Merging

Toooooooo
much craziness going on.
That's all I have to say.
Blogging has been leaving a bitter taste in my mouth lately.
For whatever reason.

Right now the mowing man is here.
All he does is mow.
All my bushes and palms and especially the split leaf phils are totally overgrown. But all the mowers do is mow. That's strange to me, because back in the Garden State, my gardener took pride in his work, and wanted everything to look nice. Here in Fla, they don't care what it looks like, they just mow. That's the way it is. This is my 3rd mower man since I've been here. The first two I used to speak to. This one I hide from. I just leave him phone messages and he doesn't answer me. They're all the same. Too much sun on their crown chakras, bless them. And what is even stranger is that everybody has a different mower man. A song just played through my brain - Jim Morrision - people are strange when you're a stranger.

Doors - People Are Strange Lyrics
People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange.

Some songs never leave, huh. One thing I'm doing is combining my blogs. I used to have a separate blog when I incorporated song lyrics and such into my musings.
I'm trying to integrate my personalities.

Wow. Jim Morrison. He's been dead longer than he was alive. Mind blowing.
Speaking of which
My Main Song Man, Mr. Springsteen, responded eloquently to bad press. He's so eloquent.
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/site.html

"I hesitate to use this website for anything personal believing it should remain a place where fans of my music can come free of the distractions that occasionally arise with the rest of my job. However, due to the unfounded and ugly rumors that have appeared in the papers over the last few days, I felt they shouldn’t pass without comment. Patti and I have been together for 18 years- the best 18 years of my life. We have built a beautiful family we love and want to protect and our commitment to one another remains as strong as the day we were married. "

.....

Spaceweather.com told me what I've been seeing in the night sky. I can see this really clearly from Fla. Unfortuantely I can't afford the digital telescopic camera (they had one for $699.00 in CostCo) so I won't be able to get pics.
JUPITER & ZUBENELGENUBI: When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look southwest. The first thing you'll notice is Jupiter and the crescent Moon side-by-side--very pretty. Now look more carefully at Jupiter. See the dim star right beside it? That's Zubenelgenubi. Keep an eye on Zubenelgenubi during the nights ahead. It's making a beeline for Jupiter. The star and the planet are converging for a super-close encounter on Sept. 12th. [sky map]

Zubenelgenubi. Cool.

I'm trying to learn from the cats and enjoy life and myself.
I worry too much.
Everything is fine.

There's a hurricane named Ernesto out there. The cones of possibility change from report to report. All we know now is that Ernesto is now over open water. They're expecting him to do something to the East Coast and not go into the Gulf.

Peace

Shavuoah Tov

Pheww. I didn't get the gist of this week's Torah portion of Shoftim beyond the literal.
Couldn't really get what the Ari was saying.'
Here is the link I use for the Ari -
http://www.kabbalaonline.org/weeklytorah/pArchive_hp.asp
Lots of judgement and wickedness.

Be careful not to get caught up in 'point' vision, i.e. the inability to see the big picture when you meditate upon the yud.
yud vav dalet
20.
The first letter of the tetragrammaton.
High Energy.

It seems that Israel isn't backing down.
Fighting for survival.

There was an interesting piece of data in one of the Ari's discourses on Shoftim (from the above link).
" G-d Answered them (the angels):"Is there any peace in the world, then? Since there is no peace, there is nothing".
"Itis stated in the Mishna that peace is the vessel for all blessing, meaning that without peace there is no point in G-d bestowing His blessing on the world inasmuch as there is no vessel to contain it, it will just dissipate".
I get that part.
When I give the Hebrew letters and the explanations, it is based on the kabbalistic teachings that the Hebrew letters are vessels for light and energy. Light needs a vessel. So it is geometric that if there is no peace, which is its own vessel, there will be no blessing. This quantumly extends to the theorum that therefore the vessel of peace much be created.
A total paradox. especially since this portion is filled with judgement and punishments. Sometimes I just don't get it. I do dig the vessel parts.
There's also a lot about Da'at in the teachings. Da'at is my personal favourite sephirot. Usually I spin way out with da'at, but I didn't get it today.

Let's see what newness the week brings.
I will be doing Psalm 27 every morning. Why not?

Shavuoah Tov.

The letter yud - letter for the month of Elul

The letter Reish - letter for the planet Mercury

The letter tet - the inward swing is the yud

The Month of Elul - Virgo

Today is 1 Elul 5766.

Elul - Virgo is the 6th month of the Hebrew calendar. Tishrei - Libra - the month with all the High Holy Days - The Days of Awe - is the 7th month.
Elul, spelled aleph lamed vav lamed and is an anacronym for
Ani l'dodi v'dodi li - I am my beloved and my beloved is mine from Song of Songs.
In Judaism it is a month of repentance and teshuva, a cleansing preparation for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kipper.

Prayers called 'selichot' - prayers for forgiveness - are added for the 30 day period of Elul as are- the sounding of the shofar and Psalm 27. (I'll post the Psalm as a comment),
This is just for the men - they need to prepare their vessels.
The Schechinah is no longer in exile. She's revealed , and with that comes the essence of the energy of the divine feminine.

Virgos are known to be detail oriented.

The esoteric explanation of the energy of Elul is in the letter yud - the letter for the month.
Yud is the smallest letter of the hebrew aleph bet, gematria 10, the first letter of the tetragrammaton. During Elul we are given the opportuinty to connect to the tip of the yud.
What is the tip of the yud? It is the smallest tiniest point - the point from which all-nes emerged, the point of access.
If we look at the letter tet, the letter for the month of Av, we can see that it is the yud which is pointed to the inner.
The gematria is 10.

The yud is our entry to the initial point of manifestation through which the infinite and the finite exist simultaneously.
Rabbi G says :
"All created form begins with an essential point of energy and lifeforce, the point of the letter yud. "



The sign for the month of Elul is Virgo, the Virgin - betulah in hebrew -, the sense is action and the organ is the left hand.
The ruling planet is Mercury, letter reish. Mercury is also the planet for Sivan, Gemini.


Speaking of planets, Pluto is making waves. The scientists are re-defining what a planet is.

IAU Resolution:Definition of a Planet in the Solar System
Contemporary observations are changing our understanding of planetary systems, and it is important that our nomenclature for objects reflect our current understanding. This applies, in particular, to the designation 'planets'. The word 'planet' originally described 'wanderers' that were known only as moving lights in the sky.
Recent discoveries lead us to create a new definition, which we can make using currently available scientific information.

RESOLUTION 5A
The IAU therefore resolves that planets and other bodies in our Solar System be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:
(1) A planet1 is a celestial body that
(a) is in orbit around the Sun,
(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and
(c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
(2) A dwarf planet is a celestial body that
(a) is in orbit around the Sun,
(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape2,
(c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.
(3) All other objects3 orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar System Bodies".

1The eight planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

2An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories.

3These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.
IAU Resolution: Pluto
RESOLUTION 6AThe IAU further resolves:
Pluto is a dwarf planet by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.
RESOLUTION 6BThe following sentence is added to Resolution 6A:
This category is to be called "plutonian objects."

Pluto hasn't changed, only the definition has changed. As more information about what exist comes in, the definitations and classifications also have to change. What has been concealed is now being revealed.

My friend Esther in NYC had a very interesting kabbalistic explanation of why Pluto was out of the planet category.
The reclassification of Pluto is an energy phenomonon, a casting aside of all the negative energy connotations associated with Pluto.
The regenerative cycle is in play. Saying that Pluto is no longer a planet is saying that it is now something else. A veil is removed to let the regenerative light cycle take hold, giving us a collective consciousness in which we can live without fear of decay. We have the capability. By removing the veil we are able to see the collective consciousness. That is to say that Pluto and consciousness are each going their separate ways. Fascinating.

So actually Pluto being demoted as a planet and being reclassified as something else is a reflection of a universal energy phenomonon of revelation and cosmic regeneration.
Whatever category Pluto is being put into, it is still a part of the solar system.

This week's Torah portion is Shoftim.

Candlelighting 7:37, minus 8.

Happy Elul

Shabbat Shalom

PLUTO
Named after underworld god
Average of 5.9bn km to Sun
Orbits Sun every 248 years
Diameter of 2,360km
Has at least three moons
Rotates every 6.8 days
Gravity about 6% of Earth's
Surface temperature -233C
Nasa probe visits in 2015

End of Sunspot 904 Pics

BIRD OF PREY: "Look at the filaments around sunspot 904! It reminded me of a Klingon Bird of Prey," says Cameran Ashraf of Claremont, California, who took this picture yesterday:


One effect I've noticed from the Electro Magnetic Storm from Sunspot 904 is that batteries are draining quickly.
Has anybody else noticed it?

Unfortunately for photographers (and fans of Star Trek) sunspot 904 is approaching the sun's western limb. On Monday it will go over the edge and disappear from view. Catch it while you can!
more images: from Gary Palmer of Los Angeles, CA; from Eric Roel of Valle de Bravo, Mèxico; from Ingmar Glass of München/Weißenfeld Germany; from Didier Favre of Brétigny sur Orge,
France.

Interesting that the sunspot is disappearing from view as Av is leaving and we're entering Elul.
Quantumly Interesting.

On August 16th, watchful photographer Rogerio Marcon of Sao Paulo, Brazil, caught sunspot 904 in mid-eruption

This is the same blast that propelled the incoming CME toward Earth. Amazingly, many other observers caught it, too. Click on the links below.
More images: from Douglas McLean and Jack Newton of Osoyoos, British Columbia; from Gary Palmer of Los Angeles, California; from John Stetson of Falmouth, Maine; from Günter Kleinschuster of Feldbach, Austria.

No going back. Forward motion. The sunspot ejection of coronal thermonuclear reaction is a powerful energy phenomonon. Wtch for the quantum effects - however miniscule they may seem - because this is the quintessential essence of the reality of the unseen.

Sunspot 904 Erupts

A coronal mass ejection (CME, movie) is heading toward Earth and could spark a geomagnetic storm when it arrives on August 18th or 19th. The cloud was hurled into space yesterday by a C3-class explosion in the magnetic field of sunspot 904. Sky watchers, prepare for auroras.

From spaceweather.com

This is just a mini flare - they still expect an M-class, but as we've seen by following Sunspot 904, the unexpected is what is manifesting.

Same with life. And I'm certainly not idol worshiping the sun. I'm looking at it as a reflection of macrocosm to microcosm. The pictures and the astromonical accounts only deal with what can be seen and measured. We know that there is more than that. This weeks Torah portion is Re'eh - 'to see'. Re'eh is the portion that is read before Rosh Chodesh Elul. Ya gotta love it. Once again it is necessary to ignite that inner flame in order to be able to perceive that which is, yet cannot be seen.
Most people have become intolerably egocentric. Not only do they not consider the possibility of a bigger picture, or being part of a bigger picture, but, as the global condition becomes more unstable they turn more towards this egocentric view of the universe.
What is visible is not all that there is. I'm glad for what is visible - the pictures are unbelievably fantastic. Bless these people who have the digital astronomical photgraphy equipment. They're great. Love 'em. Makes me want to paint it.

Quantum physics has progressed from the particle theory, to wave to string to super-string. They've defined 10 dimensions. They're still missing the 11th, which is Da'at, the concealed sephirot. Quantum theory teaches us that the vibrations from the cause are infinite - the ripple effect. Everything vibrates in the quantum universe, which in the unseen. The micrososm. The tiniest of the tiniest of the tiniest.

Don't think that each and every one of us, that each and every cell in our individual bodies, that each and every molecule of H2O, that computers and television sets and light bulbs, do not feel the effects of Sunspot 904. We do. I have an ceiling fan in the family room that is very sensitive to Electro-magnetic energy shifts. It has been going on and off, on and off again lately. I just get pissed. It has been hot. What's up with you estupido fan. Ah ha. Then the unseen hit me. OPh right. The Sunspot.
People keep on complaining that their puters are acting up and the net is slow. Uh huh. I inject Sunspot 904 into the conversation. We're all be affected, I say. There's a pause in the conversation, then their "I" story continues. "I don't know what's the matter with me. blah blah blah."
Why is everybody so afraid to admit the unseen? It is a miraculous wonder.

The other morning when Merlin, my tiger tabby, knocked over everything on my computer desk, and I mean everything, I had to clean up all my pieces of paper upon which I scribble my musings. I came upon notes for an old post on esotericalspiritualconscious blog about the colour green, and how humans perceive colour. Colour is wavelengths. This is how it goes with wavelengths. Green's visable wavelength is 510 nm. Grass appears green because all other visible spectrum colours are absorbed, leaveing the green wavelength reflected. We're seeing the reflection, not the absorption. The short and long wave cones in the eye can see more gradients of the colour green than any other colour.
What we see is dependant upon our experiences. If somebody had never seen the colour green before, and they saw it for the first time, their visual cortex could not attach any meaning to it.

What ever the situation, itsn't it all just a striving for love and comfort - Menachem Av?
http://hmmmquantummusings.blogspot.com/2006/07/month-of-menachem-av-leo.html
To be loved for what you are.
Everybody is seeking that. Politics shows how easily the ego is corrupted. In the Middle East crisis, the manifestation of the effect backfired. Now Mr. Hezbollah has emerged as a strong powerful and rich leader. I don't think that's what the political manipulators had in mind, but then again, maybe yes.

Everything vibrate. Everything resonates.
It's all about the vessel.
That's the secret of the letter tet. The inner of the Tet is the eternal flame.
Ha.

I'm obsessing with seeds. I need to have an obession. I admit it. Back in Jersey I grew herbs from seed. Here in Florida, I figured I could grow outside. Wrong. I can't grown anything outside the screens because it is just too buggy for me. Inside the screened pool area, herbs grow but they get buggy pretty quickly. Florida also has about a trillion different kinds of mold. I found my seed packet, and decided to pot them inside. I love it. I look at them and talk to them and blow on them. A fine obsession. Then you get little seedlings.

We're all still seedlings. We go through our phases of existence in the illusion of time just like Sunspot 904. And so as it goes, we take our places amongs the causes and effects.

I sound like an existential esotericist with a sub specialty in kabbalah LOL.

Peace

12 Planet Solar System

Note the fragments on the left in this image from Philippe Vercoutter of Ypres, Belgium:
A few days ago these fragments were a single coherent spot almost as wide as the planet Neptune. Now they seem bent on complete disintegration. Will the big spot on the right follow suit? Stay tuned.
more images: from Rogerio Marcon of São Paulo, Brazil; from Gary Palmer of Los Angeles, California; from Pete Lawrence of Selsey, UK; from Sylvain Weiller of St Rémy les Chevreuse, France.
http://spaceweather.com/

Half of Sunspot 904 is going away. This was not expected. Ha. What do they know what to expect anyway?

They're talking about adding 3 planets to our ' solar system' .

"The asteroid Ceres, which is round, would be recast as a dwarf planet in the new scheme.
Pluto would remain a planet, and its moon Charon would be reclassified as a planet. Both would be called "plutons," however, to distinguish them from the eight "classical" planets.
A far-out Pluto-sized object known as 2003 UB313, currently nicknamed Xena, would also be called a pluton."

That would make it Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon, Xena. Doesn't interfere with Earth being 3rd from the Sun. Very Sci Fi.
The Kabbalists have always calculated Charon.

Man's visual perception is expanding, therefore he feels the universe must expand with it, cause man in general thinks very highly of himself. From the perspective of a sunspot, human beings seem insignificant.
I muse because the need exists in me to see the bigger picture. I do not see myself as the center of the universe, although we are all centers of our own universes.
Defining what has not before been defined is part of the evolution of consciousness.
We'd best beware how that consciousness evolves.
In the Middle East Crisis, Hezbollah has emerged as a leader. Darkly disturbing.
Maybe this will be the birth of the so-called 'Anti Christ' and we can get that over with.
Or not.

I want to know where President Clinton is. That's what I want to know. Silent in this case where words need to be spoken. Something's up with that.

It ain't over 'til it's over. And ya gotta keep on keepin on.

I'm putting the desire out there that I want to teach again. This is the my title - Quantum Muse - The Consciousness of Spirituality - . Three hour lecture for $50.00. Emphasis on what I blog. Energy. The Interconnectedness of All Things. I guess I'll have to get a website.

In the meantime.
History repeats itself. Oy.

"The two giant spots look like whirlpools of gasoline," says photographer Larry Alvarez of Flower Mound, Texas. He took this picture on August 13th:

And what does a "crackle" look like? Gary Palmer caught one in a sequence of images he calls "Birth of a Filament." Note the dark and ragged cloud, in flight, propelled outward by some minor explosion in the heart of the spot. The big explosions are yet to come.

more images: from Pete Lawrence of Selsey, UK; from Harald Paleske of Langendorf, Germany; from P-M Hedén of Vallentuna, Sweden; from Dennis Simmons of Brisbane, Australia

Sunspot 904 Goes Bi Polar

Nobody knows what sunspot 904 is going to do except sunspot 904.
Ain't it a blip.

I'm in bad mood. Blah feh uch.
We're gonna have storms today. That's good. We need the rain.
This Sunspot 904 is fabulously fascinating. Everything is in the grasp of its effect. I love it even if part of the effect is me in a bad mood. I'm being bi-polar. Duh uh.

I've never quite gotten the hang of Mondays.

Sunspot 904 Update:
SUNSPOT 904: There's a giant magnet on the sun today: Bipolar sunspot 904. Sunspots are made of pure magnetism. The two ragged components of sunspot 904 are actually magnetic poles, north (N) on the left and south (S) on the right: (continued below)

Solar flares occur when opposite magnetic polarities clash together. Perhaps sunspot 904 has been so quiet lately because its poles are far apart. Almost 100,000 kilometers separate N from S. If the two ends of this sunspot group should begin to converge... stay tuned for fireworks.
more images: from Rogerio Marcon of São Paulo, Brazil; from Mike Salway of Central Coast, NSW, Australia; from Andreas Murner of Lake Chiemsee, Germany; from Robert Arnold on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

The Middle East Conflict is under cease fire.

Ariel Sharon's condition is worsening.

Stay tuned for updates.

The closer the lies mirror a distorted truth, the more power they have.
The players know the game.

Sunspot 904 Watch

SUNSPOT 904: Every time you look, it's less familiar. Sunspot 904 is growing and changing shape at a remarkable rate. At the moment it resembles a dumbbell with planet-sized weights: movie. What's next?

Sunspot pics:

more images: from Greg Piepol of Rockville, Maryland; from Dennis Simmons of Brisbane, Australia; from P-M Hedén of Vallentuna, Sweden; from Peter Paice of Belfast, Northern Ireland; from Steve Riegel of Desenzano del Garda, Italy

Sunspots are the preamble to solar flares. An M-class flare is expected.

Two Old Cliches :

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You can please some of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.

Hum.

Yesterday I decided to try to tap into the energy of the sunspot. I had enough sense to do it in the pool, while I was surrounded by water. Sometimes I push myself too far. Although, is it ever too far? I just probed gently. Describing it is impossible. But it comes pretty close to absolute power. I usually don't blog on the Sabbath, but I'm too hyped up today.

Shabbat Shalom

Mystify Me

The day after, when the pieces of data involving the Air Terror Threat in Britain yesterday come together, it appears that the British Secret Service (of James Bond Fame) stymied a plot involving the use of liquid explosives concealed in water bottles. Point is, the alleged liquid substances never made it anywhere near the aircrafts because the plot was thwarted.

"LONDON, Aug. 10 — The British authorities said Thursday that they had thwarted an advanced terrorist plot to blow up airplanes flying from Britain to the United States using liquid explosives that would have escaped airport security." The New York Times

"It is thought that the suspects were planning to blow up several planes by using liquid explosives carried in soft-drink bottles, and detonators disguised as electronic equipment. "BBC

"Authorities in Britain on Thursday announced the arrests of 24 people in connection with a plot to down commercial jetliners with explosives. While the investigation continues, the government officials say the primary players are now in custody. The original information about the plan came from the Muslim community in Britain, according to a British intelligence official. The alleged plot to smuggle liquid explosives onto planes has led to drastic new security measures at airports around the world. " CNN International

"LONDON — Two dozen suspects arrested by British police Thursday were in the final stages of a plan to detonate liquid explosives on as many as 10 U.S.-bound airliners in what appeared to be the most ambitious terrorist plot since the Sept. 11 attacks, authorities said.Officials could not say when the attacks were to be carried out but said the suspects, mainly British nationals of Pakistani descent, had acquired most of the materials to assemble explosives that could have killed hundreds of passengers as their planes crossed the Atlantic from British airports." LA Times

What do these new reports tell us? They say that the alleged concealed liquid explosive substance never made it to the airports. The Threat Was Thwarted.
On the other hand, hundred of thousands of people had to throw away all their liquids.
Strange.
The Airport Security people (ah -hem) had no idea what was going on.
I have this complunction to put myself into a situation so that I can more clearly see. I also tend to wax poetic.
I've flown out of Heathrow. There's a Harrod's in the airport. All the perfumes are from France. I always stock up on bath and shower gels, and in Britain they have all this fabulous stuff made from oil of evening primrose. Yummy. I would have shopped, and would have had everything in my carryon. Because that's why people have their toilitries in their carryons. Cause one leakage into your luggage teaches you that. I would have freaked. I'm not putting physical possessions ahead of human lives. But just imagine, barrels and barrels of bottled water thrown away. Toothpast and mouthwash, shampoo and hair gel. Shaving cream and deodorant. Mountains of waste. Expensive waste. Waste that really isn't waste. Mystify Me.
Quantumly, the cause and effect don't match.
Where is the line drawn between a World of Terror and Personal Freedoms? We are not All Terrorists.
As an American, I see the pattern of civil liberties being taken away, piece by piece.
They're going to force this Age of Terror down everybody's throats.
It also took the media away from the Middle East for a day or two.
See?
Let's make an analogy to the sunspot - Sunspot 904, which became visible yesterday, August 10, 16 Menachem Av. Before a sunspot becomes visible, there are stages. Constant stages, or action and reaction, cause and effect. The sunspot is growing quickly. The Sun is our Star. We vibrate to its frequencies. We vibrate to the frequencies of the water. We vibrate to the frequencies of the air. We vibrate to the frequencies of the earth. And man alive do we love to vibrate to the frequencies of fire. We're some heavy duty vibrating beings.

"BIG SUNSPOT: The rapid growth of sunspot group 904 continues: movie. From end to end, it stretches almost 100,000 kilometers. This morning, Dennis Simmons of Brisbane, Australia, photographed the behemoth.
When sunspots grow very quickly, their magnetic fields can become unstable and explode. Sunspot 904 harbors energy for M-class eruptions and poses a gathering threat for X-flares. This sunspot bears watching. " from http://spaceweather.com/. {Click on the links. The pics are amazing. }

Effect cause effect cause effect cause effect cause............1000x 1000x.

The more the consciousness of the masses feeds into the energy of terror, the stronger that energy becomes, just like the reaction which is feeding the sunspot.
We do have a choice. Don't believe everything you read or see or hear. The effect is being twisted. We do have a choice.

I think of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A trustworthy being. What is he up to?
DALAI LAMA TO BLESS LARGEST BUDDHIST MONUMENT IN THE UNITED STATESCOLORADO – SEPTEMBER 17, 2006VISUALLY STUNNING AND HISTORIC EVENT
In an event of historic and religious significance, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will bless the largest Buddhist monument in the United States on Sunday morning, September 17 at the Shambhala Mountain Center in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Arriving in a convoy of helicopters from Denver, the Dalai Lama will be greeted by over 2,000 Buddhist practitioners. He will then proceed to The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, one of the most noteworthy examples of Buddhist sacred architecture in the world and the largest monument dedicated to peace in North America.
In a two-hour event, from 10:00 am – Noon, the Dalai Lama will perform a traditional Tibetan blessing of the Stupa, speak to the assembly on the importance of compassion in today’s world, and receive the first Living Peace Award. The event is hosted by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, head of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, and author of national best-sellers Turning the Mind into an Ally and Ruling Your World. In addition, Queen Noor of Jordan and Rabbi Irwin Kula of the National Jewish Center for Leadership and Learning will participate in a panel discussion with the Dalai Lama and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche on the role of compassion in global leadership.

Tibet: Dalai Lama Committed to Dialogue Process despite Chinese Tirade
2006-08-08
On 7 August 2006, in an interview published in the Indian Express, the Dalai Lama said that he is committed to reaching on a solution to the Tibetan issue based on his Middle Way Approach and that he is not disturbed by the latest Chinese tirade against him
The Dalai Lama has said that he is committed to reaching on a solution to the Tibetan issue based on his Middle Way Approach and that he is not disturbed by the latest Chinese tirade against him.

Dalai Lama Concepts Inspire Works of 3 Jewish Artists
by Morris Newman, Contributing Writer
To paraphrase an old rye bread ad, you don't have to be Buddhist to admire his holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, or at least that's so in the case of at least three Jewish artists, who lend their artistic voices to "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama," an exhibition currently at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
As the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama has a complex role. He is the unofficial leader of world Buddhism. Some people revere him as a living Buddha (not necessarily an act of avodah zara or idolatry, one might argue, because devotees describe "Buddha nature" as a universal attribute of all people). For his part, the Dalai Lama describes himself simply as a Buddhist monk.

In another vein, I've stopped sifting stardust. Kinda boring. Oh well. I check in to see if anybody else verified my particle tracks.

This week's Torah Portion is Ekev - "If Only.". There is a lot of gemtria in play. The 7 species of Eretz Israel are defined. The 7 species correspond to the sephirot.

Candellighting 7:51, minus 6.

Shabbat Shalom

Air Terror Threat - No Liquids - Sunspot

An Air Terror threat in the UK has lead to the banning of any liquids in carry on luggage except for baby formula.
Well
That just plain means that no travelling for this cookie.
Oy.
They would have gotten me good. I carry a salt shaker, Aura and Chakra Cleansing Spray at 35 bucks a pop, essential oil amonst other goodies in my handbag alone.
I ain't flying.

There's also a Giant Sunspot.
http://spaceweather.com/
SUNSPOT 904: A large and beautiful new sunspot is emerging from the sun's eastern limb: image. So far it poses no threat for Earth-directed solar flares, but this could change. The spot is growing fast and turning toward Earth. Stay tuned for updates.
BRIGHT PERSEIDS: With the Moon glaring in the background, this weekend's Perseid meteor shower is supposed to be a dud. But maybe it won't be so bad after all. All week long, observers have been seeing some bright, early Perseids, such as one streaking over El Paso, Texas, on August 9th.

New Sunspot - Menachem Av - The Sun -
Can the connectedness be sensed?

Happy Love Day

The Dancing Maidens of Jerusalem

pic from chabad.org

Today is 15 Menachem Av, a day of balance and love in the energy consciousness of the universe. The Moon(feminine, minus pole) is Full in the month ruled by the Sun (masculine, plus pole). The Schechinah is fully manifest. The Full Adornment of the Feminine Energy in completion with the masculine. I can really relate to the above picture. I probably have done it in many lifetimes. The Feminine is always alluded to metaphorically as 'adorned' when she is illuminating the masculine pole.

Kabbalah teaches that on this day resonance occurs with the piece of the broken vessel that is your soul mate .

It is the love that is within, the inner love, that is brought forth on this day. The inner dimension of the letter tet, the inner love which carries all human species on all worlds into the domain of the essence of .........

Happy Love Day

The state of affairs of the world has me worried and perturbed. I'll just put that aside.

No matter

How you look at it

it is all a matter

of

seeking

validation

...

how

why and if

we

fit

into

a

grander

scheme of things?

Love.

4:00PM EDT

At this moment in time Israel has launched a massive ground offensive on their Northern Border with Lebanon. We cannot allow ourselves to become complacent about this conflict. It is an invasive phenomonon. Even though I forewarned myself before hand not to freak out, I did when I paid 3.15 for gas this morning. I had to pray to Madre Maria, Madre de Dios. I always pray to Madre Maria en espanol. No sabe porque. There are certain situations that just bring that prayer forth from me, and buying gas this morning was one of those moments. Every was just totally apathetic and complacent about it, and there I was, the Jew from Jersey freaking out at the 7 Eleven in Orlando. Oy. And when one gets down to the nitty gritty of the energy, it is the feminine that one cries out to. All Religion Aside. Concidentally (ah-hem), this morning I got an email from my Chji Quong friend Rebecca with a full moon Quan Yin meditation. All spiritualitally esoteric modalities tie this full moon in particular to the manifestation of the feminine. We are all both masculine nd feminine. The inner battle that wages in which we seek balance or domination of one side over the other. All I know is that I will send inner love to Israel and the Conflict. Pacifist or not, I find that I must take a stand. War. The Battle. The Eternal Conflict. I cannot even think of what the future will bring.

The data just came in to me that today is the 61st anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. A very eloquent Japanese man, a survivor of the bombing, was speaking at the House of Representatives as part of a Peace Committee. He said the same things I say. Made me feel not so alone. They're worried about the current conflict becoming nuclear and beg Americans not to be so complacent.

In the Meantime. I'm gonna Dance in the Supernal Jerusalem adorning myself in the Schechinah and resonate with my soul mate.

Peace

Geomagnetic Storm Auroras

Pat Boomer, Near Red Deer, Alberta, CanadaAug. 08


Shawn Malone, Marquette, MichiganAug. 07

all images are copyrighted by the photographers.

"An unexpected solar wind stream sparked a magnetic storm and auroras.
Bright, colorful lights appeared over Canada, while "photographic auroras" descended as far south as Colorado. "
See pictures of the event at http://spaceweather.com.

Planemos, auroras, interstellar dust particles, blood, war and death all at the same time.

The planemo twins: Two peculiar planet-like worlds

Planemos

I've never heard of planemos before.

Can't sift. Site is frozen.

I will post the story from BBC news, even though I am not particularly happy with the way BBC News is reporting the Crisis in the Middle East. They're reporting it Anti-Israel.
No matter what the politics of this situation are, Israel is this tiny little space that has been fighting for its very existence since before it was even a state.
Fancy that would ya.
Benjamin Netanyahu (sp?) , former Israeli Prime Minister was live on Cable news this morning. I had to turn on the TV because at 5:30 AM I awoke with that horrible feeling of something terribly wrong. Mr. Netanyahu said that the West has historically been complacent to threats of any type of ethnic cleansing. He gave the example of Hitler, when nobody would believe that it was true. Of course, times have changed a lot in the area of technology, and now we can turn on the ol' TV and see the war. When asked what he thought of Bush and Condereecee's proposals to end the conflict, Netanyahu said I think that the president must be on dr.......
then the network said they lost satellite. Ha. I'll see if it is shown again later. I think it was Fox News Network. They're doing the best job of impartial reporting. Mr. Netanyahu was in London and he said that what was happening in Israel and Lebanon stastically was no different than the London Blitz. I think Pres. Clinton should have been there also. Where is he? Silent and exiled .

Back to Planemos.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5241774.stm

Strange 'twin' new worlds found
A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System.

A few dozen such objects have been identified in recent years but this is the first set of "twins".
Dubbed "planemos", they circle each other rather than orbiting a star.

Their existence challenges current theories about the formation of planets and stars, astronomers report in the journal Science.

"This is a truly remarkable pair of twins - each having only about 1% the mass of our Sun," said Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto, co-author of the Science paper.
"Its mere existence is a surprise, and its origin and fate a bit of a mystery."

'Double planet'

The pair belongs to what some astronomers believe is a new class of planet-like objects floating through space; so-called planetary mass objects, or "planemos", which are not bound to stars.
Now we're curious to find out whether such pairs are common or rare. The answer could shed light on how free-floating planetary-mass objects form says Valentin Ivanov.

They appear to have been forged from a contracting gas cloud, in a similar way to stars, but are much too cool to be true stars.

And while they have similar masses to many of the giant planets discovered beyond our Solar System (the larger weighs in at 14 times the mass of Jupiter and the other is about seven times more massive), they are not thought to be true planets either.

"We are resisting the temptation to call it a 'double planet' because this pair probably didn't form the way that planets in our Solar System did," said co-researcher Valentin Ivanov of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Santiago, Chile.

'Amazing diversity'

The two objects have similar spectra and colours, suggesting that they formed at the same time about a million years ago.

They are separated by about six times the distance between the Sun and Pluto, and can be found in the Ophiuchus star-forming region some 400 light years away. They go under the official name Oph 162225-240515, or Oph 1622 for short.

"Recent discoveries have revealed an amazing diversity of worlds out there," said Dr Jayawardhana. "Still, the Oph 1622 pair stands out as one of the most intriguing, if not peculiar."
His colleague, Dr Ivanov, said they were curious to find out whether such pairs are common or rare.
"The answer could shed light on how free-floating planetary-mass objects form," he added.
Oph 1622 was discovered using the ESO's New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile. Follow-up studies were conducted with the ESO's Very Large Telescope.

http://www.eso.org/

Planemos, heh.
Planemos and stardust.

If a leader doesn't emerge from the current Middle East crisis, the whole planet, ours, Earth, might very well be totally screwed.
Totally.
One of those ' friends' of mine told me that nobody reads blogs anymore because nobody is interested in people's personal thoughts.
Wrong attitude because
Everything Exists.

Light a Candle for Peace Every Day.
Think Peace.

Connecting with the Consciousness of Stardust

Stardust.
The stuff of which dreams are made.

There's a battle raging which has been doing so since the beginning of the concept we call time.
It just doesn't end. I'm speaking of the crisis with Israel and Lebanon.
Today, Sunday, was a bad day. The terminology is that the crisis is escalating.
Just synchronistically enough, yesterday's Torah portion, Va'etchanan, begins with Moses pleading(the meaning of the word va'etchanan is pleading with the sense of supplication)
to be allowed to enter the Promised Land.
Deuteronomy 3:23 - 7:11
At that time I pleaded with God, saying,
Va'etchanan el-Adonay ba'et hahi lemor.
Please let me cross [the Jordan]. Let me see the good land across the Jordan, the good mountain and the Lebanon.
Ebrah-na ve'er'eh et-ha'arets hatovah asher be'ever haYarden hahar hatov hazeh vehaLevanon.

Yup. The Battle Has Been Raging since the Beginning. What is the End?

.....

Back to stardust sifting.
What is stardust?
A fading sun in its life cycle will first go into the stage call a red giant, in which it sheds most of its mass. Then it will fade into a white dwart, which is small and dense. The larger the star, the more quickly (1000x faster) they go through their life phases. In these larger stars (15 x the sun of our sun), the star collapses in upon itself and produces an explosion called a Supernova. A supernova is an exploding star.
All the eloements which were once part of the star itself plus heavier elements formed by the supernova re blasted out into space. This is interstellar dust.
The Stardust Mission was devised to collect the interstellar dust.
"Stardust was launched on its mission to capture dust and debris surrounding a comet in 1999.
It swept up particles from Comet Wild 2 in January 2004, as it flew within 240km (149 miles) of the frozen body of ice and dust.
As part of its trip, the probe also captured a sprinkling of dust that would have originated in distant stars. It did this by extending a retractable device containing cells filled with aerogel, a porous substance designed to trap dust molecules."
"Aerogel is one of the strangest materials ever developed. It is a solid, yet is only a few times as dense as air. If you hold it in your hand, you can only barely feel its weight, and it looks bluish and ghostly – like solid smoke. While it looks blue, it casts an orange shadow. It does this for the same reason that the sky is blue and sunsets are red!
Aerogel has extremely bizarre properties. It is a solid, glassy nanofoam, yet weighs next to nothing. Aerogel has the almost magical property that it can capture particles moving at very high speeds (several miles per second or more) better than any other material. In some cases, particles can be captured in a nearly pristine state. Particles moving at these speeds vaporize if they hit any other material."
More on aerogel from the JPL Stardust website:
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/aerogel.html
One side of the collector was used for chasing the comet, the other for interstellar dust.

"A capsule containing dust from stars light years away landed in the Utah desert on Sunday.
The particles are buried in gel that was exposed to the interstellar dust stream during the probe's seven-year voyage around the Solar System.
Scientists need volunteers to sift through millions of pictures of the gel to locate the few dozen tiny grains.
The project, known as Stardust@home, has been set up by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. "No-one has ever had a contemporary interstellar dust particle in the lab, ever, to study," senior fellow Andrew Westphal told the BBC News website. "It is really a unique opportunity." "
"Volunteers will be able to access the images via a web-based "virtual microscope". To take part, they need a reasonably up-to-date computer with Netscape or Internet Explorer, patience and some spare time.
People who register will have to go through a web-based training session to see if they are suitable. Dr Westphal believes the untrained eye may be better at spotting what amounts to a cosmic needle in a haystack. "

Above quote from BBC newstories.

Stardust at Home and the University of Berkeley research project is what I am participating in as a volunteer.
We're doing interstellar dust particles. You need to look for the particle trail in the aerogel.
They look like mini sephirot. Because Berkeley is an educational institution, they feel the need to constantly test you to make sure that you're looking for the correct image. Unfortunately, these tests tend to make me not point out what might be an anomoly because then I'll get one wrong.
Oy. Testing. I see the necessity for it. They need to weed through the volunteers and see who is getting the hang of it.
What I see is a grey slide with little marks in it. You have to click trail, no trail or bad focus.
I'm looking at a VM of the aerogel collector. It is way way out.
I'm loving it
Definitely soul soothing.
Especially which the chaos on the planet.
I'm loving it.
So far I saw 19 particle tracks out of 450 real movies (as opposed to what they call Calibration Movies, which are the tests.)

"As well as the satisfaction of taking part in the space project, volunteers have another incentive - the chance to name any dust grains they find.
"There is a tradition in the interplanetary dust community that people name particles, usually those collected in the stratosphere by high flying aircraft," said Dr Westphal. "

I'm an esoteric interstellar dust sifting existential intellegensia volunteer researcher seeking solace in a crazy world.

Remember, everything IS interconnected.

Shavuoah Tov.

Peace

Sifting Stardust

I FINALLY got the Sifting Stardust announcement.

YIPEEE!!!!!

I have to go back through the data to remember.

In the meantime

Political propaganda is paramount.
I'm keeping track by watching the cable news networks. The reporters in the field are better because they aren't scripted when they're live.

There are no endings, only beginnings.
At least nobody is firing nukes, or if they are nobody is telling us.

I'll mention that I got no takes for my Peace and Hope Blog. Everybody is tooo involved in their own personal predicaments. We all have personal predicaments. I do too. Lots of them.
We're all in traumatic stress syndrome, whether we know it or knot. (:P)
In America, everybody is addicted to Reality TV. That makes what is shown less emotional, because everybody has seen it all before in some form or other.
I don't see things that way.

Put personal predicaments aside and participate in pushing the energy of Peace outwards.
Every day I light a Candle for Peace.

I found TET in Sefer Yetzirah last night.
{Sefer Yetzirah - The Book of Creation by Aryeh Kaplan}
"He made the letter TET king over hearing
And He bound a crown to it
And He combined one with another
And with them He formed
Leo in the Universe
Av in the Year
And the left kidney in the Soul
male and female.
.....
Back to STARDUST SIFTING

It is by invitation only, so I can't give the link.
But I can give some data.


On January 11, 2006, the Stardust spacecraft's sample return capsule parachuted gently onto the Utah desert. Nestled within the capsule were precious particles collected during Stardust’s dramatic encounter with comet Wild 2 in January of 2004.
But the Stardust return capsule carried with it something else, even rarer and no less precious: tiny particles of interstellar dust that originate in distant stars, lightyears away. They are the first such pristine particles ever collected in space, and scientists are eagerly waiting for their chance to “get their hands” on them.
Before they can study them, however, scientists will first need to find them. This, it turns out, will not be easy. Unlike the thousand of particles of varying sizes collected from the comet, scientists estimate that Stardust collected only around 40 interstellar dust particles. They are tiny—only about a micron (a millionth of a meter) in size! These few and miniscule particles are embedded in an aerogel collector 1,000 square centimeters in size. To make things worse, after almost seven years in space the collector plates are interspersed with flaws and cracks. All this makes the interstellar dust particles extremely difficult to locate.

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I have to study and take a test to participate.

I'm ready.

Stardust sifter signing off.

Peace