Books and Writers

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Trish and Rob

  

One of the first synchronicities we posted on this blog, on February 4, 2009,  concerned travel, books, and writers. Back then, we were casting around for patterns that manifest themselves through synchronicity, drawing heavily on our own experiences, and we knew this story was a good one. We’re reposting it for several reasons.

In the labels for the 500 plus synchronicities on this blog, travel is one of the largest categories. And we have gotten some terrific stories. Butternut Squash’s Nepal story immediately leaps to mind.  Others that are equally powerful:
Bangkok Odds
Chicago Breakfast Bum



Doppelgangers                    
A Trucker’s Tale
On the Road with Gypsy

Each of these is quite different in content and texture and runs the gamut from the mundane (like finding a particular restaurant when you’re starving!) to the genuinely esoteric. But each addresses the mysterious nature of  the time/space reality that we inhabit.

When we travel, we’re outside of our normal routines and habits. We tend to be more open, receptive. Events manifest more quickly. The law of attraction is in full force. Synchronicity becomes the universal language of our journey.

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from Rob:
In 1988, we traveled to Venezuela, where Trish was born and raised, and visited the Gran Sabana, one of the most fascinating wilderness regions of the planet. I remember carrying a big clunky Radio Shack laptop computer into the jungle, and finding time to work on the re-write of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the novel adapted from the script. Our adventure among the soaring buttes, waterfalls and forest went by too quickly and we soon found ourselves back in Caracas.

At the airport, we headed to customs, where we were surrounded by guards with machine guns. Colombian drug dealers had begun using Caracas to export cocaine and the government was cracking down. The air conditioning wasn’t working right and the air in that area felt tense, tight, it was difficult to breathe. The guards were particularly interested in the man in front of us. He was a tall, middle-aged Venezuelan, who wore a dark, three-piece suit and carried a briefcase. They told him to open it up. Slowly, the man unlatched the briefcase and the guards leaned forward to see what was inside. You could almost hear the collective intake of breath.

We were right behind the man and had a good view. Surprisingly, there was only one item in the briefcase, something I found quite astonishing. It was a paperback copy of one of Trish’s novels, FEVERED. Of course, the man had no idea that the author was standing right behind him…and we didn’t tell him, either. And even if we had told him, why would he believe it? Trish didn’t have any ID that proved she was Alison Drake. It was just a pseudonym she used.

And think about that word, FEVERED.  It perfectly described the atmosphere in the customs area – the guys with machine guns, the lack of fresh air, the tenseness, the poor man with the briefcase…Law of attraction?

It remains one of the strangest travel synchros we’ve experienced.

We’re thinking that our next synchronicity book is On the Road With Synchronicity. We welcome your travel stories!

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Subway Angel

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Synchronicities that occur in the course of our daily lives usually cause us to sit up and take notice. Some of them are one-time deals. But others, like this one, recur over time, almost as if to complete something.We’ve posted Mike Clelland’s synchronicities before and they’re invariably intriguing and complex.
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I was living in New York City at the time. It was a lovely summer morning, probably 1984 or ’85, I was about 22 years old. I got on the subway in lower Manhattan on my way to an office job uptown. This was the E train, and I got on, as usual, at Spring Street.

The next stop was West 4th Street, and when the doors opened a very pretty young woman got on the train.

I don’t understand why – but for some reason – I literally thought she was an angel. I’m not kidding. I was convinced she was somehow delivering me some mystical message. Maybe I died, and she was escorting me to the great beyond. Maybe this was the subway to heaven?

I was thunderstruck, and it was extremely strange.

I can vividly recall EXACTLY what she looked like and what she was wearing. She had short blond hair and she was reading the NY Times. She folded the paper in the proper way that only the savvy new yorker knows. She had on a simple white summer sun dress and wore white cotton “boating” shoes, low top and clean. No socks and unshaven legs. She was smiling as she read the paper. She stood, and never sat down. And she never looked at me.

She got off at 34th street.

Now, at the time I was living with my girlfriend (Catherine) in a little apartment in SoHo downtown. When I got home that evening I told her about this weirdly profound event, alas – she didn’t understand how intense it was. She actually got kind of angry at me – and that was typical of her. She simply saw it as me ogling, and immediately felt defensive.

Anyway – Now the story jumps a few months later, on a busy street in Greenwich Village (just east of Astor Place), I was walking on the sidewalk with Catherine on a cold wintry Saturday morning. We had a rather tense relationship and clearly remember we were having a little squabble, typical of us. Then – she suddenly blurted out, “What are we doing? We shouldn’t be together! I’m not your type, SHE’S your type!” and she pointed to this random woman on the sidewalk…

And it was her!

And – she was wearing the SAME shoes!

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Reindeer Woman

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Trish and Rob

This story comes from d page, whose synchronicities we have posted several times before. Her blog,  Mythic Musings, is richly textured with detail and the psychic experiences she writes about always have deep, mythic levels to them. This story, which involves a dream, is no exception.
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In December 2004, D and her husband were out running errands. “Suddenly, my left ear had a long, sustained ringing and I had simultaneous visions of destruction and flooding. I knew many would die. This was one of my first encounters with this type of visionary experience. I was disoriented and my husband had to hold me up until it was over. I told him what I was witnessing. I felt horrified. I knew it would happen in 3 days time, but not where it would happen.”

On the night of December 25, she had the following dream: “I am facing a goddess. She is half human, half reindeer. She is a mixture of skin,
 fur and hair. She has enormous antlers. She is very powerful. She is flinging my body around, like a lasso, holding it by the hair. My body’s orbit stays the same,  until she shifts it slightly, subtly. Then my body’s orbit changes. I just know, somehow, that she is Reindeer Woman.

“I had no idea who Reindeer Woman was. I did correlate  my body in the dream with the Earth. I mention in my profile that I have a complex of autoimmune diseases. I had, long ago, come to a conclusion: the illness of my body is somehow directly linked to humanity’s damage of our environment and that my condition was a mirror of a larger issue regarding the whole planet. Consequently, in the above mentioned dream, my body was the Earth. But who was this powerful goddess?

“When I got up on the morning of December 26, I saw what had happen during the night. Sumatra had had  an  unprecedented quake, with an ensuing destructive tsunamis.”

“Many days after the horrific event in Sumatra, scientists announced that the earth’s axis had shifted.This quake was the 2nd strongest ever recorded and the Earth continued to oscillate for four months after the initial event. When reading about the Sumatra quake causing a shift of the Earth’s axis, I realized that Reindeer Woman was somehow link the axis. I did some library and internet research, but found nothing regarding a reindeer goddess and the axis of the earth. At the time, the only material I could find on reindeer goddesses was Linda Schierse Leonard’s book Creations Heartbeat: Following the Reindeer Spirit. Leonard feels  the reindeer is an excellent motif representing the re-emergence of the Goddess.

“On February 24th, 2010 my husband and I were in a thrift store. There was a rather  dog-eared, hard covered novel on a shelf. I noticed there was a sketch of a rock with a pictograph of an antlered woman on the cover.(I can’t remember the title!) I handed the book to Larry and said; “The last time I saw reindeer woman, the Earth’s axis shifted.” He knew that I was talking about the Sumatra quake. He asked me if I wanted the book. I said no…. I didn’t feel very well and the store was very busy. I needed to leave. I didn’t dream about “Reindeer Woman” that night, but I did have a difficult experience the following night, as described here.

“On February 25th, Chile had an 8.8 earthquake off the coast of the Maule Region,  with tsunami warnings issued for the Pacific Rim. On March 1st, scientists declared that the quake caused another axis shift. My heart sank when I realized the significance of coming across the image of the reindeer woman yet again. Now, I was determined to find the connection between this image, and the Earth’s axis.”

D’s research led her to art historian Esther Jacobson, whose book The Deer-Goddess of Ancient Siberia: A Study in the Ecology of Belief, documents the transformation of the image of the pre-shamanic, neolithic reindeer goddess as Axis Mundi (world tree), through time and history. The qualities Jacobson linked
 the reindeer goddess to included:
* deer mother as tree of life
* source and end of each clan’s lineage
* beginnings endings regeneration
* her sacred places include heavenly bodies,rivers, mountains

The deeper D dug, the more apparent it became that her dream drew upon ancient symbols, what Jung would call the collective unconscious.”According to the Global Action Network, reindeer were domesticated as early as  7000 years ago, before the horse was domesticated. The reindeer is the only species where the antlers are larger on the female and she is the leader of the pack, making this image of the Great Mother Goddess par excellence. Her image has been traced repeatedly on stones, in caves and among standing stones.

“Originally she was portrayed as the axis of the Earth, with her tradition being rooted in an ancient identification with cosmogenesis. Her images were dynamic, in motion, half human into reindeer with the antlers morphing into birds and griffins reaching toward the sky. She was often portrayed with a mirror, representing the concepts that Earth is a mirror of the heavenly, and the afterlife a mirror of earthly life (in reverse). Her morphing form with antler  branches represent the whole Tree of Life. She has been found tattooed on the mummies of the Pazyryk Valley.”

In fact, the image at the beginning of this post is part of the archaeological finds in the Pazyryk Valley in southwestern Russia. “It’s a Scythian reindeer pole that represents the goddess as Earth’s axis and the World Tree. The finds were dated 6th-3rd century BCE and the mummies at this site were tattooed with images of reindeer.”

” How does a modern person come to be connected with ancient primal deities? Why did a neolithic Reindeer Goddess show up in my dreamscape? More specifically, why did she assert herself into my consciousness twice, before an axis shift? Jungians, pagans, Sufis, Kabbalists all believe in the “return of the goddess”. It seems to me, she never left. I am going to make a more conscious effort to connect with Her.”
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Dream symbolism isn’t always obvious, but D recognized a pattern to her experiences, did the research, and it seems she dipped directly into the collective unconscious to define the symbol.

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Air tragedy linked to past

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Trish and Rob



Whenever there’s a tragedy that gains worldwide attention, there’s usually synchronicity related to it. That is certainly the case of the crash of a Polish jet in Russia last Saturday. As you’ve probably heard, Poland lost its president, top military brass, and other elite members of Polish society  in the crash that killed 96.

Here’s the sad synchronicity. The plane crashed in Russia’s Katyn forest where thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals were slain by Soviet forces in World War II in an attempt to eliminate some the country’s leaders. That, in itself, is a startling synchronicity. But now add this to the scenario: The Polish leaders on the flight were on a trip to Russia to honor those who died in Katyn forest 70 years ago.

Former President Lech Walesa, who was wasn’t on the plane, said: “This is so much like Katyn, where our head was cut off.”

Among those killed with President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, his closest aides, lawmakers, army commanders, church figures, were relatives of the victims of the 1940 massacre of Polish officers in Katyn forest. Also, among the dead was Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, the last leader of the Poland’s exiled resistance government, based in London.

Also killed was, Anna Walentynowicz, 80, an icon of Poland’s Solidarity freedom movement. Workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk went on strike when Walentynowicz was fired from her job as a crane operator in August 1980 for her opposition activity. That action sparked strikes that spread quickly to other plants across the country, giving rise to Solidarity, the movement that helped bring down Soviet rule in Poland nine years later.

One further bittersweet synchronicity involving this tragedy. Polish sculptor Wojciech Seweryn, who lived in the Chicago area, died in the crash. Seweryn, 70, designed a memorial to the victims of Katyn that stands in a cemetery in Niles, Illinois. He had made the trip to honor his father, who perished at Katyn  in 1940.

A sad story, filled with irony. It’s almost as if the horror of what happened in that forest 70 years ago, was so powerful that it brought down the plane carrying those who were honoring the dead. In spite of the sadness for all of those who died in the plane crash, there’s also a larger picture, an action of the mass consciousness of a people. In a sense, it was a fitting closure for the many older Polish people on board. At some level in their individual consciousness, they had all agreed to be on this airplane and depart in this manner.

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The Magician and the Comedian

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 
Gibbs Williams sent us a couple of synchroncities that he distinguishes as ‘apparent’ and ‘real.’ To us, the apparent one sounds like a synchronicity, and the real one is a story with another layer, or another degree, of synchronicity. Call them what you want, here are the stories:
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A friend of mine recommended a book called Magic. In answer to my question who wrote it, he said he didn’t know. I responded by telling him a story about my having worked at a summer resort in New Hampshire years ago as a bus boy. While there, I was fascinated with one of my fellow workers who soon retreated to his bunk room, isolating himself. Feeling concerned, I went to visit him. What I saw was a highly depressed fellow of about 25 years old compulsively flipping cards, making them fly back into his hands. During the few hours I visited him he never ceased flipping the cards along with showing me remarkable card tricks.

I thought this young disturbed man might turn out to be a great magician if he could somehow overcome his depression and keep on compulsively practicing his craft. The depressed  card flipper was named Ricky Jay. The next day I got a phone call from my friend who excitedly said the name of the author of the book on Magic was  Ricky Jay. This to me is only an apparent synchronicity as it is the outcome of a logical progression of cause and effect occurrences.

However, what follows for me fulfills the requirements to be a meaningful coincidence.The next day I went to a local bookstore to look at the book on Magic. The owner said they didn’t stock it. I looked around and soon spotted a biography of Einstein. In the same pile of books I also spotted a biography of Henny Youngman – the comedian. To me this was a meaningful coincidence. How so?

I detailed the coincidence to the simpatico owner of the bookstore, telling him the following events. Years ago, I had been a bus boy in a resort hotel wherein I met this depressed worker who compulsively flipped playing cards, and years later turns out to be a famous expert magician who wrote a book on magic.While working at that hotel,  I also had the opportunity to eat lunch with Henny Youngman, who had been entertaining at the resort.

I found the experience to be depressing, however. Instead of eating his hamburger, Mr. Youngman compulsively told one liners to the other people surrounding him. Their laughter seemed to be fueling his empty psychological gas tank. So here was another instance of a an exceedingly talented man compulsively transforming his abilities into a defining life purpose.

So what does this synchronicity have to do with me? I am conducting an event to launch the publication of my recently published book on Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, The Personal Unconscious, and The Creative Process. I have been searching for a good beginning, I had been thinking about asking the question: what would have been compelling enough for me to invest much of the 50 years of my life in investigating the perplexities of synchronicities? So now the story of the obsessive magician and the comedian provided me with a lead-in to my own story.

As a psychoanalyst, I could easily give myself a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive personality disorder, like the magician and the comedian. And, or, I could also judge my interest as parallel to  Blake’s observation: in viewing the whole world in a grain of sand. This second point of view has a ring of truth and reinforces my belief that at least for me my naturalistic theory of synchronicities is valid and therefore worth my continuing efforts to understand the nature of these amazing events.
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Earlier this week, we saw the magician/actor Ricky Jay on an episode of FlashForward. If Gibbs hadn’t sent this post, I wouldn’t have looked up a photo of Ricky Jay and wouldn’t have recognized him. That might be what Gibbs calls and ‘apparent synchronicity.’ Now if I bump into Ricky Jay in the gym, that will be a meaningful coincidence. – Rob

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Born to Run

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Trish and Rob

A few days ago, Rob went for a bike ride with Noah and I headed out for the gym. As I was backing out of the driveway, I saw our neighbor, and got out to chat with her. We had told her about the Springsteen synchronicity and she remarked that some women she knew had told her they’d seen him at the gym and he’d allowed them to take photos of him with their kids.

“Well, Easter is history, the winter horse people are leaving, so I’m sure he has gone back to New Jersey, or wherever,” I said. Most of the snowbirds leave right after Easter, and I was sure Springsteen was among them.

En route to the gym, Rob called to asked me to check the bulletin board to see if his new yoga class had been posted. “You’re going to miss Bruce,” I said.

“He’s gone,” Rob said. “Left with the snowbirds. And I heard he sold one of his homes here for a $500,00- loss.”

So I get to the gym, later than usual, and I’m on the rowing machine and thinking about Rob’s friend, Rabbit. Right after we’d told him about the Springsteen synchro, he wrote back that he was in an office in Minneapolis earlier in the day, waiting for a meeting, combing through magazines for something to read. And what does he come across? An issue of AARP with Springsteen on the cover. The Boss Turns 60! the headlines screamed.

And  right as I’m thinking that, there he is, on an ab machine, just doing his thing, and I’m laughing to myself. Not gone. Not yet. A woman goes over to him, they start talking. I move into another section of the gym and suddenly hear another woman shriek, “Bruce, how’re you doing?”

“Fine,” he says, “fine.” He moves along, just a 60-year-old guy who looks like any other guy in the gym, just a guy with biceps. He opens the door to the tae kwando area, a woman steps out, they hug hello, and walk off together to another section of the gym.

Does he look like someone who made $57 million in ’09, second to Bono in the entertainment world? Does he stand out in any way? No, not really, not unless you know he’s Springsteen. But the real message here, at least for me, is that he’s a guy who made tons of money last year and is probably worth far beyond that, doing what he loves. So in the end, it all comes back to Joseph Campbell. Follow your bliss. Springsteen did that. And the next time I muster the nerve to approach him, I’ll ask him about that. So hey, Bruce, tell me about following your bliss.
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A final word on the Boss…

Saturday morning, in the gym again, we were talking to another Bruce,  Rob’s co-author of THE FOG, and he mentioned this blog and the Boss synchronicity post. I turned to him and said, “I just want to see him here with his guitar playing a song.”

Just after I said that, Rob pointed up, the direction from which the music emanates from the overhead speakers. The first notes of a new song had just come on, and yes, it was the Boss.

Baby we were born to run. 

Bruce smiled. “You guys are getting pretty good at that.”

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Goodluck arrives today!

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Here’s a timely post, thanks to Augustine, our friend in Nigeria and author of a book on synchronicities involving world leaders. Augustine informs us that the acting president of Nigeria will be visiting the White House and President Obama today. The name of the visiting dignitary: Goodluck Jonathan–a name with a built in synchronicity.

So here in typical Augustine form are the synchronicities he has found. Yes, some are a stretch, but nevertheless interesting to consider.
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Barack Obama and Nigerian President MusaYaradua were born in August 4, 1961  and August 16, 1951 respectively. So both are Leos.

Obama’s father and Yaradua’s father were both Muslims.

Obama and Yaradua are both smokers and both of their vice presidents,  Joe Biden and Goodluck Jonathan, were born on November 20.  Biden in1942 and Jonathan in 1957.

The most significant event  for the Obama presidency so far has been health care reform. For Yaradua, it is his personal health. Because of his illness, he was unable to make the trip to Washington and turned over the presidency in February to his vice-president.

For a very long time American presidents were sworn in on March 4. The Nigerian Presidential Advisory Committee, headed by Lt. Gen Theophilus Danjuma, was sworn in on March 4.

John Quincy Adams was president from March 4,1825 to March 4 1829. The letters that make up Theophilus Danjuma’s name can also spell “John Adams sixth American President.”

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan became acting president on February 9, 2010; the anniversary of the election (February 9 1825) of John Adams by the U.S. House of Representatives due to the inconclusive elections of November 3, 1824. Like Adams, Jonathan became president under unusual circumstances, a constitutional crisis that led to the national assembly electing him as acting president.
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Outside of Augustine’s comparisons, there is also the synchronicity of a child being named Goodluck, who then becomes president of his country.
So bring on Goodluck!

 

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Parent Radar

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Not to be confused with parent controls on televisions, parent radar is the psychic detection of dangers related to their children. A few examples follow. Maybe some of you have had similar experiences with your children.

Jane Clifford of Wales says that she has picked up on car crashes involving all three of her grown children in separate incidents. With one daughter, she detected an accident three months before it happened, and also at the time of the crash. “I knew she would be deeply shocked, but I also knew she would not be injured. With her other daughter, she felt an accident coming about six weeks in advance. With her son, she was aware of an upcoming accident two weeks in advance, and more insistently on the day of the accident.

Her strongest psychic link is with her son, Harry, 22. “A couple of years back he was in Bali with friends when one night I strongly felt his distress and frustration and deducted that he was separated from the others, needed to find them but couldn’t contact them.”

Finding them, she felt was absolutely crucial to him. “He’s a pretty steady guy, so to pick up distress really concerned me. When he returned he said I was exactly right! They were all to meet in a restaurant before flying in the early hours of the morning. But he couldn’t remember which restaurant or find it by repeatedly going up and down a long street. The others had the flight details and flight cards.

“Eventually, he had to head for the airport (on the back of a moped, because he was out of money). Then, at the airport, he wasn’t allowed inside without the flight card. So he sat outside the airport until early in the morning when he finally spotted his mates.

“Last week Harry was in the French Alps doing a barn conversion. He had been there a month when late one night I picked up despair and frustration. So I texted him. He had a fabulous time all month, but the night I contacted him he had a disagreement & he was feeling what I picked up. I never fail to pick up his stuff!

I just wonder how many out there have direct “transmission” from their kids. I know of two mothers who lost sons in car accidents and both “knew” something bad was coming. In fact, one of them was up and dressed waiting for the police to contact her at 3 am!”

The other case was even more peculiar. “The woman had suddenly became upset about a tree in her garden that had been there for years. Unaccountably, she wanted it cut down. Later that day, it transpired that her son broke his neck when he hit a tree on his way home.”
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Such ‘genetic’ psychic links, or ‘parent radar,’ is probably more common than most of us realize. Here’s one such case, from our own experiences that we wrote about here. Have others here had such experiences?

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Are you a borderland personality?

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Trish and Rob

We’ve written lately about people who detect earthquakes and other natural disasters ahead of time through physical symptoms and changes in their bodies.We’ve referred to these people as planetary empaths. Now D Page recommended  a book by Jerome S. Bernstein called: Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of  Healing Trauma.

Berstein describes his book this way: “There are many people whose experience of reality is outside the mainstream of Western culture; often they see themselves as abnormal because they have no articulated frame of reference for their experience. The concept of the Borderland personality explains much of their experience.”

So we’re wondering how many visiting here consider themselves to fit the borderland personality. Keep in mind the distinction between borderline and borderland personality. The former is a pathology; the latter, possibly an evolutionary personality. As you’ll see, some of the traits fit closely with the experiences of the planetary empaths.

In fact, we’ve already shown the following list of trait to those who wrote that  they felt the recent Mexican-S.Callifornia quake coming. All of them said that they related closely with most of the trails. Two said all of the traits fit. See what you think.

   1. Borderland personalities have a deep and primary connection to nature. Most are more comfortable in relationship with animals than with people.
   2. All have transformational experiences such as communicating with plants and animals and somatic identification with earth’s suffering.
   3. Many have experienced trauma as children or adults. Many have not.
   4. Unlike the Borderline personality, the Borderland personality has a stable identity.
   5. Most hide their Borderland nature – often including from their therapist — for fear of being branded “crazy” or weird. This leads to living parallel and camouflaged lives — their hidden life in the Borderland (which is their primary identification), and their life in the mundane world.
   6. Most feel isolated and lack a sense of community and belonging because they  are unaware that there are many others like them.
   7. All experience their Borderland reality as sacred.
   8. Most tend to be hypersensitive on the somatic level. Many experience  environmental illness. But, many do not.
   9. 100% of all Borderland personalities with whom I have had contact say they  would not give up that connection if they could – even if it were to diminish their suffering.
  10. Although many would identify with being Nature’s “canaries,” most are at a loss as to the imperative for transformation that they have been given



For more about borderlanders, you can go to Berstein’s site.


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Another Car Manifestation

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 

On March 22, we posted a story about manifestation. There were some cool comments from people who also had manifested  One of the best stories came  from Sansego. He has posted numerous comments on this blog. This story is such a terrific example of “be careful what you wish for” that we decided to make it a post.
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In 1994, when I was living in Italy and moving back to the U.S., I thought about buying a car for my final year in the Navy. My choice was either a Geo Metro or a Saturn Sl1. By the end of the year, I had become friends with a guy (who’s still my best friend today) who was selling his Geo Metro, so I bought it from him for $4,000.

I had the car for 18 months and paid it off after a year. In May 1996, I was running an errand for a guy who was running for Congress. It was hot and my Metro did not have air condition or a radio/cassette player. I remember thinking that day how nice it would be to have air condition and a cassette deck to blast my music on. While waiting at a stoplight at the bottom of a hill, next to the VA hospital, a Jeep Cherokee came speeding down the hill and rear ending my car. The Metro was totaled and I was devastated.

In my search for a new car, I decided that I wanted a Ford Escort or a Saturn SL1…that had A/C, a cassette deck, a sunroof, and stick shift. As I passed by a Saturn dealership, I had the strangest urge to turn around and check it out. I didn’t think they would have any in my price range (under $8,000), but I asked. The lady took me to the one car they had for that amount…and it was a Saturn SL1 with sunroof, cassette deck, A/C, and stick shift! It was $7,800 and the miles were around 85,000, which was how many miles my Metro accumulated until the accident.

When I got my check from the insurance company, they paid $200 more than what I paid for the Metro. So, my wish in 1994 for either a Metro or a Saturn SL1 came true with both cars.

I’ve been carless since 2002, though, after my Saturn died. I’d love a Scion tC, but I’m not putting any energy into “car manifestation” as I want other things more, that I can’t seem to manifest.

It is probably my first clear example of getting exactly what I desired…twice!

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