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For Nicole and her Kitty Girl who died today

BonnyDoon_to_Brigadoon (c)Denise Schultz 2010I am so sorry Kitty Girl,
that you had to die,
so young, so sud­denly
and I’m so grate­ful that I got to spend your dying moments with you
and some more time as you were in spirit while we said good­bye
to your still so beau­ti­ful
and still warm body.

Your beauty was mag­nif­i­cent,
so present,
even in death.

And Nicole was so present,
alive to her grief and her love for you,
deny­ing noth­ing, crush­ing noth­ing,
so alive to the whole­ness of love
even in the midst of los­ing you.

She will be such a good nurse,
such a good woman, a cat mother and mother
She is such a good per­son right now, already.

She is so open to her core
to what is real and true
to love and life
and death.

Her ques­tions about spir­i­tu­al­ity,
her doubts,
all are part of the grow­ing whorl of leaves
that leads out from her cen­ter,
Hon­est doubts.

But she heard you purring
after you were gone,
and I said, “That’s real.“
That’s not just a mem­ory.
That is your Kitty Girl com­ing to you
to tell you she is alright now,
and she loves you, loves you, loves you,
as you love her.

Thank you so much,
for the chance to be with you both today,
to be blessed by your purity of spirit,
and the love in your heart,
in your mind, in your being.
Thank you.

© Denise Schultz 2010

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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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Note: This arti­cle orig­i­nally appeared on Spirit Caat’s cat board.

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 have the same pre­sump­tion of our right to make choices about their care. A guardian is not pre­sumed to be as informed as the vet, for instance. So not only does the vet trump the guardian, but the pro­fes­sional vet asso­ci­a­tion is try­ing to trump alter­na­tive modal­i­ties out of all prac­tice (by both vets and non-​​vets) by defin­ing it as not good vet­eri­nary prac­tice, and not good for the animal.

[Please read more of this arti­cle by click­ing the link below the dona­tion button.]

© Denise Schultz 2010

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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, while the AVMA is using a legal stance sim­i­lar to ‘in loco par­en­tis’, where they avow that only the vet can make a choice about an animal’s care, and the client only has a right to choose alter­na­tive care if they can find a vet to agree with them. ‘In loco par­en­tis’ is what a col­lege is bound by to be legally respon­si­ble for minor stu­dents. The AVMA is say­ing that since ani­mals are not human, only a vet is qual­i­fied to make deci­sions for their care, and to admin­is­ter that care. All alter­na­tive prac­tice would be ille­gal, even for vets. It’s pretty fascist.

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© Denise Schultz 2009

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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

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