The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But

[lkwdblds]

Very nice suggestion FoTi!!

Lakey, since what you seem to keep coming up with here is the need for proof, what would happen if you address the need for proof (needing proof - not needing proof) before addressing what you were trying to address?

You know, that "undercut" really indicates to me. I am going to try that out and do so before Roger comes along and says anything about the process and/or its undercut, assuming that he will do so.

When I hit the stone wall, which I did, I figured that an undercut process to unburden was needed but I did not want to attempt to conjure one up because I was afraid I would spin myself in. However, when I saw your proposed undercut process, it really indicated. Thanks a lot FoTi.

I am fliying so high in so many areas of my case, it is wonderful. Then I hit a block wall in a major area such as Being is Seeing and it is revealed to me where I need help to make my next case break through.

I am really applying the datum which Yvonne Jentzsch constantly gave to CC staff and that was to seek out people equal and higher toned to what you are, or equal to you or higher casewise or equal or higher to you in intelligence or knowledge of tech or whatever. I am doing this very heavily now and am finding it a very good piece of tech.

Here on the thread, I had this effect going with so many of you. It is almost impossible to name names because so many great people are left off of the list and I know what that feels like but just a couple of names deserve special mention and those are Roger, Face, Carmelo, Ted and Ethics Particle. Also, though grudgingly, I have to admit Leon as well, he knows his tech. I would say there are a good twenty other people whom I hold in special regard and then beyond that maybe another twenty whom I respect a lot.

Well, I have added Johnny now as a friend and we now have a personal comm line and just two days ago, Ken Urquhart's name came up on my Facebook saying we have many mutual freinds and that we might consider making friends. I sent Ken a friendship request and a letter telling him I was on the Apollo with him and he wrote back and we have each now written 4 private messages back and forth in just two days. You know he is a great lover of classical music.

With a base of 40 stars and super stars to communicate with and then adding the likes of The Magic Thetan and Ken Urquhart, one can't help but have a lot of theta rub off on them, which in turn runs one way, way up the various scales. Doing that and then having two beautiful children and access to great classical music, great popular music and a library of classic films, such as the Shawshank Redemption which I watched with my cousin last night, there are a lot of blessings to count and a lot of reason not to regret being stuck on planet Earth but instead exulting in how great a place Earth can be if one decides that it is a great place. Prison planet? Nah,.....no way, there has never been a prison where so many great things are available to people and where so many top people can communicate and exchange amongst one another.
Lakey

 

[FoTi]

Delete

 

[Leon]

Grudgingly? Why grudgingly?

 

[lkwdblds]

Why I say grudgingly!

Grudgingly? Why grudgingly?

Why I say grudgingly... I am telling you this very honestly. I can't be sure if I am correct or not, I just perceive that you are a bit arrogant and aloof, I see tremendous intelligence and excellent technical knowledge and a desire to share you knowledge but I don't see any kidding around or spirit of play.

With you, I apply look don't listen and I must include you amongst the elite contributors on this thread - three times you have gone out of your way to help me resolve some case issues which were left dangling when I left the C of S so I owe you an elite recommendation. Somehow, though I don't see the two of us hanging out and kicking back and having a couple of beers. All the other people on the list, I think that would be possible.

Maybe I am wrong, maybe I do not understand New Zealand culture or humor.
Please don't worry about it. If I made someone's elite list for best internet posters and they thought I was egotistical, I would take it as a huge win.

Hey look, if you feel you are not aloof just make a reach to me and show me otherwise, I am going to respond positively but if you are a bit aloof, there is nothing really wrong with that. The fact that I would not feel comfortable hanging with you and having a beer is not very important in the overall scheme of the universe. If you want to debunk this feeling I have take action. If you don't care what I think, don't take action. Either way, you made my elite list on merit and ability and that is what counts!!!
Lakey

 

[The Great Zorg]

Natural ability and those fucking cats

Anybody! I mean a n y b o d y can do a make more / make less / move of clouds.(snip) This is not a process. It is just practicing a skill that you have. It isn't any more charged than learning how to ride a bicycle.

Nine lives, sixth sense: Cat at veterinary clinic seeks out ailing cats(snip)

I do believe we have natural abilities, these gifts and blessings from Creator are normal; they are not mystical or evil or "of Satan." I also believe now that hubbard used some of these abilities for his own twisted, greedy purpose: he discovered natural abilities and clouded them with "processes". :confused2:

Those fucking cats... most Reiki healers are sooner or later taught that we have competition; cats , for some reason, seem to be under the incorrect assumption that channeling healing energy (Reiki) is their gift, not the human's. This explains why, while being a cat lover, most cats either ignore me or bugger off when they see me coming, which only started after I became involved with Reiki. :confused2:

I was sitting one night in front of my condo townhouse with a friend and we were talking about light energy and healing and Reiki and suddenly we noticed a cat walking along the fence that parallels the townhouses, some 50 feet away. I turned to my friend and said "Don't believe in the light and Reiki, eh? Watch this!" He shrugged while I focused a "beam" of light from within and pointed at the cat while I sent it all to the little critter. The cat stopped instantly, crouched and turned to stare at me, head lowered. It did this for a few seconds, straightened itself and proceeded to again walk along the fence, eyes forward. I turned to my friend and he was smirking and said "BULLSHIT!!!!" "OK" I said,"I'll do it again". Watch. I repeated the process of drawing in, focusing and releasing the "light" right at the cat, while pointing (not necessary). Once again the cat stopped, head lowered, crouching, staring, this time for about 5 seconds or so. I laughed and looking at my buddy smiling and saying "Fuck Off!!! Bullshit! Come on!" "Ohhhkaaaay, one more time eh?" We both watched as I repeated the light sending process a third time. (I'm laughing while recalling this adventure) Same thing; absorb, collect and transmit directly at kitty. This time, however, the cat stopped again in it's tracks, turning to look right at me as before but then suddenly started trotting directly toward me! I started laughing while my friend was making the same comments like "Fuck Off!! No WAY man! No way!" When the cat was trotting toward me I had said "Oh OH!! Hollyyyyyyyyy shit!!!" (laughing) ...like some tiger or lion was charging toward me to do me in, standing up, not knowing whether to run or stay or stand my ground or what! The cat trotted right up to me, stopping about 5 feet away and sat there staring right at me with those slow blinks cat lovers have seen a thousand times. (laughing laughing laughing) While the cat sat there looking at me I sat down, held my hands in front of my and I said "Sorry... I apologize for disturbing you and your evening." The cat slowly blinked again, got up[ an all fours, turned and trotted off in the direction it was originally going when all this started. I looked at my friend and he had the weirdest look on his face while slowly uttering a much slower "fuuuuuccckkkk offfffff!!!!". (lmao).

True story. On my word.

Just goes to show what some or most or even all of us have as native abilities.

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Ghost writer!

Since Ron is being channelled, how about arranging to have Ron read the screen, type on the keyboard, and answer questions from ESMB?

LOL Veda, as in ghost writer? LOL!!!

Look folks, if we accept as reality (as many of us here do) that Life is eternal , or that the thetaness of our being is not extinguished by the experience of dying, then the being that was known as Ron has moved on somewhere, hopefully with a fuller (and hopefully saner, kinder and more joyous) expression of Life, or has merged with the collective consciousness, crossed over into the summerland, or something, depending on your philosophic and cultural beliefs...(I know, some of you will be voting for "roasting in hell!") but that "he" still exists somewhere, somehow, in some form, even if just in thought or as pure unbodied energy...is sorta a given if you believe in eternity or in the existence of the afterlife...which some of us do!

...so if we start with that as our premise, isn't it likely that communication might just possibly happen between us in some form or another, at some point, given our penchant for it as beings? (Exactly what we are all taking such pleasure in doing here- Communicating! )

I know some of my Spiritualist ancestors were into automatic writing...but I wouldn't extend that to posting via a keyboard here, Veda, and I don't think we should sign him up for a "ghost" account on ESMB or elsewhere , but in my reality, such communications between us and those who have "passed on" are possible.

Your viewpoints may differ. It's o.k. with me if they do.

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Caring and Compassion are Healing Forces, however they are expressed!

Nine lives, sixth sense: Cat at veterinary clinic seeks out ailing cats

By Diana Samuels
Daily News Staff Writer San Jose Mercury News
Posted: 08/18/2010 08:04:38 PM PDT

All cats may have nine lives, but Christopher, an orange and white tabby who lives at a Redwood City veterinary clinic, also has a sixth sense.
Dubbing him a "guardian angel," "wonder cat" and "miracle kitty," the staff and volunteers at the Nine Lives Foundation's Feline Well-Care Clinic say Christopher can tell when other cats need help. He will sit outside the cages of sick felines until someone lets him in, and last month, the clinic says, he saved the life of a kitten in need of a blood transfusion.

"It's weird, it's really true that he seems to understand things," said Monica Thompson, Nine Lives' chief veterinarian and founder. "He knows when he can help. He alerts us when things aren't right about a cat."

Christopher, who is about 3 or 4 years old, was found on the side of a road by a group of bicyclists in March. He arrived at the clinic unable to stand, his pelvis fractured.

He recuperated, and one day simply jumped out of his cage while it was being cleaned.

Since then, Christopher has lived at the clinic. On Wednesday morning he snoozed in his favorite cat bed on a desk, ignoring the hustle and bustle around him. As is typical for Christopher, he was napping next to a terminally ill cat.

"He'll often paw at a cage door to be let in so he can clean and comfort a cat in there," said Robert Lowery, a San Ramon resident and volunteer at Nine Lives.

He even became known as the "feral kitten tamer" last month, when he asked to be let into a cage with two feral kittens that were "untouchable, just hissing and growling," Thompson said.

Christopher taught the kittens all about being a cat, and within a couple of weeks they were tame. One has since been adopted, and the other is still available.

"The kittens were so excited to see (Christopher) that when he left the cage they would sit and cry," Thompson said.

But Christopher's biggest claim to fame is likely saving the life of a tiny black kitten that came to the clinic July 11 with severe anemia. She needed a blood transfusion immediately, and Thompson couldn't draw enough to even determine her blood type.

"I didn't know what I was going to do," Thompson said.

Christopher kept jumping up on the operating table, rubbing on Thompson and nuzzling the kitten. So Thompson grabbed Christopher and used his blood for the transfusion.

Thompson didn't know it at the time, but the kitten had an uncommon "B" blood type found in about 20 to 25 percent of the cat population. It's also a blood type usually found in purebred cats, Thompson said, so she wouldn't have expected to find it in the black shorthaired kitten.

As it turned out, Christopher also has Type B blood. The kitten was standing up within about four hours of the transfusion, Thompson said, and has since gone back to Humanimal Connection, the rescue foundation that was caring for her.

"If I hadn't paid attention to (Christopher), I probably would have lost the cat," Thompson said.

Though many people have inquired about adopting Christopher, Thompson said, he "serves a purpose" at the clinic.

"Who knows how many cats he'll save in the years ahead," Lowery said.
E-mail Diana Samuels at [email protected].

The Nine Lives Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of cats and kittens. It operates a veterinary clinic and shelter, providing low cost spay/neuter, rescue, medical and adoption services. Its shelter welcomes all cats and kittens regardless of their physical, medical or behavioral conditions.

The Nine Lives Foundation shelter: 3016 Rolison Road, Redwood City, 650-368-1365

The Feline Well-Care Clinic: 1683 Broadway, Redwood City, 650-368-1365

For more information on how to donate, and to see cats available for adoption, visit http://www.ninelivesfoundation.org/

Well, I've seen far stranger things than this and believed them...so I'm just gonna add:

Maybe this is Ron doing his self-assigned amends project...

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Not so bad!

And the C/S says "Look at that SPARE TIRE!" Cocktail hour and dessert is out for you, bud!
EP

Tell the CS that your fan base here thinks it just makes more of you to hug!

 

[FoTi]

I do believe we have natural abilities, these gifts and blessings from Creator are normal; they are not mystical or evil or "of Satan." I also believe now that hubbard used some of these abilities for his own twisted, greedy purpose: he discovered natural abilities and clouded them with "processes". :confused2:

Those fucking cats... most Reiki healers are sooner or later taught that we have competition; cats , for some reason, seem to be under the incorrect assumption that channeling healing energy (Reiki) is their gift, not the human's. This explains why, while being a cat lover, most cats either ignore me or bugger off when they see me coming, which only started after I became involved with Reiki. :confused2:

I was sitting one night in front of my condo townhouse with a friend and we were talking about light energy and healing and Reiki and suddenly we noticed a cat walking along the fence that parallels the townhouses, some 50 feet away. I turned to my friend and said "Don't believe in the light and Reiki, eh? Watch this!" He shrugged while I focused a "beam" of light from within and pointed at the cat while I sent it all to the little critter. The cat stopped instantly, crouched and turned to stare at me, head lowered. It did this for a few seconds, straightened itself and proceeded to again walk along the fence, eyes forward. I turned to my friend and he was smirking and said "BULLSHIT!!!!" "OK" I said,"I'll do it again". Watch. I repeated the process of drawing in, focusing and releasing the "light" right at the cat, while pointing (not necessary). Once again the cat stopped, head lowered, crouching, staring, this time for about 5 seconds or so. I laughed and looking at my buddy smiling and saying "Fuck Off!!! Bullshit! Come on!" "Ohhhkaaaay, one more time eh?" We both watched as I repeated the light sending process a third time. (I'm laughing while recalling this adventure) Same thing; absorb, collect and transmit directly at kitty. This time, however, the cat stopped again in it's tracks, turning to look right at me as before but then suddenly started trotting directly toward me! I started laughing while my friend was making the same comments like "Fuck Off!! No WAY man! No way!" When the cat was trotting toward me I had said "Oh OH!! Hollyyyyyyyyy shit!!!" (laughing) ...like some tiger or lion was charging toward me to do me in, standing up, not knowing whether to run or stay or stand my ground or what! The cat trotted right up to me, stopping about 5 feet away and sat there staring right at me with those slow blinks cat lovers have seen a thousand times. (laughing laughing laughing) While the cat sat there looking at me I sat down, held my hands in front of my and I said "Sorry... I apologize for disturbing you and your evening." The cat slowly blinked again, got up[ an all fours, turned and trotted off in the direction it was originally going when all this started. I looked at my friend and he had the weirdest look on his face while slowly uttering a much slower "fuuuuuccckkkk offfffff!!!!". (lmao).

True story. On my word.

Just goes to show what some or most or even all of us have as native abilities.

How do you use this with clients?

 

[The Great Zorg]

ethermail

How do you use this with clients?

We are taught that one of the sacred Reiki symbols and intonations is used to send (channel) the Reiki healing energy through a distance. It really doesn't cross that distance, it appears where it asked to go but we are restricted in our thinking to believe the energy crosses a distance so a symbol is envisioned or written in the air along with the symbol's intonation and two things are done physically by the healer (kundalini), a kind of "short circuit" of the nervous system to redirect the energy or channel it at a distance.

It was a variation I've developed myself on this channelling that I sent to that cat. Man-o-man was it pissed off! (LOL!). :confused2:

 

[FoTi]

We are taught that one of the sacred Reiki symbols and intonations is used to send (channel) the Reiki healing energy through a distance. It really doesn't cross that distance, it appears where it asked to go but we are restricted in our thinking to believe the energy crosses a distance so a symbol is envisioned or written in the air along with the symbol's intonation and two things are done physically by the healer (kundalini), a kind of "short circuit" of the nervous system to redirect the energy or channel it at a distance.

It was a variation I've developed myself on this channelling that I sent to that cat. Man-o-man was it pissed off! (LOL!). :confused2:

Do you use the symbols? Or not?

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Thoughts for Carmelo

For Carmelo, I would say, based on friend's experience, to encourage your son to do everything within his power to support his natural good health, in every way...leave no stone unturned, from medical treatments to whatever alternative, health food, supplement, exercise, counseling etc. activities seem useful or helpful in ANY way. Do everything possible just to support overall general good health of the immune system.

Educate yourself as much as possible about the condition and possible treatment courses or modalities.

Handle fear. This is very important with any negative health diagnosis, doing so helps us to de-stress, relax and heal more fully and quickly than otherwise...

Our bodies and minds are designed to be self-healing and regenerative, to a wonderful degree. Encourage your son to have confidence in his ability to get and stay well.

My own personal viewpoint on cancer is this...as it is just an overgrowth or abnormal expression of growth by cells, and that this happens to us as a natural process of embodied physical life all the time, that we all get cancer every single day, so to speak, and most of us recover from it spontaneously as our immune system goes to work for us and does it's job, detects these overgrowing cells and overtakes and controls them, keeping us healthy. Metaphysically, it's good to work on expressing positive growth and creativity in all forms in life while working out this bodily health challenge.

I will be praying (postulating) for your son and for you and your whole family.

With Much Love from Sweetness

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Thanks Everyone

I'll be looking at all this stuff and getting back to you.

 

[Leon]

Why I say grudgingly... I am telling you this very honestly. I can't be sure if I am correct or not, I just perceive that you are a bit arrogant and aloof, I see tremendous intelligence and excellent technical knowledge and a desire to share you knowledge but I don't see any kidding around or spirit of play.

With you, I apply look don't listen and I must include you amongst the elite contributors on this thread - three times you have gone out of your way to help me resolve some case issues which were left dangling when I left the C of S so I owe you an elite recommendation. Somehow, though I don't see the two of us hanging out and kicking back and having a couple of beers. All the other people on the list, I think that would be possible.

Maybe I am wrong, maybe I do not understand New Zealand culture or humor.
Please don't worry about it. If I made someone's elite list for best internet posters and they thought I was egotistical, I would take it as a huge win.

Hey look, if you feel you are not aloof just make a reach to me and show me otherwise, I am going to respond positively but if you are a bit aloof, there is nothing really wrong with that. The fact that I would not feel comfortable hanging with you and having a beer is not very important in the overall scheme of the universe. If you want to debunk this feeling I have take action. If you don't care what I think, don't take action. Either way, you made my elite list on merit and ability and that is what counts!!!
Lakey

You're probably tight actually. Many people find me a bit unaproachable. Austere and Teutonic. But I'm really a woosie sort of guy. Though I don't drink beer much. Revolting stuff, with few exceptions. I have always suffered fools ungladly, and when people try to impress that they are tech boffins when in fact they don't know their materials and are lazy thinkers then I tend to get a bit short with them.

But I like nothing more than a good chinwag through to the early hours with someone who really does know his stuff. That turns me on big time and others then hang onto our every word.

Alas, this happens too seldom.

 

[lkwdblds]

Come on Sweet, get real!

LOL Veda, as in ghost writer? LOL!!!

Look folks, if we accept as reality (as many of us here do) that Life is eternal , or that the thetaness of our being is not extinguished by the experience of dying, then the being that was known as Ron has moved on somewhere, hopefully with a fuller (and hopefully saner, kinder and more joyous) expression of Life, or has merged with the collective consciousness, crossed over into the summerland, or something, depending on your philosophic and cultural beliefs...(I know, some of you will be voting for "roasting in hell!") but that "he" still exists somewhere, somehow, in some form, even if just in thought or as pure unbodied energy...is sorta a given if you believe in eternity or in the existence of the afterlife...which some of us do!

...so if we start with that as our premise, isn't it likely that communication might just possibly happen between us in some form or another, at some point, given our penchant for it as beings? (Exactly what we are all taking such pleasure in doing here- Communicating! )

....................snip...................

Sweetness, I think this is a little pie in the sky. Why not apply Hubbard's own teachings to Hisself and his case. He was selling and the C of S is still selling that the Universe is a downward spiral, and that beings will eventually solidify into solid MEST UNLESS they follow the carefully mapped out procedures of Hubbard's "Bridge to Total Freedom". To even get on this bridge, a being has to write up his O/Ws and clean up his "ethics" which may, per our secent discussions actually mean cleaning up one's morals, vis a vis Church of Scientology Codes of Conduct and behavior.

Hubbard has had a series of lives on Earth, Cecil Rhodes was supposed to be his previous one and in one lecture he talks about being an British officer in the U.S. Revolution and having killed a U.S. General Prescot, etc. He talks of being on Earth way back when it was unoccupied and still called Teegeack. He was mocking up a future life when he appointed Mayo to Senior C/S Int. He told Mayo to hold down the fort for him for 21 years until he was old enough to legally be of age and claim all the fortunes that he had stashed around the world.

With all this history behind him, how and why would he suddenly turn over a new leaf and be such a benevolent and repentful guy? He wrote Mayo that he was planning to come back and take over C of S in a little over 21 years and he wrote that letter around 1982. He sold out Mary Sue, trashed his Daughter Alexis, ignored his Daughter Katy, Nibs and Quentin were dead and he was out of comm with Diana and Arthur. He did not follow his own policy and do a Power Change. At the end he was ill and unkempt and probably had sustained brain damage from various strokes.

How could or would a being in this condition suddenly decide not to return in human form any more and expand his wisdom and benevolence and turn into sort of a male Sweeness and Light? He went out in very poor condition, as the effect of others, unscrupulous others, such as DM. His case was never handled and was full of out listing, wrong items and unhandled R/Ses. He refused to allow his Class XII's under Roos to patch him up and instead offloaded Roos. He allowed Mayo to clean him up a bit and then allowed Mayo to be off loaded. How in the hell is this being going to end up being such a freed up and carefree happy go lucky guy? I am just asking. Based on everything which I know to be true, this is not possible. Of course, what do I know? Not that much perhaps, but I do know that the tech which he was peddling and which is still being sold by DM precludes him from being happy go lucky, uptone and benevolent 24 years after his body death. How could he possibly have brought this state about on himself, considering the condition he was in when he departed us? I would like to know who helped him or how he was able to pull this off on his own. Again, I am just asking.

If he can do this on his own after such a sordid life, why can't the rest of us transform ourselves and reverse the downward spiral as he did? Its like doing a Data Evaluatioin. Things are out of sequence, time is dropped out, and all sorts of outpoints abound all over the place and yet people are maintaining that he has moved up to a much higher level of beingness and is pretty cleared up right now. Color me skeptical. I need many questions answered before I will buy into these claims.
Lakey

 

[olska]

...
It was a variation I've developed myself on this channelling that I sent to that cat. Man-o-man was it pissed off! (LOL!). :confused2:

Are you sure the cat was "pissed off?" My understanding of the blinking (at and by cats) that you describe the cat doing is that it (the blinking) is a way to communicate friendliness, love, the message of "I'm not a threat."

Maybe the cat recognized you as a "kindred soul" and wanted to make friends?

I've personally used that body language (blinking at them) with feral cats and found they calm down, seem less wary of me, seem to have less need to run and hide or be on guard.

... could be only my imagination ...

 

[SweetnessandLight]

We can!

Well Lakey, it's just my postulate of what may be possible... in response to those who are stating or implying that it is totally impossible, based on their viewpoints and belief systems...you are free to reject it as part of your reality if that is what works best for you. That doesn't hurt or harm me at all. It's o.k. to be as skeptical as you want to be, probably very healthy for you, given what you have experienced with COS!

"If he can do this on his own after such a sordid life, why can't the rest of us transform ourselves and reverse the downward spiral as he did?"

My point is: in my Universe, WE ALL CAN!!! I am postulating that we each have this ability to rise above our circumstances/mest/attitudes/hangups/limitations/viewpoints, forever as an ongoing, eternal game/challenge/creative experience/expression of Life more fully! ALL of us who claim this ability can and will realize this for ourselves! (I told you I was metaphysical...and I don't expect everyone to agree with me. This is a fun game for me to play, and I grant you your beingness to play your own game, whatever is most fun for you! )

P.S. Also I'm an optimist ...and I wish for positive growth and healing for everyone...even Ron. :confused2: Wrong and naughty as he might have been to those closest to him, I'm not a hater.

 

[lkwdblds]

I understand - "I guess its lonely at the top"

You're probably tight actually. Many people find me a bit unaproachable. Austere and Teutonic. But I'm really a woosie sort of guy. Though I don't drink beer much. Revolting stuff, with few exceptions. I have always suffered fools ungladly, and when people try to impress that they are tech boffins when in fact they don't know their materials and are lazy thinkers then I tend to get a bit short with them.

But I like nothing more than a good chinwag through to the early hours with someone who really does know his stuff. That turns me on big time and others then hang onto our every word.

Alas, this happens too seldom.

Okay, fair and good. I guess what you are saying can be summarized as, "It's lonely at the top." That degree of humanity is sufficient for me, a real woosie if there ever was one, to remove the "grudgingly" adverb from your selection to my list of elites so consider it removed. By the way, there are beverages other than beer which quench thirst. Some good ones do not even have alcohol like a good hot apple cider on a cold night. If I ever meet you, perhaps we can kick back with one of those.
Lakey

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Are you sure the cat was "pissed off?" My understanding of the blinking (at and by cats) that you describe the cat doing is that it (the blinking) is a way to communicate friendliness, love, the message of "I'm not a threat."

Maybe the cat recognized you as a "kindred soul" and wanted to make friends?

I've personally used that body language (blinking at them) with feral cats and found they calm down, seem less wary of me, seem to have less need to run and hide or be on guard.

... could be only my imagination ...

Welcome Olska! Yes, you're right, and it's not just your imagination...it's called "eye flashing", a way of signaling to each other silently while prey or predators may be near...

I used to volunteer at a wildlife rehab center and all the big cats did this with each other and their caregivers.. My own cats do this, and stray cats/feral cats do this unless they are severely traumatized and fearful, in which case they won't hold eye contact with you. A slow steady eyeblink communicates all of the above to them, and more...kind of squeezing your eyes shut momentarily, as if with pleasure. Try it on your local kitty cats!

 

[FoTi]

Are you sure the cat was "pissed off?" My understanding of the blinking (at and by cats) that you describe the cat doing is that it (the blinking) is a way to communicate friendliness, love, the message of "I'm not a threat."

Maybe the cat recognized you as a "kindred soul" and wanted to make friends?

I've personally used that body language (blinking at them) with feral cats and found they calm down, seem less wary of me, seem to have less need to run and hide or be on guard.

... could be only my imagination ...

I've never noticed a cat blinking. What kind of blinking do they do?

The only thing I've noticed with cats is that they stare at me and when I put my TRs in and stare back at them they get afraid and run and hide. I don't know why they do that. :confused2: