07-26-2017, 12:00 AM
I do not think it is on kindle, but it's on google - see the link I provided. You can download the first 2-3 chapters there as a sample (that is quite a lot since the book is not very thick).
I put it here because of connections to things we are doing in Ravenfield and I thought if I put it in the public part others might enjoy it too
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For me, personally, this is a very close and also fascinating topic.
I find it fun how most of us get curious about the sky and clouds. That exercise she did with moving clouds - I did that too when I was a kid heh, but of my own creativity (no one told me to try it).
My dad is a meteorologist, so I could also name the clouds pretty early on and knew which were of what type and such. I have a close affinity to water in general and to the wind as well.
I do not know how I got close to this specifically... like the author remembered the instance when she connected with the thunderstorm. I had also times when I went out to the coming storm, but my memory of this is not very good. I do not remember one instance where the connection transpired. There were important things I remembered later and I always find it strange how I could have forgotten them... but so it is
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I am not going to go into how many times I moved and which countries I have lived in and the languages I learned as a consequence and so on and so forth heh.
What I do know now is that I have lightning in my body. It comes up when I am healing or diagnosticizing heh or when I am divining. It starts as a strange tingly feeling in my palms that almost immediately shoots up my arms and into my shoulders, then spreads out. If I am touching, for example, different stones and this sensation comes up when I touch one of them then I know that this is the stone I should work with etc. Or if I work with cards, that is how I know which card to pick. In diagnosis, it tells me which area of the body to focus on. It is a very strange sensation. It kinda tickles a little bit too. But you cant scratch it ofc since it is deep inside the body.
(Sometimes the soles of my feet tingle, but I do not know if that is related
or what to make of that yet.)
Some people told me I gave them the impetus to go into deepening their awareness (shamanism etc). In some instances I know this is taking place, it is like something takes over and I share things and say deeper stuff I would otherwise not have shared in such situations (for example when the person comes and I do not know them even and we are in mixed company and I say something quite inwardly spiritually shamanic lol and it would not be something I would normally decide to do in such a situation. And it is also not that I have to talk to those people specifically, they are just there in the group and listen). In such situations, I am aware of this gentle push on me to shift into that mode and I can choose to follow it or not. If I do then I shift and am not exactly myself (in the way I described). Then I share stuff. Since it happened a couple of times I know now when/why it is taking place. I know sometimes for which person the invitation is extended, but not always (also it does not always have to be in the form of speech sharing).
One of my favorite interactions, since forever, is finding ways where the person realizes things. I love watching that spark light up in a person's eyes. In some sense when I talk of it here now it is like a lightning seeking for ways how to touch base with the earth. Once it does there is a spark. Ofc sometimes one takes a route that does not go anywhere and has to backtrack hehe .
In this youtube video, one that was shared by glance left in Ravenfield, one can see how the lightning is born and how it makes its path to the earth. The interesting thing I found here is that also what is on the earth responds to the lightning. "As this stepped leader gets close to the earth it has an extraordinary effect on the objects on the ground. They respond to the strong electric field by growing positive streamers. These reach out anywhere between 3 and a few hundred feet above the ground, as seen in these rare photographs. Finally, when a stepped leader and a positive streamer meet the electric charge can drain to earth, resulting in the blinding flash we call lightning."
In this sense, I find it fascinating, that something in the person is also acting like the object on the ground and I would also say this is why when the student is ready a teacher appears.
Another thing that I notice is kinda frequent is that people around me stumble, slip or fall. I was not sure what to attribute that to (just happens quite regularly so it is hard to say it is a coincidence), but thinking in the lines of this topic, it seems it might be related. No one got seriously hurt. The most dangerously looking incident was when a pregnant woman that was walking opposite me/ towards me on a sidewalk fell (this one I did not notice even stumbling, she just kinda was well struck down, maybe a slight faint? hmm). She fell down a couple of meters in front of me. Interestingly, she fell down right in front of a hospital. I do not know what happened to her after she was taken to the hospital. It seemed to me the fall did not injure her but she went for some check up as a precaution. There were people on the sidewalk that tended to her well being and called an ambulance for her (even though the hospital was like 50 meters away they still said they have to send one out lol) and who waited with her for it to come. Since people came to her aid before I could, I also saw my role in the situation was not that kind (we do not always have to be on the front lines of an action/situation). I helped from the fringes in ways only people like us could.
When these things happen I do not think / find it is related to me specifically.
Lightning, as an actor of/for the spirit (not an actor as performer but actor as in someone who acts/does acts) can stop, can rearrange, can also burn unhealthy stuff.
Already the first aspect of it - the stopping - is very healthy, I find. Stopping is the start of everything.
Just a couple of days ago, I was at the Stenness stone ring in Orkneys. There was a family there - parents and a son (later teen years looked like). They were not being very respectful at the place and they did not seem very presently aware. I watched many people come and go (I sat down on the grass a bit off the edge of the circle and observed). This family I noticed because they were standing on the stones and taking pictures. Something in me did not feel it was in sync. But it was not that they stood on a stone that was on the ground (because I do not think they were the only ones who did that), it was something else. Just as I noticed them being so, the boy made maybe 5-7 steps and slipped on/near a stone as he was trying to get close. This was one of the worst falls I have seen because the boy fell with his back on the stone that was quite pointy on top. The boy was visibly in pain for a little bit, he lied down on the grass and waited for the pain to pass, but nothing serious happened to him. Needless to say, he was a lot more careful and respectful afterward. In a little while, I noticed a change in the family. Just before they left the stone ring the boy hugged his dad and the mom was close to them too. They looked like something profound happened to them. It was quite a change from where I was standing. I was amazed at this.
The world is a beautiful place with magic all around us. The opportunities to be moved by spirit are endless.
I put it here because of connections to things we are doing in Ravenfield and I thought if I put it in the public part others might enjoy it too
.For me, personally, this is a very close and also fascinating topic.
I find it fun how most of us get curious about the sky and clouds. That exercise she did with moving clouds - I did that too when I was a kid heh, but of my own creativity (no one told me to try it).
My dad is a meteorologist, so I could also name the clouds pretty early on and knew which were of what type and such. I have a close affinity to water in general and to the wind as well.
I do not know how I got close to this specifically... like the author remembered the instance when she connected with the thunderstorm. I had also times when I went out to the coming storm, but my memory of this is not very good. I do not remember one instance where the connection transpired. There were important things I remembered later and I always find it strange how I could have forgotten them... but so it is
.I am not going to go into how many times I moved and which countries I have lived in and the languages I learned as a consequence and so on and so forth heh
. What I do know now is that I have lightning in my body. It comes up when I am healing or diagnosticizing heh or when I am divining. It starts as a strange tingly feeling in my palms that almost immediately shoots up my arms and into my shoulders, then spreads out. If I am touching, for example, different stones and this sensation comes up when I touch one of them then I know that this is the stone I should work with etc. Or if I work with cards, that is how I know which card to pick. In diagnosis, it tells me which area of the body to focus on. It is a very strange sensation. It kinda tickles a little bit too
. But you cant scratch it ofc since it is deep inside the body.(Sometimes the soles of my feet tingle, but I do not know if that is related
or what to make of that yet.) Some people told me I gave them the impetus to go into deepening their awareness (shamanism etc). In some instances I know this is taking place, it is like something takes over and I share things and say deeper stuff I would otherwise not have shared in such situations (for example when the person comes and I do not know them even and we are in mixed company and I say something quite inwardly spiritually shamanic lol and it would not be something I would normally decide to do in such a situation. And it is also not that I have to talk to those people specifically, they are just there in the group and listen). In such situations, I am aware of this gentle push on me to shift into that mode and I can choose to follow it or not. If I do then I shift and am not exactly myself (in the way I described). Then I share stuff. Since it happened a couple of times I know now when/why it is taking place. I know sometimes for which person the invitation is extended, but not always (also it does not always have to be in the form of speech sharing).
One of my favorite interactions, since forever, is finding ways where the person realizes things. I love watching that spark light up in a person's eyes. In some sense when I talk of it here now it is like a lightning seeking for ways how to touch base with the earth. Once it does there is a spark
. Ofc sometimes one takes a route that does not go anywhere and has to backtrack hehe .In this youtube video, one that was shared by glance left in Ravenfield, one can see how the lightning is born and how it makes its path to the earth. The interesting thing I found here is that also what is on the earth responds to the lightning. "As this stepped leader gets close to the earth it has an extraordinary effect on the objects on the ground. They respond to the strong electric field by growing positive streamers. These reach out anywhere between 3 and a few hundred feet above the ground, as seen in these rare photographs. Finally, when a stepped leader and a positive streamer meet the electric charge can drain to earth, resulting in the blinding flash we call lightning."
In this sense, I find it fascinating, that something in the person is also acting like the object on the ground and I would also say this is why when the student is ready a teacher appears
.Another thing that I notice is kinda frequent is that people around me stumble, slip or fall. I was not sure what to attribute that to (just happens quite regularly so it is hard to say it is a coincidence), but thinking in the lines of this topic, it seems it might be related. No one got seriously hurt. The most dangerously looking incident was when a pregnant woman that was walking opposite me/ towards me on a sidewalk fell (this one I did not notice even stumbling, she just kinda was well struck down, maybe a slight faint? hmm). She fell down a couple of meters in front of me. Interestingly, she fell down right in front of a hospital. I do not know what happened to her after she was taken to the hospital. It seemed to me the fall did not injure her but she went for some check up as a precaution. There were people on the sidewalk that tended to her well being and called an ambulance for her (even though the hospital was like 50 meters away they still said they have to send one out lol) and who waited with her for it to come. Since people came to her aid before I could, I also saw my role in the situation was not that kind (we do not always have to be on the front lines of an action/situation). I helped from the fringes in ways only people like us could.
When these things happen I do not think / find it is related to me specifically.
Lightning, as an actor of/for the spirit (not an actor as performer but actor as in someone who acts/does acts) can stop, can rearrange, can also burn unhealthy stuff.
Already the first aspect of it - the stopping - is very healthy, I find. Stopping is the start of everything.
Just a couple of days ago, I was at the Stenness stone ring in Orkneys. There was a family there - parents and a son (later teen years looked like). They were not being very respectful at the place and they did not seem very presently aware. I watched many people come and go (I sat down on the grass a bit off the edge of the circle and observed). This family I noticed because they were standing on the stones and taking pictures. Something in me did not feel it was in sync. But it was not that they stood on a stone that was on the ground (because I do not think they were the only ones who did that), it was something else. Just as I noticed them being so, the boy made maybe 5-7 steps and slipped on/near a stone as he was trying to get close. This was one of the worst falls I have seen because the boy fell with his back on the stone that was quite pointy on top. The boy was visibly in pain for a little bit, he lied down on the grass and waited for the pain to pass, but nothing serious happened to him. Needless to say, he was a lot more careful and respectful afterward. In a little while, I noticed a change in the family. Just before they left the stone ring the boy hugged his dad and the mom was close to them too. They looked like something profound happened to them. It was quite a change from where I was standing. I was amazed at this.
The world is a beautiful place with magic all around us. The opportunities to be moved by spirit are endless.