Does the Universe Present Challenges for Us to Grow?

I listened to the above podcast this morning while washing dishes and chopping wood ... OK, I didn't chop any wood, but that did sound more zen than just washing up if you think about it, right?-)

You can watch the You Tube above, or you can listen at Guy Lawrence's website here -

The Guy Lawrence Podcast: 90% Mental, 10% Physical | Kim Morrison

I found Kim's words well worth a listen, but did you have to mention that jerk Tony Robbins, Kim?-)

U R Not My GURU, But Everyone is My Teacher

Delonix regia (flame tree)

That tree above in Kim's Instagram caught my eye and thoughts, as my father's ashes were scattered under a tree like that one, as I wrote about here -

Delonix regia (poinciana)

Frieda Hughes and the Shamanic Spirit of Art?

Time for me to put up another tree tomorrow, too:-)
True North (Star)?

UPDATE: December 4th, 2020

Success from Home with
 Rachel Bermingham

Ah, Kim's podcast is 'Up for a Chat' -

Listening to 'The Black Magick Mirror And Facing Cycles' on Black Friday?

2020, The X-Files and Patience?

Gene Dynarski stars as Ernie Stefaniuk
in 'Patience'

'Patience' aired on my 12th wedding anniversary:-)

Talk about patience and 2020.

I've been working my way in order through 217 episodes of 'The X-Files' on Amazon Prime, not having before seen the first 9 seasons of the show, while reading Chris Knowles' co-authored book about the first 9 seasons of 'The X-Files'.

Chris' book was released on my 21st engagement anniversary:-)

To be honest, I never want to watch these shows again, as I'm not a fan of 'The X-Files' and would have stopped watching seasons back if I wasn't determined to complete my goal.

It reminds me of when I was a teenager and decided to read every word of The Bible in order from cover to cover ... boring as hell, but I did it, and probably wouldn't do that again either in this lifetime:-)

The season 8 episode of 'The X-Files' titled 'Patience' aired on my 12th wedding anniversary in 2000 I noticed.

It's a rather stupid episode about a human bat that goes around killing people in a small town in Idaho.

The Dead Don't Die ... and Where is My Mind?

'Patience'

And of course, with me viewing this episode for the first time in the year 2020 when a virus "from a bat" is killing people around the world, it seemed like timely kind of metaphor.

Especially when the Ernie Stefaniuk character puts himself and his wife into a 40-year self-isolation to hide from the human bat.

Remember, Remember ... the Synchromysticism Surrounding Robert Patrick?

Gene Dynarski

But timing is everything in life it seems, as I had noticed that the actor who played Ernie (Gene Dynaski) passed away in February, 2020.

Gene's last acting role according to his IMDB page was a short film called 'Apple Jack' which takes place on the night of the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast in the 30s.

I found the two parter You Tubes of 'Apple Jack' below and watched Gene's last screen acting performance.

'Apple Jack' seems to be more about karma, fate and synchronicity than aliens and flying saucers.

I actually found 'Apple Jack' much more thought provoking and entertaining than 'Patience' although I realize I never would have watched 'Apple Jack' if Gene's passing in 2020 hadn't have caught my eye and I bothered to look through Gene's acting resume at his IMDB page.

Did someone say Jung?-)

Gene's birthday of September 13th, was the date my father passed away on in 2016.

So, I guess names and dates strike us all on a personal level and grab our attention at certain times on our own life paths for us to take notice of things we normally wouldn't pay attention to in life's upward spiral.

Owls, Ladders, Dimensions, Billie Eilish and Jung?

'Patience'

Life is way stranger than fiction, I think.

The X-Files/Contagion/2020: Who Writes This Stuff?-)

I Want to Believe 2020 Isn't an X-Files Episode?

Dave Prowse: Darth Vader Actor Dies from the Coronavirus?

Bodyguard (as Dave Prowse)

Dave Prowse, the Bristolian former bodybuilder best known for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 85.

Lizo Mzimba looks back at the career
of Star Wars actor Dave Prowse

Just one more dark day for 2020?

UPDATE: November 30th, 2020

Actor Dave Prowse - who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy - died of coronavirus, his daughter has confirmed.

2 Years Later and Fraser is on Fire?

CATHEDRALS ON FRASER

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services has issued an advice warning stating that the fire is burning on two fronts, within five kilometres to the north of Kingfisher Bay Resort, and two kilometres west of Cathedrals on Fraser.

Bushfires devastate Fraser Island

The Trickster Awaits?

1.5M SIGNatures to Sink Amber Heard's Starring Role in Aquaman 2?

A petition demanding Amber Heard be sacked from her upcoming film has more than a million signatures after the star’s court battle with disgraced ex Johnny Depp.

Amber Heard as Mera

Johnny Depp, FISH 'N' CHIX and Whitey Bulger?

Coffee and the Siren's Song

Evening of Mediumship: Does Reality Generate from a Cosmic or Divine Mind?

WITH REGRET THIS MEDIUMSHIP
EVENING WILL BE POSTPONED?-)

I went to bed listening to the above 'Lighting the Void' podcast featuring Michael Grosso Ph.D. on my iPad the other night and dozed off to sleep about halfway through, only to wake up slightly to hear the 'Grief 2 Growth' podcast featuring Nicky Alan in the You Tube above playing on my iPad as it automatically played though my podcast list.

Nicky claims to be a psychic who communicates with the dead, and I'm always skeptical of the claims of such people, unless they can prove that to my satisfaction.

That wasn't what kept me listening though, it was Nicky's story of her accident and battling chronic fatigue syndrome, as well as her admission of past suicidal thoughts to escape her painful life and illness.

Ironically, I was very tired myself at the time when I heard Nicky speaking through my iPad, and when she started going on about angels like I've heard many less than impressive English mediums rattle on about I decided that was enough for me and that it was time to turn my iPad off and go to sleep.

Trouble was that my iPad was at other the other side of my bed and I couldn't be bothered rolling over to reach out to turn my iPad off.

So, I let it play on and I drifted off to sleep again, but when I shut my eyes all I could see was a heap of roses growing in a garden.

It was just like a static picture in my mind more than a dream, and I kept wondering to myself what this meant.

This was pretty much the image I saw in my mind 

I was hoping this wasn't a sign to me of an upcoming death in the family, as while this image of growing roses was at some kind of venue, it didn't seem to me like a place where we see off the dead.

The image of the roses baffled me so much that I woke up, and the 'Grief 2 Growth' podcast was still playing with Nicky telling Brian how she was once on British TV as a psychic.

I wondered if I'd ever heard of Nicky before, and since I had to get up to answer nature's call anyway, on the way back to bed I looked up Nicky's website and saw the picture that I've put right up the top of this blog post.

That was the exact pattern of the growing roses I saw in my head I was sure of and stunned by.

I've never heard of Nicky before, or seen her website or that picture before, so I sat there staring at the roses in that picture and wondered how in God's name my mind's image seemed to match those roses in the picture of the English venue?

But then I smiled to myself when I saw that the event was called off because of Covid 19 restrictions, and I wondered how a "psychic" who had booked the venue to perform in didn't see that coming?-)

I was more interested in Nicky's personal story of loss and coping with M.E. and her views about the afterlife and suicide, rather than hearing a reading for Brian, which just about anyone could do if they had been following or viewing his You Tube interviews.

I checked out a couple of Nicky's You Tubes at her site before going back to bed.

The two I liked the most that I watched right through where the story of the voice of the mouse and the lion, and one about people who commit suicide (having been there myself in my early 20s and nearly succeeding).

Not that I resonate with all of her angel mythology/theories when it comes to crossing over, but I do agree with her about "hell" and people who commit suicide.

I guess the lion and mouse video appealed to me because I'm a Brisbane Lions supporter and I remember that one champion Lions player named Alastair Lynch overcame Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to be part of the champion Lions team of the 90s/00s.

You can hear Alastair talk about his playing career and battle with CFS in this old 2006 ABC Radio interview -

Conversations: AFL legend Alastair Lynch's battle with chronic fatigue

Alastair Lynch

I've not read any of Michael Grosso's or Nicky Alan's books, and can't say I feel drawn to reading them, but it was an interesting listen to hear Michael and Nicky's beliefs in those podcasts.

And Joe Rupe's past life regression on a 'Lighting the Void' podcast that I wrote about a few posts back was interesting too, I thought -

One from The X-Files: Closure?