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JR">Ode to JR

Your Father didn’t have no heart!
 When he lost his wife
  His heart became a knife
   It cut a hole in his chest
    ’til the day that he died.

Your mother, oh she of great works,
 has a sword for a spine
  She cuts through obsta­cles
   with power and pre­ci­sion
Never let it be said that she
 lacks the power of decision

So you’re the son 
 of a knife and a sword
  Of course you’re a critic
   With that honed an edge
    What else comes forward?

As for love in your life
 Of course you’re done sooner
  A knife and a sword
   Cut through the half-​​empty glass
    Before a woman can say
     ‘Go to hell’
      and knock you on your ass.

Or you’ll say no first –
 A pre-​​emptive strike
  and end up with a life
   that you didn’t like.

Time to beat your swords into plow­shares
 And put down your gun
  What prize of the heart
   Has your crit­i­cism won?

The safest place for your heart
 in all this?
  Could you be redeemed
   By a woman’s kiss?

A kiss that saves worlds
 and lights up the sky
  That bathes your heart
   in soft tunes
    ’til you stop ask­ing why

She won’t call at your door
 or beckon your call
  You won’t find her at all
   ’til you stop look­ing
    or take a class in French cooking

Somewhere, there’s strength in your heart
 That keeps seek­ing
  What gives time mean­ing
As life keeps glean­ing
 These moments of love
  of insight and lust
   ’til it’s ashes to ashes
    and dust to dust.

© Denise Schultz 2009 

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Dear Caat,

It is not nec­es­sar­ily bad to be a guardian rather than an owner, except that it is a dilu­tion of the legal rela­tion­ship. I am not a lawyer, but as I under­stand it, the dif­fi­culty is when does the state (the gov­ern­ment) get to step in?

Because the AVMA can pull a vet’s license (sim­i­lar to the sanc­tion process for pulling the license of an MD, a process I am some­what famil­iar with) they are act­ing as the state in that case. The gov­ern­ment, in effect, says only vets know enough about vet­eri­nary prac­tice to reg­u­late each other, so we’ll put the pro­fes­sional asso­ci­a­tion in charge of when a vet gets to prac­tice, or when they have screwed up so much that they don’t get to prac­tice any­more. (I know this might seem like a tan­gent, but please bear with me.)

If we are only the guardians, and not the own­ers, of our ani­mal com­pan­ions, we do not Read the rest of this entry »

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Dear Caat,

The basis they are using is that all alter­na­tive care is ille­gal, because

  • it is only legal for a DVM vet to treat an ani­mal, and

  • they are so allo­path­i­cally con­ser­v­a­tive that they believe DVM vets should have their licenses pulled for par­tic­i­pat­ing in alter­na­tive care.

The AVMA is far more con­ser­v­a­tive than the AMA because the AMA has at least had to accept the human patient’s right to choose their own care, Read the rest of this entry »

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  • The first part of the let­ter is about Local Sidereal Time (LST), which I was study­ing because a Palo Alto psy­chic study showed a much higher rate of psy­chic hits at 13:30 LST.
  • The sec­ond part is about how being psy­chic works and and how LST could be used to improve it. Skip to pink sec­tion if you don’t want the astron­omy lesson.

Sent 4.3.08

 To Raphael, who responded to my request for help with Local Sidereal Time con­ver­sion errors (I had noticed that the soft­ware was not cor­rect because it was return­ing the same LST for San Francisco and Seattle). LST was being con­verted because a Palo Alto study showed a much higher % of psy­chic suc­cess (hits) at LST 13:30.

Dear Raphael,

Thank you for respond­ing to my email about the LST con­ver­sion soft­ware hav­ing some pos­si­ble errors. I would like to sum­ma­rize my under­stand­ing of the LST time, so you can share it with the astronomer, (and pos­si­bly the researchers from the orig­i­nal Palo Alto study) and cor­rect me where nec­es­sary. [Some of the most fun stuff is at the bot­tom, so hang in there*] This is what I under­stand, and when requested explained por­tions of it to the 60 peo­ple whom I helped with their conversions:

Planetary time is based on the rota­tion of the earth spin­ning around its axis (the line between the North and South Poles), while it is in orbit around the Sun. So the 24 hour plan­e­tary time is in rela­tion to the spin­ning, which causes night and day as dif­fer­ent por­tions of the planet turn to face the sun every day. And the months of the year are caused by the orbit­ing around the Sun, while that tilt in the axis (a tilt in rela­tion to the flat plane in which the ellipse of the Earth’s orbit of the Sun occurs) causes the equinoxes and sol­stices to be oppo­site above and below the equa­tor. [Last year a friend of mine moved from Mt. Shasta back to Australia in September, get­ting spring and sum­mer, fol­lowed by spring and sum­mer — what a deal!]

LST time is based on the orbit of our Solar System around the cen­ter of our galaxy. So the lon­gi­tude as well as the lat­i­tude has to be fig­ured in, because we are not talk­ing about a sit­u­a­tion where the Earth axis cre­ates hourly bands of iden­ti­cal time from the North Pole to the South Pole, but a sit­u­a­tion where each spot on Earth is cen­tered under the cen­ter of the Milky Way along both a ‘ver­ti­cal’ and a ‘hor­i­zon­tal’ line inter­sect­ing on the sur­face of the Earth, at a cer­tain time of day. [That is why I was sure there was an error in the con­ver­sion soft­ware when it returned the same answer for the LST in Northern California and Seattle.] The one part I did not get was that the time con­ver­sion was for 13:30. My first thought was that it would be a con­ver­sion at 12:00 LST. But maybe it is because of the tilt in the axis, that the cen­ter of the Milky Way is over­head of a given spot at 13:30 LST? Eeek, not sure. Thanks in advance for check­ing this with the astronomer and fill­ing me in. Or was it just that 13:30 LST is the time when the tested psy­chic skills were accen­tu­ated, not nec­es­sar­ily that the cen­ter of the Milky Way was directly overhead?

It might be some­thing anal­o­gous to the dif­fer­ence between the mag­netic North Pole and ‘true North’. It seems to me that it is some­what arbi­trary that the biggest hunk of iron inside the Earth is pretty close to true North - it could have been some­where else, and then it would have taken a lot longer for us to invent a really use­ful com­pass (!). So maybe what­ever it is (in a phys­i­cal or ener­getic sense) which causes psy­chic skills to be sig­nif­i­cantly boosted is not nec­es­sar­ily exactly at the cen­ter of the Milky Way. (‘Inquiring minds want to know’ ;-)

Since I work as a med­ical intu­itive and ani­mal com­mu­ni­ca­tor, this is more than aca­d­e­mic curios­ity for me.

The really fun part: In terms of physics, in ani­mal com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and med­ical intu­itive and other psy­chic work, I believe that slower brain waves (Theta) some­how make it pos­si­ble to con­nect with the holo­graphic uni­ver­sal energy field which under­lies every­thing. It is expe­ri­en­tially clear to me that the whole uni­verse is con­tained in each part of this holo­graphic field, and that the whole can be accessed from any part, includ­ing from my brain, and/​or my con­scious­ness. The whole includes all time and space, though the res­o­lu­tion of my ‘instru­ment’ is not refined enough to be 100% thor­ough, pre­cise, or cor­rect. (That fits per­fectly with the issue of res­o­lu­tion in any holo­graph — the smaller the piece, in this case me, the lower the resolution.)

I han­dle my impre­ci­sion or incom­plete­ness by look­ing for things that stick out. I can afford to ignore nor­mal func­tion or struc­ture (which would be an over­whelm­ing over­load of detail). I just look for what needs help. So it would really give me an edge, to know what (accu­rately con­verted) LST time would give me more pre­ci­sion. I don’t believe I can achieve an actual higher degree of res­o­lu­tion, since I am still going to be the ‘same-​​sized piece’ of the holo­graphic energy field of the universe.

As I under­stand it now, my pri­mary respon­si­bil­ity is to not fill in any detail I don’t see, don’t make any assump­tions, just report what I get, and don’t jump to ‘log­i­cal’ con­clu­sions. But this is not just an eth­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tion, I believe it is a tech­ni­cal func­tion. At my level of focus (my res­o­lu­tion) pre­sum­ably I am cor­rect where I don’t extrap­o­late. But when I begin to do that (and it is typ­i­cally the log­i­cal left brain that extrap­o­lates, because it has not ‘had a turn’, while the intu­itive right brain has just fin­ished its ‘turn’) then my accu­racy suf­fers. And it is not that the log­i­cal brain is lesser than the intu­itive brain, it just has a dif­fer­ent focus, scale, and res­o­lu­tion, and when you start mix­ing infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent orders of mag­ni­tude, it gets messy - and inaccurate.

Thanks for knock­ing some ideas around with me here, and I hope you will for­ward this to the astronomer and/​or Palo Alto psy­chic researchers, so I can get some clar­i­fi­ca­tion too. At least I know the ques­tions I want to ask!

Blessings of the day, Denise Schultz

© Denise Schultz 2008–2009

Donations and con­nec­tions from the many to each other,
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