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I bring together fun-loving,
thoughtfully curious and
dynamically creative people!
That’s the possibility I bring to
clients’ businesses.
~ DM
 
I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one.
~ Albert Einstein (b 1879)
 
The longer I live, the more I see there’s something about reciting rhythmical words aloud—it’s almost biological—that comforts and enlivens human beings.
~ Robert Pinsky (b 1940), American Poet Laureate 1997-2000

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Cosmology

One of the three philosophies in metaphysics is cosmology: The study of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and choice.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
~ Suzanne Necker (b 1739), French, author, hospital founder 1776
 
The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing—to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
~ John Keats (b 1795), English poet in the Romantic movement
 
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
~ Carl Gustav Jung (b 1875), Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology
 
My music is best understood by children and animals.
~ Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (b 1882), Russian-born composer of modern classical music, neo-classical, primitivist, serialist styles
 
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief ... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~ Walter Lippman (b 1889), American writer, journalist, political commentator
 
It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
~ Adrienne Rich (b 1929), American feminist, poet, teacher, writer
 
I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place or person or event, without ego and without judgment.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen, psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center

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Our constant curiosity is key to watching what’s being created.
~ DM

Dear Readers,

The other day I read that having a single thought is gratitude. Just thinking is gratitude. Breathing, moving, reading, talking, thinking, writing, all, are about gratitude. If you ponder it long enough, you begin considering gratitude as a way to care for all other life forms—living things pulsing Universal energies—just like you and me!

This ezine reminds us of our aspirations and inspirations and magnificent achievements that better our human experience, although it appears we’re not soon to deviate from sacrosanct hyper-commercialized corporate, media-instilled norms. So…

Get Fascinated

I think you ought to feel absolutely fascinated with yourself! Don’t you sometimes find yourself wholly influenced by your audacious powers of observation and intuition?

Consider Staying Awake an intrusive hornet, buzzing around your head with this idea in mind: To remind us that observing and endorsing our intuitive capacities ought to rise to the top of our priority list for ‘Get to know yourself, please.’

Do you allow your mind the time to figure out solutions on its own?

Are you able to sense elegant, invisible processes that must occur every time you do anything physical, or imagine a solution for a challenge in your business?

Can you feel awed by your physical presence on Earth?

If you’ve said yes to any of those questions, you understand thinking and feeling astonishment is the same thing. Also, we often forget the energies swirling around and inside our physical bodies are parts of the energies that have kept our species alive for millions of years.

Compose a one-second thought that can serve you when you experience an intuitive moment of “Surprise!” Now here’s a novel idea to declare when those surprising nudges catch you off guard. Say: ‘Thank you. I am fascinating!’ That’s it. A gentle, loving message to yourself is all you need as your body continues to perform its genius so you can read to the finish of this sentence.

Indispensable Technologies

Our physical bodies—walking, talking, thinking human beings—are really geological formations. Earthlings are sentient sticks with legs roaming around Planet Earth out of which we were birthed.

Common indispensable technologies are not the only ways we Earthlings observe and study things in and on our planet home. Let’s look deeper. Samplings of other relevant technologies are thinking, feeling, intuiting, language, human behavior, storytelling. (I ask you, what is not storytelling?) The technologies listed above are ways Universe observes itself and expresses itself in creations of animals. (Animals include humans, too. You likely remembered that already, eh?)

Several months ago, I watched a movie for television that might be worth your time. It’s not a religious play as its title infers, but, when the words of the title are spoken in the play, the moment is very touching for the two characters. Together, they had accomplished their goal through indispensable technologies of intuition and medical science.

Something the Lord Made tells the emotional story of two men who defied industry’s rules by launching a revolution set against a backdrop of the Jim Crow South. Researching in the 1940s at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the play presents the men’s collaborated research and application of a procedure known as cardiac surgery—something the Lord made—for repair of the human heart.

Dr. Alfred Blalock (portrayed by Alan Rickman), and his assistant, Mr. Vivien Thomas (Mos Def), used their intuitive genius, creative energies, messages from dreams, education, delicate physical skills, and a surgical tool invented by Vivien to finally bring forth an art called bypass heart surgery on blue babies. (As a result, presently, some 1,750,000 bypasses are performed, annually.)

Is it amazing that I would “Surprise!” myself for having picked up the CD at Blockbuster? I brought the movie home only knowing Alan Rickman, one consummate, favorite actor played a principle role. I had no idea the play was about the heart, and you know how I crave information about humans’ physical hearts.

If your psychic abilities are as underdeveloped as mine, then you’ll understand the astonishment of that “Surprise!” moment once I realized again our intuitive senses and our intentional promise to gratify and inform (all of us) show up when least expected.

Blalock intelligently braved confronting a doctrinal myth within the systemic medical industry; a myth out of which centuries of surgeons had been trained not to touch the heart. Yes, you read that correctly: Surgeons could not touch the heart. (If I understood the script, the Latin term for ‘do not touch’ is nolitangere.) Can you imagine the heart not touchable?

I declare! Is there yet another metaphor needed to comprehend Earthlings’ pathology, an illusory separation from our hearts, physical bodies’ feelings, and intuitive senses?

Today, we are remembering we were created one with everything extant by awakening to and expressing reproach for embedded masculine generated, schizoid repressions. On behalf of all popcorn-brained masculine dominated industries of the world, excuse me while I run outside and set my hair on fire, again!

Empathy for Earthlings’ magnificence and for our seeming dilemmas frequently reminds us of how we’ve been trained to separate the partnership of our heart and brain. With advances being made these days, I would if I could place a handsome chunk of dollars on the spinning wheel of fortune in favor of the indispensable technologies and psychic abilities of the exquisite unpraised pumper!

Just for Fun

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg—the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!


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