The #23 and Obama

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Trish and Rob

It seems as if March 23 was a big day in several ways:

Liz Taylor died. She was one of the last true drama babes  of Hollywood.

Jose Arguelles died. He was a visionary of the New Age movement.

And it looks as if President Obama got locked out of the White House. He’s the first African-American president.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYGsDMyM33U

First, let’s take a retrospective look at #23. We wrote about this number several times. Here’s the original article that talks about the obsession two men had about this number – William S Burroughs and Robert Anton Wilson.  We’ve provided a synopsis of what we’ve found about this number, taken from a subsequent post we wrote about this odd number:

In science and math:

During conception, each parent contributes 23 chromosome apiece to the fetus.

Euclid’s geometry has 23 axioms.
23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body.

Every 23rd wave that slams into a shore is twice as large as the average wave.
The first lunar landing was in the Sea of Tranquility, 23.63 degrees East. The second lunar landing was in the Ocean of Storms, 23.42 degrees West. The first two landings were Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 – 11+12=23.
The earth rotates completely every 23 hours, 56 minutes.
The axis of the plane Earth is 23.5 degrees.
The human biorhythm cycle is 23 days.
The pattern of DNA shows irregular connections at every 23rd section.
Humans have 23 vertebra running down the main part of their spines.
The Harmonic Convergence occurs every 23,000 years.
Geosynchronous orbit occurs at 23,000 miles above Earth’s surface.
September 23rd is the Fall equinox.
23+23+23=WWW, the World Wide Web (W being the 23rd letter of the alphabet)

Divination Systems:

In The I Ching, Hexagram 23 is called Splitting Apart

Hollywood:

Take X-Files. The production company, Ten-Thirteen -10+13 – adds up to 23. 10-13 is the birth date of creator Chris Carter. For fans of X-Files, remember that abandoned nuclear silo where a UFO is being held? 1013 is the number on the silo. In another episode, Mulder goes to the apartment of a recently deceased man and the number 23 is on the door.

In the popular TV series Lost, which builds on layers of synchronicity, there are a number of oddities involving 23:
Oceanic Flight 815 – 8+15=23
The gate number from which the flight departed
Jack’s seat on the flight was 23A
Rose and Bernard were sitting in row 23
Hurley stayed in a Sydney hotel on floor 23
The reward for turning Kate in: $23,000
One of the numbers in the sequence of 6 that won Hurley the lottery and opened the hatch: 4 8 15 16 23 42.
Even if the repetition of 23s in the series is intentional, it’s nonetheless the sort of weirdness that would have interested both Burroughs and Wilson.

So, on March 23, President Obama returns early from his trip to South America.  The U.S. is now involved in the Libya conflict and generally, people aren’t too too happy about the way he has handled this situation. He makes a decision for military action – and then leaves the country. When he returns a day early, he discovers he is locked out of the White House.

The symbolism alone doesn’t bode well for Obama’s re-election in 2012. The fact that the lock-out occurred on the 23rd day may be even more telling. We hope he or someone in his administration pays attention to symbolism and synchronicity. If they ignore the symbolism, if they don’t change course, then we could end up with some wacko as president. Obama is a huge disappointment, yes, but given the other contenders who are stepping forward to entertain a run, he’s the best that we have right now.

Or is he? The other part of the symbolism is what we don’t see – who locked Obama out? Is there a reincarnated FDR in the wings? Is there a true progressive moving through the shadows, waiting for the opportune moment to open those locked doors?

Now THAT would fall in the realm of the trickster.

 

 

 

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War

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Trish and Rob

This video pretty much says it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPKFkYsung&feature=player_embedded

 

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Synchronicity and Jose Arguelles

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Trish and Rob

On March 22, our post was entitled, December 21, 2012 – What It Is and Isn’t. In this post, we wrote about Jose Arguelles:

“The hype about 2012 probably began in 1987, with The Mayan Factor:  Path Beyond Technology, written by Jose Arguelles. In the book, he states that the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012. Since the Mayans were consummate astrologers and astronomers, his statement has rippled through space and time until it reached a tipping point. Google that date, December 21, 2012, and more than seven million links show up.”

On Wednesday, March 23, Rob remarked that someone had found our blog by searching for: Jose Arguelles is dead. Rob, who once interviewed Arguelles for OMNI Magazine, put the same phrase into Google and an article, apparently written in 1998, appeared in which Arguelles said that he was dead.

“No one but I, and perhaps that one now known as Bolon Ik, know how many times I have died. I died at least half a dozen times through my spiritual body before my son died completely for all of me. Then I died my seventh death, and knew to take a path that would not return me to the corporate identity that died along with my son. That was over ten years ago.”

He went on to say that he was now Valum Votan, an ancient Mayan priest who was speaking  through him. “Valum Votan is no name you ever knew, and one of which I scarcely had any cognizance, until it came full blown to me. And taking on this name, I am tested and tested yet again. But now I know it to be true: “Votan lives in Arguelles! Arguelles is dead!”

So we were surprised last night (3-24) to read an article in Reality Sandwich that Jose Arguelles/Valum Votan died the day before (3-23).

Part of that day, we had worked on a proposal for a third synchro book that addresses synchronicity and the paradigm shift of 2012 and beyond. We were specifically trying to figure out how to address Arguelles in a way that wouldn’t overwhelm the idea of synchronicity and its role in navigating the paradigm shift.

According to the message that Daniel Pinchbeck received from the foundation that Arguelles started, he died at 6:10 AM on March 23, under the Red Spectral Moon, the same moon and exact same time at which he was born. He was 72.

We both recall reading The Mayan Factor, and then taking part in the Harmonic Convergence on August 15-16, 1987. We surprised ourselves by rising early so that we were at the beach in Fort Lauderdale at sunrise on both morning.

Arguelles described the HC as the onset of a time of significant change in the world. Indeed, two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed. We also remember the book predicting a new means of worldwide communication. Of course, that turned out to be the Internet, which was in it’s infancy in the mid-1980s and no one else was making any such predictions.

Here is how he said it, in 1987 predicting the collapse of the Soviet Union and emergence of the Internet. You’ll see that his writing style was not the easiest to follow, but if you read closely, it’s all there.

“Culminating in the globally chaotic and irrevocably transformative events of 1987-1992, including the resonant frequency shift of 1987, the concurrent collapse or regrouping of the major governments, and the emergence of the resonant field paradigm and a corresponding unified global communications network operating with bio-regional command bases, this era is pivotal in preparing for the conclusion not only of the baktun but of the entire 5,200-tun synchronization beam. During this era–the storm of transformation–the entire wave of history crests. Maximum acceleration and random entropy give way to ever-widening circles of synchronization.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kabenaran

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

That word, Kebenaran, which is Javanese, relates to unusual coincidences, and to us it sounds like something out of the world of Kurt Vonnegut with his karass and granfaloons.  Here’s some Javanese wisdom, courtesy of Peter Levenda, our friend and author of tomes on the mysterious realms.
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“Events do not happen because of chance, but manifest themselves because of hidden forces that bring about each co-incidence, each kebenaran.   A new event is a crossroad, a co-inciding, in which the shadow of inevitability becomes a fact.”

— Niels Mulder, Mysticism in Java: Ideology in Indonesia, Amsterdam: the Pepin Press, 1998, p.84

The Javanese term he uses, kebenaran, is interesting.  It comes from the root “benar” which means “true.”  The word kebenaran means “truth” as a noun, but in its adverbial form it means “by chance, by accident.”  Thus, a Javanese understanding of the relationship between “truth” and “chance”?

The term “hidden force” is also suggestive, for there was a novel about Java by L. Couperus about 100 years ago with that title.  You will find it referenced in “Sinister Forces” but I don’t remember the volume.

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Peter has recently returned from Java where he was involved in following up on a legend that Hitler survived the war and died in Indonesia. We’ll be seeing him this weekend and will find out more from the world of ‘Sinister Forces.’

He also promises to bring me a novel he found in a bookstore in Java that features a gushy blurb by me on the cover. He had already bought the novel and was reading it when he noticed the blurb. Interestingly, I never heard of the book and didn’t write the blurb. – R

 

 

 

 

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What IS this Object?

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Some strange videos are surfacing about the quake and tsunami in Japan. In this one, something appears to lift up out of the sludge as the tsunami sweeps across Sendai. It seems unlikely that it’s a bird, given the density of the sludge. Any ideas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0UsbOaf59s&feature=player_embedded

 

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December 21, 2012: What It Is – and Isn’t

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Georgia O’Keefe

Synchronicity – meaningful coincidence – is your GPS for 2012 and beyond. It’s the way the universe speaks to you, the language  your unconscious uses to seize your attention, to guide you, warn you, and to offer confirmation and support for decisions that you make. In a world that is becoming more and more chaotic and seemingly disconnected, synchronicity allows you to see your way through 2012 and beyond so that you can flow with the changing times.

The hype about 2012 probably began in 1987, with The Mayan Factor:  Path Beyond Technology, written by Jose Arguelles. In the book, he states that the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012. Since the Mayans were consummate astrologers and astronomers, his statement has rippled through space and time until it reached a tipping point. Google that date, December 21, 2012, and more than seven million links show up.

So let’s look at what’s actually happening astrologically, on that date. First, December 21, 2012 is the date of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. At either 11:11 GMT or 11:12 GMT (there seems to be some discrepancy about the exact moment) the sun is at 00 degrees Capricorn and touches the Dark Rift. In certain cosmologies – the Mayan, Aztec, Toltec and Olmec – the Dark Rift represents the cosmic womb. It’s a place of profound transformation, a place of both birth and death, regeneration, rebirth, it’s where we, humanity, came into being. This moment  is when the Mayan calendar ends.

As the sun rises here , it will touch part of the Dark Rift that moves along the Galactic Equator. In ancient mythologies and cosmologies, this part of the night sky is associated with spiritual rebirth. Depending on who or what you read, this is either  a unique event or  business as usual. One thing is for sure.  We are a planet and a people in flux.

We’re alive at a time when the structures that comprised the foundations of what we took for granted are no longer a sure thing. Nothing is guaranteed. Your pension, Social Security, pubic education, college grants, the safety of your food and water, job security, home ownership, the banking and insurance industries, the source of your electricity ….well, you get the idea here. Anything you relied upon in the past no longer works. Structures are collapsing, reinventing themselves, and struggling to rise from the ashes. Just look at politics in any country right now. Chaos.

Some institutions will survive in  vastly different forms; other structures will be relegated to history. The war machine may survive for awhile, as will dictatorships that oppress most of the people so that a few people may flourish and profit. But in the end, even these institutions will collapse. The planet can’t sustain what it has become.

Science and religion can’t keep up with what individuals are experiencing. They don’t have the lexicon, the tools, they are locked in the past. They don’t know how to investigate, much less define, contactee and abduction experiences. They don’t know about planetary empaths. They can’t even figure out what psychic ability is and whether it exists. Most scientists (Rupert Sheldrake as the big exception here)  consider animals to be dumb beasts who are on the planet to serve humans – and to be eaten by them

As a species, we’re developing new abilities to help us cope with change. Planetary empaths are one such tool. Synchronicity is another kind of tool to get us through what certainly looks like a paradigm shift.

While there are plenty of pundits who expound eloquently about why we should all become urban survivalists and grow our own food and install solar panels on our homes and stockpile silver and gold, there are an equal number of pundits who assure us this is just another cycle. Grit your teeth and get through it.

There’s wisdom in both viewpoints. I would love to install solar panels on our home and go off the grid. But because of the way the power companies in the U.S. are structured, solar panels – even in Florida – are prohibitively expensive. The bottom line would be far less expensive, but just getting those solar panels up there on the roof would mean we would have to stay in this house for another 10 or 15 years, and we’re not sure we want to do that. Our garden and fruit trees produce some wonderful heads of lettuce and broccoli, mangos, papayas, grapefruits, but it’s not enough to sustain us for any length of time. Our neighbors whisper about the End Times,  our  governor is a jerk, our senators are corrupt. So we become cogs in a wheel, struggling… and then synchronicity comes along and empowers us.

How? Well, let’s make it local.  Tonight in Rob’s meditation class, we were doing a Zen meditation, eyes half open. My eyes shut – and I suddenly saw a corpulent man lumber into the room, nosily announcing that he had “issues.” Huh? I thought. What’s going on? Then I realized I was inside of a meditation and he might be a guide. In the next moment, he held a book in front of my face and stabbed his fat finger at a word or phrase I couldn’t read. It was like trying to read something in a dream, blurred, letters indistinct. He’s important, this weird guy, a purveyor of information. I just haven’t figured it out yet.

But I think this is how synchros work in these times of flux. They aren’t necessarily  obvious or easy to understand. They require work on our part to interpret them – not always, but often enough so that we’re engaged, so that our attention is seized and we have to think outside the box to figure out what they mean.

So I’m looking for that corpulent guy in my dreams tonight. Tell me, Plump Man, Mr. Humpty Dumpty,  what 2012 is really about. And how we can all get through the paradigm shift.

 

 

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A Different Take on #137

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Trish and Rob

In 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, we mentioned number 137.  It came up again during Trish’s interview with Anne Strieber and a listener wrote to her about his synchronicity with the number. A little background first:

A prime number can be divided only by 1 and by itself. Or, put another way, a prime number is a positive integer that can’t equal the product of two smaller numbers. That makes 137 a prime number and a particularly baffling one. In Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung, Arthur I. Miller refers to this number as the “DNA of light.”

The number is also associated with the Kabbalah. Miller explains that in ancient Hebrew, numbers were written with letters and each letter had a number associated with it. “Adepts of the philosophical system known as the Gematria add the numbers in Hebrew words and thus find hidden meanings in them,” Miller wrote. In Hebrew, the word Kabbalah has four letters that add up to 137. Not surprisingly, physicists began referring to 137 as a mystical number. Wolfgang Pauli, a Nobel laureate and one of the early supports of Jung’s theories about synchronicity, wrestled with the  implications of 137 for most of his life. When he was admitted to the hospital at age 58 and learned he would be in room 137, he supposedly said, “I will never get out of here.” He was right. He died shortly afterward.

Physicist F. David Peat had his own experience with 137 when he visited the Jung Institute in Bollingen, Switzerland. In an email to us, he explained he was invited to give a lecture to celebrate the institute’s fiftieth year. Upon arrival at the hotel next to the institute, he was given a key and told his room was on the second floor of the annex.  He walked down to the lake first to “get something of the spirit of Jung.” But after half an hour, nothing happened, so Peat decided to return to the hotel. “I took the elevator to the second floor, removed the key from my pocket and it was 137! I realized I was there to talk about Pauli, not Jung.”

So, during Trish’s interview with Anne, they talked about this mysterious number. The next day, Walter Hughes of California clicked on the interview and left the room for a couple of minutes.  “When I returned, I heard them discussing the quantum, mysterious number of time; 137.  My birth date is 7/1/37! The synchronicity was embedded in my very listening to the program!  The mystery is so eternal; so wonderful.”

Where 137 for Pauli was an archetype of death, for Walter Hughes it’s an archetype of life, mystery, and synchronicity.

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Thanks, Walter, for letting us use your synchro!

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We’re Doing WHAT in Libya?

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

Eight years ago ago today, March 20, the U.S. invaded Iraq.

We’re still there.

Then we invaded Afghanistan.

We’re still there.

Yesterday, March 19, 2011, we launched air strikes over Libya. 110 Tomahawk missiles. President Obama claims this will last days, not months or years. But as Jonathan Alter of Newsweek put it, “It’s a third war.” Grounds troops haven’t been ruled out. The international coalition Obama mentions consists of the U.S., the U.K., and France. And oh, we having the blessing of the Arab states, who don’t like Gaddafi.  Then why aren’t the Arab states firing missiles? Why aren’t they sending in ground troops?

Are we going to launch missiles against Yemen and the Sudan, too? Or against every other Arab state where the people rise up against despots?  Why are we the world cop? We have huge problems in our own country and we’re more than $14 trillion in debt.

According to infoplease.com, the cost of the war in Iraq has, so far, cost the U.S. $802 billion and, in  Afghanistan, $455.4 billion. By the end of the fiscal year in 2011, these two wars will have cost $1.29 trillion. Yes, you read that figure correctly.

Meanwhile, the richest 1-2% of Americans are enjoying large tax cuts for another few years (Bush started that and Obama perpetuated it), and the Republicans in Congress talk about how imperative it is to cut spending. You know, cut spending through social program like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,   through public education, NPR, the arts…well, you – get the picture. The poor and the middle class are supposed to pay for these wars.

These wars aren’t just about despots and the hunger of the oppressed for freedom. They’re about resources that richer nations want and which the poorest nations have – start with oil. In her brilliant book, The Shock Doctrine,  Naomi Klein illustrates how disaster capitalism – “the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock” works. And she takes you back through 50 years of history – from Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973 to the tsunami in Indonesia in 2004 and to Hurricane Katrina and beyond.

So what is it the U.S. is really protecting in Libya? Even though Libya produces only 1.6 million of the 87 million barrels of oil used on this planet daily, it produces the highest quality of light, sweet crude oil. And this stuff is easily refined into gasoline and diesel and is lower in sulfur, so it’s cleaner to burn.

We’ll see if/how the shock doctrine plays out in Libya.

 

 

 

 

 

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UFO Sighting 2 Hours before Quake in Japan

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Trish and Rob

This daylight video was supposedly taken two hours before a 9.0 quake hit Japan on Friday, March 11, 2011.  Sightings in quake areas are not uncommon. This video is remarkably clear.

 

 

 

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Finding Atlantis

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 

Atlantis: the word conjures all sort of images – from a fabulous continent with advanced technology to a society and culture in which greed and power ruled with impunity until nature decided otherwise. A tsunami is believed to have sunk the continent.

Since Plato first wrote about Atlantis in the 4th century B.C., we’ve been fascinated with  the lost continent. It’s an archetypal legend that encompasses mythic themes – catastrophic destruction of a highly advanced civilization of great wealth, staggering achievements in engineering, incredible architecture, and a moral fiber that eventually unraveled.

Even in Plato’s time, Atlantis wasn’t accepted as historical fact. He wrote that it was “an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Hercules.” The Straits of Gibraltar were one known by that name.

In Timaeus, Plato wrote that the continent disappeared “in a single day and night of misfortune.”  In his incomplete Critias, Plato provided a detailed description of a thriving urban metropolis that was protected by Poseidon, the god of the sea. But apparently Zeus decided to punish Atlantis, Plato wrote, when its people began to “behave themselves unseemly…taking the infection of wicked coveting and pride of power.”

Aristotle, Plato’s student, later commented about the destruction of Atlantis: “He who created it also destroyed it.”

Its location has always been a matter of speculation. Charles Berlitz, who wrote a book about the lost continent, placed its location in the Bahamas, somewhere near Bimini, where architectural features had been discovered beneath the water. Modern scholars have placed its location in the Mediterranean. Some theorists speculate that the continent once connected Europe, South America and the part of the U.S. eastern seaboard. Over the centuries, as the legend grew and expanded, the location of Atlantis has been placed all over the globe.

Recently, a U.S research team believes it has found the location of Atlantis: just north of Cadiz, Spain. The team used satellite imagery, deep ground radar, digital mapping and underwater technology to survey the site in the Dona Ana Park in southern Spain. There, submerged in the mud flats, scientists studied what appeared to be the remains of a ringed city.

National Geographic  filmed Finding Atlantis, which aired on March 13 and will probably be aired again.

One of my the most interesting books about Atlantis was written by novelist Taylor Caldwell (Captain and the Kings, 1972) when she was just twelve years old. The Romance of Atlantis was based on a series of dreams she had. Her grandfather, a book editor, considered publishing the novel, but couldn’t believe a t12-yer-old had written it. He decided she had plagiarized it and rejected the novel. For the next 60 years, it gathered dust in a drawer.

In the 1970s, author Jess Stearn was working on a biography about Caldwell and learned of the manuscript. He helped her edit it and get it published. It is supposedly her past-life memories of the final days of Atlantis. When I ran across this book in the early 1980s, I remember opening it, reading the first two pages, and goose bumps raced up my arms. She was there, I thought, and bought it.

Some years later, a psychic Rob and I met told us that he had lived on the peaceful and evolved continent of Lemuria and that I had lived on the less peaceful and less evolved (sigh) continent of Atlantis. Lemuria is supposedly older than Atlantis, but that’s a post for another day!

 

 

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