had broken his foot.

“Yup. Playing basketball.”

Rob said, “It’s a bitch. I broke my foot last year.”

Once we were in the car, I remarked, “I think you broke your foot in 2009, in June.”

“What? Are you sure?”

“We’ll check the blog.” So when we got home, I did check and the post on Rob’s left foot went up on June 25, 2009.

The next day at Rob’s yoga class, I noticed that the woman next to me, Rose, had something wrapped  around her left foot. After class, I asked her what had happened. She said it was related to a bunion and that her orthopedic guy wanted to remove it. “But years ago, I was married to an orthopedic surgeon and I learned that if at all possible, you should stay away from surgery on your back and your feet.”

“Are you a Pisces?” I asked her.

“No, a Virgo. Why?”

“Well, Pisces rules the feet, which means that part of the body is vulnerable for people of that sun sign or for individuals who have a Pisces moon or rising.”

Rose didn’t know anything about her natal chart, so the conversation ended there. But when we were in the car, I started thinking about Megan the Virgo with Pisces rising and remembered how she has always enjoyed having her feet rubbed. Then I realized that twice in the last fourteen hours, I had paid attention to feet, not something that usually registers for me. I had conversed with people I hardly know who have problems with their feet. Then I forgot about it until around one Saturday morning, when Megan called, sobbing.

“Mom, I’m on my way to ER. I think I broke my foot.”

Saturday afternoon, she had been sailing with some other kids. Her legs were dangling over the side of the sailboat when another sailboat came alongside and slammed into the sailboat she was on. Her left foot got caught between the two boats.

So Sunday morning, I drove across the state.  Megan was on crutches, in a lot of pain, and couldn’t keep anything down because she was ill from the codeine they’d given her for pain at the ER. We checked into a hotel and she slept for a few hours, then finally had a bite to eat. Yesterday  morning, we got in to see an orthopedic doc.

Yes, her foot was broken – a metatarsal bone near the fourth toe. Her foot is still so swollen, though, that he recommended a heavily padded splint for a week, then a cast for a few weeks, then a boot. This means Megan will be graduating from college on crutches.

So, the signs were there, but I couldn’t read them. Maybe that’s the trickster part of some synchronicities. Hey, here’re the clues, you piece them together and make the appropriate warnings. There were two references to foot problems in a period of fourteen hours, one of those references from a Virgo having problems with her left foot. Symbolically, the break seems to be related to Megan’s feelings about graduating. As she put it, the only thing she has known since she was five years old is school. Now she’s going to graduate – and what happens then?

Our feet carry us forward in life. The left foot is ruled by the right brain, that part of the brain associated with creativity.  The break may be associated with a break from what she has known all these years – school – and a  whole new chapter opening for her. Then again, that may be too simple. There are undoubtedly other underlying issues that she keeps to herself.

But on the drive across the state, one phrase kept repeating itself in my head: pay attention to what you pay attention to.

 

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Animals as Creative Motifs

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Trish and Rob

In both of our books on synchronicity, we’ve written about the connection between animals and synchronicity. In 7 Secrets, the focus was on animals as messengers that relay particular information about our personal lives or our global situation. In Synchronicity and the Afterlife, our focus is on animals as vehicles of communication with the spirits of our loved ones – animals and human – who have passed on. Now I’m wondering how animals may symbolize our particular creative motif – the way we integrate creativity into our daily lives, how animals spark our imaginations, stir up our intuitions, and lead us into unexplored depths within ourselves.

When I was a kid, we lived in an oil camp in Maracaibo, Venezuela. It lies on the shoes of Lake Maracaibo, the largest lake in South America. Its basin contains large reserves of crude oil, which is what brought Rockefeller there in the early 1930s, to drill.  Our house backed up to a vast expanse of rock that eventually led to the hospital. On weekends, friends and I would climb the fence to the hospital property and look for tadpoles in the pools of rainwater that accumulated in the rocks.

There were hundreds of these strange pools, small, self contained worlds where tadpoles no larger than commas swam about, eating I don’t know what.  We scooped the tadpoles into jars and took them home and within a  few days or weeks, we  would have frogs jumping around in our back yards. That’s when my fascination with frogs began.

Over the years since, frogs have appeared at significant times in our lives, as we’ve written about here.  But on another level, I’ve since realized that frogs are my creative motif. I started out writing fiction, murder mysteries, then psychic investigations of murders, and finally, with Esperanza, wrote a story that takes place partially in the afterlife. Along the way, my nonfiction reflects the kind of transformation that embodies the frog’s life cycle – dreams, , divination systems, animal totems, synchronicity. The underlying theme remains constant, a way inside the mysteries to explore the mysteries themselves.

Other writers we know have different creative motifs –hummingbird, bumblebee, hawk, dolphin. But since all of us are inherently creative, the motif is as varied as we are as individuals. Sometimes, our motif is an animal that makes our hearts melt. For one friend, it’s the bat. She’s crazy about bats, and when I look into the life cycle and strangeness of bats, I see this woman’s life and decisions reflected there. For other friends, it’s the spider, the scorpion, or even a mythological creature, like the phoenix. And these people come from all walks of life and work in many different fields, not just the so-called “creative” fields.

Animals as creative motifs change over time, depending on where we are in our lives, what we’re doing and what we need. Sometimes the creature that speaks to us most strongly is one that terrifies us – snake, roach, rat, you name it, you own it. Fear is as strong an attractor as love. In this story, one of the earliest we posted, a woman who is afraid of scorpions dreamed of one after surgery on her ovaries. By working creatively with the dream and the scorpion motif, she accelerated her healing.

Other times, a seemingly random encounter with  a creature holds particular significance, as in this story that involved ladybugs.  To recap: during a long weekend in the Muir Woods, a young couple had repeated experiences with hundreds of ladybugs and then saw a lone ladybug on a rock on a beach, an unlikely spot for this insect. They researched ladybugs and discovered they are symbolic of luck, but can also indicate a time when we’re pushing too hard for a wish to come true. They also found out that the ladybug’s life cycle is nine months,  the exact time they had been together. The night they returned home, they broke off their relationship. By using the synchronicity creatively, they realized their relationship had run its course.

Recently, I’ve been noticing dragonflies everywhere – in the yard, outside my window, or as emblems on jewelry, clothes, decorative pillows. After  starting this paragraph on dragonflies, for instance, we went to the gym and Whole Foods and I encountered two more dragonflies. One graced the front of a candle holder I was admiring and another was on a wine label. Those two occurred within minutes of each other. Dragonflies symbolize luck, creativity, messages and news, and discovering the Zen of the moment. I bought the wine! Beyond that, I’ll have to see what develops.

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Trickster billboards

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Trish and Rob

It looks like the trickster had a hand in designing these ads….

 

 

That last one reminded me of an incident a couple of years ago when I was walking past a similar sign and moments later a model plane nose-dived into the ground a few feet behind me. – R

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Mishka, the Talking Dog?

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Thanks to Nancy Pickard for alerting us to this one.

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Inside the Planetary Empaths

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Here’s an inner look at planetary empaths from Marcus Anthony, the Australian author, futurist and intuitive analyst. Marcus is residing in China with his wife, a Chinese national. Unfortunately, the Chinese government is blocking access to Word Press and Blogger, so Marcus is unable to comment here. We’ll e-mail comment to him, though.

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“I have received more information about planetary empaths. It started coming through last night. Feel free to use any of this information if you want, in your article, blog or elsewhere. This information was received from spiritual guidance. I asked a few questions, and this is what I got.”

What is the function of being a planetary empath?

Empaths help release emotional energy which is contained within the collective psyche of humanity. In a sense they are a release valve.

(I saw an image of the earth with volcanoes in many places. The volcanoes release heat from the earth.)

Is there anything negative about being a planetary empathy? Is there some issue that these people need to resolve or transcend?

At some level these people choose to process this energy. It is important that they understand that there is a choice here, even though the mechanism for the choice may be unconscious. There are actually other ways which the energy can be released from the human consciousness system, so in a sense the empaths are not strictly necessary. At a personal level, empaths may be harboring unconscious soul issues which “invite” the negative emotionality to channel through them. This may be to do with personal guilt and shame, or false belief structures. Commonly there may be a belief in the idea of redemption, that one can atone for ones negative acts through taking on the negativity of others. Again this is not strictly necessary. It is a misunderstanding which requires transcendence in the long term. Empaths may also have an ego attachment to the entire process of saving others. Further, at some level they may identify with their role as a channel for pain and suffering. A belief in self-sacrifice is another common issue for empaths. These issues reflect common themes in human consciousness evolution at this time.

In short, empaths help to release trapped energy from the human collective. Yet in another sense it is simply a phase in the consciousness evolution of the planet.

Can planetary empaths do anything to help release the energy they are processing more efficiently?

Yes. The empaths can give the energy to the creator, by imaging the compassionate and loving light source of all consciousness, and give the the emotionality of the event to that source. Secondly, the empaths can seek to address what their particular role is in the entire process. As stated, there will be some particular soul issues which they are unconscious of. Bringing these to awareness and “acknowledging” them to the Cosmic Source will help to transcend the issue. In prayer, the empaths can ask what it is that is inviting the energy, and reflect upon it. They may also ask for specific ways to move beyond the problem.  This entire process may take some time however, as the awareness may require deepening.

What is the lesson in this entire phenomenon?

There is a greater love and purpose at the heart of the cosmos than individual human beings may be aware of. The ignorance of this creates a sense of anger and blame and suffering, often projected at the world, cosmos or God. These are issues of abandonment, betrayal and alienation. Both those directly experiencing the trauma of personal loss, such as with natural disasters or personal tragedy, and the empaths who are tapping into that emotionality, may unconsciously exacerbate the pain and suffering involved because of the disconnection from the Source. Yet, in the bigger picture, the suffering may be a means by which human beings seek to address the deeper causes for that suffering, and then to bridge the gap between individual human consciousness, and divine love.

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Marcus wanted to clear up one point. The volcanoes he saw in the reading were symbolic, related to the empaths and the related energy, but not an impression of any particular upcoming event.

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