The Seer

“Standing at the masthead of my ship during a sunrise that crimsoned sky and sea, I once saw a large herd of whales in the east, all heading towards the sun, and for a moment vibrating in concert with peaked flukes.* As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment of adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of the fire worshippers.

As Ptolemy Philopator testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings. For according to King John, the military elephants of antiquity often hailed the morning with their trunks uplifted in the profoundest silence.”

~ by Henry Melville — Moby Dick (*tails)

Not long ago, just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco), a female humpback whale became entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.

She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that the whale was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When the whale was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around … she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.

The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.

Sent in by Alice Gardner of SF — Thanks Alice

If your life is in a bit of a tangle, Clearsight may be able to help.

Introducing the Hot New Social Network, PhoneBook

Allows User to Call Friends, Speak to Them

Silicon Valley (The Borowitz Report) — A new social network is about to alter the playing field of the social media world, and it’s called PhoneBook.

According to its creators, who invented the network in their dorm room at Berkeley, PhoneBook is the game-changer that will leave Facebook, Twitter and even the much anticipated Google Buzz in a cloud of dust.

“With PhoneBook, you have a book that has a list of all your friends in the city, plus everyone else who lives there,” says Danny Fruber, one of PhoneBook’s creators.

“When you want to chat with a friend, you look them up in PhoneBook, and find their unique PhoneBook number,” Fruber explains. “Then you enter that number into your phone and it connects you directly to them.”

Another breakout utility of PhoneBook allows the user to arrange face-to-face meetings with his or her friends at restaurants, bars, and other “places,” as Fruber calls them.

“You will be sitting right across from your friend and seeing them in 3-D,” he said. “It’s like Skype, only without the headset.”

PhoneBook will enable friends to play many games as well, such as charades, cards, and a game Fruber believes will be a breakout: Farm.

“In Farm, you have an actual farm where you raise real crops and livestock,” he says.”It’s hard work, but it’s more fun than Mafia, where you actually get killed.”

September 21st, 1663: (At the end of a week in the country). So home, and with great content and ease to our own bed, there nothing appearing so to our content as to be at our home, after being abroad awhile.

~ Samuel Pepys — Diary

Going Home …. is a frequently played piper’s piece and melody, sometimes heard at funerals … this time it is sung by the angelic Libera Boys Choir of South London. To hear it on YouTube, >>>Click Here

Sent in by Martine — Thanks Martine.

When Eckhart Tolle TV began, Eckhart referred to it as an ‘experiment’. When asked recently how he felt about it now, Echart replied:

“What I’ve found hard at first with this unfamiliar medium was to have a relationship with a camera – because I’m not used to having a relationship with cameras, I have relationships with people who listen. And the camera, not being alive, I found it hard to speak into the camera, because I felt that there was nobody there.

We had a small studio audience, so I tended to look around the room at other people, at the live beings rather than the seemingly ‘dead’ camera. And people had to continuously point at the camera saying “Look here, look here!” so that you establish a relationship with the people, far more people than in the studio audience who are actually watching from their homes.

And yet, I tried several times and I just couldn’t establish a relationship with the camera, until the third or fourth time. Suddenly, it happened. And spontaneously I visualized the camera not as an object in itself, but as – to use a term from science fiction – a ‘wormhole’. So, I could feel that as I looked into the camera, the camera was no longer there as an obstacle, it was an opening.

So an inner shift had happened inside me, in relationship to the camera. And I could now feel that the camera was actually an opening, and through it I was speaking, suddenly, into the opening. I felt that I was reaching people – the other end of the wormhole. At first, the camera was in the way, and then suddenly my inner perception of it changed, and the camera became an opening.

That, for me, was the most surprising and revolutionary thing that happened, that I can now have a relationship with all the people who are sitting at the other end of the wormhole, in their homes, in their living rooms, or wherever they are. The vital thing here is to sense, to feel, that there is a connection, there is an energy outflow. The experiment seemed to work quite well … because this shift happened.

The next stage of the experiment is just to see how the teaching works through that, over the next year or so. I need to see that it works for people — that it’s transformational for the people who are watching at home. Also, another criterion that I always use for myself, is whether I enjoy doing it. If you are doing something and you don’t really enjoy doing it, then the energy flow isn’t there.

It’s also good to know that the Internet, which is used for many ‘insane’ purposes, is used to bring about a shift in consciousness, raising consciousness rather than lowering consciousness. In itself it’s neutral, like any technology – it is neither good nor bad, it depends how it’s used.

Technology tends to amplify patterns that are already there, in the human mind – so you can see the madness of the human mind amplified if you surf around the Internet, you can see it very clearly there. A lot of it is. But it can also amplify the opposite of that, it can amplify the rising consciousness, a new level of consciousness.

So far, there’s probably more madness than sanity on the Internet, but that could change. We are using this medium to see if it can be used for a positive purpose, rather than amplifying the insanity of the human mind – it counteracts that.”

~ Click here to go to EckhartTolleTV.com

It’s said that every new president of the United States should carry with him three envelopes.

At the end of his first year in office, when the going is usually rough, he should open the first envelope. Inside he will find a note that reads, “Blame the previous administration!”

At the end of the second year, if things don’t get any better, he should open the second envelope. Inside he will find a note that reads, “Blame Congress!”

And at the end of the third year, if things still haven’t got any better, he should open the third envelope. Inside he will find a mote that reads, “Prepare three envelopes!”

~ Now, check out the Random Excuse Gernerator! Sent in by Chris Irving — Thanks Chris.

When we think about peace, everyone seems to have their own ideas about what that should look like. We certainly know what peace is not — war, violence, cruelty, lack, pain, suffering, noise, inner turmoil and so on.

The idea is that if we eliminate those bad things out of our personal (and also planetary) experience then we would be at peace. But all of this is only ideas.

Peace is something bigger than just having an outwardly gentle and quiet demeanor. We all know this, but is there something that we are calling peace that is behind all of our ideas about it?

Consider the poem below, written in a noisy airport. What sort of peace is being referred to in the poem that could include the noise of a busy airport? Is this peace achieved through lack of noise?

This peace does include harmony and justice and gentleness but doesn’t exclude the hubbub of everyday life at all. It is something that includes all of the tumult of the human condition with generosity and inclusiveness.

This is the peace that passes understanding referred to in the Bible. It can’t be understood by the limited and polarized mental processes that we have so long been habituated to use as filters in our perception.

Now, as we are able to open up our perception (noticing and relaxing the filters that are no longer helpful) we can begin to perceive directly this other kind of peace beyond all of our ideas about it.

At the Airport

Listening
To the hum of humanity
Above the silvery silence
Complete and at rest
Behind the sound.

Movement and stillness
Joining together
The dispersed strands
Of life’s fullness.
Each enfolding the other
In holy embrace.

~ by Alice Gardner

So here we are — just a sliver past Equinox time. Some of us are noticing the leaves pushing out of their buds and the days lengthening and growing warmer. Others are feeling a slight nip in the air, the leaves are turning all their beautiful shades and the light is on the wane. No better time at all than this, says Tim Freke, to ponder polarities and to explore ways to be deep awake. Check out this Video where Tim talks about the theme of his new book, How Long is Now, available soon from Clearsight.

And hey, you might like this song by Jamus Dorey entitled:Be Real, Be Free.

Ramesh S. Balsekar was born in Mumbai, India, in 1917, and after a distinguished career in banking, was for several years an interpreter for Nisargadatta Maharaj. Then, after his own awakening, Ramesh became a truth-teacher himself and offered Satsang daily in his home right up to the time of his final illness. Pete & Pearl sat with him there for five memorable days in 1995.

He also authored many books on enlightenment spirituality including: Consciousness Speaks.

Sadly, Ramesh passed away at his home after a short illness on Sept. 27, aged 92.

The author/teacher, Wayne LIquorman, was foremost among those influenced by Ramesh and wrote: “Having met Ramesh was one of the defining moments of my life. His generous spirit, open, loving presence and spiritual understanding combined to make him one of the truly great sages of the 20th century. His spirit will live on in his books and in the hearts of all of us who have known him and loved him.”

A man was walking through the grounds of a university one morning when he noticed a young blind woman struggling with her guide-dog.

The animal was resolutely pulling in one direction, she in another.

When he offered assistance, the woman replied, “No thanks, this is a family argument. The dog knows I’m supposed to go to a lecture right now — but I want to miss it.”

~ For more on guide-dogs, see this inspiring YouTube clip entitled: Soul Mates: guide dogs and independence