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[darkemeralds]

roseambr came down out of the mountains to visit me today.



We talked for a long time over tea and lime cookies with whoops-too-green icing, while the vile weather gradually improved.


Whoops

Our conversations are almost never purely mundane: even when we both worked in the World's Tallest Basement and took frequent, ridiculously long coffee breaks together, we never ran out of serious spiritual subjects to talk about.

Today was no exception. We caught up with my Self-Improvement Moratorium and the most recent leg of her journey up from some difficulties. We discussed the energetic interaction between people and the electronic devices to which they're emotionally attached. And then we tried out the Healing Codes.

The Healing Codes are a new energy method that I've been experimenting with. It's good stuff; purports to remove unconscious long-term stress by clearing negative memories and false beliefs from the deepest cellular levels of the body, after which the body is better able to heal itself. The Healing Codes use some qigong-like energy directed from the fingers to places around the head and neck. You can feel it happening. It's very interesting.

Then, feeling uplifted and connected and Sourced up, we turned our thoughts to some lunch. Lily, roseambr's iPad (to which she is quite attached), pointed us to Tin Shed Garden Café, where they "believe that energy travels through food: not just caloric, but spiritual energy."

Well heck yeah. Let's go there. So we set out on foot.

First, there were the crows. Big, shiny ones. They swooped down across our path, one after the other, while the Boss Crow cawed directions from the top of a nearby spruce.

Then, Shoulder Cat. She came prancing up, longhaired and white, but with a tabby-striped brown tail and a tabby-striped patch above one green eye, as if she was made out of beautiful spare cat parts. roseambr bent to pet her. Then I bent to pet her and she climbed up my arm, perched on my shoulders, and pressed her flank repeatedly against my left ear, purring.

Then, the ring. Once Shoulder Cat could be persuaded to get down, we walked on, and a few steps later something shiny went rolling across the sidewalk in front of my feet. I picked it up. It was a copper ring. I put it on.


Plumbing part? Or magic sign?

Next came the art. The Tin Shed had art for sale on the walls. One piece showed crows and a magic tree, so I bought it.


Print on plexiglass by Lucia Johnson

As we ate, ravurian sent a photo of The Shard from London Bridge Station, so I sent him one of the inside of the Tin Shed. Connected! To the world! \o/


Honest. We did not spend our meal over our devices. We talked.

The other cats came next. On the way home, every cat ran out to greet us. We were the Copper-Be-ringed Energy-handed Pied Cat Pipers of Northeast 14th Avenue.

Then at last there was the sign.

Comments

[lyr]

That right there is a really magical day. Also? I love the art. It looks like something I'd have in my house; we have lots of things with tree or raven images.

[darkemeralds]

It was magical!

I'm still trying to decide where to hang my new art. *looks around from comfy computer couch* Heh. Okay, I think I just found the obvious place. \o/

[darkemeralds]

Say, I hear you'll soon be meeting kis! She's the most wonderful person and I love her to pieces, and I was lucky enough to spend a week at her home last summer.

I know you'll have a good time together, and I hope your journey to Scotland is as excellent as mine was!

[lyr]

Yes! I'm quite stoked! I anticipate liking Kis as much in person as I do online. We will, at the very least, have lunch and a good chat while I'm over there.

[jumpuphigh]

I'm trying The Healing Codes.

Wild!

[darkemeralds]

Oh cool! I thought you might be interested. Alex Loyd claims that the technique is literally God-given, and whatever I may think about that, I have no trouble believing that the method came to him in an inspired way after a dozen years of serious research and seeking.

The main thing, though, is that it's really powerful. I look forward to knowing your thoughts about it.

[jumpuphigh]

Well, I just finished doing both of the Day 1 codes and my whole body is all tingly. I'm both energized and completely relaxed.

It seems really complicated so I'm cutting a lot of the reading out for now as I was getting overwhelmed just reading it. I'm glad I did. I did the prayer, misthought the instructions and ended up holding each position for the first code about 3 minutes (whoops!), took a break for my arms to rest, and did the second holding each position for a minute (which was easier for me than having to open my eyes every 30 seconds to see what was next).

It's late and I'm about ready for bed so I think I'll just do one round of day one's codes but I may try to do more rounds on subsequent days. I'm fascinated to see what shakes out.

[vampirefan]

that sounds like a fucking awesome adventure!!

and LOVE the art! and the new ring and the sign. (just need a picture of sherlock by it - lol!)

[darkemeralds]

It was an excellent day. That cat! I've been around a lot of cats, and I've never met a Shoulder Cat before. Roseambr and I were laughing in amazement as the cat just clung up there, wrapped around my neck, purring its head off.

Hee! We need a picture of Sherlock by everything! Have you seen this? Someone has replicated The Coat!

[ravurian]

So much joy. You see? DO NOT GO BACK TO SLEEP. (I am trying not to go back to sleep because I have an appointment in half an hour, but that is a different kind of sleep altogether). (What an awesome day you had!)

[darkemeralds]

I know, right??

Actually, I'm about to go to sleep because I've got a 6:00 a.m. call in the morning. But in general I shall stay awake now.

It was a day full of joy.

[lamentables]

What an awesomely magical day! May you have more like it.

[darkemeralds]

I'd love to figure out the magic formula by which one could call up days like that every day. But even one every now and then really spices things up.

[tehomet]

What a wonderful day, literally. Love the sign at the end. You know that story about Houdini and his wife, right?

[darkemeralds]

It was a day of little wonders.

Houdini and his wife? I don't instantly find anything about her except a bare-bones bio on Wikipedia, which says she finally gave up on her late husbands spiritualist beliefs, and stopped looking for his return or his ghost. Is there more?

urban myth?

[tehomet]

Well, I don't know if this is true or not, but somebody told me this: Houdini and his wife were initially interested in the Victorian Spiritualist movement, the same as Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a friend of his. But, with the behind-the-scenes knowledge of sleight of hand that Houdini had, he often found that unethical mediums were tricking vulnerable clients at seances. He then spent several years investigating and exposing con artists who had associated themselves with the Spiritualist movement. He and his wife did continue to wonder if there was a way for people who had died to communicate with the loved ones that they had left behind. They agreed between them a certain message that whichever one of them passed away first would send back to prove this. Houdini died the earliest of the two, sadly of peritonitis after being assaulted in the street. Several years after Houdini's death, despite holding seances to attempt to contact him, his wife said that she had lost hope of ever receiving the agreed-upon message. It was just one word: "Believe."

[cookiemom6067]

Love the art - and wow - what a tuned in, serendipitous day! Sounds magic!

[darkemeralds]

It really was! And then I went on to have a most uplifting and engaging weekend.

How's by you? I'm behind on DW and will catch up later this evening. Hope all is well.

[cookiemom6067]

I'm better than I was - work is stressful (had a guy make a dickish comment to me today, but that more pissed me off than anything else) - I have a deadline bearing down on me and loads of coding still to do, with database guys dithering over issues that I couldn't get a lick of help with until about a week ago.

My daughter is having some emotional problems - we're working on it with some professional help, and my sister in law is supervising her online schooling for the time being, but I still have sort of a helpless "Sword of Damocles" feeling about it.

I do feel more energized, although I'm still not where I want to be. I'm getting over being sick and still feeling kind of gross.

But overall - LOTS better.

[jumpuphigh]

Starting a new thread so we can avoid
the
getting
skinnier
syndrome.

:D

I really need to rewrite the prayer to read to myself because I'm still getting hung up on the word "God" in it.

[darkemeralds]

*stretches out and looks around at all the space*

I've been struggling a bit with that myself. (Love your icon, by the way.) In the last few days I've decided to stop struggling and just throw in whatever term I'm feeling at the moment: Center and Source of All That Is; Universe; Universal Source; Mother-Father-God (I don't like that one but it's in my litany from somewhere); Most High; Soul of my Soul; Unity; Oneness...

Well, I've been around the spiritual block a time or two and I've collected a bunch, and they're all "off" in some way, but I'm kind of deciding that I know what I mean, close enough is close enough, and I'd better get on with it.

I have analysis paralysis in spades, and I figure anything I can do to break out of it is probably in my best interests.

That said, I do want to know what you come up with!

Well, That Was Interesting

[jumpuphigh]

I just took the heart codes quiz again after finishing all 12 days of just doing the codes and with the second half of that, doing them while playing positive, healing music.

I went from having 3 categories under 0 with an overall score of 3 to having 0 categories under 0 with an overall score of 6. The biggest swing was from a -3 to 6.

Now, I'm not sure what to do. I guess I'll pull up the codes for particular ailments and work those for a while.

Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[darkemeralds]

In a bizarre moment of Spirit Speaking Through Technology (or something), just as I was about to hit "Post Comment" on a lengthy response, my computer logged me out and rebooted. Ghost in the Machine.

The burden of that comment was that I'm impressed and delighted that you did the whole twelve day series, and got such measurable improvement. What you do from here seems like a completely personal choice which you're well-qualified to make.

I was in the middle of an intense conversation about inner versus external authority as your comment came in. (That intensity might have helped fry my operating system too! Too much synchronicity!) It certainly strikes me that you've given Alex Loyd and his methods their due, and are now free to move about the Healing Codes.

What I've been doing with the Codes is pretty random, but I've been having remarkable effects combining them with tapping, a strange form of prayer by a spiritual healer named Ann Taylor, and some other teachers' invocations. Every day, whatever comes to mind, I try the Codes.

And is it working? I think so. The results are complex and hard to quantify, but on a purely subjective level, my life today feels vastly better than my life even three weeks ago. I mean, different-universe better. What small physical afflictions I had are gone or fading, but it's my awareness that's changed dramatically. I'm filled with hope, a sense of love, and guidance, and clarity. It's pretty fantastic.

Pretty Music

[jumpuphigh]

"I Am" is a pretty song that you might like. I think it may be my new positive message song for a while.

Re: Pretty Music

[darkemeralds]

Oh, that's lovely! Thank you for the link. Now I'm interested in learning more about Satkirin and this thing called naad yoga, which I never heard of till this minute but which I think is a huge key to what I'm supposed to be doing!

You're a messenger of the divine today!