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			<description><![CDATA[<p>oh and kinsei--beautiful work/assumption.&nbsp; very nice. i must wanna be talking to everybody lately.&nbsp; i never post this much.&nbsp; r things speeding up AGAIN?&nbsp; as in still?&nbsp; i read all stuff will contintue to be uncovered/lit up as we continue to shift.&nbsp; (ie... just talked about and psoted on front pg).&nbsp; more and more meshing together.&nbsp; &nbsp;just had to say it.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>ur too much.&nbsp; we go to the same places apparently.&nbsp; is this new?&nbsp; sorta? ive read ananda and alot of this stuff too old dan winter stuff and his friends and work.&nbsp; and bill cooper, and well, u know.&nbsp; i know of them all. their work.&nbsp; i guess this explains it all dont ya think?&nbsp; certainly coincides with so much.&nbsp; have u seen montalk&#039;s last little cosmic awareness thing on the make-up of the reticulean ET?&nbsp; this fits, as does mention of ANU of course, and even mentions the sion and the blancheforts.&nbsp; so much stuff soo interstingly connected.&nbsp; and the HPV deal--ive been talking about it for yrs.&nbsp; work with its fall-out repercussions everyday.&nbsp; did u know it s the real source behind most head and neck tumors?&nbsp; it replicates very rapidly and in, well, &quot;hunks&quot; of tissue.&nbsp; wow.&nbsp; this figures.&nbsp; everybody should read this whole thing.&nbsp; it even talks of the magi/maji.&nbsp; yes--wow.&nbsp; my thots exactly.&nbsp; even gets into my boys the KT.&nbsp; soma.&nbsp; francis bacon and the voynich--fanstastic.&nbsp; thank u very MUCH for posting.&nbsp; pod sourcing--all in here.&nbsp; figure it out.&nbsp; where theyre gonna go, whats gonna happen in 2012... maybe, and why.&nbsp; alot of work compiled.&nbsp; its ALL CONNECTED.&nbsp; please great creator help us help ourselves--or just get us outta here.&nbsp; soon.&nbsp; we&#039;ll go on our own volition by our DNA/thinking/organic internal knowingness.&nbsp; thanks so much.&nbsp; we r supported in our conclusions again.&nbsp; its so hard to catch everybody up and connect it all when one wants to explain or illustrate.&nbsp; i personally cant do it.&nbsp; i get too tangential, wordy, hung up and ppl get lost.&nbsp; i really dont try but spend time gathering more for me.&nbsp; theres so much ground to cover.&nbsp; ur BIG in my book.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Mo:</p><p>Ganesh Particle</p><p><a href="http://phoenix.akasha.de/~aton/TimeGateOrion.html">http://phoenix.akasha.de/~aton/TimeGateOrion.html</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>You&#039;ll know when the fascist elements of America are in their death throes when they invade Canada. I predict the government will crumble from political pressure and economic sanctions within a couple of months. The ties between Canada and America are too great for a military invasion to last for long. People will see their brothers and sisters on either side, and they will see the injustice of invading a largely peaceful country. Britain will also come under intense pressure because they&#039;ll refuse to do anything, betraying a highly important member of the British Commonwealth. The colours of the world&#039;s nations will be shown during this phase of history. But alot of stuff could happen.<br /> However, if this doesn&#039;t come to pass, what I could see Canada becoming is a periphery country to America, exporting raw materials for the secondary-industries of America; an economic war of sorts that&#039;s occuring at this given time.<br /> More and more, I&#039;m growing convinced that there&#039;ll be a United States of Canada, with the South seperating into Jesusland. Who knows what the national animal will be...I&#039;m predicting a platypus for the USC and a burning cross for Jesusland. Any suggestions? Where&#039;s the elephant you ask? Riding on the Bush family&#039;s back.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I had an &quot;understanding&quot; a few days ago in the car on this subject (the recent elephant / Ganesha phenomenon) that I thought I should bring up.&nbsp; I would say it was a &quot;thought&quot;, but it popped in there fully-baked like real intuitive understandings usually do, so calling it a &quot;thought&quot; would diminish it.</p><p>This simply understanding has alleviated so many background fears and concerns of mine about the direction of my country (the US), it&#039;s impossible to fully describe the relief I&#039;ve gotten from it.&nbsp; I&#039;m sharing this here in the hopes that some others (especially those who&#039;ve experienced the Ganesha phenomenon personally) will also get a sense of this relief.</p><p>The &quot;understanding&quot; is hard to convey in words, but here&#039;s the one-sentence wrap-up for it:</p><p><strong>The political symbol of the Republican Party is an Elephant.</strong></p><p>I grew up Republican, but the modern Republican Party in the five years since 9/11 has spooked me to death; it&#039;s closer to fascism than anything I knew as conservative during my upbringing.&nbsp; So watching them trample over everything I&#039;ve held dear about this country has at times been extremely frightening to me.</p><p>I&#039;m not so ignorant as to not understand that this isn&#039;t really a democrat/republican thing; I know it&#039;s all an illusion and they&#039;re all on the same side, a one-party shadow government etc, possibly backed up etherically by the lizzies and so forth.&nbsp; Nonetheless, seeing this dark agenda actually playing itself out (via the Republicans in this case) has been very hard at times, and I&#039;d often wonder how far down this dark path we were going to go.</p><p>Until that understanding happened.&nbsp; Then it all made sense... the Elephant.&nbsp; Lord Ganesha is the remover of obstacles and bestower of wisdom, and although sometimes the removal of those obstacles may feel horrible (and primarily if you hang on to them as they&#039;re being flung aside), in the end the clearing that results and the wisdom that floods in to that clearing make everything absolutely worth it.&nbsp; I&#039;ve experienced this phenomenon so many times and felt it so deeply that at this point I absolutely, positively trust it.&nbsp; So, when this understanding appeared, I immediately trusted it too, I just needed to fully grasp the enormity of it.&nbsp; And here&#039;s what I now believe is occurring...</p><p>Within the Republican government, I now think there are only a very, very small handful of truly &quot;dark&quot; entities, possibly so few as to be counted only on one (or maybe two) hands.&nbsp; The others, while they may seem evil and/or corrupt in 3D, are spiritually very <em>very</em> positive and wonderful beings, who have volunteered for one of the most important but most dangerous missions imaginable in this timeframe... go toe-to-toe with the dark ones, stand physically side by side with them and act as one of them, let the dark ones have everything they ever asked for, and then show them <em>through their own direct experience</em> that what they&#039;ve asked for will ultimately only destroy them; this understanding would thus bring the dark ones&#039; system down <em>of their own volition</em> which will finally move us out of this age of darkness and on into the collective light.</p><p>To put it another way, the party of the Elephant is finally fulfilling its ultimate purpose... we have a system ruled by the shadows which is inherently corrupt and is one of the big obstacles of our culture moving forward into the next age, and so the Elephant (as an embodiment of Lord Ganesha) is removing that obstacle... and not through conflict (which would only instill more darkness, and thus not remove the obstacle at all), but through the only way darkness can truly be removed: self-destruction in the presense of increasing amounts of light and truth.</p><p>The fascistic totalitarian takeover will <em>never happen</em>, not to the degree the dark ones dream at least.&nbsp; Any progress they make in that direction will only serve to make more people aware of who they really are, such that when it all finally collapses via self-division and self-conflict (as the government already has begun to do), no willing soul will be kept from the truth any longer, and will be ready to receive it.</p><p>I now know there&#039;s no reason to fear what&#039;s happening in political circles anymore... Ganesha is leading this effort, and what is being removed is exactly what must be removed for our collective spirit to move forward.&nbsp; The process will only be painful for those who refuse to let go of what ultimately must go away.&nbsp; Detachment, observance of the wisdom that comes, and gratitude are all key in this transition.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>How&#039;s this for SYNC:</p><p>Listening to this weeks DreamLand with Bill Hamilton and he noted Dan&nbsp; Burisch and the Ganesh Particle:</p><br /><p>~ THE SUN ~ STARGATES ~ GANESH ~ </p><p><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/pe/peter7/Links/2012theSunStargates.html">http://www.angelfire.com/pe/peter7/Link … gates.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/kerub.htm">http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/kerub.htm</a></p><p>Etc.......</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>kinsei wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>And now, when I pop in some music, it&#039;s still usually psytrance... but every now and then, my enormous appreciation for Lord Ganesha pops back into my presence, and when that happens, it&#039;s time to break out the drum&#039;n&#039;bass and let his wisdom come through. <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p></blockquote></div><p>Lord Ganesha. Yes. Thank you <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I came across this article today at Crystalinks (<a href="http://crystalinks.com/milkmiracle.html">http://crystalinks.com/milkmiracle.html</a>) and as I read it, I thought of this thread. </p><p>Now... I hadn&#039;t exactly <em>read</em> this thread yet, just saw it&#039;s title in the list of recent posts. So when I came here to see if anyone had perhaps posted this article here yet, or even if it was the inspiration for the thread, I realized the two are somewhat unrelated. But they seem to be related for me in some odd synchronistic way, so I thought I&#039;d post the article here. </p><p>I was going to include a picture of Ganesha, in fact, but saw SiriArc&#039;s post with the very same image I was going to post, and felt another click in all of this. Anyway, for what it&#039;s worth, here&#039;s the article.</p><div class="quotebox"><cite>Crystalinks wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><strong>Hindu Milk Miracle</strong></p><p>The Hindu milk miracle was a phenomenon reported to have occurred on September 21, 1995. (see below) Before dawn, a Hindu worshipper at a temple in south New Delhi made an offering of milk to a statue of Lord Ganesha. When a spoonful of milk from the bowl was held up to the trunk of the statue, the liquid was seen to disappear, apparently taken in by the idol. Word of the event spread quickly, and by mid-morning it was found that statues of the entire Hindu pantheon in temples all over North India were taking in milk, with the family of Shiva (Parvati, Ganesha, and Kartikeya) apparently the &quot;thirstiest&quot;. </p><p>By noon the news had spread beyond India, and Hindu temples in Britain, Canada, Dubai, and Nepal among other countries had successfully replicated the phenomenon, and the World Hindu Council (an Indian Hindu organization) had announced that a miracle was occurring. The apparent miracle had a significant effect on the areas around major temples; vehicle and pedestrian traffic in New Delhi was dense enough to create a gridlock lasting until late in the evening. Many stores in areas with significant Hindu communities saw a massive jump in sales of milk, with one Gateway store in England selling over 25,000 pints of milk, and overall milk sales in New Delhi jumped over 30%. Many minor temples struggled to deal with the vast increase in numbers, and queues spilled out into the streets. </p><p>Seeking to explain the phenomenon, scientists from India&#039;s Ministry of Science and Technology travelled to a temple in New Delhi and made an offering of milk containing a food coloring. As the level of liquid in the spoon dropped, it became obvious that after the milk disappeared from the spoon, it coated the statue beneath where the spoon was placed. With this result, the scientists offered capillary action as an explanation; the surface tension of the milk was pulling the liquid up and out of the spoon, before gravity caused it to run down the front of the statue. </p><p>This explanation did nothing to reduce the numbers of faithful rushing to the temples, however, and queues of people carrying pots, pans, and buckets of milk continued to gather. To those who believed in the miracle, further proof was offered when the phenomenon seemed to cease before the end of the day, with many statues refusing to take more milk even before noon. </p><p>A small number of temples outside of India reported the effect continuing for several more days, but no further reports were made after the beginning of October. However, skeptics hold the incident to be an example of mass hysteria, and when reports of the Monkey-man of New Delhi began to appear in 2001, many newspapers harked back to the event. The story was picked up, mostly as a novelty piece, by news services around the world, including CNN, the BBC, the New York Times and the Guardian. Alternative theories about how the phenomenon began have since been raised; including that Nemi Chand Jain, also known as Chandraswami, spread the rumor to take public attention away from the criminal charges that were being levelled at him at the time for harboring a murderer. </p><p><strong>The miracle occurred again on 20-21 August 2006</strong> <em>(emphasis mine)</em> in almost exactly the same fashion, although initial reports seem to indicate that it occurred only with statues of Ganesh, Shiva, and Durga. The first reported occurrance was on the evening of the 20th in the city of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, from where it spread throughout India like wildfire. However, rationalists are heavily skeptical about the issue, attributing it to capillary action yet again. The phenomenon had reappeared only days after reports of sea water turning sweet that led to mass hysteria in Mumbai.</p></blockquote></div><p>I thought it interesting that the reoccurrence of the event described in the above article was just prior to oceanroar&#039;s noticing elephants everywhere.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>thanx, SiriArc !</p><p>hey MM,</p><p>i&#039;ve heard and seen a lot of sad animal stories - the way we&#039;ve been doing to this planet with our polluting, industrial ways - maybe i don&#039;t even need to go there t - maybe this planet won&#039;t let us destroy it ... who knows what will happen ... ? your story was sad in a way - and also some warm fuzziness in there 2 </p><p>i like what you said about animal symbolism being universal, but the possibility for biases being present as well ... fits with what i get 2 ... i guess there are general attributes certain animals have - but prolly each one is unique too with his/her own doohikkinesses ... </p><p>kinsei - i wanted to say - i&#039;ve been in places in my life where i&#039;ve prayed for help as well - maybe not in a direct way - but just thoughts here and there - and things have changed for the better - i wonder if that was my own consciousness in action or something answering ? or perhaps there was interaction of sorts ... </p><p>i have the sense now - and have had this sense for some time, that the universe really does respond to our being in a way that&#039;s appropriate ... the outer is a reflection of what&#039;s going on from within, at least on some level ... lots of times circumstances can&#039;t be controlled - but to paraphrase Montalk&#039;s quote - we can respond as we see fit ...</p><p>you also mentioned about having your head in the clouds ... well i&#039;m an x-space cowboy myself ... grounding myself with &#039;reality&#039; and the facts changed things in big ways 4 me ... it&#039;s kind of crazy when i look at it now ... and it started with just realizing that i was up there in lala land so much - just watching myself in action is what changed stuff ... </p><p>it&#039;s nice to be here - thanks for listening <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>anyone ever think about the elephants&#039; language? It seems like elephants can express so much. Not to mention they can communicate over incredibly large distances with extremely low frequencies.. I think there&#039;s a lot more to elephants than most people think.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Cool ocean. Me and my Dad were going to play frisbee in a park, and we stopped off to get a hotdog. Out of nowhere, my next door neighbour came up and told us there was an elephant in the park. <br /> I had a strange connection with this animal it seemed. I was asking some pretty loaded questions like &quot;Why do you think the elephant has whites around its iris?&quot; (obviously because they rely on eye contact for communication, just as humans do). The handler responded &quot;Wow, I&#039;ve never heard that question...but primates have similar eyes.&quot; The animal definitely had an intelligent present to it, you could feel the calm power of this awesome animal.<br /> The handler told us it was from a nature conservation area in northern South Africa (if i remember correctly), and that it was going home in a couple of months. After people asked some more questions, it was being lead back to a truck that would return it to the zoo. The handler told nobody to touch him, yet somehow when it was being lead back, I petted the animal along its trunk...I felt an intense loneliness and homesickness about the animal. As it was being put back into the truck, rear-end first, it stopped motionless just as it was about to make the final move so they could close it. The handler could not get it to go in...and I knew exactly why: it was wishing it could be out there in the nice green park with people to admire and send good vibes to it. But regardless, it needed to go back to its home. So as it stood there, with its hinds legs in the truck and its front legs on the pavement, I tried to send images of the savannah, of a sun drenched plain dotted with small trees and shrubs. Yet, somehow it knew it wasn&#039;t going back there.<br /> There was such a resistance to get it in there, there was only one thing I could do...pretend to walk away as if saying to it &quot;It&#039;s your choice, but I&#039;ve gotta go.&quot; As soon as I turned around, I heard the crowd cheering as he made the final last steps into the truck.<br /> And that was it.<br /> A couple of months went by, and some sad news came to me: Angus, the elephant, had passed away while at a zoo. It didn&#039;t even get to see the land it was born to, its native home. Oh well, that&#039;s just how things go...but I still felt this connection with this being.<br /> A sure enough, he showed up in my dreams. I don&#039;t remember much, but I woke up in the middle of the night, scrawled &quot;elephant&quot; in my dream journal, and fell back asleep.<br /> Elephants do symbolise change. Alot of stuff happened to me after I saw this being, that has shaped who I am today. Without that change, I would probably never really be interested in metaphysical things, would never have found out about montalk.net, would never be here writing this post.<br /> Symbolism is universal with animals for the most part. I&#039;ve seen animals in my dreams that I knew nothing about, but when I research their meaning, it all makes sense. However, some cultural biases can be present...for instance in Western culture considering a wolf to be some nuisance/opportunistic animal, when in Native cultures it stands as the highest teacher in the spirit realm. <br /> Peace.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/siriarc/EmbracingLight33.jpg" alt="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/siriarc/EmbracingLight33.jpg" /></span></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>(btw, oceanchild = oceanroar)</p><p>SiriArc - you&#039;re the one who&#039;s always got the funky images - i remember one-time you posted this image of this guy with a big sun over top of him, and he&#039;s kind of got his hands stretched outwards - i&#039;ve tried finding it without success - if you know which one i&#039;m talking about and could repost it, that would be awesome ... and if not, no worries ...</p><p>kinsei - thanx for sharing that story - that was wild ... </p><p>i&#039;m glad to hear you&#039;re found some sort of balance after that experience ...</p><p>so interesting how music affects us - i also get the feeling that certain types of music or sounds can and do affect certain chakras ... </p><p>growing up as a kid, i went through these stages, i guess, from metal, to grung, to jazz, to dance, to house, to rap &amp; hip hop, 80&#039;s stuff, 70s stuff -&nbsp; studied classical in school - i guess i got a good sense of all different stuff - nowadays, my playlist is pretty much a mix of whatever sounds good to me ... i also have an appreciation for artists or music that incorporates different elements -- </p><p>i had more to say but i have to step out right now ...</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Excellent observations oceanroar; you&#039;re definitely paying attention to the cues you&#039;ve been getting, and I certainly believe you&#039;re on the right track about your synchs being related to new beginnings.&nbsp; </p><p>Some similar things have been happening to me lately too, so I have a story of elephants and Lord Ganesha as well.&nbsp; This may seem a little &quot;sillier&quot; than your experiences on the surface, but bear with me, because it&#039;s had a profound impact on me.</p><p>My tale involves electronic music.&nbsp; For a long time now I&#039;ve been very heavily into psychedelic trance (psytrance) music; it&#039;s been my musical genre of choice for almost a decade now.&nbsp; The thing is, in terms of energetic concentration, it&#039;s a kind of music that&#039;s very centered on one&#039;s higher chakras (third-eye and crown most particularly), and if you&#039;re the kind of person who&#039;s become of a very &quot;ethereal&quot; nature like I have, and you listen to that kind of music predominantly, the combination can cause you to become a little bit off-balance.&nbsp; It&#039;s one thing to have one&#039;s head in the clouds (I like mine there), but you don&#039;t want to have it there to the exclusion of having one&#039;s feet on the ground at the same time, if you want to take in the entirety of observations and experiences that life has to offer.&nbsp; That was something I started to get a strong sense of sometime early this year, and I even took one of those online chakra tests which emphasized in no uncertain terms that my root chakra was radically underbalanced compared to the rest of my energetic field.</p><p>So I started becoming aware that my root chakra physical self was a bit out of kilter with the rest of me.&nbsp; Around the same time, in something that I knew at a fundamental level was related, I started running into a lot of physical problems, getting sick a lot and missing a lot of work etc, plus some things in my life that were previously just minor annoyances started becoming serious obstacles to my happiness and wellbeing.&nbsp; Altogether I knew that this was all tied to that fundamental energetic imbalance, and I needed to correct it, but I had absolutely no idea how... so I meditated on this a lot and prayed a lot, hoping to receive some kind of help, because my intentions for making a correction and getting rid of these obstacles was very clear but the mechanism to do so felt like it was out of my worldly hands and I needed some guidance as to what to do.</p><p>Finally, late this past spring, it all started getting better, beginning with one very important night spent with a friend of mine who I&#039;ll call &quot;Steve&quot;.&nbsp; Steve is one of those rare genuine people who I only met last year but who I resonated with immediately, and I recognized early on that for as rarely as we hang out, whenever we do so it&#039;s always significant for me... the way I phrased it to him is that whenever we meet, it&#039;s never what I expected but always what I needed (and this is entirely platonic by the way).</p><p>And so on this one night, I was hanging out with Steve and he insisted that it was very important that he introduce me to Drum&#039;n&#039;Bass.&nbsp; Now coming from a psytrance background, drum&#039;n&#039;bass is a far cry from what I&#039;m used to, so I had my doubts... but my underlying trust that Steve wouldn&#039;t lead me astray (and he never has) allowed me to let go and see what was being shown to me.</p><p>What he played for me on my stereo at home was unlike anything I&#039;d ever heard before.&nbsp; I&#039;d heard drum&#039;n&#039;bass, but not quite this style; this was much heavier and more psychedelic than what I&#039;d previously been exposed to (I&#039;ve since learned that the subgenres he introduced to me are sometimes called &#039;techstep&#039; and &#039;neurofunk&#039;), and unlike what I&#039;d previously heard, this new stuff resonated with me at a deep level; I was &quot;seeing&quot; something in it that I couldn&#039;t put my finger on immediately, but I had to listen to more to grasp it.</p><p>It so turns out, that very night, downtown only a few miles from me, two major drum&#039;n&#039;bass guys from the UK were in town playing, so at Steve&#039;s behest, we went down to see and hear and dance.&nbsp; To say it was phenomenal would be a major understatement, and then we got to go to the afterparty too where they continued to play.&nbsp; I had a night that will stick with me for a long, long time... and not just because the dancing and the partying was cool, but because of one particular &quot;vision&quot; that came into my head in three different parts during the evening... this is the crux of the &quot;thing I couldn&#039;t put my finger on&quot;:</p><p>The first part of the vision was when Steve was first playing me a particular techstep disc from an artist named Dom&amp;Roland.&nbsp; Having never heard music quite like this, I started &quot;seeing&quot; it in my mind... and the picture I got was of this huge 1000-foot-tall behemoth walking across an enormous landscape, with a bunch of other smaller minions surrounding him; the higher-pitched lighter drums were the minions (the higher the frequency, the smaller and more flighty the creature), and the super-deep bassy stuff was like the theme song to this magnificently huge creature of some kind making its way over the land, with everything getting out of its way because of just how huge it was.&nbsp; If you&#039;ve ever seen a Playstation2 game called &quot;Shadow of the Colossus&quot; (or even just looked at the cover art for it), or if you&#039;ve seen the third Lord of the Rings movie &quot;The Return of the King&quot; and can remember Legolas climbing and taking down one of those huge olifonts (or whatever they were called), you can start to get an idea of what I was picturing my head listening to this music.</p><p>It was a vision of something gloriously huge, not angry or malevolent but just huge, to where its sheer force of momentum spoke loud and clear &quot;Get out of the way, because I&#039;m coming through; I don&#039;t hold any ill will against you, infact I love you, but nonetheless you are just going to have to get out of my way&quot;.</p><p>So that was the first part of the vision, which was already powerful enough as it was, because it gave me a frame of reference when hearing this music.&nbsp; But the real gems happened when we went to that show with those two UK guys (part two of the vision), and then the afterparty (part three).</p><p>In part two, I was at that show, and dancing and having a good time, when suddenly something popped in my head, and I &quot;got it&quot;, clear as day.&nbsp; The huge creature in my previous vision wasn&#039;t some arbitrary behemoth, not just any enormous large beast....</p><p>... it was an elephant.&nbsp; The most massive elephant I&#039;d ever conceived of.&nbsp; Those olifonts from Lord of the Rings wouldn&#039;t take up the size of a toe on this thing.&nbsp; And then I continued to listen to this neurofunk drum&#039;n&#039;bass and realized that virtually all those low electronic highly resonant bass sounds, sounded like elephant noises... that this behemoth was an elephant through and through, and that this music was *its* music.</p><p>And when this finally sank in, the name appeared in my mind, &quot;Ganesha&quot;.&nbsp; The Hindu God-aspect who is the Remover of Obstacles and the Bestower of Wisdom.&nbsp; It was indeed Ganesha saying &quot;get out of the way, I&#039;m coming through&quot;... he was plowing through the obstacle field of my soul, removing barriers and leaving a clear path of wisdom in its place.&nbsp; My introduction to drum&#039;n&#039;bass wasn&#039;t about getting in contact with a new style of music... it was about getting in contact with Ganesha.</p><p>The third and final part of the vision happened at the afterparty, when all of this became truly confirmed in my mind when I saw Ganesha appear clearly in my closed eyes, looking straight at me, with an enormous glowing Om on his forehead.&nbsp; And as my ethereal self immediately bowed and cried reverently, I stood there right in the middle of this field as these massive elephant legs approached me and walked right past my sides as I looked up at this enormous elephant belly directly above me, and then he continued to walk on through, leaving the clearest of landscapes in his place... and as I turned to look at him moving on, I could only smile and thank him, and right then another massive elephant bassline blew through the speakers in front of me.</p><p>After that evening, I knew that this very physical, very deep kind of drum&#039;n&#039;bass was a direct creation of Ganesha, celebrating the joys of the physical plane because it allows us the experience of having obstacles, and the act of encountering and then removing those obstacles can bring about great healing that will last long after the physical world is gone.</p><p>Before, when I was too heavily unbalanced in favor of my higher chakras, I was neglecting the important lessons that this physical existence still had waiting in store for me, and by eschewing the physical plane, I was leaving all kinds of obstacles in place against me, and causing my physical body to suffer too.&nbsp; But after that one evening, those physical problems all but disappeared almost overnight, along with the obstacles that were blocking me.&nbsp; The amount of gratitude I hold for my daily physical life since then has increased by orders of magnitude.</p><p>And now, when I pop in some music, it&#039;s still usually psytrance... but every now and then, my enormous appreciation for Lord Ganesha pops back into my presence, and when that happens, it&#039;s time to break out the drum&#039;n&#039;bass and let his wisdom come through. <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p>]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>OceanRoar,</p><p>Primo Pic !</p><p>~~~~~~~&nbsp; &nbsp;~~~&nbsp; &nbsp;~</p><p>This one has popped up on occasion:</p><p>Ganesh</p><br /><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://www.crystalinks.com/ganeshalord.jpg" alt="http://www.crystalinks.com/ganeshalord.jpg" /></span> </p><br /><p>From:</p><p><a href="http://allelephants.com/allinfo/ganesh.php">http://allelephants.com/allinfo/ganesh.php</a></p><div class="quotebox"><blockquote><p>Ganesh is the Hindu God of knowledge and the remover of obstacles or God of elimination of troubles. He is also called Ganapati (leader of people), Buddhividhata ( god of knowledge ), or Vighnahara (god to remove obstacles). In fact Lord Ganesh has at least 108 names. He is one the most important Gods in the Hindu religion.......</p></blockquote></div><p>See Also:</p><p><a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/ganesh.html">http://www.crystalinks.com/ganesh.html</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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