Since this is MY blog and I get to write about ME ME ME, I begin with a true story of when I was four years old. My parents had taken me to Florida to visit my mother’s mother’s sister and her husband who had retired there to one of those “villages” on a pond. I remember it well. Alas, no photos. I destroyed all the photos I had of my life – there’s no one to share my memories with nor to pass on to another generation. PLUS, it’s one of those techniques to severe attachments.

BUT, I do remember fishing in the pond behind my great aunt’s house. Didn’t catch anything. Heard my first tales about alligators. In fact, my parents took me to an alligator farm and when I leaned over the small fence to pet them, I can still hear her screeching in my mind to this day and getting yanked back and spanked. Spanked! She also had a fit when they took me a couple years later to a now shuttered fairy tale theme park in upstate New Jersey with deer and goats and petting zoo animals roaming around. My parents were not particularly paying attention and when they turned around there I was surrounded by deer and a goat was eating the big bow off my Shirley Temple style dress! Kids used to get dressed up with patent leather shoes and nice socks, and I had to wear a petticoat and fancy dresses and little hats to go anywhere outside of the back yard. The deer and I were fixated on each other and I don’t think I liked the bow. Anyway I digress.

The best part of the trip to Florida, was my parents had us stay in a motel right on the Atlantic Ocean. We ALWAYS tried to get an oceanfront room or lake front room whenever we traveled. We ALL loved water. Living in the desert hurts my spirit sometimes. I have the mountains but I really need to get to the marina each day.

My parents used to go fly fishing at the beach in New Jersey long long long before I was born. They dated for SEVEN YEARS – pretty much from the time my dad got back from Germany and fighting Nazis up until 1951. THEY LOVED fly fishing. Had all the poles and lures. My mom’s grandfather used to take me fishing at Echo Lake Park or Mindowaskin in Westfield, New Jersey. Bought me a child’s pole. I used to catch minnows.

Anyway, we had beach chairs – mine was child size, and my dad was a few feet away with his pole so he wouldn’t kill me when he swung it, and I had mine – I think it was his because it was the ocean after all. Lots of people were fishing. It would have been 1959 and that’s what people did for fun back then.

Well, I ruined EVERYONE’S day that day. I had no sooner grabbed onto the pole and looked out into the waves when a 12 inch plump shiny POMPANO was tugging. I pulled, my dad was behind me and just like in this next video, the fish flew up into the air and my parents and everyone else screamed. My dad helped me get the fish into my pail and I filled it with water and ran off to talk to my new best friend!

I was only four, so I have no idea how long I “played” with what I would later discover was my DINNER! At some point, my mom would tell the tale, they managed to distract me and she gutted my new best friend, and fried him or her in a pan and served up an amazing dinner. After dinner I went to play with my friend.

Have you ever seen a kid throw a tantrum and accuse their parents of MURDER? It was not a good night for my parents and I had my first lesson on betrayal. For me it was like some sick plot in a Shakespeare play where the protagonist is served his beloved’s liver or something.

Never do that to a child. At some point, it’s time for THE TALK and not the THE TALK about sex, but about where our food comes from. And about life and death and survival. Mr. Chicken, and Floppy Ears may end up as dinner some day and little kids need to know that.

I never got a chance to eat pompano ever again. It was very expensive and I have never seen it on a menu. If my book becomes a best seller, I’m going to order one. Great taste. I can remember that about my best friend. He/she tasted amazing!

But back to my initial point. I do not think it was luck. I remember distinctly causing a lot of the adults on the beach to bitch and moan about why they hadn’t caught anything and this little kid did. They did not congratulate me. They were visibility pissed off. I simply had looked into the waves and immediately caught the fish. DID I become the lure? Was it qi? I can do the same thing with deer and apparently, I did the same thing with a juvenile Bigfoot.

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Harry Leo Duran, MD, Ph.D., MPH had a chance to go directly to heaven, so it appeared. Harry had received teachings and possibly an empowerment (he never elaborated) directly from the Dalai Lama in 1989 in New York City when he was working as a neurosurgery resident in Newark, New Jersey. He had “taken hand” with the Pir of the Nematollahi SafiAliShahi II when Harry flew to Delft in the Netherlands to attend a special dzikr in November 1998. Harry had studied sufism online with a sheik (never learned his name) who named Harry Ali. I was named Aliya by Sherif Baba in January 1998. We both had read EVERY SINGLE book published by Idries Shah. He read several tomes by Rumi. Bought dozens of books in ARABIC. Taught himself some Arabic, so he told everyone. He claimed he had read the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Harry had multiple Bibles, several Qurans, dozens and dozens of Roman Catholic prayer books and missals. He left behind two copies of the Horologian and several Eastern Orthodox primary texts. Several hagiographies and writings by the early Church Fathers. He had been baptised Roman Catholic by his parents and he had a full immersion baptism in a horse trough by Father Justin Havens in February 2012 at the Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in Salt Lake City.

Harry had given alms. No doubt about that. He had supported Father Mark Kerr for almost three years. He always put money in the collection basket and when I was with him, he always bought candles – usually with my money, but when he finally started earning wages, he did open his own wallet. We both traveled to Rome with then Father Paul Tague (alas, he gave up the priesthood) with a small group of seven women from Jesus and Mary Chapel. We did the Way of the Seven Churches ON FOOT for three weeks. We sang in the chapel choir. Well, he sang, my vocal cords are shot, so I was the choir director.

BUT, BUT, BUT he tossed all those merits into the toilet – literally and fell into a life of unspeakable debauchery. Didn’t matter that he had received the Kalachakra empowerment directly from His Holiness Penor Rimpoche. He had also studied with other lamas. He received special blessings from Sheikh el-Haj el-Fakir er-Rifa’i Mehmet Sherif Çatalkaya and a group blessing from Pope John Paul II!

So, I wonder HOW he got across the River depicted in Buddhism and Hinduism, and in Greek Mythology, and in accounts of the afterlife by many who had near death experiences.

In the TV series Vighnaharta Ganesh, Gaynari didn’t get to ride in the boat because he had NEVER done a single good deed. Harry had done some good deeds, HOWEVER, every teacher I’ve ever encountered, (and every book I’ve ever read) insists that IF you are taught HOW to behave and HOW to live a virtuous life, and then you turn your back on everything you were taught and succumb to evil, those merits are negated. In the video I cobbled together, you will get to virtually experience what happens to those who sin. DO NOT start the popcorn maker. This is NOT that kind of fun video.

FOR FURTHER READING AND VIEWING:

https://www.thehinduportal.com/2017/08/what-is-naraka-hell-and-where-it-located.html

https://aratta.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/the-boundary-between-earth-and-the-underworld/

https://majeliswalisongo.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/tariqa-nimatullahi/

Khaneghah Safi AliShahi Nsso

Hello my dears, the following text describes the characteristics and practices related to the behavior of Dervish and the principles of monotheism and mystics. I hope that each of you will write this text on a page of paper and read it every day. The truth has helped us and God willing. It has become the queen of our minds and become a part of our moral characteristics and deeds. O Ali help:

I insert here an article about who Ali is. You might think the above is a typo. It is not. Note, also, that Harry Leo Duran was given the name Ali and I was named Aliya by Sherif Baba.

First in practicing, there is the observance of eating, that is, do not eat a lot with drunkards and insane people. Do not sit on the table of the stingy and arrogant people intentionally do not eat what brings sugar, drunkenness, weakness, cruelty of the heart and superstition of the mind.

The second is the observance of sleep and sleep. Do not sleep with untested people in the same place. Do not sleep in the place of dishonest and accusations and the place of mad people and animals.

Third: It is the observance of words, useless words, rudeness, sarcasm, ridicule, purpose, flattery, lies, insistence and arguments. Do not say more than the value of the mind and what people do not believe. Do not listen to accusations, backbiting, sedition and condemnation of others. Don’t blame anyone for any reason, don’t talk about anyone’s hatred. If you say Ajmal and Abbreviatedly (sic), you should say:

In Sufism, the principle of deeds is to serve the elderly, and the respect for the rites and the payment of rights, maintaining the trust and durability of purity and trust in the matters of compassion with the people of politeness in the words of Ata in the position of meditation in response to sacrifice the poor, humility, with the elders, guilt in lust, in the size in the salary, opposition to self-sufficiency, progress in greeting.

Patience in problems and troubles, honesty with friends, loyalty to promises, dignity in ways, speed in goodness, stopping in revenge, insistence in obedience, seeking sincerity, wisdom in deeds, honor with guests, consoling with strangers, kindness with children, humility with the needy, preference over yellow, passion for kindness, gratitude for blessing, contentment for blessing, contented

This is the best way to go of truth, the one with remembrance, the sprain of chaos, orderly relief, banadan gentleness, rarely humor, kindness and kindness with children, escape from greed, abstinence of request, abundance in thought, fear of pride, remembrance of death, truth in account, silence of banadan, checking the sick, pity the weak, Supporting the oppressed, wanting to fast (fasting), consulting with the wise, praying in private, regretting of sin, trust in livelihood, timely reservation, advising the obedient, modifying the judgments, kindness with the partner, fairness with the one, staying away from the liar, forgiving the defeated, grudge against the oppressor.

If a person is always remembered about his humanity, no point of his goodness will be left behind. Never look for these qualities in others. The purpose of this writing is to transfer everyone to his humanity not to others. If you find yourself, you can do it to others. Yaft.

Baba Heidar, Pir Hai of Razavia Dynasty, Nemat Elahi Safi Alishahi Mahdia

https://www.tripchinaguide.com/article-p409-fengdu-ghost-city-facts.html

I had to use Rumble because YouTube does not honor Fair Use. The algorithms kick in and the video is blocked.

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Benebel Wen is an expert in cartomancy. Her research is impeccable and her vast knowledge astounds me. The other day, I decided I needed to find a better way to do Yes/No Tarot readings beside pulling just one card and reading it. I believe that reversals are part of the essence of tarot, although Eva Owsian who taught a class here in Spring Creek, Nevada told us she never uses them. I googled Benebel’s blog and found that she had already written a post about the three pile method.

What I did learn from Benebel was the source, or at least a source for what one can find all over the web about how to do a three pile Yes/No reading. HOWEVER, it did not, pardon the expression RESONATE with me.

What hit me while I was experimenting was to do the following. Keep in mind the Rider Waite deck has 78 cards. You need to pull 13 cards as fast as you can until an Ace appears OR the Magician! Out of the 78 cards there’s only one magician and four aces. As soon as an Ace or the Magician appears when drawing 13 cards, stop and start the next pile. When you reach the third pile, if none of these cards appear, read the meaning of that last card in relation to your question.

For example, did you ask about a relationship, career direction, financial situation, pregnancy, major purchase, of if you should move, etc.

Should I marry XYZ?

Two aces are a YES and the Queen of Cups represents a FANTASTIC partner – nurturing, in tune with your needs, loving, and caring. MARRY the person by all means. (By the way, I drew the Queen of Cups – I didn’t intentionally use her for the example. I asked which card would make a good example to use for the blog. Pretty amazing I think.)

If all Aces – GO FOR IT. Two Aces and the Magician – JUMP AT THE CHANCE

But Two Aces and any other card – read what nuance of the yes and WHY

NO Aces and no Magician – NO NO NO and forget it.

One Ace and two other cards – Not a great idea. Read the meanings of the other two cards.

I tried this with all the cards upright and it went faster. It doesn’t matter if the Ace is upright nor if the Magician is upright. Those are yes cards. It will matter if you want to add more complexity to the last card in the third pile to clarify why it’s a YES or MAYBE so use reversals if you want to.

FOR FURTHER READING

Benebel Wen’s Blog Post

Tarot Lady’s Blog Post

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Netflix is a company a lot of people hate for good reason. BUT even an evil conglomerate can sometimes be an unwitting tool of the divine. On December 9, 2022, Netflix started airing the Hindi dubbed version of Kāntāra. The film was both written and directed by Rishab Shetty who also portrays the main character whose name is Shiva – that’s like people naming their sons Jesus, but in this case, it has a lot more significance. Kāntāra was produced by Vijay Kiragandur under Hombale Films. It was not expected to become a global blockbuster.

If you do not know this about me, now is the time for me to confess that I am a HUGE fan of foreign made supernatural themed films and TV series, preferably with subtitles. I can’t stand dubbed films and avoid them, but in this case, the actors are speaking a language called Kannada – the official language of the state of Karnataka in Bengaluru, India. I love to see characters from other countries and time periods and scenery and architecture and food. When I logged into Netflix and saw the ad for Kāntāra, I clicked with delight. I NEVER expected a film to have so much power, nor did I ever expect to get blasted on an etheric level from a film! I took several nights breaking it up into 30 minutes at a time because it was that intense, and I wanted to stop a scene and look up to find a background story to help me make sense of what was happening. The film is VERY VERY fast paced and the subtitles fly by. I rarely have a problem speed reading subtitles but the action-packed acting plus reading forced me to stop and replay a scene just to catch my breath.

HOW fast paced is it, you ask? Shiva hanging on to water buffalo tails in a race called Kambala blew my mind. There are slow motion segments of the race where you feel the mud getting in your own eyes. And then there are the fight scenes – a lot of fight scenes.

And a scene that at first gave me pause and when I went to research it made me REALLY pause.

In it the character Mahadeva, portrayed by Prabhakar Kunder as a blacksmith and a seer, steals the scene. He and Shiva are seen smoking something and getting “high”. What I did not expect to learn was that they were grinding up ANTS – yes, ANTS.

Now you might ask, so what? Well, Lord Shiva, also called Mahadev (see the names of the characters above), has long been associated with

HALLUCINOGENS

And this is where the Notorious Doc pops back up. The late Harry Leo Duran, MD, PH.D., MPH, was a board certified Addiction Medicine Specialist AND a drug user! He boasted about using LSD and DMT and mushrooms. And he used to yap about Lord Shiva ingesting mushrooms boasting that he was a SHIVA devotee – NOT!

AND, it gets weirder, trust me.

The Notorious Doc had a boar tattooed onto his torso, paid $5,000 for a taxidermic boar’s head at Stitched inside the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, paid Chris Ihle to create a boar in LEGOs for him which cost $3,500, and boasted on Grindr that he was a BOAR who was into pig play.

And it is a BOAR that appears in the film, but this boar is a supernatural boar and it protects the villagers. This boar is like the avatar Varaha. For a CGI depiction of how Vishnu manifested Varaha check out Episode 1005 of Vignaharta Ganesh! Lord Vishnu emits an essence that is then inhaled by Lord Brahma and exhaled out as Varaha as Vishnu’s third avatar (I’m still working on the series – don’t worry, I’ll resume work on the avatars).

I was surprised to find Sadhguru talking about the film!

Here is some context

Each village has a bhūta for whom an annual kōla is held, each household is also associated with its own bhūta, and even some castes have their own tutelary bhūtas.  The numerous bhūtas are closely related to and also embody the wild, dangerous, and fertile aspects of divine power — originating as apotheosized local heroes or the spirits of wild animals dwelling in forests — which eventually came to be grounded in the larger umbrella of the Hindu pantheon centuries ago through their association with the gaṇas and bhūtas of Lord Śiva or Īśvara or absorbed into the tenets of Śakti worship or mahātmya traditions.

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The ceremony mainly involves two central participants, the vaidya and the patri, wherein the purpose of the vaidya is to rhythmically beat the dakke (drum), and sing and dance, in order to completely attune the priest-mediums or oracles¹ to sublimate his/her personality and permit for full possession by the spirit being invoked. When invoked in the prescribed manner, accompanied by all the ritual offerings and other arrangements, the patri or mānye or māni moves into ecstasy and gets “possessed” by the concerned divinity. Priest-mediums, belonging to the Nalike, Parava, Pambada or certain other prescribed castes conduct the ritual, with the patrons often being local landlords.  (https://brhat.in/dhitiblog/cinemareview-kantara/)

BUT never fear, this rabbit hole is DEEP – so DEEP, I almost couldn’t climb back up!

I only just found The Ranveer Show when I went searching for videos about Nagas. The interview I was watching ended and because I was still researching Kāntāra, this next video was recommended. And now to send the readers on a FULL hard U-Turn back to where I started. Mind you Rishab Shetty did his own stunts in the film, so watch it and your stomach will already be flying around when you watch this next clip!

And it is in this interview with Shri Rajarshi Nandy, a Sadhaka and an adherent of the Sanatan Dharma, a speaker, columnist, and author of Hindu spiritual practices, which confirmed that the deities REALLY did come through in the film! Listen to the presentation. Nandy minces no words. THIS was REAL tantra!

Nandy firmly believes that “some shift” has happened. Both Ranveer and Nandy feel that this movie could not have been made up until a few years ago and Ranveer said he felt he never would have even dared conduct such an interview until very recently. Nandy saw that people in Calcutta, after watching the movie ORGANICALLY started putting their hands together in pray.

AND he then says

THERE IS SOME SHIFT THAT IS HAPPENING AS IF SOME OF THE OLD GODS ARE WAKING UP!

SO, it’s not just me and handful of friends. I have friends who insist they SEE deities and speak with them. Squirm if you will, but that’s what they tell me. And mediums who see spirits – of dead people, fae, dragons, you name it.

To continue Nandy goes on to say that if a deity blesses a creative endeavor, out of the ordinary success happens through the transmission of the shakti of the deity and THAT is what I felt when I finally watched the last 20 minutes of the film. I felt the SAME jolt I have felt when I’ve received darshan. The same HI – I’m HERE kick inside my mind and the same SEEK and YEA Shall FIND feeling. A sense of URGENCY to dig up everything and immerse myself and connect the dots.

Watch the movie. In January 2023, it’s supposed to be dubbed into English if you can’t stand reading subtitles but I urge you to watch this version. It’s awesome. It’s SPELLBINDING, and it’s got a lot of teachable moments squished between martial arts scenes and life in a forest village. A MYSTICAL forest village – hence the title kāntāra

FOR FURTHER READING

https://www.gqindia.com/entertainment/content/kantara-ending-explained-what-really-happened-at-the-end-of-the-drama-thriller

https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/kantara-movie-review-rishab-shetty-bats-for-folklore-and-native-culture-in-his-latest/article65954798.ece

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-kambala-race/articleshow/92783379.cms

https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/youth-smoking-ants-to-get-high-1.228542

https://gulfnews.com/general/teens-smoke-crushed-ants-to-get-high-1.1466609

https://psychedelicsangha.org/paisley-gate/2019/9/29/iva-amp-shrooms

Kantara: That Sublime Submission To The Disappearing Spirits…

PANJURLI

https://www.livehistoryindia.com/story/living-culture/the-divine-deities-from-kantara

https://starsunfolded.com/kantara-cast/

https://jhmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Kantara_(film)

Mantra Chanting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6m8T9QYBUU

Cast

• Rishab Shetty as Kaadubettu Shiva and Shiva’s father
• Sapthami Gowda as Leela
• Kishore as Muralidhar, a Deputy Range Forest Officer (D.R.F.O)
• Achyuth Kumar as Devendra Suttooru
• Pramod Shetty as Sudhakara
• Shanil Guru as Bulla
• Prakash Thuminad as Raampa
• Manasi Sudhir as Kamala, Shiva’s mother
• Naveen D Padil as Lawyer
• Swaraj Shetty as Guruva, Shiva’s cousin brother
• Deepak Rai Panaaje as Sundara
• Pradeep Shetty as Mohana
• Rakshith Ramachandra Shetty as Devendra’s Henchman
• Chandrakala Rao as Sheela, Sundara’s Wife
• Sukanya as Ammakka , Devendra’s Wife
• Sathish Acharya as Tabara , Leela’s Father
• Pushparaj Bollar as Garnall Abbu
• Raghu Pandeshwar as Raghu, Forest Officer
• Mime Ramdas as Naaru
• Basuma Kodagu as Guruva’s father
• Ranjan Saju as Lacchu
• Rajeev Shetty as Rajeev Bhandari
• Atish Shetty as Devendra’s specially-abled son
• Radhakrishna Kumbale as a native resident
• Naveen Bondel as Demigod Interpreter

Cameo appearances

• Shine Shetty as Devendra’s father
• Vinay Biddappa as the King
• Pragathi Rishab Shetty as the King’s wife

https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/binge/the-soul-is-back-kantara-wins-plagiarism-case-varaha-roopam-song-to-return-on-ott-very-soon-586685.html

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Amandeep Singh is one of, if not the most interesting humans I have ever met, and I’m thrilled to call him my friend. He lives in Jalandhar, India and we talk “on the phone” through Facebook Messenger. I live in Nevada so that’s the Pacific Time Zone and Amandeep lives in the India Time Zone. Surprisingly, the audio is far superior on Facebook than it is on my cellphone!

Amandeep is a Wizard and Joshua P. Warren is the WIZARD OF WEIRD! Because it is essential to pay attention to synchronicities, I felt I had to take advantage of the opportunity to study with Josh and wear the “Tesla” pendant and bracelet while meditating using Amandeep’s violet flame sigil.

On November 28, 022, Joshua P. Warren offered his video course for only $99. PayPal lets you pay for purchases over $100 over a period of six months, so I took advantage of the sale and also bought Josh’s Purple Energy Kit which came with a 78-page PDF. I am only displaying a screen shot from the front page. If you want the book, order the pendant from the Curiosity Shop.

LET”S JUST SAY IT WORKS! If you go back through my blog, I wrote that I had to go to the urgent care for injections to treat GAMEKEEPER’S THUMB. For the past few months, I feared I’d have to go back for another set of injections – and let me say those needles go way under the skin and into the tendon and are enough to make you faint.

WELL! I don’t have to. I first started wearing the bracelet on my left wrist because I’m right-handed, but the other day I switched to my right and the pain is GONE!

Now back to Amandeep.

NOW do you see the synchronicity?

And if that wasn’t enough to show a connection across time and space, remember my blog post about Maa Baglamukhi?

I didn’t know Amandeep existed when I posted that. He didn’t know I existed either. We didn’t meet on Facebook until a month had passed.

So, when Amandeep posted that he had made this video, I flipped out. TOTALLY flipped. out. I had been trying since 2014 to get someone at the temple to respond to me in English. I had several exchanges but they were in a mix of Hindi and broken HELLO and I gave up.

Amandeep introduces the tour of the temple in English and then switches to Hindi so speakers on both continents can follow along.

And to back up in time, on June 9, 2021, I got an invitation to attend a Purple Flame Meditation. I took this screen shot at the time.

Click on the screenshot from my Facebook post and it will take you to the 15-minute Violet Flame Meditation.

And although I no longer have the polaroid, or I have no idea where it is, when I had my photo taken with a Kirlian photographer, I was surrounded by deep blue orbs and I looked a BIT like this photo. Everyone gasped because I was violet. Yup. And purple is my FAVORITE color!

To sum up, you can send Amandeep a Facebook Messenger greeting and tell him you just read this. You can purchase all of Joshua P. Warren’s amazing manifestation tools on his website. And you watch the Violet Flame video for free!

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