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Hi everyone - I got this forwarded from a friend today. Can anybody explain why this is?? We are all 2018 today. Today the whole world is the same age. Today is a very special day. It happens only once every 1,000 years Your age + your year of birth = 2018. This is true for everyone. It is strange and inexplicable. Try it and see. It will not happen again for another 1,000 years. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

How in the world did you get my picture??

Don't be hard on yourself. It was all taken in good fun. Pour yourself a shooter at that bar you appear to be sitting at. (My guess would be San Felipe, Baja) But yes, the further we go on the self realization path, the more subtle are the tweaks we need to make. Thanks for your comment and it just shows me what a good person you are.

What's nonsense is my gullibility for even posting that in the first place. Oh well. I'm just a little old lady, what else can you expect? I feel like I'm cutting edge because I know how to use email.

So I'm guessing that's why they sent this silly joke out in December

That makes sense too

Okay I got had badly. I've never been good at math. My friend says I don't do math at all, I do arithmetic.

I use a couple methods. Remember that everybody here is just playing a role in a giant play, and their actions couldn't be otherwise. I reset my mindset by concentrating on my breathing and bringing myself into the Now. I remember who I really Am, and who those other people really Are. When I find my mind off on a rant, I bring it back to no-thought and mindfulness. Breathe. For some reason, I find it comforting to remember that linear time is an illusion, meaning that everything has already happened, and we're just playing catch-up. On your last post, rideforever, you say 'One of the things that I notice about your writing is that you don't seem to embody your identity clearly.' Actually, the wise ones don't embody their identity, because their so-called identity is of the ego, the false 'self'. It is the higher self that we all share, connecting us all over the world. To me, this makes listening to the daily news tolerable. We're just playing a part, that's all.

….you're channeling again, Everything

This is actually a pretty good question when looked at from this perspective, when one looks at enlightenment as lacking in desire, and the realization that all is present in this moment, and the self realization that you are the creative force in the universe. the other side of the coin, does that mean that the pregnant idea which caused the big bang was less than enlightened? Not sure we'll ever be able to get our brains around this.

That, to me, is the real Practice. To remain in a state of presence, of consciousness. Of remaining aware of the essence behind the personality. To still the mind, but be in a state of alert awareness. This comes and goes throughout the day when mindfulness can be remembered. A spotty matter of degrees at this point.

What's the basis for the question?

If the planets weren't rotating and giving us daylight and darkness, there wouldn't be any sense of time at all

Or, more simply, self realization?

Careful with those, LOL. Both my husband and I found that things started happening to us that were happening to Carlos - and at the same time that we were reading them.

I've got a whole metaphysical library, but I'd never gotten around to reading Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind. I'm currently reading The Essential Ernest Holmes (collected writings). An astounding, meaty book which is particularly appropriate for those who are healers. Talks about the use of love in healing, how to get yourself into the right mind space. The metaphysics are suitable for anyone who has transcended any path. I can attest to the use of love in healings. I had a friend who had a nephew who had quadriplegia. I had her stare at a picture of him until she felt love in her heart, and at that moment turn on a light switch (which was a metaphor for the electricity going out to his limbs). It worked. It's all in the mindset of the person doing the healing, according to Mr. Holmes. Wonderful book.

I went to the post office to get some stamps. The guy at the counter asked me what kind. I said 'Anything but the flag'. He smiled and said 'you wouldn't believe how often I hear that'.

Hi CT! And this is why making negative judgments to affirm our own superiority is to be avoided. It reinforces the ego and makes the false sense of self even stronger.

If a person buys into the idea that we're all one, what's the purpose of judging? We're merely pointing the finger at ourselves. To not judge is a Practice, for the rest of our physical lives. It's as though we're all tentacles of an octopus, not realizing we're connected at the top. We only see fault in others because we have the same to some degree. Not only does the judger have a limited idea of the judged from that point on, he has a limited view of himself. A prison of sorts for both. A Practice, indeed, replaced by compassion rather than judgment.

Yes, this physical 'reality' we perceive has been created from the past. And more than just our past, the pain body of our ancestors, as Eckhart Tolle would put it. There is a little voice, either from my childhood or from ancestral past, that whispers to me "you are not worthy". More specifically, it will say "Why should you have this good fortune? Think of all the people in the world who are living with nothing". It is a built-in hovering guilt of unknown etiology. My reason will try to counteract it by saying something like 'in a previous existence, you too had nothing'. But this little voice is deeply ingrained. I find so much truth in your words, Everything. That was profound, brilliant, and written by one who truly knows the depth of their soul and understands the connectiveness and who and what we really are. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this beautiful response. Love you

Zerostao - that might be the most exquisite composition and decomposition of the alignment of particles ever. Thanks so much for posting it. I got several things out of that: - The Title of the production - "Escape Velocity". What is velocity if not the joinder of time and space? This production seemed to focus on the is-ness, although it took 12 minutes to view it in the passage of time. But I can't help but think the producers intended it to be in the Now, but limited by our illusory perception of time. - when a person came into alignment of the dancing dots, it reminded me of the development of an embryo. How the only thing that separates whether a cell is going to be a hair cell, or a stomach cell, or a bone cell, it's merely a question of the intelligence of alignment. Otherwise, the substance for all cells is the same but for alignment. - it included the development of consciousness, and of questioning, and of how the dots develop the ability to be cohesive in their desire to express the form it has become. - the floating face that appeared periodically reminded me of the One Mind, the Dao, which was always observing. And which we all have in the background of our psyches, the same One Mind. - the disassembly of molecules and cessation of movement in the body upon death, the original dots returning to their chaos prior to form. - The obvious questioning of the woman at the end, probably wondering 'Who am I?' - The best part of all - when the voice at the end said it was going to another observation point. Who knows if we're sharing space with other entities that aren't within the range of our sensory perception. Buddha-lands, as recounted in the Sutras? What an excellent production!

Now that's the question. But we have this darn thing inside that seems unsatisfied and keeps looking for an answer. Otherwise we wouldn't be on this website. Everything - you've really given this some thought, haven't you? I'll need to read that one several times. That's quite a brain you've got there!

The I AM state is the awareness that "I AM God". I AM the Intelligence. I AM the cosmic consciousness. It's anything but the ego state, to my understanding. The ego state is what gives us the illusion of separation. The I AM state is the inner awareness that all is One.

I think when you look into the black pupils of another you're looking into the Void. The thing that we all possess and makes us One. We all have the pupils, it seems to be the only physicality common to all of us. Just guessing.

Interesting concept, rideforever. I remember back 39 years ago when I was in the depths of my alcoholism, when my mind was dark, judgmental, cunning and hurtful. It is only going through that and finally recovering that caused my evolution to the light. What was seemingly horrible, the day I had to admit to myself that I was an alcoholic, was the worst thing I could imagine at the time. Now, I realize that day of acceptance was the best day of my life. The reversal toward the light can and does happen to folks all over the world. It takes what it takes. Thanks for that perspective, friend.