I had it made already, so I figured I’d comment on going to upload the new header image in the next ten minutes:

But I should not have forgotten that my particular cosmos is still ruled by Murphy, intent on obstructing anything creative I attempt to do. So after the comment, I spent the next seventeen minutes trying to find back where I’d changed that header image the last time. Weblog settings? Nope, three screens of attributes with various degrees of clarity, but nothing as simple as a header image setting. Same for the templates: readable allright, but nothing that referred to a JPG file in any way. In the end I found it hidden in a CSS style sheet, and it looked simple enough…..

Wrong again: changing the setting to the new filename resulted in an empty header, no matter what I tried. The image is there, as you can see, but somehow the header just won’t accept it!

Well, I guess it doesn’t matter if you call him Murphy or Your Higher Self, but somebody is obviously trying to tell me its not time yet.… Read the rest

Having a coffee just now after having done the dishes, and spending almost an hour on cleaning the toilet (including the little room it is in), I came to consider that Service to Self sucks bigtime! Not only must you find a selfish based reason to justify each and every one of your actions, but that also goes for the actions that need doing, but where you have no incentive to do them for yourself…..

Let’s take cleaning the toilet for one: I’m not overly hygienophobic (or whatever the word is): Others will talk about the state of my toilet before I even feel a need to clean it up. I’m not a dirty old man, just not that panicky about germs, because I don’t believe their reputation of being there to make us sick. There are for instance plenty of examples where germs actually clean up polluted water…

But hey, back to the toilet: imagine that the above one needs cleaning. Now if you are a Service to Self kinda guy, and somebody would ask you to volunteer for this latrine duty, how would you justify wanting to do it?… Read the rest

In hindsight, the intention that got me onto my bike this morning is no longer important, since it never materialized. But hey, I should be used to that after five years of on and off success in manifestation, right? And probably this minor thing just wasn’t in the works with regard to the big stuff I still am expecting. But it got me on my bike, on a sunny Sunday morning, with a cool breeze running down my back….

Out of the city through the nearest exit tunnel, where Yolanda (a friend) warned me of broken glass inside the tunnel. My tires survived the challenge, as did the running shoes of the guys I warned in turn coming out of the tunnel. I’d wished for meaningful interactions, and although not quite the level I meant, I did get those in the first few minutes already.

Through the meadows, with cows, sheep, horses and various birds and insects, onward through Vierakker, towards the banks of the IJssel river. Found a bench opposite a meadow full of sheep, which seemed to be peacefully coexisting with the crows and ravens that were also available in large number.  The IJssel river ran behind it, and a yacht passed.… Read the rest

This picture is the view of the top left corner of my living room, from where I’m sitting to type this. Or at least it was up until ten minutes ago. It seems that no matter how I remove them, whether is is death by vacuum cleaner, mob, or deportation  into my back yard, there always reappears one in just a matter of days….

It’s as if the Cosmos is saying: "Hey, that Dre’ guy seems to be worth watching. Let’s put a multi-faceted webcam into his living room."  Well, I hope he got a nice show, but sometimes I’d rather not be watched, although I know that is an illusion just like anything else.

However, when taking the shot for this article, something became quite obvious: this little spycam, sweet as it may be, was ready to hatch another batch of unobtrusive observers, inside my home! Rather than going for the destructive modes of operation (You just don’t do that to an expectant mum), I decided for the relocation into my quite sunny backyard. No doubt she’d find a nice shadow spot there as well, without the explosion of teeny tiny little crawlers happening inside my home.… Read the rest

After a good half a days work on my manuscript, I figured I’d had enough of it for the moment. So I crashed on the couch, and went to watch Iron Man, which came out in 2008. Not because of Gwyneth Paltrow who is quite beautiful but just not my type, but more because of Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr. Basically, because he is me….

Yes, I could totally dig being Tony, except for a few rough edges that Sander doesn’t really have anymore. But the totally abundant does-as-he-pleases single guy could very well be in my future, and not give me any uneasiness if it did come true!

But this is not a movie review, at least not of any particular movie. It is more a view on moviewatching in particular, and how different people do it differently. We probably all are somewhat annoyed if in a movieviewing audience, there is this guy that constantly keeps telling you what went wrong in the making of this movie, don’t we? And yet, there is an entire group of Earthlings on this very planet that have exactly that as a hobby: http://nitpickers.com/

They spend whole evening, watching every movie they can get their hands on, and diligently report their findings on the Internet.… Read the rest

a message from
Caroline
Myss

Thursday, 1 April,
2010  (posted 17 April,
2010)

 

Alice is our escort into
the many absurd notions, ideas, politics and policies, beliefs and
attitudes that underlie society and the way we see “reality”. And oh
how long and absurd this list is of beliefs we are so convinced are
true, important, real, and urgent. Why just the other day, I overheard
a woman at the gym say to her friend, “I’ve got to hurry. If I don’t
get this report in to my colleagues, the business deal we’ve been
working on will be toast.”

“That’s absurd,” I
thought. “If that report were so important – if you were so important
to the business deal – what on earth are you doing at the gym?” Silly,
silly girl – and now, I thought, she is going to rush away from the gym
in a state of “It’s all about ME-ness”.… Read the rest

This morning, I woke up with enough inspiration to add seven pages to my novel in less than an hour, and the exercise has maneuvered me in a state where you guys and gals get the short end of the stick: I’m leaving website update to my other team members today, and will enjoy this day in total relaxation. As a bandaid, here are the pages I added today:

Thursday, October 30^th,
2003, 20:21

Somebody
lied to me today, but both he and I Know it: Henk told me today his
Thursday meetings are going to end, so I won’t be able to continue
visiting his psychic hour.

In
case you hadn’t guessed, Henk is a psychic. He is the guy who helped
me realize about the vow I’d made at age eight, to figure out the
Cosmos, and tell everyone who will hear about it. I’m glad he did,
especially from the viewpoint of where I am now, finishing the novel
that will be the culmination of this life’s work.

Henk
magically appeared as a friend of a friend of a colleague of my wife,
in a moment where I desperately needed him.… Read the rest

 An excerpt from Seth’s 2nd new book "The Next Chapter In the Evolution of the Soul".

Channeled by Mark Allen Frost. 

SETH- My Third Subject has adopted a saying from one of your Earth’s cultural traditions. It is a blessing one wishes for one’s self and others: healthy, wealthy, wise. These three elements of life are the focus of many in your world. Perhaps we can use this blessing as an example of how you can, with consistent intention and application, co-create with All That Is, your greatest potential for health, prosperity, and wisdom. Now, you are all individual humans on your great Earth, each with your separate, idiosyncratic propensities for growth – evolution – on all levels of manifestation in the physical and other dimensional realms. Therefore, it should seem obvious that one human’s health, wealth and wisdom might certainly not be another’s. Having said that, let us examine the powerful, evocative ideas and beliefs suggested in the three words

Health is a topic we could easily spend an entire book on discussing and indeed I have done just that with my First Subject.… Read the rest