Wed 8 Feb 2017
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Random quote of the day:
“Who you will be is when you are finished being who you think you should be.”
—attributed to Neemkeroli Baba
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 18 Jan 2017
Posted by PJ under angels, belief, folklore, prophecy, spirits, synchronicity, tarot, the self, urban legends, wishing
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In April 2008, around the anniversary of the death of my Aunt Maxine, I started seeing 11:11 every day when I looked up at the clock. Not every time I looked at the clock because 11:11 only comes twice a day for those of us on a 12-hour clock, but often I’d feel compelled to look at the clock at this precise time. It went on for over two weeks and became rather unsettling.
What was the Universe trying to tell me? Something significant, or just that random chance sometimes gets stuck, throwing “heads” 85 times in a row?
Then I remembered my Aunt Maxine’s birthday was November 11 and wondered if it was her saying, “Hey, I’m still around. Don’t worry so much.” This was a comforting thought and the creepiness factor went away, although the 11:11’s didn’t. I kept seeing them for weeks after.
So I did what any semi-rational human being would do in such circumstances. I googled it.
Golly. There are a universe of beliefs around the coincidence of seeing 11:11. Yeah, I still (mostly) call it a coincidence, even though my personal anecdote seems to convey meaning, because post hoc theorizing and confirmation bias and because of all the fuzzy and convoluted theorizing I read online.
For instance, there’s this guy:
Um. I did scurry to my tarot to see what card was 11. It’s Justice. I thought, “If it’s the Hanged Man I’m going to mess myself.” Because for me that relates to 9/11 and I just didn’t know if I could stand that. The Hanged Man was 12.
Mr. Fuller is right about it being more important for me to find my own answers, but I looked online for more data points.
Uri Geller has a lot to say on 11:11 but I can’t tell you all of it. I fell asleep about halfway through his article. In all fairness to Mr. Geller, this strange phenomenon happened to me on more than one article on 11:11, which doesn’t always coincide with clear and concise theorizing.
Of course, no consideration of 11:11 would be complete without this:
However, some of the folklore surrounding 11:11 is charming, like the idea that if you look up to see it your wish will come true. Or when you see it repeatedly it means that you are beginning to “awaken” spiritually, and 11:11 is the indicator that you’re on the right path. Some believe it’s a sign that your angels are listening and you should ask for their guidance.
Other beliefs are darker, like the theory that 11:11 is a portend of great earth changes or history on the brink of something momentous…Actually, I don’t want to think on that one too hard, given recent seismic events in politics. I much prefer the belief that when you see 11:11, you should stop and consider the significance and importance of the moment in which you live. Of the moment, in the moment.
But Maxie, if that was you, I love ya, babe.
Wed 30 Nov 2016
Posted by PJ under jung, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the deep within, the self
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Random quote of the day:
“Wherever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fright, and many run away….The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings.”
—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Posted by PJ under ego, love, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:
“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”
—Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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Tue 28 Jun 2016
Posted by PJ under darkness, moon, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.â€
—Mark Twain, “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar,†Following the Equator
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 27 Apr 2016
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the deep within, the self, wildness, wolves, women
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Random quote of the day:
“No matter how many times she is forbidden, quelled, cut back, diluted, tortured, touted as unsafe, dangerous, mad, and other degradations, [Wild Woman] emanates upward in women, so that even the most quiet, even the most restrained woman keeps a secret place for Wild Woman. Even the most repressed woman has a secret life, with secret thoughts and secret feelings which are lush and wild, that is, natural. Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a loophole, an aperture, a chance, and she will hightail it to escape.â€
—Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 22 Apr 2015
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“It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you.â€
—Lillian Hellman, Pentimento: A Book of Portraits
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Fri 20 Mar 2015
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Random quote of the day:
“Seen from the outside, another’s life forms a unit. Whereas ours, seen from the inside, seems broken up. We are still chasing after an illusion of unity.â€
—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1952, tr. Justin O’Brien
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 9 Dec 2014
Posted by PJ under psychology, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
—William James, Principles of Psychology, 1890
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Tue 7 Oct 2014
Posted by PJ under conscious and subconscious, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:
“I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience.”
—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
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