The Letter Chet - Letter for the Month of Tammuz - Cancer

Artist's Rendition of the Letter Chet
The Letter Chet written as Two Zayins ( I can't get a pic when it is written as a vav and a zayin because that is 'sacred' and can't be copied)

The Letter Chet - Letter for the month of Tammuz - Cancer, 4th month of the Hebrew calendar, 8th letter of the aleph bet, gematria 8.

The Letter Zayin - Letter for the month of Sivan - Gemini, the 3rd month of the Hebrew Calendar, 7th letter of the aleph bet, gematria 7

The Letter Vav - Letter for the month of Iyar, Taurus, 2nd month of the Hebrew calendar, 6th letter of the aleph bet, gematria 6.

The Letter Hei, the letter of the first month of the Hebrew Calendar, Nissan - Aries, 5th letter of the aleph bet, gematria 5. The Chet looks like a closed Hei to me.

We can see the mathematical progression with the letters. In my attempt to take religious dogma out of the equation as much as possible, I'm presenting the letters as the main spiritual tool with which we connect to the energetic flow of the manifestation of the soul of the universe.

Chodesh Tov Tammuz

The Letter Tav

The Letter Tav - Letter for the Moon - the Ruler of Cancer



















Fascinatingly, Interconnedtedly and quantumly enough
The Hebrew letter chet is spelled chet yud tav and thereby includes the letter for the ruling astrological body of the month. The gematria of chet yud tav is 418.
Heavy duty month here. Actually, they're always heavy duty.

The Month of Tammuz - Cancer

The letter for the month of Tammuz - Cancer, the 4th month of the Hebrew calendar is the Chet, the 8th letter of the Hebrew aleph bet, gematria 8. The letter Chet is composed of a vav, the letter for the month of Iyar-Taurus, and a Zayin, the letter for the month of Sivan-Gemini.
Whilst the scribed chet is usually written as two zayins with a bridge (see above picture), the Ari says that the Chet is a Vav on the right and a zayin on the left. I always go with the Ari.
In the form of the letter itself, we can see that Tammuz - Cancer, the 4th month, joins the energies of the preceeding months. The letter Vav is the energy of healing, direct light- or yashar , which connects us to the Upper Worlds. Zayin is the energy of the Shabbat, returning light - or chozer- which enables us to elevate. When the letters vav and zayin are combined in the chet, a new energy concept manifests - the combination of or yashar and or chozer. We are given the ability to transcend physicality and see the Worlds Above.
{I think it is more than a possibility that I was Blessed with a Vision of the Worlds Above when the Water Spout over the Sea Revealed the New Moon as Full :P}

Rabbi G phrases it thusly "At the level of Souls the Chet is the power to enter the mysteries of one's own soul and thereafter return to wordly consciousness".
The Letter Chet also begins the word for Life in Hebrew - Chaim; Chayam, living; Chochmah, Wisdom; Chen, grace; chalom, dream
As the spelling of the letter chet includes the tav, the letter for the moon which rules Tammuz, the spelling of Tammuz includes the letters vav and zayin.

There is a lot of negativity taught about the month of Tammuz. I will not go into it with this post. One of the reasons that certain teaches say that Tammuz, along with Av and Tevet (Leo and Capricorn) are 'negative' months is because the Schechinah ( 2 chets in the spelling of that one) is in exile. The Shechinah is the quintessential feminine principle of the G-d head. The Schechinah is always referred to as She. She is the feminine energy of Binah, from whom flow the Waters of Life, as that energy surrounds the sephirot of Malchut.
Rabbi G
"Shechinah is the immanent Divine Presence that inheres within the Universe corresponding to the sefirah of Malchut, the feminine aspect of divinity."
definition of i m m a n e n t
adj
remaining within, inherent, intrinsic, indwelling.

The bridge of the Chet, which I learned is called a 'chatoteret', gee it also begins with a chet,
allows human beings access into the energy of the indwelling of the soul.
Once again, the Feminine Energy is Predominant as the Energy of Life. The totally male domainated patriarchal religious aspect of the teachings relate the knowledge, then turn it negative. I cannot see why Tammuz should be a negative month. It is the beginning of the summer season, it is a gateway into the worlds above and by way of the bridge a way to return back. The give and the take. Gateway. Like Stargate SG1. It represents life force and intrinsic wisdom.
The Shechinah is the G-ddess within. Guess those men can't deal with the fact that they are being kept within chayam by the essence of the feminine.

Tammuz is the only month ruled by the moon. The moon is the feminine principle made manifest. The influence of the moon is magnified even further because Cancer is a water sign, water of water in kabbalistic astrology, and the moon is responsible for the ocean's tides.

Cancers are usually considered to be the most sensitve of the astrological signs. It is a well known fact about those born under the sign of Cancer that there is always something they keep hidden.

The Torah Portions during Tammuz are also fascinating. The first Shabbat is Korach, Then Balak, Then Pinchas. Two bad guys then a good guy in a really bad situation.
But
it is in Parashat Pinchas that the Daughters of Zelophehad are named. Twice. In the literal story these are the women who spoke up for themselves to Moses. The Schechinah obviously wasn't in exile with them. Their names are Machlah, Noach, Chaglah, Milcah and Tirzah. 5 of them.
Thanks to http://www.ritualwell.org.holidays.roshchodeshnewmoon/tammuz
for reminding me.

Tammuz is our opportunity to access the silent secrets within our soul and know that they represent the true reality.

The sign is Cancer, the crab ' sartan' in hebrew. Rabbi G - " the word sartan is understood as being composed of two words sar tan which literally reads: ' remove the body' in order to reveal the soul, i.e. remove the outer shell of reality by means of the power of concentrated sight in order to reveal reality's inner fruit and lifeforce".
Well said.
The Tribe is Ruben, precious stone of the breastplate ruby.
Red is the colour of the feminine principle. Right column white. left column red, central column green.
The spiritual sense is sight.
The controller is the right hand.

See with the Sight of the Soul.

Parashat Korach. Candelighting 8:09, forward 0.

Shabbat Shalom
Peace

Water Vapour Reveals New Moon as Full

Water Spout Reveals New Moon Untouched Pic

Water Spout Reveals New Moon

Today is 1 Tammuz- Cancer. The moon will be a sliver of a crescent.
The last 3 days the moon was new - no visible moon.

Saturday night the Atlantic Ocean put on a spectacular show. I was in the motel in Seaside Park, New Jersey and I saw the spouts. The man in the room next to mine also came out onto the balcony. We witnessed the phenomonon together, B'H. He said that he has been staying down the shore every weekend for the last 25 years, and he had never witnessed such a display. I remember water spouts from when I was a teenager - the lifeguards would see them and get us out of the water. You can't really see them if you are at sea level. You need to be up a little higher. Boaters can't see them. The 2nd floor balcony gave a good view.

When I looked at the pics, the Sky Sphere was revealed. It couldn't be the sun - this is the East. The Sun sets in the West. The Moon rises in the East over the Atlantic, but the moon was new.
I thought it might be a water droplet on the lense, but it isn't visible in any of the other pics which will all be posted at:
http://byetheseaatlanticoceannj.blogspot.com

What makes the phenomonon even more awe inducing is that The Moon is the Ruling Planet for the Month of Tammuz.
I just got back from Jersey so the Tammuz post will be forthcoming.

Somehow the water vapor revealed the Magnificance of the Moon in her Full Glory.
A New Moon appearing as Full.

If anybody knows the scientific explanation in depth, please comment.
I played with the pics to show different colours. You can definitely see that the sphere is behind the water vapor.

Might it be perhaps a parallel universe or alternate dimension revealed? Moon 2? Earth 2?

The Other World ?

Chodesh Tov Tammuz.

Peace

Summer Solstice at Stonehenge

The Summer Solstice always reminds me of Stonehenge.

Revelers ring in summer at Stonehenge

By KATIE FRETLAND, Associated Press Writer Wed Jun 21, 9:13 AM ET
STONEHENGE, England -
Thousands of dancing and drumming revelers cheered the summer solstice at Stonehenge as an orange sliver of sun rose Wednesday. Cloudy skies, dense fog and spurts of rain did not seem to dampen the energy of those who bobbed and swayed to cheerful beats with arms outstretched and shouts of "Feel the solstice!"

About 19,000 New Agers, present-day druids and partygoers gathered inside and around the ancient circle of towering stones to greet the longest day in the northern hemisphere as the sun struggled to peek out against a smoky gray sky.

"This is the nearest thing I've got to religion," said Ray Meadows, 34, of Bristol, England. The solstice "is a way of giving thanks to the earth and the universe."

Meadows, wearing a wreath of pink carnations over long pink hair-wrapped braids, identified herself as a fairy of the Tribe of Frog.

Stonehenge, on the Salisbury Plain 80 miles southwest of London, was built between 3000 B.C. and 1600 B.C. The lichen-covered rocks are a major tourist attraction and have spiritual significance for thousands of druids and New Age followers.

English Heritage, the monument's caretaker, began allowing full access to the site again in 2000.
Crowds of partygoers stumbled toward their cars an hour after sunrise, some clutching nearly empty bottles or beer cans.
One described the crowd as 5 percent pagan and 95 percent partygoer.
"Some people here are really spoiling it," said Chris Sargent, 37, of Bournemouth. "Once upon a time it was really spiritual."

Sargent, clad in a long black jacket and pants, top hat and fighter pilot goggles, drank vodka and Coke from a two-liter soda bottle and confessed he was "really stoned."

Jeanette Robinson, 71, of Burton-upon-Trent, England, was cold and tired as she watched the celebration from a low hill near the monument, but said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
"I don't suppose I'll be here to do it again at my age," she said.

Groups of tourists, some from France, Italy and Spain, joined British revelers. Daniel Estera, 25, flew from Barcelona for one night at the solstice with 15 friends.
"It is part of a family tradition to see a solstice monument from around the world," Estera said. "It is about respect for ancient cultures."

How and why the monument was built remains unknown. Some experts say its builders aligned the stones as part of their sun-worshipping culture, while others believe it was part of an astronomical calendar.
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Sounds like Fun to me.

Happy Longest Day

Today is the Summer Solstice, which is the Longest Day.
Here in Orlando, 14 hours from sunrise to sunset. Up North the day is longer. In my old stomping grounds in Jersey 15 hours from sunrise til sunset. In The Artic and Alaska now is the time of the Midnight Sun. I was in Cornwall England for The Longest Day once. 10:10 PM was sunset. Between The Stones.
I think all days should be The Longest Day.

As I muse and ponder and live, as people keep on passing in and out of my life, I wonder.
We are all so unique, and so quick to judge others negatively.

I sigh and I yearn
I weep and I laugh.

I'm getting ready to do a move again. If I think of it in context of Torah energy, it makes it more bearable. The events leading to this move to not bespeak of failure, but of change.
Change can be quite foreboding. Even though most of me knows that this is necessary and in all likelihood the most behoovingof any viable choice I can make, I shake and tremble with anxiety and worries. Hey. That doesn't make it wrong, you see. It is the way I am. I have trouble with that, accepting myself for what I am. A lot of it has to do with the unacceptance I get from others.
People see everything from their own perspectives, which are individually unique.
And marvelous, and wonderous because of the endless variety contained within the energy manifestation.
All this was precipitated by an argument with a friend about, of all things, Bruce Springsteen Tickets.
I GOT SOME!!!!!! For PNC in Jersey on Sunday June 25th. I've been trying and trying to get these tix. I'll have to pick them up at the concert, because the Bruce fan who is selling them is picking them up at will call. That means the tickets are kosher. But, my friend somehow got a neurotic personal attitude about it. I don't understand. We're talking BRUCE here. Bruce Springsteen and The Seeger Sessions Band. She knows how I feel. We've spoken about it enough times. But, when you get to the nitty gritty, somehow, the wheel becomes clogged a bit , communication becomes difficult, and a tangent appears which did not previously exist. I understand that she does not feel the same way about Bruce Springsteen and his music as I do.
Ok. That taken into consideration, why do they feel that they must burst your bubble? I was so filled with excitement that the hithertofore impossible had now become manifest. Whoa I was excited when I made the phone call. Burst Bubble. Argument. Defending my actions.
I pretend a lot when I'm listening to other people. That's what makes a good listener. I pretend I'm interested in the conversation. I'm also good at helping people through difficult situtations.
I try to put myself in their shoes.

I have an exciting trip coming up. Seeing houses - a decision will have to be made.
Seeing Sydney
Seeing Bruce.
All good. Take deep breaths and just ignore the entire airport scenario.
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MSN posted a good article on depression. It is biochemical. I'm quite well versed on the subject. I'm posting this because it is accurate data.

Anxiety and Depression: Battling Dual Disorders
by Rich Maloof for MSN Health & Fitness
Anxiety and depression, two mental illnesses that plague an enormous number of Americans, are deeply entwined. Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental disorders and afflict 19.2 million adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Depression follows closely at more than 18.8 million. In about half of all depression and anxiety cases—the more severe cases, typically—a person who suffers from one will be affected by the other as well.

The combination punch is a lot for anyone to bear. Researchers cite a common “chicken or the egg” syndrome, where it’s unclear which disorder led to the other and complicated the patient’s condition. While this might make the climb out of a psychological hole feel longer and steeper, it’s encouraging to know that health-care professionals are very successful at treating the two in tandem.

The Sting of Stigma

Let’s first be clear about what these conditions are not. In the past 20 years or so, the increase in public education and, to a degree, pharmaceutical advertising has been responsible for legitimizing depression and anxiety in the public eye, but a few antiquated ideas still linger.

“Depression used to be an under-treated disease, in part because people were ashamed of it,” says Dr. Faruk Abuzzahab Sr., who practices with Clinical Psychopharmacology Consultants in Minneapolis. “They thought it was a disgrace to (appear to have) fallen out of your faith or to lose hope or be suicidal. People thought it was their cross in life to bear.”

Similarly, a pervasive perception remains that depression and anxiety stem from some mental weakness or inherent fault in a person’s constitution. People suffering from these disorders are hypersensitive to the world around them and often adapt misconceptions like these as their own. They can be haunted by the familiar refrain, “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.”

The sense of inadequacy people can feel while dealing with a mental disorder is further burdened by the notion that they are not even strong enough to rescue themselves.
But by their very definitions, anxiety and depression are marked by incapacitation and a disruption in one’s ability to cope. Inadequacy is not a cause—it’s a symptom.

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No Depression Allowed on The Longest Day. One Must Bask in the Glory of it All.
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BBC news. This is fascinating.

Work begins on Arctic seed vault

The Arctic seed vault will be built into mountain rock

Norway is starting construction on a "doomsday vault" in the Arctic which is designed to house all known varieties of the world's crops.

Dug into a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, it is hoped the project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe.

More than 100 countries have backed the vault, which will store seeds, packaged in foil, at sub-zero temperatures.

Prime Ministers from five nations helped lay the cornerstone on Monday.

Premiers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland attended the ceremony near the town of Longyearbyen, in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands, roughly 1,000 km (620 miles) from the North Pole.

Secure facility

Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told the Norwegian news agency NTB: "The vault is of international importance. It will be the only one of its kind; all the other gene banks are of a commercial nature."

Fenced in and guarded, with steel airlock doors, motion detectors and polar bears roaming outside - the concrete facility will, its backers say, be the most secure building of its type in the world.

Norway's Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen has called the vault a "Noah's Ark on Svalbard."

The vault's purpose is to ensure survival of crop diversity in the event of plant epidemics, nuclear war, natural disasters or climate change; and to offer the world a chance to restart growth of food crops that may have been wiped out.

At temperatures of minus 18C (minus 0.4F), the seeds could last hundreds, even thousands, of years. Even if all cooling systems failed, explained Mr Riis-Johansen, the temperature in the frozen mountain would never rise above freezing due to the permafrost on the mountainside.

Ultimate back-up

The Global Crop Diversity Trust, founded in 2004, will help run the vault, which is planned to open and start accepting seeds from around the world in September 2007. The bank is eventually expected to house some three million seeds.

This is polar bear country
"This facility will provide a practical means to re-establish crops obliterated by major disasters," Cary Fowler, executive secretary of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, said in a statement.

Fowler, who led a feasibility study on the project, said crop diversity was also threatened by "accidents, mismanagement, and short-sighted budget cuts".

Already, some 1,400 seed banks around the world, most of them national, hold samples of a country's crops. But these banks "can be affected by shutdowns, natural disasters, war or simply a lack of money," said Mr Riis-Johansen.

While Norway will own the vault itself, countries sending seeds will own the material they deposit - much as with a bank safe-deposit box. The Global Crop Diversity Trust will help developing countries pay the cost of preparing and sending seeds.

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I haven't posted a Daily Dose (from Chabad) in a long time because I'm having a problem with religious dogma. This one fits my mood. We're allowed to have moods. We're allowed to be different. It is good to get excited. It is good to get sad. Everything is to be experienced. And at some point there has to be an acknowledment in some kind of faith. I have problems with control freaks, and people who teach self impowerment. Self empowerment usually leans towards magnifying the ego.
B"H
The Core--------
It has to come from the core, but we are not masters over that place.

We can barely master our wardrobe--our conscious thought, our words to others, what our hands and feet are doing. Never mind the hidden things within.

But we can do this: We can wash our clothes and bathe our skin in pure waters. We can focus our thoughts, guide our words and clean up our act. Once scrubbed enough that light can pass through, we await the moment when the core awakens.

This is what Moses told his people on their last day together:"The hidden things belong to G-d. But the obvious is for us and our children forever, to do what needs to be done."
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Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. A little understanding and compassion wouldn't hurt. Even on an inter-personal level we all seem to have problems with it. We 've gotta stop it. Reach out . Catalize Change.
in
Peace

Quantum Continuity Continues

As quantum continuity continues
The Universe is Opening Up

Time, as the illusion, is turning upon itself.

This week's Torah Portion is Beha'alotkha
which means
to set up
from the root word alah which means to ascend.

The number seven is at play.
Seven is the gematria of the zayin, the letter of Shabbat which rules the month of Gemini - Sivan.

Candelighting 8:07
Doctor Who Marathon on tonight.

Peace throughout Time.
Shabbat Shalom

The Sea in Atlantic City.
{I posted these pics on www.webshots.com and I've had about 70 downloads. :D}

Positive Action {Hopefully}

A Positive Action {hopefully] has been taken by the current administration. They're putting 120,000 square miles of barrier reef in the Northern Hawaiian Islands under protective custody, as it were.

Why do I say hopefully? Because it is news to counter-act the surge of violence in the War. And his ratings are going up. I wonder how history will write this president. The headlines themselves are strange. It doesn't say The United States of America - It says Bush. That gives him the consciousness of power you see.

Bush to create world’s biggest ocean preserve
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ‘as important as Yellowstone,’ activist says

MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 9:17 a.m. ET June 15, 2006

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday is expected to announce the creation of the world's largest marine protected area — a group of remote Hawaiian islands that cover 84 million acres and are home to 7,000 species of birds, fish and marine mammals, at least a quarter of which are unique to Hawaii.
At a White House ceremony, the president was planning to designate the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — which have been described as "America's Galapagos" and as the most intact tropical marine region under U.S. jurisdiction — the United States' 75th national monument.
The decision immediately sets aside 139,000 square miles of largely uninhabited islands, atolls, coral reef colonies and underwater peaks known as seamounts to be managed by federal and state agencies.

BBC Reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5083974.stm
Bush to protect Hawaiian islands

Fishing will be phased out over five years

A swathe of Hawaiian islands are to be designated a US national monument - turning the area into the largest marine sanctuary in the world.

President George Bush is expected to announce the plans for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on Thursday.

The area, nearly as big as California, supports more than 7,000 species, a quarter of which are unique.

Environmental groups welcomed the decision, although fishing industry bodies have raised concerns.
Endangered species
More than 120,000 square miles (300,000 square kilometres) of reefs, atolls and shallow seas will immediately receive the US's highest level of environmental protection, an unnamed senior administration official said.

The area is just larger than the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia and is home to the threatened green sea turtle and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

{ I LOVE SEA TURTLES}

The proposed tight restrictions will mean all fishing is phased out within five years and visitors will need permits to snorkel or dive in the area, an official told the Washington Post.

{Is it for concern for the wildlife in the sea, or an excuse to block off the area for military testing. }

The islands were already being considered for designation as a national marine sanctuary.
But Mr Bush is expected to use his powers under the 1906 National Antiquities Act, which allows the president to give instant protection to important sites, to bypass a year-long process of consultation.

The area contains important habitats for 7,000 species"This is really for the first time saying the primary purpose of this area of the ocean is to be a pristine, or nearly pristine, kind of place," David Festa, director the ocean programme at Environmental Defense, told the New York Times.

"It would take it off the books as a fishing ground. That's really the first time we'll have done that in any kind of sizable area," he said.
Fisheries fears

In an interview with the Washington Post, local Democrat representative Ed Case lauded the president for undertaking "the most revolutionary act by any president, any administration, in terms of marine resources".

The monk seal is the only mammal that depends totally on coral reefs

Although only eight fishing boats are licensed to fish in the area, a local fisheries body says it plans to fight a complete ban on fishing.

"We supported the sanctuary concept but wanted the continuation of our healthy bottom fisheries up there," Kittie Simonds of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, told the New York Times.

According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, lobster populations in the area have not recovered from aggressive exploitation in the 1980s and 1990s, although this is now banned.

Recent research also shows signs of over fishing in the islands' remaining fisheries, the organisation says.

Although environmental groups welcomed the news, many remain strongly opposed to other Republican policies on the environment, including a push to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas exploration.

Interesting. The BBC link has some great pics.

The New Bruce Vido on AOL is "Eye On The Prize". Wonderful and wonderful. Backstreets.com made me angry because the reporter is saying he kind of spaced out because it was just another 'Atantic City' and he wasn't it the mood. Boogers on him. I can't get tix. You have to be appreciative at all times. Therefore, I won't give the backstreets link anymore.
http://55brucefan-jerseygirl.blogspot.com/

Last night the Sci Fi Channel had a program called, optimistically, 'Countdown to Doomsday' hosted by Matt Lauer. They had some excellent people , scientists and such. One scientist said, the singularity is near. Ha.
Somebody gave me a good quote. "Destructive behavior is a protective measure gone awry". I agree.

Peace in the Seas
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Sky Watch

Space Weather News for June 14, 2006http://spaceweather.com/CONVERGING PLANETS:

Mars and Saturn aren't super-bright, but they will catch your eye after dark because they are so close together. The two planets are converging, forming a tight pair in the western sky. Look for them just after sunset on the evenings of June 15th through 17th. The view is best on June 17th, when Saturn and Mars are closest together, but it's also fun watching them converge on the two nights before.PHOTO-OP: June 15th is special because, en route to Saturn, Mars will glide in front of the Beehive star cluster. Using binoculars or a small telescope you can easily see the ensemble: it will look like a red supernova (Mars) has gone off among the stars of the Beehive. Astrophotographers, prepare your cameras!

Watching the Night Sky and its Wonders is a Peaceful Activity.

Spend the money on a telescope for your children instead of some kind of new fangled electronic pod or whatever.

Oh Well

Somebody I knew used to reply
that's a deep subject
when somebody said
oh well.
It used to annoy me no end.
The thought of it still does.
Oh well.

Sometimes I feel absolutely forlorn. See E Space for the definition.

Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child {Which I am now by the by}

Two telephone conversations with people last night disturbed me greatly.

I constantly get yelled at for being myself.

Nobody will help me fix the dead patch on my lawn. That is unacceptable.
Makes me feel
totally
helpless

Trying to keep my thoughts on totality.

Stephen Hawking is in the news.
One doesn't hear much about him these days. Short story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5075516.stm

Hawking to write children's book

The Hawkings are currently on a six-day visit to Hong Kong

Physicist Stephen Hawking and his daughter are to write a science book for children which will be "a bit like Harry Potter", but without the magic.

They aim to explain theoretical physics in an accessible way to youngsters.

Professor Hawking became famous for his bestseller A Brief History of Time, which attempted to simplify cosmology, the Big Bang and black holes.

His daughter Lucy said their forthcoming project would be aimed at people like her own eight-year-old son.

"It is a story for children, which explains the wonders of the universe," she said.

She did not provide any further details, nor a likely publication date.

Professor Hawking - a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge - has sold more than 10 million copies of A Brief History of Time since it was first published in 1988.

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and the result of the little not peace conference that was held

Bush pledges to help Iraq succeed

The new security plan is the toughest since the invasion of 2003
US President George W Bush has pledged to do "what it takes" to help the new Iraqi government to succeed.
His comments came in a news conference following a surprise trip to Baghdad on Tuesday, where he met new Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
"I saw first-hand the strength of his character and his deep determination to succeed," Mr Bush told reporters.
He also announced details of tough new measures in Baghdad in an effort to win back control of the city's streets.
Some 40,000 Iraqi and US troops were put on the streets just after dawn as part of a crackdown ordered by Mr Maliki.

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I myself
Am singing alone with
Mr Bruce Springsteen
and others
For Peace

Come check it out now!
The Link for the videos for each live performance from AOL.
Today's new one is " My Oklahoma Home".
See
http://55brucefan-jerseygirl.blogspot.com
For the full video list.

I'm just going to keep on saying
peace
until I can't anymore.
Let the bytes take over
maybe they can help.

Peace
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A Slice of Consciousness

We're having Alberto, the first named storm of the 2006 hurricane season, here in Central Florida today. It is raining, but not that hard. We need rain to put the fires out. Florida has been burning for a couple of months now. So, Alberto is doing its job, raining on the land.
I just got a hurricane alert. Let me give a quick look-see. They're telling me that Tropical Storm Alberto might be a hurricane.
I can feel the millibar pressure in my head. It feels weird. It feels like I'm wearing a too tight hat. A red one. Maybe a blue one. Or tan. Definitely not green.
Well, if I've learned anything by being here in Florida I've learned about hurricanes. I'll have to refresh my memory. Memory is strange. It seems to remember what it wants to remember and forget what it wants to forget. Silly that. The lower the millibars, the stronger the hurricane.

The Rain feels lovely today. There's been too much heat. That's why everything is burning.

I went to the store. Among other things I needed a pencil sharpener. I bought an Electric Pencil Sharpner, as opposed to a non-electric pencil sharpener, and a Red toaster oven. It was on sale.
Everything got wet.
That's because it is raining.

I'm changing up on my blogging a bit. I won't be doing kabbalah for a while. All the Religious Dogma is Driving Me Mad. All the sin and evil and punishment that you have to get through in order to get a mere glimpse of the inner secrets is making me crazy. A change of perspective is needed. I cannot let myself get warped by the religious dogma.

I thought about doing some creative writing here, but decided against it.
Blogging has taken its own form. It has become a type of personal journalism.
One's own personal awareness. One's own slice of life, slice of consciousness.
Also, I don't trust anybody.
Therefore
I've decided
to do some bibliophile blogging
continue with the news I feel is pertinent to attaining knowledge and awareness
and
I just sharpened some pencils. The Electric Pencil Sharpener works well. It is black and heavy. I love Pencils. I love Pencil Sharpeners. Just one of those things.
I think I'll decorate the Blackness of the Electric Pencil Sharpener. It needs decorating.

I had a conversation with an old friend in Cornwall yesterday. OOOO did we go at it. Everything. We talked about everything. We were talking books and Springsteen and Politics and Past and Now and What Might Be. Bless Ian. The only person I know that actually heard of the song "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?"
http://55brucefan-jerseygirl.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-can-poor-man-stand-such-times-and.html
We talked books and literature. Ian recommended one to me. "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. He said it was a bibliophile's book. Interconnectedly enough, the book was on my bookshelf, unremembered, unread.
That's the novel I'm reading now. I always have to be reading a novel. Non fiction studying is something else all together.
It is a most wonderful book. The print is a little small, but.... I'll manage. Age.
Another thing.
I'm alive.
Today, actually it isn't the date but it is the day because it was a Monday {I never got the hang of Mondays - can you tell I've just finished reading Douglas Adams?} that I had my cardiac event, supposedly died whilst having CPR done on me for about 10 minutes. 9 years. I made it. I have to think about it. That ol' memory strangeness again. I'm alive. I'm blogging.
Ha. Halleluhjah

Here's a quote from " The Shadow of the Wind":
"
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strangthens."

I love books.
The above is truth for me.

A news story caught my eye.
And sent the red alerts through my brain and up my spine.
This is MSNBC - AP
Bush summons war advisers for Iraq meeting
Military, civilian leadership to discuss future role for U.S. in Baghdad
WASHINGTON - Encouraged by the death of a top terrorist leader and continued progress on the formation of a new government in Iraq, President Bush is gathering his top military and civilian war advisers to plan the U.S. role in the country’s future.
The president planned two days of meetings at the mountainous Camp David presidential retreat, with national security advisers on hand and top commanders in Iraq connected by videoconference.

This is BBC:

Iraq tops agenda for Bush cabinet

President Bush faces a number of tough challenges in IraqUS President George W Bush has begun talks with his cabinet members and top military and political advisers to consider the path ahead in Iraq.
The two-day meeting is taking place at the presidential retreat at Camp David.
Senior US military commanders and new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki will be joining in via a video link.
They are discussing how best to deploy the US resources in Iraq and how to achieve the goal of an Iraq that can govern itself and defend itself.
President Bush is meeting his secretaries of defence and state, his national security advisor and his top military commanders at the mountain retreat in Maryland.

No War Talk Council Meeting Bodes Peace.
That's all I can say.
It definitely doesn't
Nopers
Lo
Non
No.

The wheel turns
and
We're spinning with it.

I'm going to make a chicken stew today. Ashkenazi style. My way.
Its raining. Alberto is here.

I admit I did make the choice of solitude. I didn't expect it to be this lonely.
I've healed on many levels. Florida has been very good for my heart.
But I cannot make the connection between my past and where I am now.
Strange.
And I can't just leave it alone because of that ol' belief in quantum synchronicity.

Here's a story that floated my boat.
I've always been interested in rocks and stones. My father taught me about it. I have rocks and stone and crystals all over everywhere.
I'm not being religious, I'm being metaphoric now.
There is a myth that when the consiousness of humanity transcends the material, one of the signs is that the stones will once again speak. Actually, I've heard stones speak. In Cornwall mostly. And Stonehenge. Those stones. And little stones. But not in Voice.Anyway
This article presents data which connects to that myth, and that's why I'm posting it.
Dang, the Severe Weather Alert on the Puter keeps Thunderstorming.
Thor is the Thunder God
Speaking of Which
I also bought
Large Coloured Paper Clips when I bought the Black Electric Pencil Sharpner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5055604.stm

Ancient rocks 'built by microbes'

The Pilbara structures were first described almost 30 years ago

Odd-shaped rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia offer compelling evidence they were built by microbes 3.43 billion years ago, scientists say.

The structures, known as stromatolites, could only have taken the forms they have if bacteria had been present, a Sydney-led team tells Nature journal.

The rocks' origin is disputed, with some claiming purely chemical processes could have made them.

But the Nature study suggests the biological explanation is the simplest.

"For all these shapes to be formed a-biologically would have required highly unusual and unexpected chemical processes to occur simultaneously in this [one location]," said Abigail Allwood from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology.

"It just becomes ridiculous to support that hypothesis; especially when the biological explanation is so readily acceptable."

Ms Allwood and colleagues have made an extensive survey of a 10km (six miles) stretch of land not far from the town of Marble Bar.

The area is now well inland but shows clear evidence of having been covered by a shallow sea in the ancient past.

The researchers have detailed an array of unusual sedimentary structures - seven clear types in all. Some look like upside-down ice cream cones; others resemble egg cartons.

These laminated structures have been described as stromatolites - the rock piles that in more recent settings are known to have been built by mats of microbes capturing grains and sticking them together.

But the Pilbara structures, found 30 years ago in a rock formation called the Strelley Pool Chert, are controversial.

Claims for individual microfossils of the original organisms within Pilbara's stromatolites have been challenged; and some scientists prefer an entirely non-biogenic explanation for the structures' creation.

These dissenters believe the piles resulted from the chemical precipitations that occurred around undersea volcanic vents.

Mars strategy

Allwood's response has been to describe the complexity of shapes and explain how these forms can be linked to different environmental niches in a shallow-sea reef setting.

"We have found an ecosystem-scale remnant of the early biosphere. It's not just a couple of individual or isolated fossils or dubious structures; it is in an entire, pretty well intact, section of hundreds of thousands of stromatolites in a reef ecosystem," Ms Allwood told the BBC News website.

"With that we now gain insight into the conditions that nurtured early life - the biological responses to different environmental processes."

The variety points to an entire ecosystem, say the scientists

The Pilbara stromatolites are not the oldest claim for life on Earth.

Some researchers argue that rocks at Isua in Greenland show the imprint of life at least 3.75 billion years ago.

At that time, these rocks were also on the sea bed. Thin layers of black sediment, separated by distinct layers of volcanic ash, look like they could be composed of the debris of ocean-dwelling microbes.

There are no fossil forms, but the nature of the carbon is consistent with the idea it was processed by living organisms. There are no known older remnants of the Earth's surface than the Greenland rocks - which probably makes Isua the closest science can ever get to the first life.

Researchers are keen to trace the story of the first microbes on Earth because it should provide clues in the hunt for possible life elsewhere in the Solar System.

Mars rovers should look out for stromatolite-like structures

The type of study conducted on the Pilbara stromatolites might, for example, help scientists interpret similar structures on Mars, should rovers sent to the planet ever come across them.

Commenting on this dimension, Dr Ian Crawford, a planetary scientist at Birkbeck College, London, UK, said: "Searching for ancient stromatolite-like structures such as those reported by Allwood et al should certainly be high on the list of future exploration strategies.

"However, given the amount of fieldwork performed by Allwood and colleagues, it must be doubtful whether purely robotic exploration of Mars would be able compellingly to identify such features in the field, and in the longer term effective Martian palaeontology may necessitate human exploration of the planet."

Good Story.
Ian and I also talked about BBC.
And we also said that we have to spread the consciousness of peace in any way we can.
That's what I'm doing with this
blog.
The endless differentiation is the manifestation of the complexity of the whole, not a cause for war and hatred.

Peace
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The Night Sky

I'm re-reading Douglas Adams while we are in Numbers (Bamidbar).
Watch out for those thinkie thoughts.
It seems quite obvious to me that the convergence of the parallel universes, the alternate dimensions and the continuum is starting.

There are a lot of Mercury energy manifestations during this month. Communication tends to get muddled. Interesting.

I've been looking for the night sky map.
Found it. So I'll be posting skymaps. I just wanted to be sure that it was Jupiter I've been seeing. I can also see Mars dimly. I'm very attuned to seeing Mars. And there is something else that is glowing yellowish up there. I love to look up at the night sky.
http://www.nightskyinfo.com/

The Night Sky This Week
June 5 - 11, 2006

The Planets
Mercury
Mercury is only a few degrees high 20 to 30 minutes after sunset, and even though it shines at magnitude -0.5 it will probably require optical aid to be spotted.

Binoculars will help you find it, and a telescope will show the planet's 6 arcseconds-wide disk, 65-percent illuminated.

Mercury never strays far from the Sun in the sky because its orbit lies entirely inside Earth's orbit.
The best time to look at the planet is when it is at or near maximum elongation (meaning that it is as far from the Sun as it ever gets) and when the ecliptic is most nearly vertical with respect to Earth's horizon.
Maximum elongations happen quite often with Mercury because it travels around the Sun so fast, but ideal observing conditions are rare.
The next greatest elongation of Mercury will occur on June 20th, when the planet will be 24.9 degrees east from the Sun.
However, this will not be a favorable apparition and the planet will stay pretty close to the horizon all month.Finder map - 9 P.M. local daylight time, looking west.


Venus
{Venus is the Morning Star now. I only see her when she's the Evening Star. Not up that early these days, although I will get up to see her now that I know :) }

Venus is visible in the early morning, about 15 degrees above the eastern horizon.
It shines brightly at magnitude -3.8, so you won't need any optical aid to admire the yellow-white planet.
If you do have a telescope, wait until sunrise or a little after to take a look; before then Venus's disk is nearly dazzling against the darker sky.
What you will see in the eyepiece is a barley out-of-round dot of dazzling light, only 14 arcseconds in diameter. But what other kind of telescopic observations of Venus can be made?Unfortunately, almost none. The planet is completely veiled by clouds, and in fact this is why Venus appears so bright. Its dense cloud layer reflects most of the sunlight shining down on the planet, making it impossible for any surface details to be seen.Finder map - 5 A.M. local daylight time, looking east.

Mars
The "red planet" (really orange-gold) appears quite low in the west as soon as it becomes dark.
{Yes}

It glows dimly at magnitude 1.7, almost three times fainter than Saturn, close to its upper left.
{Ah}
Don't expect much from Mars in your telescope, the planet's disk is less than 5 arcseconds wide, too small to show features in most instruments. A medium-size to large telescope wit top-quality optics, a night of excellent atmospheric seeing, and lots of time at the eyepiece are the keys to making out some detail on the planet.
Look out for dark surface markings, the "maria" and "terrae" named by great early Mars observers such as Giovanni Schiaparelli. The most prominent of these markings is Syrtis Major, an ancient basaltic region which extends some 1,500 kilometers north from the planet's equator and spans 1,000 kilometers from west to east.Finder map - 10 P.M. local daylight time, looking west.


Jupiter
{Yuppers, Jupiter has been Brilliant}
Brilliant Jupiter rises a little before 6 P.M. local daylight time, and by 11 P.M. it is high enough for excellent telescopic views.
At magnitude -2.4 it is the brightest point of light in the sky and you should have no trouble in locating it, some 40 degrees above the southern horizon.
Jupiter's disk is the most generous that a planet's can be: fully illuminated, almost 45 arcseconds wide, and - when observed high in a sky on a steady night with a good scope - decorated with numerous bands and other intricate details. From mid-northern latitudes you can even watch one full rotation of the planet, with the cloud features of every longitude displayed, during a single night.Finder map - 11 P.M. local daylight time, looking south.

Click the link to see more. Fabulous website.
.....

Trying to keep my head on straight. Reading Douglas Adams helps me to do that. I had to read "The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul", found it was one of the books that got ruined. Had "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on the bookshelf. Just finished that one. Eddies sofa is in there. I'd forgotten. Dirk Gently believes in the fundamental interconnectdness of all things. Dirk Gently knows that the quantum world is more real than reality. So do I. :D Now I'm reading "The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul". Its the Thor thing. Don't ask.
.....

Speaking of Space,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5051706.stm

Mini-planet systems get stranger

Mini planetary systems may orbit cosmic objects that are 100 times smaller than our Sun, research suggests.

Discs of gas and dust, the ingredients needed to create such systems, have been seen circling these relatively small objects, dubbed "planemos".

If the discs were capable of evolving larger aggregations of material, it would blur the definition of the word "planet", scientists said.

The work was presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Canada.

Cosmic newborns

The study is based on observations from European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes. It looked at a number of recently identified planemos (an unofficial term sometimes used to describe planetary mass objects).
Located about 450 light-years away in a star-forming region, four of the objects are just a few million years old, making them cosmic "newborns". They have masses between five and 15 times that of Jupiter.
But unlike Jupiter, these objects are floating through space without an accompanying star.
Infrared emission reveals the planemos are circled by dusty discs, which scientists believe could evolve into planets, comets and asteroids over time, in much the same way our own Solar System's planets are believed to have formed billions of years ago.
"Now that we know of these planetary mass objects with their own little infant planetary systems, the definition of the word 'planet' has blurred even more," said astronomer Ray Jayawardhana, from the University of Toronto, Canada, and lead author of the study.
"In a way, the new discoveries are not too surprising - after all, Jupiter must have been born with its own disc, out of which its bigger moons formed."

Beyond imagination

In separate study, researchers revealed that a companion body to a young brown dwarf (a failed star), designated 2M1207 and located 170 light-years away, was also surrounded by a disc.
Scientists had already detected a disc around the brown dwarf, but the new results suggest smaller planets or asteroids could also form in the material circling the planetary companion as well.
This planetary mass companion - it is about eight times the size of our Jupiter - was the first-ever exoplanet to have been imaged directly by a telescope.
"The pair probably formed together, like a petite stellar binary," explained lead author Subhanjoy Mohanty from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "instead of the companion forming in the disc around the brown dwarf, like a star-planet system."
Professor Jayawardhana, who also worked on the study, added: "The diversity of worlds out there is truly remarkable. Nature often seems more prolific than our imagination."
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Neither am I.

Peace

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The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu are old friends.

From story below.

Tintin Adventures

Dalai Lama News

His Holiness is in the headlines today.
I was talking to him yesterday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5040198.stm

Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu

The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu are old friends
Watch the ceremony

Comic strip adventure hero Tintin and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have been honoured by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

At a ceremony in Brussels, he presented a Tibetan butter lamp to the Herge Foundation representing Tintin books.

The book Tintin in Tibet was published in the same year that the Dalai Lama fled the Himalayan kingdom.

He also presented a lamp and silk scarf to fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop Tutu of South Africa.

Holy men

They came in out of the Brussels rain - two men in their seventies, old friends - one in a black suit with a silver cross, the other in the red robes of a Tibetan monk.

Archbishop Tutu helped end apartheid in South Africa. The Dalai Lama is still campaigning against China's military occupation of Tibet.

"We used to say to the apartheid government... Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side "
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The awards ceremony took place under tight security, at a 19th-Century concert hall in central Brussels.

The Dalai Lama draped a silk scarf around the archbishop's neck and presented him with a Tibetan butter lamp: the Light of Truth Award from the International Campaign for Tibet.

In his speech, Archbishop Tutu paid tribute to his friend.

"I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama," he said. "Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'?"
A preacher with the timing of a stand-up comic, the archbishop continued: "I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian."

Tintin rescued

The Dalai Lama, said Archbishop Tutu, "has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave properly, like a holy man!"

We never thought that this story of friendship would have a resonance more than 40 years later
The Dalai Lama rocked with laughter on his chair and wrapped his red robe more closely over his shoulder.

{His Holiness The Dalai Lama laughs a lot}

There was also an award for the Herge Foundation, established in memory of the author of the Tintin cartoon adventure books. Tintin in Tibet is one of the most popular in the series.

it is not a political book: instead it tells the story of Tintin's friendship with a Chinese boy, Chang, whose plane crashes in the Himalayas. When Tintin goes to rescue him, he encounters Tibetan monks and the mythical yeti - the Abominable Snowman.

The award was accepted by Herge's widow, Fanny Rodwell. Her voice trembled slightly as she spoke.

"We never thought that this story of friendship would have a resonance more than 40 years later," she said.

Another shaven-headed monk knelt by the Dalai Lama's chair, whispering a translation of Mme Rodwell's speech, which was in French.

When the book was published in Chinese, it was Tintin who needed rescuing. The Chinese authorities had renamed it Tintin in China's Tibet.

Comparison

When Herge and his publishers protested, the Chinese backed down. The book is now sold in China under its original name.

Some of the Tintin adventures are 77 years old

The Dalai Lama said Tibetan Buddhism was a heritage "not just for Tibetans: it can do good for billions of people in our modern world".

"The Tibetan state is located between two of the world's great powers, India and China. Good relations between these powers are crucial for world peace. Tibet has an important role to play," he said.

And he urged his supporters not to regard the Chinese as their enemies.

Archbishop Tutu drew an explicit comparison between the anti-apartheid movement and the campaign for Tibetan autonomy from China.

"We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side," he said.

Burma hopes

Outside, there were free copies of Tintin in Tibet available, but only in Esperanto. One of the monks scurried past, clutching his copy under one arm.

Archbishop Tutu dedicated his award to his fellow Nobel peace laureate, the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest from the military government.

"Can you beat it?" Archbishop Tutu asked incredulously. "The military junta are armed to the teeth and they are scared of a little woman. They run away from Rangoon and hide somewhere in the forest, because she is good, and they are scared."

But he looked forward to the day when he and the Dalai Lama would be able to attend her inauguration as Burma's president.

"Freedom," he concluded, "is unstoppable."
.....
Good Story.
I don't speak Esperanto and can't remember its ursprache. :p :p :p
.....

Peace
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Disturbing Awakening

This morning at 5 AM I awoke suddenly and completely.
A total state of awake awareness does not usually come upon me in this way. I tend to stay in the in between zone for as long as I possibly can.
My first conscious thought was' something terribly catastrophic has happened.
A nuclear bomb has gone off. '

I lay in bed for a while trying to calm myself. Had I been having a dream? I didn't think so.
We all the cats ok? Yes. Was I ok? Yes. Except for an itch I assessed myself as being quite ok.
The pool light was on, no creatures. All quiet out front. Nothing going on here, in this house.
I ambled around for a few minutes, concerned about my waking thought. I hadn't thought in terms of energy, you see. I thought in terms of physicality. It could have been a major energy shift that my brain was interpreting as nuclear holocaust. Clenches Jaw. Whatever it was, it was not the feeling of peace comfort and fulfillment that surrounds me on the Sabbath. I even noticed when I was lighting the candles last night that I didn't feel it as intensly as usual but thought no more about it.

This morning I checked the headlines, even though it is the Shabbat of Shavuot. I don't do news on Shabbat.
However, this is something I needed to try to validate.
I found something that might correlate.

Twelve held in Canada terror raid
Twelve men have been arrested in Toronto on terror charges, Canadian police have confirmed. They are also holding five youths.
Police said the men were planning to commit a series of al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist attacks in southern Ontario.
They had obtained components used in bomb-making, including three tonnes of ammonium nitrate.
Officials said the group "posed a real and serious threat. It had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks."
Ammonium nitrate is a commonly-used fertiliser.
"To put it in context, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people was completed with only one ton of ammonium nitrate," said Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) assistant commissioner Mike McDonnell.
"Our investigation and arrests prevented the assembly of any bombs and the attacks from being carried out," he added.
The RCMP and other government security agencies have been conducting a lengthy investigation involving 400 people.

I'm not going to go any further with it.
An energy shift occured in the quantum universe. That's about all I know.

and it didn't feel like
Shabbat Shalom
or
Peace

Ruth Bringing in the Sheaves.

Photo from www.chabad.org

Chag Sameach Shavuot

Today is day 49 of the Omer. 7 x 7. Seven times seven days.
I didn't miss a one, doing the count with consciousness and not just by blind rote.
B'H.
Shavuot is the celebration of the giving of Torah.
It is a Major Holiday.
The tradition is to read the Megillah Ruth- The Book of Ruth - and to stay up all night and study Torah.
The energy is that of the Hebrew Letters formed into words formed into consciousness with Torah.
In order for the or yasher and or chozer (see post Sivan-Gemini) to manifest in the physical realm the receiving of Torah must occur. It is like an energy re-enactment.
The energy must be received again and again. That's the quantum part. Torah has to be received. If there is no vessel to receive it, then the energy contained within her will zap back to or yasher. And of course, it is all about the feminine energy. The masculine cannot become manifest without the feminine. The Book of Ruth is read. Seven times seven plus one.
Fifty gates of Binah. The Waters of Life Flow from Binah.
'Tis all About Binah.

This morning I saw a mini rainbow in a little cloud. My next door neighbor Asha witnessed it with me. The cloud shone pink, then a green part to the right of the pink part became visible. Then the pink changed to orange and yellow, and the green changed to blue and violet, and then the violet disappeared. I figure we were the only two beings on the planet witnessing this particular phenomonon at that particular time. Fastinatingly amazing.
Rabbi Shimon says in the Zohar that whoever sees a rainbow in the sky must recite the blessing 'Blessed be he who remembers the convenant'. I said the blessing, then sang
'God gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
No More Water But Fire Next Time
Pharoah's army got drownd ed
O Mary don't you weep etc {Springsteen}'

Yup. In my nightgown. In front of the house. Very quiet street. Nobody noticed.

.....
Torah is fire. Black Fire (the letters) on White Fire ( the scroll).
We've been prepped to receive since Pesach. I'll do my part because I do believe that Torah is alive. I'm ready to receive Her energy again. I do dig the time travel part of it. I believe that we are converging upon the singularity. The parallel universes, the parallel dimensions, the convergence of the continuum onto itself is upon us. I keep zapping back and forth, and so do the cats. The same affect is occurring with people I speak to. They always say, Mercury must be in retrograde. Funny, isn't it.
Taking the religion out of it is difficult. You need to keep to the order of the ritual because it exists, but the ritual isn't what you want to connect to.
Here is the order of the ritual from Chabad :

The Talmud relates that when G-d came to give the Torah to the People of Israel in the early morning of Sivan 6 He found them sleeping.
(the Chassidic masters explain that this was an attempt to connect to their subconscious, transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom).
To rectify this lapse, we spend the entire first night of Shavuot (which begins at nightfall tonight) studying Torah.
The traditional Tikkun Leil Shavout ("Rectification for Shavuot Night") study program includes the opening and closing verses of each book of the Written Torah (Tanach),
the entire Book of Ruth
the opening and closing sections of each tractate of the Talmud,
of the 613 mitzvot,
and selected readings from the Zohar and other Kabbalistic works.

I don't have all that. And I don't have a Torah Scroll either.
The energy exists in the continuum which is not time, but constant manifestation of creation. The sentence 'the masters explain that finding them sleeping was an attempt to connect to their subconscious transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom' kind of says it all for me. The religious tell you to stay up all night. But methinks you need to be in that state that is called sleep so that your own supernal ness can receive the energy without brain fy. I do think that. They tend to twist things to their own end, don't they. They being those who rule over the rules and say that you have to do it their way. When you are in a state of transcendent sleep, your soul connects with the Divine. On one hand, the kabbalistic sages teach that during sleep the soul ascends to Gan Eden to be refreshed by connection to Hashem, and on the other hand, they teach that sleep is one sixtieth of death. Paradox. I'm going with my instincts on this one. Study AND sleep. HA!!!
Torah is feminine. Women are Torah. I'm going to open myself up to receive the energy which is being given this eve. Literally it is the festival of the first fruits of the harvest. Celebrate the first fruits. That's always a good thing to do.
Rabbi G says :
"And the whole people saw the voices and the torches and the shofar blast and the smoking mountain" (Exodus 20:15). In Kabbalah we are taught that the four levels of the peoples' experience :
seeing the voices
the torches
the shofar blast
the smoking mountain
correspond to the consummate experience of the four components of the four letts of G-d's Name : chochmah, binah, tiferet, malchut......
When we stay up on Shavuot night we are all able, each and every one of us on his or her own level, to re-experience the giving of the Torah at Sinai.
{yeah - we get to time travel}
The mystery of the Ineffable Name becomes engraved on the essence of our souls. In all faces of our lives we become able to experience the absolute unity, the return of our finite consciousness to Infinite Light....."
Rabbi G manages to pull the quantum aspects and the religious aspects together.
I remember this, but I can't find the source. Sounds like the Ari.
Whoever completes the count and participates in Shavuot is blessed to attend the mating of the Nukva and Binah as hand maidens to the Bride and Groom.

May we all be blessed by the Light of the Torah and may the spark that ignites our love compassion and sense of peace and unity become fully aglow as we receive this gift from the Soul of the Universe B'H.
It is also taught that Shavuot is the holiday of immortality. By knowing Torah, you become one with her, thereby accessing the immortality of your soul. Certain genres of kabbalah say that when you stay up all night on Shavuot you are made immortal until Rosh Hashana, i.e. you cannot die for that period of time. I don't have any other data to back it up except that I know it is taught.
Thin line between religion and spirituality.

I'm going to do Megillah Ruth with my friend Rut' in Minneapolis over the phone. We have the English and Hebrew links.

I think I would like to be in the state of inbetween ness rather than forcing myself to stay awake all night. I have done that twice. One experience was wonderful, the other horrid.
When the 50th gate of Binah is open it is not easy on the physical body. Time travelling is fun. It will happen anyway.
I like the celebration of the energy.

Candelighting 8:00 PM

Chag Sameach

{Happy Birthday Batsheva Bloch :*}