A Moldavite Telepathic Moment

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Trish and Rob

 Moldavite is not a common stone. But it certainly has a colorful history. Nearly 15 million years ago, a meteor crashed in what is now the Bohemian plateau of the Czech Republic. It’s believed that moldavite is a result of that meteor’s impact, but there are several theories about its origin. One theory is that it’s earthly rock melted by the heat of the meteor’s crash. Another theory contends that its origin is extraterrestrial.

According to author Robert Simmons, moldavite has been used as a spiritual talisman for at least 25,000 years, More recently it has been connected to the grail in the legend of the holy grail. Whatever its origins, it is now widely used for metaphysical purposes. Simmons says that working consciously with this stone causes chakras to open, your dream life becomes more vivid and meaningful, healings occur, it’s easier to communicate with spirit guides, and that synchronicities increase.

 I own a couple of pieces of moldavite – in a ring, a pendant, and a couple of raw unpolished pieces. I‘m always on the lookout.

 

So this afternoon (April 28) Rob and I are waiting at the Jamal Enlightement Center for his healing session with Peruvian shaman Don Pascual. The gift shop has an extensive collection of stones. I’m looking through them and wondering if there’s any moldavite. The other woman who is waiting for a healing with Carey Stokes  suddenly says to the clerk, Do you have any  moldavite?

Synchronicity. Maybe two seconds passed between my thought and her question. It’s as if we read each other’s minds.

The clerk comes out from behind the counter. “We have one piece. Moldavite is hard to find.”

She brings out a polished piece of moldavite, fitted for a pendant, selling for $70. The woman and I pass.

 “You ever been to Cassadaga?” Rob asks her.

 The woman laughs. “Never, but I’m going soon.”

 Me: “You can usually find some nice moldavite pieces there.”

 She asks a few more questions about Cassadaga, we talk about the silence and darkness after a hurricane. She confides that she has made the rounds of healers (and psychics) in the area and has found them wanting. “But I feel that Carey is genuine.”

 And so do I.

 Carey is one of these strapping, good-looking  Cary Grant kind of guys. You sense that he’s totally immersed in what he’s doing. He learned his healing methods from Don Pascual.

 When she was called in for her healing with Carey, Rob was on the far side of the room with Don Pascual.   “Puedo quedar?” I asked Don Pascual. May I stay?

 “She can translate,” Rob said.

 “No, no,” Pascual said.

 “It’s  about the spirits who come in,” Stokes added.

 So I shut the door, bought a pair of dream catcher earrings  that had captured me earlier, and went on outside to walk Noah, who had been waiting patiently in the car.

I also bought two pieces of vegetarian pizza, consumed one of them,  enjoyed the vast  blue Florida sky, and marveled at the small but magical synchro with a stranger.

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Back to the Dog Park

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Trish and Rob

 

Noah and his new girlfriend,Brandy

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Last year, our golden retriever, who was just three then, started acting like a much older dog. He was winded after a few Frisbee runs, had trouble leaping onto the back seat of one of our cars, slept a lot, and then started losing hair from his tail and neck.

We changed his diet, gave him cod liver oil, olive oil, and concocted exotic drinks suitable for human consumption that we shared with him. Nothing worked. Then he developed an ear infection and we took him to our vet, a genius whose diagnoses are rarely wrong. He looked at Noah’s ears, then at his balding tail.

“Thyroid,” he said, and conducted a blood test.

Sure enough, the blood test revealed a low thyroid. Noah is now on the canine version of synthroid. A pill twice a day. In just three weeks, the difference in his energy is astounding. He runs faster, is more competitive at the dog park, chases away doggy thieves who sneak in to grab his ball. He also seems to have developed a crush on Brandy, a female mixed breed who jumps higher than he does to catch a ball.  That’s her in the photo above, looking up and watching a high ball that Rob threw her.

Noah, who was fixed when we got him, now humps Brandy  at every opportunity.  When she runs to chase a ball, he races alongside side her, trying to reach the ball first. People at the dog park who know him have commented about it.

Wow, what has gotten into Noah?

This is how he was two years ago with Cody!

Does he ever get worn out?

The thyroid gland controls how quickly the body uses energy, makes proteins, and controls how sensitive the body is to other hormones. Energetically, it’s centered in the fifth chakra – the throat area – communication.  I’ve noticed that since Noah has been on the thyroid meds, his barks tend to be louder, like explosive booms. Sometimes, he sounds like a hound at the  hunt.  

Golden retrievers are generally known as people friendly dogs who seek human company, seek out human touch and companionship, another form of communication. Noah has never been that kind of golden, probably because he was crated for the first nine months of his life. His previous owners intended to use him as a stud and gave him up when they ran into financial problems.

Yet, since he has been on the thyroid med, he is much less timid about approaching people. Just this afternoon, he went over to Jen, Brandy’s owner, and nudged her, asking for a pat on the head.  Of course, maybe he figures if he can get on her good side, Brandy will be more amenable to chasing him instead of that ball!

We took him back to the vet for a checkup and is thyroid level has gone from .5 to 7 in just four weeks. Normal, the vet says, falls around 4. His fur is growing back, lustrous and thick.

There’s no synchro in this story, no aliens, nothing conspiratorial. Noah has simply reminded me that our animal companions aren’t just ornaments that decorate our lives. They are beings whose inner, emotional lives are as rich – or richer than- our own. They have desires, needs, and longings we can’t fathom. 

Most people I know, for instance, think squirrels are cute or annoying or mischievous little devils. But if you stand in the middle of a dog park and shout, SQUIRREL, nearly every dog will stampede to where you’re standing, looking for that squirrel. They not only understand that word, they react to it.

For a dog, squirrel may represent what for us would be an adrenaline rush – skydiving, that first innocent kiss, winning a marathon, a tennis match, a game of chess. Or, squirrel to a dog may just be synonymous with the thrill of the chase, of running free beneath a vast blue sky.

Since we share our lives with Noah, we are energetically linked to him and vice versa.  So, symbolically, I’m wondering about the thyroid message.  Perhaps it’s saying that we should do more of what we enjoy, what thrills us, what makes us feel as if we are perpetually running free beneath that vast blue sky.

If Rob and I start howling at the moon, you’ll know we got the message.

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Cosmic Clown

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Trish and Rob

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I’ve been reading a book called The Trickster and the Paranormal  by George Hansen, published in 2001. The book is dense, often academically dry, packed with mythological references, theories about what the paranormal is – or isn’t. There’s   even stuff about UFOs and encounters. But all of it relates back to the trickster, the vehicle Hanses uses to explore psychic phenomena.

Hansen regards the trickster as deception, a perpetrator of hoaxes, a liar and a cheat – in other words,  the person you hope your son or daughter won’t marry!  Hansen talks about Jung’s archetypes, but defines it, for the purpose of his book, as “a pattern that can manifest at multiple levels.” He believes the trickster is an archetype, as Jung said, but defined it as an “abstract constellation of characteristics” that includes:

  • Loss of status
  • Disruption
  • Boundary crossing
  • Deception
  • Violation of sexual mores
  • Supernatural manifestations

Hansen isn’t a debunker. He isn’t exactly a skeptic, either. He worked in lab-based parapsychology for eight years, three at the Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, North Carolina, and five years at Psychophysical Research Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. By his own admission, he has been personally involved with a number of psychic, UFO, and occult subcultures, and also helped start a skeptic group.  “Friends of mine practice ritual magic; others are professional mediums; a number tell me that aliens have abducted them; and still others admit to me privately that they are phony psychics.”

Obviously, this guy isn’t your ordinary researcher.  His central thesis is that psychic phenomena are “associated with processes of destructuring.”  From what I can gather from what I’ve read so far, “destructuring” seems to be the point where monumental shifts occur in society’s mass beliefs, where we reach a tipping point.  Hansen cites the sixties rise of the hippie subculture, for instance, as a period of destructuring. Well, yeah, it was. And the Vietnam war was the pivot on which that destructuring spun. I would venture to say that Occupy Wall Street belonged in this “destructuring” category.

He takes on debunker James Randi, Israeli psychic Uri Geller,  UFOs, abductions, shamanism, Houdini, hypnosis, CSICOPS,  reincarnation, near-death experiences. In Hansen’s cosmology, all these areas are subject to and often subsumed by the trickster.  The biggest problem I have with Hansen’s book, other than the fact that the book is twelve years old and much has surfaced since then, is his definition of the trickster.

The trickster isn’t just about deception. It’s often an in-your-face sort of  thing, where we are confronted with our shadow selves.  It can  manifest itself globally, politically, within organized religion. A politician ior pundit who is against gay marriage, for instance, suddenly changes his stance because his son or daughter comes out as gay. Or he himself turns out to be gay. Hours after Pope Benedict announced his resignation, lightning struck the Vatican. Very Biblical, right?  It’s the Cosmic Clown in action.

Yes, the trickster archetype – that clown – can be – and often is – everything in Hansen’s handy list. But it’s also much more. The trickster is sometimes playfully mischievous, as it was when Rob experienced two successive Zen license plates. It can also goof on you, poke fun at you, as it did during this word game. It can hint at a creative path. It can relate to extreme weather phenomenon that seems to be tailored to seize our attention about climate change. And yes, the trickster can be dark, as it was for Heath Ledger and David Carradine. Or global.

The trickster archetype, the clown synchro, has many masks, many manifestations, and they don’t all have negative connotations. The trickster can be an alchemist that teaches us how to mix different elements in our lives to create what we desire. It can be  the object or animal (coyote in Native American mythology) that relays a message or brings a communication from the dead (owl, raven).  It can be a poltergeist, an ally, a Smeagol in disguise that teaches us something vital about ourselves. It can be wrapped up in something as exotic as an  alien encounter and in something as prosaic as a marriage, a friendship, or in something as significant as death.

When my father was dying, he was in an assisted living facility in Georgia where my sister was the head nurse. We had spent all day in his room, organizing his stuff, making sure his favorite classical music played.  We talked about him and our mom, about what great parents they were, what wonderful childhoods we had. In short, we verbalized our tribute to them. Around 10:30 that night, Mary and I headed back to her townhouse. We were exhausted, but too wired to sleep. She suggested we split an Ambien, which she normally used to go to sleep.

I was hesitant. Although I’d experimented with  my share of drugs in the Sixties, I’ve stayed away from prescription drugs. But I knew I desperately needed to sleep. “I’ll take a quarter.”

Half an hour later, the night nurse at the facility called and said we’d better get there, fast. Dad was failing. At this point, the Ambien had kicked in. When I walked into the dimly building, I felt as though I were walking into a Neptunian world, where nothing is what it seems, where it’s all illusion, a Matrix sort of world, where  the veil between the living and the dead is nearly non-existent. He lay there, my dad did, bathed in a surreal light, unmoving, and I felt my mother around, caught the scent of her favorite perfume. In my mind, I saw them dancing.

It’s the Ambien, I thought. But I knew it was the trickster, the Cosmic Clown, enabling me to see his transition, to feel my mother’s presence, enabling me to push through the resistance I had to his death.  In astrology, Neptune symbolizes the netherword, the afterworld, so it seemed appropriate that two people from the Neptune Society arrived to take his body away. He wanted to be cremated, his ashes scattered at sea, and that’s what the Neptune Society does.

After they took his body away, I sat outside in the dark courtyard, and talked to him in my head. I thanked him for being the father he was. I called a friend and told her what I was feeling. And off to my right, I saw the Cosmic Clown – not a Stephen King horror, but a kinder version who opened his arms, and whispered, “He’s here, always here, as close as your focus and need.”

And ever since, that has been my experience. The Cosmic Clown may laugh at us, but he/she always laughs with us as well, delighting in our discoveries.

This is the trickster I know, the Cosmic Clown I acknowledge. Teacher, muse, buddy, ally.

 

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Supernormal

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Dean Radin himself must be considered supernormal. As a scientist working in the tiny field of parapsychology, he is surrounded by academics and intellectuals who not only  dismiss all psi phenomena, but think parapsychology is not a valid field of study. As a result, there is very little money available for such result and only a handful of full-time parapsychologists. Yet, Radin plods on tirelessly, turning out the studies and the book. He has the evidence, the undeniable proof that telepathy and other psychic phenomena are real.

from Radin:

Critics are fond of saying that’s there is no scientific evidence for psi. They wave their fist in the air and shout, “Show me the evidence!” Then they turn red and have a coughing fit. In less dramatic cases a student  might be genuinely curious and open-minded, but unsure where to begin to find reliable evidence about psi. Google knows all and sees all, but it doesn’t know how to interpret or evaluate what it knows (at least not yet).

In the past, my response to the “show me” challenge has been to give the titles of a few books to read, point to the bibliographies in those books, and advise the person to do their homework. I still think that this is the best approach for a beginner tackling a complex topic. But given the growing expectation that information on  virtually any topic ought to be available online within 60 seconds, traditional methods of scholarship are disappearing fast.

So I’ve created a SHOW ME page with downloadable articles on psi and psi-related topics, all published in peer-reviewed journals. Most of these papers were published after the year 2000. Most report experimental studies or meta-analyses of  classes of experiments. I will continue to add to this page and flesh it out, including links to recent or to especially useful ebooks. This page may eventually become annotated, then multithreaded and hyperlinked, and then morph into a Wiki.

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Is He a Witness?

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Trish and Rob

This You Tube video is one of the things that came out of the Disclosure events in Washington, D.C. this past week. This man was apparently a CIA agent during the Eisenhower years. He strikes me as sincere, but I always ask myself if it might be more disinformation. The video was shot in early March.

Tonight, we’ll be live with Mark Johnson and KGRADIO, 9-10:30 PM eastern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=3eQx_5U4WV4

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Carol Bowman, Past Lives, and Synchronicity

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Trish and Rob

 

A note: we’ll be  here tonight live, from 11 PM to 1 AM Eastern time.

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I have been fortunate in my life to connect with people who make a difference in the world. Author and past-life researcher Carol Bowman is one of them.

 In the 1980s, when her son and daughter were very young, her son, Chase, developed a horrible fear of firecrackers. When questioned about his fear, he recounted a life as a Civil War soldier  in which he was wounded. He, a five-year old boy, accurately described a bayonet, the “firecracker-like noises” around him on a Civil War battlefield,  and Carol suddenly knew his phobia pointed at a deeper reality.  After he remembered his death on the battlefield, his fear of loud noises went away.

 She ended up on Oprah before she’d even written her book, Children’s Past Lives, and went on to write a second book, Return from Heaven.  In the years since, Carol has established a practice as a past-life therapist. She has been on innumerable TV and radio shows, was the first person to be contacted about the James Leininger case, which she discussed on ABC “Primetime” before that case even registered in popular culture, and has been approached by numerous producers and consultants who are looking for cases that prove reincarnation.

 Through her research,  Carol was not trying to prove whether these memories can be validated.  Her focus is on healing,  an aspect her mentor – Ian Stevenson, and his protégé, Jim Tucker – summarily dismissed.  Carol knows otherwise. And the universe  seems to be cooperating. Just today, she was going through her cases for  her next book, and ran across a regression she did in 1994, of a woman who had been plagued by the same nightmare for forty years.

In the nightmare, this women saw herself as a young boy, about 15, in tattered, dirty clothing.  She/he was with a group of children and was telling them to be quiet.  The boy sensed a dark shadow following them.  Then, she would wake up in a panic.

 In the regression, this woman saw herself as a teenage boy, about 15, who is trying to usher a group of Italian children to safety during WWII.  Everything goes wrong. The boy is found – and tortured – and he and the children are all killed.  As he was dying, the boy felt terrible guilt about what happened, and blamed himself for not saving the children.  He felt it was his responsibility, and he failed.  

 As he was “dying” in that life, he saw that he really had died a noble death by sacrificing himself  to try to save the children.  He was able to release the guilt he carried from that experience into this life, which came up through his dreams.   Today, almost 20 years after that regression, Carol heard from the woman, who gave her permission to use the story in her new book.

Since the woman’s regression,  she has never had the nightmares again. The regression provided closure when she saw that  as that boy she had done all that he could do to save the children in that situation.  This insight, or shift in perspective, healed her.  

 That’s what Carol’s work is about.  She is already convinced of the validity of past lives. Her focus now is simpler:  past-life therapy heals.

 

 

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An Odd Little Cluster

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Trish and Rob

 For Mother’s Day, Rob, Megan and I went to the Norton Museum in downtown West Palm Beach to see an Annie Leibowitz exhibit.  Before we left, I slipped on my moldavite ring and told Rob and Megan the ring would attract a synchro,

On the way, we got stuck behind the SUV in the photo above.  With a canoe on the roof rack and three bikes on a rear carrier, it’s not an easy car to miss. 

Rob finally pulled around the car, we headed south on Olive, the street where the museum is located, and realized we’d gone too far. We circled back and turned into the museum lot – and saw the SUV with the canoe and bikes on it. The people were just getting out. to head into the museum.

“Them again?” Megan laughed. “This is starting to feel like a synchro.”

We went through the exhibit, which was fantastic.  The selection of 39 photos includes portraits of both celebrities and ordinary people.

We wandered around for about an hour, then decided to head for a Cuban bakery.

We were admiring the homes in a particular neighborhood  and weren’t paying any attention to where we were going. We ended up at another Cuban bakery  and while I went up to the sidewalk window to buy a couple of cortaditos, Rob and Megan filled the car with gas at the station across the street.  In other words, time passed, probably half an hour.

When we left the bakery, we missed our turn and ended up on the interstate. Rob decided to get off at the next exit and who’s in front of us? The SUV.

“What?” Rob exclaimed.

“A cluster,” I laughed.

“Impressive,” Megan remarked.

They apparently had gotten lost as well, because as soon as I snapped the photo, they made a U-turn and headed back onto the interstate.  

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Disclosure Hearings

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Trish and Rob

This week, Washington has been the site of disclosure hearings related to UFO phenomena. A panel of six former members of Congress is hearing testimony from more than 40 UFO witnesses, involving some of the most interesting cases. Wednesday morning the testimony was dedicated to the  eerie matter of mysterious animal mutilations that allegedly are related to the activity of UFO occupants. The intent of the hearings is to urge Congress to come aboard and set up their own hearings and call for government disclosure of secret UFO documents.

As might be expected, the mainstream media is dissing this event with some news outlets ridiculing both the hearing and panel members. I heard one report at the outset of the hearings that mainly involved belittling the former congress members by exposing their personal and financial frailties. It reminded me of virulent campaign attacks as election day approaches, and made me wonder what the point of the nastiness is about. It shows that the subject of UFOs and also the paranormal remain open game for such attacks. The harbingers of political correctness, who would never attack someone for being gay or a minority have no problem ridiculing UFO witnesses or believers in the paranormal.

To their credit, one semi-mainstream online news outlet, the Huffington Post, owned by AOL, has not only covered the hearings as a real event, but maintained a balanced approach, avoiding the disparaging comments found in other accounts.

Here is a  partial report on Huffington Post, written by Lee Spiegal, who knows this subject well. This report focuses on a case involving an ace Peruvian pilot, Col. Oscar Santa-Maria (pictured above.)

“Possibly the most intriguing testimony offered today (Wednesday) so far came from a former 25-year Peruvian air force fighter pilot. Col. Oscar Santa-Maria. In 1980, he was ordered to takeoff and shoot down a sphere-shaped UFO that was in restricted airspace near an air base. The encounter lasted more than 20 minutes.

“‘These were 22 minutes where we went up and down, it went around, and it was trying to avoid me while I was pursuing it and I was trying to fire. When I first fired, these were bursts of 30 millimeter shells — a single one can destroy a truck. And I shot 64, a barrage of fire, and nothing happened at all, and that’s what was so surprising.

“‘The possibility of NOT hitting my target was practically impossible. I’ve won awards for marksmanship, and that’s why they sent me up there to chase this thing. The possibility of my missing it was zero.’

“The object Santa-Maria was chasing was about 30 feet in diameter with a dome on top, no visible engine, wings or windows. He told the committee he tried to figure out how to better attack the unknown craft.

“‘I tried different positions. When it went up, it had supersonic speed. When I moved to the side of the UFO at 1.3 Mach, it stopped, and then, in a matter of seconds, it achieved 1.2 Mach without any engines! This is something that nobody, no craft can do, to just go from zero to 1.2 Mach, vertically, to reach my same position — it was able to anticipate my moves and then follow me.

“‘Once I landed, I met with intelligence officers, and we looked at all catalogues to see what possible spy object this might have been, but there was nothing similar to what I had observed, and we were unaware of any type of technology [like this] on Earth that existed.”

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You probably won’t read about that case or any others in most newspapers, or even on cable TV. If someone has seen any other media reports that actually over the hearings without the element of ridicule, please let us know.

 

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American Revolution & #57

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Trish and Rob

Number synchronicities are something that captivate many people. But we’ve found that this particular type of synchronicity seems to especially appeal to people who don’t pay much attention to other aspects of meaningful coincidences in their lives. In other words, the frequency of an appearance of a particular number seems to be an entry point for some people into the world of synchronicity.

As a recent example, we  were involved in talks with a man who had been the programming director for a large cable channel company for more than twenty years. He had retired and was working as a consultant bringing ideas for TV series to a production company called Jupiter Entertainment. He knew that the H2 channel was looking for a new series to follow Ancient Aliens and he’d come across Aliens in the Backyard, and was fascinated.

As it turned out, JE was busy with other projects and passed on Aliens.  We’d been hopeful, but having been there before, we were aware that it was a long shot.

We’d talked on the phone and exchanged e-mails with this man who seemed fairly traditional – in other words, not into the paranormal or synchronicity. But he did confess to being baffled by one set of numbers that repeatedly appeared in his life.

After things culminated with his pursuit of bringing Aliens to the small screen, he wrote us and said that his daughter had also been plagued by a number synchronicity. When he asked her what number, he was amazed to find out that it was the same number he was seeing.

So we asked him what the number was and when Trish heard that it was 4-4-4, she was startled because she had seen that same string of numbers herself before the man had contacted us. Once we were talking with him, she no longer saw the numbers.

That story is an extended intro to a fascinating tale about number synchronicities from History Computed, by Arthur Finnessey, who found that the number 57 is an intimate characteristic of the American Revolution.

Among examples he cites is the last time the Liberty Bell rang, in tribute to George Washington, before it cracked on February 22, 1846 – 57 years after Washington’s 57th birthday.

> The closing paragraph of the US Constitution, following its original seven articles, makes up 57 words. It was ratified by 57 yes-votes from New Hampshire, and all Constitutional law begins with the Constitution’s 57th word –  “All.”

> On February 6, 1777, 57 weeks to the day after the pivotal Battle of Princeton, another turning-point took place when the French joined the American cause. They fought off 19 British warships, making it possible for Washington to defeat Cornwallis on October 19, 1781, in a war which began on the 19th of April, 1775. So those three significant 19’s add up to 57.

>Washington’s only two victories over British Commander Cornwallis were 57 days apart.

> So too, 57 days separated the other decisive battles of the war, at Cowpens and the Guilford Courthouse.

> The final anniversary of Lexington and Concord celebrated during the Revolutionary War was precisely 57 months, 57 weeks and 57 days after they were fought.

> In South Carolina’s most famous assault at Fort Ninety-Six, 57 Americans were killed. Interestingly, 96 is the sum total of the number of men who signed the Declaration of Independence (57) and the Constitution (39). The American Revolution’s 57th month concluded on 19 January, 1780; the Redcoats took Charleston exactly twice times 57 (114) days later. Twelve times 57 (684) days before, the decisive Battle of Monmouth was fought.

Symbolically, five is associated with male energy (i.e., war), while seven signifies the completion of cycles. Together, five and seven reflect the completion of major military cycles running like inter-linking themes throughout the history of the Revolutionary War. Isodore Kozminsky, in Numbers, Their Meaning & Magic, refers to any number from 55 to 64 as “the Sword.”

Author Frank Joseph wondered  if the presence of the number 57 determined historical events. Or was it somehow an outgrowth or expression of America’s violent struggle for freedom? (Yes, we’ve read the terrible stuff about him, and don’t know whether it’s true, but if it is, does that automatically make his take on synchros invalid?)

Joseph says: “The outstanding feature of 57, around which acausal incidents revolved, was a major rift in the fabric of history – the American Revolution. All other, similarly powerful historical events likewise produce extraordinary high levels of meaningful coincidence.”

Yes. In fact, that last comment relates to the 7th secret of The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity: When synchronicities manifest themselves through global events, the universe seems to be addressing us as a collective.

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A Healing Ceremony

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Trish and Rob

On Sunday, April 28, I received an hour-long healing from Don Pascual Flores, the Q’ero Indian shaman, who was visiting South Florida under the auspices of Carey Stokes, a healer in his own right. As Trish mentioned in her comments about our group session the evening before, we were surprised that the despacho ceremony included cleansing procedure with condor feathers and Florida water that was very similar to what we experienced years ago in ceremonies with Santeria practitioners in Miami.

The healing ceremony involved lots of spit-spraying of Florida water as well as work with crystals, stones, feathers, and bells. For much of the healing, I was holding large pieces of crystal quartz in either hand along with an eagle feather in each hand as I lay on my back. Meanwhile, Don Pascual was chanting and singing and placing stones on my forehead and rubbing other stones across my body.

I quickly entered the alpha state between wakefulness and sleep, and as he called on the spirits, I seemingly glimpsed one watching us. I was in a deeply relaxed state of mind where I was seeing an entity – which looked sort of like an owl – for some time before I realized what I was looking at. So at first it was there, but I didn’t comprehend what I was seeing. It’s like staring at something in the refrigerator that you’re looking for, but somehow not seeing it.

One of the oddities of this healing, something a bit hard to conceive and sort of humorous as well, was something that Don Pascual did while he was working on my feet. He sprayed my feet with Florida water, rubbed them with stones, then tied the big toes together and stuck an eagle feather between them. So the reading was definitely from ‘head to toe.’

Don Pascual only had one question for me, what was my name.  I told him Roberto, my traveling name when I’m in Latin countries. He invoked the spirits over and over in the name of mi hermano (my brother) Roberto. His effort, as I understand it, was to remove any negative attachments from ancestors.

Did the healing work? It’s hard to say so soon after the experience, which at this writing was about four hours ago. As I recall, the last time I was involved in a Q’ero ceremony, around 1995, nothing much happened for me at the time. However, I completed Prophecy Rock shortly afterwards, and it went on to win the Edgar Allan Poe Award. In fact, an article that appeared in Publisher’s Weekly about the awards featured a photo of me receiving my Edgar–one of more than 25 Edgars that were awarded in various categories. I have always attributed the energy transmission from that despacho ceremony with the Q’eros as a turning point for that novel.

There’s a very interesting synchronicity here. Prior to hearing about Don Pascual’s appearance in South Florida, I had been receiving long-distance healing transmissions from Jane Clifford, the healer in Wales who comes to our blog. Surprisingly, the type of healing transmissions that Jane was using were based on the same ancient Inca (Q’ero) methods. She had studied the Munay Ki system through an on-line course offered by The Four Winds Society and found that it worked very well for her. It was unusual for her to work with a group and she was already a renowned healer in her own right. So she had been working with Snake and Leopard medicine for several weeks.

Finally, one day I told her that I would probably end up in surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) fairly soon. The specialist I was seeing was encouraging it. There was no more time for alternative healing methods. She replied: “No, there’s still time for a miracle.” It was that same morning, after reading her comment, that I opened up the newspaper and found the article about Don Pascual Flores.

ADDENDUM:

One day after the healing ceremony, something happened that linked Don Pascual and Jane Clifford’s energy transmissions. Jane has been sending healing energies now for several weeks. But I’ve never had any particular reaction. However, this morning, she sent an e-mail suggesting that I try visualizing a golden snake entering my body and healing me. After reading it, I closed my eyes, relaxed and focused, imagining the golden snake entering and healing. Almost immediately, I felt an energy field swirling around me, moving counter-clock wise and I felt empathy and compassion within it.

I knew it was from Jane, and when I told her about it, she remarked that it was the healing ceremony with Don Pascual that had opened me and made me more receptive. She also said that as she wrote about the golden snake, she felt the energy moving out from her to me.

A day later, another twist. I have told the doctor nothing about the healing ceremony.  Shamans are in another world from most medical professionals. In fact, I haven’t seen the doctor since early April., Yet, when I called his office in reference to an upcoming appointment, which was to talk about surgery, he now says he doesn’t think it’s a good idea to rush into it. I’m curious about his shift in thinking. I’ll find out more when I see him.

 

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