Merkabah

[Skarekrow]

A very interesting NDE story!
Enjoy!!

Dying to be me!
Anita Moorjani at TEDxBayArea

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Doctors had given Anita Moorjani just hours to live when she arrived at the hospital in a coma on the morning of February 2nd, 2006.
Unable to move as a result of the cancer that had ravaged her body for almost four years, Anita entered another dimension, where she experienced great clarity and understanding of her life and purpose here on earth.

She was given a choice of whether to return to life or not, and chose to return to life when she realized that "heaven" is a state and not a place.
This subsequently resulted in a remarkable and complete recovery of her health.

Anita's riveting talk will inspire you to transform your life by living more authentically, discovering your greatest passions, transcending your deepest fears, and living from a place of pure joy.

Her true story will radically alter your current beliefs about yourself, your purpose on earth, your health, your relationships, and your life! ​

 

[Wyote]

[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION] I really like her flashlight analogy. I can relate to a lot of what she says.

Was inspired to make a thing real quick. Not a perfect representation but you get the gist.

 

[Skarekrow]

 

[jyrffw54]

Uh.... I don't know the particulars of Reiki.
All I know is when myself and a Reiki Master worked on B several months before he died I called upon Archangel Gabriel to help guide me and he showed up and worked through me. The Reiki master said she had never seen anyone so open and full of mastery. Hah! I gave full credit to AA Gabriel because truly I didn't know why I was doing what I did or how I knew the things I noticed. She was amazed.
Proof positive Spirit works through us in many many ways.
@Serenity is the only one I know that knows it all.

So, this is about 2 months late, but yes I do practice (and teach) Reiki. I wouldn't say that I know it all, but Spirit guides me to always do what is for the highest good of the balance of whom I'm working on.

 

[ImaginaryBloke]

Corey: [...] In this new effort, the website just went live today. It's http://FullDisclosureProject.org.

http://spherebeingalliance.com/blog...-corey-goode-the-breakaway-civilizations.html


Corey Goode and David Wilcock are turning up the heat.

Soon, it will feel like X-mas when Santa is coming with presents.

 

[Skarekrow]

Alan Watts ~ Spirituality ~ Why We Need It

[video=youtube;pgJ1EAHqWxA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pgJ1EAHqWxA[/video]

If you can move from freedom, then you will discover the most extraordinary things of the mind.
And then you will find that the mind itself is the total reality: it is not that there is a reality to which the mind goes, but the mind itself, that extraordinary thing, when there is no contradiction within itself - when there is no anxiety, no fear, no desire to be successful - then that mind itself is that which is eternal, unnameable.

But to speculate about the eternal without understanding the whole process of the mind is just childish play; it is an immature game which scholars, whom you worship, play.
So, it would be good if you and I could really go into this, as two human beings interested in solving the problems we have, which are also the problems of the world.

The personal problem is not different from the world problem.
But you cannot tackle it if you have not understood the mind.

So, please, do watch your mind, go into it not merely when you have nothing to do, but from the moment you get up to the moment you go to bed, from the moment you wake up until you go back to sleep.

Then you will begin to find out what an extraordinary richness there is - a richness not in knowledge, but in the nature of the mind itself.
It is in the mind, also, that there is ignorance.

The dispelling of ignorance is all-important, not the acquisition of knowledge, because the dispelling of ignorance is negative while knowledge is positive.
And, a man who is capable of thinking negatively has the highest capacity for thinking.

The mind which can dispel ignorance and not accumulate knowledge such a mind is an innocent mind, and only the innocent mind can discover that which is beyond measure.

- Krishnamurti​

 

[Skarekrow]

I remember days like this…
Clean it up…go to the next one.
To all my friends who STILL do this.
I wonder if they still make under $20 an hour?
Thank you.

To those that say "but you sleep at the station".... that we only work 2 days a week...that we make great money.
(That's a myth, most work at least 2 full-time jobs and are on call 24/7)

You have no idea the pain we carry...or memories that haunt us.
I joke about the shit calls yes..but believe me, you should be happy we don't share the ones that matter.

Sleep at station, or get to respond from home?
Yup.

But how about spending Christmas trying to save a life instead of spending it with your family opening gifts.
Or, have you ever laid down for the 5th time that night moments after telling an old lady her husband of 60 years is now dead.

To see the will to live in her leave her body?
Or sat down for a meal using the same hands you held a dead baby moments before trying everything in your power to bring them back?

We can't save them all, we do our best, but we remember.
(Not all, thank God.)

So the next time you think of looking at me or my brother/sisters (Fire, Law Enforcement, and Soldiers too!) and start comparing my job with your job, do me a favor...don't.

Its a calling, you wouldn't understand.
We do not hesitate for a minute to respond 24/7.
Can you say the same?

-Irish​

 

[Skarekrow]

 

[Skarekrow]

Dalai Lama

We live in a materialistic world that pays insufficient attention to human values.
We seek satisfaction in material things instead of warm-heartedness.
But human beings are social animals.
We need friendship and that depends on trust.
Building trust requires concern for others and defending their rights, not doing them harm.
Friendship is directly linked to warm-heartedness, which is also good for our physical health.
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[Skarekrow]

Anyone home?: Consciousness and its disorders
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Consciousness remains one of the most puzzling phenomena in science.



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Imagine you just woke up from a deep, dreamless sleep.
Fuzzy at first, you suddenly become aware of your surrounding, your body, your reality.

We say at this point that you are conscious.
But although familiar and intimate to all of us, consciousness remains one of the most puzzling phenomena in science.

How does the electric and chemical activity in your brain produce your subjective experiences; the redness of red, the taste of chocolate or the pain in your back?

So far, science hasn't provided a plausible explanation of how these subjective qualities (called qualia) are produced by the brain.

Instead of directly tackling this "hard problem" of consciousness, neuroscience has focused on identifying the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC).
These are the neural events associated with conscious experience.

Neural correlates of consciousness

Like waves, brain activity oscillates.
These oscillations can be measured by neuro-imaging techniques such as EEG (where electrodes pasted on the scalp detect electrical charges of brain cell activity), MEG (a technique that maps brain activity by recording the magnetic fields of electric currents) and fMRI (that measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow), across time scales that range from milliseconds to seconds.

Early studies measuring electrical activity of the brain with EEG in sleep and awake states found that fluctuations in the awake conscious state are small and fast (alpha oscillationsbetween 8 and 12 Hz) in comparison to the big, slow delta oscillations (between 0.25 and 4 Hz) in deep sleep, when subjects lose consciousness.

But the change of these oscillations (from fast alpha to slow delta waves) may not reflect the whole picture of what is happening in your brain when you lose or regain consciousness.

fMRI studies in the resting awake state have revealed that the low-frequency fluctuations (<0.1Hz) between distant parts of the brain are actually synchronised, forming distinct patterns of correlation across the brain.

The shape of these correlation patterns actually changes when we lose consciousness.

Spatially distant parts of the brain show synchronised activity (shown as similar colours) and form very distinct patterns of correlation across the brain.
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Imagine each of these patterns as a building block making up the changing brain activity patterns, just like musical notes make up a melody.
When characterised in terms of these building blocks, the dynamics of the conscious brain are composed of a richer,more flexible repertoire of correlation patterns compared to the brain during sleep or under anaesthesia.

Studying brain dynamics during loss and recovery of consciousness through these correlation patterns can give us a better understanding of its neural correlates and reveal the signature of consciousness.

But why do we even need to find this "signature"?

Disorders of consciousness

Besides genuine curiosity in understanding the brain's inner workings and the nature of consciousness, there is an urgent clinical need to understand and accurately diagnose disorders of consciousness.

After several weeks in coma - a state where patients are unconscious and unable to be aroused to consciousness by stimuli - most either die or transition into what is called a vegetative state.

Here they don't show any behavioural signs, not even opening their eyes, and are thought to be unconscious.
But recent findings show that a subgroup of patients previously diagnosed as being in vegetative state are actually minimally conscious.

This means they show inconsistent but discernible, non-reflexive behaviours, such as sustained visual fixation or responses to a verbal order, although they are still unable to communicate.

Current diagnostic methods based on observing the patient's behaviour have led to 41% being misdiagnosed.
Such a misdiagnosis could cause the patient to suffer, create legal and ethical dilemmas or even end a conscious person's life.

Recent findings show that a subgroup of patients previously diagnosed as being in vegetative state are actually minimally conscious.


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A 2006 study clearly demonstrated a case of such misdiagnosis.
The authors asked a 23 year old woman in a vegetative state to imagine playing tennis and walking through the rooms of her house while her brain activity was scanned using fMRI.

Her activity showed similar patterns to that of healthy adults who imagine playing tennis or navigating through their houses.

Although this study pioneered the use of functional imaging to diagnose disorders of consciousness, it had one major limitation.
It required a patient's active (mental) participation and response to a command, such as "imagine playing tennis".

But the absence of a response from the patient does not imply he is unconscious.
He may simply be failing to perform the task while being conscious.

Absence of evidence

In an alternative method of diagnosis, electromagnetic pulses are sent through the scalp while the complexity of the brain's response to these pulses is evaluated with EEG. In the awake state, these pulses lead to more complex and longer lasting changes in brain activity compared to when consciousness is lost in sleep, anaesthesia or coma.

Although this method eliminates the need for a patient's active participation, it requires a new and not always readily available setup of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as well as a compatible EEG device.

So studying changes in resting state brain activity remains important in the search for signatures of consciousness without asking patients to perform tasks (such as imagining playing tennis) or stimulating the brain with external pulses (such as using TMS).

These tests are a major step in the developing science of consciousness and provide an important diagnostic tool. But we have to remember the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

 

[Skarekrow]

 

[Skarekrow]

Erasing Bad Memories:
Wiping Out Unconscious Traces Is Possible

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Bad memories are not only part of our conscious mind, they also leave a trace in our unconscious.
But now, new research shows that actively trying to forget an unwanted memory can help erase this unconscious trace.

In a new study, researchers showed people pairs of images, and sometimes asked the participants to try to forget the first image of an object.
The researchers wanted to see whether such willful forgetting could change how easily the participants could later identify an image of that object, this time hidden almost imperceptibly behind "visual noise," or a scrambled image of the object.

Generally, after people have seen an image, say of a coffee cup, they can more easily identify another image of that coffee cup even if it is masked by such visual noise. That's because the brain does a bit of work to set up a mental representation of the coffee cup the first time around.

However, in the study, it turned out that participants had a harder time identifying an object within the background noise if they had tried to forget the first.

Moreover, actively trying to forget an object also changed the unconscious brain representation of that image the second time around, according to the study published yesterday (March 17) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

When people try to forget something, "Basically, you're shutting down regions that would ordinarily play a role in seeing that object, just to keep it from coming into the consciousness," said study researcher Michael Anderson, a neuroscientist at University of Cambridge, in England.

"The side effect of doing that is that whatever memory traces of the coffee cup were there, they are weakened, and later on, when you have to detect the cup in visual noise, you find just a bit harder."


Out of mind, out of sight

The mental representation of an object, for example, the first coffee cup, is believed to be stored in the visual cortex, the parts of the brain that actually do the "seeing," Anderson said.

This kind of memory trace is distinct from a conscious memory that a person can recall.
In the study, researchers using fMRI looked at participants' brain activity as they were watching the images, and found that when people were reminded of an image they had tried to forget, the activity in the visual perception areas of the brain was reduced, compared with when they were reminded of images they hadn't tried to forget.

This suggests that people can willfully limit the reactivation of a visual perception of those memories, and prevent them from coming into their conscious mind, the researchers said.


Learning to forget

Although this finding points to the possibility that actively trying to forget a memory could help people who have experienced trauma, the researchers said that trying to forget an emotionally strong memory may not be as simple as forgetting the memory of a coffee cup, as done in the experiments in the study.

"I certainly don't think that it's something that you can do in one shot. I think you have to keep at it," Anderson said.
In the study, researchers examined people's memory responses shortly after they had seen the images.

One open question is how long after an event people might be able suppress an unwanted memory in a way that impairs the unconscious trace of the memory.

"It could be that things work a bit differently if we waited a bit of time," Anderson said.
In future studies, researchers are planning on asking people to suppress memories from their own personal life, to see whether the same effects exist for memories that are long engrained in the consciousness.

 

[ImaginaryBloke]

REALLY ASTONISHING STUFF

The "real world" is so much different than the lies we have been fed, all of our lives, that it is hard to tell the difference.

The negative forces who have run the Western world, and tried to dominate the entire planet but are now being defeated -- aka the Cabal -- call this Plato's Cave.

They have kept us in a "prison of the mind" all of our lives, constraining our access to information until we no longer can tell fact from fiction, reality from fantasy.

The truth is that we are already in a Star Trek reality, in which portals can take you anywhere in our galaxy instantaneously.

All the technology we have seen in the greatest sci-fi films exists right now. And with full disclosure, it will become available to us.

The truth is really astonishing. It will be a far more interesting reality once we get there. And we will.

This is intimately tied in with the concept of Ascension. Living in a reality of that nature is akin to a dimensional shift.

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1196-solving-ascension-mysteries


I just booked a ticket to a planet in the Alpha Centauri solar system.

When everyone else on Earth is glued in front of the TV to watch the trials of the Looneynati leaders, I will be on the beach, taking a dip and sipping coconut milk :tea:.

 

[ImaginaryBloke]

The artist that made this doll has some really beautiful and intricate ones…simply fantastic!

[MENTION=14189]ImaginaryBloke[/MENTION]


Here is the artist and her site!
Some are N(so)SFW.
They are so beautiful!!

http://www.enchanteddoll.com

Yes, the dolls are beautiful. Are they hand-made, making impossible mass production and economic investment? How unfair if so!!!

 

[ImaginaryBloke]

I am speaking on behalf of Asthtar Command, and of the Liaison Team, channeling this message for your information. We are guarding you, teaching you, we have at our side the Masters and Archangels you are familiar with. The Earth will be in physicality, but a lighter one, and you are being restored so that you will be able to function upon higher dimensions in full consciousness in the same way that you do upon the physical plane of expression. It is to do with the descent of the quantum DNA together with the Light Body and Christ consciousness. A great work will be done to remove the pollution of the elements and this will mainly be done when we can move more freely upon the world. The oceans will then become a more suitable environment for the Whales, Cetaceans and all species which will inhabit them. The media is reporting the death of these species and people are identifying the causes, such as pollution of the seas with plastic, overfishing, chemical trails, sonar experiments, radio-activity, under water-volcanic activity. Their extinction is contributing to the awakening of many people, as it is plain to see, and they are upset.

We were talking about soul contracts between species earlier. You said that contracts with certain animals are expiring. Does that mean that they will no longer be living in captivity?

I am wondering about domesticated animals. Some of the have been altered to such a state that they cannot be free. For example, cows make so much milk beyond their own biological requirements because of breeding programs. Will new bodies be developed that suit a lifestyle for them in the wild? Dolores Cannon's books contain so much information about DNA development that it makes me wonder.

 

[Skarekrow]

Yes, the dolls are beautiful. Are they hand-made, making impossible mass production and economic investment? How unfair if so!!!

I’m afraid so.

 

[Skarekrow]

We were talking about soul contracts between species earlier. You said that contracts with certain animals are expiring. Does that mean that they will no longer be living in captivity?

I am wondering about domesticated animals. Some of the have been altered to such a state that they cannot be free. For example, cows make so much milk beyond their own biological requirements because of breeding programs. Will new bodies be developed that suit a lifestyle for them in the wild? Dolores Cannon's books contain so much information about DNA development that it makes me wonder.

Now you understand why everyone is becoming lactose intolerant!

 

[ImaginaryBloke]

Now you understand why everyone is becoming lactose intolerant!

Guilty as charged. What a "skary" punch!!! :boxing:

I was thinking that we have altered the DNA and socially programmed domesticated animals to a life in captivity. We humans live in a matrix, and they too are prisoners of our matrix. Can you just release domesticated animals effortlessly, or does it require modification somehow?

And did you know that agriculture resulted in shorter height of European humans? http://www.hormones.gr/127/article/article.html

How do we humans escape from this prison? :ballchain:

 

[Skarekrow]

Guilty as charged. What a "skary" punch!!! :boxing:

I was thinking that we have altered the DNA and socially programmed domesticated animals to a life in captivity. We humans live in a matrix, and they too are prisoners of our matrix. Can you just release domesticated animals effortlessly, or does it require modification somehow?

And did you know that agriculture resulted in shorter height of European humans? http://www.hormones.gr/127/article/article.html

How do we humans escape from this prison? :ballchain:

You die, or transcend your consciousness in the various ways we know of.
I think you should really try mushrooms, if anyone should.
Not because I think you are depressed or anything but that it would clarify so much for you that I hate to see anyone struggling to wrap their head around.
Not that I think you are having difficulties either, just that it would take that understanding to the next level for you.

 

[Skarekrow]