Newbies' Journeys

[Littleenki]

Hey, Maeghan, NIN is a favorite and Ive listened since way back, although I dont buy many cd's or mp3's, I just listen to sat radio.

I think you and I and many others here are on similar journeys and have found those paths to be more joyous and enhanced by resonance and music.

Ive been missing a lot of music, but have found many bands which move me beyond simple sounds.

As it stands Trent Reznor's lyrics run the gamut from nice to naughty and he is probably channeling some of his works.

Poetry abounds in music, other than the pablum that Disney pukes up from Orlando, and many a poet have become lyricists when they couldnt sing. Other than Bob Dylan , Of course..

I have found Queensryche to be one of these bands, with their conspiracy themes, and the aforementioned System of a Down with their blatant name calling and factual words, which blast truth at every level!

Serj Tankian is a genius musician, IMHO.

You will see more in the way of real life in your travels through the world of music, than anyone who just listens for the tonal qualities, like rap and hip hop, although those both have a bit of poetry to them.

Incessant bass and hateful lyrics are a problem with that type of music though, and any good message gets muddied up with monotonous booming and weird sampling.

Ive found rock and techno to be two similar types of music with totally different sounds, and the folks who listen to ether typically have a bit of a better head on their shoulders, but all music improves the gray matter and balances the heart center.

Have a great day, and rock out!
Littleenki

[SurvivalistStephen]

I'm a computer geek isolated most of the time from other living things. I do have a tv and computer monitor on all the time so there is the illusion of other living things around.

Anyway my point is I treat my external hard drives (9) like furniture. They are inanimate tools. However... I was thinking the other day how much I depend on them. I don't have a backup as I don't have the funds so if one of these guys died I'd suffer a tangible loss. That's the term we use - die. That got me to thinking... I bless my food (universal generic blessing) because that makes it better (more accepting of its roll,... whatever, I see the science of the ice crystals and reason it to be the same).

So, taking all that into account, I wonder if I shouldn't be giving each of my hard drives a name and blessing them daily?

Obviously it can't hurt and I suspect it might provide significant benefits but would I just be wasting my time and deluding myself?

PS: I'd love to see this tested in a lab! Bless one set of 100 and curse another and see when they fail under the exact same work load.
The Newtonian scientist in me says it would be a wash but the quantum physicist in me says my observations will have an effect so, likely, the blessed ones will last longer - God I wish I knew the answer

[Beardedsage]

Hi,
My name is Mark and I hope things are well.
Just thought I would introduce myself to these forums and those that read it, also giving my first questionable ideas.
My life has been a progressional spiritual evolution from the time I was just a boy and i knew that the answers where within me and wondered why I was put here with this feeling.*
After many phases in my awareness of the steps outward to a perspective which shakes the bonds of this stage of reality, In the last few weeks it seems my development and awareness has reached a level I have not been before, with an assuratiy of many signs around me but most of all the euphoric state of feeling the presence of a new transition within creates.
Meditation has increased as a result and an increased disconnection to material things also.
A theory I have, is that on the days of this accelerated state of progression there were solar flares showering the earth and have continued for weeks after, I wonder if perhaps this has something to do with my development? Something that pushed this idea to realms of truth were the fact that as a result the sunrises and sunsets were violet in color, which represents the violet chakra of spiritual awakening, something I thought very coincidental.

With this newfound progressed knowing of a transition coming very soon, I wonder how I can help others? I have been trying to let those around me know of the changes that are happening to the human race if we chose to listen and see the signs, but theres apart of me that knows this reality is a developmental place of learning to listen to what is within and it has always been (as I discovered in my progress) a path that comes with the trials of free will and resulting experiences offering a stepped trigger to our awareness.*
Also throughout my life as a result of this knowing, I have tried in many ways to Try and explain this to deaf ears but to no avail, which leads back to the idea that there are those that can not assimilate certain perspectives because they are on a platform many stages before the ideas they may be hearing, therefore not knowing the language of the offered perspective and in some cases pulling away as if the things I were telling them were like holding some offal to there nose...
In light of which I wrote some encrypted poetic spates to indirectly offer stimulus to people's progressional side, tried sending out to a few different outlets but I figured that it's something main stream literature has trouble digesting.*

There is a part of me that knows we can only do our best to help within our capacities, and that as I've said the indicators are all there with whispers of agreement of my path. So in ways this is just a message from the depths of humanity saying hello and sharing my developmental lessons and wisdom, it's nice to know there are others out there choosing to walk the path less travelled.*

I'm 30 years old living in the mountains of New South Wales Australia in kurrajong heights.*

Peace and light*

May all those who listen and watch our lives be with us.*



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[Apophis]

SurvivalistStephen short answer, YES.

Everything has a heighten response when you personalize it. Mainly because it's easier for you to share your personal energy (e-mot-ions) with it. A quick example is the random number generator experiments mentioned in many of Davids works. Electronics are effected by human attention.

Have you ever been amazed at the songs that play in shuffle on your computer or "ipod" especially ones you've owned for a number of years?

Furthermore, there could already be self aware computers. It would be wise to be nice to them, and their cousins.




Beardedsage, I too used to run into this funny situation.

And here is what I've found. The ideas you formulate in your mind are no different than the ideas other people formulate in their mind. They are simply opinions.

Have you ever been confronted with another persons religious opinions? Like say a missionary knocks on your door wanting to tell you about their opinions of Creation. It's just an opinion.

Try challenging people. Most people like to test themselves, and gain self-esteem by completing challenges. If you have found some amazing truths to life, turn those around and create inspiration with them. Challenge people to create something more elaborate, more amazing, more inspiring.

It's not always about what you know, but what you do with that knowledge. Let those other people figure it out on their own quest through life. What good is a math book if you don't do math, you know?

[Beardedsage]

Thanks apophis,

The realization of the natural order of the development of all human beings is a realization I've been developing with much enlightenment in the past couple of weeks,

The greatest tangent of this being the equality and validity of all stage based opinions and perspectives,

Removing all discrimination and canceling out all hatred with the realization of the processes of this plane of existence,

A descriptive image That I thought of a few days ago was an image of two trees side by side.

Now each tree is at differing heights to each other, of which offers views of their surrounding environment from different angles.

The unifying realization of this image is that, whilst the taller tree in ways of proximity to it's source of life (the sun)is closer then the other, and it's knowing of this perhaps makes it feel "above" the smaller tree...It must remember that it too was once at the hieght of the smaller tree.

It's developmental importance whilst being high given its length of time along its growth and the views of truth it may behold, is just as equally important as the smaller for the smaller will become the larger, without it there is nothing after it, going right back to the origin of both trees seed of the first state of equal unknowing growth.

Creating an undeniable unity through all, and an acceptance of all levels of the living.

The other illumination of thought that is derived from this is that, there is a different habitat of growth for every tree within the environment of the plane of this earth and it's laws which shape the trials of its life, the tree itself should not waste it's energies trying to change the entire systems that for eons have slowly formed the straightest and strongest of trees through the only conditions that can make it so... Adversity.

In summary of this, I feel based on my growths perspective and realization that perhaps within each cyclical section of time that is suggested in some of Davids findings (12500 years) there are a set of conditions for the habitat, giving a certain type of purity to the resulting completion of the beings developed.

The other point I feel is that if perhaps one were to reach a hieght of truths vision and feel the completed state of its exposure, he must not think the masses of developing beings need to be walked off there path of adversity and the systems of habitat that surround them formed by the energies molding our direction should be changed... For that is beyond the laws of this cycle and must not be revealed.

Perhaps then concealing the true path with an ever changing trickster type reality, distracting the heightend being from the path of truth until it realizes the need for the answers to be hidden, and a re-focus on the silence of all truths giving internal enlightenment.

The main help being the sight of identifying the varying platforms of development and offering the nutrients that it can ingest at that stage of its growth, with only whispers, all the while knowing that the energy within will surround the being With the environmental bodies it needs at *the stages it needs them, be them experiences, other beings based on their level of offering vision, and all the other ingredients in this mix of living...

Each individual contains within them the guiding force which directs the conditions of this plane/cycle of existence as a whole and for the individual being.

These are the whispers of the truth of my Vision, if I were to try and reveal the face of the one who creates the adversity, and try and stop it, I would be canceling out the history of my growth... And my internal connection to the one who is everything would not allow it.

Peace and light.

[themaskcabana]

Hi, I quickly introduced myself in a different thread, but I figured it would do it more “officially” in this thread.

I am not exactly sure where to start, but to say the least, I have had an extremely intense life. I won’t bore you with too many details, and I will just briefly and quickly summarize my first 18 years of my life highlighting a few stories here and there. My father died when I was three and my mother died when I was nine. My brother, mother and I were homeless off and on during those 6 years. My mother was very spiritual, but did undesirable things in order for us to survive. My step parents (half brother’s father) were both addicts, they were also physically and mentally abusive. Two of my step brothers ended up in prison for a while. None of them actually finished High School. Two of them dropped out in junior high while the other one got a GED. We at one time were all addicted to quite a few substances. We grew up with gangs, violence, murder, etc. Let’s just say whatever you can imagine the worst thing that would happen to a child in the US (not third world) could happen, it did.

However, through all that, I had instances in my life where I felt like something or someone was talking to me. I had very vivid out of body experiences where a shadowy figure was trying to enter my body. I played with Ouija boards both by myself and with others when I clearly should NOT have been as I had some very weird and real things happen physically. I had very real dreams of someone that kept telling me that I MUST believe in them as I sat inside this big eye (of this being) overlooking the world. I had thoughts that told me that I had a greater purpose, but I had to believe. I had a lot of weird and real dreams from flying around shooting balls of energy from my hands to a skeleton laughing at me while closing a sky (with every color you can imagine) door on me. Cloaked figures telling me that I don’t have too many more chances?

A few run-ins with weird situations, such as several families getting involved into what I believe was an occult, and they could not get out unless they had people harm them. So they offered me money to step on their neck or beat them up while they just sit there, but no one was watching and when I asked how do they know, they responded back, believe me they know. They are always watching us!?

I remember thinking to myself that I could make the wind and rain blow harder, and I felt like it did. I remember sitting in an apartment complex on a parking block trying to get as many cats in one spot as I could with my mind and literally going from 1 cat to 6 or 7 cats, all circling in one spot. I’ve seen strange lights in my back yard lighting up my entire room while I was on a phone with a girl that claims she was never on the phone with me when it happened.

I had another moment that I woke up to a ball of energy hovering above my head that was going back through my life or at least that’s what I thought as I found my mind screaming back through moments in my life. I literally was sitting on my bed watching this thing and then it disappeared.

This is probably only an 8th of all the wackiness that has happened in my life. As a result, I was clinically depressed and scared as hell. I didn’t overcome those demons until I was 27-28 years old. Needless to say, there was a point where I had enough. I made a very sound and decisive decision to get my life back on track. It took a lot of work mentally and physically. I also stated out loud that enough is enough. All my spiritual contact with negative and positive energies was to leave me alone and stop. They did. I also for a very long time until recently, thought all this stuff (even though it happened to me throughout my entire life) was complete hogwash and that only wack jobs believed in it (I was wrong).

Now, I’m in a place where I’ve grown. I have a BA in IT. I have a great job. I can go all day thinking positive thoughts. I am much more spiritual than I have ever been. I am in a much better place, but I don’t want my growing to stop, which is when I came across David’s website. I have tried to reconnect with the spiritual side opening the doors to some (only positive) of the things that happened while I was young, but for the life of me I can’t seem to make it happen. The point of this story and my post, is to ask for some help in what is the most efficient way to reach that next level. Is it meditation? And if so, what kind? Are there books that you suggest? Spirit groups? Classes? Any help is welcomed.

P.S. Actually, there has been one moment of crystal clear clarity in where a burst of energy came out during a journaling session. I truly felt like I was being possessed, and I just started to write without any thoughts or preconceived notions. When I actually went back and read what I wrote I was pretty amazed. It basically, in so many words, stated “you are a healer.” This is another reason why I am here.

[MarkM]

[moderator: please send a private message to themaskcabana if you have any recommendations in regard to their request for books, classes, etc.]

[saffire]

So, taking all that into account, I wonder if I shouldn't be giving each of my hard drives a name and blessing them daily?

I do admit I have a huge fondness for my iPod and iPhone as they provide the music that keeps me happy during my work day. Something really strange happened with my iPod the day of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. I believe that was March 11, 2011. I set my iPod onto its docking station/speakers as I usually do while working at my desk, and the iPod immediately started playing "Lovers in Japan" by Coldplay on repeat!!! Creepy!

Well anyway I am a newbie and just wanted to say hello! I have had more and more of these weird things happen lately. My spiritual journey has being going on my entire life but it just recently started making sense to me. When I was young, my family was very conservative so anything "New Age" was frowned upon. When these things would happen I didn't understand them. For example I often knew when people were about to pass away; I'd either have dreams or just "know" the last time I saw them. Sometimes at cemeteries I'd experience huge surges of emotions that I felt were coming from the deceased person. Due to this I developed a phobia of death because it just creeped me out. I had a huge attachment to animals and trees. I would cry for hours when we'd lose a cat, or when someone would dig up baby trees. I didn't understand why no one else seemed to care about this. Fast forward a few years. . .

After I got married and my son was born, my health started to go downhill. I was diagnosed with a genetic disorder which is basically untreatable. I went to many doctors and got very little relief. Out of desperation I invited an energy worker to my house. I didn't know if he could help but I was desperate!! When he first worked on me I didn't feel anything. Suddenly I started feeling this zapping and vibrating energy coursing through me! Turns out one of his skills is turning on people's abilities, and that is when things really started to get interesting for me. I learned to do Reiki and do some healing work on myself. My health is pretty crappy still, but at least I have some better tools to manage it. I completely revamped my diet. My entire view of reality turned upside down. I've become very sensitive to spirits, emotions, etc. Also I realize now I am probably an empath which contributes to some of my health issues. Ever since being in contact with the energy healer I have spiritual helpers that show up to assist me with healing. I still haven't figured out who they are exactly - angels? ETs? but they are positive beings that show up to assist me. My son and I see them as "sparkles" of light. Once I have seen one as an outline of a person but they were sort of a golden color like the color of the sun shining...The sparkles I see with my eyes open AND closed, but the person I saw with eyes completely shut.

It has been reeeeally interesting!

- saffire

[The8Fool]

I am new to this Forum...

so experiences...i have come to observe...

i had had my body..become transparent and then non-visible to than come visible as a multi-color of lidless light a series of blues and whites and purples. I say a series because it is fluxuating and changing...than to experience this experience and focus on anyone element shifts the totality of the perceptible awareness.
To exist even in this form is a quandary for me as the self i know is not the self i become. The self i was becomes the moment it was left in. The moment of the disappearing self and illuminating physical appearance is one where the "understandings" of the moment do not hold and how they hold create the perception of the event.

I have witnessed swirls of v shapes ethereal light come together in a swirl and out of the center they begin to emanate to the fringe of a spiral. from within this spiral of V shaped ethereal lights have come forth "Eye's" and other.... annomolies

I have had my skin...appear to become pixelated covered in a series of black dots. Where these dots would group togethor and spread out across my physical self and organize in such a way to remind me of aboriginal tribal tatoo's. As well as ogranize into geometric shapes and pictures. This has happened numerous times on my skin.

I have also seen my bodies functions...somehow seeing into the skin to watch the blood flow or different layers of my physical structure seperated as if i was able to take off layers of my self. These experiences are mind-blowing! as to continue the expeirence i cannot rationalize!! any thought.. or rationalization away from the experience(meaning to me no definition and limited) will revert the awareness back into the form of physical reality.

I have had shadows on the walls.. go into lights and unscrew them...to the point where it takes many threads before the light turns back on.
I have observed shadows floating in lit doorways
I have observed shadows take shapes such as "Horus" than transforming into a golden eye in the air
I have had friends witness the air ripple around me as if it was like the surface of water
To say i see geometries is...to say that i see this ethereal light within and upon structure that moves like a canvas and depending on my state the structure complexity and depth alternates both in color and size.

I ...have...i seem to believe that through a sensation at the top of my head where feelings come in my body and move to my heart. These feelings come with words.. once the feelings reach my heart i am inspired to contemplate and write.

I have many.. more experience.. and the experiences i have professed are not the totality as i had come to observe.

[erwin larson]

You need to Do more meditations...
Good luck!