Message from the Church Billboard

Picasso, certainly a trickster artist!

This uplifting synchro comes from Thomas Nash, who contacted us because of the Dreamland interview. It smacks of a mischievous trickster story, but is also a result of Thomas’ search for a synchro. Intention? It sure looks like that.

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I honed up to the fact that I’m a pawn a long time ago, although it’s my Chess game! ha ha!

This means that if you pay attention, the world will show you what to do and it will sometimes use you in various ways, depending on what’s needed.

The message on my answering machine is a way to describe what happened…..

“Hi, we’ve gone fishing for possibilities, there’s no limit”

So…sometime when you’re bored, or need to get out of the house, try something like this…

It was the weekend and I had no plans. Headed out of my driveway, I decided it felt best to turn right. Reaching the beautiful river road, it shows me the road to Cazadero. Magic abounds! An old friend could just show up or a beautiful hitchhiker could invite you home. You could get a flt tire and a band of hippies might adopt you!

The road started to narrow as I drove past the small, rural town. I didn’t want to drive the windy road to the coast, so I turned around, a bit deflated since nothing magical seemed to have happened.  Then, something caught my eye! It was a miraculous message written on a church billboard and seemed to be just for me:

Try eating your ego sometime, it’s non-fattening.

I chuckled all the way home.

 

 

 

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Joey and His Grandfather

This multi-layered synchronicity comes from Janice Cutbush. We’ve posted a couple of her synchros –  The Loon of Fourth Lake and Sky Bars, Joy and Mom and Dad, which actually has a synchronous connection to this some story. There are synchronicities with birthdays, names, dates…well, you’ll see.

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In 2007, my nephew Joey, a 29 year old construction worker, sustained a traumatic brain injury when he fell off a 35′ high flat roof he was working on in Albany, NY.

He life hung in the limbo of a coma for 5 weeks. Doctors were predicting the worst. He had only a 10% chance of surviving and if he did, he most likely would be a vegetable.  After 4 weeks he began to show signs of recovering- blinking, squeezing hands, opening his eyes. Week five he began to revive and in fact did survive.

However, he was left with a crippling cognitive impairment that would make it difficult for him to work-visual agnosia. He is face blind and does not recognize much of what he sees. When he was doing physical rehab, his therapist took him to the hospital store, to get him familiar with the store and items in it. She started with chocolate candy. She held up a Sky Bar and Joe started singing the advertising jingle from the 1950s-“One two three four Sky Bar; it’s a four in one bar.” The therapist was amazed and asked him how he knew that old song. He said, “My grandpa used to sing old jingles to me when I was little.”

We all thought it was incredible that he remembered this since it was so long ago.  Joey was my father’s namesake and in a weird coincidence, my father (Joey’s grandfather) died on March 10, 2000, which was Joey’s birthday. We all remember thinking at the time how awful it was that my dad died on Joey’s  birthday. Joey was in the Marine’s in California when his grandfather died and did not come home for the funeral, but had been very close to my father growing up as my parents took care of Joey when his mom went back to work.

After the accident, a lawsuit was initiated by Joey’s parents against the numerous contractors that were involved in the building he was working on when he fell. The lawsuit dragged on for 3 years and finally in late 2010 it was settled.  Joey’s lawyers won a substantial settlement that will provide him with an income for life, since his disabiliity will prevent him from working. There was synchronicity again connecting my Dad and Joey even in the settlement. The case was settled out of court by the lawyers on a holiday, Veteran’s Day, which happens to be my father’s birthday.  Again, a final synchronicity after the lawsuit.  It was necessary for Joey’s parents to hire a trust lawyer. As it turns out, the trust lawyer’s father was the obstetrician who delivered Joey in 1979.

In a final connection, Joey and his grandmother have become very close since his accident. She is 92 and lives alone. Joey visits her almost every day and sometimes spends evenings watching TV with her.  It is touching and poignant to see him doting on her.  We all wonder what messages from beyond Joey received when he was hovering between life and death. Maybe this was my dad’s way of saving Joey and ensuring that his wife would be cared for in her old age.

 

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They Come in Threes

On March 10, I was interviewed for an hour by Anne Strieber for her and Whitley’s Dreamland radio show and for their subscriber section. During the first half hour, we talked about 7 Secrets of Synchronicity – what the secrets are, with stories that illustrate them.  We probably spent the longest period of time on the trickster – especially the dark trickster, the archetype that can be the most puzzling. The dark trickster is often a warning. Here’s an example of a dark trickster.

During the second half hour, Anne began with a question: do we have free will? She says that after she emerged from her coma six years ago, synchronicities proliferated in her life. They seemed to be part of some greater complex puzzle that prompted her to question whether someone or something else is actually pulling the strings. Think: The Matrix. Or, a movie I haven’t seen yet but which she has – The Adjustment Bureau. I feel that synchronicity is the language of the unconscious and supports the premise of free will.

This led into a discussion about the grays. They may be a kind of dark trickster, who awaken us to a greater reality beneath our daily lives, just as synchros do. Anne has read the 250,000 letters that her husband received from contactees and abductees and is in a unique position to recognize patterns consistent with these events. She says that contactees and abductees always experience grays in threes. “Two short, one taller.” If someone tells her they experienced contact or an abduction with four or five grays, then she knows the experience wasn’t genuine.

I realized that she had identified an archetype associated with these experiences – threes. She added that many of these experiences occur at 3:33, and we talked a bit about the significance of the number. Then I thought back to an experience I had in 2001, when I attended a workshop taught by Eric Pearl, author of The Reconnection.

Pearl teaches a form of healing that uses certain hand movements over the body to promote healing. No physical touch is involved. As we learned these hand movements, we practiced on each other. I paired up with a woman standing next to me – whom I didn’t know. As she performed these hand movements, a beam of light suddenly shot out of the top of my skull. I could see it. The beam extended upward through the ceiling, the roof, similar to these beams in the photo above, but there was just  single pillar of light, a perfect column. At the end of it, I saw entities peering down at me.

Anne immediately jumped in and asked me what the entities looked like.  The question threw me. I’d never wanted to think about this before. I blurted, “They looked like aliens and there were three of them.”

I explained that I never felt threatened, that my sense of these entities was that they were curious and, in some odd way, protective. They crowded around the top of the light column, sort of jostling each other like kids eager for a better view.

Skip ahead three years. In June 2004, Hurricane Frances hit our area. It was a large, sloppy storm that, at one point, covered most of the Florida peninsula. It dumped more than a  foot of rain on our area, water began seeping under our front door early on,  and during the long hours it pounded away at our neighborhood,  I worried about our skylights leaking. Everyone in Florida knows that if your roof is compromised in a hurricane, your house is pretty much history.

We were bunked in the bedroom with our daughter, a dog, three cats, and a bird, and around five that morning, I was the only one awake. The rain pounded relentlessly at the hurricane shutters. I could hear the skylights vibrating in the living room, the kitchen, the bathroom.  I considered getting up to check the skylights, but was so exhausted I lay there for another moment. And suddenly, the beam of light shot out of my head gain – my forehead this time – and there were those three entities at the very end of it, peering down at me.

I suddenly knew the house would come through the storm intact. I immediately fell asleep. When I woke hours later, the storm had moved on and the house was fine. “They weren’t hostile in any way,” I remarked to Anne.

“They never are,” she replied. “People who say otherwise are experiencing their own projections, not the grays.”

So now I’m waiting for these three to drop by again and offer some reassurance about the global situation.

 

 

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Planetary Empaths and Japan’s Quake, Tsunami and…

Exactly a year ago today, on March 11, 2010, we published our first post on planetary empaths. That in itself could be  a synchro, given  the devastation in Japan and that we’ve been hearing from these empaths for the last four or five days about the symptoms they’ve been experiencing.

These individuals we call planetary empaths are so attuned to the planet that they experience physical, emotional and psychic symptoms days and sometimes weeks before a natural disaster. These recent symptoms people were describing suggested that something huge was about to occur.

The symptoms varied from individual to individual:

–       ringing ears

–        heart palpitations

–       nausea

–       extreme vertigo

–       insomnia

–       tingling or vibrating that runs up and down the arms and legs

–       strange, vivid and powerful dreams about natural disasters. Some of these dreams are quite specific

–       migraine headaches

–       poltergeist phenomena – loud noises, for instance, with no apparent source

–       bleeding from the ears

–       abdominal pain or discomfort

–       extreme sadness for no apparent reason

Usually when we hear from these individuals, we take note  of it on the blog, as a post or comment. However, because of recent computer issues – being hacked – we put the comments into a folder  to refer to later. We took a few days off to visit our daughter and awakened this morning to the news about Japan’s 8.9 quake and the subsequent tsunami. We just looked at each other, spooked that the empaths were right again, and deeply saddened as we watched the heartbreaking videos of the devastation in Japan.

On March 3, SW wrote: “I dreamed about 9/11 a month before it happened. Interestingly, it was in reverse, i.e. the people and building were upside down. Also, it was in black and white. Now I am feeling that something else equally big is about to happen.”

We wrote SW and asked her what kind of “big” she thought it might be. She said she didn’t know. “It’s elusive. But I did dream last night that Washington, D.C. had lost all power and people, myself included, were wandering round in the dark in masses.” She added that she was experiencing numerous synchronicities.

This was followed by reports over the next two days that people were exhibiting some or all of the symptoms listed above. For some of these individuals, the symptoms began several months ago. Gypsy Woman, for instance,  wrote about a horrifying tsunami dream she had where rivers of sludge swept across entire towns.

A week ago, a woman who comments as mathaddict reported feeling “radiation sickness.” Given that five of Japan’s nuclear reactors are now under emergency, she seems to have picked up on a radiation leak. In fact, on MSNBC this evening, it was reported that radioactivity in the area of one reactor is 1,000 times normal levels.

D page of mythic musing emailed us about five days ago about her symptoms, which were particularly severe. Spirit of Magenta, and several others reported feelings of deep sadness. Healing Mudras,  Jen at Fractal Times, mathaddict and others   work  with the signs and symbols in their dreams for deeper clarification. Some of these empaths are accomplished lucid dreamers, able to wake up within their dreams and changed them, manipulate them.

The challenge with this whole thing is that although some of these people are able to distinguish the type of disaster – quake versus volcanic eruption, for instance – they can’t pinpoint exact locations.

Yet, these empaths tune in to something big. Like most intuitive abilities, this one isn’t an exact science. It’s still evolving.

If you have experienced any of these symptoms, particularly before the Japan quake occurred, we’d love to hear from you. Leave us  a comment. We’re certain there are  many more planetary empaths out there who may be reluctant to speak up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Bracelet and the Goddess Card

Here are a couple of intriguing synchros from the psychic healer Jane Clifford of Wales.

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“I am away in the amazing Candy Valley, my fav country retreat & whilst here I always go have acupuncture with the incredible Dr Wen. He’s the real deal; he can read one’s energy and see your essence and treat accordingly. This time I met his colleague and translator Isabelle for the first time.

“This morning, my intuition told me to take off my Tibetan bracelet that I have been wearing for months.  I have learned not to argue with my intuition anymore, so I removed the bracelet. I went for acupuncture and during the treatment Isabelle brought in a tiny box of treasures and gave me one of her two Tibetan bead bracelets. They were given to her and imbued with energy by her Tibetan Buddhist master.

“I put it on, wearing it where– until this morning– my other bracelet had been. I usually take flowers when I go there, but this morning I was rushing. So after acupuncture I went go straight into the thrift store opposite & bought a bright green vase. I filled it with  flowers and gave it to Isabelle. She told me she has been looking for a green vase of that shade for months & said:  ‘You know everything.’ I laughed and said I wish I did!

“The next day, I went back to the acupuncturist to collect my daughter. This time I took a card/picture of the Chinese goddess of mercy Quan Yin with me. I wanted to ask Dr. Wen if he knew of her. When I arrived he was in the consulting room with my daughter and came out to greet me in the reception. I held out the card depicting the goddess. He looked astonished, took the card and rushed over to the room where my daughter was waiting. He came back shortly and said:  ‘When you walked in with this card for me, I was talking to your daughter about this same goddess!’

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Jane always amazes us with her synchro tales. She’s got the power!

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The Badger from Wisconsin

 

For more than three weeks now, state workers in Wisconsin – known as the badger state –  have been protesting the governor’s intent to bust workers’ unions. Even though the union agreed to pay cuts, that wasn’t enough for Governor Walker and his Tea Party cronies. They wanted to kill workers’ rights to collective bargaining. And this evening, they were successful.

The Republicans used a nuclear option to ram legislation through the state senate by removing the collective bargaining facet from the budget bill – even though the whole issue was supposedly about the budget. Here’s the full story.

So as we were watching the news tonight, we kept thinking there had to be a global synchro here. After all, this protest has gotten extensive coverage in the media and seems to reflect a growing trend in a number of states.  Sure enough, on MSNBCs The Last Word, one of Lawrence O’Donnell’s guests was a Wisconsin union leader – Rick Badger, a Wisconsin native.

 

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A Few Days Off

We’re going to take a few days off from the blog so that we can straighten out everything that got messed up when we were hacked. We hope to resume on Saturday! See you then.

Trish and Rob

 

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The Nebraska Trip

This story comes from Lauren at Threads of the Spiderwoman. We read it on her blog and loved it. You’ll see!

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I ran across this story in my files, and felt like sharing it.

In 2005 I was driving across Nebraska from an east coast residency, and stopped in tiny Cozad to visit the Robert Henri Museum, and the 100th Meridian Museum, which I just couldn’t resist.   The founder of the “Ash Can” school of American realism, Robert Henri was born there, and apparently never went back,  preferring New York City and Paris to Nebraska.  Cozad forgives him.

I remember, afterwards, sitting in a diner and fretting as usual about what to do with my life.  I know I was doing this, because I have it on paper in my journal.  I also remember looking up at a flashing sign on the bank across the street.

That got my attention.

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Pretty cool, huh?? Talk about direct, literal messages from the universe.

 

 

 

 

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After

 Picasso

 When we lived in Venezuela, most of the people in the American community who were Catholic attended one particular church. It was a Venezuelan Catholic church, but the bulk of its congregation consisted of Americans who worked for the oil companies. The kids were remanded to catechism classes, which pretty much amounted to brainwashing sessions about the nature of god, the universe, and all that. God is everywhere, God is good, God’s word is gospel.And when you die, you’re going to be judged as hopeless, maybe salvageable, or yes, you made the grade.

I remember siting there in this class and thinking that it was all wrong, that what happened when we died was what we believed would happen. I remember thinking that I didn’t want to go to church anymore and confess sins that I made up and do penances for things I hadn’t done, and I mean, please, Eve tempted Adam with a silly apple?  Are you kidding me?

In all fairness to the Catholic church, I agreed with the previous pope about the immorality of the Iraq war. But that’s about the only area where I agree with the church. Most religions seems to have a vested interest in encouraging us to believe we’ve got one life to get it right, that some archangel or god will be sitting in judgment of what we have have done – or not done; what we have achieved – or not achieved; that some angry god may decide to sideline us somewhere till we tow the line.

Sounds like politicians, right? But if you look at the literature about near death experiences, you find something quite different from what most Christian  religions preach.Tonight, rewriting  the ultimate journey section in our book, here’s what I found – and mined:

Science discounts anecdotal evidence. If it’s not replicable in a laboratory, under controlled conditions, then sorry, folks, it doesn’t count. Physician and author Dean Radin mentions this  in The Conscious Universe, where he lumps apparitions, hauntings, OBEs, and NDEs under the same iffy category. “Because almost all the evidence for these phenomena comes from uncontrolled, spontaneous cases – and thus was necessarily collected as after-the-fact anecdotes rather than as controlled laboratory results – scientific confidence that what they appear to be is very poor.”
Really? And exactly how would a near-death journey be replicated under laboratory conditions? In the 1990 movie Flatliners, a group of medical students explore the world of NDEs by stopping their hearts – and then being revived. Many things go wrong, of course, it’s Hollywood. But each of them relive experience nightmarish episodes from childhood, relive the injustices and cruelties they’ve inflicted on others, but ultimately discover that something survives.

The irony of dismissing anecdotes as valid, as proof, is that anecdotes are the only things we have at this point in scientific explorations of NDEs. Ask Raymond Moody, whose 1975 book Life After Life  is a compilation of more than 100 stories from people who were declared clinically dead and were subsequently resuscitated. Moody’s book stamped the word near-death experience on the collective consciousness.

Two of the personal experiences that follow were left as comments on our blog. The last story was told to us by a friend. Each experiences is different, but there are certainly common factors.

In 1966, Connie gave  birth to her first baby, a son. She carried him for ten months before her “quack OB” decided to induce labor. The baby was fine, but large. Three days after he was born, she began to hemorrhage, to bleed out. “As the code team frantically tried to give me more blood and shoot epinephrine directly into my heart, blood came out of me faster than they could get it in. My body was dead. My heart ceased to beat. I flatlined. I don’t recall how I moved out of my body, but I vividly recall hovering near the ceiling and watching the doctors and nurses in their panic.”

Yet, she felt no awareness of her physical distress. “It was pure bliss. I  stopped looking at what was happening below me and felt myself gliding away from that room, farther and farther. I didn’t pass through a tunnel, exactly. It was more as if I stepped through a door or a gate onto a kind of brightly-lit path or beam that seemed to be tugging me towards the most brilliant spectrum of colors, indescribable. I was so eager to reach those colors. But a voice, coming from someone I didn’t see, very clearly said to me, Connie, you can’t stay here. You have a new little boy to raise, and two more little boys coming. You have to go back.” 

But Connie had no desire to go back.She was infused with such comfort and peace and joy that she felt angry that something seemed to be relentlessly pulling her back. She looked down and was in the room again, then very suddenly, with a severe jolt that seemed like an electrical shock, she  was back in that ravaged body.

“The code team was ecstatic, but I wasn’t. I spent thirty-one days in what was then an ICU unit. It was written in my chart that for six minutes I had flatlined, with no cerebral activity and no pulse. I was dead, not “nearly dead”, as the so-called experts call it. There are no words in any language that can adequately describe the experience of being dead.

What’s especially interesting about her NDE is that the voice was right. She went on to have two more boys. Her sons are now grown, Connie spent years working as a hospice nurse and a medium. You can’t convince her that what she experienced was a blip in her synapases or some hallucinogenic tale her brain spun as it was deprived of oxygen.Even Jung, who had an NDE, described it as: “Everything that happened in time had been brought together into a concrete whole. Nothing was disturbed over time, nothing could be measured by temporal concepts.”

Vicki D drowned at the age of sixteen. “I drifted up and saw myself lying on the beach as they administered CPR. Someone was behind me and kept asking me different questions. I remember feeling so peaceful and warm until the voice behind me told me to look closer at the girl on the beach and I slowly realized she looked like me, and then BAM!

“I was on the beach looking up at the sky, water was coming out of everywhere including my eyes and ears and they were clamping an oxygen mask on me and I was in so much pain and gasping for breath.  One reason why I personally feel it was real and not a hallucination is that I still remember it like it just happened and this was 36 years ago.”

During the birth of her first child, Renie Wiley died. She remembers drifting up toward the ceiling and watching the doctors as they tried to resuscitate her. Certain information was available to her in that state and she realized that her primary doctor was going to be shipped off to Vietnam and that he wouldn’t return.

When he brought her back into the world of the living, she described what she had experienced. She told him what she’d seen for him and begged him not to volunteer. He was shocked. No one knew that he had applied as a medic in Vietnam. And she was also right. He was killed in Vietnam.

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The Trickster and Foreclosures

Several years back, at the tail end of the Bush era, before the economy collapsed, we suspected things were screwed up because of what was happening in our neighborhood.

The house directly across the street from us had been turned over to the previous owners’ so the place became a revolving door for – well, we weren’t sure who these people were. One week, a family would be living in the house, kids and dogs and volleyball nets. The next week, the family would be gone and two guys would be sitting in the open garage with their computers, and new tenants would show up.

We had them all, every skin color, every type of family unit, every family pet. We discovered the guys in the garage were using the neighbors’ internet, that the house was being rented out to the homeless, the disenfranchised, that it was sold in a deal where no one could prove ownership, not even the bank. Then, of course, came the big collapse, 2008 and the foreclosure mess. We all know how that shook out.

So the other day we found this wonderful trickster story that turns the tables on banks:

Patrick Rodgers bought his home for $186,000. But when he started receiving notices that he owed a home insurance premium for a $1 million dollar house, he wrote his bank three times about it. The bank didn’t answers. A Philadelphia homeowner started foreclosure proceedings on a Wells Fargo mortgage office after winning a rather strange legal judgement against the bank. So he decided to force his mortgage company to pay attention, ABC News reported.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Rodgers discovered the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, which requires mortgage companies to acknowledge written requests within 20 business days or face penalties. He took Wells Fargo to court and won a default judgment of $1,173 because the bank didn’t show up in court.  When the bank still failed to reply to his letters, he started foreclosure proceedings.

The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, passed in 1974 to protect borrowers, stipulates a standard complaint letter that can be sent to lenders. (For more information on RESPA, check out the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website here.)

The contents of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage’s offices at 1341 North Delaware Avenue were scheduled for a March 4 sheriff’s sale. We’ll have to check for an update!

 

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