Tennerin and the Divinity in Synchronicity

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Renee Prince used to be a marine biologist. Now she works as an artist on movies and TV series. We’ve used her synchros before – in our books and here on the blog.  This one involved Tennerin, a hawk with whom she shared a special friendship.  This past autumn, Tennerin failed to appear in trees near her home for the first time in years.  She’s writing a book about their friendship.

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I just wanted to share this with someone. I’m still glowing from this synchronicity. This is an excerpt from today’s Hawk Diaries:

This evening, I am writing to capture and remember the wonderful experience I had at the park today. It was 3:15 or so when I set out, and I had just called Tennerin’s name for the first time, once I got into the park on the big field. A hawk could be seen swerving toward me over the river, but it turned back to the water and continued out of sight, in spite of my calling a second time. I hadn’t seen any hawks for over a week and I hoped I would see it again when I got to the big hill in the center of the nature preserve and called. I did call from the top of the hill but saw no hawks.

On my walk, I was listening to a podcast of the TED Talks radio hour, a show about where creativity comes from, and as I set out down the hill Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love) came on. I had heard this particular talk before some months ago, and I almost decided to stop the playback and choose the next show down on the podcast list, but I was busy looking for hawks so I thought it wouldn’t hurt to hear it again. As I reached the center of the grassy bowl in the middle of the woods and stood looking at the trees, Gilbert began talking about the people of the Sahara desert who had danced for a thousand years to call down divinity. When a dancer connected with the divine, it could be seen in the beauty and power of the dancer, who became more than himself—he was infused with divinity.

When people watching the dancer saw this, Gilbert was saying, “They call out ‘Allah! Allah!’” Just then a beautiful red tail hawk flew alongside me, so close that I thought he would land on the tree in front of me. But he continued past and into the shadows of the trees. As I stared at him, marveling at the beauty of his feathers, which glowed even in the darkness of the rainy afternoon, Gilbert was saying, “…and this meant ‘God is here!’”

I suddenly woke up to the synchronicity of the hawk’s appearance and heard Gilbert say again, “God is here!’” And I saw in that moment that God is here, in this hawk flying in front of me, a copper and gray and brown dancer who shone with divinity and I was here to witness: God is here!

The hawk disappeared into the woods and I called Tennerin’s name again, hoping the hawk was coming back to land in his favorite tree and interact with me. I had some hawk food in my pocket—a couple of mice and some beef, and was primed to begin our interaction, to make progress with our friendship. But the hawk did not come back. And then I realized this was my hawk, my dancer, who showed me that God is here, and that this was my gift.  And that gift was enough. I understood that this was all I could ask for—divinity in response to my heartfelt wish to see a hawk and feel my beautiful Tennerin’s magic.

And so it was that I encountered divinity on my walk today. Let me not forget that God is here. Allah! Allah! Whatever the name, without a name, even, Tennerin is here; the magic and the great synchronicity of love—it is right here.

 

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Really, What Is Synchronicity?

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Trish and Rob

One day, Rob said to me, “You can spend an entire day writing and never speak to anyone except me and Megan, when she calls.”

Excuse me, I’m a Gemini and those of us born under the sign of the twins talk all the time. Today for instance, I had a long conversation with Nancy Atkinson  through email – about what synchronicity might be.  Nancy is writing a book and you get a sense of where she’s going from this initial email:

Nancy:

I am going in a different direction in the book. I now believe we are talking frequency in brain wave functions as being a huge part of the Shift. There is some very FASCINATING new information on brain mapping that is truly ground breaking. I think it can be interwoven with the coherence info regarding the heart, but I am not quite there yet. I am going to need more time to pull the two subjects together, but I think I am really on to something! It all ties into the frequency changes we are seeing in the Schumann Resonance. I think human beings are evolving through this frequency change. (It may also being driving some people crazy.) But with the new brain mapping you can actually see the changes in the brain through the frequency of thoughts. People will be able to actually learn to program their brains to go in the direction they want it to go.

This new neuroscience may also explain synchronicity. We only have to thoughts that vibrate at a certain frequency for 17 seconds before one of the laws of physics kicks in and our energy begins to attract like energy. By 68 seconds we are in a familiarity mode in our brain. This lightening fast.

We may be able to actually induce synchronicity…

Trish:

Abraham Hicks says something similar about 17 seconds.

I don’t know about inducing synchronicity. I don’t think I’d want to. Part of the magic of the phenomenon is what it means, is it a confirmation or warning etc. If we induce synchros, then what  are they telling us? What’s the message? What would be the point?

Nancy:

Do you know where I can find the Hicks reference to 17 seconds?

Trish:

I just remember it from one of their books, can’t recall which one. And it may not have been 17 seconds. It might be 60. I’ll ask Megan. She’s the Hicks expert

I’ve often thought that if synchronicity could be unraveled, as a phenomenon, it would probably turn out to be the theory of everything that Einstein was looking for.

Physicist David Bohm believed that everything in the universe, even time, unfolded from the implicate order in the universe/reality. My sense is that synchronicity exists along the border between the implicate (enfolded) and explicate (what manifests as reality) orders, that it somehow binds the two together.

Nancy

You may be right. As this new science (which is in its babyhood) unfolds, we may be able to actually “see” it working. The brain is a transponder and how well “trained” it is to receive and comprehend frequencies may actually tie into the implicate and explicate order. We know synchronicity can increase as the person starts to pay attention. What if we can map that process in the brain and then train the brain to tune into the phenomenon? That may be the tie between the seen and the unseen, between the incarnate and the discarnate.

Trish:

Megan said it’s 17 seconds – and it’s referred to in most of the Hicks’  books and CDs. If you hold a thought for 68 seconds – then stuff really begins to manifest. That process can probably be mapped in the brain, but I also think it’s part of something much larger, an expanding consciousness – and consciousness isn’t just located in the brain.  

Nancy:

Exactly! Wow. This new neuroscience has been able to map these things happening in the brain.

17 seconds to start attracting the energy you are putting out, 68 seconds for a “familiarity” neuro pathway to be established (those neuro ruts I’ve often talked about)

In other words – you need to change your thought process within 17 seconds if you don’t want to start attracting unwanted energy. It means not talking about it, not reliving it, not holding on to negativity at all if you don’t want to attract more of what you don’t want. Exactly what Hicks has been saying…

Now I have to find a link between this and the new heart coherence information. It is linked. I know it. Learning to “think” through the heart may actually be a way of creating new pathways in the brain.

Trish:

If you read Michael Talbott’s The Holographic Universe, you may find the link in there. When we talk about thinking through the heart, what we’re really talking about is acknowledging that our emotions are powerful forces, powerful attractors, and aren’t really associated with the heart – the organ – at all, but with our soul selves, our deeper selves. Another good book is Lynn Grabhorn’s Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, also about the power of emotion.

Nancy:

I’ve read Michael’s book. I loved it.

The heart energy is actually the organ. It has its own neural cells! In other words – it thinks! It may be the connection to our creator – however you want to define it. We evolve from a heart, it has a stronger electromagnetic field than does the brain. My heart waves will show up in your brain waves if we are within feet apart. Your heart synchronizes with whomever you are sleeping next to. It is the actual science of the heart that I think is somehow connected to this evolutionary process. And I want to find a link to learning how to use the heart to remap the brain.

One way to think of this is if you are trying to make a decision about something – you would ask yourself – what would my heart say? By doing this over and over you remap your neural pathways in your brain to begin thinking in a higher vibrational frequency. Evolution!!

Trish:

Now I wonder if Abraham got this from a book – about the 17/68 second thing!

Sort of a synchro for me. In the new novel I’m writing, a group of psychics are in such complete attunement with each other that their brains vibrate together in theta waves and that enables them to communicate. Just finished that scene.

Nancy:

Wow. We are somehow on the same wavelength. I read something last night that is a channeled information on Theta being the frequency of evolution… This is the first I’ve heard about the 17/68 second thing. I thought it was new information coming from this research, but I could be wrong. Maybe we’re the psychics, hahahahaha

Your novel isn’t so far off actually. We are being watched constantly. Everything we do, read, say, watch, is monitored. Why is that, do you think?

Not for national security, that’s for sure. It is for a far more nefarious reason, I can assure you. They are always several steps ahead of us. We are evolving, and the powers that be want to squelch whatever they think might be a threat to them. Why do you think the NDAA was passed – drones allowed over our cities – the NSA security data centers? Your novel is not that far off from reality.

You have to wonder just exactly how you came up with the theme for your book. I think we have “helpers” that are working overtime to wake us up. Books like yours, even though fiction, may actually be serving a greater good. And isn’t that what synchronicity really is? Little signposts along the way that lead us in a direction. If we are in tuned, then we benefit. If not, they go unnoticed.

At this point, Rob and I  went to the dog park and then out to dinner and I’ve been thinking about this conversation ever since. Is synchronicity essentially as unknowable as, say, the alien agenda? Is it a perpetual conundrum? How does it actually tie our daily lives to something larger, more comprehensive? Can synchronicity be induced? And if so, does it change the context of the message?

Plenty to think about.

 

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Lose your way? Ask a Cat

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Every so often we hear about cats who have returned home after being lost far from their home. Scientists typically discount such stories saying that it’s probably just a stray that looks like the cat the people had lost. If you’re a cat owner, you know your cat. That explanation doesn’t hold water.

In the case of Holly, a four-year-old tortoise shell, there was no question that this is the same cat that Jacob and Bonnie Richter had lost 200 miles away. Holly has distinctive features and she also has a microchip implanted that proved the emaciated cat actually found its way home from Daytona Beach to West Palm Beach.

Science has very little knowledge about the navigation system that cats use to find their home.  “I really believe these stories, but they’re just hard to explain,” said Marc Bekoff, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Colorado. “Maybe being street-smart, maybe reading animal cues, maybe being able to read cars, maybe being a good hunter. I have no data for this.”

Or maybe cats have a psychic ability – remote viewing or clairvoyance. They can not only see a distant place and its location, but can find their way there. The Richters were camping in their RV near the Daytona Speedway along with 3,000 other RVs when something frightened Holly and she bolted away.

The Richters searched and searched for the cat, notified animal organizations and before leaving literally begged others to return the cat if they found it. Holly made it all the way to West Palm, and was just a mile from home when she staggered into the backyard of Barb Mazzola’s house on New Year’s Eve. She nursed the cat for six days and took it to a vet who found the imbedded chip and contacted the Richters. The name of the helpful vet–Dr. Beg.

Here’s the whole story.

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Welcome Home Flashmob

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Thanks to Vicki DeLaurentis (mom with wings) for telling us about this superb flashmob!

 

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Writers and Ideas

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Synchronicities sometimes surface in the oddest ways. The other night, I was uploading Lagoon, one of my backlist titles, to smashwords, and received a whole bunch of error messages. So I contacted the woman who had formatted the book and she corrected them. Then I successfully uploaded the book.

The next day, I received an email from Susan Berliner, saying that she had downloaded a sample of Lagoon because the novel is in the same genre – horror – as what she writes. She had found an error on page 2. In formatting these books, letters or words sometimes are dropped, so I went back into the formatted version and corrected it. Or thought I did. At any rate, I checked out her website and discovered an interesting story about how she had come up with the idea for her novel, Dust.  I wrote her back and told her a similar incident had triggered my idea for Black Water, which was published by Kensington in 2003 and is being reincarnated as an ebook. We discovered some other things we have in common. But the synchro lies in the similarities of the events that birthed two novels.

The inspiration for her novel came from a something that happened in Maine, where Stephen King lives. “When I found the little article online, I saved it, and, since it happened in Maine, expected Stephen King to use it for a future novel. He didn’t – and so, several years later, I did.”

May 19, 2003:

LEBANON, Maine – A sudden windstorm lifted a roof off an auto body shop, collapsing most of the two-story building and killing the owner.

A meteorologist at the National Weather Service said Vintage Auto Body may have been destroyed by a “dust devil,” explaining that the weather conditions were favorable:  Dust devils – miniature tornados that travel along the ground and suck dust into the air – appear on sunny spring days when temperatures rise quickly in the morning.

“Sometimes the weirdest things happen on clear days,” the meteorologist said.

Here’s a synopsis of her book, Dust:

While unloading groceries in her Rock Haven condo, Karen McKay notices a strange swirl of red, green, and blue dust. The swirl follows her inside, lifts a porcelain ballerina from her wall unit, twirls it in the air, and throws it to the floor, shattering it into pieces.

The following evening, Karen hears her neighbor’s dog barking loudly. Upon investigation, she finds her neighbor, Marion, at the bottom of the stairs—dead. At the top of the stairs, a colorful whirlwind of dust circles ominously.

Now the feisty librarian must consider the unthinkable: Could the dust be responsible for her neighbor’s death and, if so, would it kill again? Karen turns to her ex-husband, Jerry, for help and together they bravely confront the mysterious dust. But will their daring actions cost them their lives?

Here’s where my idea for Black Water originated:

In 2002, while visiting the Florida keys, we heard about a mysterious black water that supposedly was about the size of Lake Okeechobee – 730 square miles.  No one knew what it was or what was causing it. There was speculation that it was caused by runoff from the sugar cane fields, or that that it might be similar to red tide. Marine biologists analyzed it. Fish avoided the area. I wondered if perhaps it was nature’s version of a black hole. From that thought, Black Water, a time travel story:

For years, children have been disappearing without a trace in the Florida Keys. No one, even the FBI, has suspected it could be the work of a single twisted psychopath consumed by a desire to change his past and his future. But when he abducts the daughter  of psychic Mira Morales from a deserted beach where the two have spent the day, Mira pursues him through the darkest passages of the unknown, to a place where every choice has terrifying consequences that no one, not even a psychic,  can possibly foresee.

Other parallels have surfaced, too. Susan and I are both ex-teachers married to writers. She and her husband, like Rob and me, collaborate in their writing. She, like Rob, used to be a newspaper reporter.

So, from an upload that had some errors, synchronicities  were born.

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Inside Job

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Trish and Rob

 

 

If you’ve ever wondered what really happened during the global financial meltdown of 2008, then you may want to put the documentary Inside Job on your list of must sees. The film, narrated by Matt Damon, is one of the best explanations of the financial and investment complexities and corruptions that led to this meltdown.

I remember how, in 2008, the presidential campaign here in the U.S. came to standstill when George W Bush stepped before the American people and announced that the financial sky was falling. Lehman Brothers and AIG collapsed. Merrill Lynch was on the verge of bankruptcy. Banks screamed for bailouts. Economies nosedived. Credit ratings went south. The investment banking system was coming apart at the seams. The culprit in this chaotic and complex was derivatives –   specifically with mortgages.

I remember how every other week or so, we received notices from a bank that our mortgage had been sold to this bank or that one.  I remember thinking, Huh? What’s this mean? I recall how the people across the street from us went bankrupt and walked away from their house. Their mortgage was underwater. For months afterward, that house was a revolving door of tenants. We never knew who was living there, but at one point, a couple of the tenants sat all day in their garage, computers  on their laps. We later realized they were using the internet connections of their neighbors.

By 2009, it was obvious that Florida and the rest of the country were in deep trouble. Foreclosed signs appeared on lawns in every neighborhood. We had friends who hadn’t paid their mortgages in months, but because no bank could prove who owned their homes, they  stayed in their homes.

Meanwhile, the story for CEOs for these greedy, corrupt countries was quite a different story. For instance, between 2000-2006, the top five execs at Lehman Brothers made over a billion dollars. When the company went belly up, these execs were allowed to keep their earnings.

Five years after this meltdown, economies are staggering along. Iceland went under. Greece is the brunt of late-night jokes. Spain and Portugal are barely keeping their heads above water. Banks are bigger than ever and the financial sector employs more than 3,000 lobbyists who help to sculpt financial policy in the U.S. Despite assurances that the local and international economies are improving, all you have to do to uncover the truth about your country, your state, your province, is to drive through your neighborhood, your community, or walk into your local bank.

In the U.S., for the first time in history, children are not more educated or prosperous than their parents.

Naomi Klein’s book, Shock and Awe, is probably one of the most lucid ever written about global finances.  John Perkins,  one of the foremost writers on shamanic practices, used to work for the IMF. His book,  Confessions of an Economic Hitman   tells this same story of corruption, from a slightly different perspective.

When Obama won the 2008 election, he appointed Timothy Geitner as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasurer. Geitner was the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the meltdown, so this selection bewildered me. During the meltdown, Ben Bernanke was the current chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Obama re-appointed him. Why?

As Matt Damon says at the end of this terrific documentary, the people responsible for this meltdown are still in power.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Hopefully, with Obama’s second term – where he doesn’t have to worry about re-election – this country can begin functioning again as  a democracy. This documentary captures the essence of why it’s so profoundly important.

 

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SA TA NA MA

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Today was rather momentous all the way around. Obama was sworn in for his second term, delivered one of his most progressive speeches,  and made history every inch of the way. At the time the pomp and circumstance started around 10:30 that morning, we were at the gym  and the inaugural festivities were on nearly every TV screen.

I was on a treadmill when the woman next to me suddenly got off her treadmill and went over to the two  treadmills in front of her where the small TVs were tuned to the  inaugural festivities, and turned them off. I thought, Okay, a Republican. She’s in denial that Obama beat out Romney.

At about the same time, Rob found himself standing next to Bruce Springsteen, who lives here in the winter. His daughter is an equestrian who competes in the winter jumping.

Springsteen rode on Air Force One with Obama during the 2012 presidential campaign.

In 2009, we experienced a series of synchros that centered around Springsteen.  The upshot was that minutes after one of these synrhos, I spotted him in the gym. I approached him, told him about the synchro blog, and asked if I could take his picture for the blog.

“Sure. Just let me put my shirt on.”

No, no, I thought. We women want to see your biceps.

So today, Rob hurries over to me and says, “Springsteen’s here. He and I just watched the inaugural address.”

“What? Where?”

Bruce was incognito, wearing a baseball cap pulled down low over his eyes, and hurried past me with his pretty blond daughter. I realized this was a good omen for the beginning of Rob’s new meditation class.

Rob actually has two meditation classes going on now. One is at 8:15 AM, at a local yoga studio, way too early for me. But the second one is at our gym, from 7:30-8:30 PM, a perfect time for me. Tonight, January 21,  the same day of Obama’s inauguration, of the Bruce sighting, was the first class.

I’ve gone to most of Rob’s meditations classes and love them. He has a perfect voice for this kind of teaching, slow, measured quiet. You sort of sink into the tone of his voice and within moments, you’re gone. I was so far gone, I fell into a blissful sleep, the kind of sleep you  enjoy as a kid, unencumbered by issues,  worries, anxieties. Ten minutes of this kind of sleep can energize me for hours.

When I surfaced, everyone else was sitting up and Rob was talking about Sa Ta Na Ma, the primal sound mantra. In Kundalini yoga, it’s considered the most important meditation.

SA is the beginning, infinity, the totally of everything that ever was, is, or will be.

TA is life, existence and creativity, that manifests from infinity.

NA is death, change, and the transformation of consciousness.

MA is rebirth, regeneration, and resurrection, which allows us to consciously experience the joy of the infinite.

What is Bruce Springsteen’s music if not SA TA NA MA? What was this second inauguration of the country’s first Afro-American if not that?

We were to chant SA TA NA MA  for two minutes out loud, as a class, then two minutes in a whisper, then two minutes silently. While chanting, we were to press our thumbs against each of our four fingers. The forefinger represents Jupiter, the planet in astrology associated with expansion, knowledge, luck, being in the right place at the right time. The third finger represents Saturn, the planet that symbolizes structure, commitment, endurance, karma. The fourth singer symbolizes the sun, our egos and personalities, the sum total of who we are, and the little finger symbolizes Mercury, communication and clarity of thought.

The finger exercise was something new that Rob had added to chant. It forced me to pay attention to what I was saying,  to make connections I wouldn’t have made otherwise. And when my thumb touched each of my fingers, I thought  of Springsteen, that Jersey boy, that fireball of an American icon who sang for the Sandy Relief Fund a few months back, that musical wizard who communicates his working class roots, lifting weights incognito,  and watching his candidate sworn into office while Rob stood next to him.

Pretty cool.

 

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40 Years Later

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Today, January 22, is the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal. This landmark decision in 1973 supposedly meant that a woman could now make her own decisions about a pregnancy. But the law has been under siege ever since.

In 2013, four states have passed laws that effectively end abortions: Mississippi, North and South Dakota, and Arkansas.  In these states, there is either a single clinic that still offers these services – or no clinic. In the states that have a single clinic, the places are like fortresses, the employees take a different route to work each day, in a different car. After different routes to work, in different cars, and some of them carry concealed weapons.

In Wichita, Kansas, the last abortion clinic  closed in 2009,  with the murder of Dr. George Tiller, the only doctor in the state and one of the few in the U.S. who performed late stage abortions. He was shot and killed during a church service where he served as an usher, by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist. Roeder was arrested within three hours of the shooting, and was charged with first-degree murder. Roeder publicly confessed to the killing in November 2009 and told the AP that he had shot Tiller because “preborn children’s lives were in imminent danger.”  On April 1, 2010 (April Fool’s Day) Roeder was sentenced to life imprisonment without any chance for parole for 50 years.

During the presidential campaign of 2012, the assault on women’s health became obvious and horrifying. There was talk about  mandatory vaginal ultrasounds on women who sought abortions, the assault on Planned Parenthood (which provides not only abortion services, but essential health screenings and birth control for women), and of course, assaults on Obama’s mandatory health care plan, which the Supreme Court ruled to be constitutional, much to the chagrin of certain Republican governors.

So the states run by extremists decided to make it nearly impossible for clinics that provided abortions to exist. Which brings us to Mississippi, North and South Dakota, and Arkansas. And brings us to a story I found terrifying, first reported by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now.

The National Advocates for Pregnant Women – yes, there’s actually an advocacy for these women – found that between 1973 and 2005, hundreds of pregnant women have been forced to undergo wanted medical procedures and have been jailed or locked up in psychiatric institutions because they were pregnant. Another 250 more interventions have occurred since 2005. In one case, for instance, a court ordered a critically ill woman in Washington, D.C., to undergo a C-section against her will. Neither she nor the baby survived. In another case, a judge in Ohio kept a woman imprisoned to prevent her from having an abortion.

Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, said, “We’ve had cases where lawyers have been appointed for a fetus before the woman herself, who’s been locked up, ever gets a lawyer. And one court said pregnant women of course have a right to religious freedom — unless it interferes with what we believe is best for the fetus or embryo.”

Really? The judicial system knows what’s best for you and your pregnancy? For you and your body? Okay, let’s say you’re a female in your early twenties. Even though you’re college educated, the economy for women in your position, with your major, isn’t good. You get pregnant. You’re not married. You know you can’t afford to raise a child, that you can barely support yourself. Or perhaps you’re a woman in her forties who, for health reasons, can’t carry a child to term without great risk to your own health. Or perhaps you simply don‘t want children and your method of birth control failed. Or, worse,you were raped and got pregnant. Now what?

No woman goes into an abortion without emotional conflict. The decision to seek an abortion is not one you make casually, over breakfast and your morning coffee.  There’s nothing casual about it. But it’s YOU who should make the decision – not a panel of men. It’s YOU who must come to terms with that decision – emotionally, intellectually, spiritually – not a bunch of male politicians. I don’t mean to sound sexist here, but if men were the ones getting pregnant, this wouldn’t be an issue.

I’m old enough to have known women who got abortions in back alleys, who went to the Bahamas or other countries where abortion were legal. And frankly, I can’t believe that after 40 years, legal abortion is still an issue in this country. Abortion, like guns and gay marriage, speaks to our divisiveness as a nation, to the interjection of religious beliefs that claim life begins at conception, that the second amendment means we can all carry assault weapons, and that gays who love each other should be denied the rights that other married couples have.

All of these beliefs are rooted in fear of change. But change is inevitable and it sweeps over us whether we’re ready or not. In the end, these decisions belong to the individual -not the state, not the government, and certainly not to a bunch of overpaid, bloated politicians who are  out of step with the American people.  In the end, these decisions are made in the privacy of our own hearts and spiritual beliefs.

A postscript: President Obama was sworn into office for a second term yesterday. I’m feeling enormously optimistic about the future with this visionary at the helm. He’s the face of the future. And after four years in which he was opposed at every turn, his resolve during his inaugural speech promises that the next four years will be quite different. He has apparently learned that attempted compromise with Republicans is a lost cause. Perhaps this next four years is when he really does become the agent for change.

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A Special Indra’s Net

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Trish and Rob

 

 

Angie, one of the beauticians at the salon where I get my hair cut, told me today about a new year’s eve synchronicity that turned her life around. A little background.

Angie is 49, raised three kids from her first marriage, and has been married to her second husband for several years. He also has three children, from his first marriage. Last fall, one of his kids, a teenage girl, came to live with him and Angie. She now officially had a stepdaughter.

The girl was apparently out of control, tensions mounted, and the marriage started unraveling. Then Angie’s husband told her he wanted to move his other kids to Florida, too. She drew her line in the sand. “I’d already raised three kids. I wasn’t about to raise three more, which would take me somewhere into my sixties.”

So shortly before Thanksgiving, her second husband moved out with his daughter and Angie and her son had to move in with her parents. For weeks, she said she cried daily, she despaired. “Here I was, 49 and living at home with mom and dad, in the same bedroom where I’d grown up. I desperately needed closure to this marriage.”

On new year’s eve, Angie and a female friend went to a local place on the intracoastal to celebrate. Angie arrived early, found two open stools at the bar, and sat down to wait for her friend. She and the man sitting next to her struck up a conversation. He turned out to be a teacher at the same high school her stepdaughter had attended. “What do you teach?” she asked.

“Auto mechanics.”

Her stepdaughter had taken auto mechanics.  Angie suddenly realized this conversation was important. She said her stepdaughter’s name; let’s call her Joann Smith.   “Was she in your class?”

“Sure was. The only female. But she wasn’t there long. Joann said her stepmother was a bitch, drove her and her father out of the house.”

Angie knew her stepdaughter had spread terrible stories about her, and here she was, sitting next to one of the girl’s teachers. What were the odds ?

In the course of the conversation, Angie discovered that  the teacher has been born in the same New Jersey town that she had, had attended the same elementary school, and that his parents lived just around the block from where she had grown up. She also found out  that her stepdaughter had told the teacher that she and her dad were moving back to Texas where her mother and siblings still lived.

“This entire conversation was closure for me, the closure I so desperately needed.” The next day, January 1, 2013, Angie’s soon to be ex called her and begged her for a reconciliation. She told him to forget it and  they are now proceeding with a divorce.

“From that moment forward,” Angie said, “I stopped crying. I started envisioning what I wanted for my life, for myself. All my life, I had been giving to others – first husband, kids, second husband, kids. I kept seeing this perfect apartment for my son and I, a place on the water. I wanted this place, I knew it was out there, waiting for me. I’m not greedy, Trish. I jut want some peace.”

About a week later, the realtor with whom Angie had been working called her and said he had a couple of condos to show her. One of them was older, hadn’t been shown in six months, the owner had been upgrading. He thought it might suit her.

“Where’s it located?” Angie asked.

“On the intracoastal. A water view.”

“I’d like to see that one first.”

When Angie walked into that intracoastal apartment, she was stunned. It was exactly where she had envisioned living with her son.

These events all happened within the first 12 days of the new year. “In the mornings, before I go to work, I sit on my balcony sipping coffee and watching the water out there and I appreciate all of it, over and over again. “

“What happened that night with the teacher?” I asked, sensing another layer of this story.

Angie laughed. “He asked for my number, then suddenly said he didn’t know my name.  I told him I was Joann’s wicked stepmother and my friend and I invited him to spend new year’s with us. At some point in the evening, he disappeared. The point is that he was the messenger, the one who provided closure to my second marriage. I’m so done with it. My life is opening up in new, exciting ways. I’m exactly where I need to be.”

When she finished telling me all this, I sat there for a few moments, absorbing it all. “Angie, this entire thing you’ve just told me is how synchronicity and the law of attraction work together to confirm what we’re doing when.”

She leaned toward me and whispered, “I know. Isn’t it just mind-blowing?”

Uh-huh. Sounds like our old friend, Indra’s Net.

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Doggies and Socrates

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Sometimes, laughter really is the best medicine. The cartoon came from Adele Aldridge.

And the next  piece on Socrates was sent by Nancy McMoneagle:

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Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumor or spread gossip.

In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?”

“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied, “Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”

“Triple filter?” asked the acquaintance.

“That’s right,” Socrates continued, “Before you talk to me about Diogenes let’s take a moment to filter what you’re going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made
absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”

“No,” the man said, “Actually I just heard about it.”

“All right,” said Socrates, “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about Diogenes something good?”

“No, on the contrary…”

“So,” Socrates continued, “You want to tell me something about Diogenes that may be bad, even though you’re not certain it’s true?”

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued, “You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter, the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about Diogenes going to be useful to me?”

“No, not really.”

“Well,” concluded Socrates, “If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me or anyone at all?”

The man was bewildered and ashamed. This is an example of why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.

It also explains why Socrates never found out that Diogenes was banging his wife.

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