The United States of Esoterica

Since there is not a prem thread - - just choosing to stick this here.

Also - - not saying this is really a premonition - - - don't know what it is.

I keep seeing/feeling water - - like big ocean waves.

This is really weird and "off" for me - - - I'm not the "ocean view" person - - that was my mom - - - I'm a desert person.

It always annoys me - - on all those meditation tapes they have you walking on a quietly serene beach with the waves lapping at the shore. Why can't it ever be the serene desert????????????

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You Can Not Expect of People What They Have Not Yet Learned . . . .

I grew up near mountains, so l like the peaceful serenity of a mountain stream. I was 19 years old when I first saw an ocean, and although I think it's beautiful, I'm not as comfortable with oceans as I am with mountains. Also, the beach usually to me means humidity and salty air and unidentifible stuff, and I identifiable garbage on the beach.

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"Rare events are always unexpected, otherwise they would not occur." -Nassim Taleb

Well - - I grew up at the beaches - like Santa Monica - its just never done anything for me. And yes they are now filthy.

As you - I much prefer a stream in the mountains or pristene lake - - and I love my desert.

So getting water/big waves stuck in my head is odd.

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You Can Not Expect of People What They Have Not Yet Learned . . . .

Why don't you write one? Maybe if you sent a script to one of the companies that publish those tapes and CD's, they would buy it.

I always found the mountains that are covered in snow, with the high clear air to be the spiritual trigger for me. I am surrounded by beaches and only visit them when I have out of state visiters. The only beach I have really found incredible, that I have visited was in Grand Cayman. Snorkeling there in the clear bath temp water, surrounded by tropical fish was also a very otherworldly experience.

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Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse

Interesting idea

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Its getting worse!

For me - normal - is when "somethng" jumps in my head during the waking day hours and stays there for days or weeks or longer. Like the water/waves.

Not this time - - this one came like a nuclear explosion in the middle of the night.

I had one of those "panic" wake ups from a dream. I was dreaming (I guess) about viewing what I think was the west coast of Africa - from the air. Then something happened and I woke up shaking with panic.

OK - - now if a tsunami hits the coast of Africa - - I am going to be freaked!!

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You Can Not Expect of People What They Have Not Yet Learned . . . .

I always found it strange that on those tapes you are instructed to think of a day at the beach. I live near the beach and I know that beach can be a place of great danger. I was surfing once, and a kid was pulled under in a rip tide and drowned. The ocean is something to be feared and respected.

The ocean is highly over-rated. That filthy cesspool, where we dump our sewage, where dead bodies wash up on shore, where fish do the nasty - ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

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If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. - Thomas Jefferson