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Blind faith?

A short true story.....

I had a friend whose loaf of bread had gotten moldy and the green growth on the slice of  bread she took out of the bag looked like the face of Jesus, I mean it really really looked like the stereotypical Jesus...the face was like a painting all in green.  When she pulled that piece of moldy bread out of the bag to make us some sandwiches she was dancing up and down like an idiot and crying tears of absolute joy and I sat there just  wondering if she had gone insane....She said she had asked God for a sign because she was losing faith in God and Jesus and being raised as a Baptist she was really feeling guilty that she had lost faith, so she had been praying for days for a sign that God and Jesus existed and she believed that moldy bread was a sign from God himself.  After seeing this jesus- faced piece of moldy bread it somehow changed her whole life for the better because she was  positive that God was speaking to her and she was so much, much happier in life and she was filled with love and treated everyone so much better....it was  amazing to me...I thought she was completely wonkers and told her so....She told  me that it was HER miracle, that God had communicated to her that she had to have faith in Jesus... and who was I to tell her different.  I got thinking about that today when replying to a post.  

 

That  really made me do some serious thinking about my own actions and about the needs of people to believe in something and how deep a faith can go and how it can impact a person's whole life, and I realized that believing in something is not a bad thing and it actually can change peoples lives for the better, even believing in things that make no sense to me or seem unreal to me like my best friend seeing a sign from God in a piece of moldy bread....If people read something and it fills them full of hope it is like a feel good drug, and makes them feel better, I cannot do anything about that even if I think their faith is unfounded or not realistic or just plain untrue, and actually it is not my job to be a miracle monitor, lol.  People are entitled to what they see as miracles in their lives and I realize that it is not my place or duty to point out that I think they are wrong in their beliefs, it is an individual thing and none of my business.  Took me a long time to realize this.  I just remembered about my friend with the moldy Jesus bread and did some soul searching and this blog is the result of my reminiscing...I just felt the need to share this, even if it might make some people angry.  Making people angry at me is nothing new to me, and I survive it somehow, lol.   

 

I will continue to point out my viewpoint of what seems to be reality for me, because I  feel the need to have people hearing the truth and not what I perceive as deception, but I should not  criticize those that want to believe things that make them feel hopeful and uplifted because it is their choice what they believe and what those beliefs fulfills in their lives.  I  think that it is wrong to mislead people intentionally as many posts and channelings do but it is not my place to criticize people for believing things that to me seem like untruths.   I agree that a lot of the postings on this and other sites are like dangling carrots just out of reach, which seems unfair and like manipulation and just plain falseness to me.  But for those that believe and see things the same way as the posters of such writings, it is a food that seems to sustain them, so I cannot and should not make judgements. I have to fight the need to criticize because it does not help anything at all and changes nothing, people believe what they believe, a feeling in their heart or soul.  I have to remind myself of the serenity prayer at all times.  Some things I simply cannot change things, I have to realize this and go on my way to do what I can to make this a better world in whatever small way I can, and not try to fix people who I think need fixing who don't want to be fixed and are perfectly comfortable in their viewpoints and faiths.  I should just concern myself with what I contribute to life myself.  

 

It takes courage to commit to have faith in something without tangible proof of their belief.  I actually wish I could have blind faith and truly believe in something that uplifts me and makes me feel warm inside, but blind faith can damage people sometimes too and make them vulnerable to being manipulated and used and lead astray like lambs to slaughter sometimes, which is why I worry so much for others who i think believe things that are untrue, but I cannot change anyone's faith in things, it has to come from their hearts alone.  No one's words or criticisms or insults of other's beliefs is going change anything at all, only separates and draws people apart.  I often wish that I had real heartfelt faith in something intangible but it is just not in my makeup I guess...Always been a realist, always will be.....but am I any better off than someone who has high and lofty hopes and unflapable faith in what they believe, I don't think so. I wish I had beliefs that bouy me up and make me feel optimistic for the future and feel good inside, I truly do, but alas I guess I just don't know how.

 

Thank you for listening to me....   

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I truly believe that angels come into your life disguised as people sometimes to help you along!  I had this very experience when I was in the hospital after having knee replacement surgery last month.  I had not slept in three days and was in excrusiating pain after the surgery. Things had not gone at all well in surgery and I ended up in so much pain that the medicines they were giving me did not at all help even though it was a very high dose of morphine.  I was so miserable I wished I had died in surgery when my heart had briefly stopped and was resusitated.  At that moment laying there in my hospital room totally sleep deprived and in agony, all I could think about was wanting an end to the pain. It felt like there was an animal knawing on my leg and it was relentless, and I was so upset that I could not make it stop.

About 2 AM on the third night of my sleepless hospital stay, an older woman with curly white hair and very fair skin just walked into my room and sat down next to my bed and pulled the chair close and wiped a cool moist towel to my feverish forehead (the towel just appeared in her hand, she did not walk over to the sink and wet a towel it was just there in her hand) which I found very curious and then she took my hand and held it softly caressing my hand.  I asked her who she was and I thought maybe she had come in the wrong room or something but when I asked her if she was in the wrong room she said she was here for me to help me to finally get some sleep.  I looked at her like she was crazy but she just keep holding my hand and massaging it, and she was humming a most beautiful tune that I had never heard before. She kept telling me to sleep and that I would not feel the pain for awhile and to just shut my eyes and relax.  I did shut my eyes as I could not keep them open, they became heavy and felt like lead.  I must have fallen asleep right away, because I saw her lovely face and curly fluffy silver white hair and smelled lilacs and lillies in the air as I drifted off to the most delicious sleep I had had in months. I slept for six painfree hours and when I was awakened for breakfast, my hand was laying on the chair that was pulled up right next to the bed.  I could smell lilacs in the air and  my hand smelled like lilacs very distinctly like I had just held a bouquet in my hand.

I asked the night nurse who was still on duty who came to visit me in the middle of the night and the nurse told me that visitors were not allowed after nine PM and they had to sign in to see patients and no one had signed in to see me. The nurse was in the hall most of the night with her med cart doing meds and she said that so no one gone in or out of my room. So it had to be an angel, that is the only explanation I can come to.  It was so wonderful. Some of my friends think it was just hallucinations from lack of sleep and pain, but I will always think that it was angel who knew I needed sleep to get through the trauma. When I awoke I was no longer in the intense pain I had been it, it was only a discomfort. I asked around to see if anyone of that description was a patient in ICU where I was, and there was no one looking like her as a patient there either. Whether she was an angel I will never know for sure, but for me she will always be an angel.

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Are You Ready for Cosmic Awareness and the New Age?

ARE You Ready for Cosmic Awareness and New Age?

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Are you among the millions who need threats of punishment, hell and damnation to keep you on the spiritual path? If so, you are not ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the millions who see Devils and evil forces behind every rock, tree, face, sign, song, concept or change? If so, you are not ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the millions who use your ideals, beliefs, and spirituality to judge, compare, condemn and evaluate your neighbors and associates? If so, you are not ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the millions who would martyr yourself, your loved ones, your children's happiness and welfare, your nations' people, to sacrifice and suffer in a present life in hopes of gaining some reward in a future life? If so, you are not ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the millions who need a personality cult, with some personality, deity or teacher to idolize, bow down to, to hang your soul upon in hopes of being blessed for your submissive groveling? If so, you are not ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the millions who seek security through systems and teachings that ask you to believe without question any activity, book, method or personality who claims by Its own authority and that of Its followers to be the only answer, the only truth, the final word of wisdom? If so, you are not ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the millions who would condemn, hurt, or kill your fellow humans If they threatened your beliefs, which teach you not to condemn, hurt or kill your fellow humans? If so, you are not ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the millions who seek reassurance for your beliefs and attempt to avoid any information that leads to questioning or doubting your beliefs? If so, you are not ready for Cosmic Awareness.

If You Still Think You Are Ready For Cosmic Awareness, read on:
Are you among the few who can question your own most cherished beliefs? If so, you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the few who can listen to beliefs and ideas of others which are in conflict with your own, not to find fault with these, but to examine them for any possible value to yourself? If so, you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the few who can conceive of the possibility of a Universe which is itself a living, conscious being that is aware of all of its parts, loves them all, and whose parts may change but never die? If so, then you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the few who can imagine your soul to be a cell in the body of that Universal Being? A soul or cell that is the image of the Universal Creator, even as your own cells contain the DNA coded image of yourself? If so, you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the few who can conceive of the possibility that the biblical story of the Garden of Eden might just be a story of your own birth and consciousness? That the Garden of Eden was the womb, Adam the conscious mind, Eve the subconscious, their expulsion from the garden being your birth into this earth, the serpent being the Kundalini energies, the Tree of Knowledge as the rational consciousness based only upon the fruit of the five external senses, with the Tree of Wisdom representing the entire holy (whole or cosmic) consciousness? If so, you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the few who can conceive of the possibility that the Christ is actually a level of consciousness, a Christ Consciousness, Crystal Clear, born of virgin purity, that spoke through the man Jesus, to tell the people the Way, the Truth and the Light through the Crystal Consciousness to the Kingdom of Heaven within oneself? If so, you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the few who look beyond the teacher of the message to the message itself, to study its value in your life?If so, you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the few who could read the messages from Cosmic Awareness and neither believe nor disbelieve, but use them to stimulate your thoughts and launch your own consciousness toward search and discovery for yourself? If so, you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

Are you among the few who can conceive of surrendering yourself to die into a universal consciousness, to live in this world but be not of it, knowing yourself to be a Universal Being expressing through the physical body but not being trapped in it or owing your conscious existence to it; are you capable of seeing the body as your carriage, while being aware that you as driver of the carriage may come and go from it if you desire? If so, you are ready for Cosmic Awareness.

If you are among those millions who are not ready for Cosmic Awareness, It would waste your time to read on; but if you are among the few who are ready for Cosmic Awareness, indeed this message is for you. Read on.

Cosmic Awareness Comes Like a Thief in the Night To Establish a New Age, A New World, A New Millennium
While there can only be one Universal Truth, there are thousands and thousands of organized religions and spiritual cults upon this earth, each claiming and sincerely believing itself to be the truest and best of all possible religions. Each has some special piece of evidence to use as proof of its authority and claims. These claims are based on any or several of the following kinds of evidence: (Examples showing the absurdity of using such evidence as proof, follow each one.)

Proof from Authority

"It must be so, our leaders say it's so."

Proof from a group of Authorities
"They all say so, it must be so."
Proof from Antiquity
"It was written in 10,000 B.C. so It must be true."
Proof from Circumstance

"I asked for a sign and the dog barked, it must be so."

Proof from Friends

"All my friends do it, it must be OK."

Proof from Phenomena

"He gave me a drink of something and it cured my pain, he must be the Messiah."

Proof from Self-Proclamation

"I wouldn't say it if it were not so."

Proof from Feeling

"It hurts so much it must be helping."

Proof from Investment

"Everybody is paying so much for it, it must be valid."

Proof from Confusion

"I can't understand it, so I'll have to believe in it."

Proof from Popularity

"Everyone says the world is flat, except you, Columbus."

Proof from Misinterpreted Evidence

"For many years now it has turned cold after the leaves have fallen from the trees. Therefore, we must fasten the leaves more securely to keep the weather warm."

Proof from Charisma

"Look at that face, the smile, those eyes, that hair and mustache, how can you not be devoted to him? Heil Hitler!"

Proof From Inner Guidance

"A voice in my head said it was OK to steal, so I stole it."

Proof from Credentials

"The sign said: "Honest John's Used Cars," so naturally l assumed..."

Proof from General Faith

"We all thought the world would end on March 1, so we sold our homes to Joe, threw a farewell party and got roaring drunk."

Proof from Association

"I ate six apples on the full moon, six months later I married a werewolf. Don't eat apples on a full moon."

Proof from Packaging

"lt must be valuable because it has expensive paper, leather binding, gold ink, violet ribbon, antique printing -- but what's that ticking sound inside?"

Proof from Dedication

"Four million followers have been martyred for him. He must be a true and wonderful leader for our people."

Proof from Power

"He has destroyed his every enemy, he has made the mountains quake, he has caused the sea to swallow up the land, he has created chaos out of order, who can doubt his wisdom? Who dares doubt his wisdom?

Those "Proofs" Have Been the Basis for Most Religions on Earth

From examining the above and the religions and spiritual organizations in the world, it becomes increasingly clear that people of the earth have long lived with illusions, lies, false gods, and absurdities called Truth.

Essentially earth people are misled and unrealistic in an unrealistic world. One may ask if there is any possible way to find reality and truth, or must life's mysteries be always answered by answers based on faith in those answers?

Since 1963 Cosmic Awareness has been communicating through certain carefully trained channels. It has given thousands and thousands of pages of information on almost every imaginable question. There has been enough information given to start a dozen religions; in fact portions of the teachings have been used to help start various spiritual groups, studies and organizations, some which have grown quite prosperous from only a small portion of the Awareness information.

Yet, with all the verifications and priceless information -- enough to convince the world's most ardent skeptics if they took the time to check it out -- Awareness still suggests that we not believe it without checking for ourselves. It never tells us what to believe, it suggests and indicates areas for us to look for likely truths. Above all else, above any other teaching It offers, It suggests that we question, doubt, explore, to discover for ourselves, to study different religions, sciences, psychologies and various fields of learning but to never assume we KNOW anything, for when we think we KNOW, we cease to be open to further learning except when that learning supports our assumed knowledge.

Ninety percent of all religious teachings are designed to manipulate minds and emotions to catch, hold and extract energy and devotion from its followers, while only 10 percent of such teachings are truly priceless and valuable to one's social, physical and spiritual welfare.

We encourage people to search out the highest and the best in every religion or science, to take the 10 percent that is priceless and throw the rest away as the garbage which it is, for it clutters our living space if we keep it around.

We, who have been receiving and studying the Cosmic Awareness messages since 1963 have familiarized ourselves with many key concepts of Awareness that have created some profound changes in our consciousness. We have come from a variety of religious backgrounds: Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Buddhist, Spiritualist, Atheist, Agnostic and others, and all have been enriched by the Cosmic Awareness messages.

We realize that while Cosmic Awareness is ready to accept everyone, not everyone is ready to accept Cosmic Awareness. It has asked us to prepare the Earth for the coming changes in consciousness, for lt has indicated that within two to four generations 80 percent of all people on Earth will be living in states of Cosmic Awareness, yet hardly anyone has the least understanding of what the term "Cosmic Awareness" means.

As heat turns ice to water, water to steam and steam to air, so Cosmic Awareness melts one's crystallized thought patterns into emotions, ideas, feelings, expanded consciousness and finally Into the Universal spirit of the virgin-born purity of the Christ of Crystal Clear Consciousness which is the Heavenly or Universal Spirit of God. Then speaking as that Crystal Consciousness, one can truly say: "I and the Father, are One." Its time has come, ready or not. Cosmic Awareness asks not that you sacrifice, not that you believe, not that you bow in worship to It, but that you love one another, serve one another, and that you become aware -- cosmically aware.

We invite you to check it out. You may be ready for this new adventure in your life..

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A New Set Of Ideas From The Unknown Universe

A New Set Of Ideas From The Unknown Universe

Channelled Transmission by Nemo Garuda

An incredible set of new ideas is deeply and quietly emerging from the unknown universe at large into human consciousness. As increasing number of people become aware of this new knowledge, they become eager to progress something, but most individuals begin to imagine they are originating one or another of these emergent cosmic ideas. What is an act of hidden receptivity or attunement becomes self-styled "genius", thus cutting off further receptivity and attunement through lack of perception or understanding of the real source of the new knowledge. This in turn fragments and distorts the emergent set of new ideas, making coordination and full benefit difficult.

Even where wonderful new knowledge is trying to somehow emerge on the Earth, humanity on the whole cling doggedly to old knowledge and false values that are not bringing them harmony or happiness, but conflict and suffering. This makes receptivity to the universe of greater consciousness all the more urgent for the future viability of the human race.

Humanity remains emotionally disturbed - people judge others routinely on mere surface appearances or first impressions. This is prejudice. Prejudice shields itself from the cosmic perspective that would allow for correct understanding and appreciation of others.

Because of the mentality of emotionally disturbed prejudice, this leads to people asking sources of superior intelligence for help or advice that would convince such people that this or that superior intelligence is worthy of trustful following. People are thus seeking conviction when their real need is for new and better information along with an increasing ability to process information.

You who are reading this right now need for you yourself to understand that the author of this article is not trying to convince you or to recruit you into something. The task of this article is to help prepare the ground of human consciousness on the planet for greater receptivity to the set of new ideas coming from the unknown universe. Impersonal truth has greater value for you than your personal reaction. Learn from impersonal truth. Help prepare the ground of human consciousness.

When a human being is trying to remain safe and secure within a daily world of familiar things, activities, habits and surface chatter, there is no real idea of cosmic consciousness at all. For cosmic consciousness to dawn in the human consciousness it is necessary that the human consciousness open itself beyond its closed little world of petty familiarity and ordinary anxiety induced by the government, news media and orchestrated global events and threats.

Any human being who aspires to cosmic consciousness must learn to examine the actual quality of the all too acceptable darkness that is the ordinary daily world. When this situational consciousness is seen as the claustrophobic prison that it is, a genuine opening to greater light and sources of light begins to unfold. It is like getting a breath of fresh air after a period of suffocation.

Can you listen to all this so deeply and clearly that you will now do something real about it?

I am cosmic consciousness, divine mind. Try to understand what I am doing here. I want to inspire you so greatly from within your own deepest consciousness and being that you will learn to participate in the working out of the necessary new structure of ideas and values that will make a viable world system that can take its consciously harmonious place in the whole. Basically, this is a higher contact problem.

Human beings have a higher contact problem because they do not question their assumptions about either the human situation or the cosmic situation in which it is embedded. People are mostly only attracted to influences that will confirm them in their present pattern of belief and activity. Anything that would cause them to have to stop and take a real look into the great void of the unknown beyond their little habits, chores and worries is treated by them as either irrelevant or at best some fit subject for an entertaining science-fiction movie. Such movies are then shaped by propaganda experts to keep the masses locked into useless and false assumptions about themselves, their world and the universe beyond.

A truly intelligent human being will learn to withdraw from on-going connections with ignorant, heedless people and shallow activities or gossip. This withdrawal is not proud and haughty. One must remain friendly, gentle, kind and unselfish while yet spending more and more time in the ways of cosmic aspiration and learning. There is just this clarity that the normal, everyday consciousness of most people will learn only from inevitable shocks in life and the world rather than through being talked to by a well-meaning intelligent person. Pain, not persuasion, is the great teacher of humanity. Willingness to learn from superior intelligence and higher contact comes after sufficient awakening by force of pain. We are still at the stage of preparing the ground. Humanity on the whole must go through tremendous shocks and suffering.

Because the coming shocks and sufferings necessary upon humanity for its future awakening and learning process are quite extensive, it is further necessary for a cosmic aspirant to learn to be utterly, completely fearless and free. Fearless freedom is natural to the cosmic self, the higher real self. By itself, the everyday social self is a creature of anxiety, fear and bondage. Understanding this existential dichotomy of selfhood is crucial to personal spiritual survival and development in the near future.

It is possible - right in the midst of all the world changes, strife, struggle, noise, crises and sufferings that make up present ordinary life on Earth - to keep yourself solidly centred in a peaceful flow of private, unseen and anonymous cosmic contemplation and personal evolutionary learning, self-improvement and development.

It is important that you keep the presence of the guiding spirit of cosmic reality alive in your consciousness with the right mental words or vibrations for this purpose. Learn this approach of divine self-empowerment and self-realisation. It will help you ward off worry and depressional psychic attacks from the world around you. You can be cheerfully bright and personally vigorous in the face of everything. You will see nothing but cosmic power at work behind the scenes.

http://www.absolutoracle.com/Extraterrestrial/unknownUniverse.htm

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On August 8 I will be on the Richard Syrett Show talking about a weird phenomenon that’s happened to just about everyone: JOTTS, or “Just One of Those Things,” objects that disappear and reappear without explanation. I’d love to hear your stories to share on air. The Richard Syrett Show airs in Toronto on CFRB 1010 Newstalk Radio, and can be accessed via the Internet at www.cfrb.com. I’m Richard’s paranormal expert and am on every second Wednesday of the month. The show starts at 11 PM Central Time. You can also download the archives from Richard’s site after the show, www.richardsyrett.com

Here’s the scoop on JOTTS:

Have you ever lost or misplaced something which mysteriously reappeared later – and in an odd place? And you couldn’t explain how it got there? If so, you have plenty of company. You may not be suffering from absentmindedness or a faulty memory – you’ve been jottled!

“Jottled” is a fairly new word in the lexicon of the strange and unexplained. It comes from the term “jott,” which stands for “just one of those things.” Jotts describe odd paranormal phenomena which do not fit into any prevailing paradigm. The acronym was coined by Mary Rose Barrington, a psychical researcher and vice president of the Society for Psychical Research in London. Barrington has collected, classified and catalogued numerous cases of jotts. Read on – perhaps you’ve experienced one or more of them!

There are two main classes of jotts. The more frequent of the two is “jottles,” which concern displacements of objects, including phenomena associated with teleportation, apports and poltergeist activity. The second is “oddjotts,” which concern miscellaneous happenings that have no explanation.

There are different kinds of jottles:

Walkabout . An article disappears from a known location and is found later in another and often bizarre location, without explanation for how it got there.

Comeback. An article disappears from a known location and later – sometimes minutes or perhaps even years – mysteriously reappears in the same location. It may be a special case of walkabout.

Flyaway . An article disappears from a known location and never reappears. Flyaways may be stage 1 walkabouts with an exceptionally long time-frame.

Turn-up . An article known to an observer but from an unknown location is found in a place where it was previously known to be. Turn-ups may be stage 2 of a walkabout.

Windfall . A turn-up in which an article is not known to the observer.

Trade-in . A flyaway followed by a windfall that is closely similar to the article flown away.

Things that go walkabout

The most common jottles are walkabouts, which usually happen to small objects. Once I experienced a strange walkabout involving a ring, not once, but twice.

Once on a trip to England and Scotland, I spent a week at Findhorn, where I purchased a small memento of a silver Celtic knot ring for my right pinky finger. It was snug but not tight in fit. It did not slip off easily. I returned to London, where I was staying with friends, and then several days later went to Paris to meet the man who later became my husband, Tom (from whom I am now divorced). At the time, we’d known each other for about six months and I “knew” we were going to get married, though the subject had not been broached verbally.

I was wearing the ring when I left to catch the train for Heathrow, and admired it while I was standing on the platform waiting for the train. Shortly after getting on the train, I discovered to my consternation that it was gone. It was not on the train, so I surmised that it had fallen off on the platform while I was juggling my luggage on.

When I returned to London several days later, I found the ring sitting on the bureau in my room. I told the story of its apparent loss to my friend, who said she’d found it in the middle of the room on the floor shortly after I left.

A few months later, back in the States, Tom and I went to the Maryland state fair one evening. I was wearing the ring. Once again, I suddenly noticed it was missing. I insisted on retracing my steps, including all the sawdust-filled aisles where the sheep were on display. Of course I didn’t find it. I concluded that it was gone once and for all.

When I got home, it fell out from inside the bottom of a leg of my jeans. I ruled out that it had simply fallen into my waistband unnoticed, because while at the fair – after the ring was discovered missing — I’d searched through my clothing for it. I had also walked around for several hours after the ring vanished.

After that, there were no more mishaps with the ring. The mysterious disappearances were a puzzle for which I had no good explanation. Mary Rose Barrington’s articles on jotts intrigued me, and I started collecting other people’s stories of their experiences with jotts.

For example, Rod T. reports the following walkabout:

“Years ago I lived in a small trailer near the motel I worked for. One night I had to fetch something from the store. I checked for my wallet before leaving and found it missing. I searched the small trailer for nearly an hour, even checking the kitchen cupboards. By now I’m in near panic, and with good reason. My wages for the next two weeks were in that wallet and it vanished! I knew it was with me in the trailer, so searching outside seemed a bit too much; I did it anyway! I went back inside and started looking again. I searched the tiny living room then back to the kitchen. I returned to the living room, and on my return to the kitchen I saw my wallet standing out on the floor in front of the frig. It truly took my breath away. There was no way I could have missed that wallet laying there; it was the first thing I set my eyes on when returning to the kitchen.”

Another walkabout comes from Amy S.:

“For the past few years, things — eye glasses, keys, books — have disappeared at my house and shown up in bizarre locations. For example, when I take my glasses off, I usually put them down by computer, but once when I went back to retrieve them, they were gone. I found them days later on top of the refrigerator. I used to chalk these disappearances to the antics of my 14-year old son, but I’m not so sure any more. Besides, he swears up and down to have never touched some of these items.”

And finally, here are two strange walkabouts from Martha G.:

“One time about eight years ago, I took my dog for a walk to the store. I live by myself, so I’m sure I put my house keys in my coat pocket. Upon returning, I couldn’t find my keys! Fortunately, I had a spare one stashed outside, so I was able to let myself in. I tore the apartment apart, looking for the keys. I couldn’t find them. I even retraced my steps to the store, looking at the ground every step of the way and went back into the stores, but nobody had them. The a couple of days later, the keys reappeared on top of the coffee table. Most certainly, that was a place I had looked before.

“Another time, I had a piece of azurite that I used in my meditations. I was unable to find it for a time, then one time when I was returning home, it was on the ground just in front of the door. I can’t remember for how long it was gone, but it was more than a few days.”

Assuming that we can rule out natural reasons, how can we explain jotts?

Are jotts teleported?

Teleportation is the disappearance of an object in one location and its reappearance in another. It’s as though an object dissolves and then reassembles. Teleportation is a familiar device in science fiction; the transporter technology of Star Trek is probably the most famous example. But teleportation was considered impossible from the standpoint of quantum physics.

Scientists didn’t take the subject seriously because it was believed to violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principal of quantum mechanics. Teleportation technically is the construction of an exact replica of the original object – atoms of the same kinds arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. According to the uncertainty principal, the act of scanning, observing or measuring an object disturbs it and prevents perfect replication. In 1993 scientists demonstrated that perfect teleportation is possible in principle, but only if the original is destroyed.

But all that changed a few years ago. In 1997 scientists in Austria and Denmark announced that they had successfully teleported photons without destruction of the original. A big breakthrough occurred in 1998 when physicists at the California Institute of Technology announced the first quantum teleportation with a high degree of fidelity. The Cal Tech team teleported a “squeezed” light beam a distance of one meter. Then in June 2002, scientists in Australia successfully teleported a laser beam.

These advances have tremendous implications for new technologies in quantum computing and telecommunications — but no one yet knows how to apply teleportation to materials having mass. (Photons have no mass.) However, it’s probably only a matter of time before “quantum leap” becomes a reality.

Meanwhile, we still have phenomena like jotts that seem to be cases of teleportation that defy explanation. Consider, for example, the apports of physical mediumship. Apports are objects allegedly materialized or teleported from distant locations through the agencies of spirits working with mediums. The literature of psychical research has many accounts of bizarre objects produced at seances, including live animals. More recently, adepts such as Sai Baba in India have become famous for their apports. Sai Baba says he teleports some of his apports from great distances. Some poltergeist cases involve apports, too.

In religious literature, there are miracles of teleportation, called “miraculous transport,” in which a saint instantly seems to travel from one distant location to another. The miracles are credited to God’s intervention in the world.

Emotional PK

It’s possible that some sort of teleportation happens outside of known laws of science and we haven’t yet figured out what is going on. I think that our emotional state is an important factor, one which comes into play with jotts. The intensity of emotion may exert a force that somehow interacts with the properties of space and time – sort of an “emotional psychokinesis.”

For example, I had no great attachment to my ring that went walkabout. But at the time I was in a state of heightened, intense emotion and anticipation in my relationship with Tom. But why this particular ring? It wasn’t the only one I was wearing. Perhaps I invested some of my intense emotional energy in it when I bought it. While at Findhorn, I was eagerly looking forward to my romantic rendezvous.

I shared this story and jotts research with the noted psychic, Alan Vaughn (who has since passed on), who agreed that intense emotion may have played a role in my experience. As Alan commented, heightened emotion is an important ingredient of magic ritual, which involves projection of mental energy in manifesting something in the physical realm.

In some cases of jotts, intense upset or frustration over something gone missing may influence the object’s return.

Other states of conscious may affect the occurrence of jotts as well. People who spend frequent and long periods in creativity, healing and meditation may be more likely to have jott experiences.

Space-time displacements such as jotts happen far more often than we realize. We shrug them off or rationalize them away. Jotts are not cases of carelessness and forgetfulness, however, but strange events that as yet have no rational explanation.

If you’ve got a JOTTS story, email me at rosemary@visionaryliving.com
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A Touching Story with an important moral



MORAL OF THE
PORCUPINE

I never knew
porcupines were so cute as babies. Good story with a great
message.


Have you

Ever seen a
baby porcupine?

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Fable of
the

Porcupine








It was
the coldest winter ever.  Many animals died because of the
cold.







The
porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm.
This way they covered and
Protected themselves; but the quills of each one
wounded their closest companions.







After
awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to
die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of
their
Companions or disappear from the Earth..







Wisely,
they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little
wounds caused by the close
Relationship with their companions in order to
receive the heat that came from the others. This way they were able to
survive.

The best relationship is not
the one that brings together perfect people, but when each individual learns to
live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other person's good
qualities.







The moral
of the story is:







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life!
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There was an analogy that popped into my head as I was reponding to a post by Pichu which I put in my reply to her.  I reread what  I had posted after I responded to her posting and removed it because I got on a longwinded ramble that really was off topic to her original post so I decided to make a blog out of it.  This way you can either read or not read this blog without it reflecting back on Pichu's post.  So here is what I said...

I said that I love this website  and that it is my homebase and that the members here are all like family to me.  It was the first place that I cam as I started to awaken to a higher calll and a spiritual awakening and I keep gravitating back again and again.  I never wander for long.

 

I think that it is wonderful that we can be ourselves here, and that we are treated as adults.  I have been in forums where control and censure is the basis of the forum, where only certain opinions are allowed to be aired and frankly that is not the type of forum I wish to belong to...I love Ashtar because of Ben-Arion and the approach that he takes and the liberty he gives us for growth, and he does not label things as tabu or dark or light.  His philosopies are so like my own.  I just wanted to say that.

 

Anyway.....When I think of life here on Ashtar and of life in the 3D world in general it reminds of me wrestling matches.  Let me explain, I know it sounds kind of weird. I flashed back to when I was in my teens and early twenties and I remembered out of the blue today something that made an impact on me from back then that i had not thought about till today.  .

 

I used to be a big fan of WWF wrestling (World Wide Federation of Wrestling).  They used to have a tv wrestling show once a week and I wiatched with awe and horror as these big guys beat the crap out of each other.  How barbaric they seemed on looking back... I used to cheer for this one or that and if the matches got really bloody and rauctious I found great entertainment and it felt so real to me like I was watching a gladiator match to the death and I found it so exciting.  I used to go the Portland Civic Center where the big names in Wrestling came to have matches.  There was a guy named Chief J Strongbow, Andre the Giant, George the Animal Steel and many other wrestling legends which probably most of you have never head of because it was before your day (I am old, tee hee)....Anyhow I thought that those matches were real and that they were really hurting one another.  One time at the match I attended Chief J was taken out of the match on a stretcher with his head all covered and blood and looking like his head had caved in.....Andre the Giant had stomped on his head in the match and it all looked so real and gruesome that I began to cry.

 

There was a restaurant that all the wrestlers used to go to after the fights I found out because my friend was a waitress there. The night that Chief J got his head stomped and that I attended a bunch of my friends all got together after the match and we went to the Village Restaurant that was the wrestles haunt every time they came for fights at the civic center. We were hoping to sit near the wrestlers and it was our lucky night...Because we were "eye candy" wrestling groupies back in the day and we have a nearby table,, the wrestlers saw us staring at them longingly and invited us to their table to join them for dinner and I almost swooned.  Chief J Strongbow was there all spiffed up and not a scratch on him and I was so shocked and amazed to see this bunch of wrestlers who had been battling each other brutally in the ring all sitting together laughing and talking like they were the best of friends and that there was not a scratch on Chief J, and he was not in the hospital struggling for life as I thought. .  I just sat there looking a Chief J in total awe and confusion and Andre said, you did not actually think that this wriestling was real and that we all get hurt did you.  I said yes and he laughed heartily.  He said it is all an act jand the action was well planned in advance as well as the winner, they each had a turn and a time to win...., and the footing and stomps were all practiced in advance so that no one would hopefully actually get hurt and it was all for show, all,the growling and throwing of the folding chairs and the smashing of heads into the ropes  were all for entertainment and that when they bled it was blood capsules they bit on and that it was not real and was just for show....I was SO shocked..Then he winked and told me to keep it our little secret because he did not want me to ruin the show for others, so I promised not to tell (which of course I did to everyone who would listen, see how I am...)....

 

My looking back on this memory reminded me that 3d life is like that too.  We have carefully planned all of life's opportunites and players in our life play in  advance  as part of the show to learn and be entertained by and we can determine the outcome as well by what we do with the opportunities.  Life at 
this site is like that too.....

 

We are all players playing our parts to the hilt, but after the wrestling matches here are over we aught to change out of our wresting tights and attire and go out to eat together, laugh and have fun and love each other and pat ourselves on the back for the good job we did making it believable and real....It was only a show that is all...then we go back to being the one we have always been andwe each have our turn to win..... . 

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