Thanks for that beautiful quote, Tammi.

Helen Keller truly saw with her heart...

one of my cousins has down's syndrome. She is one of the happiest persons I have ever met in my life.

She is high functioning. She actually became manager of a Wal-mart. Her sister is a doctor. And her sister is very...bitter...

They came to my father's funeral and I was so glad to talk to my cousin with the down's syndrome. She opened my eyes with her attitude...

it made me wonder...who's smarter? My cousin who is the doctor, or my cousin with down's syndrome?

her smile can light up a room...I wish I could talk to her more and learn more from her...

I wonder about the bigger TV's and the bigger cars and the bigger houses..

and I wonder about the tedious stuff that we really don't need, but are told that we need...we see it on TV, it makes us want it. We hear it on the radio, it makes us want it...

one can be blinded by commercials of what we see...

everyone knows that...yet...something primitive comes out...cause I'll tell you what, I really would like to have the latest I-PHONE....I just gotta have it!! LOLOL (but will never get one cause I just can't afford one every few months...*sigh)

here is a little test, try to say all these colors out loud as fast as you can in the COLOR that they are in...not the words. ;)

BLUE green

Orange Purple

Yellow RED

Not going THERE, moi! I'm going for neuropsych testing at the end of September. I'll get to do bad things like THAT test then. LOL

Here is but one of many examples I can share....I was asleep one night was dreaming that I was doing an emergency abdominal aortic aneurysm repair...only it was on my uncle....I remember yelling for a c-clamp, we did not get it on fast enough and my uncle died. I woke up shaken looked at the clock 2:35 am. The next morning I roll into the PACU (recovery room) One of our surgeons says you look tired, have a bad night? I jokingly said Oh I was just up doing an aneurysm repair but we lost the patient. He said Ohhhh so you were on call last night? I said no just dreaming, I was home in bed....this puzzled look came over him and he said did you wake up? I said yes, he asked what time? I said 2:35. He said I gotta show you something and starts digging thru the OR records....and you guessed it pulls out an aneurysm repair that died on the table at 2:35.

Think of this...


You're in a room with ten people. You can see and hear just fine. Yet you cannot see or hear everything all of those people say and do, right?

Clairvoyance and precognition work like that. Just because you can see and know, does not mean you can see it all and know it all.

Wow, what a thread!!! Love it! It's so interesting to delve into subjects like this...
Lennon did mean that we live with our consciousness distracted by the mundaneness of life. The material needs, the TV, our image in the world, all of those things that distract us from being aware at every moment.
Aware of what? Of our breath, going in and out, and the miraculousness of that. Our connectedness to all that surrounds us. Of this present moment.

It seems so easy...yet it's so difficult.


About esp, my father would always know when someone had died...he would have a dream, the same dream. It's going to sound gross, but he would dream that his father would be chasing a person, and would be throwing, um, defecation at a person. If it hit, my dad would hear that that person would be dead the next day. There were times when his father would miss a person in his dream...that person would have a close call, like a car accident, or an illness, but would survive.
Nice esp gift, heh?:rolleyes:

hey MOi what if you're color blind:yikes:, pretty sure being color blind might be a good way to go trough life, if ya get my drift, hows tricks in the philosophical world Moi?

Thats what I mean Debbie...I too am a human death radar, I can wake up instantly when someone dies and tell you they just died, or I dream it and it happens. It is a sense of knowing I think.

very interesting: I am not Omniscient but Omnipotent...uh oh....I think I just admitted to something that should be private...ummmmm....what I mean is that well...OK...Cialis anyone?? anyone? Bueller? Bueller??

I'd just like to say that I do NOT want to be in neither your father nor Nae's dreams...especially your father, Deb D...:thud: LOLOL

When I was a youngster, about 6 yo, I went to the zoo with my mom and brother. They gave Elephant rides. These beautiful creatures were chained (poor things). But my brother got to ride first. I was a bit peeved cause I wanted to ride first so I somehow, walked behind the elephant...

next thing you know, atom bomb hit and I was splat...it knocked me down..you know that thing that they call carp?

My mom, the elephant trainers and all the passer-bys were laughing so hard that no one picked me up...I was so flushed I almost cried then and there..and the only thing they could do was to use the hose to wash the elephants with to wash me...

OK, stop laughing...you know what they say, "CARP happens"....:D

Maybe that is philosophical in itself...carp happens...hmmm....