Brother Michael Sky

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  1. im sure he will be with us in the afterlife. he was always waiting for me at the gate when i arrived home from work, and i expect him to be at the gate awaiting my arrival when that time comes for me

    something rings very true about that... :smile3:

  2. I am truly sorry Rev Dreed.

    He was a gift in your life - as his memories will continue to be.

    I hope you do not mind, if I suggest that one day he will be able to express his appreciation for your love in this life....

    Think happy things about him, and until you meet again, tell folks what a good dog he was... :)

  3. sweet....

    I watched my mother perform weddings, years ago..... but I have not performed any... I really do not get terribly nervous in front of people though.....

    and there are a few who say that I would be their first choice IF they were to get married... lol

  4. seee? :derisive:

    told ya!

    It is one of my peculiarities that I play with language... and your first line didn't work with mytwang - took a second to realize I needed to drop it... :doh:

    I don't know if you meant it - but the Naked limbs and the whistling, gave me a whole "bonus" visual... VERY nice.... two scenes - One Haiku.... :giveup: ...

  5. My prayers will be directed towards good things for you guys...

    Vitki, burn your lighthouse nonstop... Keep a clear spot in the fog where you two may be pinpointed clearly... There are many who would help, and your light - through the gloom - will bring them closer..

  6. That's an excellent analogy, Bro. Mike. My experience with TM started at 14 when I and was given a book about it for my birthday. I immediately started reading and practicing the techniques, seeking the Enlightenment that would free my Soul from the necessity of having to reincarnate. My first attempts met with failure, and were followed by frustration at my inability to achieve any insight at all. But I kept trying, and finally was able to connect with the Super-Consciousness. What I'd like to relate now is a vision that I had, and a subsequent dream. While I was in a self-hypnotic trance, I saw myself as a member of Celtic tribe, wearing blue paint on my face and body, and clad in a toga-like wrap that was little more than rags. It was only a brief vision, but I was struck with the feeling that what happened to me in that life was the reason that I was in my current life. Several nights later I had a dream in which I was again that Celt, and was a member of a raiding party against another clan. During the raid, I was separated from the rest of my kinsmen and was being pursued by the defending villagers. Running through a field away from the village, seeking my escape, I tripped over a young woman that had been hiding from us. Rather than being scared and screaming, she pulled me behind a hay pile, and covered me with straw. When her tribesmen, looking for me, approached her, she motioned towards the woods, and told them that I had run in that direction. She had saved my life, and I promised her that, somehow, I would repay her kindness. As we were standing there, my kinsmen came upon us. I told them how she had saved me, and hoping to keep her from being harmed by the others, I claimed her as my captive, They laughed at me, and because I had no status in the clan, they took her from me. She screamed, pleading for me to save her, but I was powerless to help, and just stood there watching while they raped, tortured, and killed her in front of me. Instantly the scene disappeared, and I was sitting in an easy chair reading my paper. A young boy ran up to me and said, "Dad! Mom needs you in the laundry room right now! The washing machine's busted!" I let him pull me to the back of the house to the laundry. There, on her knees on the floor, was a woman cleaning up the suds and water that had flooded the room. When she stood up and turned around, I instantly recognized her. She was the girl who had saved my life. I woke immediately, and sat up in bed thinking about what I had dreamed. When I related the dream to my wife, and I told her that she was not the girl that had saved me, she was not happy. I never thought of the dream again. Several years, and a bitter divorce later, I met and fell in love with another woman. We married and moved into a house up the street from where I was raised. We had been married for about 5 years, when one morning, I was reading my paper when my son ran up and said, "Dad! Mom needs you in the Laundry room . . ." It happened exactly like it had happened in my dream. It wasn't til she stood up and turned toward me that I remembered my dream and recognized her. My wife was the girl that had saved my life. I had not even thought of nor remembered my dream until that minute. While I helped her clean the mess, I told her about my dream. When I had finished she said, "Well, I guess we're even now. Lord knows you saved my life." I guess I wont know for sure until I leave this life, but I hope that I've paid my Karmic debt to her.

    to really get to the "meat" of your connection, several more lifetimes will need to be reviewed.. until trends are discovered...

    The validation you received is what folks literally pray for, but have a hard time accepting.... I would advise you run with it, and work hard at breaking through again...

  7. One of my favorite topics of discussion....

    I started out with very firm ideas about reincarnation, learned from New Age folks, when new age was new......

    I read all I could from all the sources I could find - from channeled info to the Hindu and Buddhist teachings.... found esoteric teachings which were fairly similar to the rest...

    But when I started practicing Astral Travel and the deeper stages of Meditation I found a completely different framework to begin understanding about my other incarnations, and how they relate to this one.....

    I am now aware of an unbroken string of experience which stretches back farther than I have been able to penetrate... so many beings, personalities, faces and experiences, that to count them would be pointless...

    I can not even place them in a logical progression in time..... because I have begun to think that some of them have occurred on other "timelines" - where things are just a little different - Alternate timelines, so to speak - so that we could play out lines of exploration which followed through to their conclusion, or merged back into the "present" timeline....or simply veered too far from the experience my soul desires, and were dismantled as experience after a certain point - given up as a lost cause, so to speak....

    Where I used to see lifetimes as a chain - stretching back to "past" incarnations and reaching ahead into "new" lifetimes - now I see things differently.....

    I see what amounts to a spider web.....

    existing in it's entire perfection all at once....

    with lifetimes radiating from a central hub, connected at various points around the web.... leading to nexus', when handfuls of lifetimes play into one strong cable.... several times around the periphery... but the only way this analogy fails is that it is backwards - the edges of the web are the ACTUAL center.... and we "start" in the middle creating our own "web" until it all works out into those "cables" reaching home.... to Union with our Creator.... where we shall return with our OWN experiences creating, and compare them with others...

    Thousands of lifetimes, all happening at once, all playing out like the ticking of a clock....

    The amazing thing to me now is realizing that the REAL us, is simply a flickering light of awareness which travels anywhere on the web it so desires.... and wherever it goes, it experiences Time, to make it SEEM like there is an actual forward progression going on.... for the purposes of exploring this web....

    But at any time - should we put forward the desire to remember how, we can learn how to step back from the web - outside of time - and learn to take a MUCH more comprehensive look at the trends we are exploring.....

    I know it sounds like a Buddhist monk telling you to study your navel...... but the reality of things is that we are but a tiny hologram of the whole...when we learn to Look Inside of our being for the truth, we are on the front porch of God..... Meditation is the gateway to every path we have walked, and some which have not occurred yet - but are still being formed....

    If it's not over til the fat lady sings - we are the fat lady, as well as the audience... The hard part is remembering that we are the heckler too....

  8. Brother Sky,

    Thank you for acknowledging continuing a positive line of thinking. I'm missing something I'm sure, but I honestly do not understand what you mean by “seeing through your shenanigans” nor how these may apply to Kay and my situation.

    I also have the same wish for everyone, and you, that nothing but what is best for folks will materialize for them in whatever manner is best suited. For some that is the mundane things of the physical realms and for others the dynamic things of the ethereal planes. Whichever and however is best suited for their specific need at hand.

    I think we would both be doing any honest Belief a grand injustice if we allowed an “irreparable rift” to stand in the way of either of us gaining new insights or understandings. In the context of my post above there were far worse situations than one's had here that managed to be repaired, so I remain hopeful in all relationships, at whatever level they may be, for either us.

    I am very stern with myself, and I have been painfully aware of how I have been pushing you.

    I think back ten years ago, and I would have had an almost impossible time in forgiving such treatment pointed at myself - and the fact that I can not explain it to you in an understandable manner, only compounds the hurt you must have felt.

    You know I have expressed the fact that I believe there has been an association between yourself and myself for a very long time. I fully believe there will come a time when perspective will answer this question for you - it is the only ease my mind has felt for quite a while now.

    I am not able, at this time, to devote my energies to assisting in what you are going through ( even should you accept such ) but my prayers for you will not stop, and I should say HAVEN'T stopped - because I never stopped adding you to my prayers... they are heartfelt for you and Kay, and as the situation has changed, I may say so....

  9. Thank you for writing about this subject. I greatly enjoy hearing from others and how they have helped people with something small, like words. Like you wife I too find a connection with smaller groups, fewer close friends. Oddly I'm not the best speaker, I can sometimes just stumble over explaining something. But when someone shares something to me I feel a need to listen and help in some small way.

    I must apologize as well, I don't know how I missed your thread.

    I am also one of those folks who have strangers walk up and start explaining their problems, while I listen patiently... It has been disconcerting for family and friends at times....

    But I cannot tell you how many times I've been thanked for being there to talk to.... how it has affected them? - I usually do not know - but I believe it helps everyone to have someone to share with....