August 2, 2005 - Summaries - click a topic Reasons for Gratitude Connection Mind to Mind Help Another in Need

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Greetings All,

One of the joys of writing is choosing stories and topics both you and I might find interesting. There is so much to stay awake to these days in business, medicine, and in the physical sciences, I utter a thankful word every time a fascinating subject finds its way to me. I've been thankful a lot for the Internet!

I discovered two words had been misspelled in the last Staying Awake. My apologies. Listening to a recorded lecture, without an accompanying text, can increase my chances of misunderstanding the diction of the lecturer. After Googling the words, I discovered I hadn't double checked alternatives. Here are the corrected spellings of the two words: hindbrain and forebrain.

Reasons for Gratitude

Staying Awake has evolved quite a bit in its first 18 months. It will continue to help remind us of our intentions, sensibilities, and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand.

We humans naturally seek time to play, to enjoy comfort and quiet, and we share empathic visions of a contented future for all. I say that as a reminder for the two to three billion of us on Planet Earth experiencing starvation as you read this.

All Earthlings experience intuitive nudges whether acknowledged, ignored or overlooked. Those instances are the lightest touches in life, quietly reminding humans that we are physically and emotionally interconnected, not separate.

None of us six billion or so Earthlings are at peace until all eat proper meals. Meals are reasons for gratitude. Pause for a moment, any moment, for a simple, 'Thank goodness, I am well fed.'

Connection Mind to Mind
attraction at work

Attraction is one way to describe how good people and good things come into our lives. I’d be willing to say our intentions put attraction into motion.

Of course, attraction draws some people and things we would rather be without. Yes, I’ve experienced a few people I could be without; and, if the truth be known, we were relieved once we removed ourselves from each other. I suppose I’d lift my eyebrows, then giggle, if you told me you didn’t get my meaning.

In the previous Staying Awake, we talked about how attraction happens naturally. Remember our cocoons created by Heart Ribbons?

What tickles my fancy about the following story is that scientists allowed themselves to be part of a demonstration displaying attractions at work. (*)

Arlene (that's not her real name) is an attractive woman; an American, friendly, warm, and a parapsychologist. Cecil (that's not his real name) is a scientist residing in Britain; he has been noted for his abrasive way, and frequently does controlled tests similar to Arlene’s.

One of their scientific tests instructs group participants to respond the moment they sense they are being stared at. By whatever measures the scientists factor results, I understand the final tally of successful and unsuccessful responses determined the report’s record as positive or negative.

Cecil charged that Arlene couldn’t possibly get her routine positive results if she tested in Britain. She visited Britain, and her test results showed successful, as always.

So, Arlene invited Cecil to join her and to give his ‘stare’ tests in America. They followed through with their plans, giving their tests, and guess who came up with negative results? Cecil did, again.

I'm making an unscientific assumption that test results can reflect the scientist’s emotional state. The mind to mind connection between the scientist and participants might look something like this:

With her warmth and friendliness, Arlene seems to attract more positive-minded participants before the tests begin, and by the reported results, participants seem to intuit correctly more times than not.

On the other hand, Cecil's reported abrasiveness seems to attract more negative-minded participants, some of whom correctly intuit fewer times.

I heartily believe that what we feel and think matters, because mind to mind connections attract to match our intentions.

Help Another in Need

Just imagine: The most intimate and hardly noticeable nudges which the original storyteller must have experienced allowed her to be present at the right place at the right moment to witness the unfolding of this story.

Canadian geese have a favorite place to visit when autumn arrives as do white swans and ducks. The geese skim their way by the thousands into a harbor known as Chesapeake Bay, where they fly inches above the waves.

Families of swans sweep majestically onto shores, proud and fearless. Dipping their heads deep into the waters, their strong beaks forage into the river’s bottom for food.

Between families of swans and gaggles of geese, is there a toleration for one another? Could that sufferance translate into human terms such as live and let live?

Each year, snow and sleet, driven by wind, freeze the river into shades of slippery gray.

As the sun barely began to appear on one such morning, a lone woman was setting the breakfast table that sits in front of a huge window in her cottage. She stood quietly for that moment, feeling the chill through the panes, admiring the fragile beauty the night's storm had sculpted. Far beyond her dock and across the bay, snow laced the edge of the shore in white.

She suddenly leaned forward, the tip of her nose nearly kissing the frosted glass as she whispered, ‘It really is – there is a lone goose out there.’

Softly and quickly, she pulled binoculars from the cupboard nearby. Peering through the frosted pane, she saw a large Canadian goose sitting very still with wings tightly folded to its sides. She was amazed when she realized its feet were frozen to the ice.

The woman wondered what was going to happen to the defenseless goose. She felt her pulse quicken in mutual distress at the goose’s plight. There most likely would be a battle in plain view; the goose could not possibly survive the wearisome situation.

Then, from the darkened skies above, a line of swans winged in singular formation high above the cottage. Dauntless, graceful, and free, they flew from the west, streaming steadily into the east.

The leader swan suddenly dipped and swung to the right, forcing the line of swans behind to create a circle of white. A team of four swans floated downward like their own silent feathers, skidding awkwardly on the river’s ice to surround the stranded goose.

Without hesitation, they pounded the ice repeatedly with their beaks until the goose was floating on a tiny island of ice. Then the goose lifted its head slightly. It pulled its body this way and that, and shook the few remaining bits of icy water from its feet.

It was obvious to the woman, and evidently to the swans, that the goose still could not fly. The four swans approached, and, with their beaks, began sweeping the wings and body of the goose, chipping away frozen water from its feathers and feet.

Slowly, the freed one spread its wings, stretching them outward as far as they would go. It slowly brought them together and spread them again in a slow exercise of flaps until they reached their fullest expanse and rhythm.

The four swans rose to rejoin the family that had resumed their eastward journey. Behind them, rising with incredible energy, the goose flapped in double time until it caught up with and took its place at the end of the swan formation.

The woman in the cottage, with cupped hand over her mouth watched them until they disappeared over the tops of far away trees. Then, in perfect peace, she wept.