The Green Frog With The Red Eyes

Photo that I e-mailed to Trish

My friend Trish from Synchrosecrets put this post up on her blog today -

Inside Out and the Green Frog with Red Eyes 
about the photo I posted her (above) involving a sync I had when deciding to buy a magazine after having seen a photo of a green frog with red eyes, which she posted on her blog about her trip to 

Costa Rica.

That in itself could be passed as a little more than coincidence, I realize ... but here is the larger sync that amazed me.

Here is the full ad as it appears in the magazine

(below-click on it to enlarge it)

The full ad in the Inside Out magazine

The issue the ad was in.

I realized the much bigger synch after I had bought it and was taking the photo to send to Trish-about the green frog with the

red eyes.
Which I was sending because this post is what made me buy the magazine in the first place;

Time, Space, and Costa Rica

after seeing the green frog she had taken a snap of in this post.

It was after reading this post -

Midnight in Paris 
and responding to it with some comments, that I realized what a synchro the green frog had turned out to be 

(click on that ad and you will see what I'm talking about).

Syncs are all in the timing.

Read the Midnight in Paris post and you will see how weird this all gets (click on the last link above, if you haven't already ... you will need to read it all to see where this is going).

 Here is my comment that I made on the Midnight in Paris post;

"Trish, I just realized this after sending the e-mail of the photo of the green frog on the bed in the magazine ad, and re-reading my comment “Maguire as playing Harvey Stern/Harry’s character”
The ad in the magazine is for a store in Australia called “Harvey Norman (Normal Man?)” and Tobey’s character is Harvey Stern.
Also the ad says, “What are little boys made of ?” 
Here’s the weird part ,”Frogs (your green frog with red eyes, and the frog in the ad?), Snails (Paris, France? Midnight in Paris?) and Puppy Dog Tails (Tales? Stories ?- Harry the novelist, you the novelist, Fitzgerald the novelist?)
“What are little boys made of ?”/Deconstructing Harry?
Maybe this is a sync telling us both to give that Woody Allen movie another spin through the DVD player?"

Here's another comment from that post that is probably relevant to the sequence of  events that was unfolding; "Here’s another little sync, I just went to check my mail, and Rob’s book “Psychic Power” along with Dean Radin’s book “Entangled Minds” were waiting for me.
And on the back of “Entangled Minds” is the question in my favourite shade of blue (which is the same colour of the lightning bolts on the bedspread that the green frog is sitting on in the magazine ad),
“Is Everything Connected?”"

And it was getting weirder; "I also just realized that there is a goldfish in a bowl (my blog mascot) staring at the frog on the bed (I can send a better picture of the fish if you like).
Also there is an orange monkey right above the dog’s head … shades of the Orangutan and dog story you had posted the other day?
The pillow with the orange VW on them are called “Retro Holiday” and the white drawer and beside table are called “Domino”.
This story sure seems to have a domino effect happening;-)"

And here is Trish's reply after sending that comment; "This is getting progressively stranger. 
I just finished writing up the frog synchros and used that word: domino. 
Is this some sort of synchronistic groove or what?!"

But that's not all folks ... on my trip today to Byron Bay ... first stop for coffee at Brunswick Heads Pub ... what do they have?

Green chocolate frogs (but no red eyes), so I bought one and took a photo of it (below).

Brunswick Heads coffee stop with frog

Next stop Byron Bay ... the Fig Tree Restaurant ... and while I knew there would be a fig tree there (hence the name) I had no idea it would be almost a twin for the one out of the movie The Tree.

So, I just had to take a photo of that as well (below)

The fig tree looking out the The Fig Tree Restaurant.

Close up of the trunk of fig tree

Then after walking around Byron for a while (running into more syncs which don't apply to this post), we headed to

The Crystal Castle, since I had never been there before.
And what do you think they had for sale in their gift shop, which I just had to purchase?

A green frog with red eyes (see below).

Green frog with red eyes that I bought today

And one more weird thing ... I'm a Cronulla Sharks Rugby League team supporter (life member for 23 years, so far) and I was wearing my Sharks polo shirt and they had a basket of shark teeth on the counter with a "sign" saying "free shark tooth for every purchase from the Treasure Room", which was where the frog came from. 

Plus, they won today beating Russel Crowe's team the  
South Sydney Rabbitohs (White Rabbits) ... so how far down

the rabbit hole do you want to go?

Mural at Crystal Castle

Part of shop at Crystal Castle

Labyrinth at Crystal Castle

Kubrick, The Shaman

One of the most important movie director's in modern times would have to be Stanley Kubrick.
To me he is/was a modern day shaman. 
I never get tired of watching his movies ... there is always something new to learn when viewing them. 
And I love reading other people's takes on Kubrick's films, such as this recent essay I read in 
Toward 2012-Perspectives on a New Age called "The Kubrick Gaze"
http://www.realitysandwich.com/kubrick_gaze
"If it is true that Kubrick's films are rigid and cold, as many like to point out, it is also true that they are mercurial, dreamlike, and deeply personal. 
Their atmosphere is a necessary outcome of the filmmaker's approach in making them. 
From Dr. Strangelove (1964) (the year of my birth) onward, that approach can only be called holographic.

What you see in a Kubrick film is the conscious manifestation of an unconscious play of forces taking place beneath the celluloid surface. 
Kubrick is more concerned with psychic forces – archetypal, philosophical and cosmic – than he is with the emotional life of his characters or the diversion of his audience."
Yes I would agree with the above comment by J.F.Martel about his films being,"mercurial, dreamlike, and deeply personal" 

I remember going to see my first Kubrick film in the Seventies with my Grandmother, when they re-released 2001:A Space Odyssey at the cinemas.

I knew it was a magical film then (at the age of 11), but I didn't really know why consciously, because a lot of it went over my head, as it did the next few times that I watched it ... and I'm sure that there is more still going over my head with every subsequent viewing, as well.

The Monolith as cinema screen???

I love this film because there are so many layers to it, even more than Kubrick himself probably consciously thought through.
And I just love his ingenious use of the monolith as the movie screen

http://www.collativelearning.com/2001%20chapter%207.html

http://www.collativelearning.com/2001%20analysis%20new.html
I have to admit though, that at around 16 to 17 years of age, I was turned off Kubrick when I sneaked into the cinema with my brother's birth certificate, to see a double feature; The Shining and 
 A Clockwork Orange.

For those who haven't seen A Clockwork Orange, there is a very nasty scene where an author is bashed, and his wife is raped by Alex and his drooges, as they sing Singing in the Rain from the the classic MGM musical.

Now, Kubrick used this song on purpose to show the audience how easy it is to take a happy-go-lucky favourite like Singing in the Rain and turn it into a song that will haunt you for the rest of your life, once you have seen this film.

Pretty much like they did to Alex in the movie by playing scenes of violence, feeding him drugs that made him physically ill, and playing his beloved Beethoven's 9th.

Kubrick is showing the audience how easy this works 
by taking a song like Singing in the Rain and just about completely overwriting it in our memories with grotesque and frightening images of rape and violence, instead of images of people having a good time singing and dancing in the rain.

The main reason I hated the film then, was exactly for that reason.
If I hear that song, it is very hard for me not to associate it with those horrid images.

See a subliminal image of an Asian
with a knife blade at their face?

A lot of his movies, if not all, had mind control of some sort as a sub-theme running through them, from Strangelove right through to Eyes Wide Shut.

Alice through the looking glass?

And as a true artist and modern day shaman Kubrick forces us to take a look into the mirror, and wake up to see what really lay before our eyes, and not just what society tells us is there.
He has left us a great legacy through his films, and for those who try to open their eyes and minds to these great, but disturbing movies, the rewards will be renewed vision.

Next time you watch a Kubrick movie on the monolith, you may also see that art can deliver profound revelations if you keep your eye wide open;-)

"My God, it's full of stars!"

Six Degrees of Kevin Costner

I've heard of  the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but I've never heard of the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Costner".

And if there ever was a game like that involving Costner, I think this would definitely be the more interesting one to play. 

After watching Dragonfly again, plus viewing the extra features on the disc.
I couldn't help wondering about all of the important people Costner has worked with ... and by important I don't necessarily mean famous ... I mean important as far as making a positive mark on the world.

For instance when I looked up Dragonfly on Wikipedia I did so primarily to see who made this very spiritual film, and I saw the director was a guy by the name of Tom Shadyac.

I thought this guy must have made some great films since then, because he seems to be guided by some higher force, by what I see in the way he has put Dragonfly together.

And he has made some good movies, but what I was looking for was something like his latest movie ...

I AM

"'I Am' is a 2011 documentary film written, narrated, and directed by Tom Shadyac. 
The documentary explores Shadyac's personal journey after a 2007 bicycle accident, "the nature of humanity" and "world's ever-growing addiction to materialism."

This indeed looks just like the film I would expect to see from a film maker on the spiritual path, and it looks like an important film, too.

http://www.iamthedoc.com/

But getting back to Costner.
Whether it has been by accident, or design, or a little bit of both, he has been involved in some very thought provoking movies,from 
Field of Dreams to Dragonfly, The Big Chill (his scenes were pretty much all cut out of that one. He was Alex the corpse/suicide.), JFK, Testament, Dances With Wolves,  
A Perfect World, and I have a feeling the best is yet to come.

 I think that a game like "Six Degrees of Kevin Costner" would prove a lot more intriguing, as I am sure there would be some very interesting connections to Costner indeed.

Maybe there is a great book waiting in the wings for a talented journalistic author, or authors to write about some of those amazing mystical connections to Kevin?

I know I would probably buy a copy.

Write it, and they will come ... and buy a copy of it!!!
Oddly enough, at Rotten Tomatoes.com,

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/field_of_dreams/ 
Field of Dreams has a rating of 88% .

Eight being the symbol for infinity, when turned on it's side.