7-30-08
I keep getting calls about a conflict in town between several sets of business partners, each with a different story, no one acting particularly conscious.    I wish I didn’t feel compelled to jump into this with them and make everyone come clean and stop the hating and bad mouthing.  It’s not my job to do,  And everyone is passing along stories that they don’t know are true.  All they know is this is what their “friend in the know” told them.  And then everyone takes sides.

I have been “betrayed” by my share of “friends” in my lifetime, and each time it happens it just serves as a springboard to even higher understanding.  The closer the former friendship, the greater the karmic weight to drop, allowing your balloon to soar higher and higher.

It gets scary when we drop our weights.  When familiar people begin to fade from our life, or when friends and lovers betray us, we can tend to see it as being abandoned if we don’t recognize that we were growing vibrationally apart from them for a long time, and this was a blessing in disguise,

Email to an under-employed  friend suggesting she put some mp3 files of her guided meditations on her website and a Paypal “Pay Now” button.  She’s also a great cook, so I also suggested she give cooking workshops, something like “How to cook for your own party” which doesn’t require meeting catering guidelines for occupational licensing.  “That’s something you are awesome at and already do and are already known for.  You could prepare a few menus, script out your cooking plan and get your ingredients measured out and displayed ahead of time and everyone gets to experience the workshop in “real time”.  So when they see how quickly YOU get it all done and fill the table with goodies, that is a test run for them thinking if you can do it, they can do it.  And for those who can’t, well you have peaked their interest and maybe they will beg you to cater their next party.  Either way you win.”
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I got up at 7am and went out and mowed my yard.  It took 20 minutes!  I love this new mower and I don’t mind sweating when I am out there.  I even for some of it didn’t use the drive lever, making me have to push it.  I figure that is equivalent to using the arm/weight machine at the gym.  I have so little lawn though, I also went out on the street and mowed the easements on either side of me.  My neighbor Francis across the street will look out his window when he gets up and be shocked.  He’s used to my shaggy yard 🙂

A Horizons reader wrote in and asked:

Once a month I attend Peruvian shamanic ceremonies held by American friends.  They have a potluck meal before the ceremony.  I know that’s a big Western social tradition, but it feels more like a cocktail party atmosphere than a sacred gathering to me.  I’ve done other sacred ceremonies with indigenous groups, and the fasting that’s always done before ceremony is important.  What is your take on the topic?

I replied: “I spent decades following a primarily Eastern faith path, which I realize is very strict in traditional “rules” for ritual, fasting, and no idle talk at ceremony time or in the temple.  I think the payoff for that laser focus is measurable in terms of personal growth, understanding and outcome.  I think if it resonates with you, then attend and be open to what might come of it if you don’t judge it and think it should be anything other than it is.  Keep me posted.”

7-21-08
I vegged most of the day, took a nap, worked some on a writing project I am doing on contract for a friend/client, washed my hair, went to Friendly’s and had some chicken noodle soup and a side salad, worked on a newsletter I do for a friend who has a lawncare business.  I am excited about doing my own lawn.  I had fun yesterday using my hedge trimmers,  rrrrrroooooom, rrrrrrooooom!  And I liked how it looked today.  And instead of thinking of sheesh now I have to clean up the yard clippings, I think of how much good exercise it will be for me.  I even have fun vacumming now with my new Magic Blue vac!  I am vacumming every few days, it takes maybe 20 minutes to do the whole house!  But my furniture is easy to move around to vac under.

I just sent the mag in to the printer, and it will be delivered Friday.  I have emailed my crew and the wheels are in motion!

I picked up my new Toro 20065 lawnmower Saturday, and also the Homelite UT44120 22″ Electric Hedge Trimmer (the larger one of the two I looked at).  Actually I bought both hedge trimmers and meditated on which to open, and I’ll return the smaller one today.

I tried it out on the back eleagnus bushes surrounding the back porch and it works great.  It says the cut capacity is 1/2 ” and that’s about right.  Some of the branches were the size of my finger, which is just more than 1/2 inch, but I could cut them pretty easily if I had a sweeping motion going.  I tried cutting the top several ways, so I don’t have to do it from a ladder.

I have some good ladders though.  Today I want to top the ficus hedge along the driveway, and will need a ladder for this first cut.  And I might want ahead of time to prune out the bigger stalks, since they are probably more like 1″ around…

I forgot that trimming the bushes means yard trash, and our Waste Pickup guys have all these rules about how big to cut branches, etc. and they have to be in refuse cans.  I learned that when Francis across the street told me the reason the trash truck always bypassed my ever growing pile of branches the past 6 months was that they were not cut to size.   So today I will go buy a big 50 gallon bin on wheels maybe, and toss the branches in there.  He and I cut up my pile and it took a hour and it filled his 4 trash bins plus more left siding alongside stacked nicely.  They picked it right up.  He’s a real worker, always tending to his yard.

I will set up my lawn mower today, Francis said he will help me.  It’s just like his.  It will be good to do my own yard.  Between the mowing and the hedge trimming, these arms will strengthen right up.  I am trying to keep to a nightly routine working my arms out with my little 8 lb weights.  I can tell each month if I’ve been keeping at it by how easy or hard it is for me to lift my two 5 gallon water bottles when I get them refilled each month.  Sometimes I can grab by both handles and get them inside at one time.  Other times one feels a little heavy to carry by the handle so I carry it like a baby and it’s not heavy at all.  Directly related to how many hours at the keyboard and steering wheel compared to how many hours working out and using my arms.

A friend emailed me:
“I almost feel like I need to start out basic and breathing and meditation… not spend alot of time on it as most people know about it but you never know when a new comer might not even understand meditation and how important it is… not only for relaxing the mind and body and releasing stress but also to connect and communicate with our guides and spirits….   “

I replied: “Yes you are right. I find that most people are insecure about the way they meditate anyway, even those who have done it for years.  And I always mention that, so no one feels stupid for having attended meditations for years and still aren’t sure what they are supposed to be thinking about while their eyes are closed, and after the guided part is over and they are in the silence.  Meditation is like sex, everyone talks about it but few actually experience it as often as they say they do.

I like the old “breathe in for 4 slow counts, hold for 4 slow counts, release for 4 slow counts, hold for 4 slow counts.”  That way I am not getting caught up in my mind keeping track of the counts.  If I’m busy counting a complex sequence, I’m not meditating.  Keep me posted.”

I emailed my pal Carl Morgan yesterday and told him I had a flash the Cash 3 would be a 5-8-3 so we both played it and won *yay* Our combined energies seem to be lucky with Cash 3!

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A friend sent out an email about the economy and what “the tricksters” are trying to do to us. He writes: “When does it all end?” I replied, “It ends when you take your attention off what the media is telling you and when you put your attention on what you prefer instead, and keep it there. It ends when you stop thinking that you are at the mercy of anything but your own vibrational stance in every moment. It ends when you use your own creative imagination to play with the ideas of what you’d like to experience instead, and spent most of your thought time in that space.  That’s when it ends.

I don’t get caught up in this type of info because I don’t want to vibrate there for a moment.  I know how powerful we can be as visionaries who hold to our vision of a joyful, abundant future, despite appearances, despite media input.  I know the longer I can hold the highest vision, the more of a contribution I make to the collective consciousness, since that is what attracts our collective experience to us.  I can either spend my thought time completely on the bright future and what is bright about right now, what is good that is going on right now, or I can add energy to the decline by vibrating in that place when I read news like that.

It’s just a choice of where do I want to spend my energy.
What vision do I want to feed?
What tomorrow do I want to live?”

I’ve been emailing with my girl cousin Deborraha Burnett whom I hadn’t spoken with since 1996. We’re about the same age, and it’s fun to catch up. We both had very controlling fathers, but our family at least had fun together. Mom and Dad were also good role models for relationship because even though it was just as dysfunctional as any, mom and dad had an obviously genuine playful chemistry together and we could have fun even though we were technically all in trouble and on restriction. When Daddy was happy, everyone was happy.   We did lots of vacations, even just weekends to Fish Eating Creek. We went in this old Fageol twin coach buss my dad had converted into a camper, we spent every single weekend at some campground with him working on the engine. Fun, fun, fun.   Continue reading →

A friend tells a story about a conflict he had with someone he ghost writes for. Although they had a Non-Disclosure Agreement, he freely emailed private material to a 3rd party (who is also in the same business as the one he was writing for). The names have changed but I wrote: “I’ve been reading about the incident with Luke.  It’s not my place to get into your stuff, but non-disclosure means you do not disclose about that person or that topic, period.  If you’re ghost writing, you’re a ghost, you’re invisible, you don’t publicly exist in the world of that person or that topic, despite personal privilege.  If anyone knows you’re ghosting, then you’re no longer ghostwriting, you’re now editing.  Karmically, you’ve shared words of Luke with another writer, and those words have sparked connection within her and so basically now everything in her world is colored by that filter, which you provided. For better or worse.  Legally, any future product she produces if ever anyhow derivative of his inspired idea, would entitle him to legal compensation.  Especially since the info was transmitted by a party to a Non-Disclosure Agreement.  Which opens possible criminal charges since it was sent via email.   Continue reading →

I received a “news” release that said  “Whatever you may believe, I know we are not alone in the Universe, and our space brothers and sisters who see us as their ancestors will be making ever increasing contact from now until 2012. I highly encourage you to view additional information about this on my website.  Folks, that’s more important than anything you will hear on the news.  It is the REAL news behind the news, especially if you resonate.”  I had so many emails about this that I put a notice in the upcoming October Horizons: OCT 14th UFO Encounter – Are They Coming? For everyone who’s written asking if I know about this, Yes, it’s a bookseller’s press release/marketing story for their latest product.   However, I do know that the ufo coverup is coming to an end, and it’s happening already as documents have been recently unclassified.  The Oct 14 date in the press release is to get mass consciousness asking for it on that date, to invite an event to fulfill the prophecy.  The story, while a good one, is part of the latest clever marketing formula in the world of booksellers.  But it’s also a great Intention Experiment for the author and publicist. For those of you who do NOT get dozens of press releases every day about new books as I do, I’m just saying: recognize what is a press release, recognize what is promoting a seller’s products, and know yourself well enough to discern whether the info is relevant and helpful before just passing it along as if it’s the truth.  I agree it’s not easy to break away from the other lemmings, and easier to just do what the media wants you to do.  It’s your choice.

I’ve stopped using my credit cards so I don’t have so many bills to pay each month.  It’s been a good month, lots of new ads, A couple from Naples contacted me and have been selling ads and distributing Horizons all over down there.  Plus they bought their own magazine racks (they are like $200 each and I’ve had so many stolen through the years that I just don’t buy them anymore), they are real go getters.

Half the people I know are in the process of writing a book that they feel is being channeled through them and wanting someone else to promote it for them. We are all vibing in the same place. We have come forth in a “cluster” as Abraham calls it, to find ourselves in a powerful group of people who have truly amazing and inspiring stories to tell. Maybe 90% of them wait and hope that someone else will discover their brilliance and promote them, so that all they have to do is show up and tell their story. Wouldn’t that be nice?   That’s not how it works, though. And they may stay at that stage for 20-30 years before they realize hey, it’s my story. Maybe I was just meant to write it for myself, because the writing of it taught me so many lessons along the way. My experience is that when the channelling starts to flow and we think “Omigosh, I HAVE to get this information out there!” that is just the Universe giving us the body chemicals for inspiration, dangling the carrot before us, at a time when we’re still programmed to think that some fame and recognition would be kind of cool. So the first ten years or so I thought I was writing for the whole world, then realized it was to help me change me and learn what I needed to know to become who I am now, and keep me on the path to who I can be.    Continue reading →

At Unity of Melbourne today, a man at first service went up and spoke to Rev. Beth about how her talk helped him see how his rigid thinking caused he and his wife to split and thinks now they have a chance. At one point before he got up, the sun brightened the entire room so that several people looked that way.   When I looked that way, I could see a complex reconfiguring in his energy field, as if fishing nets becoming untangled.  And he had an energy stream that came straight from Beth and went back and it was flooding, I’m not exaggerating, flooding out of her right into his chest.  For me, this is what really brightened the room, him “getting” what she was saying; him realizing he was just now grasping the concept; him having that a-ha moment and feeling so grateful to her for being the messenger.  I knew he was going to walk right over to the aisle and walk right up to her, and he did.  I thought that was very cool, being so demonstrative of the fact of what Beth says every week: that “something good will happen to you today because you made the choice to be at Unity of Melbourne.”   Continue reading →