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These are some accounts of people who have reported seeing objects in the sky on 10-14-08 although these reports do not collaborate with what blossom goodchild reported I believe that even the best psychic or channel can misinterpret information or inadvertently take it out of context, ok so below are the reports:

This first report is of a member of my site,
I went down to the river near my house tonight after i was finished work*I was going to the place where i usually sit and meditate.On my way down to my spot.I was amazed to see not just one but 2 UFO's:)The fist one was as fast as a shooting star.But twice as big,and was gone in a blink.The 2nd was closer,and seemed to be the size of a plane in the sky,yet it moved unlike any plane iv ever seen(along with the fact it had a interesting tail of white light behind it).It did an almost loop around the moon and then disappeared* It was the most amazing sight *the emotions i felt are hard to describe, but it was almost as tho a family member was saying hello to me'.I had an overwhelming sense of begin home sick/sad followed by a feeling of being unconditionally loved*The whole experience left me wanting more.And i sat for another hour hoping my family would return

I have never seen a UFO before.and now that i have, im' excited to see what will happens next:)

It was everything i expected an more!

Positive Love and light to all*

This was a comment left on this blog earlier on another post
I seen at about 9:30pm last night on 10/14/08 some lights shining off to the west. I was waiting on a bus. I ran home and went out my back door because there is no lights back there. I seen with in an hour 10 objects flying. Some had 1 light some had no lights blinking at all. My boyfriend had come and also witnessed this. When he came out there were what looked to be 3 stars at three different angles shapping in a triangle form but no solid lines. after we kept watching the sky 2 more of these appeard. I kept watching and around 10:45 a craft of some sort flew through my area at a really low depth. It was lower than the sears towe it had to have been. I saw its lights but it had no solid structure you could actually see through it. If this was millitary, well done it not they are still here and we will be seeing more of them. I did not get pics because I am digitilly disadvantaged, LOL! But I think I might inves.

This is my account posted again here for research purposes
I apologize if this message seems to have a lot of typos and seems rushed it is only that I can not contain myself and must share this information with somebody tonight as I looked out my window I saw an enormous ball of light shoot from the sky further down in to our atmosphere I will try to explain it in detail as best as I can, this light was solid white the light was so beautiful I can barely contain my emotions and my eyes have already begun to well up.

My heart is racing I have never felt such joy and love, the best I can describe this light is that it looked like a very solid orb the type you see in paranormal photography but it was about the size of a blimp but made of pure white light and it was a solid mass, this light had no trail and made no sound, and it appeared out of nowhere it appeared right in the middle of the sky and descended diagonally and then disappeared just below the middle of the sky but before any buildings or trees etc and moved at an incredibly non man made speed but yet it was graceful and precise, no object or celestial body can appear out of nowhere and then proceed to disappear out of where.

I thanked them and the creator for allowing me to see this amazing event now I cant wait for full on revelation…I tell you in all sincerity that what we witnessed as a civilization is the most beautiful loving and peaceful beings known to man, this I felt when I saw this scout ship nothing but love, peace and light whip out the champagne and rejoice! at last First Contact.

And this is another account of another member of COS
I guess it means- we are all in the same boat together? It was a streak across the sky, it had a light blue tinge to it, and all I know is the joy I felt from it. So I take that as a good sign.

Other Reports

Maine

At approximately 1 AM, my mother and I (who had been watching the skies for any signs) saw what appeared to be a star, only much brighter. It was hanging low in the south and made no noticeable moves. With binoculars, we could see it distinctly blinking blue to red to yellow/white. By 4 AM it had moved higher and more to the east, and by 530 AM it was no longer visible.

Ontario

stargazing last night, i noticed what was surely the prettiest star. it twinkled a rainbow of hues very brightly. it was not the first time i have observed it in pretty much the same position, which was about forty degrees elevation, to the east south east, just above the neighbourhood treeline. last night though, through both binoculars and naked eye, the star was especially transfixing. i felt an enthrallment and felt unwilling to remove my gaze for several minutes. really a very soothing feeling, almost hypnotic, obviously very hard to describe; i was feeling quite a connection to this star! in my marvel i thought i saw the star wander to and fro, and even change altitude, but i couldnt be sure because these movements were slow, and i have no tripod setup of any sort. so still 'connected', i 'asked' for slightly more conclusive behaviour; i dont know what i was expecting, maybe a figure eight! there was no variation in activity for half a minute or so, but then the star brightened slightly before fading out to black over three seconds. i stayed out only for another five minutes or so, but i came out again about a half hour later to find the same light had returned, and now it was definitely wandering, with noticeable displacement. observed it off and on until about four am, when the the clouds rolled in. i am quite impressed, since until last night i had only suspected this object to be.. unidentifiable compelling. im certain i will see it again.

New York

I was driving home from work in a Westerly direction when I noticed a mysterious bright light in the morning sky that is not normally there when I drive home. I looked up and noticed the object was hovering back and forth across the road ahead of me. It seemed to go from the left to the right and then back to the left again. I continued to drive home and kept a close eye on the object. I started up the last hill on my way into the town I live and realized that the object was above this hill. I couldn't make out any detail except that it was a bright light, very much like a star. But the sun was out and no other objects where in the sky like that. As I was about to crest the hill and go almost directly under the object the light just disappeared and I could not find it again. I have no idea what the light was, if it was a planet, star, or ufo. It's just something that I cannot explain. I felt very paranoid after I lost sight of the object while I was descending the hill into the valley below. It was extremely foggy down in the valley which amplified my paranoid creepy feeling I had. My father has also seen objects(lights) that he can't explain in the sky and he has lived in this town his whole life. On a side note, I noticed a very similar light a few months before but over a different hill and from a much farther distance.

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(Hot fudge sundae. October 2008.  Photo © Robin)

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

~ Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

A little tongue-in-cheek photo and quote combination, for those of us who sometimes obey those little emotions by seeking out the nearest source of chocolate.

We've been experiencing Indian Summer here in the Bogs.  Up until today it's been clear, sunny, and almost hot with temperatures in the lower 80's.  Mother Nature has been generous with this gift.  The warm weather has been here for over a week.  It won't be long until things cool off again (by Thursday, I think).

M and I went out for our end-of-the-season ice cream on Sunday.  I usually have two hot fudge sundaes per year.  The first at the beginning of the summer ice cream season and the second at the end.  I prefer a New Baltimore sundae, but Sunday's trip was too late as they'd already closed for the season.  Fortunately there's another place up the road that also serves sundaes.  It wasn't as good as a New Baltimore sundae (because the New Baltimore folks make their own ice cream), but it wasn't bad either.

And so officially endeth the summer for me.  On a very sweet note.

Bonus fall foliage photo (because things are very yellow here these days):

(Looking out past the wildflower meadow. October 2008.  Photo © Robin.)

The music.

My grandmother was a great gardener. She didn't do it because times were tough, she did it for pure love. The joy she shared with her plant friends was an awesome thing to experience. She delighted in each tiny bit of growth, each flower, each fruit.

She taught me to respect the bees and butterflies and the magicians of the garden, they were the ones who transformed flowers into delicious beans, corn, tomatoes and other delights.

As a little girl I danced to the music of bees, celebrated the beauty of the butterflies and laughed at the antics of frogs in the veggie and flower gardens. It was a magical place filled with wonder, awe and oneness with nature.

Granny Cile had green thumbs too. She could put a stick in the dirt and it would happily root for her. She taught me to work with nature, to talk to the soil, the worms who constantly tilled the soil making it rich with nutrients for the plants.

She showed me by example how to walk barefoot through the garden and feel the bliss of the earth mother under my feet. I understood the energy of the growing season sprinkled with love very early on in my life.

When I got married and had my own garden I followed my Grannie's example of green living and gardening. I use manure and composted material to feed my soul knowing that this would eventually feed the plants that fed me.

I remembered how to mix different herbs to spray on my plants to keep away harmful bugs without hurting those who actually helped me garden.

Each time I ventured into my own magical garden space I remembered to be thankful, to feel the love and joy of working with the earth to grow veggies and beautiful flowers. Not only does gardening feed the body, it feeds the soul.

Garden for the joy, the love, the bliss of it.. Be green cause it just plain feels good.

Granny would agree...

Reaching across the aisle is a political term, but maybe we need to start using that term in church. My friend and I have a conversation last night concerning “liberal” and “conservative” Catholics. This conversation is an ongoing one; we have it at least once a week, but more often than not its 4 or 5 days a week. We both love to give little digs concerning the others point of view.  Mostly it’s joking around, but not always. I can become quite passionate about my point of view, as you read in an earlier blog concerning the teachers strike, that conversation ended on a bad note. But passion is not a bad thing, so I will stick with it; I just need to learn to temper it sometimes, but back to my theme, reaching across the aisle.

The Church, like any other human run organization is made up of people, many people with many different backgrounds and ideals. And that is one of the Churches beauties. It is also one of the Churches failings. Humanity has a way of corrupting all it touches, and the Church is no different.

We have many great people that have come from the Church, some liberal and some conservative. They all were doing God’s work in one fashion or another. God has a way of using people that most would not even consider to use, Joan of Arc or St. Francis, two people God had chosen to do his will. At the time no one would have picked either one to represent themselves, let alone God. But God knows better than you or I.

So looking at the current make up of the Church, I see both good and bad form the liberals and conservatives. Each side offering up what they see as needed to bring the Church closer to God, to try and create a heaven here on earth. The intentions are pure and the actions are done in the name of God. I would not presume that anyone is willingly trying to bring downs Gods church here on earth.

Some will call me silly for such a statement; they will assure me that there are evil doers working within the Church. And I am sure they are correct, but I try to find the goodness in all, I look for the silver lining or the hand of God in each situation. So there may be evil doers in the Church, but I trust that God will use their actions of evil for the betterment of the Church.

I trust in Jesus, as our head, to protect the body of the Church here on earth, to preserve her until the New Jerusalem comes and the new Heaven is open to us all.

Jesus reached across the aisle with his ministry, he opened up his heart to all, but he also called us then to task, Jesus was a liberal and conservative, Jesus saw the need for both compassion and rules, the need for free thinking and for controlled thought. Jesus understood that we, as Humans are frail and easily lead astray. That our good intentions for the Church, may in fact be only selfish needs for ourselves. Jesus understood that we may think we are working for the betterment of the Church, when we are really removing the cornerstone on which she stands.

Be us liberals or Conservatives, we need to learn to reach out to each other, to embrace the beauty that is our common faith and learn to discern the true meaning of our faith.

Each new generation offers us new hope, each new idea is an opportunity to expand our understanding and each faithful person graces us with the presence of God, in his earth home, the Catholic Church.

Paul

You will never fall,
you will never be made to halt,
as long as trust,you place -
in yourself and understand,
the fire within and use it to begin,
a whole new beginning.
The sky is waiting to be conquered,
and those who don't seek have endangered,
their own life's worth,
and the strings strain a bit more.

Forever the allegro will continue ,
for the life's movement is fast
and though transitory it may seem,
till the world's end,the beam,
travels and the sound never perishes.
And the sense of belonging may evade,
but within you,belief will elevate,
and emancipate,
even that choked voice,
and life will get to its poise.

the light shines the brightest

A businessman from the English city of Leeds says that he is "shocked" that rubbish he put out for recycling has ended up being dumped in India. Junk mail sent to Paul Sharman's home was found by environmental campaigners to have been dumped in disused wells in the state of Tamil Nadu.

They say that it is not environmentally or socially fair for rubbish from the UK to be shipped to India.

Environmental campaigners say that companies contracted by British councils to recycle waste often end up sending it to India.

They say that it is supposed to be sorted out before shipment into paper, plastics and cans. But they say sometimes this is not done properly, which means that when it arrives at re-processing plants in India it is impossible to recycle.

As a result, much of it is dumped in disused agricultural wells hundreds of metres deep on farmland in places like Tamil Nadu - in this case near the southern port of Tuticorin.

The most distressing yarp was the blather from local politicians who insisted this simply didn't happen. Someone should stuff Mr. Sharman's junk mail up some convenient orifice in the council member's fundament.

It's happening, dude. Get over the excuses and work at solutions instead.

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Ilchi lee says that we need to fill good information into our brain because our consciousness depends on the quality and quantity of information we have in our brain. How much of good information do I have in my brain? I think we need to fill good information through books, movies, trips, images, ... actually everything around us. Let's feed our brain with good food~

“How shall I describe ye, O beautiful Sylphs! Bright dwellers in the aerial element, how can I tell the unutterable longing, the deep yearning with which my heart inclines to your celestial company! Whether ye revel in the rose-perfumed cloud which, at glowing dawn, hangs over the golden gardens of Istamboul, or with sister Peris wing your way far, far above the sun-painted rainbow and crimson-gleaming flame of the western sky, still my heart follows and is ever with you.”

This lovely piece is by Charles Godfrey Leland, published in 1855, long before his more famous works such as The Aradia Gospel of the Witches and Gipsy Sorcery.  An interesting insight into a man bizarrely often considered not to be that knowledgable about the subjects he wrote on!

Nasa's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 5 was this composite of hundreds of photos made by orbiting DMSP satellites which clearly illustrates who needs to turn their lights off at night. The only map more blue right now is The Economist's Global Electoral College map.

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I don’t know how great men feel, or how they are with their greatness. I haven’t spoken to any great man alive. I wish I did, to ask them what they think is that makes them 'great'. I don’t know if they open the window and sit on the ledge at night breathing the chill in the air knowing that something wonderful is going to happen. Can they sniff the adventure they haven’t had? Do they see the people they are going to meet? When asked the question, do they really see themselves 5 years down the line as ‘different’ or otherwise? I don’t know what they believe in.

But I will tell you what I do know. I remember as a kid wishing that I was just like the rest of the class. Wondering why I have to be, they way I am. I can hear my mother tell me to be more like my best friend. I can hear my best friend’s mother telling me how she wished her son was more like me on some matters. I remember asking myself what I am going to do when I grow up, a doctor, an engineer, a teacher or live life in solitude as the black sheep of the family. Those were the professions known to me at the age of eleven. I remember my teacher frowning and telling me in my teens that I will be a good for nothing lad who can’t add simple arithmetic. I remember being lazy and day dreaming to be a spy for the Indian Govt. This one time I even pretended to want to become a doctor. My grand-aunt-nun prayed a saints prayer complete with the usual pleas of studying well ,getting first in class, pleasing my parents, becoming a good boy and she even added Glory to God. Nice lady she is. I told my father and my mother that I wanted to become a Doctor because every soul on Earth demanded to know what I had chosen to do and not to become. I told them I just want to be. They laughed saying “You have to do something; you don’t want to end up like …..” Fine, have it your way in the world. I will become a Doctor. I think I liked White Coats pretty flattering. So I pretended to want to ‘become’ a doctor, so I can heal the sick, make lots of money in the process, marry a malayali girl , buy a house and take care of my old parents. So at that point I asked God what I would be in life. Will I be a doctor?

I remember wishing I had a remote for my life and if not fast forward to it, I can see what I have 'become' when I turn 18 or 20 or 25. I remember wanting to be invisible and all powerful. I wanted to see what College life is all about. I remember sleeping in a Hall smaller than a 600Sq ft room with a small kitchen next to the toilet and asking God if my life will be spent in this small house. My dad remembers taking his first son out for a walk. He  enjoyed hearing me talk on the smallest of things. So when I pointed to a very huge building and asked “will we ever live in a house like that papa?” he cried to God.

Today I wish for more than 24 hours in a day. If I respect my parents at all times I have another 75 years to go. That’s a pretty short time on Earth. As little child I waited for him to answer that question and when I didn’t hear anything, I smiled and went back to my life. I remember the birth of my brother, the love of my parents, family and neighbors. But the thing I remember most vividly is reading a Chick Tract that talked about life and death. That one person who was an answer to that question. At 10 years of age accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

After that I remember going back to my old life of compromise and confusion. I remember hating my Dad a couple of times, maybe even more for trying to run my life. Today, I remind myself to forgive him for being himself and loving me so. I have spoken to men of old and grandeur that have left their marks in time. I know of their success. I know the secret of the success. Success is not being happy at the end of the day or sleeping at night peacefully. Success is a person. Success is Jesus Christ.

10 years later.I know this.I am HIS.

I didn’t have to read far before the bible contradicted commonsense and known scientific facts. The very first verse is about creation “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” [Gen 1:1], surprisingly no information about the solar system, and the rest of the universe as if the earth is the only thing worth mentioning or created in the universe. Any laymen who would have lived during the time of genesis being written could have known about the earth and the heavens [sky], for these are things obvious to human eye. There is nothing of great wisdom in this first verse or may be I am just expecting too much from the very first verse. A believer could say the verse is just dealing with the creation of the Earth and hence, it obviates the need to mention about the rest of the universe.

The next verse [Gen 1:2] says the earth was void and dark. The very next verse is something that should trouble any rational person who is aware of the basic scientific facts. It reads, “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.” [Gen 1:3], this means light was something that came into existence after our earth.

We know from the radiometric dating of the Earth's oldest lead ores and other means that the Earth must be around 4.54 billion years old with an uncertainty of less than 1 percent. The major source of light for us, the Sun, is thought to be 4.57 billion years old, a little older than us. How then could believers explain the biblical error of placing creation of Earth before light? Now let’s forget the sun for the moment. Let’s consider the rest of the universe. The age of the universe having stars older than the sun is about 13.7 Billion Years Old according to WMAP data. The light from many of these stars haven’t yet reached us. The account of creation is so blatantly anachronistic.

Not more than three verses into the book of genesis, it already contradicts known scientific facts. I don’t have high hopes for the rest of the book too [as I have read it already, and this is my second or third reading of the bible as I said]. But I will read it with open mind anyways.

this is the direction we can be and are heading -- a resource based economy: built to sustain humanity and uplift the focus of life. A monetary system, such as we employ today is corrupt and defunct. We see the consequences in the crumbling infrastructure all around us... we practice materialism in all sorts of ways, even spiritual ones. I am all for practicing mass creationism. *wink.

to learn more you can watch the whole 2 hour film, (I'm trying to give you the good parts, here) for free: www.zeitgeistmovie.com

and then check out The VENUS Project.

and for more background, The Story of Stuff, if you haven't seen it already.

And see how the shift is really taking place, even though it seems isolated... it's becoming pervasive...

even Carl Sagan in 1980 had this to say... concerning: "Who Speaks for the Earth?"

or check out Leap! Or Invocation.

Who Speaks for Earth?

With today being October 14 and the day that the aliens were supposed to be showing up here on Earth and all, I figured I'd talk about an alien movie. Ok so say you're an American scientist up in the arctic parts of the world and there's this chopper full of Norweeeegians who are flyin around trying to kill this dog and then they crash, would you take in the dog in an attempt to be 'nice' or 'humane'? Well if you would, you're dumb because obviously the dog was actually a parasitic alien life form who has this whacked out ability to take the identity and exact appearance of anything it's near.  Then  you'd be stuck in this big mess of not knowing if any of your fellow scientists were actually the alien in disguise until it's too late and fear and paranoia would very likely get the best of you aaaand it'd just be bad times, man. DONT TRUST ANYBODY! AHHHH!

The Big Bang

At one point, the universe was together in one entity and "exploded," in a single moment.  Calculations say it happened around 14 billions years ago.  This particle was a infinitely dense, dimensionless point of pure energy.  That everyone, religious or not, should agree on.   St. Augustine says that we should not mix the Bible with a scientific article, it should be seen as a moral play. 

Before the Big Bang

So what happened before the Big Bang?  Nobody knows.  To me, the Big Bang requires a supernatural response.  I cannot see how nature created itself.  St. Thomas Aquinas proposed a certain proof of types, which simply kept asking what happened before that, to each step.  Eventually he said, everything boiled down to something outside of nature: God. 

More Evidence for God

After the Big Bang, Anti-Matter and Matter were made in unequal amounts.  Why?  It is more natural for it to be created in equal amounts, but this would cause all matter to disappear, leaving only radiation.  If the rate of expansion after the Big Bang was smaller by even one part in 100 thousand million million, the unibverse would have collapsed and nothing would exist.  Also, if the strong nuclear force holding together protons and neutrons would have been only slightly weaker, only hydrogen could have formed, never allowing for life.  Also, the universe after the Bang cooled off at a perfect rate: had it been faster, no elements could form.  Even Stephen Hawking says, "The odds against a universe like ours emerging are enormous.  I think there are clearly religions implications.  I think it would be very difficult to explain why the universe began how it did except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us." 

Possibilities

This leaves us with 3 options:

1.)  There are infinite numbers of universes, with different physical constrains.  Ours is not miraculous, only an unusual product of trial and error.

2.)  There is only one universe, we are just very, very, very lucky.

3.)  There is only one universe and the conditions that arose reflect the action of a "creator," revealing himself through the Big Bang.

Analysis

Clearly 2 is the least plausible/rational.  Number 1 fails Occam's Razor (the best answer is the simplest one) and is almost incredible, the only one left is 3.  If one is willing to accept that the Big Bang required a creator, then it is not a quantum leap to believe that the same creator set up the physical parameters to accomplish a goal: a universe.  We must note, that science may reveal more answers, but at this point, I say we go with what we got.  Just a side note: which is less crazy: a particle outside space time or a god outside of spacetime?  Neither is particularly appealing, but based on the above, I say the later is the best option.  Heisenberg's uncertainty principle indicates that any initial configuration of matter in the universe is impossible to be certain. 

Proof

If God exists, He is supernatural.

If He is supernatural, He is not governed by natural laws.

If He is not governed by natural laws, time does not affect Him.

His not affected by time, He is past present and future.

He could exist before the Big Bang and could exist after the universe disappears.

He could know the pricise outcome  of the formation of the universe before it began

He could know of a small planet that could harbor life.

He could know that the planet could support intelligent life through the mechanism of evolution by natural selection.

He could know that the thoughts and acts of that life could not be governed due to free will.

I wil explain more about this in the days to come, but this is a good baseline.