10 Billion Beats

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 

10 Billion Beats is an intention experiment that will occur on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 7 PM. The idea is to send a wave of sound, through drumming, around the world, to connect people and promote peace and goodwill.  In light of the quake in Haiti, and all the other stuff going on worldwide, this certainly sounds promising. From their website:

“This is a Global Experiment that will use drumming to focus a collective positive intention, then send it around the world in a continous wave to improve our relationship with each other, and with a living planet upon which we live, breath, and have our being. 10 Billion Beats started in Sept. 2009. It grew and grew until nearly 200,000 people participated around the globe. In 2010 the grassroots movement will be even bigger and we invite you to be a part of it.”

The message: Peace TO Earth, Goodwill ON  Humankind.

Let’s all participate!

Thanks to Gypsy Woman for bringing this to our attention.

Here’s the You Tube video of drumming that the site recommends people watch:

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Haiti and the 7.0 Quake

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 On August 1, we published a post about animals as oracles of global events. That post, about the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia in 2004, focused on the apparent prescience that prompted many animals to flee days – and even weeks – before the quake hit.

It may be a long time before such stories emerge about the disaster in Haiti. The country is so devastatingly poor that  pets are a luxury and the wildlife is practically nonexistent because Haiti’s forest cover has been reduced to about  1 percent. But surely there must have been some evidence in the behavior of ocean wildlife.

But perhaps there were signs elsewhere – dreams or premonitions that any of us might have had, for instance, or signs in our daily lives that something was brewing. Maybe we didn’t know where or when, but could feel…well, something.

Between 1990-2000, there were 27 major quakes recorded with approximately 82,000 fatalities. In the last 9 years, there have been 140 quakes with about 450,000 fatalities. (Data here) So something is definitely changing. 

As the magnitude of the disaster begins to come to light, it’s evident that on an island of 9 million people, most of them abysmally poor and living in shacks on hillsides, Haiti needs help. Even before this earthquake, it was the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, a place where many people eat dirt to stay alive. 

Doctors Without Borders lost their 3 hospitals in Haiti and triage is being conducted in the streets. That’s where our donation went.

In the end, what happens to one country, one people, happens to us all.

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Telepathy and Synchronicity

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Trish and Rob

  In a post back in June,  Jung and the Sympathy for All Things, we wrote about telepathy as a facet of synchronicity. Essentially, telepathy is mind to mind communication, but often happens when two or more people come up with the same phrase, image, or idea at the same time.In the following synchronicities, telepathy seems to have been at work and, once again, the Internet and blogging were the facilitators.

Yesterday, we posted some short synchronicities that Healing Mudras had sent us. A couple of hours later, we received an email from Gypsy, who said she’d been fiddling around with an image for a new post for her blog, but couldn’t seem to get inspired. “So I thought I’d  hop over to your place where there’s always something hopping. I’ve attached the image of what I was working with before coming to your place…”

Now look at the similarity of the images. The first is from yesterday’s post. The second is from Gypsy’s email.

As  if this isn’t strange enough, Musing Egret then left a comment under our post that really takes the cake. Her comment was left a couple of hours after Gypsy’s email arrived:

“Yesterday I was re-arranging a bookcase and moving some old journals in a 3-ring binder. The binder opened to a page where I’d scrawled the name of a potential character, “Bory Alice” and right beneath it I’d written Aurora Borealis. What are the chances??!!”

Technically, I suppose that Musing Egret’s  find the night before the post went up was an instance of precognition. But we may be splitting hairs here. Perhaps the larger question here is about the aurora borealis. Is something strange going on wth the northern lights? Is there a larger message? And if so, what is it?

UPDATE
Late tonight, Ray sent an email that seems to supplement this aurora borealis synchronicity. His remarks:
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I forgot about this photo when I made my previous comment. This is a link to the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) from Dec 19. I change my wallpaper daily. I posted this one yesterday 12 January, one day prior to this blog. It is still up. I had to stare at it to realize it was part of the synchro.
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His picture:

Pretty weird, huh?

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Daily Life Synchros

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Some synchronicities are like vignettes or short stories, complete with characters, a storyline, puzzling details. When these happen in our daily lives, they can be warnings or welcome signposts that we’re on the right track. Both have an aura of the magical about them. For Healing Mudras,  these short synchros are all of the welcome variety and magical in their own way. We posted another synchronicity from Healing- Bangkok Odds – back in November.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still

In November 2008, my daughter,  who was turning 7 the next week, was learning about space and time. She kept asking questions about the sun, the moon, the rotation of the earth and then asked me: “So what happens if the Earth stopped moving? If it just stood still?” As I was trying to figure out a correct answer, she screamed, “We’d all fall off!!!”

That same afternoon, I went out in Bangkok and the Movie the Day the Earth Stood Still had just been released.

Umbrellas
I had a dream about umbrellas – I was giving them away ( any clues about the  meaning?). The next morning when I opened the curtain in the garden of our compound, I saw a beautiful white cotton umbrella and the father of a few kids was running and playing with an umbrella in his hands. There usually are NO umbrellas in our garden.
Aurora Borealis
I dreamed of the Aurora Borealis and a solar shower. The next morning, my daughter (the 7 years old) opened her Christmas presents. One of them – not from me! – was two fabulous children’s books about space and galaxies. My friend said, “Hey look! It’s an Aurora Borealis!.”
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The Body Speaks

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Our bodies can sometimes be vehicles of or expressions for synchronicity. A physical problem  may actually be addressing an emotional situation in our lives – a topic that Louise Hay covers extensively in You Can Heal Your Life. It’s also possible that a physical flareup that restricts our movements may be protecting us from something that isn’t obvious until later. Such was the case for friends who have a second home in North Carolina. For reasons that become obvious as you read their story, they asked that we not use their real names. So we’ll call them Nick and Nora Charles – the characters from the imagination of Dashiell Hammet! Nora is telling the story:
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We were gearing up for a trip to NC that would have started today at 4AM, but instead my back went out and we found ourselves wondering if we would be spending the day in the hospital. Nick had just gotten a call from his brother that he was already at the ER because of a kidney stone, and I was unable to get up from the pain, but did finally because the choice of peeing in my bed or on the way to bathroom looked better if I at least made the effort. I did make it, only to black out on toilet. Talk about feeling like crap. Just as I sure the cool of the tile floor would wake me, Nick got back from taking the kids to school, checking on his brother and help me back to bed.

We went to our friend the chiropractor who took two X-rays that showed no bone cracks or bulging disks — leaving it all to server muscle cramp. An injection of muscle relaxer and several treatments with ultra sounds left me able to finally move on my own instead of forming a conga line with Nick leading and Linz (daughter) following in case I fell forward or backwards.

This morning it was very stiff, but I was able to move on my own again. I can’t tell you how much good for the spirit this — just open today’s email and saw a weather bug alert. It seems the very road we would have been traveling to NC cabin is blocked by 8 to 12 inches of snow!

Again the Polly-Anna comes forth, and I do believe someone was looking out for us by delaying our trip a few days. Our other daughter is safe at her girlfriend’s parent’s house over the weekend, as the road she would taken had even more snow on it.
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Have you ever been detained by physical ailments only to find out later that these ailments saved you from hassles, accidents, or worse?

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Impulses and Precognition

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 

Just a couple of hours after the post below on the pre-cogs went up, Megan called with a disturbing precognition she had last night.

At her college, January is the month when students are involved in independent study projects – ISPs – that take many students off campus or overseas for the entire month. Two of Megan’s roommates are doing their ISPs elsewhere, so it was  just Megan and a young man who moved into her campus apartment about two months.

There have been some issues with this guy – namely, that he often talks to himself in the bathroom or in his room, shouting and ranting about how awful he is, what a terrible person he is, no wonder no one likes him etc.  Megan and the roommates have overheard these rants and have discussed asking the guy to move out. They think he needs professional help.

Late last  night, Megan was in her room and heard the guy yelling out in the kitchen, talking to himself again. “I had this impulse to record what he was saying, so I turned on the recorder on  my phone.” And recorded the guy yelling about how much he hates this group or that group – conservatives, liberal hippies, everyone – but it didn’t  matter because he was going to BLOW THEM ALL UP. Alone in the apartment, she was totally freaked out about it, and locked herself in her room.

This morning, she went to the resident director with the recording and said she wants the guy out of her apartment. Her impulse to record the conversation caused the resident director to take it seriously – otherwise it might have been her word against his.

So Megan’s precognitive impulse, like the pre-cogs in Minority Report, perhaps prevented some terrible scenario. Since she turned him in, we wanted her out of there and away from him as quickly as possible.She  has since moved temporarily into a friend’s room.  Scary stuff.

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Shades of Minority Report?

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

In the 2002 movie Minority Report, based on a short story by legendary – and visionary – writer Philip K Dick, criminals are arrested before they commit a crime. Three genetically altered humans, known as Pre-cogs, “see” crimes before they happen and a special law enforcement unit (Precrime) tracks down the would be offenders. The year? 2054.

Now, thanks to the close call Christmas Eve, perpetrated by the Nigerian “underpants” terrorist, Philip K Dick’s  fiction may become a reality in 2011.

According to AP writer Michael Tarm, machines that read minds may be in our future. They may not be the genetically altered humans from the Minority Report, but are nonetheless eerie – and disturbing. WeCU – we see you – is an Israeili-based company that combines high tech with behavioral psychology. The system is being tested in Israel and here’s how it works.

You’re at the airport, caught up in the usual stuff, pulling your suitcase behind you, wondering how long it’s going to take to get through security, if your plane will be delayed or the flight cancelled. But let’s say you’re a terrorist with a nefarious agenda instead of just some ordinary traveler, okay? So suddenly, an image flashes on one of the airport billboards – a symbol or something else that only a member of your terrorist organization would recognize. In other words, a familiar symbol or image appears in an unfamiliar place. Your body  responds – not in an overt  I need to get outta here sort of way but with an increased heart rate, an acceleration in breathing, sweaty hands, twitches, nervous glances. Sensors – machines and humans – pick up your reaction and you’re pulled out of line and subjected to more “enhanced” screening.

Aside from the aspects of big brother that are evident in this type of screening, there are some obvious problems. How are nervous passengers separated from would be terrorists? Honestly, who enjoys flying anymore? Stress levels rise as soon as many of us enter the airport and only increase with security routines that seem to be more reactive than anything else. One guy puts explosives in his shoes, so now everyone has to remove shoes and passengers can’t bring bottled water past the security check points, can’t carry more than 3 ounces of shampoo or any other liquid, and all of it has to be in a ziplocked Baggie. You know, the Baggie with that annoying plastic thing that’s supposed to zip the Baggie shut. Why that Baggie?

Now the underpants terrorist idiot comes along and we can’t use the restroom in the final hour of an international flight and our hands must be in full view during that last hour. We’re already being treated like middle schoolers. Now we’re being reduced to kindergartners.  What next? Everyone strip and bend forward before boarding a plane?

It seems to me that if the law of attraction actually works, then what we’re doing is attracting more would-be terrorists with increasingly ridiculous schemes, more reasons to feel stressed out while traveling, and more of everything that we don’t want. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if just one person in power understood the law of attraction and began the reversal of this cycle?

Even in Philip K Dick’s story – and in the movie – one of the members of the elite Precrime squad (John Anderton, played by Tom Cruise) sees the light when the Pre-cogs finger him as a suspect in a crime he hasn’t yet committed. But perhaps this is the way that fiction differs from real life.

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UPDATE ON SEA LIONS AT PIER 39

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

On December 31, our post was about how the sea lions on Pier 39 in San Francisco have departed as mysteriously as they arrived 20 years ago. We all speculated about earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural phenomena. So here it is, ten days later, and musing egret just left a comment about an ireport on CNN concerning a 6.5 quake in Northern California. Here’s the USGS report.

It sure looks as if the sea lions picked up on this.

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Out of Nigeria

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Nigeria has been in the news lately with the Christmas attempted terrorist attack originating there. So I asked Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth, of  Nigeria, who has posted synchronicities here, for his thoughts. I think you’ll find them interesting in that he couches his response in terms of the Chinese calendar.
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“All I can see now is that the young suicide bomber was born in the Year of the Fire Tiger (1986) by the Chinese calendar and we are approaching the year of the Metal Tiger in mid-February. The tiger is the mascot of the Nigerian Army. It’s the fiercest of the cat family.
“Still on metals, 1941 and 2001 were  the years of the Metal Snake, which occur once every 60 years. The two major attacks on United States soil were:  Pearl Harbor (1941) and the World Trade Center (2001).
“Interestingly, metal birds were the means of those attacks, airplanes bombing Pearl Harbor and striking the World Trade Center.”

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 We agree with Augustine, who said, “Beyond terrorism, we should emphasize the similarities between Nigeria and the U.S.”

To that end, we are posting two more of his trademark synchronicities, which compare U.S. and Nigerian leaders, pointing out the similarities in their backgrounds.

The first one: Bill Clinton and Olusegun Obasanjo. Both were presidents of their countries, the U.S. and Nigeria respectively. Clinton belonged to the Democratic Party and Obasanjo to the Peoples Democratic Party. They were both born on a Tuesday. They are both Baptist.

Clinton’s first name, William, begins with W, ends with M. Obasanjo’s first name, Matthew, begins with M, ends with W. Both first names are seven letters long. And, for good measure, both men were involved in sex scandals with women whose names start with M: Monica for Clinton, and Monisola for Obasanjo.

 Augustine also pairs Mike Akhigbe, a retired vice admiral of the Nigerian navy, and Admiral Mike Mullen, the current chairman of the joint chief of staff of the United States. Right off, we have two Mikes, and looking up Akhigbe, we found he does indeed go by the name Mike.

 Both men were born in 1946. Akhigbe served as the chief of the naval staff, Mullen was chief of naval operations. Akhigbe also served as chief of the general staff, a position similar to Mullen’s role as chairman of the joint chiefs. Mullen resigned as chief of naval staff on Mike Akhigbe’s  birthday, Sept. 29, 2007, and  Mullen became chairman of the joint chiefs on Oct. 1, 2007, which is Nigeria’s day of Independence.

Augustine, who also notes that both men attended Catholic schools, calls the comparison “a classic case of things happening in a meaningful manner.”

The way I see it, such comparisons show us that in spite of our differences, we are all inter-connected.
Rob

We ran across a blog this evening by Dr. Stephen Diamond, a forensic psychotherapist in L.A. He has a fascinating post on the unconscious psychology of terrorists.

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The Serial Trickster

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Archetypes – the trickster, the wise old man or woman,  the hero, the child – are as ancient as the planet. They bubble into the conscious mind from the collective unconscious, a repository of images common to all people. They’re found in mythology, folklore, fairy tales, legends, hallucinations, fantasies, and dreams, and in the tarot.  The archetype is so prominent in world mythology that Joseph Campbell called him The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the title of his book on the subject.

Movies and books often feature strong archetypal characters – Indiana Jones and Darth Vader come to mind immediately. And so does the character of Sméagol in Lord of the Rings. The sneaky, lurking Gollum is the classic trickster archetype. He usually had a private agenda of one kind or another that prompted him to mislead the hobbits – or hobbitses, as he called them-  on numerous occasions and to trick them into believing he could be trusted. 

Trickster synchronicities can be compound or serial, where words, phrases, songs,  and numbers are repeated. Sometimes, serial trickster synchronicities happen when you’re least expecting them and in the most unlikely places.  One day Rob was waiting for his car to be serviced at an auto dealer.  He was surprised to discover a science magazine in the waiting room and even more surprised to find an article on quantum physics in that issue of Scientific American. A bit different from the usual People Magazine affair in waiting rooms. He’d just noticed that the author of the article was David Schumacher, and was wondering why the name was familiar, when a voice on the intercom said, “Schumacher,” the name of the dealer. Of course, that was it.

Rob glanced up and noticed a sign a few yards in front of him that read, Schumacher VW.  Perhaps the trickster simply wanted to drive home the point that synchronicities can happen anywhere, at any time, and you can even link quantum physics with a car dealer.

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