RealityShifters news - October
2002
~~ the RealityShifters ezine ~~
Changing the Physical Universe With Our Thoughts and
Feelings
The Winds of Time
Cynthia shifts reality with the
color rays
For what is time?
Who can readily and briefly explain this?
Who can even in thought comprehend it,
so as to utter a word about it?
But what in discourse do we mention more
familiarly and knowingly, than time?
And, we understand, when we speak of it;
we understand also, when we hear it spoken of
by another. What then is time?
If no one asks me, I know:
if I wish to explain it to one that asketh,
I know not
-- Augustine, Confessions
Time is like the wind. Sometimes it
seems to rush quickly
past; sometimes it stands completely still. We can struggle
mightily against time in a race against the clock, or flow
within this moment now to whatever comes next. We can be time,
and find our perspective on events completely transformed.
Over the years, I've noticed countless thousands of experiences
in which time passed more quickly or slowly than usual.
I've also: noticed time
come to a complete stop, spoken
to my
future self, witnessed people
caught in time loops go through the
same actions twice, been late but arrived on time because time
compressed during the standard trip, and heard a friend drive
up and talk to
my daughter across time (she in his future,
he in her past).
I've gazed at the sweep second hand on a clock in a meditative
state and watched the hand slow down, and then stop just as
I reached my most tranquil point. You can try this exercise at
home, simply by relaxing yourself and breathing deeply and
watching the sweep second hand on a clock. See if you can get
it to slow down. See if you can get it to stop.
This month's RealityShifters News brings you to that fascinating
point where eddies in the currents of the winds of time show
themselves to us. Perhaps the mystics are correct about all
time happening right now ("there is only now"), and that
we simply tend to observe it mostly following a linear path
from past to present. In these stories, we can glimpse a piece of
deeper truth about the nature of time, and our role within it.
Cynthia Sue Larson
In This Issue:
(1) Upcoming Events
(2) Your Reality Shift Stories
(3) Reality Shifting Award Winner
(4) Reality Shifters Shop
(5) Books That Shift Your Reality
(6) Join in the Discussion
(7) Noteworthy Web Sites & Ezines
(1) Upcoming Events
SHIFTING YOUR REALITY WITH
THE COLOR RAYS
Right now, at this very minute, the energy of your
thoughts and feelings is swirling around your physical
body in brilliant colors and shapes. As your mood
changes, your energy body also shifts, resulting in
a whole new blend of colors. When you are feeling
tense and stressed, you may attract the very things
that most annoy you. When you are relaxed and
energized, you attract everything you most desire,
and can radically improve your health and prosperity.
Learn how the colors of your energy field affect your
health and well-being, and learn how you can improve
your life by learning to assess and change your
energy field. Come to a talk with Cynthia Sue Larson
and Alijandra on Friday, November 22nd at the East/West
Bookshop in Sacramento to find out more.
Reclaim your inner magi and play with Cynthia &
Alijandra at their fun-filled, action-packed,
hands-on Aura & Reality Shifting workshop!
This is a day that can change your life for the
better, and is something you'll be sure to remember
for years to come. Attendance is limited -- so
phone (800) 395-5811 toll-free, to reserve your
space today!
Lecture with Cynthia Sue Larson &
Alijandra
at East/West Bookshop in Sacramento
2216 Fair Oaks Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95825
(916) 920-3837
7:00 - 9:00 PM on Friday, November 22, 2002
$8 at the door
A Workshop with Cynthia Sue Larson &
Alijandra
Reclaim your inner magi and play with Cynthia &
Alijandra in their fun-filled, action-packed,
hands-on Aura & Reality Shifting workshop!
This is a day that can change your life for the
better, and is something you'll be sure to remember
for years to come. Attendance is limited -- so
phone (800) 395-5811 toll-free, to reserve your
space today! http://realityshifters.com/pages/workshop021123.html
From 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on November 23, 2002
The Learning Exchange
1111 Howe Avenue
Sacramento, California
(2) Your Reality Shift
Stories
TIME SHIFT ON THE HIGHWAY
Karen
Clovis, California
One sunny mid-afternoon not too long ago, I was driving alone on
Highway 46 on my way to the sleepy little beach town of Cayucos,
California. I was looking forward to meeting friends at our beach
house there. I had made this trip countless times before, and
I was neither sleepy nor disoriented.
Shortly after I passed the spot where James Dean was killed over
40 years ago, a peculiar sign up on short stilts caught my eye
off to the right. It was somewhat hidden from view from the
road, but had obviously been there for quite some time. The
letters were red on a white background, and were placed in a
semicircular fashion (rather than straight across). As I
drove past the sign, I suddenly found myself on a sharp curve
(the road is actually completely straight at that location),
again approaching the same sign!
As I drove past the sign the second time, it became the stack
of a old ship, and I found myself on board looking up at that
stack. The ship appeared to be about 100 years old, and the
other passengers and I were dressed accordingly to fashion of
that time period. I got the feeling that we were on board
some kind of immigrant ship.
I'm not sure how long the time shift lasted and I don't
remember at what point I returned to waking reality, but I
have the feeling that the whole thing took place in an
instant, after which I was back driving down the straightaway
feeling completely disoriented in time. I can still
remember the images of the curved road and the ship with
crystal clarity. I've experienced more than a few
unexplainable phenomena, but this one still stands out in
my mind. I still drive past that same sign from time to
time, and each time I wonder if it will trigger another
strange trip.
By the way, I'm an engineer with a physics minor. I adore
physics, and am becoming more and more interested in
continuing in the study of quantum theory. I absolutely
love your website. You are an inspiration to me!
TIME JUMP: THE TUESDAY THAT NEVER WAS
Emily
Walnut Creek, California
When I was in fifth grade, I experienced a jump in time. I
first noticed something was odd one Wednesday when I was trying
to think about the day before, but I couldn't. I had a vague
memory of doing the usual things such as going to school, etc.
but I didn't have any memory of anything specific. I couldn't
remember what I'd had for lunch, or what I'd learned in school.
But the thing that really caught my attention was this: Tuesday
was library day, and I had a vague recollection of being in
the library and checking something out, but I couldn't remember
what I'd checked out, and I couldn't be sure that I actually
had gotten anything that day.
I never found any library books, and I never got any fines
for overdue books, but I know that every time I went to the
library I checked something out for myself, plus an extra
children's book for reading to my "second grade buddy" in a
program the school had set up. I ended up borrowing a book
from my teacher, who asked me, "Why don't you have a book
already?"
It was basically as though the day just didn't happen, and my
mind cut-and-pasted various memories together to make up
something ordinary that I wouldn't take much notice of.
AFTERNOON TIME-TRAVEL
Gary
Johnson City, Tennessee
In June of 1980, I received word that my paternal twin had been in an
accident, and was not expected to live. I immediately came home to see him.
He was in a coma, and my mother, his wife, and I took turns staying at the
hospital to watch over him.
On one of the days when I was "off watch", I wandered next door to the old
school I had attended in junior high. I sat on the steps, and thought about
the old days at school. I thought about going inside and touring the halls,
but didn't because there had recently been news reports about a possible
child molester hanging around playgrounds. Then I noticed 1950's vintage
cars coming to pick kids up about the time the bell rang. I left the
school,
and went home.
My mother asked, "What have you been doing?" I told her about visiting my
old junior high school, and how I had been sitting on the steps and
reminiscing about old times.
She replied, "That's impossible! The school was torn down two years ago!"
My brother lived by the way, but is handicapped.
DISAPPEARING/REAPPEARING COAT
Gary
Johnson City, Tennessee
I take my wife out to dinner every Wednesday. One Wednesday sometime during
the winter of 2000/2001, I wanted to wear my Levi's coat with the white fur
collar but couldn't find it. I went through each thing in the closet and
could not find it there. I asked my wife whether she had given it away,
and she said, "No." She came to help me look for it also, but she had no
luck finding it either. I selected another coat, and we went on to dinner.
When we came back home, I opened the closet to hang up my coat... and there
right in front of me was my Levi's coat with the fur collar.
TIME SHIFT ON THE ISLE OF LUNGA
Mimi
Baltimore, Maryland
Finally!! I found you through Google. Someone who won't
laugh or roll their eyes at my story.
I experienced a time shift this past summer on the Isle of
Lunga, one of the Treshnish group of islands in the Hebrides
west of Scotland. I had left the group as they photographed
the puffins and other sea birds to further explore the island.
It had been a gray rainy, all together typical, Scottish day.
But as I distanced myself from the group, the day became
beautiful, cloudless and warm. As I rounded the island I
could see Staffa off in the distance. We'd been there in the
morning and since I'd been there more than once, I recognized
it as an old friend.
I could then see the landing area where our boat had picked
up a landing ramp anchored off shore, and rammed it onto the
rocks for us to disembark. But there was no boat, neither was
there a landing ramp anchored anywhere. Strange I thought as
I neared what I thought was the top of the hill which would
lead me down to where we'd started. Only it wasn't as it had
appeared, instead it was the edge of a deep and narrow gorge
beyond which I could see the hill descending to the landing
area. I realized there was but one choice and that was to
retrace my steps.
We'd been dropped off at about 1:45 and had been told to be
back by 3:45. I looked at my watch and the time was 3:15. I
panicked because it had taken me an hour and a half to get
there and there was no way I could get back (recircling the
island) in a half hour. I pictured either a boatload of angry
people waiting impatiently as I scrambled over the rocks, or
worse, that they'd leave without me.
Bearing in mind that I am 56 years old, a bit overweight and
very out-of-shape, I tried to run. But one does not run on
a volcanic island that is covered with brachan and peat. It's
uneven. So I tried to find the path, but couldn't. This was
getting serious and fast. I had only one choice and that was
to circle back as best I could.
Yes, there was Staffa off to the upper left, (how can you get
lost on a small island?), yes there was that big island that
looked like a hat, Bac Mor. I had to be getting closer. Then
I realized it was colder, darker, and drizzling - didn't have
time to turn around to see if it was sunny behind me - had to
keep pressing forward. Finally I saw someone, a woman from our
group, sitting on a rock looking through binoculars. I
approached her and commented that I was relieved to see her
as I'd wondered a bit too far and was afraid I'd be late. I
asked her the time and she answered 3:15. I looked at my watch,
sure enough, it was 3:15.
I didn't say anything of course, just kept going and as I
rounded the bend, there was the boat just offshore with the
ramp still tied to it.
Later that night I went to a community gathering in the
village. The boat captain was there and asked me how I'd liked
Lunga. It was beautiful, I exclaimed. Funny, how the weather
broke for that hour, I said. He looked at me a bit strangely
and remarked that it had rained off and on the whole time.
I told him about my experience expecting him to think I was
crazy. But he said quite nonchalantly, that I'd obviously
walked into the "fairy time." "Yeah, right," I answered, "let's
have fun with the American tourist!" He said he wasn't kidding,
that it happened sometimes. He said time stops on the outside,
but continues on the inside. Sometimes people get lost in
there and never come back, sometimes they come back and they've
aged but the rest of the world hasn't. He insisted that it
wasn't unusual. I didn't believe him, still thought he was
pulling my leg.
I went back into the hall to sit with my new Scottish friend,
a local middle-aged lady whom I'd met when I first came to
the village. It was she who'd invited me to the party. I
then told her about my experience. Oh, she said, you've walked
into the mists. She explained it could happen any time any
place, but not that often. She'd never experienced it herself
but had heard of others who had, although she'd never met
them personally. She wanted to hear all about it and was
excited for me that I'd experienced it. I told her I wish I'd
known what was happening so I could have paid more attention
and remembered more details.
I don't really understand the time aspect of it. I personally
believe that I passed into a parallel dimension - rather like
the Glastonbury/Avalon myth. I have photographs too. Most show
a gray misty day but a few show the sunny day I'd experienced.
Now I'm pretty level headed, a Unitarian, so obviously liberal.
But not really into metaphysics. My gentleman friend has a Ph.D.
in Physics and does Neuroscience research at the University of
Maryland. I finally told him about it, expecting him to laugh.
But he said that time is relative and really just a human
invention to try to order our world. He said there's probably
a way of explaining it scientifically, but that "time" wasn't
his field.
So there you have it. What do you think?
(3) Reality Shifting Award Winner
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the Reality Shifting Award, for recognition of web sites
which demonstrate consistent excellence in content and
design, while helping people shift their reality in a
positive direction. You're in for a very special treat
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Three wonderful books are reviewed here this month: Two wonderful books are
reviewed here this month: THE INITIATION by Donald Schnell, and THE SECRET
LIFE OF YOUR CELLS by Robert B. Stone.
If you've ever wondered what it feels like to experience
divine enlightenment, THE INITIATION is the book you've been waiting for.
Author Donald Schnell shares his extremely personal journey to India where
he meets the immortal Babaji yogi, and describes what many would consider
to be the indescribable. After all, how can one adequately convey the way
the world looks when all illusion (maya) is stripped away? Yes, miracles
are possible, but they are only "siddhis", or sacred gifts which are not
the true essence of reality. Siddhis like manifestation, teleportation, and
levitation are joyous to behold, but are not meant to distract us from
seeing the miraculous nature of the universe which is present here right
now.
Schnell not only describes the way the world looks when one feels the joy
and bliss of divine awareness, but he does so in such a way that the
feeling of this loving state of consciousness is bestowed upon the reader.
I felt like I had received many blessings as I read this book, and I know
my life will be ever the richer for it. Schnell describes many details of
how it felt to undergo a very special kind of initiation from the moment
when he felt suddenly called to India, to the wondrous miracles he
encountered as he traveled across India, to the culmination of his trip in
his initiation into the yogic order with his new yogic name, Prema Baba
Swamiji. The accounts of his meetings with Babaji are a joy to read --
Babaji appears to still be in his early twenties, in spite of the fact that
he's been teaching students for hundreds of years. He grants Schnell's
request for a photograph of him by materializing one. He also materializes
a very beautiful and sacred crystal, which is still molten-hot and
malleable when it appears in Schnell's hands out of thin air.
While THE INITIATION is ostensibly an autobiographical account of one man's
journey to enlightenment, this book is actually much more than that. THE
INITIATION feels like it has been blessed to convey the inner vibration of
love that Babaji and Prema Baba Swamiji wish for readers to feel and know.
For when we come to recognize this state of blissful awareness, or
Premananda, we realize that we, too, have made the journey to
enlightenment.
The Secret Life of Your Cells
How to Harness the Power of Your Instinct and Make It
Work for You
by Robert B. Stone
You may have heard stories about organ recipients who took
on personality characteristics of their organ donors as in the romantic
comedy film, "Return to Me" -- but have you ever heard how scrapings of
cells from a man's mouth reacted as he sat some distance away looking at
pictures in a magazine? Perhaps you know that dogs can tell when their
owners are coming home -- but have you ever heard that plants become
excited at the exact moment that their people decide to come home? THE
SECRET LIFE OF YOUR CELLS describes these and many other startling research
findings of polygraph expert and consciousness researcher Cleve
Backster.
Cleve Backster's familiarity with lie detector equipment and curiosity
about how plants would respond when hooked up to a polygraph have led him
to discover some amazing facts about plants. Not only do they seem to be
aware of the intentions of people from a distance, but they also can tell
the difference between a person simply thinking about burning a plant leaf
and actually intending to set a leaf on fire. When they are warned that
cells will soon be dying in their vicinity, they do not react in alarm, but
if they have no such forewarning, they react with great agitation to the
unexpected deaths.
What is it that allows plants -- or even cells which have been removed from
a plant or human being -- to know what is happening nearby? How can simple
cells appear to show some kind of primary awareness? THE SECRET LIFE OF
YOUR CELLS asks many such profound questions as it describes many of Cleve
Backster's fascinating experiments. If you have an open mind and a genuine
desire to know what's going on in the world, you will absolutely love THE
SECRET LIFE OF YOUR CELLS. Seldom has one book managed so successfully to
address the non-local nature of consciousness in the form of describing
very concrete experiments, nor managed so clearly to convey the
significance of those experimental findings in our lives. As I read this
book and mulled over the fact that all cells are aware and conscious, every
moment of my life took on a fresh, new feeling of awe.
Part of Backster's genius as an experimenter has been his ingenuity in
devising original experiments -- and another aspect of his genius has been
his ability to create experiments which are capable of testing plants and
cells for their awareness of their surroundings without psychically tipping
them off to the intentions of the experimenter. Backster's experiments
depend upon spontaneity and real feelings (just like what happens in the
real world), rather than artificial and repetitious redundancy (what most
scientific researchers study). Anyone who is seriously interested in
better understanding the field of consciousness research needs to read
this classic book. Anyone who wishes to understand what their cells are
aware of needs to read this amazing book. It will change your view of the
world forever!
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