The Medium and the Message and Paradigm Shifts

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Trish and Rob

 The visual medium primes our collective consciousness in a unique way. Through TV and movies, we can vicariously experience anything screenwriters can imagine. Love, sex, birth, death, UFO abductions, the end of the world: moviemakers and TV shows dish it out and we gobble it up. But on a deeper level, these shows and movies help to make us more receptive to new beliefs.

Many of the blogs I visit and many of the people who comment on this blog sense that a shift is coming. It’s not a 2012 end-of-the-world scenario so much as it is a paradigm shift, where these new beliefs reach a tipping point and spill over into mass consciousness. Many things can bring about this shift in beliefs: wars, racial or religious oppression, natural disasters, external events so tragic and dramatic that we simply can’t ignore what’s going on.
Right now, our world is so polarized that people seem to be really looking for answers, insights, definition. The visual medium of TV and movies may be pushing us toward a tipping point in belief systems.
Think back for a moment on the TV show 24. Did the African-American president in Jack Bower’s world set the stage for the election of the first African-American president in the U.S.? Are shows like The X-Files, The 4400, V, The Event, V,  preparing us for contact and/or disclosure? What about movies like The Sixth Sense, Dead Again, Siesta, and Hereafter?  Do they urge us to think more deeply about life after death, spirit contact, and reincarnation? Do they open our minds to new possibilities? Over time, a tipping point is reached on certain ideas and they are more readily accepted into the mainstream.
Books also serve this function. A book you read thirty years ago might have pushed your life in a new direction. A book your mother read you when you were three might be with you even now. Books, I think, tend to work on us over larger tracks of time, whereas visual mediums are more immediate.  
Then there’s the Internet: lightning quick connections to people on the other side of the world, to information that newspapers and TV news simply don’t have the space and time to cover. In many ways, the Internet really is Indra’s net. The ancient Hindu mystics said everything in the universe was inextricably interconnected, and they used Indra’s net to illustrate the concept. “If the net is multi-dimensional, the points where the strings of the net connect would be like intersecting points from which one could access the whole net. One tug pulls the whole net, one tug connects you to the whole net. Basically, that is how synchronicity works,” writes Shawn Randall, Synchronicity in Your Life.
Perhaps more than books and movies and TV, the Internet is what will ultimately bring about a paradigm shift. We can now stream our TV shows, movies, download our ebooks. With You Tube, we can see a video that someone in China took of a UFO or follow someone’s trek through the Himalayas.  In blogging, we congregate with like-minded individuals and share our experiences and ideas. You never know how a post you write or a comment you make may alter someone’s beliefs. In a sense, the Internet enables us to combine visual and printed mediums at the speed of light.

We do, indeed, live in interesting times!
–          Trish
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The Paranormal War on Terror

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Secret documents reveal that the British Ministry of Defense has been studying the paranormal and other unexplained scientific phenomenon for use in the war against terror.

The ARTICLE below uses the British release of the TV show The Fringe as a hook – Fringe as in fringe science. We were deeply disappointed by the show. You expect something paranormal to be explored. It never happens. It’s all about gadgets and technology. No one has any psychic abilities in The Fringe. In fact, any mention of the psychic phenomena in the show is quickly dismissed. The previews of the show (in the U.S. ) were totally misleading.

Maybe others have a better attitude about The Fringe. We stopped watching after three episodes. Maybe it got better.

The article is more interesting than the TV show in terms of  paranormal content.

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Orbs or Water Droplets on Shuttle?

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Trish and Rob

On Friday, November 5, the space shuttle Discovery was to have made its final mission. The launch was scrubbed, though, when engineers spotted a leak that allows dangerous levels of hydrogen gas to build up around the orbiter. It’s now scheduled for November 30.

However, take a look at this video. There may be other reasons for the mission being scrubbed. This video looks like it was taken of a TV screen, during the mission countdown. It’s intriguing.

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Augustine’s Latest

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Perception is in the eye of the beholder. Case in point: most people don’t see much similarity between Nigeria and the U.S., or the two men pictured above. Augustine Togonu-Bickerstet is the exception. Augustine has sent us numerous e-mails linking Nigerian figures with American ones. His latest takes a geographical twist in which he has found ‘some interesting developments’ between New York state and Oyo state. We’ll let you be the judge.

  
So hang on. Here goes:

New York City in New York state is the largest city of the U.S. Ibadan City in Oyo state is the largest city in Nigeria.

New York City is  the publishing capital of the US. and Ibadan the publishing capital of Nigeria.

In New York, there is a well known monument to Liberty-The Statue of Liberty. In Ibadan, there is also a well known monument to Liberty-The Liberty Stadium.

New York state and Oyo state have the best places for agricultural research of their respective countries. In New York, it is Cornell University in Ithaca and in Oyo state it is the  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture(IITA).

New York City is the cultural capital of the U.S. Ibadan City used to be the cultural capital of Nigeria.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was  governor of New York state and James Ajibola Ige was governor of  Oyo state. Both of them served for four years.

Roosevelt became president of the United States and Ige was a presidential aspirant.

Franklin Roosevelt’s s father, James Roosevelt, invested in the railway business, while Bola Iges’s father, Solomom Ige, was a railway officer.

Roosevelt and Ige were both lawyers.

Rooosevelt and Ige have both been described as orators.

Roosevelt and Ige both died in office: Roosevelt as president, Ige as attorney general and minister of justice.

The governor’s office of  New York is at Albany., and the governor’s office of Oyo state is at Agodi.

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We might add to this list: Ibadan City, and elsewhere in Nigeria, is the home of the infamous Nigerian money scam, while NYC is the home of Wall Street, known for a few of its own scams, including taking large amounts of government bailout money and paying huge bonuses to corporate executives, who drove their companies into bankruptcy.

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The Dog and the Dolphin

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Even though this video has been on you tube for about a year, I first saw it on maggie’s secret garden a few days ago. There’s just something incredibly moving about friendships that develop between species.

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Babies and their Birth Dates

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Judi Hertling alerted us to this story.

By synchronicity standards, a Michigan couple have three unusual kids. Their first child, a girl, carried to full term, was born on 8/8/08.

Baby 2, a son, was unplanned. The doctors induced mom on September 8, but the boy waited until 9/9/09 to enter the world.

Baby 3, a girl was due on November 4, 2010, but labor was induced on October 9 and the girl waited until 10/10/10 to be born.

From a synchronicity view, these kids have a jump on the rest of us!


The original story is here.

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Synchro Bucks!

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Here’s a neat synchro from a neighbor,who has a son in college.It was a Saturday morning and he was driving to the bank with a $25 check to deposit into his son’s account. The check had been a b-day gift from his  aunt, but Tom didn’t have any deposit slips at college. So the check ended up with Dad weeks after his son’s birthday.

It turned out the bank wasn’t open on Saturdays. So he headed back home thinking, as he’s  driving, Why am I dealing with this $25 check? Why not something bigger, he thought. Why not dream? It should be a check for $250, or $2,500, or $25,000, or…$250,000. Why not?

A short time after he got home, he picked up the mail, and found a mysterious envelope from a lawyer in Denver. It was addressed to his son, but he figured he better open it. He did so warily, wondering if his son had somehow taken a trip to Denver without telling his parents and gotten into trouble. His eyes widened as he read through the letter and flipped through the other pages enclosed. He could hardly believe what he  read. Tom had just inherited $25,000 from a third cousin, whom he’d met once when he was nine.

Wow! Magic. A $25 check turns into $25,000 with minutes. Synchronicity and the laws of attraction come through! Neighbor guy definitely wins the synchro jacket. A good example of getting what you focus on. Hm, let me try that.

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John and the Wild Parrots

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Daz, who comments frequently here, left this synchronicity under a post with dozens of comments. We didn’t want it to get lost, so we’ve made it a separate post. There’s a synchronicity on our end, too, with this story.

A few days ago, Daz’s father-in-law, John, died suddenly of a heart attack that came out of the blue.  “He often said he didn’t believe in life after death. and my wife is a fence sitter on the subject, but I would like to pass on this synchronicity which happened today, which was quite a remarkable ‘coincidence.’ John loved to feed the wild parrots, magpies, kookaburras and other birds that would drop by his house every day. They actually sat near his veranda railing, waiting to be fed.
“Just earlier this week, my mother-in-law was telling us all today how he loved when the parrots would do their mating dance and he would imitate the male who would wobble up behind the female and then flap it’s wings up and down (a bit like a dirty old man flapping his raincoat). This would send him into hysterics.
“I was going to say then (but I didn’t) that maybe we should look for a sign involving a parrot, since this was an animal he often joked about coming back as, even though he believed once you are dead you are dead.
“Anyway, my mother-in-law wanted to have the TV going to try and take her mind off the raw emotion and it was on “Australia’s Funniest Home Videos” and what should come on the screen…you probably guessed it…two parrots trying their mating dance out on an artificial parrot.
What are the odds?
“It’s amazing how synchronous events like this can bring some comfort in a time of crisis, not so much for me, as I already believed in an afterlife, but to my wife and mother-in-Law. I also bought a copy of “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill” this week because it was on special from $34 to $10,which I am going to watch now, because I haven’t ever seen it before and I have had it on my to-do list for years and what better time than now?

“Farewell John. We’ll miss you.”

When Daz’s comment was posted, I was working on a chapter in our new book called Animals Attuned, about how animals are often vehicles for spirit contact. I was thinking I was going to be short on stories and hoped I could find one more that involved birds. Daz provided it.  Thank you, Daz and John! Here’s a video of the mating dance he refers to.

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Chris and Steve and 7 Secrets

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Here’s another story about synchronicities associated with 7 Secrets. It’s from Christine Hutton.  She refers to Carol Bowman, author and past life researcher, in her story. We used Carol in our book and in several posts – here. The image is from a photograph  in a local museum.

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As a result of reading your book, my husband Steve and I have traveled to Philadelphia and went through regressions with Carol Bowman.  It was a great experience in many ways and a pleasure to meet such an interesting woman and a past life pioneer.

Here are the synchronicities  I experienced.

 I was in the book store looking for  books on hypnosis and or past life regression as I am interested in both and working on using them in my practice as a counselor.  Your book, The Seven Secrets, jumped out at me. I say that because I seldom really pick the books anymore, they seem to pick me.  As I began to read I saw the  reference to Carol Bowman, past life researcher. That perked my interest.  As I read the rest of the story I noticed synchronicities.

 Carol tells of visiting in the Hudson Valley area.  I had  just been there taking a workshop with Brian Weiss on past life regression at Omega Institute.  Carol made a comment to the woman she met in the grocery store that she would be teaching a class on past life workshop at Omega.

Carol’s sychronicity with this woman with reverences to Aries people in her life was also meaningful to me.  Most of the important women in my life are Aries, mother, significant friends, daughter in law.  I comment about it frequently, mostly to the Aries in my life.

While I was at the Omega Institute workshop on past life regression I had a synchronistic experience with someone I met there.  We were asked to introduce ourselves and the woman a few seats from me stood up and said her name is Kris an she is from Mattappoisett, Mass., a very small town near the Cape.  I was surprised; my name is Chris and I am  originally from Mattappoisett.

In a group of 132 people from all over the world what are the chances I would meet someone named Chris from my same very small hometown.  When it was my turn to introduce myself I acknowledged the similarity and  I told her I was born in Wareham.  Kris said, “I work there.”  I said I lived on top of the hill on Acushnet Rd..  She said she drives by  the house every day to and from work and she always admired the huge window that is one whole wall of the house.  I told her my father built the house and the picture window was the focal point of the home.  She told me she lives on Ryan’s way.  I told her my son is named Ryan.

 I’m sure we have other commonalities and just didn’t get time to acknowledge them in the short time we were together.  Kris did join my husband, Steve and I for dinner in the little town we were staying in that evening and as she and I did some shopping together I surely felt a ‘comfortableness’ with her,  like an old friend you haven’t seen for a long time and you meet again and pick up right where you left off.  Personally I feel there was probably a previously shared life time.

Carol also went to a Brian Weiss conference to meet and network with people in the field.  I was hoping to do the same thing at his Omega workshop.

I also returned to grad school and received a masters degree in counseling.

Our husband’s are both named Steve.

Carol’s house number is 145. My house number was 145 for many years when our family lived in New York.

Upon returning home from Philadelphia after meeting with Carol, Sunday morning at breakfast, Steve was channel surfing  the TV and found a show on the Chiller channel of all places, called, I think, Supernatural.  The show was on past life regression and the work of Roger Woolger and Steve knew I would be interested.

As we watched I commented, “Gee Carol Bowman should be on this show.”  A few minutes later, I recognized  the image of Carol’s home and as the camera came closer to the porch there was Carol sitting on her swing.

One funny last comment.   I read the part of the book telling about Carol having to find work, applying to Scott Paper and  and commenting they wouldn’t even hire her to sell toilet paper.  We have a joke around our house about Scott toilet paper.  My now 86 year old mother, when I was growing up, bought Scott toilet paper because it was cheaper and it’s cheaper for a reason;  Its terrible toilet paper!!, if you know what I mean!  One day several months ago my husband came home from Sam’s Club with an enormous bundle of Scott toilet paper, thinking he had made a great purchase!!!  My husband was unaware but my mother and I had a good laugh over his selection.  I’m glad Carol was not hired to sell their awful paper and looking back she probably is too!!!

I hope this email is understandable. I’m finding that writing about synchronicities is harder than experiencing them.  Also, because synchros are many times small and meaningful mostly for the experiencer I feel a bit sheepish relating them to others. 

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A Red House of Representatives

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Trish and Rob

MSNBC just announced their prediction that the Republicans have won the house. Now Obama and his administration have go to come out swinging. Forget bipartisanship.

Now we can look forward to Orange Man as Speaker of the House. Will it be a red senate, too, with extremists like Rand Paul, Marco Rubio…. Tea Party people. What fun, huh?

May democracy rise once again, like the phoenix, from its ashes.

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