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Re: My Father’s Passover Speech (1986)

Michael Straus — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 18:48:23 -0000

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Re: My Father’s Passover Speech (1986)

BlueStar — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 13:21:55 -0000

Michael, thanks for sharing his beautiful words. Would you be ok for me to honor him and you by sharing at my seder?

Re: A monk in Siberia

David Fleming — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:31:12 -0000

I think that day might be coming. However, given the nature of our present reality, the path from here to there seems harder than ever to predict.

Re: Travel Tips: Money

Joseph Harris — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 10:20:17 -0000

Great checklist! Mkaing all these well in advance is my best tip! planning a huge trip takes time and the best thing to do is plan well in advance!

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Re: The Truth about Trump & Putin

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Re: The Path to Peru

Brooke McDonnell — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 08:38:41 -0000

Fascinating stuff...so much we do not know. Maybe you can tap into our future evolution - I've read that our sensory development is on going. Vas con dios!

Re: Nana’s Ghost

Frog Lover — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:41:53 -0000

Wild. Well, I think I hope that is how it will be.

Re: I am … psychic??

Marcella McMahon — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:48:23 -0000

As a friend to some portrayed in "Men who stare at goats" and a Remote Viewer and teacher of psychic skills, I found your post to be interesting. It refreshed my memory of how illusive that small quite voice can be. Psychic is like a muscle, it must be worked out to strengthen. Unfortunately, life doesn't often give us opportunity to test out our impressions. You can't really say to the guy ahead of you in the grocery line, "Excuse me sir, are you going through a horrible divorce and drinking too much?" Kinda not polite. But how often do we 'make-up stories' in our head about random people and never get to know if there is any truth in them. So feedback is key in the development of psychic skills. I use this site to play around http://www.gotpsi.org although my consciousness gets board with some of the tasks. If you find you're not good at one of the tests, don't beat yourself up about it. It does NOT mean you are not psychic. I also play little games in the car when driving some where new, I'll imagine what is the next big thing I'm going to see. Or hold a magazine and choose a page number, then ask my consciousness to describe the page, like remote viewing. Keep testing! When I was first developing I was an open minded skeptic who didn't consider myself all that psychic. I started working with a psychic detective and was shocked to get names, way of death and locations correct! That was when the skeptic me had to take a back seat, because there was no explanation for the logical mind.

As for the time thing, well we are spiritual beings and only a percentage of the real us is needed to run the physical body. In the spirit realm time doesn't exist. It is only in existence in the lower (vibration) worlds of duality (astral, mental, emotional, physical planes). So all time is happening now (past present and future), for the human mind it is difficult to comprehend and because we are here in the physical most do not need to understand. I specialize in past life regression hypnotherapy and have had experiences where I was told (by my guides) I was living that past life at the same time as the present one. It was key in understanding why my consciousness had trouble adhering to the command (in Newton style regression work) "Go to your most recent lifetime" and why I would always get different lifetimes. I use to get so frustrated that I "wasn't doing it right" but then I learned that it was just that my consciousness knows that time doesn't exist and my guides were giving me the most important lifetime relevant to the point in time I was requesting the help in removing whatever blocks. Not sure if any of this helps, but happy journeys!!!

Re: The Fabric of Reality?

Louisla4 — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:49:01 -0000

Oh and by the way...the image you have here has always been one of my favorites. They used it in the new "Cosmos" series. We all (or most of us - maybe not Richard Dawkins) know there is more going on here than we can (physically) sense.

Re: The Fabric of Reality?

Louisla4 — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:45:52 -0000

Hi Michael, I've had more of these than I can list.
My favorite source for explanations about how things actually work is all of the (trance channelled) Seth writing by Jane Roberts. I find trance channelling to be the ultimate proof of non-physical existence. If these beings(voices/personalities) are just creations of our physical brains then over the course of evolution we evolved an (false) explanation to satisfy our need for meaning of our existence?...OR it is what it says it is - most channelled writings say basically the same thing in various ways - consciousness/spirit/whatever - creates the physical world and not the other way around.
I believe Occam's Razor then proves the latter - the simplest explanation is usually correct (or something like that.)
God (the "All That Is") is the spiritual energy in all the universe. The (patterns in the) universe reflects itself - just as the structure of atoms resembles the structure of the solar system (center with orbits around it) our small organism's consciousness reflects the larger consciousness of the whole.

In of all things, the series "The Sopranos" Tony goes to Italy (or Sicily) and there is some discussion of an Oracle who channeled information. I believe this has been happening throughout human history. I would love to see a study of whether this (some form of trance channelled information) is a phenomenon across all cultures across the globe (versus just a weird product of our Western Culture.)
I believe the Universe is constantly pouring out "Revelation." We just don't recognize it as such. Look at the automatic writings of the "Course in Miracle", "Conversations with God", "The Urantia Book" the list goes on and on. I have seen a number of trance channels in person - Ecton/Lazarus/Kevin Ryerson.
I'd love to see someone do a "Natural History of Revelation" - it IS real. It's just that any one piece is specific to that time/place/etc. and language is very limiting in our ability to have these conversations.
I also think a problem with acknowledging the existence of the divine is people's expectations of miracles - in the violation of the laws of physics sense of the word. I don't believe any of the Biblical miracles occurred as described. I think one of the most important things to have happened recently is the Pope saying "God is not a magician" this past week or two. (Although I have not read what he actually said.) For humanity to get beyond our tribal and religious conflicts everyone has to understand this if any new widespread religious understanding is going to surpass the fundamentalist based oppressing and warring movements. But if people expect a new divine prophet to appear who can prove their divinity with "miracles" it ain't gonna happen!
Phew - glad I got that all off my chest. Thanks!

Re: “Remote Viewing” Update

Joyce — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:07:27 -0000

Very Cool, Michael!

Re: I am … psychic??

Carol — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:39:52 -0000

Wow! Very Rupert Sheldrake/Terrence McKenna!

Re: I am … psychic??

Jen Dalton — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:53:08 -0000

Thanks for sharing your discoveries and uncovering Michael ... your authentic exploration of this is so interesting! Keep sharing!

Re: Moments of Oneness

Renee — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:36:01 -0000

Yes. I participated in a 10-day retreat that combined Mahamudra practice with the Diamond Approach (my aunt was teaching). Each day we went further into exploring 'turning our gaze on awareness' - something possible after anchoring our practice for a few days. We were led into noticing awareness both temporally and spatially (does your awareness stop at the wall?). Towards the end of the retreat, I went on my favorite walk up to the waterfalls in Cascade Canyon, and I had a visceral sense of one-ness. That there was no separation, only different forms. Each tree, organism, *everything* was a manifestation of this same essence, this awareness. I noticed all of my anxiety was entirely absent, and I felt the most calm and serene that I can recall. It has stayed with me.

Re: Moments of Oneness

Patricia — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:18:12 -0000

"I once had a Oneness experience listening to music at WOMAD USA. That moment changed my life."

Re: Moments of Oneness

Sabine — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:14:23 -0000

it's a beautiful feeling, the feeling of oneness with everything, no more judgement, separation, just pure love..it's happening more and more for me..

Re: Indonesia’s “Dynamo Jack”

Julius James — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:46:31 -0000

I am very intrigued by Dynamo Jack and have written up an article myself on him at http://mysteryhistory.tv/te...

I have also linked to this article as one of my sources, thanks for the info.

Is he for real or not? He's entertaining to say the least.

Re: Historic Ranch in Tomales Protected, Forever

Dennis Whalen — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:05:24 -0000

Nicely told Michael. The second is a particularly beautiful sentence..."When Gary’s father died in 2000, enormous estate taxes nearly forced Gary to sell part of the property to developers in order to protect the rest. It would have been an inglorious demise of a farm with such rich history."

Re: Flirting with anti-Semitism

Joyce Wahlberg — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:57:17 -0000

Hmmm-well at the end of the day-can you tell the difference between who's who by looking at their skeletons? Building bridges can begin when we look at the sameness of people and not what religious, cultural, political, or opinions are put forth to help create separation. Instead of focusing on our differences. It is the ego that is human's worst enemy. It is the mind's ego that created all chaos, wars, etc. put a diseased mind and spread its thoughts collectively-you got yourself a problem. Humans just use excuses of thousands of year old texts to justify whatever needs they feel are lacking. Religious texts, opinions, philosophies--whatever belief systems a person has put forth in their life-are constantly be used as a means to justify human behavior labeled as good or bad. To challenge this on people that base their foundation of self from a set of beliefs -well, people will fight to the death sometimes and sometimes kill many people in the process. There was a story about a journalist that researched a popular politician in his community. Basically, he discovered the guy was psychopathic. When presented his research and findings to his community- he was the person that people turned against? Why? Because the ego was too fragile for these people to believe that what they believed in was an illusion. So, they'd rather follow the illusion than what was reality. People can keep fighting and arguing over who deserves this or that--who's right or wrong, etc...Oh, another good one is-who or what group of people were more victimized than another group of people. What you are all looking at is a collective mental disease of humanity that has been passed on generation to generation. There are many people on this planet that think, believe to know what is true. If you are in India, there are plenty of gurus that claim they are the reincarnation of this or that God, Goddess. It isn't for me to say who is right or wrong-but for me, sometimes, I wonder if Earth is a cosmic mental ward for a dysfunctional humanity. Those alien experiments went haywire!

Re: Photo of the Week: Still Life with cow & Russians

Gregory Wei — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:06:21 -0000

As long as the cow is OK ...!

Re: Photo of the Week: Still Life with cow & Russians

Michael Straus — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:38:07 -0000

NEWS FLASH! Paparazzi-hating cow attacks ex-pat dog sitter: This very same cow pictured above (trust me, I have a near-perfect cow-identification superpower, honed after decades of in-the-field experience) attacked me tonight as I was walking my friends dogs. Yes, the cow survived relatively-unscathed and is fine. Thanks for asking.

Re: Photo of the Week: Still Life with cow & Russians

Michael Straus — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:34:10 -0000

Ami - yup, just less of them in Goa than there used to be, or so I'm told.

Re: Photo of the Week: Still Life with cow & Russians

AmiV2 — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 05:50:15 -0000

"post-Army Israeli backpackers" are still going to India. Actually, with all the crazy changes around the world, even in S. America, Israelis are more inclined to go to Asia than anywhere else (even Europe). Nice pictures, I wonder what the Russians think of the cows... moooo

Re: Photo of the Week: Still Life with cow & Russians

Gregory Wei — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 04:51:00 -0000

I love your pics, Mikey!

Re: Photo of the Week: Still Life with cow & Russians

Chileno Valley Ranch — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 04:50:42 -0000

i just love this!