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In the midst of rising stress levels and anxiety in today?s
fast-paced lifestyle, it is important to take a moment and
not lose your calm. Every day we come across new
challenges and it becomes difficult to stay motivated
and approach it all with optimism. It has become a
habit to completely drain yourself and continue living
in the same routine without being present or taking
account of your actions consciously. With this, you
become a mere peasant of your own life and
hamper your well being?inside and out!
So how do you not let the outside environment or
people take away your energy? How to step up
and radiate the best version of yourself? Indulge
yourself in some self-care activities that can
re-energise your mind, body & soul. The gift of
Mother Nature- healing crystals & gemstones can
cleanse your Aura, align and balance your
Chakras and help you connect to the higher self.
The highly energising crystals will eliminate
negative energy and radiate positivity so that you
feel better and shine brighter.
If you are feeling stuck or overwhelmed, get
yourself some crystals today. Their peaceful
energy will uplift your spirits and elevate your life.
It will improve your life and also help you manifest
your goals, dreams and desires. So indulge yourself
in more mindful activities that will keep you sane
and improve your mental, emotional and spiritual
well-being.
Lots of love & light,
Ravisha Par ikh
EDITOR
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Millennial Connection to Multitasking: Are Podcasts the New Flare-Ups?
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The energizing power of crystals can heal all physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual problems. Along with attracting money, it helps you achieve success, heal relationship wounds, balance your professional & love life, career growth, and boost good health. It removes negative energy and makes way for positive energy & transformation.
The divine crystals help in Vastu correction, promote Reiki Healing, and are considered prosperous in Feng-Shui. The magic crystals serve as the perfect decorative items for home decor, table decor as it removes
negative energy and increases wealth. Keeping it at home will also help to promote peace, restful sleep, meditation, increase concentration, and bring stability.
If you are looking to bring balance and heal your home and surroundings, get healing energy crystals that will instill harmony and balance in mind, body & soul. It brings joy and encourages strong decision-making and willpower.
Attract Money with Green Aventurine
10 Spiritual CrystalsThat Can Transform Your Life!
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Green Aventurine is the luckiest of all crystals as it manifests wealth, good luck &
endless opportunities. The green gemstones indicate money and are used to attract more wealth, prosperity, and power. This stone promotes balance, joy, stability, healing, and energy transformation, and brings positive energy. It also balances the heart chakra & is closely connected to nature. Along with bringing money and good luck, it also boosts the immune system and enhances creativity. Keep this at your home, study table, or workplace to pave the way for abundance.
Strengthen Love with Rose Quartz?Rose Quartz, also known as The Heart Stone, is a pink form of quartz mineral. As a symbol of universal love, its loving energy strengthens relationships & brings joy. A very long association with femininity, this pale pink crystal charged with natural healing abilities devotes the energy to love,
and kindness and is known as a love amplifier. The magnetic energy of this glorious crystal will enhance your relationship when placed in the bedroom. Putting it in the center of your home will escalate self-love & radiate the feeling of love and compassion among all.
Enhance your Creative Side with Carnelian?
Carnelian is a precious healing stone that
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can lift energy & bring your creative side. As a symbol of motivation, strength & endurance, it can boost confidence & restore liveliness. Connected to three lower chakras, the gemstone evokes strong foundation energy. This gem will inspire & protect you through its bright and rich colouring vibrations. Keeping this glorious stone at your home will resonate with positive vibrations, bring stability & re-energise your life. Carnelian crystal also acts as a magnet for prosperity and good luck.
Release all the Stress with Amethyst
A natural stress reliever, Amethyst is a healing magnet that channels strong vibration. This purple charm can alleviate headaches, develop intuition & build psychic abilities. It can activate crown chakra which enhances spiritual energy & promotes higher consciousness. Its soothing energy can help you fight sleeplessness when placed
in your bedroom. It takes away stress, anxiety and tension by inducing positive vibes. The crystal can help draw away negativity and unwanted energy by cleansing the aura with powerful vibrations. Amethyst has been used by healers for centuries to heal and harmonize mind, body and soul.
Boost your Inner-Power with Tiger Eye?
Tiger eye promotes strong and powerful vibrations that boost inner strength, enhance mental clarity & give courage. It will help you balance emotions, bring in clear thinking and unblock all the chakras. This protective stone will help you release negative patterns and fill your heart with abundant joy. It will help you face your fears and fight them to make space for goal manifestation. Known for its great healing ability, the tiger eye can heal all physical, emotional and spiritual imbalances. Keep this at your home or anywhere near you to manifest deep inner strength and bring back
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balance in your life.
Heal Spir itually with Master Stone Clear Quartz?
The resplendent Clear Quartz is one of the most versatile crystals with powerful high vibrations. It clears all the negative energy, balances the body & promotes harmony. This vibrant & transparent crystal is considered a ?master healer? as it amplifies energy by absorbing, storing & regulating it. Place it in an open space where you can see it clearly to maximize its healing effects. Excellent for removing the blockages, Clear Quartz allows the energy to radiate by
purifying at all levels; mental, emotional, physical & spiritual. Place it in an open space where you can see it clearly to maximise its healing effects.
Amplify Manifesting Power with Red Jasper?
Red Jasper stands for endurance and protection. Its high energy resonates with root chakra that will keep you grounded.
The fiery gemstone keeps away negative energy & amplifies manifesting power. Red Jasper acts as a powerful tool that can help awaken our Kundalini and lead us to deep spiritual enlightenment. Keep this grounding stone at your home & office to balance physical & emotional wellbeing. It is the most effective stone to enhance power & achieve growth and success.
Soothe your Mind with Lapis Lazuli
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The royal Lapis Lazuli Gemstones can shower wisdom, provide clear judgment, activate the higher mind and enhance intellectual ability. It is excellent for stimulating inner peace and enhancing memory. It eliminates negative energy from the surroundings and transforms it into vibrant energy and reduces stress, eliminates insomnia, and improves emotional stability. Also effective for boosting concentration, lapis lazuli boosts creativity and clarity. It balances the third eye chakra & releases the blockages. Place it in your home or office to eliminate negative energy from the surroundings and transform it into vibrant energy.
Manifest Success with Citr ine
The gorgeous Citrine gemstones resonate with the energy of the bright and warm sun bringing joy, happiness, good luck and fortune. Also known as ?Merchants Stone?, this healing crystal is used to attract money & success. The powerful crystal is used as a tool to attract more prosperity and wealth.
The fiery energy of gemstone increases self-power and motivates you to achieve your goals and desires. Citrine is a powerful cleansing crystal used to remove negative energy. It revitalizes your mind, body and soul just like the sun. Place it in your home or office and attract wealth as Citrine is famously known as a prosperity crystal.
Rejuvenate your Aura with Selenite
Get your hands on Selenite Tumble Stones and transform the energy around you. With its power to shift stagnant energy, it can remove all the toxic, stuck and negative energy around your surroundings, home and office. It will supercharge and cleanse your home?s aura with high vibrations. It can help to keep the space pure and bright and soaked in pure white light. If you feel
heaviness or emptiness around your surroundings, then Selenite is just what you need. It eliminates negative energy from the mind, body & spirit and allows the flow of new, clean & positive energy.
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Millennial connection to multitasking: Are podcasts the new flare-ups?A report curated by Spotify suggests young people are opting for more diverse audible content.Millennial life is chaotic and filled with work pressure, stress and deadlines, off course.So, a case study made by Forbes reports that Gen Z and Millennial listen to far less radio than their parents or grandparents did. They listen to podcasts instead.Now, what are podcasts exactly?They are an increasingly popular method for them to stay connected to their world of interests.They help them derive meaning into their everyday mundane lives which give them the bare minimum space to be productiveor have time for themselves.While driving or finishing a run or a walk, youngsters prefer to consume information
to utilise the little amount of time they have to themselves apart from work targets.
Recent studies from LinkedIn show that 42% of those between the ages of 18-34 listen to podcasts at least once a week. And the percentage is even greater for parts of the next generation (12-17 year olds)
*The draw of podcasts for millennials*:
1. Podcasts are easy and efficient: And millennials certainly appreciate that. It takes no more than a phone and earphones to listen to one. Plus, hands-free listening is a fait accompli.
2. They are informative: Gen Z wants to
have it all. They want to know how to's about topics that interest them and podcasts bridge the gap.
3. Getting news on the go has become
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attractive for millennials: And it's not even JUST the headlines. They want to dive deeper into those events and issues. Podcasts have that in-depth understanding which makes them more consumer-friendly than music.
4. Millennials have an on-demand mentality: Meaning, if they want information about something, it's immediate. Despite having their favorite music artists and live streaming shows, they always reach out to podcasts their co-workers have suggested.
5. Motivation as a bridge: Millennials want to listen to the stories the world has in store for them by sitting at their home.
Apart from the information, it's the struggle and relatability in the content that seems appealing to the generation nowadays.Since more of the "social-media content" is about 'relatability,' podcasts pave the way for looking beyond just that.
Here's how the media is taking this:
Age-old organisations which specialised mainly in long-form content like articles are now understanding the importance of podcasts for millennials and have upped their game.
1. The New York Times now has a podcast team that focuses on news and editorialising.
2. PBS has just launched a new podcast division.
3. The Wall Street Journal actually introduced podcasts at the end of 2015 and continues to expand its offerings.
Listening is something that fits the millennial lifestyle. Whether it?s earbuds while at the gym or downloaded podcast content while driving, the ears can engage. And if millennials can get their news, information, or entertainment while they are otherwise engaged, all the better.
Being a Gen Z teen, I confirm that podcasts are now the new normal, apart from masks and sanitizers. The flare-up which they've gained in the past 2 years is phenomenal and research-worthy. A few background checks on the data from 2020-22 and surveys suggest that music has been opted out of mainstream for a population ranging from 14-37 year olds.
Thank you for reading.
Report curated by Narayani Joshi
About Narayani Joshi
This is Narayani, who has been into writing for 3 years. She writes poems and short stories along with articles on social causes. She is currently a student and has been published in 40 anthologies. She is the author of ?The Beauty of my Fragrance.? She has also worked as an Intern at IMUN.
Instagram: @the.nariko
Email: [email protected]
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I was aware of Intimate Alien?s posts for a long time before reaching out to Rachel Archelaus saying I thought her story might liven up the website, and would Intimate Alien like to do an interview? I had no idea how important a move I was making. While I was waiting for an answer, I looked into Intuitive Art, the divinatory technique devised and explicated by Archelaus in a masterfully written self-published book (Sephyrus Press, 2017) and video instructions and online classes. Her systematization of the little-used human faculty of intuition in a few smart steps was amazingly versatile and efficient and gave
demonstrable, easily accessed utility to the same wild energy I?d been juggling for years as spontaneous writing or whatever names I called it by from season to season, metamorphic prose or subconscious fiction or my ectoplasm.
In the late 1940s, Jack Kerouac promoted the spontaneous method of prose composition, ?don?t stop to think of words but only to see the picture better,? which humble approach was further permuted by Bob Dylan?s Tarantula in 1966. This presupposed the cut-up and fold-in experiments of the more scientifically minded William S. Burroughs, inspiring
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some of the science fantasies of Robert Anton Wilson, which built further on WSB?s concept of enforced randomization. More recently, the writings of Mark Leyner and the postnormal vignettes of Benjamin Weissman have given example of what comes of taking the subconscious as muse, albeit each with a different degree of contamination or seasoning form its author?s conscious personality. As a footnote, this reporter has lately discovered the ?Handspring? writings of New Directions Press founder James Laughlin, which are another prime example of creative writing reflecting a natural habit of mind. Your reporter calls these kinds of writing humble because they are exercises in surrender, submissions to the muse not crafted, canny inventions or productions of the conscious intellect.
In my own Nature?s Monster are collected writings derived from the unplanned activity of this reporter's own wildest mind. My membership in an online writing group with an emphasis on brevity coupled with a natural inclination to humor on my part combined to enact the new form, to which I?ve given the names, ?metamorphic prose?
and ?subconscious fiction?. A lay knowledge of psychology and the occult coupled with a friendly spirit of inquiry suggests to even the most casual observer that something more is going on here with these unconscious compositions than mere creativity, perhaps a distillation or divining of some kind, since it writes itself.
?All fiction is subconscious ficiton.? Other writers tried chilling me out when I raved about m y discovery.
Sure, but your reporter was more of a vessel for the stuff in that book. He knew exactly what was happening the, but the stuff came
through him, not from him. I?ve been writing spontaneously for more than twenty-five years, and while I?ve developed a deliberate voice alongside, the pieces
collected in Nature?s Monster are most reflective of my essence as a vessel for creativity itself in comparison to my other literary efforts, which, though heartfelt, are limited by their very intentionality. There is a seemingly limitless abundance of inspiration available when I write without thinking, as opposed to crafting and meticulously creating, which is a far slower,
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more deliberate process, fraught with ego and desire.
In a famous interview with Morley Safer, Bob Dylan made the statement that many of his early lyrics were channeled right out of that creative wellspring by means of "a different, penetrating kind of magic" he now felt unable to access. I have felt himself connected to what I presume to be the same motherlode of artful words as long as I?ve been seriously writing, and I believe it will only run out when or if I fall out of alignment. Inspired writings by Kenneth Patchen, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac were my own first models, at the expense of any conventional craft I might otherwise have cultivated at the time. Bukowski and Fante and others came later with form. I can write either way, but the stuff I?m calling subconscious fiction is the raw crude of my creative instinct, sourced from somewhere past my ego.
My recent experience writing the partial biography of lifelong psychic medium and channel of post-corporeal and inter-dimensional beings Rachel Archelaus has given me the opinion that this kind of communication is nothing less than a graduated form of the same willingness enabling spontaneous prose or art or music. In other words, the idea of originality is a limited conscious mind construction, and rather than being authors of anything, we are all vessels designed for recycling from food to feelings to thoughts. And how could it be otherwise, in this universe of
self-replication? This kind of overt distillation from the motherlode is less actively present in some creative fields than others? comedy, for example, seems more an art form of its time, because of the need for mentioning current events? and, wherever it occurs, is certainly tempered by the artist?s approach to creation? but it?s
universal.
The contamination or seasoning by personality of which I speaks: Mark Leyner?s writing was of interest to this spontaneously writer but seemed to lack any occult aspect. It was long on abstraction, but something about the form weakened the jokes on their way to the punchlines, as if taking too long to get there. Benjamin Weissman?s stuff was shorter and faster, which caused me to favor it, despite having long protested the dumbing down of the modern attention span. In a recent review of Weissman?s writing, I described the shorts in dear dead person and Headless as having something in
common with the ?automatic writing?
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phenomenon in that the writing felt unplanned, seeming more like an automatic function. The same observation is a fair statement of their author?s attitude to the pieces collected in Nature?s Monster, one of highly respectful disassociation from something that may or may not have been derived from the Overmind in some way, for which he takes no conscious responsibility for having wrought.
By using the double-blind of diverting your attention to the goal of a joke and writing quickly instead of with forethought, trick your mind into accessing a part of itself unrequired by conscious thought and possessed of an unusual fecundity of imagery and humor compared to anything written with ego. The human computer is a diamond mine of realizations and solutions belonging to all of us, intaking information constantly, whether we?re paying attention or not, and with the use of subconscious fictionalization? Intuitive or subconscious writing? one can hack into this boundless resource and distill the approximate ideal form of most requirements if we allow it.
Intuition has played a central role in everything I?ve done in life so far. I have literally followed my nose through experience for 49 years, adhering to a self-devised flow, which has often seemed to join a selfless flow or feeling of natural progress toward my ever-changing wants. Taking advantage of intuition means a breakthrough in life management. Removing the ego as middleman. Any danger of falling into the same old personality-based impasses time after time is greatly lessened or removed entirely. Open yourselves to what art would come through you as opposed to making any of the other
proclamations from a settled point of gathered authority, and it never runs out. Writer?s block is obviated through abnegation of control, inspiration flows like music. Crack the safe of your own subconscious mind and hotwire your future by giving up control.
About Zack KoppThis is Zack Kopp, a freelance writer and editor in Denver. He is the author of eight or nine books so far, including a short story collection, a book of poetry, a collection of metamorphic prose and a collection of articles, essays, interviews, reviews and com-mentary, and a history of the Beat Generation in Denver. He is currently working as an editor and ghost writer in Denver and online everywhere. Kopp?s books are available at Amazon, and you can find his frequently updated multi- genre blog at www.campelasticity.com
Email: [email protected]
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BEYOND CRITICAL THINKING
According to Wikipedia: ?Critical thinking is the analysis of facts to form a judgment. The subject is complex; several different definitions exist, which generally include the rational, skeptical and unbiased analysis or evaluation of factual evidence. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. It presupposes assent to rigorous standards of excellence and mindful command of their use. It entails effective communication and problem-solving abilities as well as a commitment to overcome native egocentrism and sociocentrism.?
Socrates, a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher, is considered to be the father of critical thinking. According to Wikipedia: ?The earliest documentation of critical
thinking are the teachings of Socrates recorded by Plato.? Socrates is the inventor of the ?Socratic method,? which is a method used to stimulate critical thinking, still used for scientific research today.
It is generally accepted that humans use only a fraction of their mental potential, somewhere around ten to fifteen percent. Not commonly known is that within the uncharted territory of the mind is a faculty that the ancient Vedic texts identify as ritam bhara pragya. (Vedic texts are the most ancient records of human development and experience.) Ritam bhara pragya is the highest faculty of intellect? that intellect which knows only the truth. A Ritam bhara pragya is spontaneous, automatic knowing, about which operates from that universal
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all-knowing level of the mind. This highly developed form of intuition is a special state. It is a state that is very clear, and in this state, knowledge is only filled with truth.
Everyone is born with the faculty of ritam bhara pragya, but its functioning lies dormant in most people, only to surface once in a while as a sudden flash of insight or as a vision. Usually, it is received as a warning on an as-need-to-know basis; it is an innate survival mechanism. Ultimately, by practicing certain traditional meditation techniques, this celestial realm becomes established as part of one?s normal thinking, and then one gets to know whatever one desires to know. Until then the flashes of ritam bhara pragya come to an individual sporadically and spontaneously without any intent. We have all had this experience to one extent or another. A mother suddenly feels the need to check on her child and in doing so saves it from harm. Or, when interacting with someone, you automatically know of their deception or sinister intent. How often have you read about individuals who had an overwhelming feeling to buy a lottery ticket or to play certain numbers, and who have won as a result. Sometimes the insights come as a dream: that is how the shape and
structure of DNA as a double helix came to James Watson; Dmitri Mendeleev saw the Periodic Table in a dream; and Jack Nicklaus cognized his winning golf swing in a dream. Many very successful businessmen have continual insights that guide them in their decision making; they appear to shoot from the hip, or just be lucky. But, in fact, they are periodically tuning into their latent ritam bhara pragya.
In the absence of ritam bhara pragya, the individual uses
ordinary intellect, reason, analysis,
discrimination and logic to make decisions. When using these usual rudimentary approaches to problem solving, many bits of data are taken into consideration
one after another and
analyzed as to their use and potential
impact. For some complex issues these
methods to solve problems may take weeks, months, years, even decades before producing a solution. Such rudimentary approaches to problem solving are filled with fickleness, emotions, outside influences and confusion; therefore, they result in poor or incomplete decisions, bad consequences and suffering in life.
On the other hand, in the elevated ritam bhara pragya state an automatic knowing takes place. There is no sequential
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consideration of facts and circumstances. In this highly developed ritam bhara pragya state the individual mind is expanded and in tune with a universal mind, an all-knowing mind. When faced with a problem, or situation, the individual simply draws upon this vast storehouse of knowledge, and spontaneously obtains the solution as an intuitive insight or a vision.
In his book, ?Modern Man in Search of a Soul,? C. G. Jung postulates the existence of an all-knowing cosmic mind. He states: ?It is a fact that the unconscious contains subliminal perceptions whose scope is nothing less than astounding. . . Great and enduring civilizations like those of the Hindus and Chinese built upon this foundation and developed from it a discipline of self-knowledge which they brought to a high pitch of refinement both in philosophy and in practice. . . We are inclined to assume that, in the last resort, all knowledge comes from without. Yet today we know for certain that the unconscious contains contents which would mean an immeasurable increase of knowledge if they
could only be made conscious.
And, Nikola Tesla believed that the universe included a huge reservoir of knowledge that anyone could tap into if they only knew how to properly attune their mind to this knowledge base. He said that all thought impulses came from outside of the brain: ?My brain is only a receiver; in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have
not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
There are traditional meditation techniques which have the purpose of unfolding one?s awareness, to markedly improve intuition and eventually access that unused portion of the mind, ritam bhara pragya. Thereby, one can spontaneously know anything. Ritam bhara pragya is not a hypothesis? I can attest to that. I have been practicing a form of mantra yoga for over fifty years. As a result, my awareness has expanded to where I often have experiences of ritam bhara pragya. Here are two examples:
(1) In 1991 I was working for the United States Postal Service as a Budget and Financial Analyst. Every month the finance staff met to share information and to update each other on their respective department?s activities. The meetings concluded with one of the staff members giving a presentation about some financial topic of personal interest. When it was my
turn to give a presentation, I spoke about investing and how the securities business operated. At the conclusion of my speech, I paused briefly. Then I blurted out a bold assertion, ?Mark my words! The new postal facility at Castaic will be destroyed by an earthquake before I ever move there.?
The Postal Service had a new building under construction at an industrial park in the city of Castaic. It was located about twenty-five miles north of their district office in Van Nuys. Upon its completion all operations were to be relocated to this new building. Construction was scheduled for completion
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in two more years, by the end of 1993. The move to Castaic would add considerable mileage and inconvenience to the commute for hundreds of employees.
I reflected upon what I had said. I was just as shocked for having so authoritatively spoken out, as was my audience at hearing my prediction. I did not plan to say that, it just came through me. There were no significant earthquakes in the area for over a decade. So, when I made my confident prediction, it was met with smirks, frowns and ridicule. Some time passed and my prediction was forgotten.
On the morning of April 23, 1992, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck in the vicinity of Joshua Tree. Then, on June 28, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, the largest earthquake to hit California in forty years, and the largest earthquake recorded in the world that year, struck in Landers, about one hundred and ten miles east of Los Angeles. Later that same day, a second earthquake, at a 6.2 magnitude, struck near Big Bear Lake, about twenty miles west of the initial shock. With attention back on earthquakes, I reminded my co-workers of my prediction: ?Mark my words! The new postal facility at Castaic will be destroyed by an earthquake before I ever move there.? Because I cognized the earthquake from the level of ritam bhara pragya I knew without a doubt that my statement about a coming
earthquake would be proven to be correct.
By the end of 1993 all of the administrative employees at the Van Nuys postal facility were relocated to the new Castaic facility; but unexpectedly my department?s relocation was delayed for three months.
The following January 17, 1994, at 4:31 a.m. a powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck in the San Fernando Valley, near the town
of Northridge. A minute later it was followed by a 6.0 aftershock. Damages were wide-spread and extended some fifty miles
around from the epicenter. Key traffic artery links and freeways were severely damaged, cutting off freeway access for hundreds of thousands of commuters. Toward the north, the Highway-14 and Interstate-5 interchange was severely damaged. Fifty miles south, entire sections of
the Santa Monica Freeway collapsed. The cost of the damages was estimated at about thirty billion dollars. The new administrative offices at the Castaic postal facility were destroyed. Office employees who transferred to the Castaic facility had to salvage their belongings from a mess of strewn and disarrayed trashed cubicles, desks, filing cabinets and computer equipment. It took nearly a year and well over one million dollars to make the repairs. The office that I was to occupy had its concrete floor split open by eight inches and
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About Vincent DaczynskiThis is Vincent Daczynski, a Bachelor of Science graduate from Utah State University. His career has spanned forty years including field engineering, technical management, stockbroker and financial management. Mr Daczynski has five decades of experience in a variety of meditation techniques. He credits his association with advanced spiritual luminaries as paramount to expanding his awareness and providing him with a purposeful focus on his daily life. He is the author of Tat Wale Baba? Rishi of the Himalayas and For Sales Sake Meditate! and some two dozen articles. Also, he was a cast member in What If? The Movie.
Email: [email protected]
the crack ran through the entire length of the building. My prediction stated two years
years earlier proved to be precisely correct.
(2) I was having lunch with my friend Charlie along with our mutual friend Ranvir (not his real name). Ranvir was on tour in the United States to follow-up on pledges that he had received to finance a Western-style restaurant he planned to open in Rishikesh for tourists who did not care for Indian food. After some small talk, we got down to business. Charlie handed over his check to Ranvir. As I pulled out my check and was about to hand it over to Ranvir, I instantly knew that he was very sick and was going to die. Ranvir was middle-aged and appeared to be in excellent health. Yet, I knew for sure that he was going to die soon. What could I do? I could not warn him about his health; my comments alone could worry him to death.
All I could do is to live up to my commitment and hand over my check. Three months later I learned that Ranvir died of a heart attack. His partner asked if my funds could be donated to charity in Ranvir?s name. I agreed.
Ritam bhara pragya is not just for prognostications. It is truth filled intellect regardless of the topic or the time, be it past, present or future. In reality time does not even exist. There is no past or future? everything just is. We are just moving into it. Time is a mental construct. In the words of Albert Einstein: ?The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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?Well, open up your mind and see like me??Open up your plans and, damn, you?re free?
?And look into your heart and you?ll find love, love, love, love?
This is how my alarm wakes me up. Poking me with a soothing ?Jason Mraz? melody. ?Today is a big day!? I say this to myself every morning.
Bright sunlight is peeping through the white and celeste blue curtains. These peace lilies swinging next to my bed often help me get rid of the morning blues. These are some of my favorite books that are always kept beneath my floral table lamp. My window is adorned with a little lavender and a lady palm. My morning starts with watering them. Also, the freshly shopped stuff in those fancy shopping bags is placed close to my bed. An additional therapy to get away from the blues.
Plants are like the little beings scattered all around my home. I remember my parents were very fond of gardening. There were 48 kinds of plants in our backyard, and they had taught me their names when I was just a six-year-old girl. Seeing my budding interest, they gifted me three little plants. An anthurium, a succulent, and asparagus. They were totally my responsibility. I used to call them my best buddies and would kiss them good night. Since then, my love for plants has kept growing.
Here is a slice of my life that I would like to share with you all. Do you know what my day looks like? I work for a media house, and my workplace occupies most of my day.
A Sl ice of Li fe-From a Neighbor
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I take care of my loved ones, including my plants and my pet. I love to look good and make sure to spend enough time in front of the mirror before I step out of my house. I love eating, but mindfully. I am a regular yoga practitioner and jogger, especially after I realized how helpful it could be. In addition to all these, an ardent coffee lover,
a reader, a movie lover, a traveler and a party girl describe a lot about me. Hanging around with my friends has always been my favorite past time.
Like many humans, I too have a cranky boss, a good friend who often acts like my mother, a pretty girl who comes up with a dozen beauty tips every day, a funny boy in my office who has an earmark on a new girl every next time, a food lover who is always up for a party and a coffee house owner who happily welcomes me to his cafe like any other regular customer. I mostly interact with this squad.
No wait! There is one more person.
Mrs. Batliwala, My dear neighbor. Our front doors are face-to-face, so we often have closed our doors on each other?s faces. Our balconies are adjacent, but we do not choose to look at each other. She greeted me with a hateful look almost every time she saw me. The reason? I do not know.
The last hateful look was when she saw my
friends entering my place at 10 pm. I called my friends for a night?s stay. That was the best Friday I?ve had in a very long time. That day, I got promoted. We partied hard the whole night, and I was all set for a super-lazy Saturday. A little after noon, all my friends slowly slauthered out of my apartment. I tried to regain my sanity. I then went to a daily-needs outlet just outside our society. I got milk, wheat bread, jam, a couple of cream buns, mango juice, cheese slices and a few eggs. My drooping eyes,
highly hangovered hair and a thoroughly wrinkled night suit, adding to my sluggishness, were telling the story of the party we had last night. As I was entering the building, my dear neighbor was watching me from her balcony. Another hateful look.
?Never mind!? I whispered to myself.
I jumped onto my cosy couch with my nouvelle cuisine. A triple decker bread omelette sandwich graced and garnished with melting cheese slices from all sides, a cream bun and a whipped cream coffee with a failed meringue look but good taste. Oh! My grand nosh-up. A good holiday brunch should be accompanied by a Damien Chazelle movie. So, ?Whiplash?. I was watching this masterpiece for the second time. Equally entertained, involved, moved and inspired when I watched it for the first
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time.
I was thoroughly socked with emotions when the movie ended and effortlessly slipped into a deep sleep. I woke up to the amusing sound of a hawker. It was a quarter to 5. I sat straight onto the couch. I looked around my messy yet beautiful living room. The sound of birds, a soothing breeze from the balcony, an approaching sunset and the most comforting thought was that the next day too was a holiday.
I stood straight. After a few rounds of yawning and stretching, I walked towards the balcony. It was a happy evening. I had a sudden urge to join the children playing on the ground. The slides and swings were full. A dozen of them were waiting for their turns, while some encircled the hawker for a candy-floss.
Serendipity! I whispered to myself and softly touched the lilies that were smiling on my balcony. I stood for a while, enjoying the sunset and caressing my plants. I thought of
Fotsy. My beautiful cat, who often keeps
shuttling between my place and my friend?s place, whichever of us is available, as we cannot travel with her. Often, my bestie insists on keeping her on weekends. Fotsy easily gets along with her family.
I was thinking of her paws in my hands, her furry embrace, her cute little ears, and then, I heard something. Something painful. I tried to hear more clearly. It was coming from the adjacent balcony. From Batliwala?s. I went over to look into her side and saw her seating on a cane sofa.
She was there, covering her whole face with her palms and sobbing uncontrollably. I
kept looking at her. Not because I pitied her or I wanted to console her, but I saw myself in her. I could relate to the way she was feeling. There was a time when I cried so hard that I had to stop crying to breathe well. I was looking at her, lost in my own thoughts. Suddenly, she looked up and saw me. Her eyes were drained of tears. She simply took her glasses and went inside her house.
I turned and entered my living room. That same living room felt so dull. It felt different. Why so? I wondered. Just a minute ago, it was full of tranquility. Have I lost it somewhere on the balcony? I turned and went back to my balcony.
The sun is yet to set, the children are still playing around, and my lilies are still smiling. A few minutes ago, this was a beautiful evening.
?No! It is still a beautiful evening.? I said to myself.
I stood at that same place and watched around. Everything was the same. Then how can I allow myself to go there again, to the place in my mind where I hate being? I will not allow myself to feel that again. I kept gazing at the setting sun and said, ?No, I cannot let myself get engulfed in the darkness again. I chose me.?
I waited for the beautiful sunset and watched the sky change its colors. The birds chirped as they were returning to their nests.
I cleaned up my living room. Placed everything in its proper place, I sat down at my dining table with a piece of paper to write a letter.
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Yes! A letter to my dear neighbor, who hates to see me.
However, I chose to write to her because of the love I have for myself.
Dear Mrs. Batliwala,
I saw you crying in the balcony. I use to cry that way, two years ago, when I had the most difficult time of my life. I am a divorcee and have been living alone for the last two years. Maybe that is the reason you do not like to see me around. I work hard and I enjoy life with my friends. Either you like me or you do not like me. I honestly do not care. But at any point of time if you are in need of anything, you can bang on my door??. Anytime!
Your Neighbor
I slipped the letter from beneath her door and took a deep breath of relief, hoping she would be fine.
I often wonder what saved me from those challenging and deadly times. When people used to look at me with pity in their eyes, when I had no one around from my family. What held me strong?
Two Years Ago
My life was only about anger, disgust, resentment and frustration. Thinking of those times still brings chills to me. The
sleepless nights, the unanswered phone calls, the regrets and those fights. I kept revisiting the past to figure out when, how, and what went wrong.
I didn?t step out of my room for four days, and then on the fifth day, when I peeked into the balcony, my plants were drooping. I took the watering can and ran towards them.
I watered them carefully, silently apologising for the last few days. There was a flock of pigeons waiting for the grains. I used to feed them twice a day. I zooped to get the grains for them. How can I forget them? Those hungry pigeons reminded me of my responsibility towards them.
Whatever it is I am going through, I am still the same to them. I threw my fist of grains and they were just all around me. Eating their favorite food after four long days. Suddenly, I felt hungry. I ordered my favorite food and went on to continue with the series I was watching. Returning to normal was not as difficult as I thought it would be. Thanks to those drying plants and the waiting pigeons.
They kept me busy, or perhaps I tried not to sit idol because those thoughts kept coming to me. I tried to get in touch with new people who were unaware of my past to escape that pitiful gaze. I started learning new things. I started making new mistakes. I realised when it is impossible to ignore something; we must accept it. To move on.
Since that day, I have placed those tiny, pretty plants everywhere in my home.
I got a pet. I named her Fotsy. She was not very comfortable with me initially. I tried to hold her in my arms. She looked afraid. Her
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face would always be turned away, as if she hated to look at me in the eyes. I tried to hold her tight to express my love. She suddenly pulled her forelimbs away and jumped out of my embrace. Oh poor! I scared her completely. She ran towards the balcony and stood staring at the sparrows. I watched from the living room. My next task was to search for the videos on YouTube, ?How to befriend your new pet slash new cat.?
It took me six sincere days to make her feel comfortable and happy in my house, and then one day she fell asleep in my arms. From that day, we were not friends but a family.
Back to the moment
Is it easy to get back to a normal life after being shattered?
No.
Is it that difficult to choose a normal life after being completely shattered?
Also, No.
I can surely say this, especially when peace lilies, asparagus, rosemary and Fotsy are around.
We go through a lot in life. The towering highs and the deepest lows. Still, there is always a set of things that feed our souls. Our constants.
Later, I came to know that they call it holistic living. As they say, ?Choose holistic living?. For me,
it was not a choice. It was a need. I call it self-mothering.
I am excited for the future to see what my life has in store for me, including the possibility of another relationship. I will deal with things coming my way. My constants are in place and I do not depend on anyone for that. They are with me. They were with me when I had everything. They were there when I had nothing.
Are you guys wondering if Mrs. Batliwala replied? Well, not yet. Honestly, I do not care for the reply, but I will surely slide another letter if I find her disturbed ever again.
About Surabhi Thakur
This is Surabhi, a creative writer, blogger and freelancer. She is passionate about stories, and believes that a great story touches a human element and connects with each person belonging to any part of the world. She has a collection of stories that she shares in her blog. She also writes for websites, advertising agencies, and NGOs. Her other interests are traveling, painting and classical dance. To read her work, visit her blog that subtitles ?An Invitation to Happiness.?
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Ar ies- Your three cards are empowerment, capacity to love and clear your energy. You are the most powerful tool that you have
available. You can create anything that you want in your life. It must start with loving yourself and allowing yourself to feel every emotion that comes from a situation. This is the only way you can grow as a person. Get rid of anything that no longer serves your best interest. It is important to do so in order to move forward.
Taurus- Your three cards are understanding, promise of the future and energetic movement. Keep your eye on the desired goal.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. You can see the finish line because you have come so far in your journey. The worst is
behind you. Keep your energy moving and go with the flow. Not everything has to be planned. Focus your energy on things that make you happy. Let the goodness of these simple things encompass you.
Gemini- Your three cards are healing, relaxation and empowerment. It is very important to allow yourself time
to heal from anything that has happen to you in the past. The past is the past and can?t be changed. You need to find the power within you to overcome anything that is thrown at you. Still the chatter in your head in order for answers to come to you. You need to be in a positive mind frame in order to make the best and wisest decision for you.
Inspirational GuidanceFor May 2022 For Each Astrological Sign
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Cancer - Your three cards are prosperity, priorities and acceptance. There are a lot of gifts that you have in your life right
now. You need to be aware of them and be thankful to the Universe for them. Make yourself a top priority because you need to put yourself first. Everyone else can wait. Good things are going to continue to happen as long as you allow the process to happen. Stop before you act. Think about it before you do anything.
Leo- Your three cards are courage, harmony and energetic movement. In order to create balance in your life, you need to
speak your truth. Do not let anyone ever tell you that your opinion does not count. You are just as important as anyone else. Make your opinion known and committed to your beliefs. Stay grounded and centered as you move through life. Send any unwanted energy back to the Universe because it no longer serves your well-being.
Virgo- Your three cards are enlightenment, reflection and wholeness. You need to let your intuition open more. The
Universe is sending you signs and messages. It is important to be open to them because the Universe will guide you accordingly. Open your heart to allow the proper opportunities into your life. This will create a more balanced life for you. Take time to really think what you want in your life. If it does not feel right, then do not do it.
Libra- Your three cards are steadfastness, innocence and per-sonal transformation. Stay strong in your convictions and believe in
yourself. Keep believing in your dreams be-cause they will become a reality. You have the Universe at your fingertips. Stop do-ing what others want you to do. Make sure you are doing things from your heart. Take time for yourself and find tranquility in your life. Balance is sometimes elusive but you need to find it.
Scorpio- Your three cards are belonging, energetic movement and blessings. There are huge opportunities coming to you. Al-
low them to happen and be grateful to the Universe for giving them to you. You de-serve it. Everything that you have ever wanted will be yours. You need to keep your energy high. Do not let your mind wander from what you want to achieve. You are ex-actly where you need to be in your life.
Sagittar ius- Your three cards are decision, courage and relax-ation. There are lots of decisions that need to be made. Make sure
to be level headed and with a clear mind in order to further your life. Speak your mind and stand up for what you believe in. If you do not stand for something than you will fall for anything. No one should ever take you for granted. You have lots of strength, power and pride within yourself.
Capr icorn- Your three cards are determination, decision and be candid. Stand in your power. Let it radiate through you so it
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can be seen to others. All the while impart-ing your wisdom onto others so they can follow their true path in life. In the mean-time, you will be learning from them as well. Speaking your truth is so important because you need to live your most authentic life. Without doing so, you are not learning the lessons needed in this lifetime.
Aquar ius-Your three cards are clear your energy, perseverance and priorities. This is your time to soar like an eagle. Make yourself a
top priority so you can further your own life. It is important to get rid of anything that no longer serves you. You do not want anything negative to stand in your way of achieving success. Allow your words and actions to stay in a positive manner. That is a powerful tool in order to create the life that you want.
Pisces- Your three cards are cultivation, achievement and ful-fillment. All of these cards deal with dreams and wishes being manifested in your life. It is im-
portant to remember the small steps that are taken when pursuing the big dream. With-out those small steps, the big dream would not be a reality. Remain calm and be patient while going through this huge transforma-tion. The Universe knows exactly what you need and is in the process of giving it to you.
The cards used are ?Whispers of Lord Ganesha? oracle cards by Angela Hartfield with artwork by Ekaterina Golovanova and published by Blue Angel.
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About Tara Arnold
This is Tara, an Intuitive Artist and Medium Reader. All of her work is guided by the divine and contains the energetic vibration of healing. Being a trance channel medium, as Tara channels each painting, she receives messages from spiritual guides about the painting and the healing energies that are channelled into it. She enjoys working with mixed media, encaustic, charcoal, acrylic, and pastel. She loves the unknown outcome of mixing different mediums and textures. Her Art Print link is: https:/ / fineartamerica.com/profiles/ tara- arnold/shop. Her Website link is https:/ /www.taraarnoldart.com/
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Yes, We Can
For an Angel living inside uswho breathe pure gentle blessHis creation is a peaceful worldby nurturing feelings food of love
Such Angel is our SoulmateOn him Yes, we can trust
For a Thinker blooms beside uswho needs merely our careHe is generous as simple ashe walks with us in every step
Such Thinker is our best guideHis footprints Yes, we can alive
Agree, in this Whole universeEvil does exist without effortsNo matter it has Cruel powersSo Innocence' reign is must
Before to leave the rest on GodYes, we can rely on Own first.
About Rajni Arora This is Rajni Arora, hailing from Lucknow (India) with an M. A. in English Literature. Her poems have been widely appreciated & honoured by multiple social media platforms ( Facebook and Instagram) like Hindi literary platforms, Shabdanchal, Kala Darpan Manch and also by a Youtube channel - Sangharsh Ke Moti. Her poem has also been published by Online Amar Ujala Kavya on their literary platform.
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Take life as it comesI looked at the red sun,Hiding behind the closet of trees,Its warmth was ever affirming,For the promise of tomorrow.
The gist of life,Can be encompassedSomething in as simple as the setting sun.
Every day comes,With its own pack of energy,And yet the day has to end,In its own time and nature.
We worry a lot about our lives,How will we earn?What will we do?What's the purpose, meaning?
And yet at the end,All we realize is that,There's no fixed goal,Life doesn't stop,A day starts, and it ends.
Let us start to cherish,As and when things come to us.Over-planning and overthinking,May kill the surprise.Breathe mindfully,And take on the challenge,When it comes!
This is Tejaswi. D, creative thinker and wellness writer by profession. She blogs her life experiences at dtejaswi.wordpress.com. She completed her PG Diploma in Multimedia Journalism in 2015. She likes to sing and read in her free time.
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UPCome on! UP the game
Enough of the mediocrity
Now UP the game
Complacency creeping in
The comfort zone is rotting
Come on! UP the game
So, what if you fail?
So, what if you fall?
Take the chance
Come on! UP the game
You?re stuck
You?re doomed anyways
Back against the wall!
Why not move?
Why not hustle?
Come on! UP the game
The bad has gone
The worse has come
The worst will soon follow suit
Why be a sitting duck to victim?
Come on! UP the game
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There is no further decline to happen
Not even a point of growth here
Why not change gears?
Why not beat the pace?
Come on! UP the game
Uphill the task may seem
But life is never linearly equated
Of impediments and resistances
Is the story all about
Why hold head in shame?
Why blog down?
Come on!
Come on! UP the game
And you shall win
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About Mr. Bipul Banerjee
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Spend Time With Your Within!You don?t need to walk through life to feel wise.
You don't need to lose people to understand their price.
You don't need to have a partner to know the meaning of love.
You just need to spend some time with yourself
To reflect on the wisdom within
To see the respect for others hidden in the walls of your heart
And, to touch the bubbles of love dancing in your gut.
About Ishani Bhattacharya This is Ishani Bhattacharya, a published author and recipient of the Fledgling Writer Award and the 21st century Emily Dickinson Award. She is pursuing her Masters in Mass Communication from Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune, and has found the path of writing to communicate with the masses. Ishani has participated in 20+ anthologies. She has also written two books namely, Imrama- A silent yet brave journey towards awakening and Utter like an Oracle. Some of her favourite anthological expressions are?The Voice of the Void, Distraction- The Child of Protection, Balsamic Moon- The Coach of Sentiments.
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Self-realization and SpiritualityWhen the truth gets revealed to a human then he won't care about anything now,When the soul shares its secret then he won't care about the body now,
When his heart becomes the court of God then he won't care about any other court now,When he identified himself then he won't care about identifying anything else now,
When he and the beloved is in conversation then he won't care about conversing with others now,When he got to know he and the beloved is together then he seeks not anyone else's togetherness now,
When love is ascendant on oneself then he won't care about the faith now,When seeker through master sought the one which was once sought then he won't care about heaven now,
When the game between my Ego and Love ends then about the ego he won't care about now,When Ego's head is slain then he won't care about the afterlife now,
When upon whose call I was here became his now belonging to someone else he won't care now,When beloved thought becomes a part of life then thinking about someone else he won't care now,
Aiyaz, After one dies perform his last rights by burying, burning, or drowning in the water he won't care now,When someone reaches in presence of God then he won't care about himself now.
About Aiyaz Uddin
This is Aiyaz Uddin, a young Sufi, entrepreneur, and a student of spirituality. He promotes divine love, peace and light in all communities for the upliftment of humanity and awakening of their spiritual heart through the initiation of heart. He has a master's degree in business administration and he is a founder of TheStaffingCircle.
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