We are all standing in line in front of a large glass box. There are armed guards everywhere. Everyone is terrified. The person who looks to be in charge is surveying the crowd. He looks like your typical movie villain evil professor with glasses, a shiny slightly bald head, and a clipboard.
S. Brenda Elfgirl - I was told I am an elf in a parallel life, and I live in the Arizona desert exploring what this means. I've had this blog for a while and I write about the things that interest me. My spiritual teacher told me that my journey in life is about balancing "the perfect oneness of a sweetness heart and the effulgent soul". My inner and outer lives are like parallel lines that will one day meet, but only when there is a new way of thinking. Read on as I try to find the balance.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
We are all standing in line in front of a large glass box. There are armed guards everywhere. Everyone is terrified. The person who looks to be in charge is surveying the crowd. He looks like your typical movie villain evil professor with glasses, a shiny slightly bald head, and a clipboard.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Emotions come over me. I feel sad, heartbroken, but I have no memories of why these emotions are with me. In my vision, I see myself having a memory of standing exactly where I am standing now and wondering if I should fling myself off the castle wall. There is no moat around the castle, so any fall would mean instant death. In my past life memory, I have more past life memories of being this age and not growing any older. I think this means I have never had long past lives. The lives I have memories of were short, meaning I never see myself being older than 20 years old.
Monday, June 29, 2015
What else? I went to see the J W Turner exhibit at the de Young museum on Sunday. I knew Turner was considered a master in art, but I never quite got why until I saw the art in person. There is something about his work that is absolutely breathtaking. His depiction of light is amazing. His light has texture and depth. Who knew light had such substance to it. And it is different from Monet.
Monet depicted light as well, but his light was dappled and transparent. Turner's light is different. His light is so substantial. There are no words to describe his art. And seeing Turner's art in a printed book does not do the art justice. You have to see the work in person.
Art can be such a relevation. I am thinking of the time I saw Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the Tate Museum in London. The sunflowers leapt out of the canvas, and all Van Gogh did was layer the paints in the piece so it had depth. All previous art until then was flat. And then when you see the art of Jay DeFeo, you see paint layering in its extreme with her piece "The Rose".
So if you are in San Francisco, go and see the Turner exhibit at the de Young. I am now dying to see the movie about Turner's life that came out last year, and then going back to see the exhibit. That will be fun.
Friday, June 26, 2015
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Saturday, June 13, 2015
But for a reason I have yet to discover, I have not been writing anything down anywhere. Not even in my journals. I do keep notes of when odd things happen to me, but I would not call that writing, not really.
But I do really want to get back into writing, so I am thinking of blogging again. Maybe make it like morning pages recommended by Julia Cameron.
Maybe the months of NOT-writing have to come out so the creative stuff can come out. This technique has worked for me before, so I am going to give it a try again.
So expect more posts ....
Monday, July 28, 2014
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
New Short Story - Tentatively Titled "A Short History of the Sirius Crystal People"
Da'el went to his wife and kissed her on her head, and stepped back. Bishka sat up with a start, and stood up and found herself gazing into the eyes of her husband. She smiled and walked over him and hugged him.
Monday, November 12, 2012
I've never even heard of this word, but it defines what I thought of the presidential election.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Oxford-chooses-omnishambles-as-word-of-the-year-4029991.php#ixzz2C4ZmSJUM
Monday, October 29, 2012
Bob Ross is the new Google doodle. I had no idea the man had died. I love his show "The Joy of Painting". He makes painting look so easy and it is not easy at all.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
I saw the movie "The Time Traveler's Wife" a few months and liked it so much I decided to read the book. The movie was very much like the book, although a much abbreviated version.
The book had several quotes from the book "Possession" by A.S. Byatt, which I read years ago and now want to reread. Perhaps I will like "Possession" more the second time around, since I wasn't hat impressed by it when I first read it.
I'm not sure I liked "The Time Traveler's Wife" novel, which is strange because the book itself was quite riveting. How shall I say it, the novel did not touch me as much as I thought it would. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but whatever it was I didn't get it from the novel.
The novel had no big revelations about love or free will, even though the theme of love and free will is rampant throughout the book. Maybe the science fiction part sort of confused things for me, I don't know.
Okay, this is bad but I was more moved by "The Mummy" by Anne Rice than by this novel. I don't think anyone would call "The Mummy" a classic, I mean I even know that this book is nothing more than decent trash. But Anne Rice's trash novel moved me more than this new novel. Too bad because I felt so sure "The Time Traveler's Wife" novel would be so much better than the movie, but it wasn't. The movie was very moving and novel, not so much. Usually the book is better than the movie, but not this time.
Another story that is not making the local news here in San Francisco. I guess the mainstream media news doesn't want us to know that people in the UK are protesting by the thousands on the planning cuts to Britian's generous welfare system. It makes me wondering what important news stories are not being reported.
This story is so true at least for me. My favorite gift is a gift card so I can pick out what I want and need. I hate when people buy me actual presents because honestly, mostly of it has been pretty awful. It's not that my gift givers have bad taste, okay some of them do have horrid taste but not all. It's just that most people buy presents that they would want and never what I want or would like. I am very hard to shop for and most people who really get me, of which there are few few, figure this out early on. I was a picky eater as a child, and that pickinesss applies to almost every aspect of my life.
Almost every aspect because my friends tells me I'm not picky about who I date and shack up with, but that's dating. I am very picky about the person I want to be in a long term relationship with, but for the short-term, honestly, who the hell cares. It's short and sweet and almost everyone works for the short-term. It's the long-term that guys fail at, and miserably I might add.
But like my dating life, I hardly ever get gift cards so I'm always getting stuff and guys I don't want.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
When I read about this event happening, I felt sadness. Not that I really follow celebrity gossip, but it was distressing to hear that a 30-year marriage was ending. I was bummed when Al Gore split up with his wife Tipper as well, only because they had been together since high school. Is there no future for a long term marriage in today's society?
I believe remote viewed Ed Dames predicted a long time ago that something would happen with the milk supply and that mothers would be crying because they couldn't find milk for their children. I am wondering if this event is part of this prediction.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Congratulation to the San Francisco Giants! We are off again to another series!
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
When I read this article at SFGate.com and saw how beautiful this woman was, it was so shocking to find out that some people are commenting that she is a size 12. The average American woman is a size 12 and for once the public is seeing an average woman in an ad, which should be applauded and not be freaked out about.
Don't take the media brainwashing that only women who are size 6 and under should be in print advertising, and kudos to Ralph Lauren for putting this model in an ad. Makes me want to go out and buy Ralph Lauren clothes so I can support him and his ads.
Monday, October 08, 2012
This quote made me so sad because it made me realize again that nothing is permanent and in the true Buddhist way, it teaches that one shouldn't be attached to anything because desire leads to attachment. I have given birth so many times to the Heart of Sadness, I'm not sure I want to pray for it.
If you haven't seen the movie 2003 South Korean movie called Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, you need to watch it. It illustrates so beautifully the Buddhist philosophy. I attended a screenwriting conference in Los Angeles and screenwriting guru Robert McKee recommended this movie. The movie may break your heart but you will begin to understand the "Heart of Sadness" if you don't understand it now.
What is happening in Spain with the rioting crowds is amazing. This youtube video was posted on of my favorite websites. The crowds are pushing the police back. None of this is being covered by the San Francisco Mainstream Media (MSM), but it should be because it is so powerful.
Sunday, October 07, 2012
When I read this NY Times article, I saw myself in it. I was raised by immigrants who barely spoke english but spoke english to their children so they could do well in school and hopefully get better jobs and a more affluent life. I spoke english but my vocabulary was sadly lacking. How do you describe things to your child in a language that is not your own?
But in 4th grade, I was tested as having the vocabulary of high school senior. And what is the secret of my 4th grade success? My parents and I watched lots of TV. The television was my babysitter and by the age of 7, I had my own room with a small TV and probably never turned the thing off until I went to bed. I graduated third in my class in high school, did really well on my SATs, and attended and graduated from a top 10 private liberal arts college.
I will admit that my speaking vocabulary is not great. I don't use what a friend of mine calls $5 words. My parents never used them and so I don't normally. And the few times I've injected $5 words by mistake into conversation with my family, they ask me to explain what I just said and look hurt that I've talked down to them.
I work in corporate America where people admire and at the same time resent their coworkers who use words that they cannot understand. In my current job, I write website copy sometimes and I've been told that you have to write like a person has a junior high education. So all those $5 words I learnt in school have no place in my job. And I can't imagine texting $5 words or using them in an email.
So do words matter? Yes. They matter for tests and schools, and if you are planning a career in academia. I think they also matter a great deal for books and reading because it's a pain to read something and to find a word that you don't understand and have to stop and look up. And yes, I do stop and look words up.
But do words matter in real life? Not exactly. You don't need a large vocabulary for work, for emailing and texting and for general conversation.
What really matters is getting your point read and heard clearly, and you don't need a large vocabulary to do that although words are tools to help you get the nuances right and be more precise.
Gas prices are high in California and on Sunday they went up even more. I picked up gas on Friday night at $4.549 at Costco for premium because I knew the prices would climb higher, and sure enough they did. How crazy is that? If gas goes to $6 a gallon, things in the Cali republic will break down. We're not used the high gas prices that is charged in other countries.
Saturday, October 06, 2012
From SFGate.com - the must-see movies post 1960. I was amazed at the number of movies on this list that I've seen. Of course now I have to see the movies on this list that I've never seen.
Does it feel like you are a child again and your parents are telling you everything is all right when you know that it's not? The MSM are telling us everything is okay and you know deep down they are so not. But the MSM are not my parents; they are supposed to be reporting on the news and they are not.
I am saving all my blog posts so I can have a record of my life. When I read my blog posts, it's like I'm reading the diary of someone else which is a strange feeling. That person who wrote those posts does not seem like m and yet I have memories of that person.
I used to be so political back in the day. Now I don't see any differences between the parties. You need so much money to get elected and corporations give money to both parties so their agenda gets in no matter who is in office. Does it really matter who we vote for since the Supreme Court decided who should run the country. The people that think they see the future expect that will happen again next month, so does my vote really matter when a court can decide who wins any election?
And honestly, has anything changed really for working people since we put the other party in office. The US still has too many troops deployed abroad. I just paid $4.50 for gas which the news reminded me this morning is the same price I paid in 2008. Food prices have not come down and for whatever reason, I cannot find Sumatran coffee at Costco anymore.
As you can tell, I am in a very melancholy mood this morning. Have been for the last two weeks, and I'm not sure why. Maybe blogging will help me tease out my indian summer of discontent. But it's not like I am unhappy because I'm not, but I do feel like we are all on the edge of something and that something is not very good.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
My uncle always said that one must always choose between the light and darkness. There is no middle ground. The darkness will always choose to extinguish the light, and the light will always try to light the darkness. So one must choose and choose wisely at every moment." From the Elf Chronicles
Sunday, November 29, 2009
But I've had my addiction experiences before and I know that if tv is an addiction it is a mental addiction and not a physical addiction like drugs or alcohol. So I was like okay, I've gotten over what I thought was an addiction to alcohol. The anxiety I experienced by not drinking was far worse than the anxiety I was feeling now about tv watching. I know that after three nights I was able to get over the anxiety that came with alcohol, it was three very painful nights, but I got through it. So I think I can get over a mental addiction to tv.
Well, that was last night. Now it's Sunday and it's football season and I couldn't help it; I turned the tv on. I've been cleaning house all day so it's not like I'm watching it, but it is on in the background.
Tomorrow is Monday night football, so I will have it on but I'm not really into any tv shows this season. V was so just boring and I'm over it with Fringe. So my plan is to have the tv off from Tuesday thru Friday and see how it goes.
I have so many great cds to listen to of seminars I've attended. Listening to them again brings back memories of what I was doing and who I was talking to during the seminar. And I feel like I'm getting my money's worth by listening to the seminar again because I'm getting different insights every time.
I'm not sure if I will give tv up forever but I don't want to feel like I am addicted to it either. The only show I regularly watched was American Idol and I have mixed feelings about watching it in January because Paula Abdul is gone, and I honestly don't I can watch Ellen Degeneres. The woman makes my skin crawl; she is just so annoying and not funny. I know people like her, but I so don't. I don't like Sarah Jessica Parker either and couldn't get into Sex and the City because of her. She is just way to skinny and icky and so not attractive.
Okay, Bob Costas is starting to annoy me. Did he just all of a sudden age? I don't remember him looking so old. Do I really care about the Baltimore Ravens versus the Pittsburgh Steelers game? NO. Thinking about this one; the tv may be turned off yet.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
I used to actually make a vesica pisces out of string and sit in the middle of it, but now I've gotten lazier and just imagine making a vesica pisces with light so I can be sitting in my bed and not having to sit in my living room. It's much more comfortable this way.
The theory behind a vesica pisces is that it becomes a portal, basically a do-it-yourself wormhole for a person to travel astrally or in light body form to where ever actually. I think one could use it travel backwards in time or forward or off planet. Somehow, travelling to the future is not interesting. Honestly, do I really want to be bummed about how something will have turned out? I don't think so.
So last night on a whim and because I'm a little depressed right now, I decided to try and contact the Confederation of Planets in Service to the Infinite Creator. They are mentioned in the RA books. Okay, so this is like my wild and crazy imagination speaking here, but I went into a meditation and sent out a message that I wanted to contact these peeople, and I received a message back to go to Alpha Centauri. And Im like, I don't even know where this place is and then as if they heard me, I received a message back saying I did know where this place is, that I had been to the great hall where the council meets and that even I just used my vesica pisces wormhole thingy, it would take me there.
And so I'm like okay. I made my vesica pisces out of light and I think about the message that was given to me that I knew where it was and I knew where this great hall was and I went into a deep meditation.
And sure enough, I feel the wormhome activating and I feel myself moving and I'm like there and it was like I was on a set of Star Wars or something where the galactic council was meeting, only I'm there in light body form and the beings that I'm seeing aren't in solid form either but are light bodies like mine. Then they told me that I could activate the jewels in my hand that I received on my trip to Sirius (another recent adventure) to be heard and understood by everyone on the High Council.
The jewels that I received on my recent trip to Sirius, which is a strange place and physically hard to travel to even in lightbody form because everyone there is a crystal being and so much higher in frequency that we are. were given to me by the Sirius people so I could accelerate my own frequency so I could see them Sirius people and talk to them.
If you think of the Buddha statues with jewels embedded in the palm of each hand, then you have the right picture of where they put the jewels. I have to press the jewels to activate them, and once I do that my frequency speeds up enough for me to have a conversation with someone from the Sirius planet.
So I wormholed myself to the great hall on some planet in Alpha Centauri, and when I press the jewels, it's like I can see what people really look like and I can hear their thoughts and they can hear my thoughts. They even gave me permission to use sound langauge because they knew taht it was hard for me to have a conversations jusst with my thoughts. I need to verbalize, it's call be all mental for me, doesn't work.
So I'm there being presented to the confederation of the planets, and it's much easier for me to speak than to have them just listeining to my thoughts.
Anyway, it was trippy because it was hard to keep awake. I kept fading in and out because I wasn't used to their energy and it was so strange.
Next up, the planet Regulus. I just wannt to see what's up there.
Friday, October 23, 2009
She is still undergoing chemotherapy for her cancer, but she will be coming back to work. YAY! I really missed her.
This event made me feel like maybe things are getting better for me, after what has seemed like a hard two years.
I found out today that we are having our usual department Christmas party. I wasn't sure if they were going to cut it because of the economy, but I got the invite today.
There is so much I want to write about, but some things that are happening to me right now are so strange and have been strange since my trip to LA in February. One of these I will write about it, just not now. I need some perspective first to know where the events will fit into the general pattern of my life.
I hate being so reticent. I love being expressive about my life because it helps me to write about it all, but for now silence is the best thing because I feel such a need for privacy about my life. I have been trying to be open and I'm not sure I like the consequences of being that open. When I let myself be known, what can I say "shit happens". I just need to figure out how much is too much and how little is too little. There has to some happy medium. and hopefully one day I will find it.
Monday, October 19, 2009
I feel drained by the peopel in my life, well, maybe just one person in particular. I don't know if I have come across another sad sack person, and the rescuer in me is doing its usual rescuing without getting anything in return.
I feel like my compassionate self is being used against me again. I cannot walk away when someone needs my help, especially if I feel there is some kind of karmic connection. But when I don't receive appreciation ro gratitude, I get a little upset.
Giving unconditional love only takes you so far in this life before you start to realize, unconditional love is fine as long as you are appreciated and acknowledged. Not very enlightened I know, but this is the way I am feeling right now.
It is a new moon today, so maybe it's a moon thing. I'm not very good with new moons.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
On Thursday I was talking to a friend of mine of all the things that have happened to me since 2007. Here's the highlights of the last 3 years.
1. August 2007 - moved floor and departments. Moving is so stressful. I hated the department I was in, and I guess everyone who worked there did too because since 2005 they've had about a 80% turnover rate. That department was disbanded this year and merged into other groups. Ironically most everyone that was left in my old department moved to my new department. Life is funny like that sometimes.
2. Broke off a friendship with a friend who was going energy vampire on me. Breaking off a friendship is so difficult. It's been done to me, but I've never told anyone I can't be your friend anymore. Kind of strange because I still talk to people who still talk to this person, so I'm sure we know what is going on in each other's lives. The whole energy vampire thing is weird. My brother sent me a book on it after I mentioned it to him. But WOW, this event turned out to be such a great thing for me. If someone is consciously or in the case of my friend, subconsciously, sucking off all your energy, you have no idea unti it's over how much you've been held back in your life. What an eye-opening experience! I would never wish this experience on my worst enemy. Talk about messing with your head.
3. September 2007 - my company went thru major renovations and I moved floors again. I ended up sitting right outside my boss' office. YIKES. A good experience but not the most comfortable. Thankfully, we changed locations a year later and I'm a row away and much happier.
4. November 2007 - I had a reconnection down with someone who studied with Dr. Eric Pearl. In a reconnection, you are reconnected to the earth's ley lines. A great experience, and something I'm still processing two years later. My life did a 360 after this.
5. December 2007 - I booked my trip to Peru and Easter Island with my good friend Sean D-M. My boss said I was crazy to pass it up, and he agreed that I could take 15-days of vacation. I experienced so many fears about this trip, I even went to a chanelling to ask the "spirits" about this trip. The spirit "Sophia" said I was in my ascension process and should not have any fears. and if there was a fear it was because I was afraid of karmic memories. Sophia's words were very prophetic.
6. January-Feberuary 2008 - I caught the flu 3-times in this period. I haven't been this sick in years. Frightening as heck because you so feel the fragility of your own body.
7. February - March 2008 - Peru/Easter Island Trip. Amazing, amazing, but so very karmic. Some members of the tour group took part in a shamanic vision ritual. It was quite cool to drink icky liquid out of a 100-year olf ritual cup. Talk about weird experiences on the day of a full moon eclipse in aquarius. It wasn't that bad until we left the mountain shrine. I broke into tears in public. I can count on hand when this has happened in my entire life. Sean had to heal me because he said there were holes in my aura and it all pixilated. This experience was a catalyst to so many other experiences in the next two years.
8. March 2008 - Somehow in the middle of all this, I signed up with a personal growth coach. Not the best move on my part. I made some progress but not as much as expected. Big lesson for me in discernment. My coach did not believe in God, and I do big time. There was so much I was not willing to discuss with him. Then I got a message from JC after months of prayer that JC is my best life coach.
9. May 2008 - moved apartments because my landlord had sold the buidling. Traumatic but moveout money from the new owner paid for most of the move. My place is much smaller but so much quieter and in a way better neighbourhood. I never see bums in my hood or on the bus anymore.
10. July 2008-October 2008 - started some intenstive healing treatments and spent way too much money for treatments I'm not sure really worked. Messed my knee up from the move. Another lesson in discernment for me. When people pressure me to do something, I need to sleep on any decision. It's too easy for me to say yes, but if I just say let me think about it then I come to a better decision for myself.
11. August 2008 - kept getting intution to get out of the stock market. Sold all my mutual funds and got out of the market at 10,800. This move turned out be a good one.
12. September 2008 - My co-worker is diagnosed with cancer and goes on a leave of absence. Wow, talk about stressful. She is still away and I am sort of doing two jobs. I miss her and the extra work has been tough.
13. October 2008 - stock market takes a huge drop. I felt good about my decision to sell in August.
14. November 2008 - went to see Bashar at the Angel Valley retreat center in Sedona. Almost a year later, 3 people died there at a sweat lodge session. The people who own the place are very nice, and I feel bad for them because of all negative press.
15. February 2009 - flew to LA for the Conscious Life expo. I reconnected with friends from Peru trip. I see a guy who looks so familiar; I know I've never met him but it is a very intense psychic connection.
16. March 2009 - huge drop in the stock market. Everyone is affected including my company, and money saving policies are implemented. What a huge stressor everyone. Explored the psychic connection with the guy from LA and it is very intense. My first experience with channeling, which is very cool.
17. April 2009 - more karmic work comes up for me which rocks my perception of the world. Another intense channeling for me and I get a headache for a week.
18. May 2009 - Trip to NYC to a seminar about 2012 and what that date might mean. I hadn't been to NYC since 1991. The real City has so changed and was basically unrecognizable to me. Visited Ground Zero and felt sad and cried a bit. I felt like I closed a chapter on my life during this trip.
19. June 2009 - Went to a Bashar session and was picked to asked a question. What an intense experience and so, so cool. Trip to Sedona Arizona as well and closed a couple more chapters in my life.
Okay, that's it so far. I'm still processing events since July 2009 so more on my life later.
I think when your life is too intense, you stop wanting to write about it because you're so in the middle of it that it's hard to step back and get some perspective.
Wow, talk about time speeding up and going into overdrive. Talk about burning off hundreds of years of karma.