Sunday, May 27, 2012

Clarify: Heaven, Ethers, Shaman: Lesson in Etymology

As I clarify the word and concept of heaven, I came across this blog. On several levels, I appreciate it.
Matters of the Spirit: A lesson on Etymology
http://mattersofthespirit.blogspot.com/2007/11/lesson-on-etymology.html
In Genesis 1:1 it says: In the beginning God created heaven and earth.


The word used here for heaven is Shamayim (pronounced: Shaw-mah’-yim). Which roughly means in todays terms, air, astrologer, heaven(-s), heights, elevations


The Sumerians used the word AN to mean Heaven or ANUNNAKI. The word ANUNNAKI has also been translated as meaning Heavenly beings or GODS. The “heavenly one” the head God was refered to as “ANU”.


Aether is the greek word meaning that which fills the upper regions. Or the element that heaven is composed of. It is also in some circles considered to be the fifth and most powerful element that is used in the creation of every thing. So, you would have Heaven, Earth, Fire, Water and Air as being the five elements that make up everything.


But, the Hebrews have more than one word for Heaven. As a matter of fact they have 3. Shamayim, Shahak and Marom. Shamayim as discussed means air or high places. Shahak means sky, clouds. Marom is interchangeable with Shamayim in meaning the same with one additional definition, wheel. Please take note at this time that the Hebrews do not have a word that translates into "The place where God resides".


The Hebrews with their multiple words used Shamayim for a particular reason. In the beginning, God created the high places and the earth. The greeks utilized the dual meaning of Aether also for a reason. They believed that an element fills the high places which they called Aether. So, in the beginning God created Aether and Earth.


When the book of Genesis described the creation process, the main building blocks were first assembled before everything which we know in the “matter” verse was created.


What were those building blocks?


Aether (that which fills the lofty places –or- Heaven).
Earth
Light (fire)
Water
Air


From these building blocks God created everything else.
One interesting point to bring up about words changing over time would be the following: A word like temperantia eventually drifts and slowly became temper. What happened to Shamayim? It drifted as words do and became Shamayin. Then it drifted a little more and became Shaman.
And Shamayim to Shaman leads us to more ~DDW

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Man Discloses How to Be Attractive to Women, Surprise!

When this fellow began following me on twitter, I tweeted hello and politely went to his blog.
I  did my quick, diplomatic, hello scan of his blog and clicked the spirituality tab.
I was not expecting the topic below to be covered.

It will be interesting to see if the already powerful, and beloved, men, agree, or disagree with his conclusions on what makes a man attractive to women, and why. ( the women/girls who like men/boys may also have a take on his conclusions.)
I say:
Yes, Mr. 1000lifelessons,  The secret-powers you mention below, are SUPER-powers, as long as they they are practiced in private, intimate moments, even more so than in public! 

He asks himself:
“How do I become more attractive? So that people (girls) like me.”
Following are excerpts: And, he gives fair Warning and Danger disclaimers.


WARNING: The information I am about to share with you can easily be abused in the wrong hands (think Darth Vader). Viewer discretion is advised!

DANGER: DO NOT CONTINUE READING if you suffer from, or have a history of, emotional, or power abuse.
Remember: With great power comes great responsibility.


Batman used it.
Superman used it.
Pretty much anyone and everyone we ever looked up to in our lives, at some point, used or demonstrated the powerful attractive force of the virtues.
But wait, what the heck is a virtue?
“Behaviors or qualities that show high moral standard. Goodness, virtuousness, righteousness, morality, integrity, dignity, rectitude, honor, decency, respectability, nobility, worthiness, purity; principles, ethics.”

Sexy Right!? 
Yes.

Even when a man chooses to practice only 1/3  to 1/4 of the 52 points Mr. 1000lifelessons mentions...that man will gain serious attraction powers. (especially if competing with USA  men from ages 20-90+ alive today.)

Link to his blog, below :

Monday, May 21, 2012

Mind, Body, Breath being asked to do the same thing at the same time


Mind, Body, Breath being asked to do the same thing at the same time.
3 minute video, from Leslie Kaminoff, that may help some people to comprehend a lot about their health within a few minutes. Then,  just to begin the movements and breath, to put into action words and thoughts. And see if it works! He has a whole website to help people with this.

Bathing as wellness

From pre-conception, through birth to adulthood each action matters.  What surrounds the flesh, from most subtle of ethers, to water and the persons one has near them makes a difference to health and wholeness.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPSAgs-exfQ&feature=player_embedded#

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Quasimodo-Cherub Amongst the Dandelions

The Romantic Mom.com: Amongst the Dandelions:

 Quasimodo manages to be both extremely sweet and extremely threatening at the same time.
http://13thewicked13.deviantart.com/art/Quasimodo-s-Rose-123367845



Oh, I KNEW, I knew it. I knew it before she could speak...She's the one! At least the one for me.

Now, did she learn those faces from someone else?  Or, is that her innate way to channel and bring Quasimodo to life to scare the less-than-worthy people away??
We Tender & Brave-hearted ones must do this sometimes you know.

The name Quasimodo has become synonymous with "a courageous heart beneath a grotesque exterior."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame

Friday, May 18, 2012

House Passes International Learn to Fly Day Resolution

AS a child loved to be in speeding fast cars, then experienced motorcycles, and a bit of how-to on auto racing. Then small planes. No pilots license yet. Do most appreciate being in helicopter flight now. What will come next? With helicopters, even the finest ones, Sikorsky questioned lack of advances on them, before he passed. I have to find that article again. After he died I cut it out of a paper, perhaps, NY Times as I recall. Just not finding it online.
Am sure other air vehicles are around, just not so much for public.
More advanced flight, available to main-stream, seems to be happening in Zero-gravity and such.


I LOVE THIS Piece below! 
Had been going to local FBO's in S Florida for visits before this. I was happy to see this in May 2010 C.E.

"Whereas every one of these individuals had to learn to fly before they could achieve their greatness"
My sentiments precisely, in yoga, breath, dance, and life.--DD


EAA News - House Passes International Learn to Fly Day Resolution

House Passes International Learn to Fly Day Resolution

May13, 2010 —The U.S. House of Representatives passed via voice vote Wednesday the “International Learn to Fly Day” resolution (H. Res. 1284) in which the House “(1) supports the goals and ideals of International Learn to Fly Day; and (2) recognizes the contributions of flight instructors, flight schools, aviation groups, and industry in promoting and teaching the nation’s next generation of pilots.” The bill was introduced by Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) and sponsored by Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.), who serve as co-chairmen of the House General Aviation Caucus, which includes 116 members.
House Calendar No. 193
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1284
[Report No. 111-477]
Resolution
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
RESOLUTION
‘Supporting the goals and ideals of International Learn to Fly Day, and for other purposes.’
Whereas, since the birth of flight, aviation has had a tremendous impact on the imagination, innovation, and economy of the United States;
Whereas many of the Nation’s heroes have been pilots, including the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Charles `Chuck’ Yeager, the Nation’s astronauts and military aviators, and the flight crew of U.S. Airways Flight 1549, among others;
Whereas every one of these individuals had to learn to fly before they could achieve their greatness;
Whereas there are approximately 600,000 pilots and approximately 230,000 commercial and general aviation airplanes in the United States;
Whereas flight brings joy, inspiration, and a sense of accomplishment to those who fly for recreation, pleasure, and work;
Whereas flight allows the movement of people and commodities across the Nation and around the world quickly and efficiently; and
Whereas the third Saturday in May is an appropriate day to observe International Learn to Fly Day: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved,
That the House of Representatives—
(1) supports the goals and ideals of International Learn to Fly Day; and
(2) recognizes the contributions of flight instructors, flight schools, aviation groups, and industry in promoting and teaching the Nation’s next generation of pilots.
http://www.eaa.org/news/2010/2010-05-13_resolution.asp

Thursday, May 17, 2012

"What's important is the invisible stuff"-David Williams





David.Swenson.03.Advanced.A.and.B. Series

David Swenson, David Williams and some respected USA practitioners who held space for Ashtanga Yoga in our time, in USA.



  • I wish I had already lived my life in Southern CA & Encinitas CA! 
  • Better I had understood my own soul calling when it had me headed to California, USA.
  •  And the times I did visit, oh, had I obeyed heart & soul to set up home & a base there! 
 I was a tiny girl, when my maternal Grandpa, my friend, passed away. I was rather bereft, did not know what happened, as I recall. He was gone, I was whisked somewhere. Maybe just to the quarters of my parents, or to be with my dear lady, Auntie Lois. I understood vaguely, that my brave-hearted, lovely grandma went to see my Uncle Jeno, her brother,  the singer,  Hungarian troubador, actor, writer in S. California. California to me, was not even given a name then. It was a place, never explained to me, that my Grandma returned from, more beautiful than ever. A living room, where my Grandpa & I once visited with suitcases filled with beautiful clothing for my Grandma, and honey in a little bear jar, for my gift.


As well as other earth-sky-sea-places I am guided to be now... going to, visiting, living in, 
being in California is important to me!  It has to be as easy & dear as ever though.


Meeting with, communicating with, hearing, being near, dear people, who live in fine, divine, whole, holy ways that resonate with my soul, and more, is part of my truth. I know divine is everywhere. Yet, in certain places, among certain beings, for me... it is more truthful to be immersed in, in tune with, these essential energetic rarified forces that are appropriate to this life. There are actual life  force nutrients (for lack of better word at this moment.)... necessary for this one now--DD

http://youtu.be/RaZFO1a1Sks

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Atlantis Paradise Princess


Found this few years back. Still like the juxtaposition of this home video & song.
The fair and sweet princess, fully present and  unaware of her greatness.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Oh My God, Jesus came back to give us recipes! SUPER GREEN SMOOTHIE RECIPE! ~ ~ Raw Living Food Recipe

I Knew that Dan McDonald was going to be a hit soon as I  saw him few years back.
Timely & seems to be an authentic character.
Also Lou Corona is one sharp fellow. Look forward to meeting him sometime.--DD

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Decomposition of the Flesh Atoned for the Sins of the Dead Person

Now, I may change my mind back to my EASIER pollyanna, rose-colored glasses, over-the-whole-thing, ways.
For now though...am sensing many, many walking dead!
Am again, now, almost as sensitively aware of these creatures, in the supra-sensitive ways I was in my youth and much of my life.
These perception & emitting faculties, these abilities were muted for a while. I had tried to make this so, in a good way.
I perhaps, experimented with the ways of the world: it was /is easier to overlook certain things.
Many things.It is more my nature to be quietly FIERCELY, loving, accepting,  kind, easy and comfortable.
But comfort of this sort gives way to a living death.
The dear-seeming zombies, as self-appointed sheriff's of the state & state religions, the Rx pharmaceuticalized, psychologized, proudly-hypnotized, do  prey upon this layer of of life blood and energy that they can sap from certain vulnerable- looking naive creatures.

Now, even the US systems-educated youth traipse along and mix easily among angry, feisty, lumbering dinosaurs. All rather unpleasant smelling entities. They sing pretty, look pretty, sometimes smell pretty, yet, they are not. And that is why they try so hard. And, even the ones who catch on and decide to not try...well...NO.
They rise up like scary winged-crones, with pretty faces, if one dare to shake the politicly correct fabric of the local culture.
They are proudly vulturous toward anyone who eschews the state-learned, psycho-social judeo-christian-muslim-hindu syncretized T.V and school-learned truth.
They may prettily parade around as yogis, and free-birds, but, they are attached, quite attached to the god-corpse.
 
Especially in South Florida USA, people abound who are walking dead.
There are pacemakers and other life-extending devices embedded in people who are actually DEAD.
Yet, to give many of these souls, if you believe such entity exists, or their life energy any reason to stay in the body longer, is not, so far proving to bring any perceptibly finer creatures.
They lumber, roar and fill the atmosphere with foul emmisions, sounds, airs and more.

As I walk among people, and live among people, I am reminded again of the saying:
often quoted as "Let the dead bury their own."
This came to me a strong and deep truth some years back.
Again it comes today:
I, perhaps, have more I can or should express of my experiences and perceptions of this state.
Or not.
Craving mountains, and fresh air...so,
perhaps, best that I simply live quietly alone.

Live within as much humor, liberty, Truth, Beauty, Love,  as possible,
and let the dead bury their own.

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
http://www.ldolphin.org/deaddead.html


An Interpretation Based on First-Century Jewish Burial Practices
            McCane suggests an interpretation that is consistent with first-century Jewish burial practices (1990:40-41).  After a body was placed in a burial cave, it was left to decompose.  The family mourned for seven days.  This initial mourning period was followed by a less intense 30-day period of mourning, called shloshim.  However, the entire mourning period was not fully over until the flesh of the deceased had decomposed, usually about a year later.  The Jerusalem Talmud states: When the flesh had wasted away, the bones were collected and placed in chests (ossuaries).  On that day (the son) mourned, but the following day he was glad, because his forebears rested from judgment (Moed Qatan 1:5).
            The final act of mourning, the gathering of the bones into a bone box called an ossuary, was called �ossilegium,� or �secondary burial.�  It is this act, I believe, that is in view in our Lord�s response.  [For a good discussion of secondary burials, see Meyers 1971; Rahmani 1981.  On ossuaries, see Rahmani 1982b].  The disciples� request and Jesus� response makes good sense in light of the Jewish custom of secondary burial.  When the disciples requested time to bury their fathers they were actually asking for time to finish the rite of secondary burial.  Their father had died, been placed in the family burial cave, and the sons had sat shiv�ah and most likely shloshim. They had requested anywhere from a few weeks to up to 11 months to finish the ritual of ossilegium before they returned to Jesus.
            Jesus� sharp answer also fits well with secondary burial.  The fathers had been buried in the family burial caves and their bodies were slowly decomposing.  In the tombs, along with the fathers, were other family members who had died, some awaiting secondary burial, others already placed in ossuaries.  When Jesus stated: �Let the dead bury their own dead,� He was referring to two different kinds of dead in the tomb: the bones of the deceased which had already been neatly placed in ossuaries and the fathers who had yet to be reburied.  The phrase �own dead� indicates that the fathers were included among the dead.
 .....

 The concept of gathering the bones of one�s ancestors is deeply embedded in the Hebrew Scriptures and reflected in Israelite burial practices (Gen. 49:29; Judges 2:10; 16:31; I Kings 11:21, 43, etc.).  However, by New Testament times, the concept had taken on a new meaning.  According to the Rabbinic sources, the decomposition of the flesh atoned for the sins of the dead person (a kind of purgatory) and the final stage of this process was gathering the bones and placing them in an ossuary (Meyers 1971: 80-85).  Jesus confronts this contrary theology.
http://www.ldolphin.org/deaddead.html

Music for Beauty


In case you read my last blog first.--DD
Music for beauty.
Piano and Violin Duet - Rain - Brian Crain

Friday, May 11, 2012

1839 and before

 The world of 'yoga' in U.S.A. is not so un-controlled. It is not an amazing, "oh, I have discovered it all and you don't know a thing, so let me teach you," field.
 Many, many young and old practitioners seem not to be aware of this or if they have an inkling, seem not to care.
 So many rich and interesting stories to correlate.
 The lawyers who are western educated and holy men abound...
Let's next see what came before 1893...

Friday, May 4, 2012

Some people use Yoga Practice! - Centre for Yoga Studies

Some people use Yoga Practice…… - Centre for Yoga Studies
“Some people use Yoga Practice (or even training for a career as a Yoga Teacher) to move away from something undesirable for, or in their lives (abhāva). Others use Yoga to move towards something desirable (bhāva) for, or in their lives. 
Either can be positive, however good to be clear about our motives, especially if our relationship with that which we wanted to move way from, or move towards, changes along the way."




Some people use Yoga Practice! - Centre for Yoga Studies

Some people use Yoga Practice…… - Centre for Yoga Studies
“Some people use Yoga Practice (or even training for a career as a Yoga Teacher) to move away from something undesirable for, or in their lives (abhāva). Others use Yoga to move towards something desirable (bhāva) for, or in their lives. 
Either can be positive, however good to be clear about our motives, especially if our relationship with that which we wanted to move way from, or move towards, changes along the way."