Clusters of Twos

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Trish and Rob

One of the sites I visit periodically is George Ure’s urban survival blog. His posts are mostly about the economy, but now and then he publishes a letter from a reader or something  else that catches my attention. The other day, I ran across this interesting letter from one of his readers who experienced synchronicities involving clusters of twos.

In 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, secret 5 is called The Clusters: “Synchronicity manifests itself in clusters of numbers, names, objects, words, symbols.” Carl Jung, who experienced many numerical synchronicities throughout his life, believed that numbers represent “an archetype of order which has become conscious.” The meanings of such clusters may not be immediately apparent when you experience them.  That was the case for Ure’s reader . We’ve edited it slightly for brevity.

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Today is October 20th.  This is a true story.  It just happened to me, starting about a week and a half ago.

I bought a carton of eggs from the local grocery.  The next day I started breakfast, took out the first egg, broke it and out comes two yokes.  Somewhat amazed, I thought to myself that I haven’t seen one of those in a long while.  I picked up the next egg and broke it and again, two yokes!  I remember saying out loud, “Wow…what are the odds?”   So I had two eggs, two yokes.  I broke the rest of the carton and they were regular eggs.

A few days had gone by and I didn’t think much of the event.  I then experienced a major medical situation where I spent four days in the acute care center.  When I was in the acute care center a routine test was performed on me that requires two injections.  The next day, a nurse tells me that the test needs to be repeated because the last one was performed incorrectly. So I received two tests.  The parameters of this test requires two entry points in order to arrive at a diagnosis.

It was here that the number two (2) began to resonate somehow in my life.  It was here that I start to wonder about things – as if something is brooding almost.  I have experienced synchronicity many times before and I know how to recognize when it happens and take notice.

Eventually, I’m discharged from the hospital and my friend took me to the store to pick up a few things here at the local store.  Among the items I purchased was a carton of eggs.

It is important to remember that the “two egg/two yoke” event that happened previously did not resonate within me and I wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary – in relation to the eggs.  Also, the thoughts I experienced while in the hospital with my questioning of 2s had already escaped me as well.

The next day I started breakfast, and I took out the first egg and broke it – was a single-yoke egg.  I remember saying to myself “Awww…I was hoping for a double yoke….”

I picked out the next egg, broke it and what comes out?  Two yokes!  I have only used four eggs in this carton thus far so I do not know what is in the rest of my carton
of eggs.

Ok, so now I have experienced a two egg/two yoke scenario, a “second egg”/two yoke scenario.  And a two test scenario.

Today, I had to travel to another rural town to visit the second-hand store  (as I write this I just noticed “second-hand” store in relation to 2s.)  I was looking for a used toaster.

I asked Linda, the store owner if she had any toasters.  She looked at me with amazement
and tells me “Wow!  You’re the second person to ask for a toaster, that guy that just left was asking for a toaster as well.”  But, she didn’t have any toasters for either of us.  I did buy two blankets, though, without even realizing at the moment — two blankets.

I remember when she said this, all these events that are related to 2s: two eggs, two yokes…two injections, two tests…and now two people looking for a toaster!

What are the odds of this happening?  All of this has happened from about one week previous to this past Sunday.  What is going to happen next?  And is there something more that is to be experienced?

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There was more material in his letter about various premonitions he has experienced over the last decade that have come true – about 9-11, earthquakes – and more recurring two clusters. He ends his letter to Ure with:

Something is happening.I have experienced synchronicity events before and this is more pronounced than other times. Also other people are playing a part in these events. These are not just stories that I conjure up. I’m being shown a message but I’m not sure what.  I have a hunch, but I’m too frightened to tell the public.

Numerical clusters are among the most mysterious synchronicities.  Frequently, the message is personal, but sometimes, there’s a larger, collective warning in such clusters.  Click here, here, here, here for some of the posts we’ve written on number clusters.  What’s your take on all these twos?

 

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Crack between Worlds

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Last night I dreamed of a long crack in the wall of a room just below the ceiling. It kept getting larger and larger and I became concerned about it, figuring I needed to patch it up quickly. When I woke up, I puzzled over the dream and others that I remembered. I actually recalled four dreams, which is pretty good for me.

Then it occurred that it was Halloween, the day when the veil between worlds is thinnest. I realized the crack-in-the-wall dream might’ve symbolic of the crack between worlds and I was concerned that it was getting too large.

I was thinking about that dream later in the morning when we received an e-mail from Marie Jones, who will interview us Friday for Unknown Country about Synchronicity and the Other Side. Marie is a writer and producer and I noticed that she had added a link to the bottom of the e-mail. So I hit it. Try it and see the eerie synchro….

www.19Hzthemovie.com

 

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Happy Halloween!

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

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Powder

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

There are some movies that become part of the family tradition over the years. When my parents were alive, one of those movies was Raising Arizona, a Coen Brothers movie with Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter that is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.    We watched it periodically just to remind ourselves how crazy life can be.

In our immediate family, one of those movies is Powder, released in 1995, and starring Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery and Lance Henriksen. The plot is pretty simple. From IMDB: “A young, bald, albino boy with unique powers shakes up the rural community he lives in.” But that pithy summary tells you absolutely nothing about the human complexities in the story, the raw emotion you feel throughout the film, and the visionary qualities that are universal to the human condition, particular now.

We watched it again tonight, and were astonished that Powder never garnished any movie awards. Sean Patrick Flannery, who plays Powder,  is simply amazing in this movie. He subsequently played VP Greg Stilson in the TV show The Dead Zone, was the young Indiana Jones, and is scheduled for a whole bunch of films in 2011 and 2012. While we were watching, Megan paused the movie to tell us about the writer/director, Victor Salva, who was convicted of child molestation. When the film was released,  the boy he molested boycotted the film, which undoubtedly contributed to its “less than stellar box office.” (IMDB)

Yet, when we watched this film, we were struck by the evolved message. In one particularly moving scene, Powder is with a young woman at a park  (Melissa Lahlitah Crider  and asks to hold her hand. This woman was in his science class the day Jeff Goldblum (the teacher) did an electricity experiment  and the electrical current shot out of the contraption Goldblum used to illustrate his scientific point – and into Powder, eventually levitating him.

In the park, he’s trying to describe to the woman how most people, within themselves, feel isolated and alone and separate from everything and everyone, but that’s not really how it is. Everything and everyone is connected, he says, and then touches his fingers to hers.  And suddenly, she gets it. She understands. He is showing her Indra’s Net. They are completely tuned into each other and to everyone and everything that is connected to them.

In another moving scene, Lance Henricksen, who plays the sheriff, suddenly realizes what Powder is and asks him to come to his home, where his wife is dying. The doctors don’t understand why his wife is still alive and Powder becomes a conduit that enables Henricksen to communicate with his wife.  He learns his wife can’t pass on until she is certain that Henricksen and his estranged son reconcile. At this point in the film, Megan bursts out, “My God, Powder is pure energy, that’s what this movie is about.”

And by the end of the movie, it’s obvious that she’s right. As Goldblum puts it at one point, You’re what  humanity might be in a thousand years.

If you haven’t seen this movie, by all means treat yourself to it. There’s profundity here, and even though it was made 16 years ago, the message may be even more pertinent today.

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An interesting synchro. While Megan paused the movie to comment about Powder as pure energy, out white cat, Powder, jumped onto the couch for some human loving and Rob exclaimed, “Synchro. Let’s write it up.”

Here’s the trailer:

https://youtu.be/YJexgdk6tw4

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Occupiers

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Trish and Rob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9lbbWAgBy7E

 

The images are visceral and powerful.

In Oakland, California, police in full riot gear move in on occupiers with tear gas, projectiles, batons, and critically injure a 24-year-old Iraq vet who may now need brain surgery. The clueless Oakland mayor’s statement about the incidents in Oakland are those of a politician who should resign. She apparently doesn’t have any idea what’s going on in her city. Other cities are also threatening to shut down the occupiers.

But every time someone sees one of these brutal, violent images of cops moving against weaponless occupiers, the movement burgeons, the numbers multiply, and supporters cheer. What we see in the streets of major cities worldwide is that the 99 percent have had it with indentured servitude and have risen up.

Winter has arrived in some of these cities – like Denver, where the weather went from 83 degrees to the low thirties and snow the next day. There’s speculation – hopeful speculation from the right- that the inclement weather will break up these annoying protests. Don’t count on it. These occupiers aren’t like the Tea Party group, standing around in their silly hats adorned with tea bags, many of them brought in by buses by the financiers of the “movement” – the Koch brothers.  These occupiers are the genuine McCoy, the once silent masses who endured illegal wars, rising tuition, bailouts of Wall Street, tax cuts for the super wealthy, foreclosures, bankruptcy, outrageous insurance payments for health care. You name it, they endured it – and then got fed up.

Cold weather doesn’t stop a movement like this. Cops with power issues, clueless politicians, phony policies about permits for pubic parks don’t dismantle this sort of grass roots movement. The tipping point has been reached and it’s probably not going to recede. In some ways, it’s like a wave in quantum physics, the wave of probability. When enough people tap into it, then the wave crashes into physical reality as a particle. Well, here’s your particle. Instead of a few hundred Tea Party folks holdings signs and shouting, you have tens of thousands of the disenfranchised marching through the streets of the world’s largest cities, their dome tents pitched in public parks, on public squares. They are leaderless and they are like a force of nature.

Their demands are multiple and compatible: physicians protesting for true universal heath care, Iraqi vets against the wars, unemployed college graduates drowning in repayment of college loans, middle class people in the midst of foreclosure and bankruptcy, and even the residual hippies who protested against Vietnam in the Sixties. The occupiers represent democracy at its finest,  and when you hear otherwise, it’s probably the pundits at Fox News who are spouting the lies. Or the Ayn Rand  acolytes.

I have to admit that I loved Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The woman had a particular vision that she translated well into fiction. But her premise is flawed. It was always flawed. Rand believed that capitalism could self-regulate. The idea that any economical system can self-regulate is absurd. The temptation for abuse is just too powerful. But Alan Greenspan, a student of Rand’s, really bought into it and there’s something so sad and pathetic about him now when he’s on TV and tries to explain what happened.

So here we are. The occupiers are US. Use your greatest talent or strength to support them. If you’re in an area where you can join them, do so. If you have supplies they might need – blankets, tents, sleeping bags, hope –then given them that.  The paradigm shift is happening and it’s happening where you live, it’s happening because  the 99 percent are demanding it.

 

 

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How to Fix Congress

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

A friend sent this and it sure sounds good to me!

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offfers
one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just
pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more
than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible
for re-election.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple!
The people demanded it. That was in 1971 – before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven  took one  year or less to become the law of the land – all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to
a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask
each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will
have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed
around.

_*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*_

1. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they’re out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this
contract with Congressmen/women.

Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive
the message.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

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UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials go on the Record

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Trish and Rob

During one of my recent excursions to Barnes and Noble, I found a book I first heard about when it was in hardback. It’s now out in trade – less expensive – and wow, it’s a winner. UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials go on the Record by Leslie Kean  is exactly what the title promises.

I usually do my reading on the treadmill at the gym. But the past day or so, I’ve had a cold and have settled on the couch in our family room with this book and I can’t stop reading it. Kean is an investigative journalist  who first published something on UFOs in 2000, in the Boston Globe.  Her article was based on a report now known as the COMETA Report, a study by  former “high ranking French officials documenting the existence of unidentified flying objects and exploring their potential on national security.”

In the introduction, Kean talks about her reluctance to become involved in this area because journalists – and the mainstream media – tend to ridicule it.  But after reading the COMETA Report, she was hooked.

Anyone who knows anything about the UFO field will recognize the big stories in these pages: the wave of sightings over Belgium in the early 1990s, the Phoenix lights in 1997, the Hudson River Valley sightings, the O’Hare Airport sighting in 2006, the incident at Rendlesham Forest, UFOs in Brazil, France… But what makes this book unique is that Kean not only compiles this information in a suspenseful way, but has included chapters written by pilots, military personnel, and other government officials who experienced these sightings.

During the Phoenix lights flap on March 13, 1997, hundreds – maybe thousands – of ordinary Americans saw “a massive craft, a solid object, not merely lights; and it often appeared to be very low in the sky, blocking out the stars behind it.” The 9-11 calls poured in. People were panicked. But it wasn’t until USA Today ran a story on the Phoenix Lights that the national media really spotlighted the incident.

So on June 19, Arizona’s Republican governor, Fife Symington, held a press conference and promised to reveal the source behind the Phoenix lights. His very tall chief of staff, handcuffed and wearing an alien costume, was escorted to the podium. The governor joked, “this just goes to show that you guys are entirely too serious.”

And so, the Phoenix lights flap faded into oblivion until a decade later, when this same governor, now out of office, admitted that he had seen the craft. He referred to it as a “craft  of unknown origin.” He heard about it first on TV, then “jumped into his car…and drove to a park near Squaw Park outside if Phoenix. “It was dramatic. And I couldn’t have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.”

Symington is now an outspoken advocate for disclosure.

There are so many compelling first-hand testimonies in this book that it reads like the best sort of suspense novel. You get a real sense that people on the front lines – air traffic controllers, for instance . They simply don’t know what to do, how to react,  when they get a report from a pilot that they’re being followed by an unknown craft.  One of the most intriguing chapters is on the incursion at O’Hare Airport on November 7, 2006, when mechanics, pilots, and managers “looked up from their ground positions at the terminal and saw the strange object hovering just under a cloud bank, which began at 1,900 feet above the ground…Based on the collection of eyewitness testimony, the UFO is estimated to have ranged in size from about 22 to 88 feet in diameter, and was suspended at approximately 1,500 feet above Gate C17 at the United terminal.”

Now, really, you would think that the government, the FAA, Homeland Security, someone somewhere, would have a comment about this incident. But the FAA tried to ignore the safety implications. One FAA person wrote the whole thing off as “weather phenomenon.”  You know, that goes into the same category as Japanese lanterns and weather balloons.

As Kean points out, why not be forthright about what these phenomena are? Why not have an agency or commission that actually investigates and reports? In an era when everyone has a cell phone with camera and video capacity, when  You Tube brings you the latest on events on the other side of the world, when information travels at the speed of light,  it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to buy into the “official” explanation.

As Kean concludes: “”…there is too much at  stake to continue stonewalling… the phenomenon itself has placed us in a precarious situation that we have not chosen, and that we can do nothing about. We must strive to learn what we can, for its in our deepest nature and best interest to do so- to simply want to find out.”

As she points out, we don’t need the release of just more documents from the government. We need experts who study these sightings, who attempt to understand what these crafts are, where they come from, what they want. And we need these experts – and the government – be be honest and forthright with the pubic about their findings.

Kean has done all of us a service. Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer or somewhere in between, you come away from this book with questions about the nature of reality, about your own belief system, and about the silliness and trivia your government is feeding you. That alone is worth the price of the book.

 

 

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Cone of Uncertainty

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Trish and Rob

See that white border that extends over South Florida? It’s the dreaded “cone of uncertainty” that all South Floridians recognize. Maybe, for us, it’s an archetype that warns us to pay close attention. This cone belongs  to Hurricane Rina, forecast to become a category 3 storm tonight, with winds in excess of 111 mph.

Six years ago today, another late season hurricane – Wilma – hit South Florida.It had weakened by the time it passed over the peninsula,  but at its height, was a category 5 hurricane, with winds in excess of 155 mph, and the most intense hurricane ever. Her barometric  pressure was 882 millibars.  When it stalled over our town, it was supposedly a category 1, but at one point our front door threatened to pop out of its frame. We wrote about it here.

I don’t like these late season hurricanes. They’re often tricksters, like Wilma was. With just a month left to hurricane season (November 30 is the official end of the season) people have grown complacent and cocky. Hey, we got through another season with no hurricane. That’s six years now.

So after I looked at the 11 PM forecast tonight at the National Hurricane Center’s site, I felt…uneasy.  One forecast model brings this storm over South Florida, just south of Miami. I turned to my usual online I Ching site and asked if Hurricane Rina would hit us. I’m not too happy about the hexagrams I got: number 21, Biting Through, with 4 changing lines -1, 2,3, 4.

On 21, from the Richard Wilhelm version: “This hexagram represents an open mouth with an obstruction between the teeth. As a result,  the lips cannot meet. To bring them together, one must bite energetically through the obstacle.”

The four changing lines address feet fastened in stocks, a nose vanishing, something poisonous, and biting down on dried, grisly meat. Not of this is particularly good. It brings back memories of other hurricane seasons, particularly the aftermath when there was no power, the heat was awful, and no stores or gas stations were open. Our generator, bought in 2005 and still  in the box, can power perhaps one appliance and a couple of lamps.

With these changing lines, the hexagram changes to one of my least favorite in the I Ching: hexagram 18, Work on What Has Been Spoiled. “We must not recoil from work and danger – but must take hold energetically.”

Yeah, ok. Batten down the hatches, then get busy for the cleanup in the aftermath.

But when you look at the potential path of this hurricane, there’s a chance it moves through the 90 miles of open water between Cuba and South Florida and out into the Atlantic. That’s our hope.

Honestly, I think it’s time to move elsewhere.

 

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New Moon

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

On October 26, there’s a new moon in Scorpio, the most emotionally intense and psychic sign in the zodiac.  New moons, just to refresh, are about new beginnings, new opportunities, new chapters, new, new new.  This moon favors research, investigations, psychic development, digging deeply for answers.

This moon occurs at 3 degrees of Scorpio, so those of you born in the early days of water and earth signs – Scorpio, Pisces, Cancer, Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn – will be especially pleased. Those of you with moons or rising signs in water or earth signs will like this new moon, too. The rest of us – air and fire signs – also have Scorpio somewhere in our charts and those areas will be the ones that experience a rebirth.    For a free natal chart, click here.

Scorpio is the most enigmatic and mysterious of signs. It always seeks the absolute bottom line. So look at your natal chart and find the place where you see the glyph featured here:

In  that house is where the new opportunities will surface. If Scorpio is on the cusp of one of the four critical houses – i.e., your rising sign, or the cusp of your 4th, 7th or 10th houses – then pay very close attention to this new moon. Your personal life, domestic situation, partnerships and career will be impacted in a major way. The new opportunities that surface are likely to start deep within, that’s the nature of Scorpio, the internal rumblings that tell you this is good or I don’t need this anymore .  The sign is exceptionally intuitive and secretive, so be sure you’re paying close attention to you on the 26th.

On the 28th,  Jupiter (expansion) and Pluto(permanent transformation) get together in a beneficial way and suddenly, you get it. Regardless of where you live or what sign you are, this day is one of the luckiest this year. Some predictions have stated the world will end on the 28th. But ever  since Jose Arguelles wrote The Mayan Factor, doomsayers have played around with his end date of 12/21/12 for the Mayan calendar and come up with various dates that have come and gone without the world ending. But if you choose to hunker down in a bunker on this date, that’s your choice. But you may emerge the next day with egg on your face, okay?

 

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Bravo!

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Here in the village of Wellington, Florida, it’s not hard to encounter members of the elite 1% – those who control 40% of the nation’s wealth. They’ve been occupying this former Everglades ‘swamp land’ in growing numbers since the 1980s. That’s especially true in the ‘season,’ which has just begun. The attraction is the reputation of the village as the world’s winter headquarters for the equestrian world – jumping, dressage and polo.

This year Bill Gates and family will winter here. They recently rented a house for $600,000. (Psst, Bill, we would’ve happily sold our house to you for that price.) Other in the 1% league who winter here include Bruce Springsteen,  Madonna, and Tommy Lee Jones, who owns a polo team.

So considering that intro, it was interesting to read today about someone from the other 99% in Wellington, who hasn’t had such a luxurious lifestyle. Yamil Bravo has been out of work for six months and is several months behind on his mortgage. Notes Bravo’s wife, Evelyn: “Every day we lived in fear of what tomorrow was going to be….Now it’s like we can plan a future. There’s a second chance.”

That’s because Bravo bought a quick pick lottery ticket at a convenience story and won the Florida Lottery Mega Money drawing – a prize of $1 million. Bravo isn’t even close to the 1% league, but he’s been given a second chance in life, he said, and now he can sleep at night. He added: “This gets things going in the right direction.”

Yep, sure does. Bravo! A little synchro there.

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