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Planetary Empaths, Redux
On March 11, 2010, we did a post called Planetary Empaths, about individuals who seems to exhibit physical symptoms before a catastrophe occurs. The sensitivity of animals to pending disasters is well-documented, but there isn’t much written about human sensitivity to these events.
The catastrophes may be natural – earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, floods, whatever – or they can be terrorist related. They are usually global in nature and impact a great number of people. Today (January 4, with a solar eclipse in Capricorn), we received several reports from individuals who frequent our blog who are experiencing these symptoms again.
Here are the predominant symptoms:
burning, watering eyes
ringing in one or both ears
nausea, spatial disorientation
depression unrelated to whatever is going on in their lives, a feeling of profound sadness
left ear “popping”
vertigo
heartache
a general sense of malaise
unusual nightmares
bouts of crying out of a sense of despair, but the origin of the despair is unknown
It’s interesting that the symptoms are being felt during this period of massive deaths among birds and fish in Arkansas and elsewhere, with the newest report about tens of thousands of dead fish in the Chesapeake Bay.
If you’re experiencing anything like this, please leave a comment or email us.
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The Key to the Keys
Everyone misplaces their keys once in a while. But how about losing three sets at the same time? The other morning I asked Trish if I could borrow her keys because I couldn’t find either set of my keys to our two cars. That’s when Trish realized that she didn’t know where her keys were either. We searched everywhere. After all, neither of us was going anywhere until we found some keys.
After fifteen or twenty minutes with no luck, I realized that I’d left both sets of keys in my yoga bag. However, they were locked in the back seat of one of the cars. So knowing where the keys were just added to the frustration. I still couldn’t get to them. A few minutes later, Trish recalled last using her keys in the garage when she opened the lock on her bike. We looked and there they were next to a paint can on a shelf.
But the mysterious key incidents weren’t over yet. I recovered my keys, got in the car to leave, but the key wouldn’t fit in the lock. I took a closer look and realized that they weren’t my keys! I knew immediately that I must have picked up the wrong keys from the key rack in the gym. The reason I didn’t realize I had the wrong ones as soon as I went to the car was because Trish had left ahead of me and had assumed the driver’s seat, using her key. Then it occurred to me that, not only did I have someone else’s keys, but I hadn’t been to the gym for two days!
So now comes the synchronicity. Even though I was supposed to teach a private yoga class in ten minutes, I headed directly to the gym (in the opposite direction). I knew someone would be looking for those keys, and they might even have called the police. And where were my keys?
When I arrived, I explained what happened to Sarah, the girl at the front desk. She literally shouted: “You’ve got Andy’s keys!” She turned and called out to a man on a nearby treadmill that the mystery was solved.
Not only was the owner of the keys in the gym, but he was on the machine closest to the entrance. Surprisingly, he wasn’t upset. In fact, he was pleased that I’d returned the keys and he knew exactly what happened because on that day when he couldn’t find his keys, his wife was in the driver’s seat waiting for him. He figured that whoever took the keys must’ve left the same way.
I felt relieved, but then Sarah said: “Where are your keys, Rob?”
I looked at the key rack and there they were, just where I’d left then two days earlier. A tangle of missing key stories resolved with minimal problems. And that might be the key! Things that seems like serious problems often times can be resolved quickly and easily.
Any other ideas on that one? – Rob
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Healing Spirits
Back in the late 1980s, I ran across a book called Joy’s Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey. The author’s personal story is compelling, particularly in the way he used it to change his life and develop a healing technique. We use his story in our new book, Synchronicity and the Other Side because it illustrates how people who have been cured of serious illnesses through often attribute their healing to their higher selves, to the ways in which their souls or spirits spoke to them through their bodies.
In 1975, W. Brugh Joy had a flourishing medical practice in Los Angeles, life was good. Then shortly before his thirty-fifth birthday, he was diagnosed with chronic relapsing pancreatitis, and there was no cure.This disease causes debilitating abdominal pain that may persist for several days, as it did for Joy. He knew the disease was unpredictable, that it might end abruptly on its own or that an attack could turn into fulminating pancreatitis, which had a mortality rate at that time of eighty percent. With each attack Joy probed his own psyche, struggling to understand why he was manifesting a disease that could severely restrict his activities or lead to his demise.
“I examined the stresses in my life, but they were inconsequential in comparison to the disease process and thus not powerful enough to lead to it. I talked to my body, trying to find some symbolic aspect that a malfunctioning pancreas might reflect, but nothing appeared. I simply could not see the dynamics of my problem.”
One Saturday morning while working on some medical charts in his office, he felt a powerful urge to enter into meditation. Even though he meditated daily, this urge was exceptionally strong, so he finished up what he was doing and began meditating. “A vortex of energy, of a magnitude I had never before experienced, reverberated through my body and threw my awareness into a super heightened state. Then a loud voice said, in essence: Your experience and training as an orthodox physician is completed. It’s over. The time has come for you to embark on a rededication of your Beingness to a deeper commitment and action.”
The voice proceeded to lay out the journeys Brugh would be taking – Findhorn, England, Egypt, India, Nepal, trips that would “reawaken old soul memories.” The voice told him that his vision of being a physician was distorted and overemphasized “the body and external causes and ignored the journey of the soul.” He was to start studying alternative healing techniques and practices so that he could develop a more integrated approach to healing.
The experience was so powerful that within six weeks, Joy had resigned from his medical practice and walked away from all that was familiar to him. “The wellspring that nourished my awareness was the knowing – the absolute knowing – that the course of action I was following was true to my soul.” When he arrived in Findhorn, his first destination, he realized he hadn’t had a single attack of abdominal pain since that voice first spoke to him.
His body had spoken and its message was clear: it was time to restore his soul. Joy went on to write several books – Joy’s Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey is the best known – and for years conducted workshops on his healing techniques.
Michael Crichton, in his book Travels, has a chapter called Cactus Teachings, which is about the Brugh Joy retreat that he attended in 1982. It’s one of the best chapters in the book and provides a powerful glimpse of the techniques Joy used. The conference was held at a facility in the desert and early on, Joy had told the attendees to walk in the desert until they found a rock, tree, or plant with whom they felt a particular kinship. Then they were supposed “to spend time with this teacher, and talk with the teacher and learn what the teacher had to teach us.” So Crichton set out to find his teacher.
As other attendees excitedly reported finding a teacher, Crichton got annoyed because he hadn’t. He finally found a cactus in an artificial rock garden in a meditation room.”I didn’t like the cactus,” he wrote. It was common, a sort of phallic cactus shape like lots of thorns. It was rather battered, with scars on one side. It was not in any way an attractive cactus.”
Days passed. Crichton kept talking to the cactus, visiting it, but the cactus refused to speak to him. the cactus never spoke to him. Then finally one day on his way to the meditation room, he thought that if the cactus was really his teacher, it would speak to him. “And the cactus said, ‘When are you going to stop running around and talk?’ Irritably. Like a grouchy old man.”
After this, Crichton kept firing questions at the cactus. It refused to speak to him. Every day, the same thing happened: no response. The conference continued, Crichton was exposed to new things – healing techniques, chakras, perceptual changes, the tarot, the I Ching. “On the final day of the conference, I visited the cactus to say good-bye. The cactus was just sitting there. I wouldn’t speak to me.” Crichton told the cactus that he appreciated what it had shown him and said he’d enjoyed spending time with it. “Which wasn’t exactly true because I felt frustrated a lot of the time, but I thought it was more or less true.” Still no response.
“Then I realized that from its position in the garden, the cactus could never see the sun set. The cactus had been years in that position and been deprived of seeing sunsets. I burst into tears. And then the cactus said, ‘It”s been good having you here with me.’ Then I really cried.”
Eight months after that conference, Crichton’s life had completely turned around. He had changed his relationships, residence, work, diet, habits, interests, exercise, goals – in fact, anything in his life that could be changed, was changed. “These changes were so sweeping that I couldn’t see what was happening while I was in the midst of them. And there was another change, too. I’ve become very fond of cacti, and I always have some around, wherever I live.”
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UFOs over Moscow and London?
Stanley Fuhlman,a retired Canadian NORAD officer, predicted the UFO sightings of October 13, 2010 in NYC and other place – the video for the NYC sightings is below, He died on December 19 of pancreatic cancer. Among his final predictions was one about UFO sightings over Moscow in early January 2011, followed a week later by sightings over London.
When we first read about the October 13 prediction, we thought it would be great if it happened, but so many predictions never come to anything. Then the news hit about the UFOs over NYC, on that date, witnessed by thousands. So, it will be interesting to see what comes of this prediction.
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Make it So: Us and 2012
Nearly twenty-five years ago, on August 16-17, 1987, the Harmonic Convergence drew people from all over the world to supposed power spots on the planet. I remember that the evening news had a piece about Machu Picchu and the people who had gathered there to welcome the new energy that was allegedly being ushered into human consciousness. If memory serves, it got a brief mention on the evening news because actress, author and New Age proponent Shirley MacLaine believed it was important. The mention, I should add, was a kind of – Ha-ha, look at these weirdos.
I’m pretty sure the news piece mentioned Jose Arguelles and his book, The Mayan Factor, because Arguelles was credited with starting the first “globally synchronized meditation.”
So at dawn on August 16, 1987, Rob and I met our friend and psychic Renie Wiley on a Lauderdale beach with a whole lot of other weirdos to celebrate and welcome this new energy into the world. I remember thinking that I must be insane to be up before dawn and on a beach to watch the sun rise. I don’t do dawn. I’m an owl, always have been, and when I have to go to bed before eleven to get up at a certain time, I hardly sleep at all.
As I watched the sun punch a hole in the horizon that morning, I was sleep deprived, but also aware that something felt very different. Maybe it was the energy of the crowd, maybe it was the energy of whatever was rushing toward us. But I do know that something changed for me that day, something internal, a tectonic shift in beliefs. Two years and a few weeks after that dawn on the beach, Megan was born, we moved, our lives went through a complete revolution. Our writing changed, became more psychic, esoteric, and delved into the areas that interested us. It’s as if who Rob and I really are became more obvious, prominent, pervasive.
Now here we are, in 2012. I feel that same momentum, that same strangeness and yet a weird familiarity. The 5,126-year astrological cycle the Mayans knew about comes to end on December 21, 2012. There are some fascinating synchros involving the date, but the one that takes the cake, is that the Mayan calendar ends at 11:11 UT on December 21, 2012. The 11:11 element is something we’ve written about in our books and here on the blog. Think: portal, spiritual evolution, heightened awareness and psychic ability.
I look to astrology, since that’s what the Mayan calendar was based on, and, wondered what transits would signal Armageddon, the worst possible scenario, the end of life on earth. Well, I’m happy to report I just don’t see it.
The nearest approximation might be the financial meltdown in 2008 that has impacted the global economy ever since – the fallout of the Bush administration policies which have been extended, to some degree, by the Obama administration. While we have seen evidence of the mass paradigm shifting – the first black president, for instance, the acknowledgement that emotions are intimately tied to physical health, the advances in physics- we have also seen the physical evidence that triggers such paradigm shifts.
Natural disasters are on the rise. Rebellion and revolution are in the air we breathe. Climate change is a fact, not a theory, and it no longer matters, really, what’s causing it. It’s here, it’s real, and it’s going to impact every one of us, in some way.
Astrologically, we seem to be at the dawn of an era. Talk to Uranus about that. On March 11, 2011, it entered Aries, the sign of the warrior.
As the planet of sudden and unexpected change, it’s one of the slower moving outer planets, so its affect on our lives is greater than the inner planets that move more quickly – the moon, sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars. Uranus stays in a sign for seven years, but because of retrogrades won’t leave Aries until early March 2019. So, we’re talking eight years here. Eight years of massive, monumental change.
In many ways, I think Uranus defines humanity – we seek to individuate from our families and early childhood conditioning; at a certain age we rebel against the status quo; we learn that we are intuitive, unique, and we either reject or accept our individual power. On a collective level, Uranus awakens us. So, on March 11, 2011, the day that Uranus entered Aries, , a 9.0 quake in Japan triggered a tsunami that devastated a nuclear power plant.
I think this event defined the next seven years globally, collectively, for humanity. The world isn’t going to end, but for some of us, it will feel as if it has. We may experience personal loss and tragedy – but we’ll also experience unprecedented insights, psychic connections to people of like minds, and a profound grasp of how we, as individuals, not only fit into the larger picture, but help to define it
Uranus also rules the technology that unites us, that allows us to communicate instantly with friends on the other side of the world, with people we may have newer met whose beliefs parallel our own. Uranus governs the planetary empaths, individuals who are so attuned to the changes within the planet that they experience physical symptoms. I think they are a leap in our evolution, in our collective consciousness, a product of Uranus in Aries. Uranus governs rebellion and revolution and its impact is evident in the Arab spring, in the Occupy movement, in movies like The Ides of March, The Help, and Midnight in Paris.
Find out where Uranus lies in your natal chart, where Aries is, and that’s where you, as an individual, as one person, one voice, can make a significant difference. https://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi
So, we don’t see the end of the world. But there’s sure going to be a lot of hype about it and the closer we get to the alleged end date, the stranger events will be. More natural disasters may come about as a result of global warming and the corporate hold on our lives. Thanks to trickster Mercury, the presidential election of November 2012 is probably going to be weird, unsettled, and will provide some insight into the hoopla surrounding 12/21/12.
But if we all stay true to who we are, do what we can to alleviate the suffering of others, take our cues from dreams, visions, synchronicity, and don’t compromise our individuality to fit into some collective idea of who we should be, we’ll come out on the other side as the whole, integrated individuals that we are. That’s our hope. That’s our conviction. As Jean Luc Picard used to say in the Star Trek sagas, the best line for visualization I’ve ever heard: Make it so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence
https://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/honshu20110311/
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Happy New Year to all of you
from the MacGregor clan!
When we put up the date for this, it was a bit startling: 1-1-11.
Any takers? We’ve done several posts on these numbers– here , here, for starters.
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How’d Everyone Do on Predictions for 2010?
On January 5 and 27, 2010, we did posts on predictions for 2010. In the first post, we gave our predictions and in the second, we compiled a list of the predictions all of YOU had made. Here’s the list. How’d we do? Well, not too badly! The Dems didn’t hold onto the house during the mid-term elections, but still hold the senate; Alaska did NOT secede from the union; yellowstone did NOT erupt; no attempt on Obama’s life; not sure who #21 is; #19 happened, but without the close encoounters theme( over NYC, October 10, 2010); Palin didn’t divorce the hubby.
1. Erratic weather patterns and weather-related issues increasing
2. Major natural disasters.
3. Earthquake on west coast
4. Yellowstone volcano erupts
5. Another terrorist event
6. Energy going against those who seek to cover up true intentions
7.Speculation that the Dem’s agenda all along was to feed new clients to insurance companies and that the public option was never a serious possibility
8. Assassination attempt on Obama
9. Dick Cheney makes major effort to be spokesman for GOP by tapping into fanatical anti-Obama rhetoric
10. Despite anti-Obama, fanatical rhetoric, Obama ends up on top
11. More people preparing for disasters – urban survivalists?
12. Sara Palin divorces hubby when he’s found with another woman
13. More Big Brother moves from the government
14. Alaska will secede from the union
15. Palin will lead revolt over people’s right to bear arms
16. About mid-year there will be a new technology for digital media that will unblock journalism bias and send talking heads running for cover.
17. More information forthcoming on global warming and its “actual or real” cause
18. Something happens to or with the electrical power in this country
19. UFOs appear in broad daylight )playing the theme notes from “close encounters”)
20. The younger generation (20-30’s) are going to actually read and understand these massive political programs instead of accepting summaries from others.
21. A major sports figure will emerge as a leading Republican, possibly aiming for the White House. He’ll have a short name, a likable smile, and seem very down-to-earth.
22. Obama will face tough scrutiny in the fall from both the right and the left. His popularity will hit a low point. After the election, he starts to regain momentum and does something quite surprising.
23. The Dems barely hold onto Congress in the midterm elections
24. The mind/body connection research takes new, unexpected turns
2. Major natural disasters.
3. Earthquake on west coast
4. Yellowstone volcano erupts
5. Another terrorist event
6. Energy going against those who seek to cover up true intentions
7.Speculation that the Dem’s agenda all along was to feed new clients to insurance companies and that the public option was never a serious possibility
8. Assassination attempt on Obama
9. Dick Cheney makes major effort to be spokesman for GOP by tapping into fanatical anti-Obama rhetoric
10. Despite anti-Obama, fanatical rhetoric, Obama ends up on top
11. More people preparing for disasters – urban survivalists?
12. Sara Palin divorces hubby when he’s found with another woman
13. More Big Brother moves from the government
14. Alaska will secede from the union
15. Palin will lead revolt over people’s right to bear arms
16. About mid-year there will be a new technology for digital media that will unblock journalism bias and send talking heads running for cover.
17. More information forthcoming on global warming and its “actual or real” cause
18. Something happens to or with the electrical power in this country
19. UFOs appear in broad daylight )playing the theme notes from “close encounters”)
20. The younger generation (20-30’s) are going to actually read and understand these massive political programs instead of accepting summaries from others.
21. A major sports figure will emerge as a leading Republican, possibly aiming for the White House. He’ll have a short name, a likable smile, and seem very down-to-earth.
22. Obama will face tough scrutiny in the fall from both the right and the left. His popularity will hit a low point. After the election, he starts to regain momentum and does something quite surprising.
23. The Dems barely hold onto Congress in the midterm elections
24. The mind/body connection research takes new, unexpected turns
HAPPY 2011 TO EVERYONE! Let’s dream a better world into existence!
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Jung’s Red Book and the Singing Bowl
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| From Jung’s Red Book |
Each of us received something unexpected for Christmas, a genuine surprise. Trish received Jung’s Red Book. It was created between the years of 1914-1930 and was, by his own description, a record of his “confrontation with the unconscious.” It weighs nearly 9 pounds, measures 15.7 x12x 1.9 inches, has 212 colored illustrations.Unfortunately, it’s written in German, but in a calligraphy as stunning as the illustrations.
There are 178 pages in English called Liber Novus – New Book – that include an introduction to Jung’s work and some translations from Jung’s German entries. As explained in the intro: “The overall theme of the book is how Jung regains his soul and overcomes the contemporary malaise of spiritual alienation. This is ultimately achieved through enabling the rebirth of a new image of God in his soul and developing a new worldview in the form of a psychological and theological cosmology.” The entries depict Jung’s process of individuation, an important component in synchronicity, as well as the genesis of his concept of the Self, the collective unconscious, his concept of archetypes, his experiences with precognition. The dreams and inner dialogues really give you a sense of how he confronted his unconscious.
This illustration reminds me of the tree of life. You can get a sense of the calligraphy on the left – in German. But you don’t have to read German to be struck by this image.
From a section called, Soul and God: “Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language. One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it? Scholarliness alone is not enough; there is a knowledge of the heart that gives deeper insight.”
While looking for a special Christmas present for Rob, I was poking around on butternut squash’s blog, where she writes about her fascinating trips to Nepal. Not only does she buy jewelry there from the local people, she is involved in creating a library for local schools. Her Tibetan jewelry and other wares from that country are exhibited on her other blog, where I first saw a Tibetan singing bowl and knew that was the gift. Rob will be teaching a new meditation class in January and I could just hear the rich tone of a singing bowl at the beginning and end of each class.
So I called Jeri one day from the parking lot of a grocery store. She asked me some questions about Rob’s personality, his interests,and said she would find the right bowl for him. She later said she tested 20 bowls and found the one she thought would fit him. When she mailed the gift, she enclosed an explanatory letter: “Other than clothing and a prayer wheel, the singing bowl might have been a monk’s only possession. Everything that the monk needed he could obtain with his bowl because it was his begging bowl and the bowl out of which every meal was consumed. So it is very vividly represents both the physical life of the owner in providing for his physical requirements as well as the spiritual life of the owner as a meditation tool.”
The bowl is old and bowls like the one you’re about to see and hear aren’t being produced anymore. Jeri says that “old” means it was made anywhere between 1800 and 1950. She also mentioned that sometimes the monk who owned the bowl may drop in for a visit. We’re hopeful!
Here are the bowl and the tone:
Happy 2011!!
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Hilary and the Earthquakes
Cj, who comments frequently on this blog, alerted us to this story about Hillary Clinton and earthquakes. It’s one of those global synchros that we talk about in 7 Secrets.
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During her entire tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton has been pursued by quakes. In February 2009, during her first trip to Japan as America’s premiere diplomat, she was shaken awake by a minor quake. Four months later in Honduras, she was treated to a 5.0 quake.In October 2009, Clinton was in Pakistan at the same time that her husband was and experienced more quakes. Days before the 8.8. quake struck Chile, Clinton was supposed to visit, and that quake put her plans on hold. Yet, she still managed a brief stop in Chile to assess the relief effort.
The history of Hilary Clinton and quakes is detailed here, and prompts us to wonder if the dramatic events of the 2008 election are still playing out for her. How this will translate beyond 2010 remains an intriguing enigma.
We should add that Hillary herself is an earthmover. According to the USA Today-Gallup poll released Monday, Hillary is the most-admired woman for the ninth straight year. Number 2 this year: Sarah Palin, followed by Oprah Winfrey.
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