Later morning. You had a regular breakfast
today. You are better but lacking normal. Arthritic conditions are high because
of the cool very damp weather. – Amorella
1019
hours. I’m okay, Amorella. Let’s let it go. I need to go do my exercises.
At least Carol found a wreath for the door
yesterday. – Amorella
1022
hours. I asked friends on Facebook to help with finding what she wanted and got
lots of good advice. Anyway, after the third day of shopping for one she picked
up a very pleasant looking and smelling pine wreath with a few decorative
touches. We had been searching with one with led lights and battery operated but
most had been sold out. We ended up with one with no lights. I thanked those
who gave advice though; it was kind to make suggestions. Facebook has its good
aspects. I never thought to ask for help on shopping before and was pleasantly
surprised.
You had Zoup for lunch, new place; you had
seafood chowder and Carol had wedding and you each had half a cheese sandwich.
Presently you are at Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery Road this cool and rainy
afternoon. Kroger now has WiFi – check your email, orndorff. – Amorella
1404
hours. There is a strong signal but too slow to be useful. I wonder if some
human passion is a lot like that. I never thought of passion in terms of
‘speed’ – usually it is depth.
Metaphysics is not speed oriented, boy, not
in here at any rate. – Amorella
1407
hours. “At any rate” has a pun like quality in context – maybe I am thinking
rate of speed, not rate of depth.
In other words, you are mistaken on your
‘pun-like in context’ use. – Amorella
1410
hours. Yes. You can be straight to the point and usually are.
Passion can be pointed too. – Amorella
1414
hours. Is passion the only thing that can drive the Dead, at least in here?
Human stories of returning or imprisoned
ghosts give credence to such events. – Amorella
You
are home in the quiet as Carol is reading; it is as a snowbound Winter
afternoon to you at the moment – very cozy and comforting. – Amorella
1451
hours. I like the atmosphere. I don’t know where Spooky is but Jadah is
snuggled in her carrying box, down by the heater vent and between the Christmas
tree and the front windows. I hear the ‘Spookster’ in the kitchen. She is much
more of a talker than Jadah. It doesn’t feel like there are any ghosts around
here, at least at the moment.
Only your and Carol’s own presences
orndorff; everyone has a presence in these books. – Amorella
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presence –
noun
3 a
woman of great presence: aura,
charisma, (strength/force of) personality;
poise, self-assurance, self-confidence.
4 she
felt a presence in the castle: ghost,
spirit, specter, phantom, apparition, supernatural
being; informal spook;
literary shade.
• a person or thing that
exists or is present in a place but is not seen: the monks became aware of a
strange presence.
and
ghost
– noun
an apparition of a dead
person that is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically
as a nebulous image: the building is haunted by the ghost of a monk |
figurative : the ghosts of past deeds.
ORIGIN Old
English gāst (in the sense ‘spirit, soul’), of Germanic
origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist.
The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish
gheest .
Selected and edited from a
mix of English/American Dictionary software.
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**
1505
hours. It appears to me that you are suggestion (in context) that everyone has
an “aura”. This sounds – well, I’ll check the definition first.
Go ahead, boy, check it. – Amorella
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**
aura – noun
the
distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a
person, thing, or place: the ceremony retains an aura of mystery.
• a supposed emanation
surrounding the body of a living creature, viewed by mystics, spiritualists,
and some practitioners of complementary medicine as the essence of the
individual, and allegedly discernible by people with special sensibilities.
an aura of sophistication:
atmosphere, ambience,
air, quality, character, mood, feeling, feel, flavor, tone, tenor; emanation; informal
vibe.
Selected and edited from a
mix of English/American Dictionary software.
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**
1512 hours. I
conclude human beings in these books have ‘an ambience of spiritual
personality’.
This is a fair assumption. What else would you call it? – Amorella
1514 hours. I don’t know but it is not
measurable.
But you have experienced the ‘feeling’ of this quality several times in
your life, mostly from your fingertips; examples: holding FDR’s cane at
Springs, Georgia, touching a Stonehenge monolith, sleeping in --, touching the tombstones of Emerson
and Dickenson, touching specific photographs of the Dead from Dachau, touching
the ‘ancient living tree’ behind Christ’s College, Oxford that inspired Lewis
Carol and J.R.R. Tolkien; touching several sacred objects in Westminster Abbey,
the Coronation chair being one, the stone that encases the bones of Chaucer
another. Touching several objects at the British Museum, the Smithsonian, the
New York Museum of Natural History, Canterbury Cathedral, the Washington
Cathedral and Uffizi Gallery Museum in Florence. Visiting Churchill’s Bunker
Museum in London, holding a piece of clay from the land at the Battle of
Agincourt. Walking the grounds of Machu Picchu as well as those at Tiwanaku,
Bolivia. Touching the Cuneiform at Rome. Those places and personal experiences
of memory exist, no imagination needed. Presences were felt. Do you deny this?
– Amorella
1755 hours. No. However, I think exaggerations
of imaginations flared, mostly from my fingertips. Ghosts, I don’t believe so,
but spirits and/or presences, not unlike my own, that is, human spirits or
presences of spirits other than my own. I would like to deny this outright but
that would not be right. However, the senses may not be accurate. This recent
out of body experience caused by inner ear problems is an example. The cause
was physical yet it was as a metaphysical experience; though I realized it was
a manifestation. To touch the stone image of Ozymandias at the British Museum
provided me with a sacred moment. Perhaps that is what all of these events
were, sacred moments impressed into the fingertips. Perhaps they were nothing
but the echoes or slight reverberations from my own spirit. (1806)
This is a realized, fair enough comment, on what you consider
‘presence’ to be. – Post when convenient. – Amorella
2036 hours. We watched four hours of television
shows – “CSI”, “Elementary”, “Madam Secretary” and “NCIS” as well as NBC News.
They were all entertaining though we saw a crime scene location in the woods on
the recent “NCIS” that we had seen a couple years ago on “CSI”. Also, I’ve been thinking about the word
“Aura” and need some clarification.
** **
Aura (paranormal)
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Human Aura in a healthy
woman after a diagram by Walter John Kilner (1847-1920). The picture
depicts Kilner's "inner and outer auras." Colours have been added for
illustrative purposes and have no other significance.
In
parapsychology and many forms of spiritual practice, an aura is a field
of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object. The depiction of
such an aura often connotes a person of particular power or holiness. It is
said that all living things (including humans) and all objects manifest such an
aura. Often it is held to be perceptible, whether spontaneously or with
practice: such perception is at times linked with the third eye of Indian
spirituality. Various writers associate various personality traits with the
colors of different layers of the aura. It has also been described as a map of
the thoughts and feelings surrounding a person.
Skeptics such as Robert Todd
Carroll contend that people may perceive auras because of effects within the
brain: synesthesia, epilepsy, migraines or the influence of psychedelic drugs such
as LSD. Other causes may include disorders within the visual system provoking
optical effects. Eye fatigue can also produce an aura, sometimes referred to as
eye burn.
Spiritual traditions
In Iran the aura is known as farr or
"glory": it is depicted in association with Zoroastrian kings.
Ideas of
the aura are well represented in Indian religions. The Buddhist flag represents
the colours seen around the enlightened Buddha. In Jainism the concept of Lesya relates colours to mental and
emotional dispositions. To the Indian teacher Meher Baba the aura is of seven
colours, associated with the subtle body and its store of mental and emotional
impressions. Spiritual practice gradually transforms this aura into a spiritual
halo. Hindu and Buddhist sources often link these colours to Kundalina
energy and chakras.
In the
classical western mysticism of neoplatonism and Kabbalah the aura is associated
with the lustre of the astral body, a subtle body identified with the planetary
heavens, which were in turn associated with various mental faculties in an
elaborate system of correspondences with colours, shapes, sounds, perfumes etc.
According
to the literature of Theosophy, Anthroposophy and Archeosophy also, each colour
of the aura has a meaning, indicating a precise emotional state. A complete
description of the aura and its colours was provided by Charles Leadbeater, a
theosophist of the 19th century. The works of Leadbeater were later developed
by Palamidessi and others.
The
British occultist W.E.Butler connected auras with clairvoyance and etheric,
mental and emotional emanations. He classified the aura into two main types:
etheric and spiritual. Auras are thought to serve as a visual measure of the
state of the health of the physical body. Robert Bruce classifies auras into
three types: etheric, main, and spiritual. According to Bruce auras are not actual
light but a translation of other unknown sensory readings that is added to our
visual processing. They are not seen in complete darkness and cannot be seen
unless some portion of the person or object emitting the aura can also be seen.
The British Healer, clairvoyant and author Paul Lambillion in his book
"Auras and Colours" writes of three visible bodies or layers in the
auric field that can be observed whether or not in the physical presence of the
individual subject since the aura is not a three dimensional phenomenon and
limited to such parameters. (see also Sunday Times May 2011 and Transformations
Channel 4 TV 1990)
Glenn
Morris, grandmaster of the Hoshin Roshi Ryu lineage, included perception of the
aura in his training of advanced martial artists. His experience was that it
consisted of multiple layers. He described the most easily visible of these as
being "light and denser than the air in which the body is immersed",
typically half to quarter of an inch thick and correlating with the etheric body
of an individual. Around this he described a yard thick egg-shaped layer
reflecting hormonal state that he linked to the emotional body, and outside
this, other barely perceptible layers corresponding to the mental body and
beyond. Recalling the aura of another soke, he wrote, "The first time I saw Hatsumi, he was
running continuous bright, lime, neon green a foot wide and was so easy to see
he would flash in bright sunlight".
For holistic healers, aura
reading is the art of investigating the human energy field, or the energy
fields of other sentient beings. It is a basis for using techniques of holistic
healing, and includes such practices as bioenergetics, energy medicine, energy
spirituality and energy psychology.
Tests
Tests of
psychic abilities to observe alleged aura emanations have repeatedly met with
failure.
One test
involved placing people in a dark room and asking the psychic to state how many
auras she could observe. Only chance results were obtained.
Recognition
of auras has occasionally been tested on television. One test involved an aura
reader standing on one side of a room with an opaque partition separating
her from a number of slots, which might contain either actual people or
mannequins. The aura reader failed to identify the slots containing people,
incorrectly stating that all contained people.
In another televised test another
aura reader was placed before a partition where five people were standing. He
claimed that he could see their auras from behind the partition. As each person
moved out, the reader was asked to identify where that person was standing
behind the slot. He identified only 2 out of 5 correctly.
Explanation
Bridgette
Perez in a review for the Skeptical
Inquirer has written "perceptual distortions, illusions, and hallucinations
might promote belief in auras... Psychological factors, including absorption,
fantasy proneness, vividness of visual imagery, and after-images, might also be
responsible for the phenomena of the aura." Another explanation for the
belief in auras, given that there is no scientific evidence for their reality,
could be cases of synesthesia. However, a 2012 study discovered no link
concluding "the discrepancies found suggest that both phenomena are
phenomenologically and behaviourally dissimilar." Clinical neurologist
Steven Novella has written "Given the weight of the evidence it seems that
the connection between auras and synaesthesia is speculative and based on
superficial similarities that are likely coincidental.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
– Aura (Paranormal)
** **
2110 hours. I tend
to agree with the critics and skeptics. The simplest explanation is that my
brain functioning accounts for this. However, the sense of the experience
appears real enough, i.e. it is a personal reality and not entirely different
from a sense within a vivid dream. These experiences have added to my sense of
reality. If someone were able to scientifically prove a human aura exists, I
would smile to myself and quietly think, ‘I knew that.’ However, I cannot imagine
anyone proving the aura exists any more than anyone can scientifically prove
ghosts or spirits exist. To each their own. – rho
You find it disconcerting that I, the Amorella, can exist within or a
within a separate part of yourself and that I have directed much of your writing
of the Merlyn books you have posted your legal name to. A part of you
understands that from one perspective, that is the works, the books and the
blog, show evidence of my existence. – Amorella
2139 hours. Yes. This is disconcerting. I cannot
explain myself rationally, but then, I don’t think any human being can explain
(know) her or himself rationally. Only a fool would think this possible.
You
decided, on a lark, to retake the Belief-O-Matic quiz at Belief-O-Matic DOT
Com. You did your study of the questions and are somewhat consistent with all
earlier results. Unitarian Universalist has been in your top three or four
since first taking the quiz around 2001. Until now Reformed Judaism and Liberal
Quaker have been the consistent other two, usually Reformed Judaism has been
100 percent, this time it is Unitarian Universalist with Taoism being two at 78
percent; Neo-Paganism being three at 74 percent; New Age being four at 73
percent; Secular Humanism, four at 70 percent; Liberal Quaker, five, at 69
percent; Sikhism, six at 66 percent and Reformed Judaism, seven at 64 percent.
– What do you think of this, orndorff? – Amorella
2220 hours. I am surprised. Here is what
Belief-O-Matic says about the Unitarian Universalist:
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What is Unitarian
Universalist?
Central tenets of this faith, based on questions in the
Belief-O-Matic quiz:
Belief in Deity
Very diverse beliefs--Unitarian/Universalists welcome all deity
beliefs as well as non-theistic beliefs. Some congregations are formed for
those who share a common belief, e.g. Christianity.
Incarnations
Very diverse beliefs, including belief in no incarnations, or
that all are the embodiment of God. Some believe Christ's is God's Son, or not Son but "Wayshower."
After Death
Diverse
beliefs, but most believe that heaven and hell are not places but are symbolic.
Some believe heaven and hell are states of consciousness either in life or
continuing after death; some believe in reincarnation; some believe that afterlife
is nonexistent or not known or not important, as actions in life are all that
matter.
Salvation
Some
believe in salvation through faith in God and Jesus Christ, along with doing
good works and doing no harm to others. Many believe all will be saved, as God
is good and forgiving. Some believe in reincarnation and the necessity to
eliminate personal greed or to learn all of life’s lessons before achieving
enlightenment or salvation. For some, the concepts of salvation or
enlightenment are irrelevant or disbelieved.
Undeserving Suffering
Diverse beliefs. Most Unitarians do not believe that Satan
causes suffering. Some believe suffering is part of God’s plan, will, or
design, even if we don’t immediately understand it. Some don’t believe in any
spiritual reasons for suffering, and most take a humanistic approach to helping
those in need.
Contemporary
Issues
The Unitarian
Universalist Association’s stance is to protect the personal right to choose
abortion. Other contemporary views include working for equality for homosexuals, gender
equality, a secular approach to divorce and remarriage, working to end poverty, promoting peace and nonviolence, and environmental protection.
From
Belief O Matic DOT Com
** **
2229 hours. After
reading the above I find nothing objectionable to me. I would probably be
socially and spiritually comfortable in such an organization if I went to a
church, which I do not. I am by most personal accounts an existential
transcendentalist at present with the existentialist as the adjective. – rho
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