A friend turned me on to a Neuroscience Summit (online webinar) that’s free and I’ll be listening to all this week.  I’ll write more soon about the first one I just listened to, but if you want to get in on  it now for the remainder of the 10 days, or as much as you want to do, click here:

http://live.soundstrue.com/neuroscience-summit/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Access+the+summit+here&utm_content=What%E2%80%99s+Happening+Today+in+The+Neuroscience+Training+Summit&utm_campaign=C160511-NSci&_bta_tid=3.RM0.BCbHSA.BF-d.fmWQ..AMrDcw.b..l.BjbU.n…nG-uBA&_bta_c=93d93x58xc042vwj2jyrebf7m5aai

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Everyone here read Rob Breszny‘s horoscopes?

I get them in my inbox once a week, and always read both my sun and rising sign, Gemini, simply because I enjoy his writing, his inspiration, and verve – so much.

Regardless of your sign, here’s a blessing for us all:

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):  In Western culture, the peacock is a symbol of vanity.  When we see the bird display its stunning array of iridescent feathers, we might think it’s lovely, but may also mutter, “What a show-off.”

But other traditions have treated the peacock as a more purely positive emblem:  an embodiment of hard-won and triumphant radiance.

In Tibetan Buddhist myths, for example, its glorious plumage is said to be derived from its transmutation of the poisons it absorbs when it devours dangerous serpents.

This version of the peacock is your power animal for now, Gemini. Take full advantage of your ability to convert noxious situations and fractious emotions into beautiful assets.

For those who want to avoid vaccinations, this may be very important to know:  http://mazeinamirror.blogspot.com/2016/05/nurse-says-watch-out-for-new-ways.html

Also available here:  https://www.periscope.tv/w/1dRKZDlDDEMJB

Never enter a hospital without writing very explicitly that you do not want any vaccinations.  And beware the new use of the word “biogenics” in place of “vaccination.”

And remember:  We can add language to any form we’re asked to sign, language such as:  “I WANT NO VACCINATIONS OR BIOGENICS.”

And I’ll be adding this to my medical directives too.

This may relate to someone today, and hopefully will be helpful…. BUT

but I do NOT agree with his optimism about surgery and pharmaceuticals.  I still look to natural medicine.

Everything is Stories is the name of an excellent podcast that often helps me put a useful frame on the world, and so it’s one of my most-listened to podcasts.

(If you don’t have the podcast habit and want to try it, just click below next time you’re going to clean or putter around the house.)

http://www.eisradio.org/item/012/

This was good to hear today, reminding me of basic things, but the stories before and after spoke to me powerfully also, for different reasons.  If this one’s not to your taste, there are many other people’s stories told, all wonderful, here:  http://www.eisradio.org/

May your media times sometimes facilitate healing.

~

PS:  Coincidentally, in Everything is Stories, the host’s tagline is “which is nothing else, but all we have” (the last words spoken in deep, meaningful tones).  It’s also exactly what’s credited to Spider Woman – “Stories – they’re all we have” – in the dedication preceding Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony – which I quoted in my last radio feature, “Spooks,” about my experiences as an activist confronting the FBI.

Hi All,
I want to describe my experience with brain entrainment – which I called “training wheels” for developing greater consciousness of my mental processes.
First, I liked the BrainWave app, found it very soothing and hopefully protective.  On evening three, however, while sitting in bed at night, I had the distinct impression that the steady entrainment frequency (which I was using for a vague sense of “protection”) could also be used to slip programming into me by matching the frequency as a carrier wave – and might be doing it right then – there seemed to be some sort of interference coming through!
Immediately, I removed my ear buds and replaced the entrainment frequency app with simple calming music of my choice, figuring that it would be harder for anyone to hide programming inside the ever changing music.  Then I began using music for a big portion of each day after that – which is something I haven’t done much of throughout my life.  (Most of my life, I’ve valued silence and the thoughts of my own mind which I haven’t wanted distracted or overridden by others’ ideas and sounds.)
The new habit of listening to music during the day – music chosen to make me calm and happy – caused me to realize that sometimes my own thoughts – especially when I focus on the mind control – can become toxic!  My Own Thoughts weren’t the pure source I’d always thought they were.  And music, carefully chosen, could put me on a better path – or at least I was willing to try it.  And surprise, surprise, I found myself maintaining a better mood and attitude!
Now, I apologize if this is a no-brainer for some of you who’ve always used music that way, but it’s new for me, and it caused me to realize that entrainment might be thought of as more than just the adaptation of the brain to a particular frequency, but also the adaptation of the brain to a general idea, which it can then magnify, repeat, resonate with, and even amplify.  And if the general trend is negative, it can be interrupted better with music than with my own best intentions.  Surprising discovery
So the exercise of trying out the BrainWave brain entrainment app allowed me to think about, feel, and experience, the dramatic effects of a frequency calming my mind, and a frequency threatening my mind (it seemed), and then I could also consider the experience of entraining to an idea with just with my own mental habits, which might be problematic, even with our best intentions, probably due to mind control, but also possibly just a human fact.
For the last few days, I haven’t used the app, but I feel far more aware now of the state of my mind and my ability to change it with either intention or technology.
I hope this encourages readers to consider their own mental patterns, disciplines, and ways to moderate and protect their mental states.  While technology may seem like a sort of dependence, it was a good awakening experience, helping me toward natural processes, with new awareness of technological and non-technological possibilities.

I realized a year or two ago that my site here and on YouTube both reflect the parts of me that are most angry and afraid and identify as activists; whereas the parts of me that go on with life, keep contributing, making art, being a friend, etc. aren’t as interested in writing about the good parts of my life – they just want to live and catch up on missed time – so my websites don’t reflect the whole of me, only the negative sides.

So, this is my first success in sitting down with my happy alter out to give balance to my story.  Posted just yesterday.

https://youtu.be/dwI8tSDhieE

Yesterday, I was feeling pretty bad again – for the firs time in a while – having a hard time expanding my lungs to take deeper breaths, so I was breathing shallowly and didn’t have much energy.  And had to go to my first day at work on a new job.  Breathe.  Breathe.  Breath.  It was all be okay.

Today, woke up feeling well again.  Grateful.

With awe, respect, and gratitude, I stop in the middle of watching this fine film (award-winning) for the second time to share it with you all and encourage you to watch it too.

http://www.thesacredscience.com/screening_watchnow/

From Charles Bock’s Alice and Oliver (which I heard on NPR’s “Fresh Air” podcast interview with Bock, and stopped it immediately to transcribe this excerpt):

So, okay Goddess, the first day wasn’t so bad.  I need to keep letting go.  Maybe I just need sleep.

Here’s not so bad.  Here is where I am.  Just keep focusing on what I can do in here.  I can write.  I can meditate.  I can draw.  I can knit.  I can paint – in my limited clumsy fashion.  I know that I want to be a clear channel.

The truth is, I’m not miserable.  This little part of me nags, a dog nipping at heels, yipping, wanting me to be sad, wanting me to worry.  Remember:  you’re miserable.  Remember:  This is terrible.

But haven’t I lived with the black box on my chest for so long?  When I’m at my best, which is not often, but sometimes, I know I don’t have to live inside my fear.  I can carry its weight.

I wonder what happens if I open the ribbon to my black box and pull off the lid?  What happens if I put soil inside?  Plant seeds?  Add water, and regular light?

Look at how life has surprised me today, look at all the ways I was taken care of, all the ways I had fun.

~

Last night, I felt seriously electronically attacked with almost-disabling, paranoid thoughts about something I’d previously though positive – my new job!

Sitting still, I attended to how my body felt, and recognized a very clear and powerful frequency moving through my body, which I wasn’t ready to say was necessarily me.

So, while I considered the paranoid thoughts might be true and useful information (but might not), I began praying for clarity while dialing up my brain entrainment app for a calming frequency, put in the earbuds, and felt pretty good about my intentions as I lay down to sleep.

After falling asleep at maybe 10:30, I was awoken by powerful heart palpitations, and I remembered that there was a brain entrainment pattern for calming the heart, so I grabbed my phone and turned it on, and of course, the first thing I saw was the time:  11:11.

For over a decade, I’ve bought into the common assumption that the 11 business is some sort of cool synchonicity, but last Friday I heard a woman say No, it’s part of mind control programming.  Who knows?  But the coincidence of being woken from sleep to see that was freakish.

And then I noticed that my heart wasn’t palpitating anymore, so I left it on “Dreamy Sleep” and went back to sleep with no problem.

Any opinions on the meaning of 11?