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In 1991, my first novel was published. It was about two ancient Mayan crystal skulls that were re-united fulfilling a prophecy. So it was interesting when I recently found out that 13 crystal skulls would come together at a ceremony in Los Angeles on 11-11-11 that will be performed by 13 Mayan elders.

According to Cal Garrison, writing in Before It’s News, “…these ancient relics are said to contain information about the history of our planet and the future of mankind. Carved out of pure quartz crystal, and other crystals such as jade, the Skulls generate an energy field that activates human consciousness in a way that expands our perceptions of reality.”

He adds: “When the Spirits of the Skulls are ceremonially awakened, ancient wisdom, wisdom that has been preserved in a crystalline matrix for eons, enters the unified field and fills the collective consciousness with all the knowledge of everything that has happened on the planet in the last 26,000 years, and perhaps beyond.”

Sounds very impressive, but I don’t feel that’s quite right. I think all that knowledge is already in the collective unconscious. However, maybe such ceremonies with the skulls could awaken our awareness to that wisdom, making it more accessible. The question, though, is what would we do it? Would we find better ways to make war and defeat enemies, or would we use it to do away with wars?

What I would like those skulls to do is to raise human consciousness to a higher level. Maybe turn us into light beings! Or at least move us in that direction. Is that asking too much? Well, we can try. At this point, we are creatures with high tech tools and toys, but low to moderate awareness of whom we are beyond physical reality, outside of time and space, beyond cause and effect.   Our mainstream science doesn’t recognize extra sensory perception, doesn’t accept the existence of life after death, and ignores documented sightings and contact with UFOs. Our science lacks awareness of spirit.

C’mon, crystal skulls we need help.

For the fun of it, I  took a copy of Crystal Skull off my shelf, opened it up at random. Here’s what I read on page 159. Rather than science, it’s about religion, and what happens to people who lose their religion.

“To me, religion carries the baggage of dogma, restrictions. And worst of all, arrogance and divisiveness. My religion’s better than yours. Right? Unfortunately, a lot of people who are fed up with religion decide there’s nothing worth believing in that they can’t immediately perceive. They become completely materialistic and cynical. I don’t like religion, but I do believe in a universal force and life beyond this existence.”

I guess that sort of fits in with what I was saying – a synchro of sorts. After all, I could’ve opened it at random to a sex scene.

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I took out my three little crystal skulls and got them to pose for me. The one on the left was moving, I think. Or maybe it was me. 😉

…to 11-11-11. Enjoy this amazing pyramid of numbers.

That title is the subject of a story on MSNBC about the White House’s reaction to petitions calling for full disclosure of the government’s connection with UFOs. The video clip is below. But here’s a synchro about it’s arrival in our mailbox.

Monday afternoon we talked with Whitley Streiber about the dead and about aliens and how they might be connected.  Whitley had handled the audio a few days earlier when Marie Jones had interviewed us for Dreamland about our book, Synchronicity and the Other Side. He came on the phone afterwards and invited us to join him in a second interview. We’re not used to getting so much publicity so it was a welcome turn of events.

While our book is about contact with the other side, Whitley wanted to talk about the link between the other side and UFOs and their passengers – the visitors, as Whitley calls them. That’s also the topic of his next book.

We had a good time exploring the connection and noted that traditional ghost hunters don’t like aliens, and UFO enthusiasts tend to shy away from any talk of dead people and unidentified crafts. Near the end of the interview we talked about how the media and mainstream science tend to dismiss the subject of life after death and UFO stories to say nothing of their reaction or non-reaction to the merger of the two topics.

As soon as the interview was over, we checked our e-mail and found this video, sent to us by Nancy Atkinson, about how the White House has officially dismissed UFOs. We were both busy and it took a few hours before it occurred to us that the appearance of the video right after the interview was a synchronicity. Nancy had no idea we were talking to Streiber when she sent it. Well timed and meaningful.

Tomorrow, November 9 at 2 PM eastern, FEMA and the FCC will be conducting the first ever nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. We’ve read on other sites   that the test will also entail shutting down the Internet for 3 minutes – rebooting the system – but didn’t find any mention of that on the government site.
In fact, under the FAQ section, it says:

“The nationwide test will involve broadcast radio and television stations, cable television, satellite radio and television services and wireline video service providers across all states and the territories of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa.

“The test will not involve other communication devices such as the Internet, LAN and mobile telephones. No other communications networks or devices will be impacted by the test, meaning that people will be able to continue use their cell phones, the internet and other communications channels during the test. There will be no disruption of those services.”

So, we’ll see what’s what, right?

This morning, Monday, Nov. 7, I read another article about Steve Jobs, this one by Tracy Grant of the Washington Post. If you’ve never heard of Jobs, then you’ve probably not been living on this planet during the past month. In the aftermath of his death on Oct. 5, probably more has been written about the Apple Computer founder than any other person alive or dead.

Grant’s article meanders from Jobs as a parent to his hatred of buttons on computers and other gadgets, his poor showing in college to his 15-minute commencement lecture at Stanford University. She even touched on his notable arrogance.

She left out what the mainstream media in general has avoided…the ending, his last words…”Wow…wow…wow,” uttered as he looked past his family that surrounded his bed. Those words were reported, because they were mention by Jobs’ sister Mona in her eulogy. But little of anything was made of his hint of an afterlife, of something astonishing coming his way. It’s worth noting Jobs was an atheist, which makes his utterance more curious and should’ve garnered some interest for a discussion of life after death in the media. In spite of all the words written and spoken about Jobs – his life and death – the talking heads, the columnists, the investigative reporters aren’t exploring the possible meaning of his final words.

The day before Tracy Grant’s article appeared in our local newspaper, I read a related post by our blogging friend Marcus Anthony, Australian futurist and author of the upcoming book, Discover Your Soul Template. As usual, Marcus’ post is detailed and well thought out.

Referring to the silence of the media on Jobs’ point of departure, he writes: “Ironically, that silence spoke of the forbidden country where few in modern mainstream media dare to venture: the spirituality of death. No doubt most of the general public were thinking exactly what I was thinking when I read the words. What is it that Jobs was feeling, perceiving, seeing in those final moments of his earthly existence? Was it something transcendental, spiritual, or dare I say, divine?”

Marcus asks, “How has it come to this point where the spiritual has become so denied, so absolutely taboo, even where it is so blatantly, poignantly present?” He goes on to provide a historical summary of the split between world of spirit and the world of nature – the physical realm – brought on by the Renaissance, influence by the ancient Greeks. As a result, he notes: “…mainstream science and education closed the doors to spiritual experience, and politics and education became bereft of intuitive knowing.”

One reason for that separation is that religion has dumbed down spirituality, and made it so transparently questionable that anyone whose thinking lies outside the dogma of religious belief finds many of the basic teachings to be nonsensical. Of course that view overlooks the fact that without religion there is still spirituality, that our spiritual nature is the core of our existence, even if it’s not recognized as such.

For many of us the unseen world is closely interwoven with the visible world of our everyday reality. For instance, this post came about as a confluence of three related events that came together in a way that can’t be explained by cause and effect and they were meaningful for me. In other words, synchronicity.

First, I read Marcus’s post, then that night as I went to bed, I opened up James Redfield’s new book, The Twelfth Insight, which is all about synchronicity. The three-page passage I read was a reiteration of what Marcus had written about the history of the split between spirit and the material world. Then this morning, when I read the article by Tracy Grant, I was nudged to sit down and write this post.

Of course, not all aspects of the media ignore life after death. A few hours after writing the above paragraphs, Trish and I were interviewed by Whitley Streiber for his subscriber section of  the Unknown Country website about our book, Synchronicity and the Other Side. It was an interesting conversation because Whitley’s next book will be about another ignored topic, the link between UFOs and the dead. Can’t wait for that one.

I love it when one of my favorite authors, who is definitely in the one percent,  supports something like the Occupy movement.

On the  Occupy Bangor website, King and his wife Tabitha wrote:

“It’s time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class. And it’s time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can’t get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It’s time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.”

I’m not sure where 2011 went. It seems like yesterday was January 1, but here it is, early November.  And what an interesting month this should be. Here are some highlights:

What the moon is doing:

On November 10, we’ve got a full moon earth sign Taurus. Full moons usually indicate a culmination, a harvest, a completion. Once again, go here  to get a copy of your natal chart and look for a symbol that resembles a circle with horns.

That’s Taurus. If it’s on the cusp of your first house – in other words, if you have Taurus rising – then the culmination concerns your personal life. If it’s on the cusp of your 4^th house,  then it concerns your home and domestic situation. If it’s on the cusp of your 10^th house, then it concerns your career. Look here to find out what the houses represent. Regardless, this full moon should be pleasant for most of us.

There are two biggies this month – Mercury’s retrograde and  a solar eclipse in fire sign Sagittarius on November 25. Let’s do the eclipse first.

Solar eclipses tend to concern external events. They usher in new opportunities, new chapters in our lives, new, new, new. This one is absolutely positive, particularly for you fire signs – Aries, Leo, Sagittarius – and you air signs – Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. For the rest of you, find out where Sadge is in your natal chart – it looks like an arrow.

That’s where the opportunities will surface. Through the opportunities this eclipse brings, you’re able to grasp the larger picture, the bigger truth, of whatever you’re doing – a life path, a career, a relationship, finances, family. The really stunning part of this eclipse, though, is a rare trine in earth signs.

Trines always indicate a smooth, effortless unfolding and with this one, we have Jupiter in Taurus – expansion, luck; Mars in Virgo– physical stamina, sexuality, ambition, what drives you; and Pluto in Capricorn – the transformer. Trines in earth signs are grounding. Think of yourself as barefoot on the beach, a huge wave comes in, rolls over you, and doesn’t move you one iota because your feet are deeply rooted. The other notable detail about this eclipse is that Uranus, the planet of sudden, unexpected events, forms a close, beneficial angle to the eclipse degree. Any opportunities that surface for you do so suddenly, unexpectedly.

In terms of the Occupy movement, I hope this earth trine suggests that they’re in for the long haul in spite of winter, police intervention, and political talking points.

OK. Then there’s the Mercury retrograde, in Sagittarius, which beings the day before Thanksgiving – November 24 – and extends until December 13. It’s the last Merc retro of the year; that’s the good news. The fact that it falls in the busiest shopping season is, well, a bummer. Astrologer Susan Miller is quite specific about what this retro means in terms of holiday shopping – if you keep your gifts under $200, then you may not be in the return line on December 26. The best bet is to shop on either side of the retro, especially if you’re buying electronics.  The usual rules also apply for this retro.

–       If you have to travel, be flexible, think of it as an adventure, because there could be delays, cancellations, abrupt and inexplicable changes in your itineraries.

–       Back up all computer files on external hard drives, flash drives, the more, the better. There’s no such thing as redundancy during a Merc retro.

–       Don’t sign contracts.

–       If you’re expecting checks, request that they arrive before November 24.

–       If you shop online during the retro, merchandise may not arrive in time for Christmas. Best to shop in person.

But the bottom line with astrological predictions – with any kind of divination – is that they only present potential. What you do with that potential is up to you and your free will.