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“Make Known the Unknown”

November 10th, 2007
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It was over two years ago now that I think about it.  What the Bleep” was being presented on campus at my son’s university.   He had already seen the movie and, was going in hopes of meeting others on campus interested in the same thing.  

I had special ordered a copy of the movie as soon as it came out.  Well was my son familiar with the subject.  I’d raised him from a child with an understanding of it.  Members of the film crew were there, on campus, for the special presentation.  Little did they know when they met my son, that he possessed a more in depth understanding of the subject then they did. 

That Christmas I was presented with an autographed copy of the book “What the Bleep” that had recently been published.   My son had purchased it for me when he went to see the movie.  That holiday season I would read a chapter out loud every night, as my husband enjoyed listening to me read. The book went more in depth into each subject, which both of us enjoyed.  Later, this increased depth would be made into another edition of the movie, called “Down the Rabbit Hole”, which I also ordered for myself in advance. 

I had a mixed response to the understanding shared. I was elated that something about the subject was finally coming out in the media.  Finally.  It was about blankety blank blank time from my perspective.  So I was happy.  What I had been waiting for, for so long, was happening.  Consciousness was now in movement. 

On the flip side, I was irritated because what was shared was so shallow in understanding.   Yes, I said shallow but I mean no disrespect.  I’m encouraged that more of us are becoming interested in swimming these waters.  I just don’t usually play around in the shallow end.  I don’t like all the waves and the splashing.  I prefer swimming the deeper waters.    

I knew rampant confusion was going to ensue, as our false egos took off trying to use the information to further enable our emotional insecurities.  That was the direction both the movie and the book presented.  A lot of mental and analytical interpretation, studied in a scientific way. 

I don’t mean to imply anything ‘wrong’ with this approach, except for the fact that I already know no understanding could ever come from it.  Been there, done that already.  I didn’t start out with a mystical bent.  I started out as an engineer, studying magnetic fields.   I can recognize dead ends because I found the same ones myself.  Already. What seems like long ago. 

I knew of J.Z. Knight since the days when she wore a pyramid shaped hat on her head made of aluminum foil.  I had read her ‘channels’ of Ramtha in 1988.  I enjoyed J.Z.  I appreciated her allowing her eccentricity to show.  It was something I was afraid of doing, so she had my admiration, too.  She was out in the world expressing her Self while I was sitting behind the scenes, carving my sculptures, imagining how clever I was to come up with a means of expression where “I” wouldn’t be required to show myself.  Where ‘others’ would look at my work and, not me.

“Make Known the Unknown.”   

There is an underlying foundation in the thinking patterns of the “What the Bleep” movie and book, the “Down the Rabbit Hole” movie, too, as well as another movie, “The Secret”.  It’s also in the perspective of J.Z. Knight and many wonderful other people like her, that is invalid when it comes to the understanding of Spirit or God or the Quantum Field.  When it comes to understanding fields of Consciousness. 

And that is, we cannot in any way perceive to separate ourselves from it and, at the same time come to any kind of in depth understanding of Unity.   You can’t get there from here, basically. 

We can’t start from polarity and reason our way up to unity.  We can only start from unity and reason our way down, invalidating all our contradictory ideas as we go.   

We can’t come to know it, from a scientific approach of repetitive results, either.  It doesn’t work that way.  Consciousness is not solid, it is fluid and every changing, molding itself into any form we imagine.  We can only come to know it, from the perspective of adventuring into it.  An adventurer, a pioneer, isn’t looking for what’s repetitive.  That would nullify the very nature of the adventuring. 

We can’t ‘boldly go where no man has gone before’ down a paved road. 

My understanding has come as a result of saving my own life.  Polarity and duality was killing me.  I had been born with both hemispheres of my brain equally active and dominant.   I wasn’t only a type A, I was a type B, as well.  Not “or” but “and”. 

Duality patterns set me at war with myself.  That meant I was in a lose/lose situation no matter what side of myself I chose. 

There weren’t enough of us born this way, the Research Institute told my parents, to know what to do with us or to help us.  Most of us didn’t live very long, waging a constant battle within ourselves.  I was going to have to come up with my own solution, if any of my internal conflicts were going to be resolved.  With that as my goal, I set off upon my path, I leaped down the rabbit hole,filled with a determination, that would require both half’s of my brain, learning how to exist in unison and cooperation.   I was going to have to fuse the polarities. 

I developed a nose like a bloodhound for sniffing out contradictions and concepts of separation.  As soon as I found one, I threw it out of my reality.  I didn’t sweep my dust under the carpet.  I hunted for it and got it out of my house. 

I noticed ‘others’ calling themselves ‘channels’.  Many I counted as friends.  As much as I would have liked being a ‘channel’ just like them, I knew it wasn’t for me.  They all went into some sort of altered state, and then another ‘being’ would start expressing themselves through them.  Their conscious level was always separated from the experience of accessing the other levels and, I didn’t have the same respite.  I couldn’t ever turn the awareness off. 

I had always experienced it directly connected to my central nervous system.   When everything feels like you, it’s hard to separate yourself from the experience.  A conscious channel, that’s it, that’s me.  With the way I was born, everything has to be integrated.  There can be no conflicts or separations between conscious, subconscious and super conscious, between Spirit, Mind and Body.  Otherwise, I feel sick, I’d feel ill at ease.  It is a very debilitating experience, with feelings of worthlessness following closely on its heels. 

I’m writing now to speak up. 

“Sue Ann!  Make known the unknown!” it says in the signed copy of the book I have, written there by Betsy Chasse.  I chuckle, for little did Betsy realize on a conscious level who would receive that message.  I bet she wrote the same one in all the books she signed. 

So OK.  “Make known the unknown.” …  

Most of what I’ve seen and read so far has been written and expressed by those of us who don’t consciously understand very much of what they’re talking about.  There, I said it.  I made known the unknown.  Now I only hope I haven’t made a bunch of people unhappy with me and how my sentiment may cast certain lights upon them. 

That’s the way Illumination always is, it always brings out all our shadows.  I’ve simply decided to count on our hearts being true.  Our desires to know and understand, being genuine.  

The importance of asking great questions is stressed, given an example in the question, “is the number 5 married?”

Yes, the number five is married.  It is married to the shape tetrahedron.  That wasn’t exactly a great question. 

Now the question Betsy asks herself on page 8 of the book is a great question.  She writes, “I want to know if I’m truly capable of feeling unconditional love.  This is not just an abstract for me.  Unconditional Love is on my agenda – it’s how I want to be, at least for my husband and my daughter – but if I’m honest with myself, I’m not sure I’ve ever felt it.”

Now THAT’S a great question. 

And the answer is, YES, we are ALL capable and, NO, most of us have never felt it. 

Most of us don’t even have a clue to understanding it.  I know I didn’t when I first started out.  Unconditional Love is Unconditional.  It CAN’T be related to ANY conditions or it isn’t Unconditional.  Like if I feel unconditional love, it isn’t going to be reserved for just a few, on the condition that a person means anything to me.  There’s going to be nothing exclusive to it or about it at all. 

“Make known the unknown.” 

Another thing is the use of an example of us wanting something.  Like a guy wanting to have a new car.   So the guidance is offered for him to use his imagination to imagine being IN that new car, feeling all the experiences of having it and driving it. 

Well…, that’s good advise as far as it goes.  “Having” is bound to produce different results then “wanting”.  But nothing has been mentioned or said or addressed, about the guy’s emotional issues of worth and esteem that he yearns for the new car to make up for: a material placebo for worth he doesn’t feel.  He can imagine all he desires and so long as he is desiring it, from a perspective of self depletion, self depreciation and, self doubt about his worth, all his creations are going to be mirrors of these lacks.  

Maybe if this had been addressed, there wouldn’t have been and wouldn’t be right now, all the confusion and conflict surrounding the concept of the Law of Attraction or the Law of Circles?    It’s simple. “What goes around comes around.”  However we qualify the electronic substance of life, is how it comes back to us.  “Cast your loaves upon the waters and you’ll get one hundred loaves back.”

Now what other great questions would any one of us like answered? 

I am at your service. 

Only upon learning how to unconditionally love my own Humanity, have I become qualified to call myself a Humanitarian.   

That standard is what has been set in place by those of us who know how to do it, as the foundation of our ‘new paradigm’. 

It’s the engineer in me that calls, “ALL Aboard!”

Mother & Child

October 29th, 2007
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Mother & Child

Hi Mark!

This is for you. I tried the other day when I mentioned it but the image would not upload. The server was having problems.

Here it is. I carved it in 1991. It’s a 5 inch wedge. I made a handful of smaller ones, too. They were 3 inch circular wedges that would rock back and forth, making it look like Mother was rocking her baby.

With your choice of Avatar, I thought you’d enjoy it.

Blessings,

Sue Ann

Honor

October 21st, 2007
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I just left a comment on MSNBC’s message board about the use of torture.  Here is what I shared:

Honor is not determined by our goals but by the means we use to pursue those goals. 

Nuts

October 15th, 2007
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My Husband came home yesterday telling me he had discovered why our cherry tree wasn’t producing.

“Have the birds been getting to them?”, I asked.

“No”, he said, depositing a bunch of walnuts in my hands. 

Shine on Harvest Moon

September 26th, 2007
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I received an email from a friend this morning. Here is a little of what was shared and, my response. As my time is limited, I’ve transformed it into a post, considering what is shared may be of interest to others…

“I’m just recovering from a dog attack ! I went to visit someone with the lady I’m working for and without warning her dog attacked me.. Bit me on the face and tried to shake me. Tore my eye lid and left teeth marks in my jaw and cheek. I had to go and have surgery in hospital to repair my tear duct and sew my bottom eyelid back together.. ouch…. it didn’t hurt much.. Tell you what its been a real test of faith for this law of attraction because i could not see how id managed to attract this to me ? Well source knows better of course and showed me how id created that one for myself. I heard a radio show driving up here in which something similar happened and i started imagining ……silly me..

Well the i got the best eye surgeon in the country and the best hospital food i ever tasted plus an assurance from the hospital porter that the room i was in was reserved for royalty only and i must be special.. I had my surgery under local anesthetic. The dog it turns out has bitten at least six people 3 of them kids. The dog warden is dealing with it and i am ok with it. A test of my new found self..”

And my response…

“Hi there! lol….

things are not always as they appear!!!!!!!

Especially as it concerns ‘things’ happening in our lives over the summer and now, going into the Harvest Moon. The ‘flow’ is directing us to look deep, into our intuitive levels. There is/are transformations rising from that level. That have already been activated and triggered.

Look to understanding your ‘field of growth’ for the past 9 years. This experience ends just as soon as we recognize the pull of our ‘new field of growth’. A sense of inner completion rises with the Full Moon. We stand before a harvested field, our old environment is waning and our new direction emerges as our crops are brought to harvest.

Our crops take us into our new direction.Be at Peace with your field of growth, your crops and your sense of completion at this time.OK, so you don’t exactly understand what attracted getting bitten by a dog to you but, as you said, you received excellent care, a comfortable place to rest and yummy food. Turns out that the dog has been harmful to others besides you, including children. But nothing had been done to stop it, or illuminate the situation, transform it, until YOU showed up.

Way to go, Bro!

Oh yeah, you can guess how initially pleased I felt about myself when my toe started turning purple. I’ve had limbs turn color before. And it’s a real nightmare as pieces of yourself start dying while still attached. It simply adds spice to our stewing, to know we ‘created it’.

Well…in my story different pieces are emerging. Different pieces about how emergency medics aren’t suppose to tell people who have called them, that they’re just going to be left sitting in the waiting room at the hospital anyway, so there’s no use in going. Different pieces about emergency rooms releasing people in emergency conditions, instead of dealing with the emergency. And ALL these pieces are emerging in the awareness of my community because of me.

It’s all my fault.

Now, I’m not a squealer…it’s simply a lot of people know me and love me and it’s a small town. I simply rolled along with the flow, knowing fully well, I was on the road to being made fully well. It’s other people that got pissed. I didn’t ever complain. But other people sure did. So now, changes are being made that will end up helping all the people in this community.

As for my toe and leg…it’s well now and healing nicely. What my primary caregiver called ‘a medical miracle’. For it really wasn’t too long ago, that this sort of thing ended in amputation and it would have been my whole leg.

Many times we ‘pray’ for miracles but we pray with an attitude of seeing our world and all the people in it, as separate from God. So we don’t recognize those ‘miracles’ when they come delivered by human hands and hearts. But ‘miracles’ they are, just the same.

I imagined loving myself and my body, sending waves of gratitude to every cell in my body for supporting me in my choices, ignorant and unloving though that may have been…and the next thing that happens is my toe turns purple. Makes me wonder how long I had been a walking around with little time bombs inside of me. Any one of which could have knocked me out, permanently and rather quickly, from any further self expression.

Which is NOT exactly what I have had in mind to create for myself to experience.

Not what I’ve had in my Mind and Heart for well OVER the past 9 years. That’s the way it is sometimes with our soul’s and spirit’s passion, it may burn for decades before it comes to fruition. That’s often how we come to know and realize it IS our Soul’s and Spirit’s Passion because, regardless of ‘setbacks’ and ‘challenges’, our Passion still burns.

So it is with a completely open mind and heart that I return again to surgery. Yes, it is the ‘news’ I received yesterday, as a result of what I shared with my primary caregiver. I almost didn’t even open my mouth and say anything…so much did I NOT want to hear what she would have to say in response.

The second night after coming home from the hospital I stubbed my toe. Yes, the ‘injured’ toe. The one the surgeon thought maybe the nerve had been damaged or died. Good news is, it isn’t dead. The pain of stubbing it against the foot of chair sent waves of excruciating pain through the entire left side of my body. It felt like it exploded out the top of my head.

And since then, my left arm, from elbow to hand has been in various stages of numb.

The best the Dr. can guess, the pain sent my blood pressure so high, it collapsed the shunt I had previously installed.

I fell down a flight of stairs once. I was sleep walking and tripped over the dog, who was sleeping on the stairs. My shoulder was injured. It was reconstructed twice. Resulting eventually in the artery collapsing in that area. It’s that shunt that is no longer functioning.

It is ‘urgent’, not ‘emergent’ this time, as in ‘emergency’…, that I return to surgery. This time the blood supply in my left arm has shut down. Nothing is turning blue or purple at the moment but…that condition is not far off.

I leave tomorrow. To go see the same Dr., that the last time I saw him, I didn’t come home right away. I won’t be coming home right away this time either. This is a Vascular Institute. They do massive numbers of these surgeries every day. If they ‘fit me in’ the schedule for Friday, then I probably won’t be back home until Monday.

And believe it or not, it’s at least 24 hours after coming home from the hospital that I turn on my computer.

But by the time I get home, I will be on the road to healing and fully functional. And what tickles me the most, is that this time, we have insurance. And it’s been the insurance company all the way, that has been giving the instructions for how I be treated. That adds another ‘miracle’ to my list. For there are and will be, no questions about coverage or in obtaining approvals or going through referrals.

How many ‘miracles’ is that so far popping out all over the place in my life?

Then there’s also something I sensed the last time I was there…

I’m doing ‘something’ there, at the Institute. People in my life have been in my life for quite some time. I say they’re ‘used to me’ but my husband even pops off at that, saying he’ll never get ‘used to me’. That being part of my charm (laughing).

I asked my son before he left to go back to college about it. I asked him, since he had one foot in the world ‘out there’ and, since it’s hard to see ourselves as others see us. I asked him to share with me, what ‘others’ are likely to think of me, if they’d never been around someone like me before.

He said ‘You’re weird Mom. Definitely weird.’

I frowned him into being a little more detailed then just ‘weird’. What’s that suppose to mean? It doesn’t sound very attractive. Then he went on to explain. ‘That’s just it. You’re lovable. You’re positive. You’re infectious. And you’re REAL. That’s what makes you weird.’

I might as well admit it, I have been keeping myself away from ‘the mainstream’. Interacting very little and in very limited ways when it comes to my actual physical presence. I don’t ‘get out much’.

These hospital visits are drawing me out. Talk about resistance, see what it is taking? And what I’m finding out is that ‘the mainstream’ is welcoming me and my ‘weird’ ways. I am being embraced with open arms. Times have changed. All my life I’ve been living in left field and now, left field has become the ‘in’ place to be.

What I’ve got to express is Inspiration and Hope and you know what? A hospital is a pretty good place for me to be starting. What I’ve recently discovered is the effect I have, when it comes to inspiring doctors and nurses to keep going. What I found was that none of the staff at this institute, had seen anyone who had recovered from the type of strokes I have had, much less be up and walking around, the day after the surgery I had undergone.

Yes, I feel an upset, a lack of balance and at peace with, having to go back again. I don’t feel like I’ve fully recovered from the last go round yet, but, I’m going. I’ll tell you the same thing I told my son this afternoon. Along with my upset, is the knowing that I will face everything when the time comes the way I’ve done all my life. There will come a rising within me. I can’t really describe what rises but it is a Power, a Strength, that will quite literally, rise from within my heart and carry me through all the way.

It’s Spirit. That I Know is with me. And this Knowing, is part of my crop that I am harvesting. And getting ready to plant new fields with.

Funny thing about it all, comical really, is that after going through all of the surgeries, my left arm and my left leg will never be made ‘right’.

Talk at ya’ later!

And oh….imagine flowers for me please. I like flowers, so send me some imaginary ones. I’ll enjoy them just as much as if someone sent some physical ones.

Love,

Sue Ann

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