The Owl, the Yoga Studio, and Techie Tools

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 Type in anything in Google, a word or phrase, a question, a random thought, and somewhere in the virtual universe,  Google will come up with something relevant. Sometimes, Google leads searchers right to this blog. The terms that people use to find their way here  range from the common to the bizarre.
For the last month or so, we’ve been getting hundreds of hits from people who are searching for phoenix or Illuminati. The phoenix search term has been fairly consistent since last fall; the Illuminati search term is more recent. On days when we have more than a thousand hits, we check sitemeter and, sure enough, these two search terms are the most common.

In doing so recently, we stumbled across one very strange and specific search question:  “What does it mean spiritually if an owl dies in front of your yoga studio?”  

Generally, search terms aren’t this specific, so this one caught our attention. We’ve done several posts on owls:  as messengers between the dead and the living, as figures in UFO sightings/abductions; as harbingers of a  deepening spirituality and wisdom. So we broke down the components. We don’t know what kind of owl it was – that in itself might be meaningful. But we know the owl was dying, it was happening in front of this individual’s yoga studio, and the person recognized the event as significant. Our initial reaction was that the owl dying where it did certainly doesn’t bode well for the survival of the yoga studio. Even though yoga is now recognized as a beneficial physical activity unconnected to any particular spiritual practice, it has been and still is often associated with spiritual practices and beliefs. And the individual asked about the spiritual significance.
On a personal level, it could mean this person is about to experience some sort of profound spiritual transformation. It could mean that someone close to this individual may be preparing to pass on. It might mean that the yoga studio won’t last much longer, that the current chapter in this person’s life is closing and he or she will move on to find some new spiritual practice. Or it may mean something else altogether.
Anyone else have other interpretations? Insights?
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Sightings

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 
On Christmas Eve, we were sitting around our fire pit, warming our feet, and started talking about UFOs. I suddenly remembered two instances when I had a sighting.

The first must have been around 1963. I was in boarding school in Massachusetts, there because the high schools in Venezuela weren’t that great and the company my dad worked for paid for it. Six or seven of us were in a room on the ground floor of an old Victorian house that comprised one of the dorms. The room belonged to Holly Smith, who had inherited a ton of money when her parents had passed away a few years before. Holly was a trust fund kid – there seemed to a be a lot of them at this boarding school – and had a prime room with fantastic floor to ceiling windows that offered a panoramic view of the campus, the sky, the world. She paid extra  for that room, where she lived alone.

Many nights, some of us would sneak down to Holly’s room after lights out – yes, 10 PM was the magic hour for the dorm to go dark, arcane, I know – and sit around talking and gossiping and smoking cigarettes.So one night six or seven of us were sitting around in Holly’s room, doing our usual forbidden things, and I happened to look out one of her fabulous windows and saw a very strange light. It hovered, it was soundless, it pulsed red, yellow, blue.

“Hey, look,” I whispered to one of the other girls. “What the hell is that?”

“A plane,” she said.

“It’s not making any noise,” I said.

“We’re just not hearing any noise because it’s too far away.”

Except that it wasn’t far away. The light was close and now it was moving strangely, swiftly, zigzagging across the sky, growing larger, brighter, and changing colors. “That’s a UFO,” I said.

“No way,” said Holly.

The light zoomed in closer – not flush to the window or anything like that – but close enough for all of us to see that it wasn’t a plane, wasn’t a chopper, wasn’t like anything any of us had ever seen before. It performed – racing from right to left, moving diagonally, spinning, slowing, hovering again.

By then, I was practically hanging outside the window. I knew what I was seeing, I knew what this was, and so did everyone else in that room.Then the light shot off into the stratosphere at the speed of light.

The second sighting occurred on November 9, 1965, during a blackout to the Northeast coast of the U.S. The Life Magazine cover story depicts it well. The lights went out. I was a freshman in college, in Utica, New York, wedged between Schenectady and Syracuse. I was in my double room on the ground floor, had just come in from a class or dinner or something, and hit the button on my desk lamp – which didn’t come on. No electricity. It was already dark outside, and I made my way over to my bed and sat down and tried to remember where I had put my flashlight.

My room had long windows that slid open and looked out over the back campus where everything was totally black. But suddenly, the sky lit up and dozens of bright, orange objects cascaded through my vision. At first, I thought it was a meteor shower that was visible because of the blackout. But after a few moments of watching these objects, I knew they were the same thing I had seen two years earlier in Holly’s room. These were UFOs.

When I Googled blackout 1965, a wikipedia entry was one of the first URLs that came up. Here’s what it says:

On the same night, many UFO sightings were made in the same area. One occurred at 4:30 PM over Tidioute, Pennsylvania, and another at 5:22 PM between Syracuse Airport and Rochester, New York. They were described as fast, bright objects. During the blackout, a private pilot and a flight instructor both witnessed a bright fireball 50–100 ft in diameter, which quickly vanished. The fireball was observed over the Clay Power Station, which was originally said to be the source of the blackout before authorities reported the source of the surge to be at Beck. In New York City, UFOs with a strange glow were reported, and one of the pictures of the object taken was printed in Time Magazine. Before the Federal Power Commission‘s explanation, the Indianapolis Star, the Syracuse Herald-Journal, and the Associated Press all picked up the UFO reports.
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So now, all these many years later, I’m left to marvel that I twice witnessed something inexplicable, that I intuitively know were UFOs, and that I got as close to them as I can personally accept. Years ago when Rob and I met, I defined my boundaries with UFO experiences. I didn’t want little grays running around in my bedroom, I didn’t want implants, I didn’t want terror.Forget pain and malaise. Give me magic, give me mystery, give me proof. Back then, as now, I’d like to meet a friendly ET, you know, the funny looking guy in the Spielberg movie who will take me on a wild bike ride through the light of the full moon.

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FOK NEWS CHANNEL

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Trish and Rob

It’s not a typo, but a play on FOX, America’s favorite source for made-up conspiracies tying liberals with right wing Muslim Brotherhood in a grand conspiracy. Go figure.

It’s the new blog by Keith Olbermann, the ousted host of MSNBC’s Countdown.

Fortunately, for us, in one of his first comments, he mentions a synchronicity. Well, he doesn’t use the word, but…he pointed out that Tea Party idol Rand Paul appeared on The David Letterman Show the same night that Dave featured Stupid Pet Tricks.

‘Was that coincidence?’ Keith asks, then says he doesn’t think so.

That means it was either planned, a matter of cause and effect. In other words, the producers and/or Dave said let’s put Rand up against Stupid Pet Tricks. Or it was a meaningful coincidence, a synchronicity. But I suppose if you’re a Tea Party supporter rather than a Dave or Keith fan, it’s meaningful in another way – not as a joke – but as evidence of a left-wing, socialist conspiracy.

When will the tea-baggers realize that, yes, it is socialism here – socialism for the rich– who are getting more and more wealthy thanks to government subsidies and tax cuts–not the middle class or poor. Abundance and prosperity consciousness is not about creating a society of haves and have-nots fighting over the pie, but spreading out the benefits for all to enjoy and prosper by. Enough spouting off.

We wish Keith well, and hope he soon starts using the term synchronicity when he encounters these meaningful coincidences.

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The Singing Bowl and the Monk

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 In early December, I ordered a singing bowl for Rob from Butternut Squash– aka Jeri Gerard. We wrote about the bowl here. At the time, Jeri and I talked about what kind of bowl might be appropriate for Rob. She asked me some questions about him, then said she would try out some bowls for tones and pick one that she intuitively felt would fit him. She also told me that sometimes these ancient bowls are accompanied by the spirits of the monks who owned them. I thought that would be kind of cool, a Tibetan monk sharing our space.

So throughout late December and January, I’m waiting for this monk to show up. I don’t see anything. Rob uses the bowl at the end of the relaxation period in his yoga classes, a rich, sonorous sound that brings you gently out of a very relaxed space, back into the real world. When he starts his new meditation class next week, he’ll be using it then, too. But back at the homestead, I’m still waiting.
So one day we come home from the gym and Rob wants to know if, before we left,  I locked the French doors that open onto the back porch. Yup, sure did, I reply. “But they the doors were unlocked and open,” he says.
I’m thinking, Okay, maybe I didn’t lock the doors.  But I know I did. And on it goes like that for a couple of days – doors open that were locked, things missing that were in plain sight, a kind of trickster twist. For instance: The key that has been in the door of the cabana bathroom since we bought the house 11 years ago is now missing. We didn’t even known this key could be pulled out of the locks, that’s how permanent it seemed to us. But it’s gone.

It got me thinking. During the Christmas holidays, Rob and I were in the kitchen and I mentioned that I needed some cash and would head over to the bank the next day. Rob said I didn’t need to, he had cash, and held out a hundred dollar bill. My hands were full at that moment – opening cat food or dog food, or both – and I asked him to just set it down.

He put the bill on top of a container of raw almonds. I went about my business. When I turned around, the bill was gone. “Hey, Rob? Did you put that bill down?”
“On the almond container,” he calls from his office.
“It’s not there.”
“Of course it’s there.”
Uh, no, it isn’t. I search in the obvious places. I realize the almond container is close to the edge of the counter, that the trash can is right under it. I remove the bag and patiently proceed to remove every piece of gross garbage. No bill. I look in the silverware drawer, the cabinets, go through the garage again. Rob comes out and joins the search. We cast accusing looks at the cats, the dog.
The bill has yet to show up. That night I began to suspect the monk.
Rob thinks  I’m creating a colorful fiction with this monk, and maybe he’s right. I mean, think of the possibilities. But. The doors, the key, the bills, and something less obvious, a shift in energies. Our two female cats, who hate each other, don’t squabble much anymore.  The stray cat we feed strolls in and out of the house and none of the other cats care. I sleep better at night. Even when weird stuff happens – a spyware program taking over my computer, for example – I feel okay. I’m confident I’ll find a solution. Life feels good, exciting. I trust in a benevolent universe. It’s not that these things were untrue before, only that they are more true now. Something has changed.
So I wrote Jeri about the monk and she had a story about how, once upon a time,  a woman returned one of these singing bowls to her because it was inhabited by three spectral monks.  Well, we don’t have three monks. But I feel certain we have at least one and now I’m formally inviting him to step out of the shadows, to make himself known. 
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iConfession

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Trish and Rob
The following story is just one of those bizarre things you run across – not a synchro, but an expression of the digital age in which we live.
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The newest app for smartphones is a confession app- and supposedly it’s the first of its kind that’s approved by the Catholic church. Yes, you read that correctly. You can now download this nifty app, which is being touted as “the perfect aid for every penitent,” and even take it into the confessional with you.
It’s been a long time since I was a Catholic, but if memory serves, confession was something we would do once a month, so that we could take communion on Sundays. If you’d been really wicked, then you confessed once a week. I never really saw the point of it. I mean, how many sins can a ten-year-old commit? So I would always try to come up with a list of sins before that monthly confession, but usually had to make some up. I suppose that was a sin, too. At any rate, how nice it would have been to have this nifty app. 
According to Digital Life, “it creates a customized and password-protected examination of conscience based on a person’s age, sex, vocation, and time elapsed – in days, weeks, months of years – since the last confession.”  And, get  this: the app offers seven acts of contrition. Price? $1.99.
The original story is here.
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Historic Dates/Numbers Synchros

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Trish and Rob

                                                                         9/11/2001

                                                                     2/11/2011
The first date – 9-11-2001  is when planes flew into the World Trade Center and 3,000 Americans were killed. This terrorist event launched two wars and resulted in the creation of the TSA (the gropers at the airport), the Department of Homeland Security, and the Patriot Act. Nothing positive evolved from this date or these events.

The second date -2-11-2011 is when Egypt’s Mubarak resigned after being in power for 29 years ( 2+9=11). Although he was called a president, he was nothing more than a dictator supported by the U.S. government. He resigned after demonstrations that were mostly peaceful and that lasted 18 days (1+8=9). It looks as if a lot of positive change will emerge from these events. The Egyptian people seem to be on a path toward democracy.
The pattern repetition of numbers – 11s, 9s, 2s – is interesting.

There are undoubtedly numbers/dates for the protests in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana… perhaps a new American revolution? Stay tuned!

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Synchronicity and Magical Thinking

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Trish and Rob
light man

 

Synchronicity and magical thinking are close friends. They may even be Siamese twins who share a common heart.
But what is magical thinking?
Elias Howe had an idea about a machine with a needle that would penetrate cloth. He fiddled around with various ideas – a hole through the middle of the needle, for instance – but nothing worked. One night, he dreamed he was taken prisoner by a group of cannibals who danced around him with spears. Howe noticed that the spears all had holes near the tip. When he woke up, he realized the dream had provided the solution to his problem. By locating a hole at the tip of the needle, the thread could be caught after it went through cloth thus making his machine operable. Is that magical thinking? You bet.
A man entered a tanning salon shortly before closing time and asked the female employee if he could use the restroom. She felt intuitively uneasy about the guy and asked several customers if they would check outside. The police found the man, a convicted sex offender,  waiting in the parking lot with a ski mask, handcuffs, a butcher knife, and sex devices. He had opened the spa’s back door before leaving. Instead of dismissing her unease as paranoia, the female employee listened to her intuition. Magical thinking? Absolutely.
One night, Cj bolted out of a sound sleep and in the mirror at the foot of her bed, saw an image play out: a short, bulky man with shoulder-length hair walked up a sidewalk to the porch of a Victorian house that Cj recognized as her friend’s home. The man wore a red plaid shirt and held a gun and Cj had the strong impression that the man intended to kill her friend. She glanced at the clock: it was 3:30 AM. She felt the murder would happen at that time, the next night.
Early the next morning, she called her friend and described the vision. Her friend called the police. Even though they were doubtful about the source of the information – a vision, a hunch – they assigned an officer to the property the next night. At  exactly 3:30 am, a short bulky man with shoulder-length hair, wearing a red plaid shirt, walked onto the sidewalk approaching the porch to the house.  The officer grabbed him. The man, a religious fanatic, believed Cj’s friend was a witch and had intended to kill her. Magical thinking? Yes.  And it saved a woman’s life.
In each of these instances, individuals acted on the basis of their personal perceptions and  emotions. And yet, mainstream science says that if we trust our own perceptions and experiences, if we trust what has not been proven, we’re living in the fool’s paradise of magical thinking. Really?
Magical thinking enables us to think outside the narrow box of consensus reality and creates a fertile environment in which synchronicity is more likely to occur. It enables us to undertake the hero’s journey that Joseph Campbell wrote about so movingly. Magical thinking is precisely what makes life so mysterious, so ultimately unknowable that our lives are changed in unimagined ways simply because we don’t have all the answers.  

Once you acknowledge the validity of your own perceptions and experiences, you discover that magical thinking and synchronicity possess momentum that cuts across cultures, religions, ethnicities. Born within our collective humanity, this momentum sweeps outward, like a force of nature.

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UFO in Bolivia?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Here’s what I find interesting about this video. First, it appears on the national news in Bolivia.( I speak Spanish, so what I’m writing here is my rough translation of the video highlights.) Translating what the news guy says, “We’re all skeptics. But I’ll leave it to your imagination whether or not you believe in these mysterious images.”

He goes on to explain that the video was taken by cell phone,  on February 12, at about 3 PM, outside a maternity hospital in La Paz, on the side of the hospital that houses the emergency room. “It floats in the air,” he says, “then vanishes to the east. “

The video takes us through several views of the UFO. At first, it looks like a balloon, the kind that you buy at a carnival and escapes when your kid lets go of the string. But the way it takes off…I’ve never seen a balloon do that. The newscaster goes on to say that points of reference are important in instances like this and explains about the hospital, on which side of the building the OVNI appeared.

He also interviews the young men involved in taking the video. This is where authenticity comes in. Rodrigo Morales and his friend, Juan Carlos are Andean men. Juan Carlos works at a condo. He’s the one who actually filmed the UFO. He hands the newscaster the cell he used to take the video. Rodrigo says he has an interest in UFOs – does that make him suspect of fraud? Doubtful.  It means he’s observant.

Juan Carlos said he saw something odd outside the hospital. At first, he thought it was a balloon or “something.” But Rodrigo said, “No, it’s an OVNI (UFO). So Juan raised his cell and started videotaping the object.  Juan handed his cell to the newscaster, who explains the cell is a Motorala, with a 2 pixel capacity. Then he clicks on the cell to show the original video.

The news guy asks if he showed the video to anyone after he took it. Yes, Juan says, to his wife. “But she doesn’t believe much in that ( in UFOs).” He and Rodrigo have been friends since they were kids.

Years ago when we led travel tours for writers through the Peruvian Amazon, one of the things we learned is that South Americans are much more open-minded about UFOs than Americans. I remember sitting on the deck of the S.S. Amazonas, an old rubber-hauling boat that plied the Amazon between Manaus, Brazil, and Iquitos, Peru, and talking to Hugo, our local guide, about UFOs. He was the son of an Amazonian fisherman, a shaman initiate, and bilingual, so there wasn’t any room for misunderstanding. I mentioned skeptics and UFOs and and he started laughing.

“You gringos,” he said. “Why is it so difficult for you to accept your own perceptions and experiences as real?”

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Transformer blows again

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Trish and Rob

On February 16 of 2009, less than two weeks after we started this blog, we posted a synchronicity about an electrical transformer that blew up behind our house. The explosion and bright orange flash knocked out electrical power in the area, but we didn’t think much about it because a personal matter had just erupted. Only later, we saw the synchronicity of explosions. Fortunately, the power was restored in an hour or two and the blow out in our home quickly passed by. 

Move ahead two years and four days. About 9 p.m., a flash of light caught our attention, followed immediately by a loud explosion. The transformer again. This time, though, there was no comparable in-house explosions. There didn’t seem to be any synchronicity related to it.

Yet, the word  ‘transformer’ is intriguing and we wondered if the explosion signaled some sort of transformation on the way. Interestingly, at the moment of the explosion Trish was looking at houses for sale in Asheville, N.C. For years, we’ve considered moving to Asheville and once even put a deposit on a house, only to see the deal fall through. So, if the transformer explosion was a hint of things to come, the verdict is still out.

We probably would’ve  forgotten about the matter, but the following morning an e-mail arrived from Jim Banzholzer, who has sent a few synchros to us. This one, we were surprised to see, was about an exploding electrical transformer that blew in Washington D.C. In this instance, a squirrel apparently had crossed a transformer causing it to blow up. The synchronicity, in this case, was that the transformer was located on Nutley Street. We wondered how the squirrel is doing. Probably not laughing at the trickster synchro it stepped into.

Then there’s the larger picture, an exploding transformer in Washington D.C. Hmm. That could portend a possible shut down of the federal government in less than two weeks, which will happen if there is no budget agreement. That certainly might lead to a transformation of some sort. Considering the stalemate in Congress over the past two years, we have to say that some  transforming of the government is definitely in order.

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Planetary Empaths and the New Zealand Quake

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Trish and Rob

A 6.3 quake struck New Zealand’s South Island today. It’s depth was 5 kilometers, deaths and damage have been reported. The planetary empaths who frequent this blog have been reporting symptoms for at least a week. Take a look at the comments under this post, where they talk about their symptoms.

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