Is Time Travel Possible?

This is my very first contemplation on something weird and in all honesty, feel a little self conscious in doing so.  But let's get to the heart of the matter...Does time travel exist? Is it even possible?  Are you nuts?  The answers to those questions are as follows: maybe, I'm not sure, and yes but I do have moments of clarity. 

But in all reality, while this may come across initially as a kooky and impossible idea, there is some compelling evidence out there to suggest that it may be possible.  I do have to say that a skeptic will, of course debunk most of what is given as evidence and scoff at the idea, but all I ask is to just keep an open mind.  It doesn't hurt to question but it does hurt to automatically cut your mind off from thinking outside of the box.

So how is time travel even possible?  Well, there is some long winded explanation about Einstein's theory of relativity that is supposed to explain it all.   I am far from a physicist and never claimed to be, but in short it has to do with wormholes.  These wormholes cause huge changes in gravity that can manipulate time.  Some have equated time to a string.  What the wormhole does through immense forces of gravity is bring the two ends of the string together.  If we can figure out how to manipulated gravity and control it, then we should also be able to manipulate, or travel through time.

But what about the Grandfather paradox?  That is the idea that if you can travel back in time, what is to stop you from going back and killing your grandfather before he has the chance to meet your grandma and father your father, thereby making it impossible for you to be here.  The idea now becomes more complicated but is solved by the fact that you are not actually travelling back in time to your universe...there are parallel universes and that is what you are going back to.  Simply put, you may not exist in that particular universe but you do in others!

It's the idea in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure when they need Ted's dad's set of keys and say that they we're going to travel back in time, take the keys, and put them where they needed them right now.  And what do you know, there are the keys!  (For a complicated but very insightful rendition of this anomaly you can see this website http://www.mjyoung.net/time/bill.html.  Make sure you put on your thinkin' cap!)

You never go back to the universe you are in, you are going back to a different universe and the "you" in another universe is going back to the universe that you are from.  Let's put it this way...A goes to B and B goes to A.  Now add in the idea that there are unlimited parallel universes so A may go to Z, B to F, N to W, W to A.   Everybody is creating the desired outcome in another universe. 

 

Okay crazy lady, so what's the proof?  Surprisingly enough there is some actual stuff out there that at the very least does make you scratch your head and wonder what if?  A compelling tidbit is the video of a person talking on the cell phone and then disappearing.  It's a snippet from an old Charlie Chaplin movie.  Lots of people have seen this one and there are lots of debunkers out there.  You can go to YouTube and see all that yourself if you so desire, but for your ease of use, here's what I'm talking about.

 

To me the disappearing, while intriguing, is not the important part of this video.  It's the behaviours of the person.  It looks like anybody you would see today walking down the street talking on a cell phone, oblivious to what's going on around them, but enjoying a conversation with someone on the phone.  How would someone from almost 100 years ago, know that's what we would look like today with our "portable communication devices".  Why would it not look more like a walkie talkie where you don't hold it up to your ear to listen and just speak into it while it's in front of you?  Phones from this generation were two pieces, if you had one at all.  There was a piece you held to your ear and the separate piece that was held to you mouth.  Back then it was a two handed job, a very far cry from the compact versions we have today.

Another compelling piece of information comes from a guy who claimed to have travelled back in time from the future, 2036 to be exact.  He was sent back to collect a spare computer part from an IBM 5100 for a machine in the future.  His name was John Titor and made lots of postings on various forums about what he was doing and a little bit about the future.  There is also a book about him.  Instead of rehashing what's already been said, I would recommend that you check out the John Titor website for a plethora of information about his story and links that will explain the whole thing in detail.  I suggest that you start with the Posts by Date and start reading from there.

I'm on the fence at best about this evidence.  Many of his claims about the future (i.e. Y2K, no Olympic games after 2004, mad cow disease, etc.) did not come to pass.  This could be because all the problems were solved in our universe before they could happen.  I think that's a convenient excuse for being wrong, but you can choose to believe what you like.  (There is another whole topic on parallel universes that I would like to discuss at some later date.  In short, it's that the opposite of every decision that you've ever made has to exist somewhere and that if you can imagine something, it has to be somewhere.  But I digress...)

Other evidence includes gravitational "slips" or anomalies that may naturally occur around the world.  One of the results could explain toads and frogs being found in solid stone.  The frogs and toads have been transported, alive, from one universe and somehow been encased in the stone in our universe.  It could be that in our universe where it is stone, it is mud in their universe.  I think that's a little weak too. 

One of the most famous personal accounts of a spontaneous time slip happened in Paris, France way back in August of 1901.  Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain claim to have been walking though the gardens at Versailles when all the people around them suddenly appeared to be wearing very dated clothing, like that back from the French Revolution.  Anne saw a lady that was sketching in the garden, though Elanor did not.  Later, when Anne was viewing some paintings, she recognized the sketching lady as Marie Antoinette no less!  Both ladies were considered to be credible witnesses and upstanding citizens so their story was given a great deal of merit. 

While there may be other anecdotal accounts in regards to time slips and people vanishing into thin air, like many things in the paranormal, it's hard to do a scientific study on something that can't be generated at will in a lab.  If you can't replicate an experiment, let alone conduct it when you want to, then it cannot be proven as true.  At best it can only be a theory and a weak one at that, scientifically speaking.  On the other side of the argument, you can never prove a negative so there is always room for speculation!

So did I offer any proof on the existence of time travel? Maybe.  But I must have given you some food for thought.

Healing Stones

At least that's what I think they are.  I have either found or was given these stones.  The reason why I'm putting them on here is in the hopes that someone will know more about them than I do and what sort of things I'm supposed to do with them.  I've done some searches over the past few years and have come up with all sorts of good information.  I recently discovered that in some shamanic practises they are called khuyas.  Each stone has a vibrational energy specifically drawn to me and I to it. 

 

I guess you could say I have a thing for stones but that's what I'm drawn to.  I also have a thing for plants and I bet once I figure this out they will work very well together.  I've decided to include photos of my favourite stones and say what I know about each of them.  If you have any further advice, please contact me at kweenbee_crafts@hotmail.ca.  

Round Rocks
I found all of these.  I just like round rocks and for a time I found these in quick succession.  The three smaller ones are perfectly round.  The small one has a small chip.  The largest isn't a perfect round stone but it the most natural of the stones.

 

Petrified Wood:

Another found stone that I've had since I was a kid.  It used to be in my parents' garage window for years and then I put it in my room.  It is very heavy for it's size.

 

Rock with a Partial Hole:

This was also found, but I haven't had it for that long.  What I do know about rocks with holes is very limited.  What I can say I learnt from that great guy I met in university.  He said that rocks with holes are used during healing ceremonies.  They are placed on the patient and the illness is sucked out of the person through the hole in the rock.  You'll get some foul tasting stuff in your mouth, usually yellow, which you spit out and the person may be very drained after the procedure. 

Part of becoming a healer involves new healers to go on a vision quest.  Women don't have to because we can naturally already create life which gives us a bit of a "gimme" when it comes to becoming a healer.  Anyways, part of the vision quest is to drill a hole into a stone with nothing but sand and a stick.  Of course, it's very time consuming but your vision quest is complete when the rock is done.  This is mine.

 

 

Buffalo Effigy:

This stone was given to me by a cousin that was very close to me when I was a child.  She actually had two of them and kept one for herself while generously giving me this one.  I was told by her aunt that these are actually vertebra from a dinosaur.  These were found by American Natives and worked into what looks more like a buffalo.  These were used by the medicine men to draw buffalo to the hunters to ensure successful hunts.  This one intrigues me because it so obviously has been shaped to form a head and it also must be very old.  I say this because there a concretions of small stones stuck to it.  It would be, what I believe, is the second most important stone for my healing.

 

 

 

 

 

Stone with a Hole:

Yes, I have one of these.  I found this one but I don't know when.  I already explained about holes in rocks so I'm not going to state it again.  This stone is definitely the most important one I own.  It's made of sandstone and I found it exactly how it appears in the photos.  I've never done anything with it other than scrub the dirt off.

 

That's what I got.  If you know any more about what I should do with these or what they mean, by all means, let me know!  I'm putting these on here specifically to get some guidance and every little bit helps.  Thanks!

My UFO - You Be the Judge

I don't know what this was, but I've been looking out my sun room window a lot the last while because I've been watching all the wildlife (elk, deer, coyotes) wandering through our south field.  I first saw this a little over a week ago, but that morning there were two.  One in the spot where this one was and the other dead south.  I recorded it on my cell phone but the video is far from good. 

This morning only one was back!  It was in a southeast direction about 30 degrees off the horizon.  I sent my husband a text message.  He was about 30 minutes away working in town and he saw it too.   The sun was just coming up and you could see it change from white to blue to red.  It very well might be a satellite as it doesn't really seem to move.

 

 

Our weather has been very overcast here and the sky has been blocked by thick clouds for nearly a week.  It very well could have been showing up every morning for the last week.  I have no way of knowing.  This morning was the first clear morning in a very long time.

I shot the video with my regular camera.  There are a couple of dead pixels in it so if you see a dot or two of white, that's what you're looking at.  The flashing light is what I'm talking about.  And the two still photos, they are from the video.

 

As a quick final note, when I came back after 20 minutes it was gone.  My thoughts are if it's a satellite maybe the sun came up more and the angle was wrong for the reflection.  And also so you know,  I have SkyView and Sputnik apps on my iPhone.  None of them showed this as being a planet or a satellite.

 

I've included the video I shot.  I removed all of the sounds but other than that the video is unedited and is exactly as I shot it.

 

Let me know what you think!

The final photo is of the same spot in the sky only 20 minutes later.  There is absolutely no sign of it at all.  As bright as it was, one would think it could still be seen.

Ego and Humility - The Elusive Twins

I've given a lot of thought about this topic over the last week.  I was inspired by Black Feather's blog article Coyote Medicine: Self-Sabotage Made Easy.  I debated whether to write about it but on Monday when I saw the two coyotes out in the field I was pretty sure I was going to explore this issue further.  When I was watching television on Wednesday night and caught the episode of Lisa Ling's - Our America doing interviews with the faith healer, Todd Bentley, I knew I had to write this. 

 

The part that stuck in my mind and got this rolling was Black Feather's quote pertaining to how he self sabotages himself with what I would call ego.  As he so aptly put:

I often find myself chasing recognition as a way of boosting my self-esteem, rather than just standing in my medicine, following my soul’s mission, and allowing opportunities for healing to come.

The battle of the ego doesn't just apply to healing.  It can apply to anything that you do well.  How many times have I felt the exact same way about my skills and talents?  How many times have I seen the quest for recognition (AKA bragging) in others and been disgusted by it?  My personal feeling is that any skill or talent that you have that sets you apart from others is a gift from a greater power be it God, the Great Spirit, the Universe, whatever name you are comfortable giving it.  To hold your gifts hostage by seeking the recognition limits your skills and dishonours the who (or what) that granted them to you in the first place.  By bragging about yourself, you are also dishonouring others who skill set is different than yours.  Their's is just as valuable and worthwhile as yours. It's just that, different.  Nothing more and nothing less.  I find if I keep that in mind it helps to keep me grounded.  But oh boy, when you meet a bragger!  It's hard not to put them in their place!

The issue of ego and humility was really brought to a head for me on Wednesday night.  Todd Bentley is a faith healer originally from Canada and sports many tattoos and piercings and has lead a less than exemplary life before getting into this line of work.  None of this is what I have concern about.  He had an affair and was divorced and remarried.  Also not an issue for me.  Temptation is out there for everyone and we all make mistakes at sometime or another.  It's what you take from the lesson that matters.  And for those who want to know where I am getting this information about him, I found it on Wikipedia.  Do a search of his name on any search engine and your sure to see all you would want to about him

What bothered me the most was his attitude towards his healing.  I saw a decided lack of humility.  The truck he drove, and was extremely proud of, was very tricked out with flames just for a start.  He lived in a very nice house with his new wife.  I can't help but think where is all the money coming from to buy all this.  What about living as a simple man and not seeking out the "recognition...to boost [his] self-esteem"?  When you live large like this isn't that what is going on?

Contrast this with John of God in Brazil.   He is also a faith healer but his attitude is what sets him apart to me.  There is a fantastic article here that you may want to read.  Some of the quotes he said are the epitome of what I would hold as essential in healing. 

One thing that I commented on while watching Todd Bentley was that it wasn't him that was healing and he seemed to fail to recognise that.  No healer is responsible for the healing.  A healer is no more responsible for a cure than a bottle is for getting you drunk.  The bottle only holds the alcohol, and only for a time, that is responsible for an inebriated state.  It's the same for healing. 

One of the quotes from John of God in the article has him saying, "No, it's not me. It's God. It's God using me as an instrument." and "I'm just a simple farmer who when I look at a person and somebody is ailing, the spirits come to me and incorporate my body. They're the ones that instruct my hands to do whatever they need to do to cure someone."  He even makes sure to tell those that come to see him that not everyone can be cured.  Now that's got to be a tough dose of ego to swallow.  Both as a pride thing and also as a guilt thing.  How would you not ask yourself how come you couldn't heal someone?  Did you do something wrong?  Did you offend in some way?  Those would be tough questions to not have answered.

The issue that I hold with Todd Bentley is the over abundance material wealth in his life.  Yes, I know that we all have to eat, pay bills, send the  kids to college, and would like some luxuries in our lives.  I know this and trust me, I like the little luxuries too, but when is enough enough? 

This is a concern that I have with lots of healers out there.  I've met a number of Native Americans (actually they were mostly Canadians) over the years, and one of the most important points they want to get across was about money.  Don't get me wrong, this ego and humility issue is also a huge concern and one of the most fundamental lessons to learn.

My understanding of  "payment" for healing is that it should neverbe for a set amount.  There should never be a demand for payment of any sort.  It should be what the person feels they would like to give you.  That may be something as simple as a handmade gift, a meal, a cup of coffee.  It may be money or it may be nothing at all.  You are supposed to use your gifts of healing for everyone and NOT expect anything in return.  Payment may happen or payment may not, but everyone deserves and should receive the same care and attention.

I found another quote from the article about John of God that I think sums this point up quite well.

He doesn't charge people for what he does. So one couldn't accuse him of trying to milk these people who are easy targets. But the fact is, the clinic does pull in something like $400,000 a year from the sale of herbs. I asked him about it. He said, people who can't afford it, he gives it to them.

And to me that's exactly how it should be.  If someone wants to take advantage of that view held by those in the healing world, and they never give back for what they have been given, that's their choice to make.  I can't judge that.

The irony of this blog post and what kept me from writing it for a week is this simple question: Am I sharing a view point or am I just as bad?  Am I trying to get my ego stroked by having the recognition? Probably.  But that's an excellent question to ask.  Where is the line between sharing with others and doing for selfish reasons?  In writing this blog post I would like to believe that I'm doing it to have other healer's think about how they "run their business of healing" so to speak.  I want the feedback and expect I'll have to defend my point of view.  But is feeling the need to defend myself, is that ego raising it's ugly head again?  Or do I let my point stand for itself and leave it be?

Ahhhhh!  This is a tricky world.  Darn coyotes!

Time to Start!

I recently had a birthday.  Like many people, it was a time of inner reflection for myself and I was thinking about what I had done with my life up to this point.  Not so much what have I accomplished or asking myself if I was a good person.  It had everything to do with waiting.  I've been waiting for some momentous "thing" to happen to me for years now.  I don't really know what this "thing" is but the closest I can come to describing it is some sort of sign or event that changes my life so unequivocally that there is no way to deny what's happened and follow a completely new life path.

So here I am on the same path as all the years before.  But one things has changed.  I've finally decided that screw the waiting.  It hasn't worked and it's time to just go ahead and do some"thing".  It doesn't really matter what but something that will at least make me feel like I'm going in the right direction.  Granted, starting another blog isn't a huge deal but the first step has to start somewhere.

The purpose of this blog is to share my experience of just diving in.  This blog is going to be much more of a personal blog.  I decided to keep this somewhat separate from my KweenBee and Me blog.  That one has more to do with my crafts, selling patterns and has more of what I feel comfortable with the general public knowing about me.  This blog has to do with me on a very personal and spiritual basis.

I would love to say that this is going to be a thrilling ride full of all sorts of life changing experiences and ground shaking epiphanies.  Who knows, maybe it will be.  But what I've come to realise is that personal growth isn't a lightening strike but more of a wave washing over you.  It can come in fast but it will always pull back before a wave rolls over you again.  You learn a lesson and you remember and change for a while.  Then you slowly forget until you remember the lesson or relearn it again.  Sometimes it takes a lot of waves.  By the time you're done you can barely catch your breath and you're soaked to the bone.  What I would like to do is share my waves with others.  I don't have control over the waves anymore than anyone else so I will share them as they come.

The biggest goal I would like to achieve with this blog is what most would call spiritual development.  I group it as the corner post to physical and emotional well-being so there will probably be a bit of that on here too.  I would love to get into some herbal and traditional healing at a later date.  But more on that later. 

The first portion that I would like to share is my idea of going beyond yourself to acknowledge what's around you and be grateful for it.  That's why I've come up with the idea of gratitude stones.  No, I can't take credit for the idea but I think it's fantastic.  More on that here:  gratitude stones.

I would like to take that a step further with two things:  I'm Grateful for...  and Acts of Kindness (given or received).  They are both on the right hand side and I would love for people to share what they are grateful for in their lives.  It could be something that just happened today or a long time ago.  It really doesn't matter.

The Acts of Kindness are postings about what nice thing you've done for some other living thing, person, plant, or animal.  They could also be what someone (or something) has done for you.  Sharing your good feelings and experiences can make someone else feel better, and is an act of kindness in itself!

The purpose of both of these areas is to demonstrate how interconnected we are with one another (kind acts) and to bring it into our awareness (gratitude).  It's very easy to think of ourselves as individuals and go no further than that.  I feel that especially in our technological age, it's easy to forget that the person on the other end of an email, text message or phone call, the person driving next to us or the person behind us in a line at the checkout counter is a person too.  A person who has all of his or her problems and worries just like you do.  This is the beginning of building compassion.  It's the start to feeling better about others and ourselves.