Jimmy Buffet will be missed – not just in Florida or in the Keys, but all over.
His first hit record, Come Monday, was written over US Labor Day Weekend 1973. He died 50 years later, on Friday September 1st — the beginning of US Labor Day Weekend 2023.
Love this song and all the others he did so beautifully. Keep singing in the afterlife, Jimmy!
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Alexis Brooks is an award-winning broadcast journalist and host of the podcast Higher Journeys with Alexis Brooks. She is the author of Conscious Musings. A veteran of broadcast journalism since 1986, Alexis was simultaneously pursuing a track that would lead her to an intensive study of metaphysical, spiritual, and consciousness-related subjects – areas of inquiry that stemmed from her own extraordinary encounters that began as a child. Alexis has also become recognized for her work within the field of UFOlogy, with emphasis on the ET contact experiencer aspect.
Alexis was a featured guest at Contact In the Desert June 2-4, 2023.
And here’s the you tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCKh09_nj18
The movie White Noise had a world premier at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2022. It was then released in select cinemas on November 25, 2022, before its streaming release by Netflix on December 30, 2022. It’s based on Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, which won the National Book Award.
According to Salon, “Shortly after Noah Baumbach adapted and directed a film version of “White Noise,” now streaming on Netflix, starring his partner Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver, a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in rural Ohio. The story is still developing, and the environmental impact may not be fully known for years, but the tragedy bears an eerie resemblance to many elements of the film.”
This synchronicity falls under the 4th secret, The Creative, in our book 7 Secrets of Synchronicity. “Creativity lies at the heart of synchronicity.” Over the years, we’ve discovered that creatives often foretell the future through their work. This one is classic in that sense. Think about it. A novel written in 1985 presages an event 38 years in the future:
Both the novel and the movie are set in Ohio, in the fictional town of Blacksmith. The movie was filmed almost entirely in Ohio. In the film, a tanker truck loaded with toxic, flammable material crashes into a passing train because of the truck driver’s drunk driving. The train derails in the countryside, the tanker is crushed, and releases a viscous substance. “A fireball erupts. The rest of the film deals with the aftermath of the crash, in both large and small, personal ways.”
The real event involving a rain derailment happened on February 3, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio, a town near the Pennsylvania border. A Norfolk Southern train – with 20 cars containing hazardous materials – derailed, caught fire, and created a horrendous cloud of toxic material.
In both the film and real life, residents are ordered to evacuate, then to shelter in place. In real life, the derailed and burned cars contained dangerous chemicals including butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, isobutylene, and vinyl chloride, a substance that NPR described as “a carcinogen that becomes a gas at room temperature.” Since it breaks down in the sun, it can cause headaches and dizziness.As NPR writes, “People who breathe the chemical over many years may also experience liver damage.”
Here’s another weird facet of this synchronicity: some of the residents of East Palestine were extras in the movie.
When this happens to you, when your creativity delivers an actual scene from the future, you feel like you’ve entered The Twilight Zone.
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Here’s the written version.
Rudy mugshot
Today, August 23, the first day of Mercury retro, Rudy Gulliani, once the celebrated mayor of NYC and a prized prosecutor, surrendered at the Fulton County Courthouse.
In his time, Gulliani, prosecuted major mafia figures under the Rico Act, the very thing he was charged with by prosecutor Fanis Willis.
This synchronicity strikes me as a trickster, the universe shaking its finger at ole Rudy, chanting, Ah, you big baby, wah-wah-wah…
Rudy is 79. He would be facing years in prison, the rest of his life. I think the odds are good that he will flip.
C’mon, Rudy. Stop whining and flip… Maybe that’s what the trickster is laughing about.
Then there’s this mug shot, which happened today. An historic event.
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Ken Lloyd is a psychic healer. We came to know him because our friend Susan Yantorno mentioned that he spoke at the spiritual center she attends and suggested him as a guest for our podcast. We poked around on his website and asked him to come on. Trish asked if he worked on ankles; he said he did, and virtual sessions followed.
It’s difficult to describe how Ken does what he does. But here is Ken’s description of his work from his website:
“Ken has the spiritual technology to instantly break past life contracts, promote energetic physical healing, release self-limiting traumas, remove negative, dense energy, and even rewrite your soul agreements to align with your current mission. As a Master Activator, one of Ken’s missions is to activate the spiritual technologies embedded in every soul on the planet. He can remove energetic blockages and then apply activating, encoded energies from the higher realms that unlock and accelerate your spirit. As a result, you’ll be able to access more of your blueprint. Spirit will provide clarity around your galactic gifts and spiritual purpose, and you may even interact with higher-realm ETs.
Today, Ken plays a frontline role in helping people access their hidden talents and expand their human experience. He has healed, cleansed, and activated countless individuals across the nation. Ken is the bridge that will fast-track you to the galactic power hidden within your DNA!”
And here is the You Tube video:
PLANET MERCURY, NASA PHOTO
Tomorrow, Mercury turns retrograde in Virgo, one of two signs that it rules.
In 2023, there are 4 Mercury retrogrades. They come along every 3 months or so and are marked primarily by miscommunication. These times, which last about 3 weeks, are best navigated by: revising, reconsidering, and reviewing. And there are plenty of DO NOTS to follow:
– Don’t start anything new
– Don’t sign contracts
– Don’t move or put your home on the market
– Don’t buy anything with moveable parts like a car or a computer
– If possible, don’t travel long distance unless you remain flexible because your schedule is likely to change
– Don’t have surgery. Even though surgery is ruled generally by Mars, too many things can go wrong. The worst case I’ve heard about involved a friend’s dog. She had a torn ACL in one leg and the vet operated on the wrong leg, so the poor dog had to go through the surgery and recovery again, on the leg with the torn ACL.
– I’ve bought a car and a computer during a Merc retro and regretted it. I returned the car in less than a year and the computer never worked correctly. We also moved during a retrograde in my sign, Gemini, and it was a mess from start to finish.
– Don’t start anything new or make submissions.
However, there are positive things that can happen during these periods. People from your past may show up. A relationship or situation gains a certain clarity that has been lacking. If you do travel during a retro, it’s likely you’ll return to the same destination again. Issues from the past crop up and that can be positive or negative depending on the issue.
For Geminis and Virgo, whose signs are ruled by Mercury, these retro periods can be super irritating. Just try to go with the flow and when you communicate, take nothing for granted.
The next Mercury retro begins December 12 at 11:09 PM PT, and December 13 at 2:09 AM ET, in Capricorn and Sagittarius. It ends on January 1, 2024 at 10:08 PM ET and 7:08 AM PT. So this one may mess up your gift-buying for the holidays – best to buy before December 12 – and takes us into the new year.
Since my sister’s death late on June 6 of this year, I’ve been particularly vigilant for messages from her or her influence on events. For several months now, I’ve been trying to arrange various commitments around a pending surgery on my arthritic ankle.
I had already told the orthopedic surgeon that the dates between August 15 and September 15 weren’t viable for me because of a Mercury retrograde. My sister, Mary, had told me when she was alive that I shouldn’t mention a Mercury retrograde to a medical doctor. She was an R.N. So I thought, Okay, I won’t say anything. But when he asked me why those dates were off for me, I blurted the truth. Mercury retrograde.
“What’s that?” he asked. So I explained it to him and gave him examples.I never hd the chance to tell Mary that he didn’t roll his eyes and laugh.
Between that visit and my most recent, Susan, a friend in Sarasota, a retired veterinarian, told us about a psychic healer – Ken Lloyd – who spoke at her spiritual center. She suggested he might be a good guest for our podcast. So we invited him.
I watched some of his videos of working on people at the center and emailed him and asked if he worked on arthritic ankles. He said the only areas he couldn’t heal yet were eyesight and hearing. So I scheduled a healing session with him via Zoom. I didn’t really know what to expect but at the end of the hour, I felt like I had visited a different universe.
He first looked for energetic blockages that might be preventing healing on the ankle. He found some and when he did, he spoke in what Susan called a language of Light. It sounds somewhat like tongues, yet different. During the last half hour, he worked only on my ankle. For the next several days, I felt enormous relief. It was as if I’d gotten a cortisone injection. I scheduled a follow-up session for the next week. More relief. But the swelling didn’t diminish, so at times there was pain just from that. But not from the arthritis.
After this second session, I had an appointment with the orthopedic doc. His nurse came in first and asked how the ankle pain was. I figured that if Mary had been alive, she would have discouraged me to breathe a word about a psychic healer. Instead, when the nurse asked, I replied, “I had a session with a psychic healer who really diminished the pain.” Her eyes widened.
“Wow, that’s fantastic!” She made a note in my chart. I sensed Mary nodding her approval.
Then Dr. Rochman came in. “I hear you got some relief from a psychic healer. Good for you!”
I was shocked. I had expected him to smile or laugh. Instead, he asked if Ken worked physically on my ankle. I told him no, it was all zoom.”But it works,” I said. “Like getting a cortisone shot.”
“Even if you had the surgery, Trish, it only gets rid of the pain. Your ankle will still be swollen. So if this guy can heal the pain, work with him. The mind/body connection is powerful and real.”
Once again, I sensed Mary approving. This attitude was completely different from what she would have felt when she was alive. She knew how much I had dreaded this surgery and had offered to come to Florida to help out when I was in the recovery stage.”You did the same for me after my knee replacement.” After her death, I joked that Mary would be peering over the surgeon shoulder when he operated on my ankle. Instead, I feel she’s responsible for surgery being eliminated as an option.
If the only thing surgery relieves is pain, why not work with Ken to relieve the pain? So now I’ve had a third session and the pain is minimal. Ken Lloyd will be a guest on our podcast on Monday, August 21. That episode will be posted the following Sunday, August 27.
My sense is that Mary led me to him.
So stay tuned. Ken is the real deal.
ART BY MEGAN MACGREGOR
Recently, I was experiencing a synchronicity dry spell. I’d been too caught up in the minutia of living, so there may have been synchros I didn’t notice. I was thinking about it and realized there was a biggie that I’d overlooked.
On February 12, Megan’s dog, Nika, died. She moved in with us right before the pandemic and through the years would spend weeks at a time with us. We joked that we had joint custody. But during the last several years, our home was her home. She and Nigel were companions. She had buddies at the dog park we go to daily. She was a joy and Nigel loved her.
The day of her death was devastating.
It quickly became obvious that Nigel was lonely. The cats noticed Nika’s absence. A couple weeks later, I was going through files in my computer, and saving or deleting the ones I no longer needed. I ran across a novel I’d started in 2020, early in the pandemic, and hadn’t finished. So I opened it and started reading.
The working title was Nika & Noah, a Love Story, which has since changed to The Experiment. Noah was the golden we had when Nika was just a pup. He pretty much trained her. He was also Nigel’s mentor and died when Nigel was two. As I read through it, I realized I liked the story and knew how to develop it now.
The state of Florida – now ruled by an autocratic government that has banned all religions except Christianity, undertaken a war on books, trans people, people of color, and has decided what children can and can’t be taught in schools has now met its climate change changes in a major way. South Florida is underwater. The east and west coasts of Florida have pretty much vanished due to rising oceans, Disney World has moved back to California (supposedly is going to happen) and just some pathetic remnants exist. There’s a high corridor of land just south of what was Disney through central Florida to the borders of Georgia and Alabama.
A lab in Orlando that used to belong to Disney is now owned by the government. Here, experiments are carried out on certain animals to enhance their abilities so they can be used as weapons. The way the story is evolving means that I can describe the impact of DeSantis’s extreme right wing bills that are turning Florida into an autocracy and put Nika’s death into a context that heals.
When I started writing part 2, clueless about where to go, my favorite characters, psychic Mira Morales and her husband, FBI agent Wayne Sheppard, sneaked in. And that’s when I really understood the story as a sequel to my last Mira book, White Crows.
Creativity often acts as the trigger for synchronicity. Now, once again, it has become my haven. So on days when I don’t experience a synchronicity, that magic that transforms the way you see the world and yourself in it, I return to the novel. I’m now 175 pages into it and love playing with the characters lives in apocalyptic Florida.
Unfortunately, the Florida I’ve described may not be that far in the future if DeSantis remains governor or – I shudder at the thought – wins the presidency. Given the negative press he’s getting and his lack of personality, the presidency for him seems distant.
Then again, when Trump ran in 2016, I didn’t think he’d win. So we never know. In a sense, the novel is my buffer against the headlines on any given day.
https://soundcloud.com/themysticalunderground/tmu-time-machine-darliss-mayes-accessing-your-akashic-records
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Darlis Mayes. She’s an Akashic Records instructor and consultant who facilitates group Akashic record readings for groups such as the Cocreator’s Convergence retreat as well as spiritual retreats around the world. She’s also a dowser and transformational spiritual coach.
https://www.heavensrecords.info
