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

[SweetnessandLight]

It's o.k. to think differently...

It's o.k. Lakey, my viewpoints are out reality for a lot of people...I'm used to it!

If, upon passing, most of us are shown a life review of all of our thoughts deeds, feelings, actions and intentions (or lack therein), as I believe we experience as we enter the bardos, I think this impinges on most of us to a very great degree. No "other" punishment may be needed for us to want to take responsibility to reform ourselves and regenerate, and to heal. Maybe no higher or outside authority has to punish us for our misdeeds. Maybe all that is necessary is for Life to hold up a mirror to us of our innermost selves and our actions, or the effects of our actions. I do feel that we are basically good. Maybe we want to reform, change, grow, do and be better, all on our own. Maybe that is in our basic nature as beings.

I see lots of evidence that Ron was struggling with mental illness for much of his lifetime, so I feel compassion for him about that. Yes, some people are badly damaged, are sociopaths or psychopaths...I don't know what kind of reality they create for themselves. Ultimately, it doesn't seem good or pleasant or fulfilling, to me. Spiritual Life is consciousness, so maybe each of us creates his or her own heaven or hell (or prison planet, or lovely garden) out of their own conscious and consciousness. Just what I think, you are free to think otherwise.

However, what you say about if this impinged on me: "You know, Sweetness, if what you say is true, then C of S and Ron's tech would have no need to exist." My beliefs did seem to negate the NEED for COS and Ron's tech for me. I have to say that it did this for me even as a naive teeny-bopper hanging out at the local mission, which was a pretty interesting place at the time with four rock bands, folk singers, an open attitude to full on discussions of esoteric subjects, diversity and somewhat tolerant of "other practices", with a theta coffee house type atmosphere.

I was bulletproof where joining up with Scientology was concerned, couldn't be regged, couldn't be "ruined", etc. I am very humbly grateful for that, knowing what I know at this stage of my experience, of how it has hurt so many other good people. I feel it was protection, maybe by my "spiritual teammates", or my own higher self, or???

I do believe in "kismet"...and think that those of us who value each others beingness would have encountered our friends some other way. Those of us who really enjoy playing with each other would have connected in other ways in the big playground of life. As I said, I'm an optimist!

 

[FoTi]

Carmelo I love your Kalula Airline post. Much fun. Where do you find all the cool stuff that you write up on this thread?

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Carmelo I love your Kalula Airline post. Much fun. Where do you find all the cool stuff that you write up on this thread?

Most of the stuff comes from reading the internet - New York Times, Washington Post, San Jose Mercury, San Francisco Chronicle, Santa Cruz Sentinel, yahoo News, etc.

Some of it just e mailed around among friends.

I've always had a quirky taste, so I find quirky things that match my taste.

 

[Stat]

CarmeloOrchards - Kudos to you

 

[Veda]

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.

Oh, I think it's possible also - I'm no "materialist," and don't consider it outlandish that communication with spirits and other subtle energies, including "reading" physical objects or locations, is possible. However, I'd be foolish not to recognize the ample opportunity for self-deception in this area.

One of the things that prompted my "graduation" from Scientology (long ago) was coming across a little blood-red book (same color as the tech volumes) in an obscure occult book store in Manhattan (mostly they sold Voodoo candles and witchcraft paraphernalia). The little book was 'The Book of The Law' by Aleister Crowley, and consisted of an 'Introduction' which sounded a lot like Scientology, and a main text that was rambling and alternated between crazed and incoherent. The 'Introduction' had been written by Crowley, and the main text (according to Crowley) had been dictated to him by a spirit named Aiwass (in Cairo, Egypt in 1904).

Over the next year or so, I purchased and read pretty much all of Crowley's books, which fell into two categories: those written by him and those dictated to him and written through him. Years later, Crowley speculated that these "dictated" books had been expressions of his own sub or supra conscious mind. Still, the most ardent Crowleyites regard them as sacred - and I regard them as the least interesting of Crowley's work.

(Nonetheless, when I received a phone call from AOLA [also long ago] telling me that the Grade Chart had been changed and that old OT 8 [which it turns out never existed in the first place] had been replaced with other things, and would I like to buy something else with that money on my account, I bought the 'Philadelphia Doctorate Course' tapes. It was during the listening to these tapes that I noticed that Hubbard was using not only ideas, but phrasings and entire sentences that seem to have been lifted from the same Crowley works that I had been reading. That - and observing the ongoing "Dianetic Clear" frenzy in Scientology - were the beginning of my exit from Scientology. Several years later, when I had the opportunity to talk with L. Ron Hubbard Jr., I asked him about the period of the 1952 'PDC' course, and he described not only his father's drug use [which was regarded as a way of expanding the mind and "opening doors"], but also of his father's fascination with the writings of Crowley, which he would consult every night before the next 'PDC' lecture.)

I don't regard "channelling" as impossible, it's just that I haven't encountered anyone who regularly "talks with Ron" sans body (and there have been quite a few over the years, starting with http://galac-patra.narod.ru/index.html) , who wasn't a fraud, nutty or addled.

And that's my frank opinion.

 

[Stat]

So LRH was secretly admiring and channeling Aleister? Is that it?
And I thought cats were evil... Interesting twist. I heard about it before but never had enough data to even consider it.

P.S. I secretly love cats though.

 

[Veda]

So LRH was secretly admiring and channeling Aleister? Is that it?
And I thought cats were evil... Interesting twist. I heard about it before but never had enough data to even consider it.

P.S. I secretly love cats though.

Admire, yes. Channelling, no. At least not that I know of, although Hubbard may have dabbled in "automatic writing" (and such) at times, but not from Crowley.

Here's a link to Crowley's last work, originally titled 'Aleister Explains Everything', and re-titled, 'Magick Without Tears', written in the 1940s: http://hermetic.com/crowley/magick-without-tears

Scientology's 'the Factors', its 'Four Conditions of Existence', its 'Know to Mystery Scale' and much more (good and bad) can be traced to Crowley. http://www.forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=215566&postcount=164

 

[SweetnessandLight]

Dear Veda...

I fully agree with you Veda, on the possibilities for self-deception with "channeling" entities of all kinds. We are such creative beings! I just grant that such things as communication with "those beyond our sight" may be possible, if we do believe in eternal Life.

I also have read that little red book, and recognized it's influences in Ron's works...not attractive at all to me, although it has been so for others. I also have listened to the Philadelphia Doctorate Course tapes (bit of pretension there, as one who has really been in Academia ), fortunately I did not have to pay for them to do so, thanks to a kind but disaffected Ex-Scientologist friend who loaned them for me to study.

Hey, I missed the Dianetic Clear frenzy, and I'm glad I did!
Very glad Veda, that you and everyone else here saw the light and got out of that money pit of a "religious" organization.

We don't need to "hear" from Ron to put things right here on the planet. Ron didn't, and doesn't have any altitude on me, or on you, or on any of us here. That may seem radical and shocking to some who are thoroughly indoctrinated to Scientology's hierarchical structure of "spiritual growth".

To some, "hearing" some good news from Ron might be a great comfort and a needed step in their transitioning outward and onward. However, I largely agree with you. I don't think it's impossible, but not likely. I think Ron is probably busy off doing his own thing, creative as ever, but hopefully, more ethical than when he was "here". I hope so, anyway.

Carmelo, thanks for the Kulula laughs! Reminds me of my recent flights to Oakland and back. Was just after that poor frazzled flight attendant took it on the lamb with two beers down the emergency escape slide...and BOY, did we ALL treat our flight attendants like they were made out of pure gold!!! I've never been on a more polite flight, all the way around! LOL!

 

[Stat]

Thank you Veda and SweetnessandLight for clearing things up and your opinions.

I will leave it at that, which is not a bad thing.

Respect, Stat.

 

[The Great Zorg]

YesandNo

Do you use the symbols? Or not?

I use the symbols ALWAYS while healing. I "draw" them on the "healee" when I'm done the hands thing.

For "the light"; I just envision absorbing light into my chi area and then releasing it in a direction or toward a target. This differs from the healing method of Reiki as I refined it whilst doing Reiki "distance healing". Per se, the sending of light is not traditional Reiki but then again these days there are hundreds of variations on the original method from Japan. I practice Western Usui Reiki, with a few mystical twists like the cat thing.

 

[The Great Zorg]

Maybe

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 ...

Well, on the third try the cat stopped again while turning it's head and looking in my direction. It then turned toward me and start trotted directly to me. Funny that was. It stopped 5 feet shy of me, sat on it's butt and looked at me and blink slowly a few times. (laughing) I actually felt bad for annoying the critter in it's nocturnal search for whatever. I really did apologize, verbally. My buddy to this day doesn't want to talk about what happened that night. Hmph! Non-believers!!!

Cats are fairly advanced for a critter I think. I've heard that if a cat watches you do something enough times it will figure out how to do it by itself (if it can). An example is watching a cat learn to turn a door handle (the horizontal flat handle type) by jumping on it. :confused2:

When it comes to mystical phenomena, nothing really surprises me anymore.

 

[lkwdblds]

Thanks for listening! You takes your picks which part you like best.

I like the beginning and the end best. It makes me want to dance.

Thanks for listening! You takes your picks which part you like best. Whether you are dazzled by the speed and majesty of the opening and closing section and they make you want to dance, or if the subtle brilliance and syncopation of the minuet section is more to your fancy, what does it matter? The thing with Classical music of this nature is that you do not ever tire of it over a lifetime; each listening seems to offer new nuances each time you hear it, new inflections sometimes appear, things you never noticed before. It just keeps growing on you if you like this type of music in the first place.
Lakey

 

[RogerB]

Great story TGZ, great!

Cat's are that aware, and they do have a healing thing going for them which, of course, works best if you are in tune with them and understand they can and do do this

But they are easy to piss-off if you don't know their little secret and you thwart their good intent . . . then you lose them. They'll keep their distance from you.

Rog

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.

 

[lkwdblds]

Thank you so much for listening stat!

P.S. Lakey, thank you for the Mozart video, I love it!

Thank you so much for listening Stat! That young pianist is really amazing as is that young orchestra which he conducts. It is really a fantastic performance of an utterly incredible piece of music. I am going to Google the pianist and put a little more info here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ove_Andsnes

He is Norweigian and was born in 1970. He is a champion of his countryman, Edvarg Grieg.
Lakey

 

[RogerB]

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:

Well, my sweet, maybe they don't like being beamed with a huge, big TRO . . . . if you study the cats, you'll see their wide open eye stare is connected to an alert, unwelcome surprise or sense potential danger.

Even we humans tend to stare at that which is a threat.

The friendly blink of the cat is as TGZ described, it is a slow blink, sometimes not even a fully closed eye but only about seven-eights closed, and they slightly lower their head and shoulders.

Try slowly blinking at the cat (about 7/8 closed) while feeling friendly and loving toward it, and see what happens. Virginia and I find it works best with female cats. The males tend to be more into being loners.

Rog

 

[lkwdblds]

No higher authority required!

It's o.k. Lakey, my viewpoints are out reality for a lot of people...I'm used to it!

If, upon passing, most of us are shown a life review of all of our thoughts deeds, feelings, actions and intentions (or lack therein), as I believe we experience as we enter the bardos, I think this impinges on most of us to a very great degree. No "other" punishment may be needed for us to want to take responsibility to reform ourselves and regenerate, and to heal. Maybe no higher or outside authority has to punish us for our misdeeds. Maybe all that is necessary is for Life to hold up a mirror to us of our innermost selves and our actions, or the effects of our actions. I do feel that we are basically good. Maybe we want to reform, change, grow, do and be better, all on our own. Maybe that is in our basic nature as beings.

No, no higher authority required. The being purposely punishes himself by making himself smaller, reigning in his reach.

I see lots of evidence that Ron was struggling with mental illness for much of his lifetime, so I feel compassion for him about that. Yes, some people are badly damaged, are sociopaths or psychopaths...I don't know what kind of reality they create for themselves. Ultimately, it doesn't seem good or pleasant or fulfilling, to me. Spiritual Life is consciousness, so maybe each of us creates his or her own heaven or hell (or prison planet, or lovely garden) out of their own conscious and consciousness. Just what I think, you are free to think otherwise.

However, what you say about if this impinged on me: "You know, Sweetness, if what you say is true, then C of S and Ron's tech would have no need to exist." My beliefs did seem to negate the NEED for COS and Ron's tech for me. I have to say that it did this for me even as a naive teeny-bopper hanging out at the local mission, which was a pretty interesting place at the time with four rock bands, folk singers, an open attitude to full on discussions of esoteric subjects, diversity and somewhat tolerant of "other practices", with a theta coffee house type atmosphere.

I was bulletproof where joining up with Scientology was concerned, couldn't be regged, couldn't be "ruined", etc. I am very humbly grateful for that, knowing what I know at this stage of my experience, of how it has hurt so many other good people. I feel it was protection, maybe by my "spiritual teammates", or my own higher self, or???

I do believe in "kismet"...and think that those of us who value each others beingness would have encountered our friends some other way. Those of us who really enjoy playing with each other would have connected in other ways in the big playground of life. As I said, I'm an optimist!

FIRST A SALUTE TO OLSKA - Its always nice to have you posting here! Now onto my reply to Sweetness and Light:

Its funny what you say, "different strokes for different folks!" I lived a fairly full life to 30 years and 6 months without Scientology and did not meet any soul mates along the road of life. That road encompassed the regular schools, scouting, various odd jobs, community college, two Universities and 9 years with 4 companies in the corporate world in aerospace.

I also travelled to Mexico in 1966, Europe in 1967 for 2 months and to Japan for 3 weeks in 1969. I was different from everyone else I met and never found anyone who was similar to me. The only thing even close to a soul mate was this guy Doug Locke at work, the Baptist guy, who turned me on to the books of Edgar Cayce

I felt at home in Germany, I liked being there and related well to the language, the people and their morals. It turns out I have hundreds of years of track in that region. Japan was very spiritual and made me feel respect for people and their culture but I had nothing in common with them. The Mexicans were warm and natural and more in valence and hospitible. I toyed with living there permanently because of the cheap prices and unpretentious people.

Scientology was the first group where I found some people who were like me and had similar goals, interests and motivations. When the focus moved 100% towards money and stats, i was totally offended and left. Without the caring attitude of the early days, the Church of Scientology lost all of its interest for me although it took decades for me to figure this out in full.

Now ex Scientologists, that is really the best goup by far! Ex Scientologists who have actually been in and participated are the closest things to soul mates whom I have encountered on Earth. Probably over 40 potential soul mates right here on this thread and none, really, outside of ESMB in 70 years of this life.

A SECOND SOURCE OF SOUL MATES
Reconnecting with Edey Caldwell, the hypnotherapist, who was in Networking with me around April of last year, her calling me and bringing me to Kangen Water meetings has been a revelation. She and most of her friends are heavily into the occult and when I go to their occult centers, I am feeling very much at home. Everybody is friendly and repectful and has much in common with me. Most of the females are very attractive. Had I never got into Scientology, I might have found the occult and had I done so, I would have permanently been involved in that. To me, however, the group of ex Scientologists is my true group, the people in occult practices are a fairly distant second place.

SO TO SWEETNESS - After knowing you for well over a year, your quoted post revealed for the first time your true spiritual background. I had figured that you hung around the Riverside mission and started 2 D's with people there because you agreed with the teachings there and wanted a man with similar teachings to be your 2D. I figured that it was only money constraints which kept you from joining up. After all, you appear to be good friends with Bent. Why would that be if you did not hold Scientological beliefs. Well, anyway, you have debunked what I thought your background was. You are certainly eligible to be on ESMB but you are not, in the strict sense of the term, an Ex Scientologist and knowing that makes a difference in how I would evaluate and react to your posts.

To someone who does not believe than "man is basically good", everything is different vis a vis discussing what takes place in the between lives area. Much of the talk and arguments applied when talking with a full ex Scientologist can not be used with a person such as yourself because our core beliefs are greatly different. Well, this post is already very long and I am going to call it right here.
Lakey

 

[RogerB]

I love it, Believing is Seeing! I got some "TA" immediately upon reading that. It seems to me that some kind of process could be designed around the two phrases. "Believing is Seeing". and Seeing is "Believing".


LAKEY CONSTRUCTS A PROCESS -
You could run, "Give me an instance where Seeing is Believing."....once one does it, acknowledge and then ask, "Now give me an instance where Believing is Seeing." Run those repitively until one has a win, Then continue with, Give me ANOTHER instance where Seeing is Believing. and run that PAIRED. until the person blows out of his head. If the person becomes aware that he must first believe something before he can see it. Viola, the person has rehabilitated several OT abilities with that process. I might just run this on myself right now.

Roger, I hope you comment on this. Do you or Alan W. already have something like this in your bag of tricks? Ditto with Leon. I am not much of a tech guy but this process seems as if it could help big time in enhancing a person's abilities to me more OT like. at least in attitude if not in being able to demonstrate more OT like abilities but, more likely, in both.

I am not a tech go to guy so if this process is bullshit to you, don't worry about huritng my feelings, just say your piece and tell me were I am going wrong and how the process might screw someone up. Don't pull any punches.
Lakey

One needs to be alert to what definition/meaning one is using this word "belief/believe" to mean.

The colloquial use of it is not necessarily exact.

But either way, "belief" is a little late on the chain of things. Beliefs are always about or relative to extant things . . . though they can bring into being fixed conditions. But the fact is they are about an extant something that is either reinforced, altered, added to or such.

Running your little process above would reveal to you the opinions you've adopted about things, and you'd have some fun doing it . . . but it in and of itself is not likely to change a lot of anything unless you added some other action. Things like, lifting off the consequences of the belief, and possibly the why it was adopted, what did it solve, and such.

One of the key things to pull concerning "beliefs" (or operating paradigms, precepts, etc) are the visions, intentions and actions they lead you to or cause you to create. For it is this stuff that is consequent to the belief that produces the strife that we get hung up in. (In Luke's case, the vision he created of the future was that he couldn't do it. You see, that's what he put there as a result of predicting his future based on the belief he'd created.)

And then there are the moods locked up in them that are often hidden below the surface and which make the belief hard to fully perceive and deal with truthfully. In the Luke example with Yoda, he obviously was acting in and out of the mood of failure . . . and hopelessness . . . yet he accepted it all as OK and truth! So, unlocking the moods connected to one's beliefs is critically important. It is to be noted that the mood one is in when one creates a belief determines the type of belief created. In Luke's case, he'd apparently had an earlier fail, and in that state of fail and hopelessness he created the belief that continued that failure!

And then, there is the earlier why and how come you came to the belief . . . . this situation has to (if the belief is erroneous, limiting or damaging) be addressed and more optimumly handled . . . inventing a belief about something is not necessarily the smartest or correct way of handling situations

And, I think I am not likely to run into any stern criticism on the comment that, "beliefs are very often not the truth of the situation."

Though, they are important to run and handle with a correct process. Alan's "Thoughts are Things" R/D is brilliant at dealing with such.

R

 

[Blue Spirit]

Chem Trails

Anybody! I mean a n y b o d y can do a make more / make less / move of clouds. Back in the 60s, before I'd had much of any auditing, a friend, Elsa Kappelhof taught me how.

On any given day, look up into the sky, and find a wisp of a cloud.

Decide for it to get bigger. **It must be a wisp to begin practicing this with**

After you have made it significantly bigger, change your decision. Make it smaller. Decide that it will get smaller.

After you have succeeded at this, make it disappear.

Chose another wisp, and do it again.

After you've had some practice, and gotten off the "disbelieve" on "It's really happening" start on a slightly bigger cloud. Work your way up to small clouds.

Take this as far as you want. The bigger, the better. 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.

I recall many who could do this in early days.

I'll look at doing it.

The Chem Trails is what it needs to be used on, not water vapor.

 

[Blue Spirit]

A Similar Story

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/

We used to feed feral cats. One was tamed over about 5 years and moved in
with us. He had a special wisdom about him and a unique look on his face.

I later found a female about two weeks old and rescued it. The former feral, a male, took on the role of a mother, licking the little kitten for a half hour at a time and even allowing her to suckle on him. They always slept together too. He took care of her until she became mature, and then in poor health, he died. It was like he had a mission and knew it. That was clear.

This Feral male, who I named "Mack" started off scared of people, but ended up scaring the big dog next door and really changed totally. A cool being.
Believe it or not, he was channeled recently, and was called regal as a beingness, and is doing well.

 

[Blue Spirit]

You Are So Very Right

One of our fellow contributors on this list has it. My son has it. Alan died of it recently. It is defnitely going around.

My son sent our family this letter, while we were in Sutter Creek, last week end at the Ragtime Festival:

Hi family,

I thought I would share with you...I was diagnosed today with chronic myelogenous leukemia. It has been caught early. The lab still needs to perform genetic testing on the bone marrow sample (don't quite understand why this matters). Final results will be ready in a week. I should start drug therapy a few days later.

This was of course not the desired answer. However, 90% of patients taking Gleevec (the drug therapy) are in remission at 5 years. These are good odds. This is an odd time for us - not really prepared for this. We definitely can use your continued support and love.

If you want to read a blog from someone that went through the same thing (and also happens to work at eBay where I am currently a contract employee) check this link:

http://hatefulblood.blogspot.com/

I would love to hear from each one of you - phone or email. I know, "what do you say?" As far as I know, Hallmark doesn't make a "sorry you have cancer" card. So, we'll have to improvise. Please don't feel uncomfortable. I am still learning too.


I forwarded it to Heidrun, who knows a thing or two about curing cancer. This is from her reply:

This reminds me of the story of the man who drowns on top
of his roof, after sending away two boats and a helicopter,
saying that God will save him. Finally in heaven he says
to God why didn't you save me? And God says what do you
want, I sent you two boats and a helicopter...!


I'm just kind of throwing this out on the fridge (like spaghetti) to see what sticks.

My feeling is that there are lots of cures for cancer, some alternative, and some mainstream. The dopiest ones seem to be the Scientology true believers who plan to postulate their cancer going away, but not take any offered physical help. I think Yvonne Gillham and Sally Chaleff died that way.

You are so right-on about this, Carmelo.

I know someone who is playing "Russian roulette" now on cancer.

Same nutty attitude of: "I can do anything I want, as I'm OT".
That attitude has killed many Scientologists.
Cancer seems to be their favorite disease.

The body has its own set of natural laws that demand attention.

Of course spiritual healing is possible, but constant nutritional abuse
is similar to using the brake and gas simultaneously in your car.
No common sense there !