I am reading a book where it talks about programming and brainwashing and it was talking about how everyone has been programmed. I thought that was a rather odd statement, but when it went on to detail what the programming is, it became rather clear about how we're all programmed to think in a certain way.
The way we are programmed is to be focused on our own person. We focus on our safety, our sports teams, our lifestyle, our religion and even our families and friends among many other things.
Now there's nothing really wrong with that, but the problem is that if that's our only focus, we're really not seeing the global problems that trickle down to our lives. In order to see these things, you have to move from the self to a greater existence. In other words, your thinking must go from "I" to "we", from "we" to "us" and from "us" to "all".
We are kept in those lower perspectives, pulling from "us" until it's just "I". That thinking is everywhere and is all over your tv, but if you're not looking for that, you'll never see it.
Now the quantum world has this concept that was previously talked about here, called quantum entanglement. Or as Einstein put it: spooky action at a distance. This little concept is the nuclear bomb of perception shifts. Knowing the results of quantum entanglement shows that there's no such thing as the self, as all things are mysteriously and miraculously interconnected. (See the movie "I Am" as quantum entanglement is explained perfectly)
The post about the double slit experiment also comes into play, because it talks about passive observation versus active observation. In the programming, individuals are in a passive state. Shifting from the programming requires a movement from passive to the active state in order to identify the programming.
Active state observation is another name for critical analysis. This is one of those aspects that the education system fails to work on. A fully functional student with critical analysis is one that provides ideas and logical arguments that help better explain why one thing is true while another is false.
It can't be said that things happening all around the world don't factor into our existence. It's known the entanglement exists, so those entanglements will affect everyone whether things are good OR bad. Individuals who are programmed would not see these attachments, and as a result be unable to be affected by the seemingly unrelated events. However the truth is that the individuals are affected and as a result are numbed to their effects by the programming.
Break the programming, look at the world as just one thing, then think of the solar system as one, think of the galaxy as one, and then see the universe as one... and then keep going. Seriously, keep going!
Religions have been teaching us to look at each other as part of the entanglement, but the institution of religion has built in a program that takes you away from the connections. This is an argument for another day, but look at your own faith through the critical eyes of analysis to see that the universal message is there, but it's appealing to a self-focused existence. You can't connect to your source (whatever you want to call it, most call it God) through your self. You must view the entire existence as if you were the source.
I am not asking you to become source, I am only asking you join with the source. See everything from the perspective of source.
Source might not be the best word here, but there's not one word that is going to explain it quite right.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Do ghosts hang out at cemeteries or not?
Depends on who you ask.
One claim is that ghosts in cemeteries are not possible because nobody has actually died at a cemetery or lived at a cemetery. Valid point.
The other claim is that the spirit is attracted to its respective physical body. This is of course, valid as well.
So when one cemetery like Bachelor's Grove in Midlothian IL is labeled the most haunted cemetery, is it because of the connection the spirit has to the physical?
Or how can you explain it away after saying ghosts don't hang out at cemeteries?
Truth is you can't, or at least you shouldn't. Unless you've been there and can prove scientifically without any question, you can't prove either statement to be true. Or alternatively, you'll find that in a double blind case study that both conclusions are true.
This is a rather convoluted dichotomy when it comes to paranormal investigation. It really depends on which argument you're taking. Skeptic's aren't likely to prove ghosts exist while at the same time, ghost hunters aren't willing to stop and say ghosts don't exist.
The real problem with it all, is that ghosts and cemeteries are an impossible paradox of belief and science that neither comes to a definitive conclusion. In theory all locations are haunted by spirits and ghosts really don't exist.
The way to look at this, which is what I am doing with my team, is to treat it as a simple harmless fun outing. We go to a cemetery, we check it out. We try out our little gadgety things and see if anything happens.
Did we find anything? Doesn't matter!
Did we have fun? Ah, now we're getting somewhere!
Did we make any friends? I would like to hope so! This is what I think the main reason why anyone should ghost hunt a cemetery should be about.
These are public locations. We treat them with respect and they become a fabulous place to visit and hey, maybe there is a spirit there. A spirit of joy and friendship!
disclaimer: My group (zero point quantum paranormal) does not charge anyone for going to any of our outings. If we do have a charge it is that those items will be stated clearly as a part of signing up (and is usually someone else that is actually getting paid). Besides, who charges for going to a free public place anyway?
One claim is that ghosts in cemeteries are not possible because nobody has actually died at a cemetery or lived at a cemetery. Valid point.
The other claim is that the spirit is attracted to its respective physical body. This is of course, valid as well.
So when one cemetery like Bachelor's Grove in Midlothian IL is labeled the most haunted cemetery, is it because of the connection the spirit has to the physical?
Or how can you explain it away after saying ghosts don't hang out at cemeteries?
Truth is you can't, or at least you shouldn't. Unless you've been there and can prove scientifically without any question, you can't prove either statement to be true. Or alternatively, you'll find that in a double blind case study that both conclusions are true.
This is a rather convoluted dichotomy when it comes to paranormal investigation. It really depends on which argument you're taking. Skeptic's aren't likely to prove ghosts exist while at the same time, ghost hunters aren't willing to stop and say ghosts don't exist.
The real problem with it all, is that ghosts and cemeteries are an impossible paradox of belief and science that neither comes to a definitive conclusion. In theory all locations are haunted by spirits and ghosts really don't exist.
The way to look at this, which is what I am doing with my team, is to treat it as a simple harmless fun outing. We go to a cemetery, we check it out. We try out our little gadgety things and see if anything happens.
Did we find anything? Doesn't matter!
Did we have fun? Ah, now we're getting somewhere!
Did we make any friends? I would like to hope so! This is what I think the main reason why anyone should ghost hunt a cemetery should be about.
These are public locations. We treat them with respect and they become a fabulous place to visit and hey, maybe there is a spirit there. A spirit of joy and friendship!
disclaimer: My group (zero point quantum paranormal) does not charge anyone for going to any of our outings. If we do have a charge it is that those items will be stated clearly as a part of signing up (and is usually someone else that is actually getting paid). Besides, who charges for going to a free public place anyway?
So I created a paranormal group part 2.
Intent is the name of the game. What you intend to have happen is something that's set in motion.
With intent, I set upon achieving one simple little goal that should be a part of every single organization in existence.
That one goal is to make sure people are happy.
Happy's a pretty big goal. I think if you give people happiness that it in turn makes you happy just from their happiness.
I've been reading "The Children of The Law of One" by John Peniel. If you've ever studied Edgar Cayce's readings, you've probably heard about this guy.
Anyway, I am getting to the part where it talks about intent and happiness and achieving enlightenment.
The statement says basically that once you've achieved enlightenment you pretty much spend the rest of the time helping others to achieve it.
Now I KNOW I am not fully enlightened. I have frustration that meets me in some form every day. Whether it is my work, or the fact that I sense spirits who can't properly communicate me, I am frustrated.
At times I feel like Prometheus trying to steal fire from Zeus. I want to know what the little secret is, and then turn it around and give it to others.
This is not all that far from one's whose enlightened, but in some regard I would have to be happy about it all.
Sometimes I would say that I am not happy. It's not an "incredible hulk" kind of unhappy, just a "bridge is out" kind of state of upset.
I mean, what are you going to do with things out of your control? You going to let those things eat at you, or will you discard them like a facial tissue which you've blown your nose?
The intent I am trying to show here is that I set up an approach for people to work together in a rather unique system. I believe that this is completely achievable once people understand and join the system.
Maybe in some regard, I set it up, so it wasn't hinged on the fact that I started it. I've never been good at getting groups together. I tried many times to start a band out of high school and college and it just never quite worked out. So the important part to me, was just to make it possible. For the first month, I didn't even care if people even looked at the webpage or not. The vanity of the thing would make me unhappy.
We can accomplish happiness by getting rid of things that make us anything but happy or by addressing the issues that cause us to not feel happiness.
That is pretty much the only thing I have to say as a part of this entry, because to me, it literally is the most important thing.
Are you happy?
With intent, I set upon achieving one simple little goal that should be a part of every single organization in existence.
That one goal is to make sure people are happy.
Happy's a pretty big goal. I think if you give people happiness that it in turn makes you happy just from their happiness.
I've been reading "The Children of The Law of One" by John Peniel. If you've ever studied Edgar Cayce's readings, you've probably heard about this guy.
Anyway, I am getting to the part where it talks about intent and happiness and achieving enlightenment.
The statement says basically that once you've achieved enlightenment you pretty much spend the rest of the time helping others to achieve it.
Now I KNOW I am not fully enlightened. I have frustration that meets me in some form every day. Whether it is my work, or the fact that I sense spirits who can't properly communicate me, I am frustrated.
At times I feel like Prometheus trying to steal fire from Zeus. I want to know what the little secret is, and then turn it around and give it to others.
This is not all that far from one's whose enlightened, but in some regard I would have to be happy about it all.
Sometimes I would say that I am not happy. It's not an "incredible hulk" kind of unhappy, just a "bridge is out" kind of state of upset.
I mean, what are you going to do with things out of your control? You going to let those things eat at you, or will you discard them like a facial tissue which you've blown your nose?
The intent I am trying to show here is that I set up an approach for people to work together in a rather unique system. I believe that this is completely achievable once people understand and join the system.
Maybe in some regard, I set it up, so it wasn't hinged on the fact that I started it. I've never been good at getting groups together. I tried many times to start a band out of high school and college and it just never quite worked out. So the important part to me, was just to make it possible. For the first month, I didn't even care if people even looked at the webpage or not. The vanity of the thing would make me unhappy.
We can accomplish happiness by getting rid of things that make us anything but happy or by addressing the issues that cause us to not feel happiness.
That is pretty much the only thing I have to say as a part of this entry, because to me, it literally is the most important thing.
Are you happy?
Monday, May 21, 2012
So I created a paranormal group
I remember it quite clearly. I had basically walked away from a paranormal group. The demands and pressures on my time made it difficult for me to do what was asked in the time I was asked to do it in.
Plain and simple, I couldn't cut it with the team. And I am still fine with that.
However, I got into the paranormal because of questions. Questions that nagged and pulled at the chords that hang all around me in this life, making it look like some kind of puppet show that I was just merely a wooden character placed within. These questions are not to be taken lightly, and by all that is in me, they must be answered!
So a couple weeks later had passed and I was in the final stages of what I really wanted to do with life. Should I answer those questions and move forward or do an about face and try to go to stuff that I used to do, but didn't do anymore.
There's a reason why I am not doing what I used to do. Things change, seasons change, I change. This is the nature of the world. If I have learned anything is that I must always continue to move forward.
And with that in mind, I started laying the groundwork for "my" paranormal group.
Let me just say that my idea of a group is that it's a bunch of people working together. This was my biggest problem with joining any other group, because there was always someone designated as a leader, president, founder or whatever. The whole idea of which reminds me of a corporate existence that soured my work existence for the better part of a decade. The last thing I would ever want is to have a group where there was a leader who you just shouldn't cross just out of respect. You wear big enough shoes, you're invariably going to step on toes, whether you want to or not.
So I scrapped the whole idea of that. No leaders.
Next was the issue of how to pass information to and from the team. Who would be handling the money and how would the issues of money be handled. This was the biggest problem. Life I have found is not without its sense of synchronistic sense of harmony. I found that my skills as a programmer in a small company situation means that I do a whole bunch of pieces of project management from day to day. I turned the whole concept into the idea of what makes the team work with an internal computer based system. In turn I did one thing that I am pretty sure most teams are not doing.
I got rid of requirements. I do require that members support themselves and each other, but there's one driving factor that I went with. Complete transparency at ALL levels.
Then I knew that since I left a team that there would be questions. I knew that I couldn't be taking shortcuts at every stage of the process, but some of the process was laborious for little reason. For this reason I have taken the processing as a group member and literally placed it in the member's hands. The handbook is a thorough study of what one would need to get started on an investigation. I know for some groups out there that this is crazy talk, but I find that one's ability to investigate has more to do with experience than anything else.
So I got rid of the whole teaching/training scenario. It's placed in the member's hands. How fast you learn the material, determines how soon you become a full fledged team member. You could literally be an investigator in weeks not months.
Finally came the issue of evidence. In my latter days with the previous group, I found myself in greater and greater doubt about the significance or importance of the material we were getting. Countless hours were spent working on audio to try to make it sound clearer or determine what it was that was being said. To me the processing of all of it, screamed insanity. It took weeks for me to get through a night of audio, not because it was difficult, but because it just never really sounded that clear to me.
So I got rid of it. Either there's something there or there isn't. If something's in question, then we make a note and then as a group take a look at it. As investigators who aren't getting paid for the work, spending unnecessary time on something is nothing short of just plain wasting time.
To follow this up, I then had a unique idea. In that idea was itself a aspect of uniqueness. That idea was to be as unique as possible. Let's not try to hunt ghosts. Let's try to prove ghosts using as many means as possible. That means getting lots and lots of different approaches and actually getting to what ghost hunters did in the 70's and earlier: just plain old research. Let's build a scenario, create theories and then test them!
So instead of being a ghost hunter, I got rid of that idea. Let's learn how to be ghost detectors!
Finally armed with the concepts I needed, I then need a name to pull the whole thing together. Something that spoke to the nature of existence, the unexplainable aspect of the paranormal and wrap it up in a nice bow. That concept came as a result of watching movies like "what the bleep...", "thrive" and "I am". The ideas of the law of attraction, the observations of an observer affecting reality and the entanglement of the aspects of us that we can't even begin to understand.
The words were easy: Zero Point Quantum Paranormal.
Plain and simple, I couldn't cut it with the team. And I am still fine with that.
However, I got into the paranormal because of questions. Questions that nagged and pulled at the chords that hang all around me in this life, making it look like some kind of puppet show that I was just merely a wooden character placed within. These questions are not to be taken lightly, and by all that is in me, they must be answered!
So a couple weeks later had passed and I was in the final stages of what I really wanted to do with life. Should I answer those questions and move forward or do an about face and try to go to stuff that I used to do, but didn't do anymore.
There's a reason why I am not doing what I used to do. Things change, seasons change, I change. This is the nature of the world. If I have learned anything is that I must always continue to move forward.
And with that in mind, I started laying the groundwork for "my" paranormal group.
Let me just say that my idea of a group is that it's a bunch of people working together. This was my biggest problem with joining any other group, because there was always someone designated as a leader, president, founder or whatever. The whole idea of which reminds me of a corporate existence that soured my work existence for the better part of a decade. The last thing I would ever want is to have a group where there was a leader who you just shouldn't cross just out of respect. You wear big enough shoes, you're invariably going to step on toes, whether you want to or not.
So I scrapped the whole idea of that. No leaders.
Next was the issue of how to pass information to and from the team. Who would be handling the money and how would the issues of money be handled. This was the biggest problem. Life I have found is not without its sense of synchronistic sense of harmony. I found that my skills as a programmer in a small company situation means that I do a whole bunch of pieces of project management from day to day. I turned the whole concept into the idea of what makes the team work with an internal computer based system. In turn I did one thing that I am pretty sure most teams are not doing.
I got rid of requirements. I do require that members support themselves and each other, but there's one driving factor that I went with. Complete transparency at ALL levels.
Then I knew that since I left a team that there would be questions. I knew that I couldn't be taking shortcuts at every stage of the process, but some of the process was laborious for little reason. For this reason I have taken the processing as a group member and literally placed it in the member's hands. The handbook is a thorough study of what one would need to get started on an investigation. I know for some groups out there that this is crazy talk, but I find that one's ability to investigate has more to do with experience than anything else.
So I got rid of the whole teaching/training scenario. It's placed in the member's hands. How fast you learn the material, determines how soon you become a full fledged team member. You could literally be an investigator in weeks not months.
Finally came the issue of evidence. In my latter days with the previous group, I found myself in greater and greater doubt about the significance or importance of the material we were getting. Countless hours were spent working on audio to try to make it sound clearer or determine what it was that was being said. To me the processing of all of it, screamed insanity. It took weeks for me to get through a night of audio, not because it was difficult, but because it just never really sounded that clear to me.
So I got rid of it. Either there's something there or there isn't. If something's in question, then we make a note and then as a group take a look at it. As investigators who aren't getting paid for the work, spending unnecessary time on something is nothing short of just plain wasting time.
To follow this up, I then had a unique idea. In that idea was itself a aspect of uniqueness. That idea was to be as unique as possible. Let's not try to hunt ghosts. Let's try to prove ghosts using as many means as possible. That means getting lots and lots of different approaches and actually getting to what ghost hunters did in the 70's and earlier: just plain old research. Let's build a scenario, create theories and then test them!
So instead of being a ghost hunter, I got rid of that idea. Let's learn how to be ghost detectors!
Finally armed with the concepts I needed, I then need a name to pull the whole thing together. Something that spoke to the nature of existence, the unexplainable aspect of the paranormal and wrap it up in a nice bow. That concept came as a result of watching movies like "what the bleep...", "thrive" and "I am". The ideas of the law of attraction, the observations of an observer affecting reality and the entanglement of the aspects of us that we can't even begin to understand.
The words were easy: Zero Point Quantum Paranormal.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Something wrong about the double slit experiment.
I was doing some research into the quantum zero point for personal reasons.
I found a little correlation to the favorite talk of Star Trek fans, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The principle states that it's impossible to know the position or momentum of a particle within an atom. As soon as you know one aspect, the other aspect changes.
One of they ways they were able to do it was to fire photons into an atom. Any time they found a photon reflecting, it showed the location of a particle, but it had since moved. Part of the movement is because the particle is in motion, but also because the particle has been influenced by the photon.
So the issue doubled back to the classic double slit experiment, where in firing one proton at a time through a double slit that the observation causes the photon to act like a particle rather than a wave.
Yeah! They're using photons! So how are they measuring the photon? I am not exactly clear on this. At times they were using bucky balls, which are DNA sized. Supposedly it was done while using a microscope, but still how are they seeing it? What are they doing? How are they sure it's done correctly?
The problem with the conclusion of the double slit experiment is that the simple act of observation is (or isn't) what's creating the outcome.
I am going to disagree with that conclusion. The reason why I am disagreeing with the conclusion is because it makes the assumption that passive observation is sufficient. My argument is that it's not correct.
Instead, it is active observation that would influence the outcome. It's the act of firing the photon to find the particle of an atom that can affect the particle, where it is, and where it is going. In more a more philosophic approach to the concept, it is as if the belief is God isn't what defines faith, instead it's the actions of prayer and worship that make faith.
I realize that's a bastardization of who God is and whether or not God exists, but I hope it could explain that the active influences upon a system are what effects the system.
By placing some activity into a system, you change the conditions of that system. It doesn't require a lot of activity, but activity is warranted to change a system.
We live in the energetic system. It is our energy that influences the system around us. It is totally up to us whether we influence that system.
I found a little correlation to the favorite talk of Star Trek fans, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The principle states that it's impossible to know the position or momentum of a particle within an atom. As soon as you know one aspect, the other aspect changes.
One of they ways they were able to do it was to fire photons into an atom. Any time they found a photon reflecting, it showed the location of a particle, but it had since moved. Part of the movement is because the particle is in motion, but also because the particle has been influenced by the photon.
So the issue doubled back to the classic double slit experiment, where in firing one proton at a time through a double slit that the observation causes the photon to act like a particle rather than a wave.
Yeah! They're using photons! So how are they measuring the photon? I am not exactly clear on this. At times they were using bucky balls, which are DNA sized. Supposedly it was done while using a microscope, but still how are they seeing it? What are they doing? How are they sure it's done correctly?
The problem with the conclusion of the double slit experiment is that the simple act of observation is (or isn't) what's creating the outcome.
I am going to disagree with that conclusion. The reason why I am disagreeing with the conclusion is because it makes the assumption that passive observation is sufficient. My argument is that it's not correct.
Instead, it is active observation that would influence the outcome. It's the act of firing the photon to find the particle of an atom that can affect the particle, where it is, and where it is going. In more a more philosophic approach to the concept, it is as if the belief is God isn't what defines faith, instead it's the actions of prayer and worship that make faith.
I realize that's a bastardization of who God is and whether or not God exists, but I hope it could explain that the active influences upon a system are what effects the system.
By placing some activity into a system, you change the conditions of that system. It doesn't require a lot of activity, but activity is warranted to change a system.
We live in the energetic system. It is our energy that influences the system around us. It is totally up to us whether we influence that system.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
I solemnly swear I am up to something.
A couple of weeks ago, I departed ways with the paranormal group I was associated with. It was something that was a long time coming (I can trace it all the way back in July or maybe earlier, as that is when it all started to go wrong).
I don't care to talk about it, because it would cause the conversation to fall into that one thing I really hate: politics. Usually someone maintains they are right while everything else is wrong. God forbid someone disagrees.
It's an exercise on letting go and moving on. So I have. It's also a lesson about being a radiant soul.
...And that is the most important part of it.
In the past couple of weeks, I wouldn't say I've been busy, but I have been deep in thought. Thinking about my motivations and interests and what worked in regards to what I did with the paranormal team and what didn't.
I kept a mental list of it all and weighed it against one simple little question: Am I happy?
It's a totally valid question. I think most people forget to ask themselves that, let alone ask others.
In my little crusade within myself, the problem with unhappiness ends up with finding one's self wrapped and mired in controlling what is truly not to be constrained. I am totally guilty of doing that myself. The feeling of obligation and indebtedness gets in the way of feeling free of these constrains that bind us and buries us well into the ground.
If our souls are to become radiant they must do so in our own way. You can't follow someone's guidance on it, it must be found through exploration and discovery. The best you can do is be a mentor. Be the reliable resource that's always there when it is needed. But when the resource isn't needed, all a mentor needs to do is watch. Watch and take joy in the progress that you'll witness. Learn the lesson of the grass. Doesn't really take much for it to grow, but it does require a little intervention here and there to keep it from getting out of control.
If anything, that's vaguely what I am up to. I'm not saying anything more. There is just so much for me to discover and explore on my own as it is.
And please try to be happy today. That's all I ask.
I don't care to talk about it, because it would cause the conversation to fall into that one thing I really hate: politics. Usually someone maintains they are right while everything else is wrong. God forbid someone disagrees.
It's an exercise on letting go and moving on. So I have. It's also a lesson about being a radiant soul.
...And that is the most important part of it.
In the past couple of weeks, I wouldn't say I've been busy, but I have been deep in thought. Thinking about my motivations and interests and what worked in regards to what I did with the paranormal team and what didn't.
I kept a mental list of it all and weighed it against one simple little question: Am I happy?
It's a totally valid question. I think most people forget to ask themselves that, let alone ask others.
In my little crusade within myself, the problem with unhappiness ends up with finding one's self wrapped and mired in controlling what is truly not to be constrained. I am totally guilty of doing that myself. The feeling of obligation and indebtedness gets in the way of feeling free of these constrains that bind us and buries us well into the ground.
If our souls are to become radiant they must do so in our own way. You can't follow someone's guidance on it, it must be found through exploration and discovery. The best you can do is be a mentor. Be the reliable resource that's always there when it is needed. But when the resource isn't needed, all a mentor needs to do is watch. Watch and take joy in the progress that you'll witness. Learn the lesson of the grass. Doesn't really take much for it to grow, but it does require a little intervention here and there to keep it from getting out of control.
If anything, that's vaguely what I am up to. I'm not saying anything more. There is just so much for me to discover and explore on my own as it is.
And please try to be happy today. That's all I ask.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Rebirth in sedona
The past week I went to Sedona Arizona for a vacation that's been a long time coming.
I don't usually get to take my vacations mainly because of work's client demands. Basically there's something new or important to take care of every single day. Also when I go on vacation, that's when clients freak and do even more stuff. My boss even says I can't take vacations. I think he might be joking, but it's not funny.
The problem with not taking the time to break away from your job means you are a prime candidate for burnout. Believe you me, when I say I was close to burnout, I was on the precipice of actually burning out. The only way I could ever see myself taking a vacation was either due to a holiday or by having someone make me go.
Holidays don't count.
So my in-laws reserved us a place with a time-share in sedona. They took care of lodging and the flights there and back. The rest was up to us. Hard to argue, right?
It turns out the timing was perfect.
There is nothing that happens in my life lately without some kind of deliberate purpose behind it. Yes, it doesn't make sense all of the time, and I may not fully grasp what is going on "behind the scenes". The key for me right now is "go with it".
Okay. Off we go.
Sedona is a bit underwhelming but at the same time overwhelming. Sedona is not a big place. It's a small town pretty much in the middle of nowhere. The big thing about the place is something called a vortex.
NASA has identified 21 locations throughout the world where there is a lot of earth/spirit energy that presents itself in a strong manner. 5 of those locations are in Sedona.
The day or two after we arrived in Sedona, it rained. The place is basically an arid location, and we had rain. This allowed us to attend a lecture by the non profit group freesoul's founder Pete Sanders. Their website is freesoul.net.
Mr. Sanders really knows his stuff. He explained what is going on with the vortexes (yes, that's how you say it, not vorticies) from a completely scientific perspective. He talked about where we get our pain response and how to counter it, and how to get the best benefit from the vortexes.
The way it was described is that while a vortex deals with spirit energy, it is more of the assistance of one's own spirit energy from the earth itself. I did have a recorder with me and turned it on at a location or two just to see if the energy is possibly spirit energy and is able to communicate.
The entire place is a metaphysical mishmash of crystal shops and psychic readers contrasted with the appeal of mountain vistas and scenic destinations. That in mind, we did find the time to go to 5 locations of vortex like activity with 4 of them recognized as vortex hotspots.
The first one is not considered one of the major vortexes, but it is chapel rock. Chapel rock is a chapel designed in part by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a very small chapel that overlooks a large portion of the valley. It's precariously perched on a hill and takes a bit of a walk to get to the chapel. This location is an upflow vortex.
An upflow vortex is one that energy is pushed upward. Imagine it as if it's a rocket sending your prayers/spirit straight upward. By contrast is an inflow vortex. It gives the sensation of pulling you downwards and usually causes introspection. A combination of the two is a balance vortex. A balanced vortex is as if the energy flows in a lateral manner. Balanced vortexes will give someone a sense of well being as well as deal with issues in the past and future.
The second location we went to was Airport vista. There's actually two vortexes at the location, but the main one is the rightmost hill of the tiny little parking area. This one is the easiest of the hills to climb in my opinion. It also doesn't disappoint when it comes to feeling the energy.
I know most people think bell rock is the strongest. We went to that one next. The problem in climbing bell rock is that you really need to be nimble and fit in order to get to the upper levels of bell rock. There's a 3 foot step up that you have to make and the climb up a tapered rock. To us this was a bit beyond our abilities as we wanted to attempt. The danger of it, is that if you don't place your feet correctly, the fall is quite a number of feet away. We just weren't that daring. The energy was supposed to be stronger there than airport, but I did not feel it as strongly.
The next vortex we went to was red rock crossing. This is a state park and the entire path is along a mountain river. This is probably the easiest one to reach, due to it's flat terrain. The vortex supposedly is in an area that is represented by a large area of flat rock. We however, felt the energy was located earlier on the path, as we could feel our internal organs getting pulled toward the ground.
The last place we went to was boynton canyon. That one is a bit of a combination and was when I really started to feel something. To me it felt like a data stream. A lot of encrypted imagery combined with the sense that it's "all part of the plan". Yes, I do hear Heath Ledger say it as the joker.
We tried to go to a vortex on 11/11/11 but everyone had the same idea. It was a bit nuts. Instead we ended up checking out montezuma's well and castle. The surrounding area of Sedona is besprinkled with these little native communities all of which disappeared around the same time. (1400's) All that's left of them are these ruins or crumbling house structures.
We also took the opportunity to take in a site of spectacular petroglyphs at the former v bar v ranch. These glyphs are etched into the flat side of a hill. The bacteria formed on the rock makes it possible to see these etchings. There are a lot of them, and you can spend a considerable amount of time there thanks to the volunteer storyteller that makes them all the more captivating. There were bugs there, so we found it a little annoying.
Before leaving Sedona, we took one more hike up airport rock to see the sunrise over the area. This was probably the biggest thing that happened to me during the whole trip.
I am sitting there with my eyes closed just relaxing as the sun is slowly coming up over the eastern mesas, and something large shoots upwards in my vision. It's literally a dragon. Large scales on its neck and much bigger than a house. This was the reason I was there. To experience this rush of energy and to become energized and inspired by it. That is exactly what I needed. After soaring around through waterfalls of lava and fire, it took me to a lateral perspective of the rock upon which I was sitting. I was shown the energy moving around the rock. At one level, the energy spins one direction and at another it spun a completely different direction. The energy I was experiencing was pushed through the center of these rotating fields of energy.
As I opened my eyes, I had a sense of direction, better motivation. If I imagine that dragon flowing through me, I find the relaxation of soaring on the wind. I also feel a force behind me, imbuing me with a sense of confidence and a voice driven with a passionate fire.
If there was ever a reason for me to get a tattoo, this is IT!!! The imagery, inspiration and motivation of such a moving experience is something I want to hold onto for a very long time.
The world feels a lot better to me because of it and I think my place in the world is a lot better from that as well.
I don't usually get to take my vacations mainly because of work's client demands. Basically there's something new or important to take care of every single day. Also when I go on vacation, that's when clients freak and do even more stuff. My boss even says I can't take vacations. I think he might be joking, but it's not funny.
The problem with not taking the time to break away from your job means you are a prime candidate for burnout. Believe you me, when I say I was close to burnout, I was on the precipice of actually burning out. The only way I could ever see myself taking a vacation was either due to a holiday or by having someone make me go.
Holidays don't count.
So my in-laws reserved us a place with a time-share in sedona. They took care of lodging and the flights there and back. The rest was up to us. Hard to argue, right?
It turns out the timing was perfect.
There is nothing that happens in my life lately without some kind of deliberate purpose behind it. Yes, it doesn't make sense all of the time, and I may not fully grasp what is going on "behind the scenes". The key for me right now is "go with it".
Okay. Off we go.
Sedona is a bit underwhelming but at the same time overwhelming. Sedona is not a big place. It's a small town pretty much in the middle of nowhere. The big thing about the place is something called a vortex.
NASA has identified 21 locations throughout the world where there is a lot of earth/spirit energy that presents itself in a strong manner. 5 of those locations are in Sedona.
The day or two after we arrived in Sedona, it rained. The place is basically an arid location, and we had rain. This allowed us to attend a lecture by the non profit group freesoul's founder Pete Sanders. Their website is freesoul.net.
Mr. Sanders really knows his stuff. He explained what is going on with the vortexes (yes, that's how you say it, not vorticies) from a completely scientific perspective. He talked about where we get our pain response and how to counter it, and how to get the best benefit from the vortexes.
The way it was described is that while a vortex deals with spirit energy, it is more of the assistance of one's own spirit energy from the earth itself. I did have a recorder with me and turned it on at a location or two just to see if the energy is possibly spirit energy and is able to communicate.
The entire place is a metaphysical mishmash of crystal shops and psychic readers contrasted with the appeal of mountain vistas and scenic destinations. That in mind, we did find the time to go to 5 locations of vortex like activity with 4 of them recognized as vortex hotspots.
The first one is not considered one of the major vortexes, but it is chapel rock. Chapel rock is a chapel designed in part by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a very small chapel that overlooks a large portion of the valley. It's precariously perched on a hill and takes a bit of a walk to get to the chapel. This location is an upflow vortex.
An upflow vortex is one that energy is pushed upward. Imagine it as if it's a rocket sending your prayers/spirit straight upward. By contrast is an inflow vortex. It gives the sensation of pulling you downwards and usually causes introspection. A combination of the two is a balance vortex. A balanced vortex is as if the energy flows in a lateral manner. Balanced vortexes will give someone a sense of well being as well as deal with issues in the past and future.
The second location we went to was Airport vista. There's actually two vortexes at the location, but the main one is the rightmost hill of the tiny little parking area. This one is the easiest of the hills to climb in my opinion. It also doesn't disappoint when it comes to feeling the energy.
I know most people think bell rock is the strongest. We went to that one next. The problem in climbing bell rock is that you really need to be nimble and fit in order to get to the upper levels of bell rock. There's a 3 foot step up that you have to make and the climb up a tapered rock. To us this was a bit beyond our abilities as we wanted to attempt. The danger of it, is that if you don't place your feet correctly, the fall is quite a number of feet away. We just weren't that daring. The energy was supposed to be stronger there than airport, but I did not feel it as strongly.
The next vortex we went to was red rock crossing. This is a state park and the entire path is along a mountain river. This is probably the easiest one to reach, due to it's flat terrain. The vortex supposedly is in an area that is represented by a large area of flat rock. We however, felt the energy was located earlier on the path, as we could feel our internal organs getting pulled toward the ground.
The last place we went to was boynton canyon. That one is a bit of a combination and was when I really started to feel something. To me it felt like a data stream. A lot of encrypted imagery combined with the sense that it's "all part of the plan". Yes, I do hear Heath Ledger say it as the joker.
We tried to go to a vortex on 11/11/11 but everyone had the same idea. It was a bit nuts. Instead we ended up checking out montezuma's well and castle. The surrounding area of Sedona is besprinkled with these little native communities all of which disappeared around the same time. (1400's) All that's left of them are these ruins or crumbling house structures.
We also took the opportunity to take in a site of spectacular petroglyphs at the former v bar v ranch. These glyphs are etched into the flat side of a hill. The bacteria formed on the rock makes it possible to see these etchings. There are a lot of them, and you can spend a considerable amount of time there thanks to the volunteer storyteller that makes them all the more captivating. There were bugs there, so we found it a little annoying.
Before leaving Sedona, we took one more hike up airport rock to see the sunrise over the area. This was probably the biggest thing that happened to me during the whole trip.
I am sitting there with my eyes closed just relaxing as the sun is slowly coming up over the eastern mesas, and something large shoots upwards in my vision. It's literally a dragon. Large scales on its neck and much bigger than a house. This was the reason I was there. To experience this rush of energy and to become energized and inspired by it. That is exactly what I needed. After soaring around through waterfalls of lava and fire, it took me to a lateral perspective of the rock upon which I was sitting. I was shown the energy moving around the rock. At one level, the energy spins one direction and at another it spun a completely different direction. The energy I was experiencing was pushed through the center of these rotating fields of energy.
As I opened my eyes, I had a sense of direction, better motivation. If I imagine that dragon flowing through me, I find the relaxation of soaring on the wind. I also feel a force behind me, imbuing me with a sense of confidence and a voice driven with a passionate fire.
If there was ever a reason for me to get a tattoo, this is IT!!! The imagery, inspiration and motivation of such a moving experience is something I want to hold onto for a very long time.
The world feels a lot better to me because of it and I think my place in the world is a lot better from that as well.
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