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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

The 'bio' for the weekend event

about the Reader Ciel was a child of both a scientist and a mystic, and began to wonder how both could be real around the time she was 10 years old. The Universe has been sending her pieces of the great multi-dimensional puzzle of Reality ever since. She discovered an ability to pick up on images and colors through reading tarot cards around the age of 20. In her 30s she attended the Washington Psychic Institute (the seminary of the Church of Divine Man in Tacoma, Washington) where emphasis was... Sign in to see full entry.

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This is the info being printed up for this weekend's activities

Everything is energy. Any modern physicist will tell you: Even matter is, at the most basic level, energy. Your body, your thoughts and beliefs, your feelings, your memories, conscious and sub, your stuff--all energies vibrating at their own particular wavelengths. We normally see only a very limited range of vibrating energies--colors--and hear another limited range--sounds. Many other animals see and hear what we don't because they're built that way. An energy reader is one who can tune in to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 16, 2024

Thinking About Thinking

It's not anthropomorphism to believe that animals think & feel like us. It's assuming they think & feel the same ways about the same things as we do. Misreading physical cues like facial expressions or body language leads to totally mistaken interpretations of what an animal has on its mind, what it intends or wants. An ape showing its teeth may be not happily grinning but expressing terror; a cat staring through narrow eyes is not plotting wicked designs, it's expressing contentment; a wild... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Now we know better, we can do better.

Growing up neuro-divergent but never diagnosed, never acknowledged, one lives a lifetime self-blaming and self-shaming for the emotional awkwardnesses and embarrassments, the alienation, the aloneness. Repeated rejections breed resentment which doesn't make anything better or easier. Abandonments, real or seeming, erode hope which turns to the expectation of disappointment and finally an acceptance that the only safety is in fact in isolation. The spectrums of ADHD and autism have always been... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 23, 2023

Cosmic Models (continued)

It begins with the image of concentric circles, like a target. The center is the place of Self, of Identity, of all the things we have; the first ring is mind and emotions, thinking and feeling; the second is Higher Self, or Soul or Spirit, the source of who we are. The center is the Physical aspect of our existence where reality is defined in all things physical; the first ring is that of thought, where reality is thought-forms and patterns; the second is that of Will and Intent, of Conception.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

crumpets and baba

Yesterday we found crumpets at Trader Joe's. If you've never had them, they're worth giving a try. They are moister than English muffins but still have the little holes to collect butter and the sweetness of your preference. I had a dab of apricot preserves on mine this morning. Speaking of apricot, that's a flavor I associate with Moroccan cuisine, and later today I'm planning to make a tagine of chicken thighs, onion, mushrooms, and a bit of that apricot jam. I am trying out a pearled couscous... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 28, 2023

Introduction to Cosmic Modeling

We all work with models of reality, not with reality itself. We work with perceptions of the world: what we see through the various filters our senses apply to support the model of reality we believe in so much we might even say we know this is how things are. In fact, we know very little because our sensory apparatus is so limited and our beliefs and assumptions are so limiting; because our ignorance is so great we can't even know what we don't know, that is essential to know for our models to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 19, 2023

When We Abandoned Eden...

I have written about the 'abandoment of Eden' as the time in which our human intellect outpaced and replaced instinct as our primary means of interacting with the world around us, particularly the physical world. I have suggested that choosing intellect and self-reliance was something to be celebrated, not to be ashamed of. But then, perhaps striding willingly, willfully out of Eden also cost us something. In that time, while we remained animals in form, our minds took us into a place beyond... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 4, 2023

It has never been about skin or hair.

It's all about fear: fear of people whose cultures and ways of seeing reality, whose values and imperatives are unknown and mysterious, fear of offending from the place of ignorance, fear of being called to account and condemned for unawareness of boundaries and sensitivities... And looking like the people who violently kidnapped and enslaved and treated as not-quite-human their ancestral families. Humans of different cultures take such shortcuts, superficial 'evidences' like color to decide who... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 31, 2022

Making Choices

Decision-making has never been my best thing. Difficulties with making decisions has led to many impulsive ones which have turned out badly. Wait... Let's reframe 'badly' to 'having painful consequences.' But infelicitous results are not always a bad thing: They are what shapes the next opportunity in decision making. They limit or skew options, shutting some out, opening the way to others. It isn't about good or bad, it's about options and directions. If we, as evolving souls, are indeed here... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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