Now, this is interesting. Yesterday, after I wrote my blog about getting ready to leave U.S. BANK because I don't want to be a part of the problem with the banking industry, I just happened to come across this related video. Honestly, it's worth listening to because she makes some great points about us ALL being a part of the problem (what serendipity to come across this at this moment -- what was I researching initially? Now, I've forgotten).

This video reiterates in another way what Joe explained on page 97 and the rest of that section. You can't really point your fingers at any one person or any one group when it comes to power blocs. They and we all work together whether we want to face up to that or not. But the more clearly we come to see that, the more we will find ways to escape at least parts of it. Just like the big banks. If we would all just refuse to bank at the big banks -- well, end of problem. The power bloc would be history. Of course, we might create another power bloc in the process, but who knows -- maybe it would be a good power bloc. As Joe also says they can work for the good just as they work for the bad.

Anyway, this is an interesting video. I like the title.

Don’t Watch this Video

Well, other than finding random videos, I have been super busy. Still working on a special project AND my mentor requested Chapter 3 of my dissertation -- yikes! I don't really have Chapter 3. I have information for Chapter 3, but it doesn't fit their template. I think with the bricolage we ought to just throw out Chapter 3. That's the chapter on methodology, in case you wondered, and they expect you to write it up like a typical positivistic or qualitative study. When we use the bricolage, we should just have a description of the methodology up front in Chapter 1 and go with the freedom the bricolage offers. To do it right, it should be totally improvisational with lots of hints and guidance from Hermes, of course. But, I just can't quite see the people in the high echelons of education going with that idea (even if they use it themselves). I, on the other hand, have total faith in the improvisational process. As I said long ago in these blogs, and several times since then, You Gotta Have Faith. 

Last night my Master Teacher gave me one clue for a video. We were discussing a language that doesn't have all of the extraneous words with no meaning that English has and he referred to it as a "tongue" -- you know, as in "language." So I looked it up on YouTube and here's what we have.

This is so cool! Just think, if blind people can learn to see with their tongues by reprogramming their brains, imagine the possibilities! We can take complete control of our consciousness and no longer have to allow those big power blocs -- the media, the government, the education system, the churches -- to mold and shape our minds! That's exciting!

What do YOU want to be able to do? What is YOUR dream? I think the stars are the limit (and there are no limits to stars).
Blind Learn To See With Tongue

One thing I have learned about phenomenology is that it is a very good practice to take those words in quotes (such as “rules of the game” on page 97 of Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction) and basically run them into the ground. What I mean by that is, phenomenology along with hermeneutics asks that we explore many, many meanings and many different contexts. Thus, today we are going to learn how you will be getting a Nuclear Reactor in Your Backyard soon! And it all hinges on the fact that the government defines “DECISION” as a sort of ramming "ROD." If you read this blog, you will come to understand exactly what I am referring to.

What is so disheartening about this is that to date, the government is refusing to allow safer alternatives for energy, such as wind farms in places like on Native American Reservations and the Appalachian Mountains where the communities WANT them.

About the RULES of the GAME
I learned long ago (when I worked at a Nuclear Power Plant, no less) that the Rules of the Game work like this: Tell them what you WANT and that is exactly what you DO NOT GET. So, what you have to do is LIE to them – “Oh, no please don’t put a wind farm here” – and the next thing you know, they will probably put that wind farm right there.

Reason I know these rules is because it is how they managed the Nuclear Power Plant. I call them military rules because I think that’s where they come from; all of the people who managed the nuclear power plant, were straight off the nuclear submarines. I figured them out during my pregnancy when I was working there. When I first became pregnant, I wanted out of the plant due to risk of the type of work I was doing (the radiation, climbing jobs that seemed to require violation of safety procedures – another example of two sets of rules: one that you know and another that you follow without asking questions, etc.).

Of course, I was STUCK in the plant, because they knew I wanted to work in a better environment. But, I figured out the RULES of the GAME. So every chance I got, I would say something like, “I love working here and I want to stay during my entire pregnancy.” It was only about two weeks before they moved me into an administrative position over in the offices -- and then when I became HUGE with the baby they didn’t even want me there. I was walking down the hallway one afternoon and my supervisor looked at me and sent me home -- and the baby was not even due yet. LOL

My teacher did not give me a song today, or last night, either. I need a song. Oh wait, just before he left he told me “hang in there.” Now that sounds like a clue to me so I will check it out. (He was encouraging me to stick with a writing project he has me working on in spite of the issues I seem to be up against). Here’s what came up to the top of the YouTube search:

Mike James Kirkland - Hang on in there

This has to be short today. I really have to do some work on a special project and finish that up so I can go back to work on my dissertation . . . you know how it is: It takes money to live in this society, so sometimes you have to bite the bullet and work a bit to pay for the basics like food, transportation, and a roof. At least it is very worthy project.

At any rate, my teacher gave a clue and said to use it to write today’s blog. The clue was “the more the merrier.” Here’s is what came to the top: Another video showing how the elite people have no qualms about breaking the rules about love and respect for someone you have committed to. This is an old movie, and so was “The Rules of the Game,” so it is clear that this very damaging behavior has been going on for a long time.  I guess people just don’t learn. What does this have to do with page 97? It is still about rules of the game in relation to couples and how some people think they don’t have to follow them. I think it goes with this sentence on page 97:

Those with the clout to decree what is universally valid find their power dramatically enhanced, as they are able to set up the “rules of the game."

And so they have set up the rules to make is socially acceptable to be unfaithful and to be able to divorce and remarry at whim. This destabilizes the family unit and serves to keep people divided, thus increasing the power of the elite – while at the very same time, they accept unfaithfulness as just a way of being for themselves. As dysfunctional as it is, it does not tear up their families because family is the whole basis behind those who are at the very top maintaining power. That was shown in a previous blog about the “Money Masters” and how they work to keep the money in the family through arranged marriages as such. Of course, there are many other factors that play into destroying the family structure, and those factors are created all around us and magnified so they are most effective in doing the dirty work of keeping people divided. 

The More the Merrier Trailer



And then there are Rules for this version of The More the Merrier. There is a lot to discuss here, but I will just post it and let people think about it and maybe watch the movie.
the more the merrier

Yesterday’s blog that ended with the song “Land of the Eternal Sunset” reminded me of the beautiful photos of a sunset and roses I took on October 2, 2012 right off my front doorstep. I have never seen anything like it because it was like I was right INSIDE the sunset. All but one photo were taken toward the East or South, not the West and the clouds were traveling over my neighborhood. I uploaded them all to my Flickr account – these photos can be used by anyone.

Here’s a link to SUNSET & ROSES

What do sunsets and roses have to do with page 97 of Joe’s book? I’m not sure, but it’s gotta be better than “Guns and Roses.” Here’s what came up for me in a search on sunset and roses. I personally scrolled down the search and selected this. I love the song. It seems it is also a movie, but I haven’t seen it. It is another movie about relationships (more rules of the game?). Then, I came across the second song and decided it fits in with this theme. I will figure this out tomorrow -- gotta get back to work on my dissertation.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Music Video
Soundtrack: BECK - Everybody's gotta learn sometimes
Original: The Korgis - Everybody's gotta learn sometimes

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being amongst the most creative and idiosyncratic musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock.  Wikipedia

Joel and Clementine - Remember Me

Birthday Wishes
If I could have any wish for my birthday, it would be that truckloads upon truckloads of food, water, clothing, money, and all kinds of supplies are delivered to the people in the world who need them most.

I happened to look up my name – my REAL name, my soul name, Sōferia – on YouTube, and here is a video showing all of the trucks, hopefully delivering these very items to the people in need, along with music to soothe their spirits.

soferia

New! Here’s a link to page 97

As yesterday’s guest blog conveyed, tonight is a full moon and also, significant, it is the eve of my birthday. I don’t usually make a big deal out of my birthdays. I have had too many. Last year turned out to be very special because I was given so many songs, which I ended up posting in my blog the next day. It seems that I am a magnet for music, which is amazing to me because I was never that much into music. Of course, music lessons as a kid were out of the question (poverty), but for a brief time we had an organ that I taught myself to play until it was sold because we needed the money. Other than that, I have gone long periods of time in my life without listening to music at all – you know the routine: get up early, take the kids to daycare/school, slave for 9 hours, pick up the kids, pick up Happy Meals, plop down in front of the “news” and “veg out” for the rest of the evening in front of the television, thus spending all of my waking hours in that “hyperreality” Joe talks about in this books – and then get up the next morning and do it all again.

Having a full moon on the eve of my birthday, what with all of the really strange happenings in my life the past couple of years leads me to the feeling that there is some sort of significance here. My teacher has not told me of any special happenings – yet. Last night, however, he asked me to contemplate whether life is real or just a dream (and to keep in mind that dreams happen instantaneously, although they appear to happen within a linear timeframe). I have thought about life as a dream before and have written about that, but not in the framework of an instantaneous event.

And so I considered how so many people these days want to manifest fame, fortune, and material goods (and make money trying to teach other people to do the same) but perhaps the real mastery comes from conscious control over time. If it is true that “life is but a dream” and if it is true as physicists tell us that time is an illusion and the past, present, and future happen simultaneously, then what we are doing during our Earth time (in other words, during our "days" when we are not “dreaming”) is simply manifesting time, stretching it. The real power comes from being able to stretch, bend, and fold space at will and thus controlling time, rather than attempting to manifest material things. How does this work? (The fourth video from the series under analysis, Forbidden shows how to escape through tunnels and wormholes). Well, if you are having a terrible experience, then don’t manifest more time! Fold space (it has to be space because that is what we are really dealing with, not time) so that you get past that experience more rapidly. If you are a real pro at manifesting time, you never have to confront that experience at all. And say that you are working on something important, such as a dissertation, like I am. Then you want to stretch time – manifest more of it so that you get the dissertation completed by the due date, a specified timeframe (which is illusory, but it has been socially constructed by yourself and the other people who have a stake in whatever is supposed to be due at that time). Of course, all of that is intertwined with material manifestation, which also is socially constructed. It’s complicated, so just go with it for now.

The ideal experience is to manifest relationships comprised of love, bliss, and ecstasy and stretch time by bending and folding space so that you can enjoy them longer (ultimately, eternity). But of course, that experience can be magnified and more powerful if you have had the other sorts of experiences to contrast it with – thus, the purpose of earth life. We suffer on earth, apparently so that we can experience the fullness of bliss and ecstasy. Once you get tired of the game of pain, the next step is to choose and create (with people you love) a new life of the future that is much happier and enjoyable and in which you create endless bliss moments (you never forget the pain of your earth life, but you also no longer need the pain to experience the love, joy, and ecstasy). This is where you have the power because you can create absolutely any kind of life you wish – even fairytales if that’s what you wish.

This is interesting: After writing the above (and it is now several hours later), I had one of those “open the book and jusft start reading experiences” that relates exactly to this discussion of time. I don’t believe I would have come across this information had I tried. I hardly ever read books cover-to-cover and have come to rely on this rather strange phenomenological experience of just opening to the exact page I need, but not knowing even what I was looking for or why. This time the book was Introduction to Phenomenology and I picked up for no specific reason in mind, other than I felt I needed to read more of it, opened it up to a part I had not yet read and guess what it was about? TIME. I serendipitously and instantly had opened to page 140 and a section called “Details and Perplexities in Internal Time Consciousness.”

It is so WEIRD! I wonder how many people experience this same phenomenon when they are in the process of learning. It makes me want to research this! I just randomly picked up the book from among many books piled on my desk right now and for no particular conscious reason. I am in that “limbo” state because right now I have run up against huge obstacles and I am “immobilized” not knowing quite how to proceed due to my lack of education to do this project and the hit-you-in-the-face reality of FIDURODian constraints being forced on me – and yet, here on this page in relation to my thoughts about time is a very complex discussion about time by the author of Introduction to Phenomenology, Sorokowski.

This excerpt starts out, “The domain of internal time consciousness underlies both the subjective flow of internal time and the objective flow of world time. It allows both of these flows to manifest themselves, and it is phenomenologically more basic than they are . . . it is a moment to them” (p. 140). And so, while people may think my thoughts about time and manifestation of time, above, are pretty far out, the discussion on pages 140-143 provides another even more bizarre perspective. The rest of this section in the book is worth reading. For some reason, it seems it is important to understand these ideas about time. Time as we experience it today is maximimally used by FIDUROD for power and control, and it is another one of those limiting constructs that hinders our creativity and enjoyment of just living life. It must be another one of those “rules of the game” that Joe has bracketed on page 97. I wonder how many rules are there and how many rules do we just accept as “norm” when in reality they have been imposed on us to keep us all in order, as conveyed on page 97. I STILL need to watch that movie, “The Rules of the Game!” I guess I will watch it this weekend, even though I’m totally swamped now due to deadlines and FIDURODian “rules of the game” for dissertations.

Continuing the Interpretation and Tying the Videos Together
It was so strange how yesterday’s blog ended with the video of a child’s art activity (honestly, I do not plan these things: the clues are handed down to me from the cosmos and my various teachers; I just look them up on You Tube and take the video to the top). But art is so important. It is important for our children, but I think the message here is that it is also important for the “child within” so to speak: Creative, artistic expression is a need for everyone. When we create art, we often create it innocently and what sometimes is revealed is what is in our unconscious minds – or even our collective consciousness, as if the cosmos is speaking through us to relay important messages. We need to heed those messages. I have learned that in a very disturbing way; if we can learn to heed those messages that come to us down through the cosmos, we would do things much differently. Not only that, I believe there could be no more secrets.

What was also interesting about this last video, it is called “Sun Children . . . “ and it ends up completing the hermeneutic circle for us by leading us right back to the first video in this sequence my teacher provided me, video No. 1, Citizens of the Sun. Thus, it creates a natural flow to wind back through the circle again, with another analysis after being informed by the previous. This should help us tie them together even better that what I am going to do today.

The overarching theme through these videos is the contrast between light and dark: sun and darkness and they really do follow a logical order, if you analyze them. We start out in life as video 1 portrays. We are citizens of the sun, full of love, light and hope -- eros and sensuality. We all have that as children before “education” and the devised society we live in smother us. Eros becomes stifled as we get older and, as shown in video 2, with the twisted version of sexuality forced upon us (remember on page 97 it was stated that Fiske contends that “power ‘is a systematic set of operations upon people that works to ensure the maintenance of social order . . .” Thus, as we become adults, our creativity, our love, our connection to our intuitive selves, our creative nature, and our very souls are stifled through our sexually repressive society and the dynamics forced upon us in how we are to view male-female relationships.

This has destroyed and hidden who we really are. We have forgotten our soul names, even (miraculously, if you have been reading these blogs, my name has been returned to me!) The next video, #3,  represents where we are now -- a point in society where so many of us are begging to be able to tell our real stories (and this is actually being more and more vocally expressed in education and social research as calls increase for moving away from the forced quantitative approaches that stifle expression and understanding). We literally can’t take it anymore. – We no longer wish to repeat the stories that are lies and yet we have been told are ours (like myths or archetypes, distorted history, etc.), but our own, personal and real, even painful stories – as the song, “The Story” portrays. Our consciousnesses have been squeezed down so tight, that we cannot bear the pain any longer thus we must break free. So she sings that she has broken all of the rules (Here, we have reference to “rules of the game” again) and “Baby, I have broken them all for you.” Did she taste the forbidden fruit, as Adam and Eve did (What was the forbidden fruit, anyway? Is it the knowledge that is supposed to be kept hidden from us?) Are the stories she is referring to love stories of our origins and repeated separations as twin flames (as represented by the twins juxtaposed with her words “Baby, I have broken them all for you”)? – thus, she wants to tell the story of the greatest love there is. This just happens to be the very kind of love that “power” in its complex configuration as Joe discusses on page 97 in the form of morphing, shifting “power blocs” has successfully prevented most of us from experiencing. And note that this is in stark contrast to the “King” in the last video who can produce King Magazine and permanently objectify the female to consume as he wishes – which falls within the tacit “rules of the game”. But the kind of love she sings about and wishes to tell her stories about, as the next video, No. 4 clues us into by its title is “Forbidden.” Just as Adam and Eve in the original creation story were forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge, so are we still today – and just as they became sexually repressed as punishment (a story no doubt arranged to set the rules in place and maintain social order through religious doctrine and FEAR), and chose to hide their nakedness (their very souls), so here we are today.

Only today, upon observation, we have an extreme manifestation of this power over us and FEAR has been successfully leveraged, as Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction makes abundantly clear. A lot of people call this phase the Postmodern condition, but what is that?

Sokolowski enlightens us with his take on postmodernism: “Postmodernity is not a rejection of modernity, but the flowering of the deepest impulse in it.” It reminds me of the observation and the philosophical discourse that informs us it is quite impossible to fully negate ANYTHING -- even if we try to by "negating the negation.” Joe discusses these issues in great detail in his work. So, this video by Forbidden is an expression of that postmodern condition and how dysfunctional we are, how selfish and greedy we have been, and the destructive toll it has taken in the world. And we are all complicit, even if we claim to be negating the harmful aspects that have manifested in our world – it is that yin yang idea we must come to comprehend: it is impossible because there are always elements of whatever it is we are negating encompassed in the “new manifestation.” Something tells me that this is the very idea Joe utilized to his advantage in his work. If there are always elements that will be included in the next manifestation and we cannot escape that reality, then by God, let’s CHOOSE which elements those are and take the ones that can serve us some good. Thus, he always found the good in everything and everyone. The concept of Yin Yang is, of course, much more complex than this, and it is worth studying in great detail -- I will do that soon. I knew there was an important reason my teacher wanted me to find that yin yang silver disk in my yard back during the Yard Treasure Hunt (scroll down to the picture and description).

This song, "Step-by-Step" by Forbidden, is also telling us that we need to fess up to our issues and change. We need to face reality here and decide to do something about it: “It is time to turn the table,” we are told – but we do not have to do it all at once; we can take it step-by-step. Many people can’t even do this, however, and so we fall into place, stay numbed out and allow ourselves to buy into our social regulation, working in dysfunctional workplaces as depicted by the “Get It” corporate office scene in video #5, and we continue to hegemonically support the system that is not working in our favor – anything for the buck and “security” in the short term. It is easier to go along with it than to change, another symptom of “hyperreality” and postmodernity that Joe discusses in his work. However, in part two of this video, once AGAIN the message is that the table is going to be flipped and the “rules of the game” (as bracketed on page 97) have changed. What do we do? The very last video, video #6, is again reminding us of the sun, the light, of our true flame we hold in our hearts – we can reclaim our twin flame and together we reclaim our selves, our souls. And should people wish to think that a one true love is a fabrication, again science shows us that it is not, but I will save that discussion for another time; I have also discussed it briefly in previous blogs. For now, I will just say, it is the FIDURODian “rules of the game” that serve to keep us “individuated” and totally divided in order to create doubt about what love is, about eros.  Lastly, I was given one final video yesterday with another clue: We are to be like innocent children again, engage in creative endeavors, bring back the light (the sun activity), reclaim our knowledge, bring back our intuitive nature that allows the cosmos to speak through us.

There is a very interesting and powerful relationship between emotions and intuition and intelligence, particularly love; researchers are only beginning to understand it. Joe had it figured out and it was why he stressed LOVE and ART and MUSIC and CREATIVITY, etc. AND DESIRE AND CRITICALITY…we need it all (Don't throw the babies out with the bathwater). And again, what he is saying in this passage (if you can find it), is that HE has flipped the tables with his work and he is asking on page 97, for us to feel the power “Can you feel the power?” He is talking about the power of LOVE and the power that is in our hands, or at least can be – he has shown us with his work how to create a world based on eros. For that reason, I believe his work is worthy of deep study, understanding, and application.

Of course, it is much more complex than this, but these blogs are not the place to get into all of the complexities or discuss it using educational elite terminology – they are only designed to provide food for thought and I hope to encourage people to read and study Joe’s work. The hermeneutic circle created by these seven videos can be engaged again and again and woven back through page 97 with alternative interpretations, new perspectives, and deeper analyses. Who knows what surprises will be yielded.

So . . . have we found the “big whopper” on that page? That was what got this analysis started – my teacher “over yonder” told me there was a big whopper on this page and even provided a Burger King video a few days ago to remind us that’s what we are supposed to be looking for. Personally, I think what Joe did with his work qualifies as a big whopper and he qualifies as being KING (a recurring theme in these blogs that began way back on the King’s Valley Treasure Hunts) for his dedication and hard work. And while that is all very, very big and very important and I am certain that in the future his work is going to make a monumental difference, at the same time, I am getting what I call “nudges” that there is something else on that page that may also qualify as a “big whopper” – but I don’t really know how that’s possible. Joe said his book would change the world, and here on this page he has told us how he flipped the table, changed the rules, and all we need to do is read his work and apply it in our own ways, of course, that fit for where we are in the world -- and we can feel the power. I will have more tomorrow . . . and it’s my birthday! It seems to me that my teacher should give me a gift and my wish is to learn what the other “big whopper” is on that page!!!!

Here’s a link to page 97 if you want to check it out for yourself. I’m not sure how this happened, but one of my random google searches today actually pulled this page up, so I figure it’s important to provide it here. I had actually googled the word, “thanocentric,” a word Joe uses often to describe the Western fixation with “darkness” and “death” versus “eros.” I did not know what it meant so I googled it and up popped the link to page 97!!! Can you find the “table flip?” And can you find the other “big whopper”? I honestly don’t think we are done with this analysis YET.

Meetings with My Master Teacher
Basically, I just worked a little on a special project, with him giving me some advice for a new direction with it. He gave me three songs to look up and I suspect they relate to the other six other videos that are supposed relate to page 97 (now seven, counting the cute sunshine video from yesterday).

Here are the clues: “new,” “moral,” and “blue memory.” For some reason, new and moral reminds me of the moral majority and perhaps with “new” tacked in front of it, my teacher is predicting a “new moral majority” the likes of which we have never seen. I hope not! We do not need the “moral police!” (Joe said that in an article he wrote). It does relate to the weird religious/science/political power block he talks about on page 97 and which was highlighted when I had pulled up the song “Crying in the Chapel” with the word “allies” that he has “bracketed” on that page signifying it is a phenomenological term we need to look at more closely. Well, here goes the search on these three new words; let’s see what comes to the top.

“new”
Sales Cloud
This first video to the top is an advertisement for a marketing tool that is so complicated and crazy that I cannot even imagine using it. I suppose it will serve those people who fall for our competitive, greedy FIDURODian world that has only money on the brain. I have noticed that YouTube is changing their rules: Lately, if you’ve noticed, the music videos that come to the top of searches have had advertisements. Good old YouTube: GREED GREED GREED. They have to make their big bucks; making money is one thing, but clearly here in the Marxist, sense, YouTube is focused on ever-increasing profits. We all need to make money, but to ever increase profits is massively destructive, in case people have not noticed. YouTube has changed the rules of the game to massively increase profits: THUS we have to change the rules of OUR game. I will change the rules from this point on to take the FIRST video from the top that does not have an advertisement. In my estimation, YouTube should be happy with the money they already earn from all of their advertising. WHY do they need to destroy the world?

Here is the second video for this search:
Linkin Park - "New Divide"

This song reminds me of the dream I had last night; it was not a happy dream, but apparently it was necessary to integrate some of my bad memories.

“moral”
NAPALM DEATH - Morale (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

This video, with its reference to napalm, is a war protest commentary about the innocent lives that have been lost (as represented by teddy bears and swings, merry-go-rounds, carnival rides, etc. moving but with no children). Toward the beginning of the video, the guy is wearing a t-shirt that states, “Stop War.”

“blue memory”
Perfect Blue - In Memory of Satoshi Kon

This video was made in memory of Satoshi Kin, a great Japanese animator who died in 2010 of cancer at only 46 years of age. This song reminds me of how Joe always mentioned the “blues aesthetic.” It is a very touching song. The girl in the song knew the artist and loved him, and even though she is feeling so bad about the loss, she sings on in his memory.

So, it looks like we are on depressing topics, now, but I “get” these messages, do you? They add onto the other videos -- I think this means that things are going to get a little worse before they get better. But don’t give up hope -- just take it “step-by-step.” Things will get better! As Joe even said in his book, it is the darkest before dawn, which is true, even if that is a cliché. But if we all work together across that New Divide (as shown in the first song), we can flip the tables and change the rules faster.

One last video and REMINDER: Don’t drink the bathwater. Joe never threw out the babies with the bathwater! Now, I realize he was implementing the Yin Yang philosophy because as I stated above, you can never negate something completely. As Yin Yang shows symbolically, there will always be some aspects of what you are negating enclosed within. He just knew how to save the babies with LOVE (Eros)!!! As I have mentioned so many times, that was his favorite idiom because he knew how to see the best in everyone and everything. His theory takes the best even out of the worst, so he has all of these creative ways in his books of saying he did not throw the baby out with the bathwater. ON THE OTHER HAND, I do not advise DRINKING the BATHWATER!!! (Thanks, again, to Rich Gibson for this cute video. Be sure to read his blog – he has some great information and more great videos relating to education).
Don't Drink The Bath Water

Art gives your child a chance to express themselves through their imagination. Art allows children to explore and understand their world through creative experiences that emphasize the process of art, not the product. When your child is creating there is no right or wrong way, only their way. (Art instruction does not have specific guidelines for children to follow like a craft.) Art allows your child to be free in their creative mind.
Sun Children Art Activity | Cullen's Abc's

Have you ever noticed that when you learn a new word or idea or concept, it just starts popping up for you everywhere? What’s that about? Recently, for me, it’s been the word, KING. For example, a few days ago, back on Thursday, October 14, I was describing getting married in my “dreamlife” and how my husband was going to be crowned KING. And I discussed how it was going to take place in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii where, once they became influenced by Western culture, they changed from having their societies formed through chiefdoms to adopting the idea of Kings. In fact, King Kamehameha was a very celebrated King in Hawaii, but that’s another very confused historical account.

The story of how Hawaii became a state is also confusing because although the majority of the residents voted for statehood, by that time, only 15% of the population was Native Hawaiian. In that blog, I also explained how I envisioned being a King through a different epistemology than the Western worldview and that it did not mean it was a power position. It was a position of honor and the people select the King because he has shown that he will put the people and their best interests first and take care of their every need in a very honorable and honest fashion. He has to have proven his acts are based on love and compassion and that he’s very humble. The next place the word KING popped up for me was on Saturday, October 16, in relation to the discovery of my new name!

As I had magically discovered that day my “real” name is Sōferia  -- at least that was how I interpreted that sudden epiphany during which out of the blue I heard as plain as day the word, ”Sōferia,” even though I had never heard of it before. I was so curious about the meaning of the name because I felt (or remembered?) that it was my name and that it had great significance. When I googled it along with the word, “meaning,” a book by Foucault came up, The Hermeneutics of The Subject: Lectures as the College of France 1981-1982, and explained the many, many Greek meanings of the word, which originally meant “salvation” but not at all in the sense that we view the word today. There are many uses of the word with subtle differences, but it in no way means the Christian conception of salvation. And in the book, Sōferia was also discussed in relation to being KING! Here’s what I had written (and I was discussing the idea of “bracketing” which phenomenology requires us to do when we research):

The meaning of King is so significant because an epistemology of Power that the Western world ascribes to associates power, control, elitism, and ownership to the idea of King. Just a couple of days ago, I was talking about being crowned King and Queen and how people need to (now I know the right words) BRACKET their first ideas of what it means to be King or Queen – that it does not mean a power position to be crowned King or Queen in my “dream world.” This excerpt that I was very magically led to describes the role of King very differently – more in line with the way I understand the role.

NEW (OLD) MEANING OF KING!!!
The noun, sōferia is Greek and means salvation. The verb, “to save” is the word sōzein and one of the many meanings described in the excerpt cited is “to do good” --  to ensure the well-being of something, someone, or in the collective sense, people. Thus, in Dio Chrysostom of Prusa (discourse 64) the King is the one “ho tap anta sōzōn” which means the King saves and is interpreted as “the one who saves everything.” Thus, as the authors state, “the King is the person who spreads his benefits over everything and concerning everything. He is the source of well-being in the State or the Empire” (p. 183).

Then, on top of all of that, the video for that same day, Saturday, October 18 which came to the top of the YouTube search by plugging in the clue “adopted” that my teacher had provided for me that day, was none other than a Burger KING video!!! (Check it out – it shows the Burger King being chased by a bunch of apes. This is significant in several ways (and the movie of the adopted guy was significant too): This analysis of page 97 of Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction was all started because my teacher had said there was the “BIG WHOPPER” on that page. Big whopper, of course, is the hamburger from Burger King as opposed to the Big Mac from McDonalds (there is a message in here somewhere). This makes me think of Joe (I kid you not) because of his book, The Sign of the Burger. You must read that book! How many hambugers did Joe eat in High School? (He may have qualified to be the Burger King.) I love this book because he shows how to use the bricolage and explains and defines everything so well instead of using educational jargon you can’t understand – and he provides many new perspectives for viewing how companies like McDonalds intertwine with our lives. I really related to the account of the single woman who was thankful for such affordable meals for her kids – with toys! I lost track of how many Happy Meals I bought for my kids – it was so much easier (and happier!) and even less expensive than going home and fixing a good meal after a long, hard day of slave work. Ah, yes, I STILL go to McDonalds on occasion – wouldn’t you know it: It is the ONLY convenient fast food place in my neighborhood....but I very seldom stop by at this point (I rarely even want “meat” these days).

I have digressed from my original story, but I had to mention Joe’s great book, The Sign of the Burger. SO, after all of this STUFF about KINGS the past few days, I have been working on my dissertation of course, and reading some of Joe’s work and what do I come across YESTERDAY???? An explanation of KINGS in Joe’s book!!! How serendipitous is that? I am reading out of his book, Getting Beyond the Facts (2001 ed.), which is 818 pages LONG, and what page do I land on, but one in which he is talking about Kings and Power!!

I was reading on page 285 and Joe discusses, in contrast to hierarchical orders in which the higher orders wield power over lower orders, there are also “heterarchic conceptions of order” and he explains that instead of the “divine right of kings to govern,” if “orders exist, they exist side-by-side: if one order dominates it is merely temporary and is subject to a variety of rapidly shifting forces.” He also explains on this page that on account of “this heterarchic conception of order, any simplistic notion of determinism is destroyed” (p. 285). I happen to like that a lot!

I was pleased to get another piece of understanding how being a KING does NOT mean you rule over someone. It means that you are their salvation, their Sōferia, in the ancient Greek sense of the word, not in the Christian deterministic sense. You care for, about, and take care of the people and they are confident you will represent them and their wishes; and at the same time, you are still one of the people. You are not in any way above them or better than them. It is a heterarchic conception and you are BESIDE the people. And to think my name is Sōferia, meaning “salvation,” in the sense of “taking very good care of.” Of course, I am NOT the KING, I am “merely” the wife of the KING, that is, the QUEEN in my dreamland – and although I don’t know the significance quite yet, being the Queen is another example of the heterarchic, “next to” positions, not hierarchical. Thus, I sit next to my husband the KING, not below or above him. I am sure I will be divinely led to more information when the time is right. In the meantime, I am so glad that I was serendipitously led, through the natural evolution of my research to learn much more about KINGS and POWER.

I am sharing this account for a several reasons. First, do not be afraid to dream and to share your dreams. They are intertwined with your learning process in some major ways. I hope that by my sharing this, it helps people realize how this is so and to begin noticing and following those serendipitous and synchronistic events that pop up during learning. Contrary to what we are led to believe, it is NOT getting “off track.” Following them seems to lead to deeper learning and understanding….I just wonder, how deep this epistemological journey about KINGS will go. Another thing that I have noticed is that it truly makes learning so much more fun, interesting, and relevant!

Also, if you get really good at it, you can begin to define for yourself who you really are. This is all explained in Joe’s work. We do not need to let someone else’s epistemology define and mold us. (His book, The Sign of the Burger really demonstrated how we are shaped in this manner and thus provided us information for taking control and escaping that form of power.) This is why I can say that my name is Sōferia. Who says it CAN’T be? Only those who would wish to exert power over me. In addition to the interesting information about KINGS and heterarchic power in Joe’s book yesterday, another important “take home” message I read relates to this very issue about being free to construct our own identity:

The critical social studies teachers devoted to the value of subjugated knowledges uncover those dangerous memories in reconstructing the process through which consciousness of various groups and individuals have come to be constructed. Such an awareness frees teachers, students and other individuals to claim an identity apart from the one forced upon them. Indeed, identity is constructed when submerged memories are aroused. In other words, confrontation with dangerous memory changes our perceptions of the forces that shape us, which in turn moves us to redefine our world views, our ways of seeing. . . . When history is erased and decontextualized, teachers, students, workers, and other citizens are rendered vulnerable to the myths employed to perpetuate domination. (page 249).

Thus, Joe has given us some very powerful and empowering messages – and some things I believe that we need to think very deeply about, both on a personal level as well as collectively. I hope to remember much more about who I really am, as Sōferia.

Here’s today’s song. My teacher gave it to me last night. The clue was “pack” and it brought this up. Do you got your vans on (that look like sneakers)? I think you’re supposed to STOP supporting NIKE (Coke whites are NIKES)…this reminds me of Joe’s book, The Sign of the Burger, and how it is so hegemonic to support these big companies. This song seems to be a commentary about hegemony, although this is just one interpretation and there are more, of course. It could also mean you do not need to wear NIKES to be KING!!! We are free to construct our own identities outside the NIKE (or McDonalds) epistemologies that are based on myth for the purpose of domination -- just as Joe's work shows us.
The Pack - Vans   Lyrics

At least I figured out MOST of it, but I have sneaking suspicion there is MORE! If you recall, the beginning of this epistemological journey that revolves around the analysis of page 97 of Joe’s book began with instructions from my teacher. He had asked me to do this analysis and had stated that “the Big Whopper” is on Page 97. Yesterday, we had a reminder of the “Big Whopper” with that funny video by Burger King. It was a clue that we are getting close to figuring things out, but I think there's more to that somehow. In the video, of course, the guy found out his parents were not his real parents. In fact, his parents are pretty weird, but they did a good job of making HIM feel like the weird one. I really related to that personally, since my own family has always looked at me as the “black sheep” of the family. I never fit in with them, ever, and being the only girl with four domineering brothers made it quite difficult. I tried to fit in, but I could never understand why they seemed to enjoy dysfunction (creating problems, noise, and disruption), greed and selfishness, being locked into the white, male, Western epistemology (and later on, “born again” Christian doctrine). Of course, I also grew up with a very heavy dose of racism and sexism, as well as what Joe referred to in Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction as “the Devil’s Radio” (check that out on YouTube). Discovering my REAL name yesterday (see that blog) was so helpful in that regard. Now I can even further “alienate” myself and I can gain a better understanding of why I am alienated. But, even those words are wrong, somehow. I really need to learn more! As I learn more about what my name means, I end up remembering more about who I really am and where I am really from. My name is Sōferia!!!

Even though yesterday I had touched on some of the original Greek meanings of the name, (thanks to a google search that had serendipitously brought up Foulcault’s work) relating to its core meaning of “salvation” I have not even begun to touch on all of the twists and turns the meaning “salvation” took as Power came to play in the picture and then Christianity with its particular implications (and motivations) along with the rather unexpected power blocs Joe spoke of on page 97 in which science and religion became very strange bedfellows, combined with political and economic forces that all worked together to exert a new form of power. When you look back at history, it is easy to see that those power blocs have been morphing in and out like that for a very long time; it is not a new phenomenon. Once you have the biggest systems that control people’s lives all aligned in certain aspects (religious, educational, political, economic systems), even if they have a different “take” on what “salvation” means or doesn’t mean, it suddenly becomes a very powerful way of constructing your consciousness all to the benefit of those systems. Of course, Joe has explained this so eloquently and in such great detail and depth in his many works; reading his work makes it all very clear. “Salvation,” as a word, is very powerful today in many realms, and as an influence on related or derivative words, it has taken on an even greater and more ominous form of power.

I am going to have to buy the book by Foucault that explains all of the meanings of Sōferia (salvation) and study it some more, along with all of the history surrounding the word so that I can better explain what I am referring to. We use this concept today in at least two very powerful ways (think in terms of religion and in terms of personal emancipation) and both definitions keep us focused in the wrong way (that “one true reality” Joe described as a component of FIDUROD), thus we allow outside forces and their epistemologies to construct our consciousness for us when we should be choosing for ourselves how we wish to define the word and construct our consciousness based on that. Personally, I would like to return to the Greek meaning because it is based on a more humane and freeing epistemology, a different world view, especially when compared to its morphed meanings of today. I will explain another time: I need to get the Foucault book that discusses this word throughout history and a history book to correlate with it. It is amazing what is in just one name, such as Sōferia (salvation), if you start researching and put it in context with history.

I had an amazing “epiphany” yesterday right after I awakened from a nap in which I had a dream in which I was given some amazing clues. Page 97 is more important than anyone is going to realize for quite some time – it really is “the big whopper.” Time will bear that out, if you are among those who can’t seem to see what I am talking about. I have certainly given enough clues. My teacher was not lying about the importance of page 97 and the “big whopper.” But I have also been asked not to go into all of the details right now; just hit on the highlights, which I have pretty much done. The rest will come later, for those who cannot “see” the special treasure Joe left on page 97 or the ramifications and personal relevance at the moment. I have already given more clues than I probably should have. It is sometimes better to let people figure things out for themselves because it is more “shocking” to the consciousness and then it jolts people out of their deep sleep more effectively. When the time is right, we come to understand. And don’t get me wrong: I am not being arrogant, because there is much more I don’t understand about many things, but I don’t blame myself anymore. Knowledge – all kinds of knowledge and for all kinds of reasons – has been and continues to be hidden. That should not be so.

I can talk about my dream, though, that I had yesterday afternoon. When I awakened, I remember I had been looking at some sort of documents or articles by Joe, Albert Einstein, and John Locke and I had the impression that I was to put them together somehow – a bricolage. That’s what I woke up with, but then after looking at page 97 again, I realized that it was not John Locke, but John Fiske or maybe it’s both John Locke and John Fiske. Fiske wrote the book Power Plays, Power Works. I had not quite remembered the last name right, perhaps, but I was close enough that I was able to figure out that John Fiske, along with Einstein’s work and Joe’s work has some sort of powerful synergistic relationship – Joe does not reference John Locke in this book that I can see from the author index. Somehow he does play a role in all of this, but not in good way. According to Wikipedia: “Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Bacon, Locke and Newton ... I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral sciences".Today, most contemporary libertarians claim Locke as an influence. Wikipedia. Thus, there are two sides of this “coin” and the other side includes Bacon, Newton, and John Lock.

Of course, this is all just random right now. There are some more missing pieces that need to be critically “bricolaged” together. Like what does my personal story and the multiple meanings of my name, Sōferia, have to do with all of this? What about the story I’m creating: How do the three children who are supposed to change the meaning of trinity (from the "original" idea of Christian salvation and the first nuclear bomb) fit into this picture? How does my real name, Sōferia (salvation) fit into this picture? What about Einstein’s theory of unity, which was, in fact solved according to my sources? Is this another piece of hidden knowledge? I have a lot of things to figure out yet and there are things that have yet to evolve over the next year or so in order for all of this to make sense. . .

Song for this Morning
My teacher gave me the following clue for a song this morning: “time will take care of itself” so I’ll see what comes to the top of the YouTube search. It looks like we are supporting two more new rising stars:

It Will Take Care of Itself - Just Your Daily Dosage

it will take care of itself commentary

Wow, yesterday’s blog was fun. I love to let my imagination run wild and it was so cool how it ended up being totally related to the analysis of power blocs on page 97 of Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction. (I honestly did not plan that; it just happened.) It just goes to show, we can make learning so much more fun and personally relevant. I would love to learn more about the history of Hawaii. It is such a beautiful place and I loved the Hawaiian people I met while I was there. I actually lived there right near Kailua-Kona for six months so I became acquainted with many people from diverse cultures. I even tried some foods I probably would pass up today (I am pretty much vegetarian now), but I was quite immersed in some different lifestyles, ranging from getting to sample traditional Filipino cuisine to living in a shack on the beach where there was no food at all. I even learned a “new” language while I was there. The Hawaiians have their own version of “English” that combines multiple languages and it’s really a lot more fun language than plain English.

Yesterday, I happened to come across Joe’s explanation of one of his uses of quotation marks! He calls it “BRACKETING.” We have to set aside our everyday immediate interpretation and understanding of certain words, concepts, and ways of being so that we can understand other possibilities and experiences. It actually can enrich our lives tremendously. It is a phenomenological technique (which I had discussed earlier in relation to Sokolowski’s book, Introduction to Phenomenology, but I still wasn’t completely understanding it). BUT I came across Joe’s explanation yesterday and it makes so much more sense to me now. SO that means some of his MUSIC Easter Eggs and MOVIE Easter Eggs are not exactly Easter Eggs (although I don’t think he would mind if some of us still want to call them that – and keep in mind, this is only ONE explanation of his use of quotation marks. He used them for several different purposes).

Thus, in this case I am referring to a phenomenological method of telling the reader to BRACKET what’s in the quotation marks, or as Joe stated, “consciously setting aside everyday, accepted assumptions about one’s immediate perceptions” (p. 206 of Getting Beyond the Facts, 2001 edition). The quotation marks remind me to do that and the funny thing is that I tend to use them automatically myself when I am writing – and what did my university writing instructor tell me about it? “Don’t use quotation marks!” So now I realize that it is just one more example representing what Joe defined as FIDURODian positivism: There is only ONE TRUE REALITY so you can’t use quotation marks in writing. The words you use must only have one true meaning. It looks like it gives me one more thing to teach to my university.

Going back to page 97, Joe is asking us to BRACKET the idea of “allies” and “rules of the game” which means setting aside our first impression of what these ideas mean. I don’t see how it’s going off track at all by calling them “Easter eggs,” because by searching them up on YouTube I found both a very relevant song “Crying in the Chapel” and a very relevant movie, “The Rules of the Game” as I had discussed way back at the beginning of this analysis of page 97. How better can we interrupt our immediate perception and interpretation of these words than this? I think I have now even BRACKETED phenomenology!!!

Oh well, I am going to watch that movie this weekend. It has been sitting here waiting for me to watch it. For now, I will remind readers how relevant “Crying in the Chapel” is to what Joe is discussing in this section about power blocs (Again, go back to the beginning to review the song that came up on the YouTube search). What more destructive power bloc has there been recently than the holier than thou right wing Christian moral majority and the positivistic scientists in alignment with destructive political and corporate interests working together to create a bunch of robotons who cannot think for themselves? It makes a person want to cry, all right, but don’t expect relief in these chapels.

So what do you think? Did Joe use MOVIE and MUSIC Easter eggs? What is that at the top of the very last page of this section in his book? What is he talking about on page 99-100 where he states, “It is also essential to understand the dystopian world of sorrow, unnecessary death (often as some of its members proclaim a so-called pro-life position) and oppression this power bloc is well on its way to creating. Hello Mad Max, welcome to the Thunderdome.”?

Morning Meeting with My Master Teacher
This morning my Master Teacher gave me a new idiom and I actually know what this one means, so I am going to look it up on You Tube to see if a really cool song comes up. The idiom is “stick in your side” you know when someone is always there getting on your nerves, trying to screw up your life. Some people are just like that.

Here’s what came to the top of the YouTube search on "stick in your side":

OMG I LOVE THIS!!! (How does my teacher find these great videos!!!??) Click through and give this performer a thumbs up!!! Everyone seems to love it.
stick by your side

I was just reviewing and reminiscing over the emails I had received from Joe. I needed more specifics about the book he had asked me to write, what I had actually written for the book so far and had sent to him for his feedback, etc.

I discovered this crazy Freudian slip. I hope Joe was not shocked by it; knowing him, though, he probably laughed (but then, of course, he never gave me a clue that he found it funny). He had such a great sense of humor. While this is embarrassing and I would have been beside myself had I been conscious of it at the time it happened, I find it pretty humorous now. I’m lucky he never told me to get lost! It was too clear that I idolized him and you are not supposed to idolize critical theorists, especially Joe for some reason, which I have never figured out. But, fortunately, he understood; we all have to have our special role models and he knew (because I told him) how much I loved his work.

On September 19, 2008, he had sent me an email asking me to write a book about online critical pedagogy. I was really excited because it was going to be my very first book and I had been sitting at my computer at the very moment the email came in, thinking that I needed to write a book because there were so many topics relating to online learning and I couldn’t decide which one to write about for his journal (he had already asked me to write an article for his journal).

This was the very first sentence of the email I wrote back to him:

Joe,
Thank you! I am very excited about your proposal, and the answer is an immediate, yes!

OMG…That’s it for today. A lesson in watching how you word things so that you don’t manifest something you might not wish for. If it matches your wishes or deep unconscious desires, more power to you! Some people believe that passing through the 10-10-10 gateway of Oct. 10 now gives us more manifesting power. I won’t comment one way or the other, yet, but things are looking good so far, minus a few distractions. The distractive elements have me busy today fighting the Fidurodians all around me.

How does this all relate to page 97 interpretation? I think it’s just a reminder to be sure to consider all interpretations, even the unconscious meanings, perhaps. Maybe it relates to multidimensionality in that there is never one “true” interpretation, but there may be many “true” interpretations as well as some that may not be “true.” We must be careful with our assumptions.

Message for Yelling Men
For all men out there, here is a warning: Don’t yell. There is a new question on the application for people who need government health care that asks the applicant does their husband or partner yell? I KID YOU NOT! SHHHH….what do you suppose the gov is up to now, collecting this kind of data? Are they going to round up all of the men who yell and put them on a train to nowhere?

Oh, wow, I just had a thought (one of those gifts from the cosmos that comes to you when you are relaxed and not thinking of anything in partiular). I think this government search for yelling men must be an indication of one of those weird, shifting, power blocs Joe was talking about on page 97. Think about it: If the Defense Department and the Human Services align, what better way to be able to find healty, YELLING men to recruit into the military. It makes basic training a little easier, since they already know how to yell. It has the added benefit of splitting up families, which of course, they like to do because it is an important one of their "divide and conquer" tactics. Be sure to warn everyone applying for health assistance of this strange question on the form and to think hard before answering it so that you manifest what you really want.

My teacher just gave me one song for today -- which was my good night song last night (but I passed up the wine he had suggested). The clue was:

“Take a little taste of wine before your head hits the pillow”
The You Tube search brought up this lovely song:
Experience Unlimited - Taste Of Your Love

There are 10-10-10 celebrations all over the world today. Many people have speculated about what this day means, but for all it means new beginnings. After reading many perspectives the last few days on what people judge is the significance of today, what the numbers mean, etc., I relate it to Joe’s work: It is the beginning of the end of FIDUROD (read his book Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction to see how overarching FIDUROD has been in our lives). I see changes every day. The old IS falling away. New paradigms are gaining power. The old dualistic paradigm, in particular, is falling away (it just does not work anymore and neither does the positivistic research paradigm) -- a holistic, unifying paradigm is gaining in strength; consciousness is expanding. This will continue faster and faster – so fast it could make some people feel very dizzy if they are not holding on.

It is a revolution. Joe had once told me that it would be a “perpetual revolution.”

In other words, once it starts, it will gain its own momentum and there will be no stopping it. And in case people need to know all of the meanings of “perpetual” they are: continuous, uninterrupted, lasting, unending, long-lasting, permanent, continual, constant, enduring, undying . . . I like the last one, “undying”: there are many people who believe we are close to realizing – fully comprehending -- true immortality.  We are Spirit, as they say. And as Michael Jackson sang, “This is It!”

And so, let the perpetual revolution begin!!!

We are not going to cry a river during THIS revolution – we have already cried too many bloody rivers over FIDUROD – it is now time for FIDUROD to cry a river over us, which is probably why my Master Teacher gave me the following special song for this special day. He asked me to look up “I will cry you a river” on YouTube and this is the song that came to the top – a perfect song as we move forward to a new beginning in which WE no longer have to cry, but rather we will be leaving behind the crying remnants of FIDUROD. The divine feminine is leaving FIDUROD and its greedy, hate-filled systems behind and returning with a new POWER -- the power of love -- which is very necessary to create the balance needed in the world. What better and more beautiful song to represent this than Dinah Washington’s “Cry Me a River?”
Dinah Washington - Cry me a River
 

My teacher gave me several other clues, but I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to look them up on YouTube and post them or not. To be safe, I’ll post them (so I can get a “good grade”). Here are the clues and the videos that came to the top of the YouTube searches:
Take care
Enjoy your day
We shall meet again

I hope you enjoy these as much as I did!!! (I think he was trying to provide something for everyone, from the kids on up to the adults to all of the Christians and people who believe in Jesus).

“Take care”
Fullmetal Alchemist - The Untainted Child


“Enjoy your day”
Alkaline Trio - Enjoy Your Day


“We shall meet again”
We Shall Meet Again - Mississippi Mass Choir

There are so many messages for 10-10-10, but I selected this one because I believe empaths have a particularly difficult time and need to know they are divinely protected through what may be tumultuous changes. People who are not empaths really do not have a clue how much of other people's pain we experience. It is almost as if because we rarely feel our own pain, people think we cannot experience pain at all. Joe referred to people who are empaths as "sensitive" in his books, and discussed how he was always particularly concerned about these students. In preparation for the changes that are sure to come with the 10-10-10 (what some people call Gateway), this message is for all you EMPATHS out there so that you know you are specially protected.

Arch. Michael's Blue Ray Angel Number & Power Protection Grid for Empaths & Ultra Sensitives 10:10

a message from Archangel Michael channeled by Shekina Rose / Blue Ray

Saturday, 9 October, 2010 

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I, Archangel Michael, in unison with the Blue Ray give to you the Double Blue Ray Sword Power Protection Grid of Archangel Michael. This comes straight from the highest order of the warrior force protection archangels' legions of Archangel Michael Blue Ray Codes of God and Creation. This is a reply to you as we in heaven and earth have heard your prayers and call of protection so you may be sovereign in your divine power of shining Glory.10:10 12:12

The Double Blue Ray Sword Power Protection Grid of Archangel Michael will assist you in coming back into your bodies to give you the greatest protection of the universe, thus being your “I am embodiment” of Higher Self - Soul Power, that is merged in harmonic concordance to the cosmic pulse of Gaia's Christ Grid. This is a realignment frequency shift to the galactic core – what you call ascension and coming of the new age of Light. The Archangel Michael Grid will assist to prepare you for this next level of complete Divine Alignment and ascension in your bodies for the 13-33-333 Christ Grid emergence anchoring of the Mother's heart of Creation, the Shekinah.

Protection and assistance for the empathic ultra sensitive Blue Ray, Light Bearer, and Star Beings to anchor the Shekinah on the Gaia

You, the Blue Ray, Light Bearer, and Star Beings who are of empathic ultra sensitive nature can sense and feel the bombardment of increased energetic and solar radiation activity from the ascension process, higher and lower dimension vibrations from group consciousness and shifting frequencies of Gaia, that may have put you out of your bodies and out of divine alignment.

This can be typical of an ultra sensitive empath being and especially for the blue ray. Due to this increased energetic overload, your auric field may have leaks and bleeds from stress, causing you overwhelm, fatigue, periods of exhaustion, anxiety, heart palpitations, heart ache, pain, difficult breathing, needing greater nutrition and minerals. Please seek the counsels of your health and holistic providers, as even though these can be ascension symptoms, you may still be in need of assistance for your body. We wish to point out that your evolutionary new earth bodies 33 are now requiring greater care of love, energetics, nutrition, minerals, and emotional support, and with increased time and alignment to Nature, they require an upgrade of what you have normally been doing.

Archangel Michael's Blue Ray Angel Number 55

I give to you now my code number vibration of 55 and spirit animal the eagle with my colors being blue and gold with red. When you see this number vibration and/or my spirit animal the eagle appearing in your life, know it is Creation's almighty power of God's hands through Archangel Michael and the Blue Ray clearing all obstacles and lower density, creating a higher pathway for you. I speak to you in many ways and this is one you can come to recognize as a sacred communication of Creation; the universe is speaking to you and it is in constant movement to serve your highest soul intentions.

The meaning of 55 and new frequency of 10:10 Stargate

You are God in form; your hands - each one with five fingers, represent the almighty hands of God, that equal 55 - twice the power protection of God, that equals 10 which means a full cycle is complete and whole. Once you reach this level you may experience a higher frequency and choose your next course of activation. The 55s are the action and power of God's movement of the universe to bring wholeness and balance in whatever you are praying for to bring you forward into life.

Archangel Michael's Double Blue Sword of Protection

The double blue swords of protection are literally an energetic matrix X, that come down in front of your sacred heart and solar plexus creating a Power Protection Grid from all that does not serve your highest nature to your Christ I Am in form. The double blue swords of protection ground and neutralize overwhelming frequencies so you may feel in your bodies your true power and essence until you feel/sense that you do not require this assistance anymore.

This is a Holy dispensation of Archangel Michael and the Blue Ray to nurture and honor the sacred divine feminine within you. So you may experience greater trust to commit fully to being in your bodies and being home here on Gaia. This creates huge amounts of accessible life force empowering your path of Light and Divine Original Blueprint power source.

The protection grid creates an energetic stability so you may participate more in your world, giving your immune system a chance to build greater strength and resistance. This will create a spiritual awareness cognizance to your earth bodies through the electromagnetic pulse of Gaia so you may balance yourselves at will to the Cosmic Pulse. This leads to the ultimate protection and power, the emergence of oneness and unity – wholeness. You, the sensitive empathic Star Being, are already designed and programmed for this unity telepathic communication of the universe - it is the true way of your Divine Blueprint.

Archangel Michael's Double Sword Protection Grid & Electromagnetic Balancing

Prepare your body and spirit by touching your 3rd eye and higher heart the sacred heart, making an 8 sacred alignment then take arms crossing them as in a X fashion over your heart chakra and still crossed flip down over your solar plexus, hands straight reaching to the heart of Gaia, then back to your heart to seal grid.

Then say:

In my Beloved I Am presence of the universe,

I am ready to release what no longer serves my highest good and greatest joy,

I call Archangel Michael, the Blue Ray Codes of Light, Legions of Michael's Warrior Force Angels, and invoke your Double Blue Ray Sword Protection Grid now, so I may be in my divine power and sovereign self now!

In Grace, Elohim, balance my Electromagnetic energies to Mother Gaia's perfect Harmonic Christ grid;

Empower and harmonize my energy fields and body to radiance and perfect vibrant health;

Release all interference, disturbance, lower density, any energetic in any form not of my true core essence and well being to Source Creation, never to return to my space again, as I instantly seal, align and balance all my energy bodies and fields in my higher self alignment of peace, now!

Please, Archangel Michael and my Holy Christed self, do what you know needs to be done so I am whole and in complete divine alignment.

Thank you and it is done!

We know of your highly evolved and advanced gifts of light, this is who you already are. We sense that you wish to go beyond and we say that is your great true Mastery of being, to bring yourself and divine essence to your bodies, to Gaia. As you do, what you have sensed and felt will come true - that you are so much more. We are giving you the ancient sacred technologies for you to build upon and create the new age of Light; this is what is required for you to reach the next level and frequency shift.

Come back home to your bodies and into the sacred heart which will activate your divine blueprint, what you came here to do, restoring the ancient codes of Light back to the cells of your God DNA. This is your place of longing for home that was encoded by your soul before birth and was done not so you would wish to leave or feel alienated here on Gaia, on the contrary, so you would remember, awaken and fulfill your destiny - to know the holy power of the sacred heart in your body, the true connection to power and source right where you are. It is time to bring all that you are to Gaia, as all of Creation is your home in the heart of God, your I Am consciousness of being truly alive. 13

Continue to receive and be open, be at home where we can find you so we may give to you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven. 333 We are one with thee in divine alliance in the cosmic heartbeat of Creation.

The Blue Ray Beings are an ultra-sensitive, empathic soul group like the Indigos that came from many different ascended planets and light realms to enlighten the genetic code of humanity and raise the God consciousness on Gaia. They are the lost ray of the Light Worker.

“Shekinah”, a Hebrew word in the "Language of Light", is a mentor of the Blue Ray. Shekinah is the lost aspect of the sacred Divine Feminine of Creation that is the embodiment of God, the ascension process. Blue Ray is the soul group consciousness of the highest aspect of all Blue Rays. Together we give you these transmissions.

Copyright © Language of Light vocal sound transmissions by Shekina Rose of www.shekinaspeaks.com - Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this article and videos on the condition that the URL www.shekinaspeaks.com is included as the resource and that it is distributed freely and on a non-commercial basis. E-mail: shekina444@yahoo.com

I was out running errands today, and just as “someone” always does – they either play special music for me in the stores, or they whisper it in my ears. Today, it was whispered in my ears, “Signs, signs, everywhere are signs.” (It's ok, call me crazy.) Thus, we have this song for today:

Signs Signs, Everywhere a Sign


The significance is clear. I am still working on page 97 of Joe’s book, Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction and trying to figure out how you really do “hermeneutical analysis.” What is it? How do you do it? Where do you begin? When do you know when to begin? When do you know when to stop? And how do you decide when the time is right to “begin again?” Honestly, as a mere human earthling, I really do not have the answers and I don’t think I can figure this out on my own. I am going to have to ask for some divine guidance, but I will end this for today because I have so much stuff to do, including trying to figure out this problem. And we are coming up on a special celebration that has my complete attention. I will explain more about that tomorrow – and after the celebration, I will get back to Hermeneutics.

I do believe this message about “SIGNS” is very relevant for interpretation and that it extends far beyond semiotics as presented by the educational community. I will just have to wait and see what my Master Teacher provides me in the way of direction and lessons. Don’t miss it: I am sure it will be very “Enlightening.”

10:10:10 - Woken2012

a message from Scott Rabalais

Wednesday, 6 October, 2010 

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There’s hardly a subject that has created greater contention than the idea of truth. For ages, scholars, philosophers and pundits have stated their cases over whether or not a creator exists, whether there is life on other planets and whether there is an afterlife, among other questions.

In our recent history, the pursuit of truth has been largely an intellectual one. Scientists and researchers work at the forefront in exploring the nature of existence by means of hypothesis, experiment, analysis and logic. The human race is accustomed to ascertaining its version of truth through empirical means and the use of the intellect, rather than stepping into the transcendent state. It is in this higher consciousness that we experience an entirely different view of truth.

 In perceiving ourselves as light, we in turn perceive truth. This truth is who and what we are. It is standing in the midst of that which is the essence of the cosmos and seeing the entirety of our existence with clarity and purity. It is a “knowingness” that is beyond the short reaches of the intellect. It is a realization through resonance rather than logic and deduction. At this level of awareness, there are no beliefs, judgments or opinions; there is no longer the need for proof. The truth is, plain and simple.

When we are unaware of our nature as light, our awareness is limited to this body/mind sensory experience. Anything outside of that experience is seen as the “unknown” and, sometimes, “unknowable.” It is in that state we tend to create theories, creeds and beliefs to satisfy our intellects about the “beyond,” rather than traveling the inward journey to a direct realization of truth.

From our awareness as light, we see the human experience from a higher perspective. When the light being (soul) wishes to incarnate on the planet, it incorporates a physical being into its consciousness. This physical being consists, in part, of a sensory system that allows the soul being to function on the earthly plane in a third-dimensional reality. Among the capabilities of this sensory system are the five commonly-known senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. These five senses are basically vibration receivers and transmitters that allow us to perceive our immediate environment.

While our sensory system entertains vibrations through our five senses, the ability to create thought is also inherent within the human mind system. Thought is simply energy that is translated by the mind system to be of use by such system. Thought itself is simply a function or byproduct of our sensory system, though it is manifest from the light.

In transcendent consciousness, we realize that this sophisticated body/mind system is but a “spacesuit” we wear while on the planet, much as an astronaut would wear a spacesuit on the moon to allow for physical existence in that unique environment. While we are aware that the spacesuit is not the astronaut himself, on earth we are often inclined to see the body/mind “spacesuit” as the identity of the human being. We identify with our human sensory system and thinking mind as who we are, while unaware of our infinitely expansive “identity” as a light being.

Interestingly, the body/mind “spacesuit” we wear for our earthly existence is of the light, as is all existence. It is not altogether accurate to pronounce that the body/mind system is not real or is an illusion; it is simply a frequency of light that is compatible with the third-dimensional experience. Light has numerous frequencies, including those perceived as thought and matter.

In light (truth), we see that all is energy, even the densest of matter. All of our senses are energy. Our bodies and our brains are energy. Thought itself is an energy of a higher and faster vibration than that of matter. Each thought has its own vibratory rate.

Everything that we see, hear, smell, taste and touch is a representation of the light. Our bodies are light constructs that exist within our consciousness. We do not see them as light because we perceive them through the sensory system that serves the third dimensional experience. It is only when we can transcend the sensory system that we see all as light and energy.

The manner in which we experience all as light is by significantly deactivating the sensory system. What is meditation other than quieting the senses? The typical practices of meditation often include closing the eyes (sight) in a place of quiet (hearing) in a still position (feel) while also keeping the taste and smell stimuli to a minimum. In meditation, we are able to perceive higher-frequency energies that go virtually unnoticed when our sensory system is highly activated.

Consider a typical experience in which we are bombarded by five-sense stimuli. Merely walking down a busy city street will trigger our senses to an enormous degree. We view the tall buildings and passersby. We hear the honking of the cars and casual conversations. We smell the foods being cooked in nearby restaurants and vendor stands. We feel the ground at our feet and fiddle with the storekeeper’s wares. And perhaps we munch on a pretzel, thereby engaging all the five senses in a single moment.

It is a world of adventure, and it is ours to experience and enjoy it. However, we are capable of putting aside the sensory “spacesuit” and thinking mind to experience the stimuli of the higher realms as well. We are so, so much more that just what we experience through our sensory system and thinking mind. The perceptions of the five-sense system are infinitesimally microscopic compared to the perceptions beyond this system. The wisdom of the light is far, far greater than the knowledge of the mind.

The experience of watching a movie is comparable to our own five-sense perceptions as a human being. When viewing digital media on a movie screen, we, of course, do not see an actual actor. What we perceive is simply dots on a screen. These dots are energy, as is all existence at its core, and such energy is perceived by our visual sense and projected to appear as the actor.

When we view a human being “in person,” the same holds true. Their nature is energy, yet we perceive them as humans. What we experience is simply a projection of that energy that our minds read as a solid, identifiable human being. Without the human sensory system, we would experience them as the light. Instead, we read them as a body, clothes, words spoken, a distinct smell and so on.

Interestingly then, when we watch a movie, we are viewing a projection (movie) of a projection (person). It’s a double projection, yet it can seem so real that we react to it with laughter or tears; we are involved in the story. This is the purpose of the sensory system and thinking mind – to translate and interpret the energy for use on the third-dimensional plane.

The transcendent view is one that allows us to experience a third-dimensional reality while being aware of existence as light. We can enjoy the sight of a beautiful sunset, the scent of a rose, the sound of our favorite song, the taste of ice cream and the feel of a warm hug. And yet, paradoxically, we are aware that we are light and that all of existence is this same light, and everything we experience is another aspect of who and what we are.

Our experience in and of the light is truth itself. We do not encounter truth only by reading books, researching the atom or following a religion. As we discover our deeper nature, we fall into truth. It is there, waiting for us. When we experience it, we know it. It cannot be explained or proved, for explanation and proof are of the intellect. In higher consciousness, we realize we are the truth and the truth is us.

Copyright © Scott Rabalais - Permission is granted to copy and redistribute this article freely on the condition that the author’s name is included with the article.


Meetings With My Master Teacher
As always, he was very supportive. Do you ever have negative thoughts that just seem to enter your mind and you don’t really know where they come from? Like “What a dummy!” or “You are so stupid.” Etc.

Last night in my dream I was lost all night. I was trying to walk back home and everywhere I went, it was the wrong direction and it was in the city and blocks were so long. I wanted to go back HOME, but I could not find the right street and kept going way off in the wrong direction. Finally, I caught a ride with this Black guy who knew how to get me home. I don’t know exactly who he, was a neighbor, I think, but he was going to help me get back home and, instead, he fell asleep at the wheel and kept driving the car faster and faster! It scared me to death. I had a really hard time getting him to wake up, slow down and get me home. When finally he woke up, it was like no big deal that he had fallen asleep. As if to justify why he fell asleep at the wheel, he asked me, “Have you ever been married?” In other words, he fell asleep because he was married and bored to death or something. I am not sure what the connection was, but it was like, if I had been married, I should know that all married men fall asleep behind the wheel. There was some kind of message in that. For some reason this strikes as being very funny. Of course the dream could be interpreted many ways, but I tend to take my dreams more literally than getting into all that psycho-mumbo-jumbo. This just felt like an eperience in another dimension or place or time, or something, although there are messages from the dream. For me, the dream literally means how many of us so often fall asleep at the wheel of our marriages and that today, as I have often brought up, we are in a new era in which marriages will acquire a whole new meaning and significance. And these new marriages are related to making sure we can all get back home.

I don’t remember if I ever got home, I assume I did because I woke up feeling fine, aside from some negative thoughts (“I’m sick of you!”), which I discussed with my teacher. He said that I am just picking up negative vibrations from the cosmos because I allowed my vibrations to dip too low (as in my “mood” after having a dream about wanting to go home and waking up here again). He called the negative messages “drift” and told me to pretend I am pressing the “delete” button and erasing those messages. He reminded me that it was not that long ago that I picked up those messages daily and that I have come a long way. So if you hear those negative thoughts, just know they are not yours; they are drift and the way to get rid of them is to delete them and raise your spiritual vibrations by practicing things like mediation or relaxation and don’t forget the violet flame. I wrote a blog quite some time ago about that along with some great music to help. The violet flame dissolves away all of that negative stuff. Or sit in the bathtub or in a candlelit room, burn some sage incense and relax. Or go out into nature. Whatever makes YOU feel good – that’s what will keep those negative thoughts called “drift” from reaching you.

Other than discussing that briefly, we are both very busy, as he put it, “taking care of business.” Literally. He has me working on a HUMONGOUS project plus several smaller projects that will tie into it and my dissertation. So, I need to get to work.

Ooops the songs. The clues he gave me were “drift,” “delete,” and “taking care of business.” Let’s see what comes up with these. I have a feeling it’s going to be a great day!

“drift”
This Looks Like FUN!!! RC Cars. I like the music, too – and it says “to be continued . . .” I wonder what’s next.
2010 Drift Stars the Movie "The Need for RC Speed"


Delete A track of Younha's latest Korean CD, A PERFECT DAY FOR LOVE DECLARATION.  This is a pretty song. It’s about a woman who broke up with her man. As I have said before, (and this even relates to my dream, above) in this new era people who are not with their twin flame soul mate will likely experience break-ups. This song has great advice – Delete that guy (or woman) from your mind. LYRICS

 

Last but not least, “Taking Care of Business.” I know this song, if it turns out what it sounds like, and I like the song. But, with my teacher, you never know what will turn up at the top of the YouTube search, so here goes:  Oh COOL – it IS the song I like and it’s by DUDE PRODUCTIONS....there is a message in that but I will have to come back to that another time. Anyway, I love this song. And it time for me to “take care of business” that is, the very special and HUMONGOUS projects my teacher has me working on...bye.

BTO - Taking Care of Business

This message is relevant for everyone, but particularly for those of us who have been blessed as SCORPIO. Evidently, we experience what’s described here even more powerfully, especially if we are fully aware of our multidimensional human “being.” I hope everyone has a great trip! It should be more fun than a rollercoaster ride. 

Metamorphosis

The Venus Cycle

Rebirth

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