Thank you!
@Cindy @Jpurneywithme2
I would be hard pressed to choose a favorite JG song, but You are Loved ( Don't Give Up) is certainly one of my favorites.
@cindy @journeywithme2 @lovendures
I also love Believe and have been known to play it even when it is NOT Christmas. 😉 Thankful, a song for Thanksgiving, I also play all year long. I once based an entire Sunday talk on Thankful. I have far too many favorites to pick just one.
I argued with Spirit about putting any further JG thoughts online, and finally decided to do so because "Validating our thoughts" is broader than just our thoughts of the future of the globe but also about how we all have to go through an "I trust what I receive" thought process as we learn to utilize and understand the gifts of intuition as they are given to us in our individual lives. SO. I will post these thoughts. (Spirit chuckles) Besides, arguing with Spirit never seems to get me very far—well, other than allowing me free will! So I will risk hijacking this thread momentarily to share a few very specific song/lyrics –for healing and for hope during this tumultuous time in our lives.
For healing, I listen to Per Te, a very early JG song. Twenty years ago I never wanted the translations to the songs he sings in other languages because it was the sound / the voice that was so profound to me. When I am most in pain, physical or emotional, it is Per Te that soothes me. Perhaps it will also bring healing to you. The key to Per Te healing is to Listen. If you have the Closer CD, it is on it. If not, there is a lovely YouTube video (link below), but you can watch the video later. First, just listen. Close your eyes, no visual distractions. Just. The. Sound. Let the vocal tonal vibration, the orchestral vibration, and Spirit’s Love weave it into a oneness, which, at least for me, is profoundly healing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aAUtMuVyDw
That said, JG does write marvelous lyrics. There are two recent songs he wrote that (to me) indicate how much, and how subtly Spirit guides him, whether he consciously recognizes it or not. I happen to believe Spirit is so much a part of him that their presence is intrinsic, that he came in as a conduit, even as he is just a fine human being as well—able to make fun of himself and explore his humanness, good and bad.
Granted, a song about creativity and pursuing your heart’s work. The video is terrific. This time watch while listening 😀 He went back to his high school and had young folks from the school in the video. It is a great video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9FA9U4s3Tg
As a writer, and a teacher, (high school English &creative writing as well as metaphysics) I loved Granted, in fact tears rolled down my face the first time I heard/watched it. One lyric in particular, though, always jumps out at me, as a connection to Spirit.
'Cause all you have to lose
Is your best life yet
For most folks that line about your best life probably just references a person’s future (this life) goals and successes, but to me, from the moment I heard the lyric, it spoke to me of our many lives, of reincarnation, and how each time we incarnate we have the option of living the highest and best life we can. When JG writes certain lyrics that can go beyond the literal, this-present, current, moment in time, I know Spirit is holding his soul in loving joy helping him bring out phrases that go deeper than the literal.
Interesting note: his Josh Groban Foundation, which gives $$$ to schools for creative programs, is called FIND YOUR LIGHT.
The second and most recent song Spirit impressed me to note, is Your Face, which he wrote and recorded during the shutdown, in his living room—when, like all the rest of us, he was isolated at home. The recording is not the most polished, and is similar to the many choir compilations that happened during the shutdown, when musicians self-recorded in their homes and then the numerous tracks were mixed together, every voice, every instrument in isolation to all the others yet coming together to create a cohesive powerful sound. If you have not heard any of these choir compilations, look them up, they are reminders that even in isolation we can blend and harmonize together.
He had already written and talked about depression in another song (River), but the isolation of the shutdown and the yearning for in-person connections engendered Your Face, perhaps because Zoom and other digital visuals were all we had for connection outside of our own living rooms. I love the entire song, but the first time I heard it I had to replay it several times to VALIDATE (ha!) what I thought I had heard.
And I've never been one to pray
Losing trust and losing faith
But there is God in all of us
And I can see Her on your face
Need I say more???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCbY-P1xttE
Oh & don’t miss the Thich Nhat Hahn quote about HOPE that comes up and closes the video, after the song has been sung.
If anyone wishes to dialogue about JG, Lovendures now has my contact info and I trust her wisdom in giving it out should it ever be requested.
Thanks for your indulgence ❤️ 🌻 & TRUST YOURSELF and what you receive be it global, or personal.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=lyrics+to+YOUR+FACE+by+Josh+Groban (url for full Your Voice lyrics)
May the links work!!!!
Is anyone here feeling a sense of dread again, like we started feeling on September 12 when @lovendures posted she was having a sense of anticipated dread and grief? Her post showed she was sensing the impending HAMAS invasion almost to a T. A ton of us began posting feelings of dread and angst, 3 am awakenings. Then HAMAS invaded Israel a few weeks later and the world went upside-down.
I've been in an unusual state of malaise for several days now. I usually think it's me, something I must fix. And there is always stuff I need to fix. And it might be just me. Which is why I'm asking here.
Then this morning @deetoo texted her feelings of being on edge, and a few other friends, and I realized I wasn't alone going through these feelings. But still, it truly might just be me.
I'm not thinking the world is going to end or blow up. But something strange is afoot. Two situations have me a little on edge right now. Middle East with U.S. in Red Sea, and Donald Trump's increasingly unhinged words.
When we were posting these feelings beginning September 12, 2023, it was right before HAMAS invaded Israel. In fact, HAMAS would have been planning that attack right at that time. Here are the posts we made back then: https://jeannemayell.com/community/postid/62596/
So does anyone else notice an unusual disruption of their peace of mind, as I've been feeling? Is there something astrologically going on Besides that the Age of Aquarius just started, which is a good thing.
@tesseract @bluebelle @deetoo @baba @seaholly @teriz @Andrew @dannyboy @tgraf66 @journeywithme4 @matildagirl @lovendures @thehappymedium @barbarmar22 @jsr78 @gbs @pamp
I also had one of my rare scary dreams a week ago. It has stayed with me, and that's a sign that my psyche wants me to pay attention. Keep in mind, it doesn't sound scary. But I was scared.
I was standing on my front porch. (I don't have a front porch and it didn't look at all like my house. But it was my house in the dream. It was weather beaten and rural looking.)
There were other people there who were my family, but they weren't my family in actuality. Then I saw there was a bull moose walking right in front of the porch, not too large, but I was very afraid, none the less. No one seemed to notice or mind him there or think we should run inside. But I knew we had to escape inside and lock the door. I was the only one seeing this threat. I was afraid to turn my back on him but I had to get inside, so I swiftly pivoted and rushed into the house and tried to slam the door so I could bolt it. But the moose must have gotten right behind me, and I couldn't shut the door the final half inch. He had gotten a hoof or something on the door. His intelligence tells me he was not in actuality a moose. I knew I could not latch that door, and of course his physical power was greater than mine. But nothing happened because I awoke.
Okay, Moose are not predatory of humans, but I was afraid of him. So he's a symbol of something that is wild and as uncontrollable as a wild animal. And one who is physically stronger than I am. And he already has a foot in the door. I also felt I shouldn't take my eyes off of him, even for long enough to flee.
I bet @unk-p is going to make a joke about the moose. Go ahead lol.
I was trying to recall the moose messages from a medicine animal oracle I used to have. And landed on some interesting notes about moose/elk symbolism on a site whatismyspiritanimal.com, which mentions Bullwinkle! I'm a big fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons and recommend the wonderful bio about its creator Jay Ward.
And then I thought of one of Bullwinkle's bits where he's dressed like a medium and gazes into a crystal ball, chanting, "Eenie meenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak! Are they friendly spirits? Just listen!"
@rennie I love that. And as a kid, I loved Bullwinkle more than any other cartoon character. He was just so funny.
Here's what one source says about Moose: The moose spirit animal is often associated with strength, determination, and tenacity. It's also a symbol of good fortune and abundance. When the moose appears in your life, it's a reminder to stay grounded and focused on your goals. Moose also represent introspection and stillness.
The moose in the dream was a bull moose and I am a taurus. Also I love the northern woods where Moose thrive, and I love moose, just don't want one to chase me. Also it happened right before the recent bull market high. Market has been in bull condition since October 12. Just not sure why I was so scared of this animal in the dream except that is represented wild/uncontrollable and powerful animal. Also I have a close connection with Canada, especially Quebec, where the same kind of moose is plentiful and well loved.
It reminds me of some frightening bear dreams I've had, which started with premonitions about Putin up to no good back in 2015. The bear can be Russia. But who is the moose?
Early yesterday evening, out of the blue I was overcome with this huge wave of anxiety. I felt like I was going to jump out of my skin and just couldn't settle. I haven't experienced that in a while, which made me take notice. It feels like energetically I'm picking up on something that I can't define. This morning I awoke sad and felt very "off." To some extent I still feel that way. I can't tell if it's personal or I'm picking up on something collectively. It's a free-floating, unsettled feeling.
BTW, I can’t watch, listen to, or read any news about current events. It’s a strong visceral reaction. That’s been going on the past few weeks. It's exhausting, distracting and, in my view, often fear-based. Not the best for my peace of mind!
An intuitive friend mentioned that the planets are now aligned like they were in the American and French revolutions. Secrets revealed, wars, planetary seismic shifts -- that kind of thing. Although I'm not educated on planetary influences, it's all fascinating to me. However, I am mindful of the fact that we are entering the age of intuition. And that's huge! Our perceptions have been linear, which is limited and often grounded in fear. Everything is accelerating now, which can really throw us off-balance. The old structures are failing and can no longer stand. We are being asked, individually and collectively, to change and move into a new way of knowing. I can't speak so much to the collective change unless I first address what is required of me -- to recognize and heal those fragmented parts of myself and how I sometimes respond to the world.
As far as this free-floating anxiety is concerned ... whether what I'm picking up on is personal or out there, I believe the personal always affects the collective, since we are all one. Whatever it is, I am riding an anxiety wave but I am not worried. It comes from a level of understanding, or knowing, that I can't put into words. That may sound crazy to some of you, but I remain hopeful and have faith in that understanding.
Hey Jeanne!
Honestly, it is hard for me to get a true read on how I am feeling right now. (We have a new puppy at home and we are having sooooo many adjustments and ...well puppy upheaval )
I will say that I think the collective may be truly tired. Tired of the inhumanity of war. Tired of political campaigning though it's only January (so. many. months. left.). Tired of Natural disasters. Tired of shootings and violence. Tired to Trump. SOOOOO tired of Trump in the news all the time.
On the other hand, I am trying not to watch much news and focus on the happier/lighter things in life. (when little puppy alligator jaws aren't attacking me that is haha). Yesterday I enjoyed a few peaceful moments outside appreciating the 60 degree weather and some peace and quiet. Today it is lightly raining and our dry Arizona desert land is being nourished.
Not sure if that helps at all. I am curious to see what others say on the subject.
@jeanne-mayell
I've been in an unusual state of malaise for several days now. I usually think it's me, something I must fix. And there is always stuff I need to fix. And it might be just me. Which is why I'm asking here.I also had one of my rare scary dreams a week ago.
I'm not thinking the world is going to end or blow up. But something strange is afoot.
@deetoohuge wave of anxiety. I felt like I was going to jump out of my skin and just couldn't settle.
Because I had a beloved brother-in-law pass last week I probably cannot separate emotions right now, but your post, especially the things quoted above really struck me.
@bluebelle @deetoo @baba @seaholly @teriz @Andrew @dannyboy @tgraf66 @journeywithme4 @matildagirl @lovendures @thehappymedium @barbarmar22 @jsr78 @gbs @pamp
I'm not psychic, and my intuition is probably just average. I'm also not an unhappy person, nor am I prone to having dark thoughts. But I do feel a sense of unease and sadness in places were people gather, sort of like everyone is just going through the motions, waiting for another shoe to drop. Anyway, last night I dreamed that I was in a public restroom of a stadium-type building, and that I was trying to clean up [removed, a bit too graphic]. Someone yelled at me to leave it and keep moving. It was so unsettling that I wasn't able to go back to sleep, and it's bothered me all day.
@tesseract Thank you and LOL about the computer posting for you.
@deetoo your post so beautiful and true, and what is true is always beautiful. You captured what we are doing on this forum: Connecting to the collective, this world, this earth, and each other and trying to rise and evolve to a new paradigm.
Thank you for helping me to see something I have to keep seeing again and again: that posting my dreams and weird feelings just might resonate with others here because we are all one.
I want to make it clear that I'm not feeling existential calamity. We are actually having a lovely day today, playing with our kids and with pets. But something was going on this week and I felt it. I will remain aware of it, but I will also take more time to enjoy walks and the beauty of our earth.
@jeanne-mayell Re your inquiry about about unease right now: I had 4 reactions.
(1) Yes! Feel like I’m waiting for a shoe (or a closet full of shoes to drop on my head). (2) friends and family seem to be very on edge, upset and argumentative. I’m feeling grumpy.
(3) my raven has been showing up again which is tied to my ability to “see” serious events and I remembered a recent vision… (4) in the waking vision I saw myself as the front passenger in a helicopter. The pilot was turned to me and had a serious look on his face. He was trying to tell me something very important. I had the impression that beneath us on the ground was an urban area, completely destroyed, actually flattened. The pilot was wearing a white helmet with red markings. It made me think of the Red Cross or the Red Crescent organizations. He had dark hair and eyes. He looked Middle Eastern.
@jeanne-mayell Jeanne you added a dream to your posting about a feeling of dread that you had a vivid, scary dream that “has stayed with me, and that's a sign that my psyche wants me to pay attention.”
You described an agressive bull moose
My immediate reaction was to think of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Bull Moose Party.”
He formed it when he did not get the Republican’s Presidential nomination…nowadays we think of third parties as spoilers that muddy an election by drawing votes away from a main party.
To complicate the issue, The Bull Moose Party was considered progressive in its day! I stand by my vision of a Biden win, a barely blue Senate and a return to a blue House. Maybe I stand by it because the alternative is too upsetting to contemplate.
I have been anxious, yes, but mostly for personal financial and health reasons. However, this bit from @jeanne-mayell caught my eye
So he's a symbol of something that is as uncontrollable as a wild animal.
and reminded me of this news item which was re-tweeted by Angry Staffer on Twitter/X.
Iran is indeed uncontrollable in many ways and could be likened to a bull moose rampaging when cornered.
Is there a reason my post was removed? Sincerely hope I did not offend anyone. Truly not my intention. I enjoy reading everyone's posts and appreciate your insight.
To continue from the above barely begun post:
Because of Dean's passing, and because of the powerful experience with him and my late husband at Circle last Wednesday, I have been in a very strange state of being. Joy-- because there was such tangible verification from two men who had crossed over, one ten years ago and the other, at the time of Circle, merely one day—and sorrow that these two men are no longer incarnate, even though I can feel their energy, and because I am an empath, frustration/angst with the global pain all the heck over the place with nowhere to really shut it off completely. So no miasma of dread Jeanne, but definitely something antsy and confused tangled up emotions, and in there somewhere, trust that Spirit is with us, the Creator has not thrown us away, there WILL be a future PEACE, individual and global (micro and macro). Your vision is valid, and still in progress.
And there has been in me a kind of restless inertia, which seems like a contradiction, but is the only thing that describes the last few days. I thought it was all processing Dean's crossing, but maybe it is both micro and macro. So that's my base, not so much angst as too many things—personal, global, physical—coming in and out up and down, depressed and joyful-at-continutity-beyond-earth, all at once.
I too had a scary dream this week. Mine was odd in that instead of waking up with heart pounding and FEAR coursing through my body it took me a moment to realize that the dream vestiges I remembered were about looking for something I couldn't find, a huge group of people wandering around frenetically, in what seemed to be a high school cafeteria, fear and pulsing energy abounded. The kind of dream I usually wake up in frozen fear from. And in the dream my thought was "where is it, why can't i find it" but awake I had no idea what it was I had lost. There was also a hint of "being pursued" and the need to hide, and yet no fear when I was lying awake wondering what exactly woke me up. I often have dreams of not being able to find something or hiding from a monster. But this time no fear, just a faint visual of the cafeteria, the long tables, the people running erratically all over, and the thought that I needed to hide—but awake, NO FEAR at all. Eventually I just got up and read for awhile. This was about 3:00 am, of course!
One other thing has been paramount with me these last four days along with restless sleeping, lots of physical pain (that had been under control) an awake "listlessness," a couldn't read, TV was boring or just stupid AND this: an earworm of The Rainbow Connection refrain. A song I vaguely remembered as being Kermit the Frog from way back. Because it stayed with me so strongly I thought it had something to do with the loss. Messages stick with you until you give them to whom they belong. Once you give the message it leaves you. Yet for FOUR DAYS the refrain from Rainbow Connection in Kermit's voice has been with me. Seriously, I wake up and it is there in my head as I am waking! During the day I clean, write, (try to) get involved in a book or a movie and there it is again. It just IS. It never really even goes away. I tried to drown it out with other music. Nope, not even Josh! No matter what I tried to do, listen to or read about over and above was a loop of "Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me." I even asked my sister-in-law and my nephew if it meant anything to them because it felt like so much like a "message" for someone. Nope. Just a loop in my ear, Over. and Over. and Over. Finally I gave in, found a Youtube of it because I had no memory of the whole song, just the refrain. Three notes in, totally unexpectedly, I began sobbing, SOBBING! outloud! the ugly, snotty, heaving body and tears that completely soaks clothes, sobbing, almost wildly, all the while my mind is going "What the hell! What IS this message!" WHY AM I CRYING!
As I type I am beginning to believe the message is for us. US, here at the site. US, the Collective. US, ALL OF US here at the Forum and the Collective. The Forum/Collective is a microcosm and what happens in microcosms inevitably INFLUENCES the macrocosm. Maybe we are being encouraged to understand the duality of love and fear. Both Jeanne and I had scary dreams. Deetoo had a high degree of anxiety, and then @Lovendures writes:
" I think the collective may be truly tired.Tired of the inhumanity of war. Tired of political campaigning though it's only January (so. many. months. left.). Tired of Natural disasters. Tired of shootings and violence. Tired to Trump. SOOOOO tired of Trump in the news all the time."
Exhaustion. Yes. I now believe, Jeanne, that even if there is some catastrophic event in the next few weeks, (and there may be with all the restless anxiety we have had) what you picked up on is the world's exhaustion. What Deetoo felt is the collective's fear. Our fear that the t-guy isn't going away (I think he is, as do a marvelous number of folks here on the forum) but fear is fear and it penetrates us all, especially empaths. It works against our trust in what we believe will ultimately occur. Just because we have visions doesn't mean we don't have doubts as well. We are human. We may be honing gifts of precognition and intuition, but we are just as vulnerable to fear as anyone who is mind-blind (as the fantasy writers would say.) As I finish this I now stronglybelieve that the message I have in my brain in Kermit's voice, that the message I could find no one to give to, is for US.
Without Jeanne's post I would NEVER have brought my earworm here, it didn't make sense. It wasn't a prediction. And yet. All things work together as ONE. The message belongs here where we read and post among one another. Where we send LIGHT out across the globe as a group. Where we feel and send Loving Kindness to each other and the world. Because our microcosm is strong enough to effect changes that will manifest the vision Jeanne saw in 2014--or a version of it. Nothing stands still, not even premonitions, predictions, but the ESSENCE of things, be they visions of hope, or harsh tangible troubles, the ESSENCE of the vision can be maintained. Maybe Spirit was trying to tell me (over and over and over and over and over!!!!) that IT IS WORKING, and that I was to relay it HERE.
Maybe the Rainbow Connection message is that our compounded energies here at this site, in this forum, in this microcosm of like-minded people where we send positives to each other, allow vulnerability among one another, and ultimately use that compounded energy to send Love/Light to the entire Globe IS WORKING. Maybe, just maybe, the Rainbow Connection message is "Don't give up! Don't Give in! TRUST the visions, the intuitions, the caring we share here, and above all, do not give in to the generic pain/hate/anger/FEAR but stand strong and trust that Spirit is with us, even when it seems we are alone in a miasma of negativity, even when it seems the underbelly of humanity is rising and taking over, even when it seems that it is just too much, we can't take it any more, the Creator sends a rainbow in the sky. The Rainbow Connection is real, even and maybe especially when, we are exhausted by "it" all. The connection is real. It always has been. We have all joined knowingly together to fight the dark...and most of all, to know darkness cannot withstand LIGHT, and that DAWN is actually quite near. Yes, the storm is ahead. Fine. Grab your etheric raincoat, snowboots and shovel and stand firm. The storm will end. The rainbow will manifest. We are not alone.
OK, more than me there. I'll post a link with lyrics. & trust the earworm will ease up now that I have released the message. 🤣
This is a easier to read lyric video of Rainbow Connection
I bet @unk-p is going to make a joke about the moose. Go ahead lol.
Not gonna joke about it. I actually saw a moose once, just outside of Austin. I was on my way to Hippie Hollow, on the winding, scary road called Rt. 2222. That moose was freaking enormous. He was in a ravine, pushing his antlers thru the thick bramble. Nobody believed me when i told them about it. But that's ok. Maybe he had escaped from a private zoo? Maybe he was lost? I don't know how he got to Texas, but i know what i saw, having looked right into his eyes. The disbelief of my friends didn't change that fact.