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[marianthi]

Test the youthening or aging of your digestive track this season.  Compare it to last year´s.  Then stuff yourself with treats, regardless.

 

Wishing you all a great Christmas Eve,

 

M.

[feral]

Oh it's definitely aging. 

The egg nog ice cream was a gift for a neighbor, but of course we had to taste it to make sure it was OK. 

The key lime pie was another story...a sugary frolic that I'll no doubt pay for. We made it on a whim. Had some last night and woke up with a sugar hangover. Twas worth it though. Today is turkey day. Wish I had a group to go caroling with tonight. I'm in a singy/festive kind of mood.

"We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

Here's my favourite Christmas carol: (The first one...Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyuOIYCERc4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/jyuOIYCERc4</a>

[Michael]

I have been in clinics where the inmates with dementia lived in an eternal present.

I remember the emphasis placed in the ashrams where I roamed in my youth upon meditating just before sunrise and sunset.  Apparently the mind is more open to influences at that time of shift.  Later I remembered that these are also the hours in which plants switch from releasing Oxygen and absorbing Carbon and then the reverse.

I'm reminded of a brain-damaged ex-trucker friend who lived almost exclusively in the eternal present, after a very bad freeway accident that completely disabled his short-term memory.  An interesting thing about him and other clinical acquaintances I've known, was the way their behavior markedly changed at sunrise and sunset.  He'd consistantly become quite agitated for no apparent reason.  I've always been curious about that...

Boundary conditions are interesting aren't they?  Along with the ones you mention, I'm also drawn to the hypnagogic boundary state between wakefullness and sleep.  Shifts can occur there too...  and tidal changes as well.  And then there's the orgasm state, but don't get me started on that... 

[Jana]

The 2012 phenomena is another version of the apocalypse/rapture/messiah/chosen
people....it is very sick indeed. Hopefully on December 22nd people will wake up
to how sick they have been.

I was talking about the hysteria with regards to  specific astrological dates...the effects are only in the mind of man...but if man needs to turn to the stars for motivation and portent, then he is screwed.

The sun, moon, stars, galaxies are always out there doing stuff, and should always inspire mystery and awe. The dates we construct are fabrications...a left over from the astrologer priests of ancient Mesopotamia. These astrological events have practically nill actual effect on human or earth affairs, but history and religions have been wound around them through constructions in the human mind.

Fact is if people were *really* interested in celestial influences then they would get themselves into a lather over the sunspot cycle, the earths wobble, the moon effect and the seasons...it is these that actually do have a huge effect on the biology, emotions, behavior, weather and affairs of man.

I laugh at people who follow astrology and talk about Mars retrograde effects when they have no idea where we are in the solar cycle and how many spots and flares there are. This is like focusing on a fly spot, while there is an elephant in the room.

Lash baby says that the long count for the Mayan calendar is actually 2212.

[henry]

(vanderbilt 95-Florida 87 ). Jana, just trying to keep the conversation spacious, Marilyn Schlitz synchronistically tweeted today "don't confuse correlation with causation". Integral philosopher Richard Tarnas in "Cosmos and Payche" places astrology in the context of archetypal correspondences in human affairs rather than causality as does C.G. Jung. Also, Terrence McKenna approaches the 2012 thingy with his timewave zero theory differently than the Mayan calendar crowd . One thing that is predictable is that i'm annoying

[Jana]

Ok, if people want to get hysterical over a particular date...all very good...I am not going to tell them anymore that Santa Claws is their parents ok. Instead I will use that same mythic mechanism to create my own Global transformation date agenda.

Let it be known all you peoples of the world that on January 13th 2010 every living humanoid will be transmuted into an angel. The heavenly angels will have wings, the everyday angels will permanently glow with kundalini bliss and the lesser angels will sport a perpetual smile. 
There is not much prep time for my prediction so you better get working on it. This Wednesday the world will light up like a lightbulb and nobody will ever be the same again.

Most importantly, as of this date Jana will never again  talk about how pooy other humanoids are, nor look down on the bizarre and delightful fictions we imagine up. Instead Jana will strive to create ever more bizarre and outrageous fictions herself. As of Anti-poo Wednesday "play" becomes unlicensed and unlimited.

[Nickeson]

Let it be known all you peoples of the world that on January 13th 2010 every living humanoid will be transmuted into an angel. The heavenly angels will have wings, the everyday angels will permanently glow with kundalini bliss and the lesser angels will sport a perpetual smile. 

As of Anti-poo Wednesday "play" becomes unlicensed and unlimited.

I'm certainly looking forward to it, notes on the calender, wondering where I left my harp.