Viva Wyndham Dominicus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Megan’s friend, Daniella, invited the family to her wedding in the Dominican Republic,  at at an all inclusive resort, the Viva Wyndham Dominicus.  We’ve been to the country before, but on the northern coast, where Megan and Rob got to windsurf. This is our first time at a resort and in some ways, it’s like a cruise. All the food and drinks you want, plenty of free activitiess, shops, a self-contained  world. But you’re on land and the resort itself is huge. There are  more than  700 rooms, many of them very cool bungalows , everything connected  by a maze of walkways.

We changed bungalows our second day so we could be closer to where the wedding and dinners would be held,  At one point on the second day, I walked through this maze to the front office to get aa new room key and got lost on the way back to our new bungalow. I hasve as terrible sense of direction as it is and in this maze, couldn’t find our bungalow. & worse couldn’t remember the number for our new spot. Rob and Meg were out paddle boarding and didn’t have their cells with them, so I couldn’t text them. And this was when the synchronicity happened.

Out of the hundreds of guests here – few of them Americans – I spotted Loretta and Ashley, headed my way. They asked where I was going. I told them I was, uh, lost. Loretta whipped out her cell, where she’d jotted down our new bungalow number. I had failed to do that. I just knew our new bungalow was close to one of the restaurants – La Roca.

“1248,” Loretta said,

“Synchronicity!” I exclaimed.

And on I went, grateful for running into them.

My landmark pool in front of La Roca.

 

 

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Kat Hobson: P.I. (Paranormal Investigator)

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Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Kat Hobson has been the owner and host of Paranormal Experienced Radio since November 2014, and she has been the voice of Fate Mag Radio, the online voice of Fate Magazine since September 2018. She also co-founded American Noetic Science Research Studies with her research partner, Frank Lee. Kat is also an investigator with C.A.S.P.I.R. (Central Alabama Society for Paranormal Investigations and Research) in Pell City, Alabama. She has been featured on the Travel Channel’s Portals to Hell from the Old Paulding Jail, Coast to Coast AM Radio with George Noory, and has been a guest on many podcasts.

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Ah, Those Oscars

   

 

We watched the Oscars sporadically this evening. Delighted that Emma Stone won for Poor Things. Terrific and strange movie. She was great in it.

Megan and I went to Oppenheimer when I was visiting her in Orlando some months ago.  We walked out an hour into it. The movie seemed to start in the middle and I never identified with any of the characters. Yet, I loved Christopher Nolan’s Inception and Memento. But this? No way.

When Megan insisted we go see Barbie, I figured okay, but I honestly wasn’t enthused.  And yet, when the movie was finished, I felt it was one of the best movies I’d ever seen. It made more than $1.5 billion at the box office, so a lot of moviegoers agreed. But the only thing the movie won tonight was for best song. Greta Gerwig, who directed it, didn’t win a damn thing.

Oppenheimer is about war, nukes, a man’s world.

Barbie is about women and their interactions with people – both men and women. It doesn’t surprise me that Gerwig wasn’t nominated for anything. I look around at where American society is now in relation to women – their rights stripped from them by men on the supreme court, on the Alabama supreme court, by nominee trump, by Florida’s terrible governor DeSantis- and it both saddens  and enrages me that I had more rights growing up than my 34-year-old daughter has now.

And yet, Hollywood is referred to as liberal.

But  it looks like Hollywood is a huge mirror of American society as it is now.

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TMU Time Machine: Carol Day: Creative Earth Ensemble

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Join Trish and Rob in the TMU Time Machine as they revisit their February 2023 conversation with…

Carol Day is a visionary teacher, psychotherapist, artist, and director of Scotland’s Creative Earth Ensemble project. She trained with well-known visionaries, including shamanic teachers Sandra Ingerman, Franco Santoro, Stephen Mulhearn, and psychologist Marshall Rosenberg. She runs a private practice in systemic story therapy and is involved in projects centered on creating community and connecting people back to the land. Carol lives in Glasgow, Scotland, and is the author of Shamanic Dreaming. In the book, she explores how to access your creative potential to shape and hold a strong vision for yourself and others. Carol Day shares hands-on tools and step-by-step shamanic practices to become more visionary and connected to the world. She details practices to expand the senses, set intentions, and connect deeply with intuition and spirit helpers.

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San Martin De Porres

This synchronicity was sent by Margarita Goodhart, who lives in Ecuador. We met her and her husband Frank some years ago when we stayed at their hotel in Otavalo, one of the highlights of that trip.

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As a kid, Margarita was brought up by the Catholic church until she was 18. When she was 10 or 11, she was instructed to pick a saint.The idea here is that the saint intercedes for you with God. So she did her homework, reading up the lives of saints, and finally chose San Martin de Porresm, a black man who wasn’t allowed to become a priest.

According to Wikipedia, he was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregor XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He’s the patron saint of mixed race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, all those seeking racial harmony, and of animals. Among the many miracles attributed to him were bilocation, levitation, and an ability to communicate with animals.

So years ago, Margarita was in Lima, Peru, staying in an old section of the city where the church of Santo Domingo was. “I decided one day to go over there to the church, sit in the back for the rest of a Mass, and then got to speak with the Sacristan, one of the caretakers. He mentioned  that the remains of San Martin de Porres were  in the back chapel and would I like to see it?

Well, my heart stopped for a moment. This was a ‘connection, ‘  something meaningful. So yes, his remains were back there, ‘buried’ somewhere, not sure what they were, maybe a bone? Anyway, it was set up in the little ornate chapel like a ‘casket’ in a way with glass on the top.  I was able to be there and spend all the time that I wanted! I knew that I was ‘home’ whatever that was, as I lived in 5 different ‘homes’ (not) growing up! So I thought you would be interested in that!   I’m now 72 so you can imagine how long ago that was!

Well, I went full circle on that one.

Just look at the odds.A saint Margarita had picked when she was 10 or 11, an orphan of the Catholic church, just happened to be buried in a church  in a neighborhood in Lima where she was staying as an adult many years later. She felt as if she’d “come home.”

 

 

 

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A SYNCHRONICITY ABOUT COVERS

The similarity between these two covers is something our podcast producer, Jon Posey, brought up today (Feb 18) during our podcast  with Aeon Karris. The cover of her book, Synchronicity: Unlock Your Divine Destiny, is supposed to be the light within our souls . The cover for the new Pearl Jam album is supposed to depict the album’s title, Dark Matter.  Both feature an illuminated area in the center of darkness.

Jon is a huge Pearl Jam fan.Here’s his swag from a Memphis concert some years back.

He called later this evening to let us know how this synchronicity had played out. Jon joined a group called “The Ten Club,” an official Pearl Jam fan club. A week ago, he requested tickets through the club for the two shows in Philadelphia in September. He’ll find out if he got them in several days. He posted the podcast with Aeon and the covers to the fan club’s website.

“Hopefully, I earned a little karma today,” he said. “I love how Pearl Jam takes care of their fans, offering ticket deals like this.”

Stay tuned! We’ll let you know if Jon got his tickets!

And we’re going to have Aeon on the podcast again as she makes her way round the world following the guidance of synchronicity!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TMU podcast with Philip Merry

Author and synchronicity master Philip Merry is our guest. We love talking with this man!

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Science Fiction Writers See the Future

 

Science fiction writers have a long tradition of envisioning the future and its technology that later becomes scientific fact.

Take Jules Verne. In his 1870 novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, he imagined an underwater ship powered by electricity. American inventor Simon Lake was inspired by the novel and invented his own submarine, the Argonaut, in 1888.Verne’s novel, From the Earth to the Moon, published in 1865, described the details of a space capsule that in 1969 sent astronauts to the moon – the Apollo 11. He stipulated how long the flight would last, that it would be launched from Florida, and its splashdown in the ocean. He also described light-propelled spacecraft now known as solar sails. And keep in mind that Verne was living in the time of the Civil War.

Verne isn’t unique. Throughout history, numerous examples exist of how writers, artists, moviemakers, and others in creative professions depicted inventions and details about future events that they realistically had no way of knowing. But Verne, as a science fiction writer, may hold the top prize in this regard.

Edward Bellamy is probably best known for his 1888 Looking Backward, a utopian novel set in Boston in 2000. In the story, the U.S. is a socialist country that exists in a spirit of cooperation and brotherhood – not exactly what life is like in the 21st century! However, the people in his utopia carry cards that allow them to make purchases without cash. Sounds a lot like a debit card!

Robert Heinlein’s most famous novel was probably Stranger in a Strange Land. But like many writers, he started out writing short stories. In 1941, he published Solution Unsatisfactory in Astounding Science Fiction, about a future world where the U.S. develops an atomic weapon that ends WWII. This event launches a nuclear arms race. The story was written before the U.S. entered WWII and five years before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published. In the book, Bradbury describes “little seashells… thimble radios” , portable headphones already existed, but they were massive and ugly, and they weighed a ton. Bradbury’s description of “little seashells…thimble radios” exactly describes ear bud headphones, which didn’t come into wide use until 2000.

Then there’s the 1969 novel Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. It takes place in 2010, a man named Obami is president, terrorist attacks and school shootings are rampant, cell phone video chats are a favorite way to communicate, cars are powered by rechargeable electric fuel cells.

William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer predicted the world wide web, virtual reality, cyberspace, and hacking a decade before the internet existed as it does today.
In May 1982, Stephen King published Running Man under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story is set in the U.S. in 2025. Life is a Dystopian nightmare, the economy lies in ruins, and Ben Richards, the protagonist, is desperate. He’s unemployed, his daughter is gravely ill, and his wife is now prostituting to help pay the bills. He undergoes rigorous training so he’ll be chosen to participate in The Running Man, Games Network’s most lucrative show. He’ll be hunted by the network’s elite killing team and if he manages to survive 30 days, he’ll win $1 billion.

In 1987, the novel became a movie starring Arnold Schwartenegger. In September 1989, a TV reality show, American Gladiators, premiered that bore some uncanny parallels to The Running Man.

These examples are just a small cross section of science fiction novels that presaged the future. Did these writers, through their creative endeavors, dive into the archetypal well of ideas where time doesn’t exist? When novelists are plugged into their stories and characters, they envision the inventions, gadgets, society and government they describe.

Are we, through our creative endeavors, able to dive into the archetypal well of ideas where time does not exist?

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The WORDLE Addiction

What is it about some games that capture the attention of  hundreds of thousands of people?

Wordle supposedly has a daily user base of 250,000 people.  Its popularity has grown largely because of word of mouth. Friends tell friends. Friends form wordle groups to whom they send their stats daily.  Soe people post their stats on Facebook.You can also get your own statistics on any given game that also shows you how your starting  word compares to the words other players used.

On a site called gitnux.og, some interesting stats are provided about the game:

65%of surveyed Wordle users play the game daily

43% of  users guess the correct word in 3 tries

The average number of guesses to discover the correct word is 4.71

72% of users have told their friends about Wordle.

The most common starting words are: slate, crate, stone, smart and plant.

On the very rare occasions when I get Wordle in two guesses, I wonder if there’s a psychic component to the game.  I stare at it long enough and suddenly, something in the back of my  mind clicks and I’ve  got it in 2 guesses. But other times, I sit and stare at it and nothing pops into my head. I guess and guess and lose.

Considering the game’s popularity, its creator, software engineer James Wardle, should have been paid a lot more than a million for the rights to this game!

 

 

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Star Power Forecast for March

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