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July 14, 2010
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Waterfalls
— Jul 14, 2010
I almost feel I should recuse myself having just been to Niagara, but I'll post anything new this week...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Raindrops returning to the source
— Jul 15, 2010
RS comment from July 13:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/vision_conscious_convergence#comment-7673...
"Raindrops returning to the source
Submitted by justmike on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 14:43.
Very hopeful article...if people can work together to create a mutually beneficial and sustainable alternative to today's calamities, we will survive as a planet. I believe that the Conscious Convergence could be the catalyst that is needed to usher in the new age.
I've had a feeling of impending *something* for a few years now. I never used to...back when I was my Parents' child, church youth group member, high school student...mostly just in a position to be told how it is and what to do. Now that I'm out on my own it seems that the direction I've been propelled in is one of disaster for humanity.
To me, the world feels like rain. Most of us are individual raindrops falling towards our certain demise. We come from the same place and we are headed in the same direction, but we are somehow separate and indifferent to eachother. What can we raindrops do to somehow become more like a waterfall?
How will it all begin..?"
The Spirit of Waterfalls
— Jul 15, 2010
A couple of years ago I took my mom to one of my favourite sacred places in Colorado - Zapata Falls. The falls are located on the Blanca Massif at the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, near the Great Sand Dunes. Although she had broken her ankle just a year before, my mother and I waded through ice-cold water on rather slippery river rocks to reach the grotto carved out by the falls over millennia. We were both so envigorated and energised by this immersion in adventure, bathed by great multitude of aura-balancing negative ions; my mother felt better than she had in years!
A indescribable surge of power and clarity races through my personal energy grid each time I visit the falls. Waterfalls are great chakra balancers! The first time I made the trek it was during a series of freak thunderstorms that kept racing across the San Luis Valley as I camping at the Sand Dunes. On my walk back down from the falls, hail was pelting me and I ended up with many dime- to nickel-sized bruises on the backs of my calves. Back at the car park I discovered that a white tornado - rare in any case, and especially beautiful due to it's bright white colour against the backdrop of dark rainclouds - had touched down just a few miles away in the valley, and that my friend Brad, who had decided to stay behind, had captured it on video!
My partner Keith and I are planning to hike to Zapata Falls at the end of this month; it will be his first time there and I can hardly wait to see and feel his reaction. We've had this trip to the San Luis Valley, Crestone, the Sand Dunes, and Zapata Falls planned for a couple of months now, so it's a nice coincidence that our symbol this week is the waterfall. I'll keep the group updated if any other waterfalls "show up" soon....or if anything especially magickal happens at Zapata Falls in a couple of weeks.
Stace Tussel
Niagara
— Jul 15, 2010
Haha.. it appears several of us have what we would define as coincidences, with Nathan 'recusing' for having just been to Niagara, Quanta has a trip planned to the site of her most memorable waterfall experience, River has his event at the Waterfall shelter..
I immediately thought mine was a mere coincidence, or stretch, as well; Tuesday night I spent over an hour of my precious evening time browsing the images my sister captured of her first 'family vacation' with the new baby, also to Niagara and Horseshoe Falls... absolutely stunning photography. And an absolutely adorable little nephew of mine, might I add ; )
Dream
— Jul 15, 2010
I dreampt last night of a waterfall. It was interesting. Rather than going over the top I was at the bottom of the falls and rescuing people from a cave where they were held by storm-troopers (ala star wars) at the foot of the falls underground. Also, several long lost friends appeared there and it was a reunion of sorts. They were castaways washed up in this place and we were all reunited but starting from scratch, no vestige of our former lives remained... It reminded me somewhat of the post above stating that we're all falling from a great height...
I'm trying to post a picture from Niagara falls but having difficulty...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
It's falling in to place
— Jul 20, 2010
I had a very hard technical time sharing this video discovery tonight via Facebook. But I did it.
Stunning
— Jul 20, 2010
That is amazing. I'm curious what your thoughts are around correspondences with this formation and the waterfall image. I definitely see the water and an interference patter of ripples in water and that calls to mind a holograph which in itself is amazing...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
I'm holographing way beyond a waking dream in my everyday
— Jul 20, 2010
I'm walking in a meta-dimensional ordinariness. It's becoming hard to write about. The syncs are cascading over each other. I'm actually frightened to write about it. The crop circle message is so gentle. It's about the delicacies of time and freedom from self-judgment.
More Resonance
— Jul 21, 2010
Hi River - I've also found that many crop circles communicate on a gentle, usually subtle, and deeply resonant level.
Not sure if you've read my post, both here and at my own website, titled "Waves of Extraordinary Experience: We Are All Cymatics in Action," but I think you might enjoy it. Who knows, perhaps what I say in my post will reflect back some of the meta-dimensionality in which you're walking recently. (I think I've seen you around, by the way.)
I'll provide a link to the article at IIC, because I think the comments added there give important additional insights (no comments were posted to it here at Evolver). It's a relatively long and maybe convoluted article, but stick with it if you find the content compelling at all as it eventually does go somewhere. Direct link: http://inter-intelligence-communications.com/?p=1007
And thanks for the video link.
Stace Tussel
Reading this article of yours..
— Jul 23, 2010
Brought me such peace today, and especially the comments... you used the words "it's real" .. and I've been seriously integrating new concepts of what reality consists of these last few days. Concepts for which I credit many of those same visionaries (you listed) for planting as seeds in me long ago.
Casting off the shackles of childhood experiences and opening up to receive the signs started slowly.. I can look back over my lifetime and see I've always been prone to periods of rapid growth with intense synchronicities, leading to a spectacular fall, then coming out of it bruised but instead of broken, I am transformed and more whole than the last time.
I know now I was always subtly aware it was coming, and that I was not yet ready for the full knowledge... I needed to get the tools first to USE the knowledge and to create with it.
I have not before had the joy of openly sharing with others who've awakened already to this communication AND are willingly and freely communicating it with love over coveting and/or guarding it with ridicule or derision. Again, I thank you!
~Dani
waterfalls
— Jul 22, 2010
I've been waiting for others to join the discussion here, and don't want to over-post, but wanted to share one more waterfall synchronicity from the week, the image seems to be resonating profoundly for me. I took my two young daughters to a park I noticed for the first time on a short-cut to their grandmother's. It was a cool experience because it was right under my nose and I've driven by it many times without noticing. As we walked down the greenbelt pathway beside the river and underneath a bridge...What else? I beautiful little waterfall for us to enjoy. Amazing!
Also Stace, Next weekend I'm heading over to the sand-dunes, and so I'll have to go to Zapata falls as you suggest. I can't wait. Another waterfall synchronicity. I never knew of the Zapata falls before your post!
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Sand Dunes Synchronicity?
— Jul 26, 2010
Keith and I are headed to the San Luis Valley and the Sand Dunes and Zapata Falls for the annual UFO Camping Trip organised by the Paranormal Research Forum. Is that why you're going? If you haven't heard about it, I'm sure you'd still be welcome to join us. You can find out more info at the PRF website; I think it's www.paranormalresearchforum.com. You might be surprised at what you'll see on the trip, if you believe!
Oh, and yesterday my mom was in town and we stopped to take a look at Boulder Falls just outside of Boulder on the way to Nederland. Nothing compares to the sound of rushing water and the stirring up of ionic energy! Lovely to the max.
Stace Tussel
Also, Nathan, regarding Zapata:
— Jul 26, 2010
Be sure to bring shoes in which you won't mind walking through ice cold water....I like Teva-style sandals for the grip on the river rocks and ease of drying afterwards. And yes, the river does ROCK near the falls! It's also a washboard road 3 miles or so up to the trailhead, so be patient....and have FUN!
Stace Tussel
Resonate
— Jul 23, 2010
It's funny that you should mention over-posting. That's actually what I meant above about being frightened to write about it. I don't want to imply any sort of fear in the experience, however. What's happening here is utterly beautiful. I have chosen silence as my way of approaching it for the time being. Thanks Q, for your link. That was spot on, and deeply appreciated. I read it last year, shortly after World Contact Day (remember that one?). But it helps to read it again at this time. Calling Occupants... We're splashing now!
over and under
— Jul 23, 2010
I've started to post several times but language is no longer adequate and I had to stop trying to communicate, as I am still working to understand and it became necessary to immerse myself fully in the experience.
The intensity gets too hot at times, and coming back here, to hear what you are saying.. is calming and the aid I need - the hand to hold, the reminder to keep my feet on the ground and maintain balance.
Moving both backwards and forwards, I am reminded of the chaotic waters that swirl at the bottom of the falls, for after stepping off the edge there is much pain, breaking apart and peeling off, in my metaphor oddly enough this feels like the river that I must acquiesce to in order to reach the sea.. to see.
On Wednesday when the prayers for the water were being held, I fell apart.. I fell literally, and hit my head, although I don't remember that part at all and the memories that do keep flooding in are like remembering the past, and the future all at once.. I am incredibly grateful for having this place, this space, to share my experience.. thank you.
~D
also.. technical difficulties?
— Jul 23, 2010
I notice that technical difficulties have been mentioned twice in this thread, and when it started I too was having tech challenges in that I was not seeing the images that were posted.
I've been receiving messages via technology, i.e. an email from an address at a university, with the subject line: Contact ASAP, and on my phone there was no body to the message but when viewed on my iPad, it was a lengthy message of symbols spaced into 'words' in several 'paragraphs'. A voicemail from an unknown number that simply played the song "come with me, my love, to the sea.. the sea of love.. I wanna tell ya.. how much, I love you". A framed picture appeared in my home a while back, of a woman playing an oboe-like instrument, riding a lion through the night sky, wild hair blowing from both the woman and the lion - it is all in reds and oranges except for her body and the sky behind her, which are the same.. deep blue with stars. I've asked everyone.. nobody knows where it came from.
I had to leave all my 'things' behind at the campground Wednesday night, when I became unruly after falling, and after becoming aware I was impacting others, I knew I had to go home, and I called for a chariot because I was too weak to get there myself and my partner arrived to carry me to my own home. My phone, my iPad, my rattles and tarot cards and many things I occupy my hands with, perhaps even seek comfort with, are not with me right now. After resting at home for some time, I now find the communication tools I am left with are this computer, which is on satellite internet and interestingly only opens certain pages for me.. I'm unable to open a new message and send mail, but this site loads swiftly and accepts my posts. This, and my journals and notebooks.. there is one I've only written in a few times under unusual inspirations, I was drawn specifically to that book, and it had my favorite pencil already in the binder ring.. not sure how to convey the absolute certainty I have that I wrote those poems, those verses, in the past.. for me to read in this present moment.
I see and feel the raindrop metaphor.. raindrops that want to come to earth and experience the beauty, the feelings, to get to have hands and feet and senses, and so our spirit take the plunge, knowing that we must crash first.. the being born part and the dying part and many in between parts will hurt terribly, but having done it before we know it is worth it to unite with the earth, grow first perhaps as a weed, die and return to the earth, or die and rise into the clouds, play in the sky, crash back into earth again.. over and over and over in many forms, people, animals, plants.. experiencing and learning, until finally we choose to return to the sea and be as one.
~D
Ghosts in our machines
— Jul 23, 2010
Contact ASAP - I think you posted recently with the subject "Contact!"
Sea of love - very significant when seen in light of the current topic and the crop circle on the shoreline.
I have recently been experiencing strange technical snafu's that seem to reflect the idea of the collective. Most significantly, in the last few weeks, when I log in to Evolver, I sometimes find myself logged in as someone else. I notice that my Groups are not my groups, and I have a different set of Friends. I look up at the top right and it's showing someone else's user name. I could go and post as that person if I wanted to. But I do the right thing and log out. I reported this to the Evolver team, and they said they haven't had any other reports of this. It's happened three times now.
This afternoon, soon before reading your post Danibelle, a friend and co-worker who is Russian, sent me a text message in Russian. I replied that my Russian was a bit rusty. He phoned me and said that he hadn't sent it to me, and it was showing on his phone as having been sent to someone else. I don't know if the other person received it as well.
Whether these things are truly "Ghosts in the machine" or not - they are synchroniticies. Which brings me to my first RS article:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/ghosts_our_machines
same ghost
— Jul 23, 2010
yes, I had the logged in as someone else experience not long ago as well, and it was another Danielle, with a cat name.. ditto with the logging out and back in, too.
Water
— Jul 23, 2010
The July 18 Woolaston formation actually appeared at the water's edge. This is the only case of this I have ever heard of.
"The crop circle appeared near a river mouth, which is symbolic of fast flowing."
The ripple formations of course imply that something has fallen into the water - water fall.
Of Course!
— Jul 24, 2010
Ripples... falling into water...water fall...waterfall...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Okay John, your message came in as I sat down Aagain!
— Jul 24, 2010
My daughter has been on the computer all evening and she just started reading a book. Your message was right there as I sat down. The time was 11:30. I chuckled at the "dry" humor of 'a fast flowing river mouth.' Sorry. I can't help myself! This series of experiences is truly amazing and wonderful. Especially as reflected and communicated between our own spatially and temporally separated realities.
I didn't tell about something that happened yesterday that was actually quite relevant and has sparked an interesting idea for me. Danibelle, your experience of being "hit in the nose" and later "falling on your head" makes me want to share this most especially. (And I hope you are well, btw).
My daughter was here in my new place yesterday while I was away at work. And come to think of it, my work was at my dad's office working with tech support to fix his computer. A principle system file was corrupted in a storm a few days ago and the OS recovery cd bluescreens (still working on this one btw). My daughter tried to call while I was on the phone with one of the helpful customer service agents with a strong Indian accent. When she couldn't reach me, she called my dad's phone and told him that she had been scared to death when the high bookshelf over my window gave way and all the books crashed down. She was fine, but very startled by the 'book fall'. She picked up all the books for me and stacked them in a neat pile. The one that caught my eye when I finally saw the stack is called "The Dreaming Universe," by Fred Alan Wolf PhD. It was given to me as a gift a few years ago and I haven't read it yet. I fixed the shelf later that evening. It had been held up with mere drywall anchors, so I reattached it to the structure of the wall. I still haven't put the books back up.
I was at the grocery tonight getting a few things for dinner when it "hit me." The change of perception I've been experiencing can be described very accurately as the dreamer waking in the dream. I thought, well, if that's true, then can we not apply all that collective knowledge about dream interpretation to these extraordinary events in "ordinary" reality? This is actually not far from how I tend to see things anyway, which is what is what I was getting at in my introduction here. But something is different now.
I opened the book tonight that had caught my eye. Click to "Look Inside" at this Amazon link. Please read the first page or two of the Introduction.
I think the hypothesis that life is a dream within a dream has always been a casual fictive metaphor for me. Something bookish, and up on a shelf. Something structural has changed however, and I now accept the primacy of this way of seeing and wonder truly, what the extended implications of this way of seeing may be. Btw, the books that fell down are now arranged on the floor behind me in a rough cube, a 'of-books cube' ?
I marvel at your technical glitch story, John and Danibelle. My son brought a movie here yesterday which we're going to watch tomorrow. It's called "Being John Malkovich"! lol!
Great Movie!
— Jul 24, 2010
Again you've given me just the book I needed at just the right time. I've been reading Chiron, and .. am a Virgo.. it's, well, you know.. wow.
The Dreaming Universe.. this week, after my first experience IN the dreamtime a few days ago... for the Love of All... thank you, thank you, thank you.
BELLA Dani
So not surprisingly I had
— Jul 29, 2010
So not surprisingly I had bought my friend a years season pass for access to this waterfall for her birthday which falls on July 16th! http://www.powerscourt.ie/waterfall
It is the waterfall and gardens used in the movie Excaliber and the sword is pulled from a stone at the waters egde as far as I can remember. If I can find a clip when I return home at the weekend I will post it.
Looking forward to catching up with all the posts and clips next week.
Dan
I can promise you I have never bought anyone a Waterfall related present before!!
Tumalo Falls - Bend, OR
— Aug 03, 2010
Went to pick up my daughter Frankie in Bend, OR this past weekend and waters were falling everywhere :)
We took the route that led us through Detroit, Oregon - being a native Detroiter I had to stop and get a few photos for the fam back home. Unbeknownst to me the Detroit Lake there exists due to a massive dam, with a bridge that is a one-land road over it.. I was moved to take this photo in a nod to our group:
Some other photos from the dam are posted here, the sunspots are interesting.. each picture taken of me is washed in sunlight, with a prominent sunspot in the same place - but there are none in the ones I took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/datdanigirl/sets/72157624521567693/
It's a LONG drive from Snohomish WA to Bend OR - we didn't have much visiting time. Jarid thought we'd really enjoy his favorite local site - Tumalo Falls, close enough to their home to have a few hours there before driving North again. It was... incredible. We hiked to it, walked under it, climbed to the top of it, looked over it, and FELT it.
This trip was completely unplanned and the adventure so much more appreciated by all due to the elevated awareness inspired by participation in this group. It made naturally beautiful, even more so, simply by acknowledging the archetype appearances. Oh, and for some reason there was a tree way up at the top and down a trail that had a sign on it "JET 23".. someones trail markings, I loved that it was there for me too.
All One in Light & Love ~
Bella Dani
Great shots
— Aug 03, 2010
Love the hand over the waterfall.
My middle name is Edward...so you can call me JET.
Zapata Falls...
— Aug 04, 2010
I got out to the falls Stace recommended and it was amazing! I have photos but still can't figure out how to post here yet. The whole weekend was topped off by an amazing trip to Chaco Canyon, and that brought the whole thing full circle for me... There were lots of synchronicities to do with ancient airports and the like... The waterfall imagery just keeps kicking, I can't wait to hear about Stace's trip now...I half expected to run into a fellow group member...I keep missing people by a hair's breadth...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
A very condensed report!
— Aug 04, 2010
The trip was most awesome! Although monsoon moisture was saturating the Valley all weekend, we had some brief glimpses of sunshine through the frequent downpours and thunderstorms. Keith and I left around midday Saturday to visit Zapata Falls. The water was ice cold and running high, but just like having a baby, the pain was worth the end result! This photo doesn't really do the scene justice, but it does give some small idea of what Zapata is like...
After the Falls we hiked a couple miles up the mountain toward Zapata Lake, ending up in a downpour that soon became a thunderstorm. We turned around and headed back down the mountain, and by then Zapata Falls was empty of visitors due to the weather, but we decided not to walk up to the Falls again because the lightning was close and the rain torrential. But there's nothing quite like the rush that the comes from standing near the Falls! And hiking up mountains at near 2 miles altitude in the rain! It was all perfect. Keith and I got back to camp around 6 and snuggled up in our tent, and we didn't come out 'til the next morning...we were totally blissing!
Adventuring together always strengthens the bond between my partner and me, but I'd have to say this last trip takes the cake (so far). There's just something so powerful about waterfalls - and sacred places like this.
Here's the scene, with lenticular clouds forming over the Sangres, that greeted us at sunrise when we finally made it out of the tent Sunday morning.
Stace Tussel
Amazing!
— Aug 04, 2010
The trip sounded amazing. I'm curious too about the experience if any with the paranormal research group? This theme was front and center for the entire trip and seemed to flow directly from the waterfall image of the last few weeks and then more literally from the incredible energy of Zapata falls...
Still having trouble posting photos... a friend of mine posted some of my photos on his website, though he didn't post Zapata falls or the UFO, maybe I could send it to someone's email and they could post it here?
http://www.mightymercury.com/home/433-ancient-airport-shots-by-nathan-lo...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
What I heard the next morning was....
— Aug 05, 2010
Around midnight Saturday, while Keith and I were sleeping soundly in our tent, about 20 people witnessed two sharp-edged BOLs (balls of light) darting around through the trees around the group for a few moments. No plausible explanation can be put forth for these BOLs.
I had a feeling something like this might happen, and even told Keith Saturday evening before sleeping that, although the weather wasn't cooperating for a skywatch, we were just as likely to see BOLs in our tent than anything in the sky. So I wasn't surprised to hear about the sighting the next morning, but a little sorry we didn't stay up for it; Keith is a staunch skeptic, and if he doesn't see it he's going to have a hard time believing it.
BTW, I've used your tagline "I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it" around Keith a few times. For now we agree to disagree; he doesn't think I'm lying about my sightings although he believes there could be mundane explanations for them, and I don't berate him for being skeptical. We're all at our own place of understanding, and there's a reason for that....
Also, you say you keep missing TCUP members by a hairsbreadth - well, Keith and I live in Boulder, and I'm always open to expanding our circle of friends, so if you're in Denver we might be able to close the gap one of these days.
Stace Tussel
The balance of skepticism..
— Aug 10, 2010
I find that having someone dear to me playing the protagonist in my processing of events really helps me to stay grounded when excited by rapid developments, reaffirms confidence in my own 'knowing', and bears witness to the subjectivity of Truth. My partner will dig and dig to present alternatives to my interpretations, and I really value that.
The challenges of communicating our perceptions to each other become the tools for greater understanding on both parts - it's a beautiful thing! <3 <3
~Danielle
Thanks!
— Aug 13, 2010
Thanks Stace. One of these days we'll definitely close the gap. I have to make sure to attend one of the Boulder Spores. I almost made it to Nassim Haramein on your suggestion a year ago or so. In any case it's great to know you're out there and I'm indebted to you for turning me on to Zapata, I feel like it was instrumental in the whole trajectory of my trip after that. What do you make of my light in the sky photo? I did not go to Chaco with this in mind but it was perhaps the major theme of my expedition down there...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Yeah! Thanks to Danibelle I've figured it out now:
— Aug 13, 2010
Last but not least, what do you all make of this?
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
WOW again!
— Aug 14, 2010
Thank you SO much, Nathan, for sharing these photos! They take me right back to the spot - how stunningly majestic Zapata is. And the photo from (I'm thinking) Chaco Canyon - I believe surely the orb has a vibrational quality that usually escapes the human sight but that can be registered by our digital cameras. I've heard about a deep sacredness that fills that place. I have yet to visit Chaco, but everyone I know who has been there describes sensations ranging from extreme serenity to the feeling that "something" was watching them very closely - and eerie feeling, yes, but the interpretation needn't be. I think there are lots of spirits hanging out there, and I look forward to the day I can go and commune with them peacefully. I'd love to sit down and chat with you about your trip.
Stace Tussel
You're very welcome and thank "you"!
— Aug 14, 2010
Interesting to hear other people's perceptions. The only other people I've spoken with who have been there have a more or less academic/materialist-reductionist view of these things. However the latter, that "something" was watching me/us was very palpable. I sensed it wasn't something trivial, eerie, but nothing that seemed malevolent particularly. I have quite a few stories that I'll refrain from here. Overall it was a peaceful place but numinous and charged...I recommend it highly. I'm still dying to know what that light is.
On a technical note, I would have liked to shrink down the size of the photos, but wasn't sure how to do that...
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Trippin!
— Aug 05, 2010
I'm glad to hear from y'all, as I was starting to think, "Bueller?" Thanks for sharing all the wonderful photos of your journeys. I guess that makes traveling itself a sort of synchronicity. The hand over the falls gave me a good chuckle, Dani. Nathan, your photos especially moved me as I haven't been to Anasazi country since college. The nearby area of the Hopi is point 17 on the Becker Hagens Earth energy grid.
Also, for posting pictures, JET (love that!) provided some good how-to instructions in the eye discussion.
I don't have anymore big synchronicities to report about waterfalls, but the little ones are still churning everyday. I'm reading the book that fell into my awareness from above and it's just wow. An excellent framework for understanding our collective efforts here. I'm leaving in an hour or two for the trip to New York state for the first Evolver Regional Summit. I'm so stoked to meet so many of my co-evolvers! So keep on trippin' everyone.
DO go chasin' waterfalls
— Aug 19, 2010
Interesting ... it was a Google search for my own Teapots Happen blog + the word "waterfall" that led me back to this site ... been doing a LOT of waterfalling lately - Vermillion Falls in Hastings, MN Willow Falls in WIsconsin, and Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis ... the last two waterfall trips listed both had amazing storms break out while I was down in the valleys along the waterfalls ...stunning and beautiful ... and at the other, the storms had come through previously and left the Vermillion River flooded and the waterfall thundering, more full and vital than I had ever seen it before.
Been trying to figure out what my attraction is to waterfalls this summer, as a hardcore rationalist I used to dismiss them and their power utterly with a snide comment like "what, it's water, falling - big deal, I see it in the sink every day" ... but now I must concede that they have a power that cannot be denied. Everybody is smiling when they are at the waterfall, there is no aggressive competitive bullshit in the midst of the mist. Problems are forgotten, stressful contexts stripped away. The liquid white noise and flowing sparkles of water and light refresh and rejuvenate the spirit and reboot the mind in a more positive place ...
me on Sunday carefully returning from Vermillion Falls in flood:
(I have to wait for my friend to send me the pics of me blissing out while being sprayed from beneath by the mists of Minnehaha Falls while also being showered from above by the short-lived thundershower that came and went while we were down in the waterfall, with sunny skies before and after)
Cats meow!
— Aug 22, 2010
I'm not sure how to phrase this one as it's very recursive. As this waterfall thread started out here in the TCUP, it was the day before our third local evolver spore, which we were holding here at the waterfall shelter at cascades park. Today we had our fourth spore which brought several community group project leaders together for storytelling about how we all suddenly (and unwittingly) got where we are and where we might go next. Based on what's been learned from the Evolver Regional Summit at Heartland Retreat in the interim, I asked a local videographer to help us record these stories (as he's checked out on and experienced with CATS equipment). Our local community media center is called CATS, for Cable Access Television Services. The meow thing came up spontaneously and hilariously as a very memorable theme at Heartland! The stories that all these wittily unwitting local community pioneers shared here today were awesome! I'm so hoping the footage comes out and can be turned into a cool video. Reflecting tonight, unconsciously but appropriately as Mercury turns retrograde, on all the transformative flow that's happened over the past several weeks, I came across a browser tab with our local water spore announcement from last month. It links to a CATS station ID video I found by accident that shows the very waterfall we had held our water spore under. Anyway, with all your stories bradied now into the meaning of this little accident, I'm just feeling so shiny! And honored to share our local waterfall with you.
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