follow the white rabbit....
Happy Halloween!
October 27, 2007
Metaphysical Reflection – A Master Speaks....
First Talk in The Oak Grove....
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Amidst so much confusion and sorrow it is essential to find creative understanding of ourselves, for without it no relationship is possible. Only through right thinking can there be understanding. Neither leaders nor a new set of values nor a blueprint can bring about this creative understanding; only through our own right effort can there be right understanding.....
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How is it possible then to find this essential understanding? From where shall we start to discover what is real, what is true, in all this conflagration, confusion, and misery? Is it not important to find out for ourselves how to think rightly about war and peace, about economic and social conditions, about our relationship to our fellow men? Surely there is a difference between right thinking and right or conditioned thought. We may be able to produce in ourselves imitatively right thought, but such thought is not right thinking. Right or conditioned thought is uncreative. But when we know how to think rightly for ourselves, which is to be living, dynamic, then it is possible to bring about a new and happier culture.....
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I would like during these talks to develop what seems to me to be the process of right thinking so that each one of us is truly creative, and not merely enclosed in a series of ideas or prejudices. How shall we then begin to discover for ourselves what is right thinking?....
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-J. Krishnamurti, The Mirror of Relationship....
The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti
Volume III ....
1936-1944....
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The Mirror of Relationship
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This talk extracted from The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vol. 3. ....
Document from www.jkrishnamurti.org....
For personal study
October 20, 2007
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Honored: the Congressional Gold Medal Award
Date: October 17, 2007 Place: Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C.
Recommended by BBC: www.tibet.com/DL/index.html
www.dalailama.com
To the ocean of protectors endowed with eyes of transcendent wisdom – thank you for facilitating the honor of the Congressional Gold Medal Award, given to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Tenzin Gyatso, bestowed in the United States on October 17, 2007
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October 13, 2007
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !!
Mystic Tree History, Poems and Spiritual Heraldry as Art
Tradition has it the European practice was to ask the tree's permission before....
cutting a branch. The appropriate rhymes, first recited with all due respect, are as follows:....
'Owd Gal, give me of thy wood, an Oi will give some of moine, when I graws inter a tree'.....
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THE SEVEN VISIBLE HEAVENLY BODIES....
(Reference Guide Only - This List Is Abbreviated)....
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SATURN Lilly mentions 48 plants, including all anodynes and narcotic poisons, which are under the rule of this planet. TREES: PINE, POMEGRANATE, ELM, WLLOW, CYPRESS, YEW; The Days of The Week, according to Graves Tree Alphabet: F ~ Saturday, The Alder; M. P. Hall adds: Barley, parsnip, spinach, nightshade, moss, hemp, holly, wintergreen, mandrake, senna, tamarisk, ivy, vervain, and rue.....
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JUPITER TREES: THE OAK, LIME, LINDEN, BIRCH, OLIVE, MULBERRY, ASH, ALMOND, SEVERAL BERRIES; The Days of The Week, according to Graves Tree Alphabet: D ~ Juppiter governs Thursday, The Oak, Terebinth. Lilly records Apples, spice, and 172 others. M. P. Hall adds: Asparagus, sage, leeks, nutmegs, cloves, rhubarb, strawberries, mints, sugar-cane, myrrh, currants, dandelion, daisy.....
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MARS TREES: THOSE THAT ARE THORNY AND PRICKLY, KERM; The Days of The Week, according to Graves Tree Alphabet: T ~ Tuesday, The Holly. Lilly lists Mustard, radish, all pungent and thorny plants. M. P. Hall adds: Onion garlic, hops, horse-radish, peppers, radish, ginger, hemlock, cactus, gentian, all thistles, briars and nettles. Garlic, like Ginseng, cleans the blood, gives positive energy. (Pluto: Belladonna)....
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SOL TREES: LAUREL, BAY-TREE, CITRUS, WALNUT, PALM. The Days of The Week, according to Graves Tree Alphabet: B ~ Birch, Sunday. Lilly lists Vervain, St. John’s wort, orange, hyacinth, 100 more. M. P. Hall adds: Rice, yellow poppy, sunflower, saffron, cinnamon, pepper, peony, marigold, musk, yellow honey, frankincense, and all aromatic herbs. (Additions from Agrippa: Ash, cedar, balm, ginger, gentain, dittany, balsam, sweet marjoram, amber, vine, mint, and more)....
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LUNA TREES: THE PALM, WILLOW, TREES ABOUNDING IN SAP, (YIN Factor). The Days of The Week, according to Graves Tree Alphabet: S ~ Monday. Lilly gives The Moon rulership of Lotus, lily, poppies, mushrooms, vines, and about 200 others; M. P. Hall adds: Melons, cucumbers, pumpkins, cabbage, endive, turnips, sea-weed, hyssop, lettuce, watercress, gourd, rosemary, night-growing plants.....
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VENUS TREES: THE FIG-TREE, ALMOND, APPLE, APRICOT, ASH, CYPRESS, GRAPES & other VINES, PEACH, PEAR, QUINCE, POMEGRANATE, MYRTLE. Orris Root, several aphrodisiacs and anodynes; Lilly adds myrrh & about 220 more. The Days of The Week, according to Graves Tree Alphabet: Q ~ Friday, The Apple. M. P. Hall adds: Peppermint, gooseberry, goldenrod, ferns, wheat, violets, daffodils, roses, lilies, all sweet-smelling spices and perfumes.....
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MERCURY TREES: WALNUT, FILBERT, HAZEL, ALMOND; Lilly includes Valerian, trefoil, about 100 more. The Days of The Week, according to Graves Tree Alphabet: C ~ Wednesday, The Hazel (or Ash). M. P. Hall adds: Carrots, caraway seeds, calamint, horehound, parsley, licorice, lavender, all plants whose medicines remove obstructions. Cayce readings recommend 5 raw walnuts daily for asthma attacks.....
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“… may you avoid the error of seeing the Whole as the sum of its illusory parts. The whole apple tree is virtually in the seed or grain, and you should not say that the apple tree is formed of parts which together make up the whole tree. Each particle of the apple tree is apple tree in its nature, and its fruit will be it anew, integrally, concretized in its virtual form.”....
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-R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz, NATURE WORD, Verbe Nature....
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October 6
Modern day meditation for Autumn
Recognize the origin of cause is within. You can sense-intuit the presence of your inner power when you are still. Create a special still zone for regular 'tranquility breaks' in your day… morning and evening are usually easy for the work-a-day world schedule. Change your belief, and those shared with others, that something has never been done so it is impossible.
If everyone believes there is a possible way to find an end to first heaven isolation of the sick and immobilized, we will discover the cure for maladies that plague us. ....
The children who do not doubt in us can be our inspiration. Their faith helps us to change the world.
While we still live in the military era, the belief systems we hold real remain our foundation. The co-created objective reality – the Terran collective, the external paradigm we accept as 'the real world' is elastic. Change your commitment and believe there is a cure for Muscular Dystrophy, Sickle Cell Anemia, and AIDS. Believe we can find the cure for cancer and you move the global community one step closer to a better reality.
Elton John AIDS Foundation
St Jude candle
Jerry Lewis celebrates a record $63.8 million in pledges and contributions to his 42nd annual MDA Labor Day Telethon
Visit site guideline list for care giver, heart warmer, and world server
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Date: 28 Sep 2008
- RIP Paul Leonard Newman January 1925 - September 2008
Comments
Paul Newman, Robert Redford in The Sting
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056 Paul Newman filmography
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Date: 26 Sep 2008
FYI
Editorial Observer
..Wasilla Watch: Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits
By DOROTHY SAMUELS
Published: September 25, 2008
..Even in tough budget times, there are lines that cannot be crossed. So I was startled by this tidbit reported recently by The Associated Press: When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the small town began billing sexual-assault victims for the cost of rape kits and forensic exams.
Ms. Palin owes voters an explanation. What was the thinking behind cutting the measly few thousand dollars needed to cover the yearly cost of swabs, specimen containers and medical tests? Whose dumb idea was it to make assault victims and their insurance companies pay instead? Unfortunately, her campaign is shielding the candidate from the press, so Americans may still be waiting for answers on Election Day.
The rape-kit controversy is a troubling matter. The insult to rape victims is obvious. So is the sexism inherent in singling them out to foot the bill for investigating their own case. And the main result of billing rape victims is to protect their attackers by discouraging women from reporting sexual assaults.
That’s why when Senator Joseph Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, drafted the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, he included provisions to make states ineligible for federal grant money if they charged rape victims for exams and the kits containing the medical supplies needed to conduct them. (Senator John McCain, Ms. Palin’s running mate, voted against Mr. Biden’s initiative, and his name has not been among the long list of co-sponsors each time the act has been renewed.)
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Date: 23 Sep 2008
Comments
How would George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine vote if they had been presented with a proposal to bail out Wall Street and not Main Street??
a concerned voter