The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But
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Yes, 'tis true.
It's true with many animal species. Recent events with whales showed they knew when the humans near were intent on help and to free them from entrapping fish-nets. ANd the whales, when free, cam back to nuzzle and thank the folks who freed them
Our cat picks up Virginia's thoughts. Occasionally V has to give the cat medication (syringe into the mouth . . . cat hates it). All V has to do is think of doing the medication trick and the cat does an instant disappearance trick. It's wild to watch. One minute the cat is all over us wanting breakfast in her usual fashion, but if V instead thinks "need to medicate" . . . suddenly we look around and cat has vanished into hiding. Cat doesn't just leave: she hides!
Also the cat routinely goes to wait by the door for Virginia's arrival home . . . it doesn't matter that the time of arrival changes . . . the cat "knows" when to go do the greetingIt's something I watch in routine amazement for I see it from the inside . . . I'm home all day.
R
My dogs could do this too. In Joburg they had to be dipped once a month to protect against ticks and they hated it. I just had to think the though that it's time to do them and they'd quietly vanish for the rest of the day until feeding time.
Hatshepsut
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I know what that's like. 
LongTimeGone
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It is distinctly possible that all the animals on the planet have upper level OT abilities.
Perhaps it's only we humans who don't and probably never will.
LTG
CarmeloOrchards
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I belong to a group, The Foundation for Mind Being Research. Several years ago, there was a speaker, who told of an experience of out of body sex with a dolphin. There is a lot of unknown and not perceived spiritual connections just waiting to be found.
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Hatshepsut
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_Iranian fleet in Gulf (of course__ they live near there)
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Chinese warships in Gulf of Aden (just visiting)
Huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_JxrQq2ek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnszlJC8iGs
Chinese warships in Gulf of Aden (just visiting
)Huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_JxrQq2ek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnszlJC8iGs
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Hatshepsut
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SweetnessandLight
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I know what that's like.
Wait...being tick dipped?
Or running and hiding? :confused2:
Or perceiving the doggies pick up on your intentions?
Sorry, my lateral thinking skills are working overtime...the whale & dolphin pics did it. Just look at the intelligence and AWARENESS in those eyes!
Awesome!
Ted
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Chance Favors the Connected Mind
A few days ago Lakey posed a question about his perception of music and the author's thoughts. In answer he received some very good responses, perhaps things he might never have thought of had we not been connected through ESMB.
In my next post I am going to pose a situation in hopes that some connected contributions will give my partner and I a jumpstart. But first, check out these videos.
In the opening video the speaker talks about the slow hunch. This I can relate to a cognition or new awareness blossoming long after the session or experience that brought it about has ended. Alan referred to some processes, having F/Ned, going onto the back-burner of the mind where they might simmer at length (a.c.t. archives).
Note how "the great driver of scientific innovation and technological innovation has been the historic increase in connectivity," and note how in the world of Scientology those opportunities dead-ended with Hubbard. In the schoolyard we would call him a ball-hog, and if he did not change his ways no one would want to continue to play with him.
The way the ball-hog would survive in the game is to praise everyone else for their participation, yet he would still be yelling, "Give me the ball," and taking all the shots. "Good job, good catch, yada, yada... Now when you get the ball throw it to me!" This is the older kid talking to the younger kids. Oddly, we would likely continue to play not realizing we are still suffering the ball-hog. Such is the value of someone who appears to be elevating us in esteem.
Those are just a couple of thoughts that came to view as I pondered the video. Here it is, asking for just 4 minutes, 7 seconds of your time and attention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU
This next video, again by Steven Johnson, is a bit longer at 18:17, but I think it is time well spent.
Initially, my attention went to the English coffee house pictured at the start of the video. You see, I have this vision of sitting down with friends and associates, a regular meeting, at a Paris bistro circa 1900. I must have left a part of myself there waiting for answers to philosophical, scientific, political, and religious questions posed but left hanging. I can smell the coffee, taste the wine, feel the intellectual excitement, hear the sound of horse-drawn carriages going by, the occasional motor car/wagon making a stink, feel the chill in the air, or the warmth, see trees with leaves and trees without as seasons change...
This stimulating opportunity must be why I keep going back to Starbucks and Panera Bread for a cup of morning brew. But there is no stimulating conversation available there, just business as usual. I eavesdrop. I am amazed at how many authorities we have running around, people who know all about stocks, how to sell their products, how to close a deal, and so on. Stimulating? Not really. Been there; done that.
Anyway, it's not Paris circa 1900. What a disappointment.
This video is about the power of open, innovative systems. The story about Sputnik in 1957 is very interesting as it gave rise to GPS that we use today. I expect that Mr. Baker would approve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af00UcTO-c
In my next post I will present an idea, and ask for your connectivity.
A few days ago Lakey posed a question about his perception of music and the author's thoughts. In answer he received some very good responses, perhaps things he might never have thought of had we not been connected through ESMB.
In my next post I am going to pose a situation in hopes that some connected contributions will give my partner and I a jumpstart. But first, check out these videos.
In the opening video the speaker talks about the slow hunch. This I can relate to a cognition or new awareness blossoming long after the session or experience that brought it about has ended. Alan referred to some processes, having F/Ned, going onto the back-burner of the mind where they might simmer at length (a.c.t. archives).
Note how "the great driver of scientific innovation and technological innovation has been the historic increase in connectivity," and note how in the world of Scientology those opportunities dead-ended with Hubbard. In the schoolyard we would call him a ball-hog, and if he did not change his ways no one would want to continue to play with him.
The way the ball-hog would survive in the game is to praise everyone else for their participation, yet he would still be yelling, "Give me the ball," and taking all the shots. "Good job, good catch, yada, yada... Now when you get the ball throw it to me!" This is the older kid talking to the younger kids. Oddly, we would likely continue to play not realizing we are still suffering the ball-hog. Such is the value of someone who appears to be elevating us in esteem.
Those are just a couple of thoughts that came to view as I pondered the video. Here it is, asking for just 4 minutes, 7 seconds of your time and attention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU
This next video, again by Steven Johnson, is a bit longer at 18:17, but I think it is time well spent.
Initially, my attention went to the English coffee house pictured at the start of the video. You see, I have this vision of sitting down with friends and associates, a regular meeting, at a Paris bistro circa 1900. I must have left a part of myself there waiting for answers to philosophical, scientific, political, and religious questions posed but left hanging. I can smell the coffee, taste the wine, feel the intellectual excitement, hear the sound of horse-drawn carriages going by, the occasional motor car/wagon making a stink, feel the chill in the air, or the warmth, see trees with leaves and trees without as seasons change...
This stimulating opportunity must be why I keep going back to Starbucks and Panera Bread for a cup of morning brew. But there is no stimulating conversation available there, just business as usual. I eavesdrop. I am amazed at how many authorities we have running around, people who know all about stocks, how to sell their products, how to close a deal, and so on. Stimulating? Not really. Been there; done that.
Anyway, it's not Paris circa 1900. What a disappointment.
This video is about the power of open, innovative systems. The story about Sputnik in 1957 is very interesting as it gave rise to GPS that we use today. I expect that Mr. Baker would approve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af00UcTO-c
In my next post I will present an idea, and ask for your connectivity.
FoTi
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What is that?
Hatshepsut
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close up on a bottle nosed dolphin and friends in the background. There are many varieties and color hues. This one I do not recognize, but the caption said dolphin when I uploaded it.
Hatshepsut
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Wait...being tick dipped?
Or running and hiding? :confused2:
Or perceiving the doggies pick up on your intentions?
Yup
purple haze
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from the other thread
Absolutely ADORE you, Sweetnessandlight! So happy to have met you through Gary after attending that amazing News/Press conference for the Exes at the Steve Allen Theater last year! We had fun too, when we ate at that French cafe in the Los Feliz area! You're so gorgeous and what beautiful energy!
Let's get together soon, now that I'm back for 3 weeks. It's all about bypass the entheta and handle with theta, nowadays, for me.
We enjoyed the Russian-American lifestyle and great positive attitude!
Gary, how do I go about getting the photos up here? Aloha, PurpleCandy
Absolutely ADORE you, Sweetnessandlight! So happy to have met you through Gary after attending that amazing News/Press conference for the Exes at the Steve Allen Theater last year! We had fun too, when we ate at that French cafe in the Los Feliz area! You're so gorgeous and what beautiful energy!
Let's get together soon, now that I'm back for 3 weeks. It's all about bypass the entheta and handle with theta, nowadays, for me.
We enjoyed the Russian-American lifestyle and great positive attitude!
Gary, how do I go about getting the photos up here? Aloha, PurpleCandy
afaceinthecrowd
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afaceinthecrowd
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A while back on this Thread, Carmelo put up an excellent post re: Healthcare Insurance.
Without quality Health Insurance, Ole Face here, woulda been SOL when my brain blew out. Wound up costing me out of pocket maybe 20Gs or so (including monthly premium) but the first rate, whatever was needed, when it was needed by whomever I chose Healthcare that saved my life cost—just in the first 6 months—over 300K.
Over the last 4 years the Meds that keep me alive, give me an acceptable quality of life, the therapy that has helped my “come back” to the degree that I have, and the “access” and checkups that provide the “fine tuning” and detected my most recent “event” in time to “nip it in the bud” cost me about 4Gs a year instead of around 40Gs.
Since walking away from the SO I have paid for and maintained quality Health Insurance and, more importantly, had that insurance for my family. I cannot begin to express just how important this proved to be, not so much for me, but especially for my children. One of my kids had a seizure disorder that, thankfully, is now gone and requires no further Meds but, damn, if I hadn’t had access to the best of care it most likely would have gone undetected and caused permanent brain damage for the rest of my child’s life...that Child now hold a MA, Special Education from a Major University and a "Master Teacher" Cerificate for Deaf and Blind Children and teaches "Helen Keller" kids. I have another kid that was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis of the hands when 18 years old. The Meds that keep it under control and allowed my child to achieve an MFA, Painting from a world renowned Art Institute, and to now teach Art to other folk’s children would cost 12K a year without insurance…let alone the access to specialists to have an early diagnosis and first rate treatment at the onset of early, telltale symptoms.
The “Healthcare Issue” is one of the great, true travesties of Institutionalized Scn, Org Staff and SO. Not only are these folks paid a pittance, live in squalor and fed slop, they are intentionally kept from Healthcare access. It’s not just a matter of the hard dollar costs…it’s also about what would be “found Out” about what’s actually going on and being done to others for the “Protection” of “The Bridge to Total Freedom”. Institutionalized Scn spends times multiple more for Lawyers to protect “It” from “SP’s” than it does to care for and provide sustenance and minimal Quality of Life for its’ own (it's a certain bet that all that property and buildings have "Cadillac" Insurance Policies, too).
This is El Ron’s, “Legacy”. What is so, so sad to me is that I know, at this very moment, there are folks that have bought into “It” so deeply that they are not only risking their future, they are leaving the futures of their Children up to the "Majik" of El Ron’s “It”.
Face
Without quality Health Insurance, Ole Face here, woulda been SOL when my brain blew out. Wound up costing me out of pocket maybe 20Gs or so (including monthly premium) but the first rate, whatever was needed, when it was needed by whomever I chose Healthcare that saved my life cost—just in the first 6 months—over 300K.
Over the last 4 years the Meds that keep me alive, give me an acceptable quality of life, the therapy that has helped my “come back” to the degree that I have, and the “access” and checkups that provide the “fine tuning” and detected my most recent “event” in time to “nip it in the bud” cost me about 4Gs a year instead of around 40Gs.
Since walking away from the SO I have paid for and maintained quality Health Insurance and, more importantly, had that insurance for my family. I cannot begin to express just how important this proved to be, not so much for me, but especially for my children. One of my kids had a seizure disorder that, thankfully, is now gone and requires no further Meds but, damn, if I hadn’t had access to the best of care it most likely would have gone undetected and caused permanent brain damage for the rest of my child’s life...that Child now hold a MA, Special Education from a Major University and a "Master Teacher" Cerificate for Deaf and Blind Children and teaches "Helen Keller" kids. I have another kid that was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis of the hands when 18 years old. The Meds that keep it under control and allowed my child to achieve an MFA, Painting from a world renowned Art Institute, and to now teach Art to other folk’s children would cost 12K a year without insurance…let alone the access to specialists to have an early diagnosis and first rate treatment at the onset of early, telltale symptoms.
The “Healthcare Issue” is one of the great, true travesties of Institutionalized Scn, Org Staff and SO. Not only are these folks paid a pittance, live in squalor and fed slop, they are intentionally kept from Healthcare access. It’s not just a matter of the hard dollar costs…it’s also about what would be “found Out” about what’s actually going on and being done to others for the “Protection” of “The Bridge to Total Freedom”. Institutionalized Scn spends times multiple more for Lawyers to protect “It” from “SP’s” than it does to care for and provide sustenance and minimal Quality of Life for its’ own (it's a certain bet that all that property and buildings have "Cadillac" Insurance Policies, too).
This is El Ron’s, “Legacy”. What is so, so sad to me is that I know, at this very moment, there are folks that have bought into “It” so deeply that they are not only risking their future, they are leaving the futures of their Children up to the "Majik" of El Ron’s “It”.
Face
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FoTi
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If I had a house I'd do this.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W51JRTjoI1A&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W51JRTjoI1A&feature=player_embedded
FoTi
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Reminiscing
I was talking to a friend today and reminiscing....
Spring is starting here....the buds are on the trees, I put out my grass seed and the gardeners are spreading stinky mulch. I told them not to spread it on my lawn....I can't stand that cheap chemical laden mulch they use....it smells like somebody mixed cow dung with vinegar and who knows what else. I can't open the windows and if I open the door and stick my head out it makes my eyes burn and itch. Ugh! I feel sorry for the guys who have to shovel that stuff all over the property where I live.
I don't think winter is over yet, though.....I have a hunch there will be another cold spell before spring has totally sprung. I hope my grass seed survives if we have any more cold weather.
Soon trees, bushes, plants.... everything here will be covered with flowers. It should be a pretty spring because we had more snow and cold weather this year and more rain. I'm planning on taking pictures this year of the spring here if it turns out to be really pretty. The first year I was here the spring was heavenly, but hasn't been as good in the following years.
Some spring I would love to be where there are cherry trees and plums and a lot of other fruit bearing trees that have blossoms....they are so pretty when they bloom. I remember when I was a kid we had lots of fruit trees in our yard and in the summer we got such yummy fruit right off the trees......so much better than store bought. We had peaches to die for.....I've never tasted any other peaches that were so good. My mom used to send me out to pick them for desert in the summer time. Fried chicken, fresh corn on the cob and fresh peaches......mmmmmm.........make you hungry? Those were the days when food wasn't poisoned with pesticides or GMO seeds. Life was more natural then.
I remember there was a guy who used to come down the street with his horse pulling a big cart with fresh vegetables to sell and he also sharpened knives and I think scissors, for the ladies in the neighborhood. I loved it when he came down the street with his horse and wagon and we'd go out to meet him....my mother bought stuff from him. The Good Humor man used to drive his truck through the neighborhood selling ice cream on hot days.....oh what a treat to get a Good Humor bar or a popsicle to cool off with. Too bad those days are gone.
And when I was even younger, I remember the milk man brought the milk and butter and the bread man brought breads and goodies and the ice man brought ice for the ice box and in the summer I remember getting a chunk of ice to suck on to try and keep cool because there was no air conditioning back then...and there was a truck that came around sometimes with tar...I don't recal why - if they were repairing roofs or streets or what, but I remember getting pieces of tar from that truck after it was cooled and we would chew on it....nobody knew that was horrible for us.....we also played with mercury when I was in grammar school....we had so much fun with watching it roll around....nobody knew that was harmful either. And I used to eat chalk too.....some went on the sidewalk and some went in my mouth. LOL And we used to get this plastic stuff that came in a tube and we would put a gob of it on the end of a straw and blow bubbles with it.....one could get high breathing the fumes from it and we used to chew on that stuff too. It was fun. On Halloween we would get wax lips, teeth, mustaches and whistles and those were great for chewing....they put something sweet in the wax. And when there was a fire I remember eating the charcoal that was left after the wood burned. Maybe there was something missing in my diet? LOL
Occasionally my mother would bring home a bottle of Little Lady hand lotion and give it to me - I was 3 or 4 - a couple of hours later I would come out with an empty bottle and ask her for more. It smelled good and had glycerine in it, so it was sweet. I loved eating that stuff. She'd look at me like....what the hell did you do with it? I never told her I drank it. I figured she wouldn't give me any more if I did. It's no wonder I was sick a lot as a kid. Everything went in my mouth. I even chewed up the headboard on my bed which had varnish on it. Man did it felt good to sink my teeth in that wood. LOL Oh, the oral pleasures of childhood. LOL
Kids are so funny.
I was talking to a friend today and reminiscing....
Spring is starting here....the buds are on the trees, I put out my grass seed and the gardeners are spreading stinky mulch. I told them not to spread it on my lawn....I can't stand that cheap chemical laden mulch they use....it smells like somebody mixed cow dung with vinegar and who knows what else. I can't open the windows and if I open the door and stick my head out it makes my eyes burn and itch. Ugh! I feel sorry for the guys who have to shovel that stuff all over the property where I live.
I don't think winter is over yet, though.....I have a hunch there will be another cold spell before spring has totally sprung. I hope my grass seed survives if we have any more cold weather.
Soon trees, bushes, plants.... everything here will be covered with flowers. It should be a pretty spring because we had more snow and cold weather this year and more rain. I'm planning on taking pictures this year of the spring here if it turns out to be really pretty. The first year I was here the spring was heavenly, but hasn't been as good in the following years.
Some spring I would love to be where there are cherry trees and plums and a lot of other fruit bearing trees that have blossoms....they are so pretty when they bloom. I remember when I was a kid we had lots of fruit trees in our yard and in the summer we got such yummy fruit right off the trees......so much better than store bought. We had peaches to die for.....I've never tasted any other peaches that were so good. My mom used to send me out to pick them for desert in the summer time. Fried chicken, fresh corn on the cob and fresh peaches......mmmmmm.........make you hungry? Those were the days when food wasn't poisoned with pesticides or GMO seeds. Life was more natural then.
I remember there was a guy who used to come down the street with his horse pulling a big cart with fresh vegetables to sell and he also sharpened knives and I think scissors, for the ladies in the neighborhood. I loved it when he came down the street with his horse and wagon and we'd go out to meet him....my mother bought stuff from him. The Good Humor man used to drive his truck through the neighborhood selling ice cream on hot days.....oh what a treat to get a Good Humor bar or a popsicle to cool off with. Too bad those days are gone.
And when I was even younger, I remember the milk man brought the milk and butter and the bread man brought breads and goodies and the ice man brought ice for the ice box and in the summer I remember getting a chunk of ice to suck on to try and keep cool because there was no air conditioning back then...and there was a truck that came around sometimes with tar...I don't recal why - if they were repairing roofs or streets or what, but I remember getting pieces of tar from that truck after it was cooled and we would chew on it....nobody knew that was horrible for us.....we also played with mercury when I was in grammar school....we had so much fun with watching it roll around....nobody knew that was harmful either. And I used to eat chalk too.....some went on the sidewalk and some went in my mouth. LOL And we used to get this plastic stuff that came in a tube and we would put a gob of it on the end of a straw and blow bubbles with it.....one could get high breathing the fumes from it and we used to chew on that stuff too. It was fun. On Halloween we would get wax lips, teeth, mustaches and whistles and those were great for chewing....they put something sweet in the wax. And when there was a fire I remember eating the charcoal that was left after the wood burned. Maybe there was something missing in my diet? LOL
Occasionally my mother would bring home a bottle of Little Lady hand lotion and give it to me - I was 3 or 4 - a couple of hours later I would come out with an empty bottle and ask her for more. It smelled good and had glycerine in it, so it was sweet. I loved eating that stuff. She'd look at me like....what the hell did you do with it? I never told her I drank it. I figured she wouldn't give me any more if I did. It's no wonder I was sick a lot as a kid. Everything went in my mouth. I even chewed up the headboard on my bed which had varnish on it. Man did it felt good to sink my teeth in that wood. LOL Oh, the oral pleasures of childhood. LOL
Kids are so funny.
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