Category: Journal
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Jabbing the kids.
Another shift at the mass vaccination centre. Today Im doing the five to twelve year olds. I have learned much in the ways of Minecraft, and Spiderman, and Frozen. I have been educated in the fact that there are 16 unicorn stickers on the wall of my vaccination booth. And that I look like I…
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I’ll see you on the other side of sesshin.
Well Im about to go off grid for a week. I will be attending the yearly sesshin (an intensive 7 day meditation retreat. Sesshin literally means: touching the heart-mind) with the Black Mountain Zen group. The retreat is being held at a beautiful location beside Lake George just outside of Canberra. I’m all packed for…
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That’s a wrap.
Ripley is all washed, wrapped up an bedded down for a couple of weeks. I’m off to a meditation retreat & Kelly will be working. Spent the morning washing away the accumulated mud, bug kill and grease from our last trip. Ripley is a big girl and it takes a while to reach all her…
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How to improve your life in 3 steps.
Go and buy a simple bunch of fresh flowers (these cost $8.00)* Place in a small vase and position in a place of high psychic energy karmic cleansing & cosmic vortex confluence (alternatively, use kitchen table). Appreciate EVERY time you walk past. Thats it. There is no 4th step. Except perhaps, stop wasting your energies…
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I’m going to FLOP at this truck stop.
Location: ///undergrad.sibling.dissolving Basically, I’m sleeping at a truck stop tonight. I’m still about an hour away from the place I need to be tomorrow morning, but it’s tea o’clock, it’s all rainy and gloomy and I’m feeling driver-drowsy. Eww, a truck stop? I find something kinda neat about staying at a truck stop overnight. And…
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Parsley sage.
Kelly and I took Juno for our daily COVID lockdown constitutional this morning. We noticed a lady up the street had set out a small herb garden for passers-by to help themselves. It’s the little things.
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A Dutch study on NDE.
A Near-Death Experience (NDE) is a form of non-ordinary experience that can be summarised as: “the reported memory of a range of impressions during a special state of consciousness, including a number of special and universal reported elements such as an out-of-body experience, pleasant feelings, seeing a tunnel, a light, deceased relatives, a life review,…
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The Near Death Experience of Dr Bettina Peyton.
A story published in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing recounts the Near-Death Experience (NDE) of Bettina Peyton a now-retired doctor. Dr Peyton’s NDE occurred in 1988 when she was 32 years old and working at Tufts New England Medical Centre in the US. Prior to her experience Dr Peyton had no belief in life after…
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