POST 210 THE CIRCUIT

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LOVE IS A RIVER

IT FLOWS 

TO ALL AND EVERYONE

IT FLOWS AROUND OBSTACLES 

AND

HARD ROCKS

WHICH IT WEARS AWAY

LOVE LIKES TO MEET ITSELF

IT HAS NO FAVORITES

BECAUSE EVERYONE EVERYWHERE   

IS ITS FAVORITE

IT SEEKS TO MAKE AN

INTERRUPTED CIRCUIT

A

CONTINUOUS LOOP

WHO WILL STAND IN ITS WAY

NOT YOU OR I 

I HOPE

SHACK  

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POST 209 WHAT IS A LIFE FORM?

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The being sat opposite me and on my right was an interpreter and on my left an interested person from somewhere else.

We discussed what it was to be human and what constituted a life form.  The being's name was Ilch and the person from somewhere else Nuzche. To be human as I am, means to us that my flesh body and features designated me to that nomenclature.  Nuzche was human in appearance but being androgynous the organs of he / she were different and eyes in particular. Never the less humans would probably look at Nuzche and feel Nuz was a human. Nuz breathed as humans do and ate only certain refined foods. Procreation was as human intercourse and Nuz's home was off world.  He had seasonal breeding patterns

Ilch lived off world and his skin was a kind of fabric and did not have pores, reproduction was through a kind of stem cell which combined with a female of his kind, the stem cells were extracted from the back of the neck and incubated externally. He did not breathe as Nuz and humans do, he ingested bacteria from space and radiation which allowed him and his race to go anywhere in the Universe and the bacteria gave off a type of gas which he 'breathed' and fed his cellular nano type cells.

Nuz and I felt he was a life form and sentient and just because we had human type bodies of flesh and although Ilch was bipedal and resembled human form, did this to us or anyone else say or think he was no less human other than his anatomy as compared to us?  It would take some getting used too as Ilch thought about us and we him.

Both Nuz and Il were telepathic and they had a speaking device similar to Professor Stephen Hawkins and the interpreter would only come in if words were not in the voice box dictionary, the interpreter was a telepath from Earth and human and was a Tibetan Lama.

Both ET's felt emotions but felt they were enjoyed if experienced with detachment, to enjoy and let go. Both would like to experience and feel the 'air of Earth's nature' and the unique life forms therein.

I of course would like to wander around space in a UFO.  Ilch of course did not need a space suit or oxygen, Nuzche had UFO technology but had to use a spacesuit and need oxygen, however he has the means to manufacture oxygen and radiation protection and his craft was bioengineered to a degree; temperature adjustment, oxygen production, radiation protected and so on.  He hoped to have the technology of Ilch which would be fully supplied by the Craft which was the same texture as Ilch's skin.  The difference being Ilch was sentient and had an type of organic brain and the craft responded to commands from his brain.  Nuz would have to let nature evolve to Ilche body and would like to do so while Ilche expressed a view he would like to experience Nuz body and I felt it would be nice to experience theirs.  We all agreed there seemed to be an experiment in the Universe to evolve various and prolific forms but not to tinker too much and let natural evolution take place as both had seen the devastation and suffering during their space travels by inhabitants of planets that had gone too far.  It seems that the Universe had these cycles and if one were tuned in then one could 'catch' the essence of the change and flow with it.  They believed a quiet mind was a prerequisite to sensing and tuning to the rhythms and cycles as this made space for the incoming data, actually one floats in this data they said and it is like 'breathing' it in. 

Then we discussed the Universe and its content. We all agreed it was a Conscious Universe and worked on shared information and that Planets and Stars, Cosmic Dust and the Atomic / particle structure were conscious entities and were a life form in their own rights and lived and had their being in the Great Life a Kind of Cosmic Ocean which essentially was Consciousness an Intelligent Awareness. We did not how or when it was 'born' or what it was but we could experience it and in that experience know it was there and it was omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient.

So what constitutes a life form; everything in the Universe that is recognizable by whatever perception one has.  This is even one's own thought forms and agendas by which the individual gives them Life.

 The question dear reader I now ask you is; was the above my imagination and a story to amuse and hopefully intrigue you or did it really take place in what is this Earthly reality we are familiar with?

SHACK

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POST 208 SAP

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Sitting quietly doing a seated Qi Gong routine I felt a wonderful sensation.  As my dantien / hara gently expanded and contracted there was a lovely relaxed feeling stealing over my entire body, the organs, blood, brain and lungs included.

Then it progressed as to feeling the breathing and the abdomen were drawing in sap as tree does through its roots so mine through my feet into the reservoir, the tank and container my dantien / hara, it seemed to grow into a ball of energy and then on the out breath flow to all parts of myself, physical and feeling wise. Then further into the routine the out breath drew in  the cosmic energy from the top of my head into the dantien and hara, where the mixture produced a light and warmth which made me smile and feel absolutely amazing, a Buddha grin from ear to ear. 

It then felt as a unified bliss and the two streams of chi / ki/ life force were my nourishment and indeed my Life.  In those moments I felt complete, utterly self sufficient and no need for food, a body or anything, this was a stand alone and an empirical space and time.

To say it was just endorphins maybe harsh, yes I certainly feel that they were there in abundance and since there was hardly a thought only the experience then usual explanation of thought moves energy or energy moves thought and that thought produces neuropeptides, the peptide cascade which provides the cells with their food and growth, yes that as well, however I subscribe to the following.

The cause I feel is like electricity invisible and yet it is the prime mover to activate material form such as a TV, a washing machine and so on, so I feel that by encouraging breathing, relaxation certain movements or just being still and meditating, just being, a non focused and empty looking at the mind or just open eyed, it allows a space usually occupied by thought to be in ones natural childlike space of empty attentive dynamic energy.  Then the Life force in its primal energy is experienced and if this is so the Life Force or Creative energy is pure happiness, bliss, joy and fulfillment. It is as if This Life force is to the Universe or is the substance of the Universe and is the blood of us and the sap of  the tree, the water of the oceans for their life forms and oxygen for life for birds and animals and so on-----the big point is that like electricity it the prime Life giver and supply to the Universe, the oceans, the trees planets and stars and yet is not seen in form but manifests it as a sign of ----I AM THE FORCE IN EVERYTHING and yet one cannot grasp it and define it, and yet I feel one can experience it as above and because its basic nature is joy, happiness, freedom, creativity, it is love and as such shares abundance of itself without limits.

It is my feeling that when we try and encapsulate, hoard and selfishly try to keep it as in world relationships and personal ones, we shut it down to our expectations and agendas.

What a world and beyond awaits us if we could drop limits of selfishness and fear and co operate with the life force and let it share its bounty in a non material way and yet the bonus would be if we truly shared this in unselfish ways in respect, dignity of bearing and caring a world that works for everyone everywhere then perhaps nature would evolve through us and make us the humans we should be.

   

SHACK

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I CRIED WITH  THE EXPERIENCE AS DESCRIBED AND MY HEART FELT LIKE BURSTING AND THESE IMAGES DEPICT SOMETHING LIKE I FELT , SENSEI AND SIFU  WOULD SAY 'YOUR TOO EMOTIONAL COME OFF OF IT AND MOVE ON', YET THEY HAD A NATURAL SMILE AS ABOVE, WHAT THEY MEANT WAS DON'T ONLY HANKER AFTER BLISS, IT HAS TO COME TO YOU AND IF DOESN'T HAPPEN SOME DAYS THAT'S OK, KEEP MOVING AND YET BE STILL. SOMETIMES I WOULD EXPERIENCE THIS FOR A GREAT DEAL OF TIME AND THEN WENT ON LIVING AND EXPERIENCING EVERYDAY LIFE AND SOMETIMES CAUGHT UP IN THE HURLY BURLY. THATS LIFE, THE CREST AND VALLEYS, THE HIGHS AND LOWS---THE SECRET--- LET GO OF THOSE AS WELL AND MOVE ON.(SHACK)

SHACK 207 FIT IN?

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The Indian Restaurant was cosy and simple and the food delicious.  When it quietened down the waiter a student of psychology then to physics started a conversation with me.

He was very agitated about the world condition and then rambled on about how the Universe really came into existence, was there a God and how could God let this desperate world of war, bad food and water and so on be tolerated. We discussed free will and then went onto physics and there seemed to be so many contradictions there, religion was just as ambiguous.

Some of his friends came in and we went over the topics afore mentioned, by now you would guessed I went into consciousness the emptiness of atoms and the illusion of it all.

What really hit home was 'who are you---who am I' and all that stuff.  Well I said if you look at the crazy world of conflicts, lack of respect, governments definitely had an agenda that is not for the people then you can never fit in unless you become their role model of agreement and sell yourself to materialism which is here today and gone tomorrow including oneself.

However if one follows the path of nature and the plan of evolution, heaven forbid Darwin and we went into that and they all agreed they did not fit into materialism which would cause shortage and world nature rape and only the powerful and rich survive which was not the same as the survival of the fittest by natures standards. So they asked for a practical example.

Two men camping in bear country a bear comes towards them, Darwin would have it the fastest runner survives(you shouldn't run from a bear) but the answer could be the men split up and go different ways or one man says to the other I can run faster than you so your the bears meal, or let the bear decide which of the two runners in different directions it would chase, or just give up.  They pondered on this.

The big question was not so much who am I but where do I fit in? I suggested that if they found their real self which is not the electrical current produced by cells and built in experience from then onwards and at death extinction or passing on the cells by genetic predisposition.

So we went into consciousness, awareness and the observer and so on and we agreed if one found oneself that also answered where we fit in.

SHACK

Many people I speak today feel they are a square peg in a round hole.(SHACK)

SHACK 206 HERE NOW

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This is about 'who am I' again in another angle.  Before it was mentioned that we are made of atoms and atoms are 99.99% space or empty, and that  the small percentage left is mainly indefinable so what is it that recognizes appearances of form so called solid matter and yet we know at fundamental levels there is no such thing as solid---it appears to be many pieces of nothing gathered together to make something.

So those who examine the atom are examining themselves and since one is the subject and object of the observation there can never be a definitive conclusion, it will just be make believe for ever and what ever the observer, the awareness which is the observed, the consciousness which is the witness to its own creation creates through its belief system then it will be so and unpicking it and disbelieving one's own beliefs is merely a deep change of mind. So we become the creator and created by and with our minds---this makes us the Creator. Holds on you say I am not God; perhaps we are God's in the making?

Studying ancient Sanskrit there is a word 'vikalpa' which is the equivalent to intellect which means to undo, divide, sever, break apart and that is what the intellect, which is a part of the mind, a splinter part, does, its sees in a jig saw puzzle the parts, and in another word from Sanskrit there is a root word 'ma' meaning the illusions which is now commonly known as Maya and comes to the English as matter, and so the ancients knew that form was an illusion and in some way so are atoms.

 It is the intellect which divides up and looks at the parts and makes these parts, these divisions appear as separate and therefore solid bits that fits and make up the puzzle whereas another view in wholeness sees the complete picture and perceives its essence.

Here my Sensei and Sifu came to show me the following and the difference between Western and Eastern thought; We look at an animal or anything we see its texture, its movement and it color, its smell and we know this from our past experiences which hold the emotions and feelings in a box called ego memory and somehow that feeling and memory can 'hold or pause' the real life of the plant or animal and so on which has now moved on, Life has moved the experiences on to a film a video of constant change whilst our memories may halt the video and remember what that first experience was and color the now of the experience.  

Then if consciousness is who we really are and we an awareness which is a witness consciousness, conscious of itself as itself, then could we really know consciousness, who would do the knowing if we are the knowing?  Can a subject be the object of its own knowing?  'Alan Watts quote ---Can a sword cut itself, can an eye see itself'?'.  Please as Sensei / Sifu would say 'don't be a clever smart ass and say yes the eye can see itself in a mirror, for if you say this you have not got the essence, you are in the past and not moved on, in fact you are a dumb critter'.   

Some other interesting things between Western and Eastern ways of observation; when I was in Forensic training at the Met Police College for a while before moving to a college up north I had a clash with an Instructor; a person was shot with a crossbow arrow and questions were asked about ‘who did it, where did it come from, what was the motive, did anyone see it and so on, this is fine Forensically.  Say this was not a Forensic situation then the first priority would be to get the arrow out safely, attend the victim and ask questions later, so it was a question of priorities and the intellect does play a part here, the instructor thought the questions were more important to find the perpetrator and I felt the persons need was the priority.  I was coming from a different angle and not thinking forensically but from compassion and need. We were both right in our own way. However attending the person is the first need in Forensics and if they are deceased then the evidence is crucial, the trick is to preserve life and yet retains evidence, so the mind of logic is the priority here.

So where are we now?; It seems that when we abide in our true essence which I feel is consciousness we view things as they are when Life has moved the situation on and we are in the moment, when we are in ego intellect we see things conditioned by the net of conditioning and the view no matter how we feel we are unbiased, it is tainted and colored by the experience of the past, be it film, books or first seen.

Perhaps we could say when we see the now- ness of Life we see it pristine through childlike eyes, we see it for the first time and it is as it is without spices and flavors added to it.

SHACK

SHACK 205 ONLY

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'You only live once', the man sitting in the carriage said very grimly, fixing us with a stare that intimated 'defy me '.  The lady sitting opposite said ' yes, that's what frightens me, I want to do so many things and there may not be enough time to cram them in before the 'you know who' takes one away, life is so very, very cruel. 

They looked at me and I felt if I say about reincarnation and so on it would provoke an argument and not discussion and it was a long journey ahead. So I said I did not know and just take each day as it comes. The man then said in a commanding tone 'you should put your house in order, make a will save up for the future'.  The lady chimed in ' Have you a family if so you should make sure they have a good time and not let time drag or grass grow under their feet'.

I said I would take their advice and views on board, the man then said in a stern and daring look ' you mustn't dilly dally and let the grass grow under your feet, take life by the scruff of the neck and go for it, taking a chance on the day is just pussy footing around the problems that life brings up, seems to me you're too laid back' he then looked out of the window and half laughed and grimaced. The lady then said ' He's right you know, take his advice, take an insurance policy, do some investment'.

I felt trapped if I left the carriage I felt I was a coward, if I took him on, I felt he could get violent and the lady would back him up. So I just breathed and relaxed and tried to meditate. The man then said ' look at him, he looks like a sheep, I bet by the look of him he is jobless and a lazy lounger', the woman said 'I am sorry to say this but you do look scruffy and this is a first class carriage'.

The attendant came in and said 'there has been an incident and a passenger is unwell, we noticed on the passenger itinerary you are a doctor could you help?  I said I am a doctor of science and I am sorry I cannot help, however I am well up in first aid it that will be of use? The attendant said she would come back to me if it was felt to be of use. 

The lady and the man in the carriage just looked at their newspapers and when the man got up to leave the carriage he said ' fucking scientists all they do is get paid a lot of money for creating bombs and weapons and killing us with pollution'.  The lady then rang for the attendant and asked if their was a seat elsewhere, she left angry and white faced, she had left a book on the seat and I said 'excuse me madam you have left your book behind' She said 'I'm a miss and you can stick the book where it fits' and marched head held high down the corridor. I looked at the book cover and the title 'How to build better relationships and communication'

SHACK

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SHACK 204 WOW

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Sitting quietly during Qi Gong exercises which is part of the routine and feeling the chi soak in and absorbing it deeply into the whole body and mind I became aware of a beautiful bird song from the garden and as I listened my whole being was filled with joy.

It was more than joy it was as if the bird was my herald and teacher and it suggested to me that the Universe was just out and out happiness and sublime divine balm which wishes to share its abundance with its creation.

This was a deep feeling and is not adequate in its description, it is beyond words and certainly beyond my understanding. The vibration in my heart can be only intimated and a saying comes to mind 'it warms the cockles of my heart'.

That little bird sang the song of hearts joy and celebrated Life and in that moment we shared the joy and expression of this magic interlude and then we went about our lives and the things of the day. 

SHACK  

SHACK 203 MORE

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DNA is a spiral and as it spirals I get the impression it is evolving. This is not an upward spiral or any direction spiral as such, it is a spiral in space where it meets new combinations from the Cosmos. This also depends on the fixed ideas and beliefs of the mind that encloses it.  The DNA might want to go onwards and evolve and for the sake of description upwards and yet it maybe tethered to its conditioned brain washed beliefs and inoculated over many eras and lifetimes a sort of barrier energy sheath, a wall of no go zones.

Yet a blade of grass, a tree an animal in the wild grows and wants to be more of its intrinsic self, an upward surge, the opposite force to gravity.  If you like Life is urging all its forms to grow be more of its Life's purpose, so Life's messages is to be more and reach to the limits of its incarnation and so the next generation of genes have the message 'go for it'.

This is of course not so encouraging for a raging rampant ego, yes it has the message of growth but it is not the growth inherent in Nature and the Universe, for a selfish ego does not contribute to the whole but only to Itself and so causes an imbalance in the system. The chain become weak as one of the links is hoarding for itself the strength and power and so weakening the other links.

So what is Life's message; to be strong in the purpose of the Life Plan for Itself, to become more and more beautiful, graceful, strong through sharing and encouraging all within its creation to reach into the whole and be nourished therein.

Taking the husk which surrounds a nut, a seed, a snake skin, the bones and skin of humans, these surrounds encase us in protection and nutrients and yet if the husk did not shed to release the seed then there would not be any growth, a seed has to sprout to break out to grow, a tree has to spread and branch, a snake to shed its skin to be more adult and grow to itself, humans grow and shed skin grow longer and thicker bones-----however do our beliefs expand and grow or do they remain the same and in the same grooves and tracks?

It is known as the brain produces millions nay trillions of chemicals in seconds, the neuropeptide cascade and the cells have receptors to receive them like locks to keys, so if our beliefs shape the chemicals to some extent then our cells become conditioned to the same formula and do not grow anymore than that conditioning or programme or patterns of associated mind thoughts, the internal dialogue running the commentary of ones life and so by altering ones thoughts would alter ones cellular memory which in the first place was ordained by the past and old belief systems. 

It would take many reminders to grow outside of the past beliefs, for rust and decay have set in and real cleaning and detox job of work has to be done. Fiercely guarded habits and beliefs, the safety and security, the defense and attack of the ego's army, the castle and fortress are not easily dismantled, so applied effort, not so much of hard will power but reminders this is not of me anymore and who am I and to become.?

Well one can choose to become a millionaire, or a this and that whatever your predilection or like nature just feel the growth in quiet moments for Life does whisper to one when the self agenda's are dropped and this is quiet reflection, contemplation and meditation, this way we align like the seed of an oak tree or living wild animal and plants which trust that life is the enlivening process the growth process in the seed, the intelligence which knows and instructs the seed to become a rose, a cabbage and so on and yes the embryo that was us to de differentiation and de differentiate in our fetus form.  Life wants more from us and from itself. The point is are we brave enough to take a chance on Life?   

It is no joy ride to buck the trend of our lifelong habits especially the older one gets, however it is never too late and to just make a few movements towards the greater urge then one maybe surprised. Once the momentum is moving keep rolling the snowball, the gravity of the past will try to stop things flying off and yet the pull of life to pull the seed out of the ground the tree to grow, for humans to grow to their true nature is needed if this world does not learn the lessons of history and state boldly history does not need to repeat itself.

SHACK

SHACK 202 OH MY!!!

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1987 at the Findhorn Foundation and Community I was honored to present a series of workshops with nine other presenters. Some of the presenters were Sir George Trevelyan, Sun Bear and others who may now be deceased or faded into obscurity. The title was 'The Spirit of Healing', all ten of us had problems getting to the center, I had a car smash a few weeks prior and my case was lost by baggage control and went to Belgium and I had to borrow money to buy clothes for the week, others had similar problems.  Tim Wheater lost some of his flutes, a broken arm and hit by a car delayed some of the others.

One of my presentations was on pre-life agreements and three couples who were childless came for a private session to see if there was a child waiting for them.  I had six witnesses to the sessions and follow up notes.  These couples had been trying for a child for five and three years. Two out of three conceived as per the imagery of the sessions (we did two more). One couple from Berlin were so impressed and grateful that they invited me to Berlin twice a year to do workshops. 

As soon as I arrived at the first workshop in November of that year I asked if I could see the Berlin Wall.  We went for dinner with the group and then went to the American Sector.  I stood on the viewing platform and looked across with the aid of binoculars.  A man on the other side was looking at me with binoculars, I waved he looked shocked, eventually he looked again, I waved, after a while he smiled and wiggled his little finger.  This was in 1987.

A man at the at the workshop bet a million Deutschmark that the wall would never come down as I had shared I felt it would be soon.

The wall came down in November 1989; I never got my million Deutschmark. I only did the summer workshop of that year because of the Berlin Wall event.

In 1990 and in November we got the first East German workshop visitors.  One of them was a sprightly 87 years young Gestalt Therapist named Willie Kern.  Gestalt was brought to birth by Laura and Fritz Perls with Paul Goodman in the 1940’s and 50’s.  Willie was a dear lovely soul and he lived almost on top of the wall.  When the wall came down he had a time of adjustment.

On a Monday or Tuesday evenings at 19.30 – 21.00 hrs I used to do a phone in as a follow up after workshops or just a phone in for any matters workshop or not.  Willie phoned and said he had painted the wall on his window as he could not sleep or get his head around the wall not being there.  We worked with imagery and after several sessions more he phoned one night and said with glee ‘Goff(that’s what he called me) I have good news, I have removed one brick from the painting and am peeping through the hole’, we shared in the joy.

About five phone ins later he had removed the wall from his window. He never phoned again after a lovely farewell and each blessing one another----maybe we all have walls in our mind windows----and maybe its all in the mind.

SHACK

 I had the great honor of sharing a bedroom for a week with the Great Sir George Trevelyan.

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SHACK 201 GLIMMER

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A NEUTRAL SPACE AND SHADE

A SORT OF NO THING NESS

A FAINT 

ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLE 

GLIMMER

ARISING---COMING FORTH----LIFE

LIKE A STAR 

TWINKLING

LIKE A VORTEX

SMALL RINGS OF LIGHT

LAYERS SMALL-- THE REVERSE

GRADUALLY

THEN ---THEN

MANIFESTATION

BIRTH

HERE YOU ARE!!!

SHACK