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That makes sense. In both the Science of Mind and Christian Science methods of healing, the healing done is proportionate to how aligned the HEALER feels to the god-presence inside. The more emotion that can be mustered within the healer, the more likely a good result. During the healing of a quadriplegic boy, I had his aunt stare at his picture until she felt absolute love in her heart for him, and told her to switch on the bottom part of a floor lamp (symbolizing his limbs) at the particular moment she felt great love. She healed him. Apparently emotion has everything to do with it.

Okay, it's past 4:10 and I usually don't post from 4:11 until dawn the next morning. But, I'll bet the reason the manifestation of the rope occurred was actually because my brain was in a panic, and I somehow punched between the hole of what is possible and what is not on the particular frequencies that we're on. That deep, dark presence that we have inside us is common to every one of us in the world....we see in each other's pupils. It's Awareness. It's The Intelligence that underlies all. It may have been beckoned by intense desire to have a rope at that moment. Somehow 'pretending' seems to blend in there too. Sure caught me off-guard.

My mind was in a state of panic at the time - it wasn't a well thought out idea. It just popped up out of nowhere.

The drumming sort of puts one in the 'second attention' (a Castaneda word), and I can see how the flow of the martial art is aided by the drum mood. It's beautiful.

A friend just sent this to me - he's a bit of a master on the string bass, and a Daoist. My friend didn't like this performance much, I think it's brilliant. Whatever, it's certainly worthy of comment. Country Music joins up with Taijiquan (Tai Chi) and Qigong. A yin-yang cowboy and his crew create a new East West fusion: Singing and guitars to help Part The Wild Horse's Mane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csSqgqzv1Zw&fbclid=IwAR2Qn0B1YBc7DTWsIF2LV6Y8JjVUeiSgVs00jDIGey5geKLn5A37bwybQsA Any opinions?

The thing that grabbed me about the video was his message. It was about oneness and knowing-nothing, but all juxtaposed in this strange performance, in a genre that was totally unexpected. And you're absolutely right about the outfit.....

Makes perfect sense. The function of the Dao is reversion. In this case it only took 4,000 years.

I've recently come to understand this in a useable way. I imagine a whip-like projectile coming out of the top of my head, and I can 'toss' it and connect it with what I want to connect with. I know it sounds ridiculous...but you can actually feel the connection as a warmth and realization that you are one with the other. The first time I tried this was out of necessity, a horse had jumped his corral and was out running through the corn fields. I ran to the top of a hill where he could see me, and my immediate thought was 'if he has any memory at all of being roped, I'm going to tap into it'. That was my set intent. I started whirling an imaginary lasso and threw it at him. He skidded to a halt from a dead run. I then walked him across the highway, stopping traffic, with an invisible rope around his neck and put him back into the corral. This is something I use when I do the occasional healing. I connect with the person before starting the ceremony by the same tactic. It seems to work long distance as well, whether the person knows he's the subject of a healing or not. My brother had melanoma on his arm and now he doesn't. Between doctor visits, it just disappeared.

Apparently there are more varieties of poorwill's. As I was trying to research the bird's call 'poor wills' came up as a possibility (I would have thought it was 'whiporwill' too). I think I have the mystery bird tagged. The long eared owl has many calls - and what I heard was one of them. He was only there for 2 nights, now he seems to be gone. But the behavior was right, too, and we do have them in the desert. Active at dusk, which is when I hear him, and liking to roost in heavily foliaged trees, right next to an open space. He was in a tree on the golf course. Speaking of nice birdies, I fell in love with the Montezuma's oropendolas in Costa Rica. I've been trying to snag a picture for us on the internet, but my computer skills are legendary and I'm unable to figger it out....

Could be a really small lady.

I came to this same conclusion some years back, within the confines of my work as a detective. it became increasingly clear to me that if most people went along with it, it was probably not the whole story. This was further clarified when getting sober - I had to come to the conclusion that if my best thinking got me to what I had become, that most of my prior conclusions and thoughts were wrong. They mainly involved cynicism and criticism, an easy trap for a law enforcement officer to fall into.

I can't help but notice the post before this one. My heart just shed a tear. But isn't his last comment on this thread sort of indicative of his life? He was a warrior for so many years. And then he loved his fish and his quiet, normal life. If there are any desert birders here (low desert) there has been a mysterious bird call coming from a deciduous tree, heavily foliaged possible fruit tree. I did see a small brown bird with a tail that had a bit of pumping action - and I'm not even sure that's the bird I'm hearing. (He could be a migrator through Coachella Valley, CA) But this call is so strange and almost has a booming quality to it, so I can't picture that sound coming out of the little brown bird. It's only one sound, a descending slide, using five consecutive notes. But the descent has a very melodious quality to it and if the bird were trying to talk he might be saying COW - a real roundness to the sound. Maybe middle C down to F. I was thinking maybe a poor will of some sort, but I'm not finding the right sound.

Damn. He's sorta my type. Looks like he used to be a very bad boy.

Yes, particularly if one can grasp the concept of wei wu wei., or Doing by Not-Doing. The order is there already, our ambition gets in there and messes up the order. This very concept alone will change one's thinking entirely, resulting in an increasingly stress-free life. I found that reading multiple translations of the DDJ was crucial for my own understanding. Any translation is only as good as the spiritual level of the person doing the translating. Best to triangulate one's own understanding out of the hearts of many.

I definitely agree with this. However, the dualistic style of seeking out my own resentments seemed to accomplish the same thing, the unity and internal alchemical transformation. Being able to finally identify 'what' and 'why' those hardnesses of heart were there allowed me to understand why it was so, enabling me to not only understand, and thereby systematically lose, the unwanted quality - but it created a compassion within me that I never had before, due to understanding of self. Truth is....we're all victims of victims. Lousy upbringing is the gift that just keeps giving.

Thank you for recommending this movie. I watched it tonight, and I was taken with the wide variety of healers. I think I'll watch it again. I love it when anything merges with quantum physics.

Is that your helmeted self in the kayak?? What a great rock carving of a monkey(?) Aboriginal? The odd thing is the black shape to the left of it. At first I assumed it was a shadow but it seems too dark, and there doesn't seem to be a tree around that would cast that shape. I also note the manitou at the bottom of that shape where it looks like a young child is brushing her teeth with an electric toothbrush.

I met a homeless guy without teeth walking through a park. We got to talking. It was like talking with the Buddha. I'll bet he was the mumbling grinning guy.

You're being a weisenheimer, aren't you? Surely you don't live in the Antarctic. Where the heck is the cell tower? and have you considered building a porch onto your houseboat?

LOL. Damn, you're good.

You've got to PM me his name. I may well know him - I too worked homicide/sex crimes as a detective in Los Angeles. The advice his training officer gave him was perfect, and I did it all wrong. I was swallowed up by the blue curtain and was totally polarized, which certainly played into the alcoholism. It was exactly that thinking that I had to deal with after my breakdown in a squad room and subsequent retirement. And yet, I did work with partners who were well balanced and, as your uncle said, retained their civilian friends and remained human beings. I used to believe those well adjusted sorts were naïve. I've had to come a long way to reverse that thinking.

Nicely said. Just this morning on my walk I was thinking about all the atoms (and form) we can't see. Like the air, the space around us. I breathe in the atoms, the god-idea, and contained therein are all the elements for the potential of life forms. That too is awareness of the oneness. We seem to be like the fish who is not aware he is living in something called water. All the elements are there, even in the invisible vacuousness. And I'll go a bit further out on the limb. What is it that makes any object retain its form? Why don't the atoms just fly apart willy-nilly? It is because the lamp sitting on my desk has the awareness to retain its lamp shape. It too is alive. Perhaps this is why it is said 'a shaman is never alone'. Because the shaman realizes that everything is living. He is unafraid to befriend a lamp. If anyone is familiar with the work of Dr. Emoto and the frozen ice crystals, it is obvious that water has awareness. (For those not familiar, Dr. Emoto will say a word over a water sample - a positive word, like Love, or Patience - and then freeze that water sample to something like 60 below zero). He then examines with a high power microscope the ice crystal that is formed. Inevitably, the ice crystal that has had the positive word spoken is gorgeous -- symmetrical and beautiful. On the other hand, if a negative word is spoken to the water, the ice crystal is malformed, misshapen, and asymmetrical. Incredible, life.

There is our original self, the I Am. Then, superimposed upon that, is the ego, which is the result of our conditioning and genetics. The ego thrives on the belief that it is separate from other human beings. But we are not separate. Inside you is that warm, expansive presence that is always there, and never grows older. It is 'home' in you. I have the very same home in myself. It is the very same home that we have in each other. That is the thing that is re-found when the ego, our false selves, is punctured or disassembled. No, awareness is not the ego. And when you ask "What/who is it that remembers or experienced that feeling while you were walking your dog....?" the answer is the I Am (some would call it God, I prefer to think of it as the indwelling Intelligence that inhabits all) recognizing itself. This is why we're here. To be the sensory and expressive aspect of the whole of Life (or the I Am). You've heard the phrase 'As a man thinketh, so is he'. This is the reason that the negative traits (arrogance, et al) are best removed to the best of our ability. Proudly wearing negative traits serves no purpose other than to keep one's thoughts on a low vibration. And we will manifest our world according to the level of our thoughts. I can only attest to my own change of thinking - from a judgmental and arrogant police officer who saw everyone as 'the enemy' unless you were a cop - to someone who cultivates their own thought patterns. To try and nip the negative thoughts, the judgmental thoughts, in the bud and immediately bend them upward. I wish I could tell you how easy my life is today compared to the complicated quagmires that used to make up my life. This is the only proof I can give - my own experience. Speaking for my own experience, and I know this is not the usual path, I had to come to my spirituality through alcoholism. Working the 12 steps required me to take a personal inventory (and continue to do so) of what kind of person I really was. This was 38 years ago. The process continues, the self examination. This is where my awareness of my own character was born. When I sought to change those things which kept me in a negative mindset (and kept me drunk) my world lightened up - a lot. So now, I'm not plagued with the darkness I used to dwell in - and I am rewarded with the awareness of who we really are. We are the sensory aspect of the One. We are 'god'.

Well, now you've issued a challenge. Where do you live? I'm going to start there.

Just interesting to me that someone actually gave instructions....