Change the Way

Isn’t it better to raise up, than to tear down?

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness?

We are headed down a brutal path and we must have strength to stop it:

Spiteful, mean comments do nothing to assuage the molten anger of the many. They only fuel the flames of self-righteous rage.  When it boils over, death will be the victor.

Once, I was angry and my ex told me, very sweetly, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. What went wrong between us?

Let’s stop being mean to strangers.

Everyone is trying to get through their own life, experiencing sorrows, pain and disappointment you don’t know about.  Sometimes they are hard-boiled and crusty because they have seen too much.

Sometimes just a kind or helpful act or word on your part can change someone’s mind.

Give them something to think about.

A Fourth of TIME

 When we think of time, we think of it as a standalone concept.  We have the three dimensions of space and then we have the fourth dimension of time.

When we think of the three dimensions of space, some of us may realize that the three dimensions while they are three separate concepts do not stand alone.  Height, depth and width do not exist independently.  Alone, each of those three dimensions are merely concepts.

 Take the second dimension for example, imagine a flat piece of paper and the image on it is two dimensional. That image cannot exist without some depth, if only a molecule of depth in order to create a visible image.  Yet, it is easy for us to visualize it and accept it as two dimensional.  We realize that the piece of paper is three-dimensional, but we do not always realize that the image or drawing upon it is also three-dimensional.

It took a genius like Einstein to realize that space and time also do not stand alone. He called it space-time.

Imagine a chunk of space, a three-dimensional chunk of space. It looks like a cube in our example.   It has height, depth and width.   We understand that none of those dimensions exist without the others. That chunk of space, that cube, existed yesterday. It exists now. It will exist a second from now. It exists in the past present and future.  Because nothing ever stands still, at least not on a subatomic level, that chunk of space experiences change and thus goes through what we perceive as time.

 One second leads into the next and there is a river of time.

Does the river run through the space or does the space move with the river?

Since no moment stands still, there is no discrete moment in time, no snapshot available where time has stopped and where the space is frozen.  Like the three dimensions of space that only appear in the mind to be separate, space itself only appears in the mind to be separate from Time.

Thus we see that each of the four dimensions is merely a mental concept.  All four dimensions are one.  Space could not exist without Time and Time could not exist without space, for there would be nothing to change and thus no concept of time.  The concept of space itself is created by the illusion of movement. The particles and the sub atomic particles appear to move through time.  The closer we look at them, the harder they are to pin down to one spot or one second, because they never exist simultaneously in both space and time.  They flit in and out between the two dimensions never really existing in either, and create the fabric of our existence.

Without both time and space, the particles could not do this dance and would not be seen.  So, space and time would not exist as concepts because there would be nothing.

All the elements of creation exist separately only as mental concepts, in the realm of perception.  None of them exist independently. All creation is one in the mind of God,  which does not perceive separation but creates all things as One.


If you like, read The Circle Of Infinity:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/sitb/B00LXNA9K4?ref=sib_dp_aw_kd_udp

Witches

Endora- The mother of Samantha, perhaps one of the most powerful witches in modern television.  

If you Google Endora, here's what you get:

• Endora (Bewitched), the magical mother-in-law portrayed by Agnes Moorehead on the TV sitcom Bewitched
• Endora Lenox, the good witch character on the television soap opera Passions
• Endora, a planet-sized matrioshka array in the Walter Jon Williams novel Implied Spaces

Edit

Did you know the name Endora is a nod to the Witch of Endor, who is mentioned in the Bible?  Dig a little further into Google and you can find this:

Witch of Endor. In the Hebrew Bible, the Witch of Endor was a woman who summoned the prophet Samuel's spirit, at the demand of King Saul of the Kingdom of Israel in the First Book of Samuel, chapter 28:3–25.


A very powerful witch indeed. What are witches but empowered women.  The word witch in the English language originally meant a wise and aged woman.  You will have to search a lot harder to find that definition.  The word has been corrupted by our culture to mean something very different. Originally back in the Middle Ages, witches were elderly-learned women of the community and were highly regarded as nurturers, mothers, grandmothers, healers, and keepers of knowledge.  

With Halloween coming, it is time to remember that real Witches are everywhere.

- Cat


The Magic Man and the Nightshade Hotel 

Endora

🎃

Edi

Time

I inherited a turn of the century grandmother clock from my mother.  It had belonged to my Italian nonna.  My grandmother clock is a tall wooden clock, but with shelves rather than a pendulum.

It is electric but has to be wound to start, and the hands have to be set from behind, like a watch.

The old clock stopped the day my mother died.  I haven't had the heart to reset it.

We've heard this before, about clocks stopping when the owner dies.

My mother-in-law also used a clock, in this case her wristwatch to communicate with me.

It was a beautiful wristwatch that we had given her, and I came to inherit it when she passed.

I wore it to visit my in-laws and forgot my regular watch.  I now feel like the universe planned it that way.  I had to wear the expensive watch all week.  My sister-in-law just had surgery and we were there to help out.  On the last night there she and her brother got into a heated spat.  I was upset, but decided not to interfere.

The next morning before we flew home, I noticed the watch had stopped working the night before.

Message delivered.  I spoke the words I had held back, and told my husband his mother was upset.  Her watch had stopped.  He apologized to his sister.

My mother in law's watch started working again, but I will take it for a new battery.

What is the connection we have to clocks? Is it emotional? Do they symbolize our time here on earth, and thus remain as a portkey or conduit to our spirit in the beyond?

Doing Time: The Circle of Infinity

The Cold Hand of ICE

American immigration police lay in wait at courthouses and now even hospitals to snatch away people for deportation.  Read below of a father and mother arrested by ICE as they tried to obtain medical help for their baby.  The parents had to choose between their freedom and their infant son's surgery in the hospital.  These are underhanded and despicable ways to treat people who came to America to escape poverty, fear and hopelessness in their native lands.  Many are hard-working tax paying members of society.  The Justice department previously distinguished between people who were living peacefully and productively in America and those who committed violent crimes.  Now there is no reason and no heart, just a ruthless social cleansing.

The COLD hand of ICE

With these despicable acts, America now resembles a Nazi-like terrorist state.  Our ICE police have become akin to the Gestapo.  They do not act to protect us, but to cleanse our society of undesirables, those who do not fit America's primarily white english-speaking culture.

Xenophobia has created a chilling dehumanizing effect, caused by the hateful words of one man and his party.  There are horrifying similarities to past demagogues, leaders who have stirred up people's hate by making them distrust another segment of their society, their Jewish neighbor, the foreigner next door, the black man moving into your neighborhood, the other religion, race, nationality, etc.

For most of the last century American immigration policy has put strict numerical limits on immigration from lands that were considered undesirable, notably China and Japan.  This made it impossible for the country's demographics to change as a result of an influx from such people.  This was intentional.  This strategy and rationale has been America's way of staying predominantly white.

The immigration policy of America in the last decade or so hasn't become lax, it has become less prejudicial.  We no longer ban Chinese people or limit them to some ridiculous number like 200 a year.  That is offensive to us now, but nowadays some seek to ban any influx from strife-filled lands based on fear of terrorism.  That argument gives even progressive-minded people pause.  It is only a fear-based subterfuge, a fake reason to restrict entry to the US.  The real impetus is the dominant culture's increasing discomfort with a changing demographic.  We look around and see people who don't look like us, who speak in different tongues or with accents, who practice different religions, have different customs and modes of dress.  America is afraid of its new neighbors.  That is the reason America has become afraid of immigration and why there is so much focus now on both legal and illegal immigration.

This message of fear coming from some of our politicians resonates with the selfish greedy instincts of many.  The politicians and demagogues tell us 'they are taking your jobs, ruining your property value, bringing in crime', etc.  It sways the rich and the poor with our lowest common denominator, the twin primal motivations of greed and fear.  It befuddles the poor, and uneducated, and it benefits the rich and spoiled.  The ignorant believe they are economically disadvantaged by migrant workers unskilled laborers who work in fields or cleaning houses.  The rich seize political power by fanning the flames of fear and prejudice.

The rule of law is no longer tempered by reason and mercy.  America's heart is broken.

Today fathers and mothers are dragged away from hospital waiting rooms, teenagers are deported to dangerous unfamiliar lands.  Tomorrow may bring much more ugliness.  Will we revisit the genocides of the past, the internment camps or something much worse?  During WWII Japanese American CITIZENS were held in internment camps in America.  Don't think it can't happen here or that it cannot happen again.

It's time we understand the ways we are being played by American politics and who really gains by each change to our policy.  When news agencies are discredited by politicians we lose any ability to discern fear-based political rhetoric from legitimate national security issues.

Wake up America.  This is not the path to freedom.  Darkness and ignorance keeps no one safe.

The Other Side of the Wall

Think yourself there.

Metaphorically we each stand before a wall.  We can't go through the wall.  We can't go around the wall.  We spend our time figuring out how to go over, under or through it.

The wall is our reality.

So long as we struggle with the wall, we make it real.

The wall is the journey, one that never ends and never begins.

There is no progress only effort.

There is no wall.  There is only a belief in the journey.

What is on the other side?

That is the destination.

The moment you become one with your destiny, you transcend your wall.

You do not reach it by wishing, trying or any conventional means.  It is a place in your mind.

Think yourself there.

Pursuit of Happiness

Alas, the indifferent teens on the beach learned they did have an obligation to help the drowning man.  They laughed and recorded him drowning.  He's dead now and they're facing charges.

I mention this to draw a parallel:

Does Congress have an obligation to shelter children who have grown up in America, gone to our schools and lived among us? What will happen to them if we cast them out unprepared and unprotected to the lands their parents fled? Will they too die?  Will Congress be held accountable just like those feckless teens?

What is America's obligation here to life, humanity, what is America but a land of immigrants.  The first immigrants had no passports.  They knew nothing but they came to a new land in search of a better life, a chance at life, liberty and happiness.

The children of DACA knew no better, because they were children.  Here is our chance to teach them what America really means.  Will we open our hearts and show some compassion, or is America already so jaded that we would do this to children living within our borders?