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I am having more pc problems...can't keep the sucker fixed in fact, and hate using other ones but I guess it's better than nothing. I just can't wait any longer to get back in touch! I miss you all, wonder whAT YOU ARE UP TO?

I guess I left a cliffhanger blog there, and the subject was "what happens when you are not fully in your body" (psych terms "dissociative" when really severe, yet it can manifest as something common as depression.  Shaman say "soul loss" in broad terms.)

I guess you can be sort of "on the edge" of lots of disorders without being totally losing control, and this can last some time.

The main point is, when you are not in full control of yourself the vehicle has no driver, or maybe a distracted one, and it leaves a space where anything can happen and probably will.

In most severe cases we find that someone or something else may have taken the driver seat, and usually tries to crowd the original driver out.

I have found this reflected in my dreams. When you keep getting imagery of someone (or something) else driving your vehicle, you really need to notice that whether it is a dream or just a "feeling".Remember we were given feelings for a reason. (Pain for instance is to alert us of damage.)

A feeling of disconnection, of contant floating from one thing to the next, of being distant from yourself, body or maybe the world, of being unrooted and drifting, these feelings should be taken seriously.

Sometimes we cut ourselves off from pain or shock or something uncomfortable, out of fear or dread. This is often done in self defense, and seems to be a universal human instinct. If we feel we can't leave physically, we will take off mentally or spiritually to save ourselves.

More (hopefully) later!

 Love, Ocean http://oceandiana.tripod.com/

 

Tired dolphin smootchies!
Hi ! I am back from "outer space": to write more about inner space! :-)
 That's where all this takes place you know, and most people don't seem to understand this. The greatest untamed frontier is between our ears!LOL! More properly , the "Third eye" right between the eyebrows, sort of, or at least that is usually how it is seen.
There is a gland there,( and I will have to double-check, because I haven't written about this in awhile) pituitary I think, that seems to be involved somehow... it is a very important area and has been shown to respond to sunlight, and seems to play a part in seasonal depression as well, not surprisingly. Many who study these things say it is quite valuable to allow this organ to get adequate amounts of sunlight for good mental spiritual and physical health.
Now I live in Ohio, one of the cloudiest states in the nation. We see very little sun in the winter, or even anytime, lol, and not surprisingly have a very high rate of people with seasonal depression. I am one, in fact! I suffer terribly during our winters and  so invested in a "sunlight" bulb this year to help manage it.. I must say, I think it has helped somewhat, and I have tried to allow what sun we have had to shine on my face a bit, even though I am freezing!
I guess I notice more due to my sensitivity,  that I can manage better if I can get even just a bit of sun.
I got into a discussion with a bus driver ( I get into discussions everywhere, lol.) about how people deal with our winters. He is a skier. He doesn't get depressed in winter. His doctor remarked that patients with outdoor winter activities don't generally get depression.This stands to reason of course.
 If cold doesn't bother you much, and you are outdoors, you are more likely to get whatever sunlight there is to get. You are apt to be more balanced and therefore healthier in general.
If, however, you are like me and want to scream when you get hit with a blast of cold air, you might tend to become more reclusive, less active, and therefore have more tendency to be depressed in winter. In fact, I tend to view people who ski as I would aliens, for I don't understand how they can find cold temperatures inviting, let alone invigorating. Add to that a tendency towards clutzyness, and I'd be hard pressed to find a single reason I should pay alot of money to freeze and risk broken bones in any event.
So what happened to me? My father was a full-blooded Dane and those people evolved in cold climates and invented skiing.
 He never took an interest in it, nor did anyone in my family.
In the world I grew up in, winter was a time of hardship when the car would most likely not start, people would get sick alot, and the holidays would just make every other problem worse!
 Plus, there is another component in the "feeling good " game...darkness. In order to manufacture seratonin, that "feel-good" hormone, the body also needs restful sleep, in darkness. If you don't get that, you are liable to run out of seratonin, which transmits signals in the brain, and feel crappy in general.
This is the reason most of the modern antidepressants are seratonin -re-uptake inhibitors. They block the body from recycling the seratonin so quickly, hopefully allowing the signals to be strong enough to make you feel better. Of course, if you are not producing enough, there's not much to reserve, so you can still feel bad. So feeling good requires a good balance of natural light and darkness too, and this is no surprise either.
Most basic metaphysical concepts relate to balance in some way. Finding the proper balance is in fact crucial to success in many things, walking being the major one! LOL! Ask anyone who has had a prolonged ear infection how much fun that is. But seriously, once again, I point out, the other planes of existance are very much the same in this respect!.
 Walking in balance is a catchphrase for giving everything it's proper due. There is a time to be out floating around the ethers and a time to be giving your earthly vehicle what it needs to remain strong and healthy enough to support your travels. This is why the concept of "grounding" is so often stressed in all these fields, the body is your bases, your home to come back to and share your experiences, digest them, integrate them into wholeness.
 Many times we find sensitive types are not really that happy in their bodies, for many reasons people may try to distance themselves from it. Many times addiction is a way of distancing, extreme anything, including religious practices may be another way, and then some people get scared out of their bodies and float above them, tethered but hardly ever fully inside.
 It took me a very long time to come to terms with being in a body, most of my life in fact! I vaguely recall it now, but know I was one of those people who decided early on this place was not much to my liking, just too painful and burdensome, and so found a way to float around above myself .
I strongly remember trying to describe the way I could see the part in my hair to a friend who was into supernatural stuff, and wondered how it was that it happened. I kinda remember people telling me I just needed grounding, having an extremely vague idea what it was, and trying like heck to be as down to earth as possible. But for me, this wasn't really something I'd had much experience with.
 When I went through the shamanic proceedures to check out all my connections, as it were, I found I had really not spent very much time comfortable in my body since I was about 5 or so. I'll write more about that later.
But then it started to make sense, all the symptoms were classic examples of what we'd shamanically call "soul loss". Part of me had dissociated itself and was off doing something else entirely while my poor earthly vehicle was languishing with scanty reserves and a driver who was distracted at the wheel.
 When I looked around and realized how widespread this phenomena was, it became obvious why some of the crazy things that happen to us happen And why the concept of grounding was so hard for me to grasp correctly, let alone perform. People always acted as if I could just do it conciously, and I guess physical chores do help in someone who has not become accustomed to nonpresence. Repetitive physical chores were just one more excuse to stay away!lol, and not really pay much attention to what my body was doing!LOL! So couldn't really do much for me.
 I'd get so frustrated with peoples attitudes I think I stayed away on purpose. I viewed the whole world as a puzzle, or maybe a big maze with a mousetrap at the end (like the child's game).
It wasn't until I went through a great deal of work and transformation that I finally knew what it meant to FEEL grounded, completely in my body and momentarily at least, safe here. I still have to be very vigilant I'm not still off awandering when I need to be here, but the connection I have built up seems to be holding fairly well now, as long as I keep strengthening myself.
 Here is a big sercret...guess what happens when you are not in your body all the way for long periods of time?
We will get to that a bit more next time.

Hi! Confused Dolphin nuzzels!
Still trying to figure this one out! LOL please check it out and tell me what you think happened!
http://paranormalife.blogspot.com/
I had a piece of "science fiction" art I wanted to show off, and  the link got switched, and then when I saw it and fixed it,  the site was missing! LOL! so I threw it on another site and you can now go see it
http://www.cafepress.com/alienvisitors
 hope I don't have the same trouble here!

I have friends that are very diverse in their beliefs and yet many of them have similar kinds of spiritual or "psychic" experiences! I think this is great, and an indicatior that these things exist no matter how you "come at it". The quality of the experience seems to be a bit different sometimes, but the experiences still happen.
I tend to have alot of "pre-cog" dreams, something I seem to have inherited from my father. Other times I just suddenly "know" things. Sometimes it's as if I am "remembering" a conversation with someone (guides?) and they are giving me advice, but I can't think of how I could possibly have met or known them.
Sometimes I will be alone or with a friend and feel a warm or cold spot and then begin to get an impression. I have met Goddesses, Angels, Ascended Masters, Fey, the spirits of animals and plants, " the passed on", and those who need some help" passing", and some "scary" stuff too.
I have set it up so that this takes place in my mind as an "overlay" because it would be too distracting to have it appear "outside" as some people seem to prefer to cultivate. I worry that I would come off as a real nutcase then!lol!
I never knew I was really a medium until I was giving a reading and describing what I thought must have been a (live) friend of the person, only later to be told the friend had passed awhile back, and I had been right in great detail! I was raised in a belief where this was not allowed, considered "evil" , and had lots of people try to "fix" me...or maybe I would have been able to give this comfort to people much earlier.
My Mother passed just about a year ago, and I think we have a better relationship now than ever! At some point I will try write more about this. I find this is one of the most common ways people touch mediumship is through the death of a loved one, and extremely often the maternal figure.
I describe my self these days as a "shamanic eclectic" meaning "someone who goes into the realm of spirit to bring back knowledge and healing for the people" and "a combination of many different styles".
When I was young, my experiences were most often negative, and so I was not too happy about what looked to be my impending spiritual "destiny" to work in this field.
I find that when I am left to experience these things without the intervention of people who are bent on proving it to be "evil", I really don't have alot of negative stuff show up. That and I learned some defenses.
I think dwelling on the "evilness' of something can actually cause it to become negative, when it might have been an op for something else! The attitude of the researcher does affect the experiment!
I have for instance run into people who find themselves suddenly "surprised" by a grinning goatish horned being, perhaps sitting on the kitchen counter or something. If the person was raised with the popular but really quite "unbiblical" version of what the "devil" looks like, they will run away screaming or try to drive it away, whereas people whose beliefs include the "Horned God" might say "Oh my gosh, PAN, what are YOU doing here?" and have a very informative experience.( My experience is, this being is not exactly evil, but mischievious, and loves to play tricks, he finds us very amusing, after all...)
 This does not mean you can avoid every bad experience.
My point is, not reacting with fear might glean you some less threatening results, however you believe. After all, if something seems evil to you, you shouldn't have to have it in your space, regardless! And you can tell things to leave, or make them with some know-how and help.
Here's an interesting observation: most people who have near-death experiences report very similar things, no matter what the cause.
Extremely few to nearly none report the "fires of hell" except for those people who have a vested interest in convincing you to fear it. Televangelist's guests, for instance, seem to report it as being the way they "came to God", but it seems to be born of fear.
This of course makes me wonder, because many people who have a very positive experience or even kind of neutral also report a deepening of spiritual belief, but most say they no longer fear!
I lived much in my life in situattions where fear was encouraged, but am largely over it now for the most part, tho it still creeps up on me sometimes. One of my fears now is what people do to each other in the name of their beliefs (one of the leading causes of war), and I always ask myself the same thing...is it born of love or fear?
I am not suggesting that you should be reckless and stupid, for the otherworld is much like here in that respect. I am saying you should take a similar attitude there as here. You would expect something negative to happen if you walk through a bad neighborhood with a hundred dollar bill hanging out of your pocket, tho some people could get by with this safely, right? Ok same thing there.
If you are hanging out with nice beings like maybe some friends and loved ones in a good place, it's not too dangerous. There are other situations where you are just asking for trouble and should at least take a friend or guide if you must go! Or at least that would be prudent. Some people never have trouble, some always do, which kind are you?
OK enough for now!

I have decided to become a SOMEONE , and so have created some awards to give out. I figure If I become an awards provider, then I will get some links and kissing-up, which is fun! LOL!
I have created the Madame Von Frankenstein Awards as I am a charter inductee and have created many a "monster" in my own time while trying to do something noteworthy! Anyone interested in this award should stumble blindly over with that dazed, overworked look of stunned disbelief and despair, not to mention a touch of guilt, that we all get upon discovering what we've done, and apply! Blog on in, as it were!
Now mind you, mine were quite an accomplishment, as I did it all in a drug and alcohol-free environment! OK so I've created some great stuff too... but people are more likely to remember the other type...lol!