The Mystical Underground: Penney Peirce: Tuning Into Your Home Frequency

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Penney Peirce: Tuning Into Your Home Frequency”:

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Penney Peirce is a clairvoyant empath, visionary, author, and popular lecturer and trainer. For well over thirty years, she has taught and counseled thousands of people internationally, in all walks of life. She is one of the early pioneers in the intuition development movement, specializing in expanded perception, inner energy dynamics, dreamwork, and transformation. She helps leaders, professionals, artists, and those on a spiritual path discover the hidden dynamics of what makes for true success. Penney is the author of ten books, including Transparency, Leap of Perception, Frequency, and The Intuitive Way. She lives in Florida.

Her website is: www.penneypeirce.com

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Another Epidemic

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Doctors and nurses have been called heroes for their work in the battle agains COVID-19. But many of them don’t feel like heroes.Take Erin McIntosh, a nurse in Riverside, California: “I don’t particularly like that term—but we’re definitely not treated as such.”

While the covid epidemics has been attributed to the high-stress level, burnout and depression faced by nurses and doctors on the front-line, there’s something else going on in the health care world that is receiving much less attention.

It’s violence against health care employees, and it’s considered an under reported problem. You might be shocked, as I was, to learn that violent altercations are so common that most employees in the field consider them to be simply part of the job. Statistically, three quarters of thenearly 25,000 annual workplace assaults occur in healthcare settings, but only 30% of nurses and 26% of emergency department physicians reporting incidents of violence, according to one study. 

I first learned about this issue when I was approached by the director of public safety at a regional hospital in a medium-sized city in Georgia. He called the problem an epidemic in health care and is developing a workplace violence prevention program and wants to write a book about it. He mentioned that with everything else going on in the health care field, this problem has been overlooked. He’s right about that. I searched on line for articles on the subject, but the only ones I found were a couple of health journal reports on the subject.

The synchronicity here is that I happen to know the security director of another regional hospital, this one in central Texas. Some of you who have read this blog for awhile might be familiar with the name, Wesley Meeks. I’ve written about his experiences over the years as someone capable of out-of-body travel—experiences ranging from a somewhat controversial out-of-body experience at a topless bar to his cosmic travels far beyond Earth and into other dimensions, including a visit to the Akashic records.

So I contacted Wes and asked for his opinion on violence to health care workers. Wes, who is a former police officer, quickly responded and agreed that it is an epidemic and that it’s a concern not only to him but to his wife, a nurse who works the third shift.

“Assaults against healthcare workers are very common and have been acknowledged as An ‘epidemic’ and a nationwide issue for the past couple of years,” Wes wrote. “Doctors, nurses, orderlies, patient care assistants, etc., bear the brunt of these incidents, but also hospital security officers and police officers are frequently assaulted as well.”

He thinks that part of the increase in such reports is because health care workers have become more willing to file police reports rather than to simply shrug off the incidents. That accounts for some of the increase, but not all of it, Wes said.

“This person wanting to write a book about the “epidemic” is correct in that this is a largely unacknowledged problem.  Even at our medium-sized facility, assaults and terroristic threats occur several times per month.   Since we have our own fully accredited police department, employees are more willing to file charges when assaulted than they were when they had to call the city police in years past.”

Wes went on to say that some “for profit” facilities may either discretely or openly discourage employees from filing charges against patients or family members. “But that trend is changing as well, again resulting in stats for assaults increasing.” 

 

P.S. This was written originally back when the pandemic was ravaging New York and a few other places. Tragic and sad that it’s pertinent now, when the # of new cases exceed 200,000 and deaths are around 2500 a day. It’s pathetic that three states have more than a million cases and hospitals nationwide are reaching or have reached capacity.

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Cohen & trump

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Early on in the trump nightmare, Micheal Cohen reminded me of the Gottis. Any of them, take your pick. They’re a collective, an archetype. Years ago, I ghostwrote a book for one of them and spent a weekend at the Gotti estate on Long Island. We were followed by cops or feds the entire weekend. Followed to a grocery store, a restaurant. “Ah, not to worry,” the Gotti said.

This is business as usual. But hey, John Gotti is just a plumber. Really.

But, just to be clear, this was the 1990s, when the Gottis were constantly in the news for one thing or another, one travesty or another. They were persons of interest – not only to the feds, but to state officials, publishers, TV networks.

So when I first became aware of Michael Cohen, I thought he was Mafia. I thought he was just another Gotti. Then Cohen got charged and convicted and released and wrote his book and started his podcast. Now, during this pandemic, there’s a group of us at the dog park who talk politics and Cohen’s name and podcast are often mentioned.

The consensus is that we like his podcast. When a trump loyalist is fucked over as badly as Cohen was, when he loses everything – family, freedom, law license – and sees the proverbial light- the revelations are often really insightful. Cohen knows trump, understands his weird psyche, can anticipate his moves, decisions. He’s trump’s Bobby Fisher and trump has lost and, like some petulant child, can’t accept being a LOSER.

Forget the peaceful transfer of power. Trump is facing a zillion lawsuits once he’s no longer prez and all this publicity about his silly lawsuits have brought in over 170 million bucks for him. From his supporters. Most of whom are NOT in the upper percentage of Americans who have benefited from his tax cuts.  A big percentage of that $ can be legally used so that trump can live a lavish lifestyle and  still exert power in the republican party that refuses to admit Biden won.

Biden: 80 million he won, votes that scream, Help! We need to heal!

Regardless of what you feel about Cohen, he provides insights into trump – why he was elected, the conman and grifter that he is, and why he won’t disappear once Biden becomes the 46th president and Kamala Harris becomes the first female VP of color.

After all, 74 million Americans voted for trump. It’s still a mystery to me why.

 

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Hunting for the Soul—Cracks in the Old Paradigm of Science

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Trish and Rob

Over the past decade, Psychology Today, the popular science magazine has slowly opened the door to the possible existence of psychic abilities, synchronicity, and even spiritual realms: the soul and life after death.  At least, that’s the case for the on-line version of the popular science magazine. But it wasn’t that long ago that the magazine’s articles were firmly behind  the old paradigm of science.

One notable shift might’ve started when a synchronicity pal of ours, psychiatrist Bernard Beitman, began writing a regular column on synchronicity for the on-line magazine. Prior to Beitman’s appearance, synchronicity was covered from a dismissive mainstream perspective that suggested it was the brain’s way of trying to create patterns where none really existed. So much for any mysterious paranormal connection. And the same could be said for the reality of the soul. What soul, where’s the evidence?

Now we’ve come upon a column in an on-line edition from 2011 that actually favors the existence of the soul, related to recent studies. In doing so, columnist Robert Lanza, MD, author of Biocentrism and other related books, takes some heavy swings at the prejudice of mainstream science, which he refers to as following outdated materialistic postures on puzzling subjects such as the spiritual dimension of life, the existence of the soul.

Lanza explains that the old paradigm of science has dismissed the soul as an object of human belief, or reduced it to a psychological concept that shapes our cognition of the observable natural world. From that perspective, everything knowable about the “soul” can be learned by studying the functioning of the brain. In their view, neuroscience is the only branch of scientific study relevant to understanding the soul.

In the column,  Lanza writes: “We’re told we’re just the activity of carbon and some proteins; we live awhile and die. And the universe? It too has no meaning. It has all been worked out in the equations – no need for a soul. But biocentrism – a new ‘theory of everything’ – challenges this traditional, materialistic model of reality. In all directions, this outdated paradigm leads to insoluble enigmas, to ideas that are ultimately irrational. But knowledge is the prelude to wisdom, and soon our worldview will catch up with the facts.”

One notable study he cites shows that the “quantum weirdness” found in experiments with sub-atomic particles also extends to the macro world in which we live. In other words, the Alice-in-Wonderland oddities of a world in which particles are also waves and can leap from one place to another without traversing the intervening space can occur in the world in which we exist. It also implies that the logical foundations of classical science are being violated, that psychic abilities—and even our souls—are within the realms of science.

While mainstream science is still clinging to the old paradigm, Lanza notes that there are cracks in the materialistic view of reality. It’s only a matter of time for a new paradigm to take hold. As the old guard is dying off, they are  being replaced by younger more open-minded scientists who will move science in a new direction that past generations couldn’t foresee.

 

PS And oh…there’s a lunar eclipse in Sagittarius today. Check December’s forecast in the masthead to see how it may impact you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2020: A Space Odyssey?

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Trish and Rob

You’ve probably heard about the mysterious monolith discovered November 23 in the remote red rock country of Utah in fly over by the Bureau of Land Management. Five days later, it disappeared, and the BLM says they didn’t remove it.

The smooth metallic monolith is a reminder of Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey 2001, and the comparisons of  course sparked speculation that it was left by aliens. The BLM called it an illegal monument, no matter who put it there, and they say they didn’t remove it. All that remained was a metal triangle and some rocks. The monolith had been placed about ten feet from a rock wall.

Because of its remote location, a BLM spokesperson suggested it could have been there for “forty or fifty years…or maybe more.” A Google search though found it in place for at least five years.

One hint of a possible origin is the fact that the TV series “Westworld” was filmed in the area. The first season came out in 2016.

The most mysterious aspect of the monolith story for us at this writing is its mysterious removal. With all the attention the monolith has received, its surprising that no one has come forward to claim the monolith or take credit for removing it. Considering the location, there’s also the question of how it was removed…and why no one has reported observing  the departure of the monolith.

We would have thought that the BLM by the end of the week would’ve placed a camera nearby to observe activity in the area.  Shrug it off as a bureaucracy slow to react? Or, perhaps they did install a camera, and they’re not talking about what appears on the video.

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DECEMBER ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

 

DECEMBER FORECAST

There’s a lot going on this month. But here are some dates to watch:

December 1 – Mercury, now moving direct, enters Sagittarius. It will be there until December 21, when it enters Capricorn.

December 5 – Venus trines Neptune for the last time this year, so it’s a good day for any type of creative endeavor.

December 10 – the sun in Sagittarius trines Mars in Aries, making this a high energy day to start – or finish?- holiday shopping or any projects you’ve put on the back burner.

December 14 – a solar eclipse at 23 Sagittarius, with Mercury conjunct by 3 degrees and trine to Mars. New beginnings that fuel your motivation

December 16-17 – Saturn enters Aquarius and gets ready for its two and a half year journey through the sign of the rebel, the visionary, the outlier.

December 19 – Jupiter joins Saturn in Aquarius and will be there until December 2021.

December 21 – conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. This one happens every 20 years, so it’s a big deal. Jupiter rules economical, political, and spiritual issues; Saturn rules business, law and order, structures, authority. Because the conjunction is in Aquarius, it may presage a sweeping turn toward a different type of world order. The age of Aquarius?

December 29 – full moon at 8 Cancer, the sign of the nurturer, the intuitive. The years started with a full moon/lunar eclipse in Cancer. Perhaps these bookends speak to the feminine.

The forecasts for the signs can be found in the masthead under the December forecast.

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Synchronicity in Therapy

Posted on November 27, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

Our friend Bernard Beitman, a visiting professor of psychiatry at University of Virginia,  is a synchronicity expert who wrote Connecting with Coincidence.  He also has a fantastic podcast by the same name. The following article appeared in his column in Psychology Today.

 

Bernard D. Beitman M.D.

Connecting with Coincidence

Therapy

Research Suggests That Synchronicities Can Aid Psychotherapy

Therapist confidence about using synchronicity correlates with outcome.Carl Jung described the paradigmatic synchronicity during psychotherapy. Since then Jungians and others have recorded single cases. Recently investigators have carried out systematic research in the use of synchronicity during psychotherapy. Here’s hoping increasingly more researchers will study the ways in which synchronicity can become a useful psychotherapeutic technique as has Dr. Reefschläger in this report. (BDB)

Introduction

permission of Gunnar Immo Reefschläger
Gunnar Immo Reefschläger
Source: permission of Gunnar Immo Reefschläger

My name is Gunnar Immo Reefschläger, and I am a researcher from Frankfurt, Germany. I focus on modern concept research in the field of Analytical Psychology. Moreover, I am a clinical psychologist, a psychodynamic-oriented personal coach, and currently, a psychotherapeutically and psychoanalytical candidate at the Institute of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Having finished and released my dissertation in German in 2018, Dr. Bernard Beitman kindly encouraged me to publish my findings for an English speaking readership.

In the following, I would like to give you a short and concise introduction to some of my general findings. After giving you an example of a typical participant’s report of synchronicity that happened in the context of psychotherapy, I will explain how I came across Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity, and how I conducted my study. Feel free to contact me through the links below if you have any thoughts.

A case of synchronicity in psychotherapy

First, I would like to give you a typical example of synchronicity that can happen in the context of psychotherapy. The following excerpt is from a case that can be found in my doctoral dissertation(1):

”A 16-year-old patient who is suffering from anxiety goes on a final school trip to Berlin. It is her first trip away from home; she feels fearful and excited at the same time. However, her feelings transform into being overwhelmed. She tries to contact me spontaneously by mobile phone. I almost never switch on my mobile phone, but exactly at this moment it is on and I can give comfort to my patient. As a consequence of this moment, our therapeutic relationship deepened as I saw her in our next session.”

We need more modern concept research: The way to my study

I became fascinated by stories like these when a friend gave me a copy of Hopcke’s book There Are No Accidents (2) where I read the term synchronicity for the first time. During my studies of psychology at school, I noticed to my surprise that there was very little research about the concept of synchronicity because it was labeled as “psychological non-sense“ by my behavioristic-focused psychology department. In general, Analytical Psychology and its Freudian cousin Psychoanalysis were discarded as non-scientific. However, I had the feeling that it was an important and crucial concept of psychotherapy that just needed to be investigated more since strange coincidences connect people in a way that can be useful for both patient and therapist and their relationship. Consequently, I looked for a psychology professor who would be interested in supporting my idea to give the concept of synchronicity an empirical foundation so it would be acknowledged as a valid therapeutic concept.

A first step to an empirical foundation of synchronicity: The study

For my study, I collected a number of cases where synchronistic moments happened in the context of psychotherapy. This first step took me a time period of nine months. My cases consisted of 1) personal interviews I had with therapists, 2) synchronistic moments that happened during therapy which were documented by articles, books, and literature, and 3) questionnaires that Jungian therapists could use as an alternative to personal interviews.

To get a high number of personal interviews, I reached out to all Jungian training institutes that were listed on the website of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (3) asking them if they would be willing to endorse my study and send a study invitation via e-mail to their members. Institutes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland received a German version of my study invitation, all other institutes an English version. In addition to that, I sent out study invitation flyers to all Jungian institutes in Germany (Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich) via mail. Next, I also posted my study invitation online on several forums, groups on Facebook. For people who reacted to my invitation over Facebook, I asked them to give me some kind of proof that they had been working as a therapist (e. g. scan of therapy license).

For therapists who responded to my study invitations, I sent an informed consent form that needed to be filled out by both therapist and patient allowing me to use the provided material. I conducted the actual interviews face-to-face, via telephone, or via Skype. For therapists who could or would not telephone, meet me personally, nor Skype, I offered to send my interview questions via email, so that they could answer them in a written form. In the end, I conducted 12 interviews personally and I received 12 email responses, in which therapists answered my interview questions in a written form.

Next, for conducting interviews, I searched for already documented synchronicities that happened during psychotherapy. I used different keywords and keyword combinations (e. g. “synchronicity”, “synchronicity and psychotherapy”, “synchronistic”) on Google and Google Scholar to find cases that were documented. Books, dissertations, and articles that seemed to be possibly relevant for my interest, I read in-depth (5; 6). The length of an actual narrative was not important, however, I dismissed narratives that were too short (e. g. when it only consisted of one sentence). In the end, I found 22 narratives of synchronicities that happened in the context of psychotherapy.

Results

After nine months of collecting data, I had a total number of 46 cases/reports of synchronicities that happened in psychotherapy. Next, I looked at how these cases were presented and/or written. I analyzed the cases using several questions including: “Did the synchronicity include a dream, premonition, or a concrete statement/behavior?“ Or “Did the synchronicity happen over a physical distance or in a physical closeness?“ In this way, I had a total of 22 questions I asked the therapists I interviewed, or I answered them myself regarding the already documented cases. Most of my questions came from publications of my doctoral advisor Christian Roesler (7). Afterward, I tried to find out if there are any tendencies of all cases in response to my questions.

Here are some results I found: There were more synchronicities reported/documented 1) that included pre-monition than dreams 2) that happened in a physical distance, e. g. over several kilometers, rather than a physical closeness, e.g. over some meters 3) that happened not simultaneously, e.g. a person dreaming synchronistically of events occurring the next day, than simultaneously, e.g. a person knowing synchronistically what another person does at the same time. I also tried to look at several possible relations between my questions through statistical methods. My results show, for example, that there is a relation between a concrete, self-assured reaction of the therapist regarding an occurred synchronistic moment and a positive consequence for the therapeutic relationship. Moreover, the more secure, aware, and specific a therapist reacts to a synchronistic moment in the context of psychotherapy, the more likely it has a positive impact on the therapeutic relationship and the therapy process itself.

What needs to happen: More therapists need to know the concept of synchronicity

In conclusion, one can say that paying attention to synchronistic moments in therapies can be a beneficial factor for therapy if the therapist is trained and self-assured in the topic of synchronicity. Consequently, it would be advisable if the topic of synchronicity is being taught more in therapy training institutes, so that future therapists can recognize synchronicities better and see them as a potential source for additional therapeutic interventions, that can support the patient by experiencing even more meaning in his or her life.

Bernard Beitman, M.D., is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia. He is the former chair of the University of Missouri-Columbia department of psychiatry.

 

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Queen’s Gambit

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Trish and Rob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psoyeo3E2HE

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE!

Now please go binge on Queen’s Gambit!

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Netflix’s Queen’s Gambit is based on the brilliant novel by Walter Tevis. I ran across his book years ago, sped through in a single night, and over the years, read it two more times. Tevis also wrote The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Unfortunately for all of us who love good stories, he died in 1984.

My dad started playing chess when he was eight. He and his brother Joe played throughout their lives. He knew the Sicilian move. When he lived with us in the late 1990s, he and Rob played chess nearly every night. They taught our daughter, Megan, how to play One of my favorite photos is of Rob and Megan playing chess in Costa Rica.

This series – just seven episodes – is so good, so much fun, so enthralling – because the woman who plays Beth, the chess prodigy, zipped herself up inside the skin of the character. You’re with her, all the way through her horrid childhood as an orphan, her addiction, her brilliance.

There are moments in this series when I felt like leaping to my feet and waving my arms and shouting, Five minutes, a break of five minutes… so I can slap together a snack and a few thoughts about what I’m watching.

When we lived in Venezuela, my dad taught me the rudimentaries of chess. It intrigued me but I wasn’t very good at it.

One of the scenes I love in Queen’s Gambit happens in the last episode, when Beth imagines a chessboard on the ceiling- which she has done numerous times before – and sees how she can beat the current world champion, a Russian.

In essence, it’s presented as a function of the left brain, the moves made by other chess masters throughout the ages. Yet, I think it’s a kind of precognition, a dive into the future that yields invaluable information.

And yes, she’s now the world champion in chess.

What’s next? Will there be a Season 2?

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The Mystical Underground: Candice Sanderson: The Wounded Healer

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Candice Sanderson: The Wounded Healer”:

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Candice M. Sanderson lives in Naples, Florida across the state from us in WPB.
Her life changed in a ten-minute period of time in August 2013 when she began to receive information from messengers from other-worldly sources. When her training as a psychologist failed to explain these events, she reluctantly followed the breadcrumbs down a path which resulted in extraordinary adventures into the unknown.
The Reluctant Messenger and The Reluctant Messenger Returns chronicle her expedition across a vast expanse of universal consciousness that led to new truths about life that she thought she had known so well.

http://candicesanderson.com

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THE TOLL

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Trish and Rob

According to Worldometer, November 20, today, featured the highest number of covid cases for a single day in the U.S.  201,803.

Think about that.

Think about when trump first found out about the virus and downplayed it because he didn’t want to “panic” people, according to Bob Woodward’s book- and the audio of trump saying this to Woodward.

Think about how many times in the spring when he said, “It’ll go away in April.”

It’ll just magically disappear one day.”

“We’re rounding the corner.”

According to the NY TImes tracker for this virus, 251,715 Americans have died. In the last 7 days, there have been 49.3 new cases per 100,000 people.

Total, since January 21, there have been 11,650,817 cases of covid in the U.S., the highest in the world.

No, trump can’t be blamed for the virus. But he certainly can be blamed for everything he hasn’t done to contain it. Now, with his hopes for a second term collapsing,  he never mentions the virus at all. He’s too busy trying to steal an election.

 

 

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