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Photograph Moon & (?Mars?) Over Toronto

28 Aug

Click on Photo to Enlarge & See 2nd "Orb" or Planet

 

I took this photograph the evening of August 25, 2010.  I was (or so I thought) only taking a photograph of the beautiful moon shining over Toronto, just north of Lake Ontario.  When I looked at it in my camera after taking it, it was then I saw what appeared to be a 2nd moon.  Just to make sure my camera lens hadn’t jerked or made an error, I took several more – and this 2nd “moon” kept showing up.  Note: When I was looking at the sky, when I was taking all of these photographs, the 2nd “orb” that shows up in the photograph was, not once, visible to my naked eye.

My camera is a Canon Digital SLR – nothing particularly special.  I live on the 29th floor (penthouse) of a Toronto highrise, so am “up there” a bit.

Yesterday I received an e-mail newsletter and in it the readers were told to check the sky that evening for what I’d actually photographed 2 evenings before.  Yesterday I did go out and take a couple of shots of the sky, but no where to be seen (either with my eye or the camera) was this 2nd orb that you now seen.

Perhaps I was blessed and given a pre-release of what was to happen; who knows!  All I can say is it is amazing.

The writer of the news letter informed the readers that this 2nd orb, what would appear to be a 2nd moon, was or is in fact Mars, and he provided the distance it was from the earth and additionally said this will not occur again until some time in the year 2238 (sorry, sometime around then; I deleted the e-mail).

Just wanted to share this with my readers. Is it Mars?  Or…perhaps another planet we know nothing about?  Noticed the green hues…(smile) little green Martians?

P.S.:  Wonder if there is life on Mars, if perhaps they are looking back, down on us?  Who knows – I believe anything is possible, and most definitely believe that we humans have been around a lot longer than I certainly have been lead to believe.  Keeping ourselves open to the endless possibilities, really does make living an exciting time, now, at such a time as this.  To remain open to the endless possibilities is to be truly alive and thus consciously, perhaps, in the moment given eyes to see what…is there but appears not to be there.

Like I said, who knows!

 

Many Mansions – The Heart

28 Aug

When Yahshua was leaving his disciples he told them he was going to the Father, that he would be preparing a room for each in his Father’s house, for there were many mansions.

Yahshua told the disciples and the people of the day that the kingdom of heaven is within, that he and the Father were one and that just as he and the Father were one, so we would be One with them – thus no longer a them but an us.

Yahshua told the peoples to go into the closet, shut the door and pray – without saying it, my reading between the lines…the closets of each of their hearts (you and me).

For me, all of these words came together this morning (Aug 28, 2010) in my meditation time.  They are pieces of a puzzle for me, and possibly for you.  I’ve been going through some housecleaning (again another word comes to mind, again the word to clean the inside of the cup) and in the course of these past several weeks, possibly even months for it all blends, I’ve been in the closet of my heart and have actually undergone physical symptoms, but a week ago, of something being ripped out of my chest; it felt like I was having a heart attack…and it hurt; it hurt like hell.  Perhaps the physical pain was the symptom of the seeds of hell, anger, jealousy and divisiveness being ripped out of me, from the very roots.  It sure felt like that and if I think about the pain I can, even now, feel it!

So, back to my message this morning – you know one of those “Ah ha!” moments when the light bulb comes on, and the answer, the solution is so darn simple you wonder and might even speak out loud, “Now why in heaven’s name didn’t I realize that long ago?”

We are – hear me – we are, first of all Spirit.  We are made in His Image. We are a part of Him, just as Yahshua is a part of Him.  The Father is not divided, and if He can be given physical attributes, He has one Heart. His Heart’s desire is that none be lost.  The mansion, the room prepared for each and every one of us, is in fact in us, because we are in Him.

Guess what folks – just as I saw this morning – I am one of His many mansions.  He is residing in My Heart, in Me.  The room of me is being made ready, cleaned out if you will, for His Holy Presence for where He is, evil and all those nasty things cannot reside.  Perhaps, just perhaps the great physical pain I felt was because of His Awesome presence, the pending approach of His Presence to my Mansion when evil and all that is unholy, knew He approached…and like the spirit drove the pigs over the cliff, the evil fled from His Pending approach; He didn’t even have to arrive.  The greatest physical pain I felt at the height of it all was perhaps when He first stepped into the soil of my heart and the evil fled that had me captured, a prisoner of doubt and all that does not belong to and is not of Him who created me in His image.

Just perhaps, you and I, His mansions, are being prepared for an awesome indwelling.

In closing let me tell you that it was only yesterday I realized the front door of my heart was ripped wide open, to remain open, for the easy coming and going of Love.  When I first got this vision of someone taking my heart by their heat, fingers reaching into the centre and ripping the outside casing to each side…I thought it was that I might be cleaned out, and then the skin, if you will, would heal and close the open wound.  Yesterday I was told it would never again be shut.  There is still work to be done, for at some point soon, the heart of my mansion will have no walls at all – open for love to freely flow.  There will be no distinctive walls in fact to say that it is my mansion – it will simply be a mansion of love.  Ours – you know, Abba, Yahshua, the high priests and priestesses, kings and queens…reigning – One Heart, One Mansion.

In closing I share a simple phrase, a Truth, that has been singing (ringing, speaking) in my head most of this past week, even upon arising in the morning, and that is, Love hurts (but),Love Heals.  You see, I’ve spent most of my life running away from love, because I couldn’t stand the pain.  An extra sensitive and sensory person who seems to absorb the pain of others, I’ve spent my life avoiding feeling because I felt it was just too much to bear.

Then He showed me, had me know that I know, Child, love hurts (but in doing so) it heals.

 

The Heart – What Don’t We Know?

24 Aug

The heart; symbolic of love.  Love; songs and poems written through the ages about it being the answer, the cure, the everything.  A saying amongst many sayings, “Love makes the world go round.”

Conflicting teaches on the heart, many of which are found in the Bible/Torah:  like the heart is wicked, is deceitful, lies to us, can’t be taken at ‘heart’ value, has a hidden agenda.

The heart – the seat of our emotions.  The heart filled with hidden rooms, some locked, some we aren’t even aware of let alone have an idea of what’s behind those closed and locked doors.  The heart; when Yahshua said that the kingdom of heaven was within; and said to go into your rooms (closet) and pray, closing the door behind you – was he speaking of the heart.  The heart, today, a symbol of love as in ages gone by.  Conflicting metaphors, conflicting words used to describe this thing that keeps all of us alive.

How can the Bible/Torah describe such an instrument as being wickedly deceitful?  Did YHWH actually inspire those words that have been transcribed for thousands of generations of people to read as they sought…their essence, the Will of He who created them?  Has the deceit in fact been what man has chosen to transcribe?

A long time ago in a group setting where we were studying and sharing I prayed the Lord give me a hearing heart.  Can the heart hear?  Rather an odd thought, strange question; quite unbelievable is it not?  But is it that absurd?  The sound enters in through the ears, the canal and travels, does it not; does it really stop within the eardrum?  So, sound does travel.  That is a scientifically proven fact.  Does my heart hear your angry words, the gossip and the lies; the praise and kind words?  Is the heart selective?  No, if it hears, it hears all.

Is it so ridiculous to think that the heart hears?  Certainly the word sounds are planted within us; are they in the soil of our hearts, growing into trees of hatred or love; trust or distrust; peace or war?  Out of the issues of the heart springs forth….what?  If I were to guess, it springs forth what we choose to water; the seed of love, or the seed of hate.  Words, powerful; give life or death.

In support of the possibility the heart might hear, I am sharing with you an article I received from The Institute of Heart Math in my e-news letter from them.  It speaks of scientific investigation and possible truth that the heart has a brain…if that be the case, a hearing heart is not so absurd.

Just food for thought.  We must be open to new possibilities – or should I say actualities and realities and truths that may very well have been deliberately covered up to be hidden away from us – out of fear; fear of what?  That we might find our freedom to BE?

The “Heart Brain”
Did you know that many scientists and researchers today, along with neurocardiologists, believe that the heart, which maintains a constant two-way dialogue and relationship involving many processes with the brain, contains a brain in its own right.

 

The heart and brain actually influence one another’s functioning, and though not commonly known, the heart sends a great deal more information to the brain than the other way around. The information it sends includes heart signals that can influence a person’s perception, emotional experience and higher cognitive functions.

 

 

 

Intrinsic cardiac afferent neurons

Dr. J. Andrew Armour first introduced the term heart brain in 1991. Armour showed that the heart’s complex intrinsic nervous system qualified it as a “little brain.” This heart brain, the HeartMath book, Science of the Heart, explains “is an intricate network of several types of neurons, neurotransmitters, proteins and support cells like those found in the brain proper. Its elaborate circuitry enables it to act independently of the cranial brain – to learn, remember, and even feel and sense.”

One of the most important discoveries HeartMath researchers made in relation to the heart brain, which HeartMath also calls the intelligent heart, is that “intentionally altering one’s emotional state through heart focusing techniques modifies ascending neurological input from the heart to the brain.” This suggests that “as people experience sincere positive feeling states, in which the heart’s rhythms become more coherent, the changed information flow from the heart to the brain may act to modify cortical function and influence performance. These findings may also help explain the significant shifts in perception, increased mental clarity and heightened intuitive awareness many individuals have reported when practicing the HeartMath techniques.”

And you can experience a new level of personal heart and brain communication by practicing HeartMath techniques and using the emWave® Desktop.