The Power of Silence

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Posted on February 6, 2012 by Ray

by Bob Edelstein, LMFT, MFT

Valuing silence leads to a deeper connection with ourselves.

We live in a culture that values sharing every thought and feeling as it occurs. As a result, we often don’t pause to reflect on what we have just said. This lack of reflection can lead to a superficial connection with ourselves. In contrast, by paying attention to the silence within our conversation and embracing those spaces, we can connect more deeply with ourselves. This deeper connection is the basis of an authentically engaged and self-actualized life.

Paying attention to the silence as the space between our verbal exchanges allows the meaning of these exchanges to be assimilated into our psyches and from that place of depth, our creative engagement naturally flows. Creative engagement with our internal processes allows us to discover more of who we are, to take in previously hidden aspects of ourselves, and to reconfigure ourselves, if we so choose. This is what allows us to be more deeply authentic in the present moment. By being more authentic, we become more self-actualized and can impact our world in powerful ways.

Communicating verbally and then being silent are both vitally important. They form two parts of a whole that we dance between. The verbal communication expresses to the world what is going on inside of us. The silence, the gap between our talking, if it is valued, will allow us to digest what we just said and to discover what we want to say next as it emerges in the present moment. Our communication becomes a forum to explore new territory in ourselves by listening to what we just said rather than talking about what we already know. Does it fit, is it true, is it really how I feel, are some of the questions we can ask ourselves in those reflective moments of silence. This allows us to move from the unknown into self-discovery. From this process, personal growth often occurs.

When I value silence as a therapist in a session, I discover what is going on within me in the moment. I listen in a finely attuned way to my client so that I understand more of the subtleties of what makes them tick and how they make meaning of their life. The same benefit of valuing the silence that occurs in a therapist-client relationship is relevant to any relationship, whether it is spouse to spouse, parent to child, or friend to friend.

Consider pausing the next time you are talking to someone and you find yourself automatically saying what you normally say. Reflect on what you just said — does it resonate? Then, see if what you say next seems true to who you are in the moment. See if what you say leads to a self-discovery. You will then be experiencing the power of silence.

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Chevy Pokes Fun At Mayan Doomsday Foolishness

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Posted on February 5, 2012 by Ray

by Ian O’Neill

It’s perhaps as inevitable as seeing a partially clad Danica Patrick trying to sell us domainnames; the 2012 Mayan doomsday phenomenon is coming to this weekend’s Super Bowl.P>

All this doomsday nonsensewas bound to grab the attention of one or two marketing departments, and for the famous 2012 Super Bowl ads, the automobile manufacturer Chevy wants you to know that when the end of the world comes, you’d better be driving their car.P>

But if you drive a Ford, you’ll die.P>

The doomsday parody shows a Chevy Silverado pickup being driven by a guy — with a dog for company — as he rolls through the ruins of a city. He coasts past what appears to be the head of a large Transformer, a crashed flying saucer, a burning Bob’s Bog Boy and gurgling volcano. To push the point home, the opening scene shows a newspaper headline “2012 Mayan Apocalypse” with the subhead “Will the world end today?”P>

(It must be the end of the world, we’re being forced to listen to Barry Manilow’s “Looks Like We Made It.“)P>

Eventually, the apocalypse survivor (plus dog) meets up with some buddies. They all drive Chevys. But where’s Dave? Sadly, he drove a Ford. Which means Dave avoids the misery of an eternity listening to Manilow’s ballads because… Dave’s dead.P>

Car manufacturer competition and doomsday fun-making to one side, the one thing that caught my eye was the image used on the front of the newspaper.P>

In 2008, I wrote my debut article on the 2012 hysteria over at Universe Today called “No Doomsday in 2012.” Accompanying my article, I Photoshopped an image of a Mayan temple plus apocalyptic explosion. I have no clue if Chevy was inspired by my depiction of doomsday, but I’m happy to take the credit nonetheless …P>

This article was provided by DiscoveryNews.

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6 Reasons You Should Spend More Time Alone

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Posted on February 1, 2012 by Ray

by Sherrie Bourg Carter, Psy.D.

The great omission in North American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space free from outside pressure which is the incubator of the spirit. — Marya Mannes, author and critic

In today’s constantly connected world, finding solitude has become a lost art. In fact, Western culture tends to equate a desire for solitude with people who are lonely, sad, or have antisocial tendencies. But seeking solitude can actually be quite healthy. In fact, there are many physical and psychological benefits to spending time alone.

Benefits of Seeking Solitude

1. Solitude allows you to reboot your brain and unwind. Constantly being “on” doesn’t give your brain a chance to rest and replenish itself. Being by yourself with no distractions gives you the chance to clear your mind, focus, and think more clearly. It’s an opportunity to revitalize your mind and body at the same time.

2. Solitude helps to improve concentration and increase productivity. When you remove as many distractions and interruptions as you can from your day, you are better able to concentrate, which will help you get more work done in a shorter amount of time.

3. Solitude gives you an opportunity to discover yourself and find your own voice. When you’re a part of a group, you’re more likely to go along with what the group is doing or thinking, which isn’t always the actions you would take or the decisions you would make if you were on your own.

4. Solitude provides time for you to think deeply. Day to day responsibilities and commitments can make your to-do list seem as if it has no end. This constant motion prevents you from engaging in deep thought, which inhibits creativity and lessens productivity.

5. Solitude helps you work through problems more effectively. It’s hard to think of effective solutions to problems when you’re distracted by incoming information, regardless of whether that information is electronic or human.

6. Solitude can enhance the quality of your relationships with others. By spending time with yourself and gaining a better understanding of who you are and what you desire in life, you’re more likely to make better choices about who you want to be around. You also may come to appreciate your relationships more after you’ve spent some time alone.

Despite knowing these benefits, it can be a challenge to find time alone in a world that seems to never sleep. Here are a few ideas to help you find more time to spend with yourself.

♦ Disconnect. Set aside some time each day to unplug from all the ways you connect with others. Turn off your cell phone, Turn off your Internet. Turn off your TV. If you use your computer to create, such as writing, then write without all the bells, dings, and beeps that come along with being connected to the Internet. You’ll be amazed at how much more you can get done when you’re not distracted.

♦ Get Up or Get In Early. Wake up a half hour or an hour earlier than everyone else in your house and use that time to create, produce, problem solve, meditate, or whatever makes you happy. This strategy also works if you can get to work before everyone else arrives and the phones begin to ring.

♦ Close Your Door. It’s simple, but can be very effective. A client who owns a community-based magazine puts a sign on her door when she doesn’t wants alone time. The sign reads “I’m editing or writing. If the police are here, the office is on fire, or George Clooney calls or stops by, you can interrupt me. If not, please hold all questions until my door opens.” She said that she decided to put up the sign after she realized that her presence in the office was a stimulus for questions. “Whenever I was in the office,” she said, “it seemed like there was one question after the next. I was constantly getting interrupted, and it was hard to get my work done. Then I noticed that on the days I was working on a story outside the office, my phone hardly ever rang, even if I was out the whole day. Apparently, whatever questions came up somehow got handled without me. It made me realize that just by being in the office I was a magnet for questions. So I put up the sign and it works like a charm.”

♦ Use Your Lunch Time. Don’t spend your lunch time working at your desk. Don’t spend it running errands. And if you regularly go out to lunch, don’t think that it always has to be with others. Once a week or even just a couple of times a month, commit to spending lunch with yourself. Walk. Sit in the sun outside. Go to a park and eat. Enjoy the time you have alone.

♦ Schedule solitude. Literally. Mark off time in your day planner or calendar for spending time with yourself. If you can make time for all the little extras you fit into your day, like stopping at Starbucks or picking up something at the mall, you can schedule time in your calendar for solitude. It doesn’t have to be long. Any time that you can spend alone with yourself to reboot, meditate, focus, relax, create, produce, and/or think deeply is better than no time.
In my next post, I’ll talk about ways to negotitate alone time with friends and family and how to not feel guilty for wanting “a little space.” In the meanwhile, if you have effective strategies you use to steal a little time for yourself, please share them with readers in the comments section below.

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Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think

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Posted on January 27, 2012 by Ray

This is an excerpt from ‘Abundance: Why the Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think’ (Free Press, 2012)

Tapping into transformational technologies promises a better future for everyone. A quick glance at the headlines lets us know the score: dark days ahead. With growing concerns about ­population size, economic meltdowns, energy shortages, water and food shortages—this list goes on—alarmists are having a field day. For the first time in a long time ­parents are predicting a worse life for their children than their own.

Yet nothing could be further from the truth. We are now entering a ­period of radical transformation. Progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, infinite computing, ubiquitous broadband networks, digital manufacturing, nanomaterials, synthetic ­biology and many other breakthrough technologies will let us make greater gains in the next two decades than we’ve made in the previous 200 years. We will soon have the ability to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp.

If that sounds like hogwash, there are good neurological reasons for this reaction. Before we turn our attention to where we’re going, let’s first ­address why it’s so difficult to believe we can ever get there.

Every second our senses are deluged with data, more than we can possibly process. To deal with this overload, the brain is continuously sifting and sorting, trying to tease apart the critical from the casual. Since nothing is more critical to the brain than survival, the first filter most of this incoming information encounters is the amygdala, an almond-shaped portion of the ­temporal lobe responsible for ­primal emotions like rage, hate and fear. It’s also our early-warning ­system, an organ on high alert, constantly scanning our environment for anything that could threaten survival. Anxious under normal conditions, once stimulated, the amygdala becomes hypervigilant. But so potent is this response that once turned on, it’s difficult to shut off, and this is a problem in the modern world.

These days we’re media-saturated. Thousands of news outlets compete for our mind share by vying for the amygdala’s attention. The old newspaper saw “If it bleeds, it leads” works because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. Our early-warning system evolved in an era of immediacy, when threats were of the “tiger in the bush” variety. Things have changed. Many of today’s dangers are probabilistic—terrorists might attack, the economy could nose-dive—and the amygdala can’t tell the difference. Worse, the system is designed not to shut off until the threat has vanished completely, but probabilistic dangers never vanish completely. Add in impossible-to-avoid news media continuously scaring us in their attempt to capture market share and you have a brain convinced it’s living in a state of siege.

What does the world really look like? Turns out it’s not the nightmare most suspect. Violence is at an alltime low, personal freedom at a historic high. During the past century child mortality decreased by 90%, while average human life span increased by 100%. Food is cheaper and more plentiful than ever (groceries cost 13 times less today than in 1870). Poverty has declined more in the past 50 years than the previous 500. In fact, adjusted for inflation, incomes have tripled in the past 50 years. Even Americans living under the poverty line today have access to a telephone, toilet, television, running water, air-conditioning and a car. Go back 150 years and the richest robber barons could have never dreamed of such wealth.

Nor are these changes restricted to the developed world. In Africa today a Masai warrior on a cellphone has better mobile communications than the President did 25 years ago; if he’s on a smartphone with Google, he has ­access to more information than the President did just 15 years ago, with a feast of standard features: watch, stereo, camera, videocamera, voice recorder, GPS tracker, video teleconferencing equipment, a vast library of books, films, games, music. Just 20 years ago these same goods and services would have cost over $1 million.

Four powerful forces are starting to emerge, each with enormous world-changing potential, none more ­important than the accelerating rate of technological progress. Right now all information-based technologies are on exponential growth curves: They’re doubling in power for the same price every 12 to 24 months. This is why an $8 million supercomputer from two decades ago now sits in your pocket and costs less than $200.

This same rate of change is also showing up in networks, sensors, cloud computing, 3-D printing, genetics, AI, robotics and dozens more industries. Biotechnology has been on such a wild, exponential ride that a state-of-the-art lab, complete with automation—what would have cost millions of dollars just ten years ago—can now be had for under $10,000.

Our second force is the do-it-yourself innovator. A DIY revolution has been steadily brewing these past 50 years but lately has begun to boil over. Backyard tinkerers have moved from custom cars and home-brew computers into once esoteric fields like neuroscience, biology, genetics and robotics. Today these small teams of motivated DIYers can accomplish what was once the sole province of large corporations and governments. The aerospace giants felt it was impossible, but Burt Rutan flew into space. Craig Venter tied (some say beat) the mighty U.S. government in the race to sequence the human genome. Right now high school and college students are using the tools of synthetic biology to complete real-world projects that rival the output of major biopharmaceutical companies.

With 440 patents and a National Medal of Technology, Dean Kamen is one of the greatest DIYers in history. Lately he’s turned his attention to the problem of water scarcity, which until recently was considered an impossible boondoggle. “When you talk to experts about water,” he says, “they’ll tell you with 4 billion people making less than two dollars a day, there’s no viable business model, no economic model and no way to finance development costs. But the 25 poorest countries already spend 20% of their GDP on water. Four billion people spending 30 cents a day is a $1.2 billion market every day. It’s $400 billion a year. I can’t think of too many companies in the world that have $400 billion in sales a year.” Kamen is in beta trials with his Slingshot, a water purifier that can turn anything wet (polluted water, seawater, even latrine water) into the purest water on Earth at a rate of 1,000 liters per machine per day for less than 0.02 cents a liter.

Our next force is money—a lot of money—being spent in a very particular way. The high-tech revolution created an entirely new breed of wealthy techno-philanthropists who are using their fortunes to solve global, abundance-related challenges. Bill Gates is focused on eliminating malaria; Naveen Jain is crusading against poverty in India; Pierre and Pam Omidyar are bringing electricity to the developing world. The list goes on and on, a force unrivaled in history.

Lastly, the very poorest of the poor, the so-called “Bottom Billion,” are finally plugging into the global economy and are poised to become the “Rising Billion.” The creation of a global transportation network was the initial step down this path, but it’s the combination of the Internet, microfinance and wireless communication technology that’s truly transformational. Over the next decade, and for the first time ever, 3 billion new voices will join the global conversation. What will these people desire? What will they create? If for no other reason than the law of large numbers and the power of their potential, this puts the Rising Billion in the same category as exponential technology, the DIYers and the techno-philanthropists: a potent force for abundance.

Alone, each of these forces has ­enormous potential. But acting together, amplified by exponentially growing technologies, these innovations take the once unimaginable and turn it into the now ­actually possible. And abundance for all becomes: Imagine what’s next.

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To Think Outside the Box, Think Outside the Box

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Ray

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Want to think outside the box? Try actually thinking outside of a box. In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking and found that the instructions actually worked.

The authors of the new paper were inspired by metaphors about creativity found in boardrooms to movie studios to scientific laboratories around the world and previous linkages established between mind and body. Angela Leung of Singapore Management University and her coauthors from the University of Michigan, Cornell University, and others wondered if the same was true of metaphors about creativity. “Creativity is a highly sought-after skill,” they write. “Metaphors of creative thinking abound in everyday use.” Their experiments went beyond metaphors that activate preexisting knowledge and demonstrated for the first time some metaphors “work” by activating psychological processes conducive for generating previously unknown and therefore creative ideas.

People talk about thinking “outside the box” or consider problems “on the one hand, then on the other hand.” So Leung and her colleagues created experiments where people acted out these metaphors. In one experiment, each participant was seated either inside or outside of a five-by-five-foot cardboard box. The two environments were set up to be otherwise the same in every way, and people didn’t feel claustrophobic in the box. Participants were told it was a study on different work environments. Each person completed a test widely used to test creativity; those who were outside did the test better than people who were inside the box.

In another experiment, some participants were asked to join the halves of cut-up coasters before taking a test—a physical representation of “putting two and two together.” People who acted out the metaphor displayed more convergent thinking, a component of creativity that requires bringing together many possible answers to settle on one that will work. Other experiments found that walking freely generated more original ideas than walking in a set line; another found truth in “on the hand; on the other hand.”

All this suggests that there’s something to the metaphors we use to talk about creativity. “Having a leisurely walk outdoors or freely pacing around may help us break our mindset,” says Leung. “Also, we may consider getting away from Dilbert’s cubicles and creating open office spaces to free up our minds.”

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The Secret of Awakening & Spiritual Enlightenment

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Posted on January 18, 2012 by Ray

by Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D

When I first learned to meditate, I enjoyed it, but I wouldn’t characterize my practice as earnest. It wasn’t until I understood how it could dramatically improve my personal and spiritual growth that I committed myself wholeheartedly to the practice. From that point, I turned passionate about it. It has since become the foundation on which I build my life.

One of the unexpected benefits of my commitment to meditation is often called “awakening.” This is a sense of peacefulness throughout the day, and a 100% engagement with the present moment—without distraction—even when I’m not meditating. And I’m convinced that anyone can experience this happiness as long as you approach your sitting practice with earnestness.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Earnestness is the secret to developing a practice that will work for you. If you’ve been looking for happiness, personal growth, spiritual development, Enlightenment, or whatever other names this state of pure, present being is called, meditation will end your search. But I’m not just talking about a meditative practice that you’ll take or leave depending on your daily schedule. I’m referring to a lifelong commitment to the practice. If you’re looking for true personal transformation, you’ll inevitably have to let go of whatever activities prevent you from plunging into a regular sitting practice; it must rise to the top of your to-do list. Only when you do this, will you experience the long term benefits of the practice.

Developing a Sense of “All Is Well” Requires Discipline & Consistency

In order to make meditation a central part of who you are, you may have to give up activities—or perhaps do them less. You may have to forego other goals in your life—or maybe extend their timelines. Sometimes, even when you’re tired, and you’re not motivated to sit, you’ll do it anyway. Like anything worthwhile in life, such an advanced professional degree, an athletic accomplishment, or a wonderful relationship, the greater your investment of time and focus, the greater the benefit you’ll realize.

If awakening is important to you, then I encourage you to make meditation a priority. Once you recognize the life-changing power of meditation and you earnestly, fully embrace the practice, the results will speak for themselves. You’ll experience a peace beyond understanding.

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Being ‘In the Zone’ Produces Unusual Animal Behaviors

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Posted on January 15, 2012 by Ray

This was originally posted on August 7, 2008.

I’ve had some unusual animal experiences happen to me lately. Ironically, I’ve never had a pet because I’ve always been allergic to any kind of animal hair.


I live in a small town of about 5000 people but my house is near the downtown – far from the wilderness! About a month ago, I was meditating around 10 pm in the back yard. It was warm and I had shorts on. About 15 minutes in, I feel something licking my left knee. It kind of freaked me out a bit so I opened my eyes. It was a raccoon – a very curious one! I had never heard of that before!


About 2 months ago, I was actually able to get my hand under a dragonfly, scoop it up and take a picture of it. I think it would have stayed there indefinitely if I wanted.


Two days ago, after listening to the tones on a walk in a park area, I emerged back in a residential area but still very much in the zone. No pets in this area are on a leash. I managed to get by two guard dogs who usually bark incessantly at me. But it seemed as if I was invisible to them as they never even acknowledged me.


Does anybody else think this is Yesterday, I was walking back through the same residential area and walked by a different house. I had let my mind slip back into Doe things. All of a sudden, this big dog jumps to its feet, starts racing across the lawn of this house, crosses the street and prepares to lunge at me. I wasn’t scared at all. When the dog was a few feet away, I put my hands up in front of me with the palms pointed at the dog. It was just instinctual. Anyway, the dog stopped dead in its tracks! So I started petting it with both hands on the head. I continued this for about 30 seconds. The dog calmed right down. I backed away from it and continued on my way as the dog sauntered back to its house as if nothing happened.
at least a bit bizarre?

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Star Wars: An Official ‘Religion’

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Ray

The Jedi Temple may have been destroyed in the Great Jedi Purge, but that hasn’t deterred some people from worshipping The Force.

According to CzechPosition.com, the results of the Czech Republic’s new census that were unveiled this month reveal that 15,070 citizens of the country listed their religion as Knights of the Jedi. While that may pale in comparison to the 1.08 million people who self-identified as Catholics and over four million who declined to list their faith, it’s still a sizable portion of people who believe — or jokingly claim to, in reaction to an intrusive census — in the intangible energy made famous by the “Star Wars” films.

Though the Czech Knights of the Jedi wrote in their choice, other nations, such as New Zealand and Great Britain, already list the Jedi Church amongst the formal religion options. According to Time Magazine, over 390,000 Britons said that they practiced the religion in 2001.

The Church of the Jedi’s website pitches their faith as less bizarre than it may seem. The Force, they say, is “an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together,” and “is a concept that most religions of the world concur with. Some refer to it as their deity, some refer to it as a life force, but the one thing nearly all religions agree with, is that there exists a single unifying force.”

“Star Wars,” the Church says, helped create the religion’s terminology, but it did not create the faith itself.

“The force has always existed and always will,” their website reads. “Often references are made to the movies by our members, as a conceptual demonstration of how some might ascribe to the higher levels of a Jedi faith, in a far away land, a long time ago. The fact remains, that these concepts merely reflect a deep held innate morality, that we all have inside us… This morality existed prior to the movies. The movies do not in any way legitimize nor negate the legitimacy of the Jedi Church. They are merely a discussion point.”

Given the sustained phenomenon of the “Star Wars” films, it would figure that millions of other people are having those conversations, as well.

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Is “Eric” a Weirding Word?

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Ray

In the movie Dune, the 1984 David Lynch film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel of the same name, the Wierding Way was a style of Bene Gesserit combat. It relied heavily on Bene Gesserit command of Voice and knowledge of the limitations of human perception, misdirection and Prana-Bindu training.

In Dune, a Weirding Module is a sonic beam weapon that translates specific sounds into attacks of varying potency, used by House Atreides and later by the Fremen armies. In the novel, Paul Atreides and his mother Lady Jessica teach the Fremen the Bene Gesserit martial art referred to by the Fremen as the weirding way.

In the novel, the Fremen shout his Fremen name, “Muad’Dib,” as a battle cry; in the film, the Fremen are surprised to find that saying “Muad’Dib” is a powerful trigger for the Weirding Module.

A friend and I were talking on skype in May 2011 and everything seemed fine. Then I related a conversation that I had with one of the HBI staff about something I had been doing recently. The other person started to say “Eric” and skype totally crashed. We tried to reconnect 8 times to no avail! I finally had to reboot my computer and use a code word when I spoke about the above mentioned guru.

The next evening, I was talking to this person and another on skype. I told a story about an experience that two of us had the weekend before that related to Eric Robison. I just got the word “Eric” out and skype crashed again!!!

Could it be that in the days leading up to the big Portland event in 2011, even the mere mention of the word “Eric” is enough to crash a computer network? Could “Eric” be a weirding word?

Possibly. ;)

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Portland – A.I. – The Game

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Ray

This was originally published on June 30, 2011.

On a Saturday night, in June 2011, I went out scanning with two other navigators around Portland. We decided to head west away from our hotel. After walking around for about half an hour, we felt like we should make a right hand turn up a street. We walked around a large building that turned out to be a church with bars on its basement windows and a keypad on its door for security reasons. When we got into the parking lot, we paid attention to the details. There were some interesting temperature changes – from very hot to very cold. Then there was a wind that didn’t feel natural. There were also some areas where we felt a shift. After 20 minutes of scanning the area, we walked down the street. Then, a large group of young people came by us. One of them said to the rest of the group just as they passed us, “It looks like you just missed it.”


On Tuesday night, Kara DeWet, Paul Mahoney and I decided to go out scanning. I asked Kara which way we should go and she said, “That way (which turned out to be west).” Paul and I both felt that was the way to go as well. We made a few turns left and right as we scanned the area. We ended up at a high voltage building about 25 feet long and about 10 feet wide. On one side of the building was + – + – + – + – +. The same thing was repeated on the other side of the building. When we looked closer, the first was actually + on one side and – on the other side like the polarities of a battery. So it actually was nine + and – combinations.


In Eric’s lecture on Monday, he talked about binary code – the base computer code which consists of off and on switches. 0 is off and 1 is on. We later realized it was the first of a long series of off and on sequences. If you see one or two of these sequences, it’s probably just a coincidence.


We decided to go over towards the church that three of us had investigated earlier. We went around the other side of the church and my crown chakra lit up. It felt almost like I should have looked up but for some reason, I didn’t.


Then we walked to the parking lot and experienced some more temperature changes. We found an area that felt as if it were a dimensional spiral. It felt as if I could be pulled right up towards the sky or as if it could be a door to something else. As we stood in certain areas of the parking lot, the night light went off and on, off and on, off and on.


Then Kara pointed out an interesting guy that walked by the parking lot and down the street. It was as if he was pulling us towards him so we decided to follow him. He turned left at the next intersection. By this time, our third eye and heart chakras were starting to go crazy. Then a series of bicycles drove down the street with lights that went off and on, off and on, off and on. It all seemed very synchronistic. We passed by a number of blue lights and red lights.


Then a fire truck came down the street – red and blue lights flashing. We came to an intersection with a stop sign ahead light and an arrow pointing ahead. But my navigator and Kara’s felt like we should make a left turn. We went by another church with a blue neon sign in the front of it. Then another bicycle drove past with its light flashing off and on, off and on, off and on.

Right about then was a red car where the front part of it extended out of a building. It was so surreal. It was a car probably from the 60′s and the front of it was sticking right out the front of this house. It was bright red.

For about 20 minutes, the clues were coming so quickly that we almost had to run and we couldn’t take time to determine which direction to go. We were in total non thought and we were following our navigators. It was very cool. This went on for about another hour with us following red and blue cues and off and on lights. We went by several churches along the way.


Then we came across a car that was double parked on the side of the road with its four way lights flashing. What could that mean? Caution? We had several clues along the way to look up but we didn’t realize that until after reflecting upon it. So at that moment we looked up in the sky and saw a light that was brighter than a star. It was moving across the sky but it didn’t have any flashing lights like an airplane so we deduced that it was probably a satellite.

As we focused on the satellite, a huge strobe-like light went off in the sky behind it. It was another off and on!!! We all felt it in our chest intelligence centers. As we looked closer at the sky, we saw a very faint “cloud” that didn’t feel like a cloud. It moved when we did and it came to a full stop at times.

After following that all the way to 20th Ave NW about 25 blocks north of the hotel, we came across three men and one woman. The woman said something to the man. Paul asked Kara what he said. She had to repeat it three times before we realized that the message was meant for us, “I’ll be in touch.”

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