Marisa Tomei and Hugh Grant

“As long as you’re alive, you can forgive and be forgiven. Once you’re dead, it gets significantly harder.”
–Marisa Tomei as Holly quoting character in fictional movie Paradise Misplaced in the actual movie The Rewrite

First presented as a series of articles in Unity Magazine in 1894-95, Lessons in Truth was published in three paperback volumes in 1896-97. In 1903 the book was published as a single volume by Unity School of Christianity.

Lessons in Truth is a clear, concise representation of New Thought philosophy and metaphysical Christianity. The spiritual concepts presented in these 12 lessons show us how to increase our personal empowerment and enhance our spiritual growth. Dr. Cady teaches that our lives can be transformed by the power of our thoughts, words and beliefs. She encourages us to find our truth as it is written in our own hearts and then apply these truths in every area of our lives.

Link to free copy online:  http://newthoughtlibrary.com/cady-emilie-h/lessons-in-truth/audioEbook/emily-cady-lessons-in-truth.pdf

“I am a dreamer.  I am never the dream.”
–Thane of Hawaii

“The only way to enjoy anything in life is to be willing to part with it.”
–Thane of Hawaii

Thane of Hawaii is the late dean and co-founder of The Prosperos.

An interesting article called “Dr. Eloi-Sun, Spiritualist, To Talk Here” from the Eugene Register from October 31, 1939:  https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4pF9x-cDGsoC&dat=19391101&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

A MAN’S GUIDE…siteofcontact.net e-magazine October 2016 issue

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Gandhi

Happiness I found means different things to different people, some it’s money, others more sex (or some sex), then again, other people it is feeling less or no isolation or the need to be lonely, still others gain security in knowing that they are effective in their actions, and things can happen the way they feel they should.

This blog is about learning about your charisma, and actions that can help you connect to it. Therefore, allowing you to reconnect to events or people in such a way to have you feel a part of something bigger and move forward.

The following seven tips require you to remain conscious of your actions, as you take courage to move your life forward and there in reveal and perfect your signature style.

1)    Be aware of what gets you excited, of what moves you, what you like or gives you passions to do things.

2)   Learn where your attitudes of likes and dislikes might have come from, then how to change them if necessary.

3)   Pay attention to how you define your purpose or what you want to achieve in life and be accountable to reaching your goal.

4)   Focus on moving forward with agility.  Include your readiness to learn and use new concepts and techniques combined with what you know to bring about new concepts and creations.

5)   Be coachable, with attributes of being curious and grateful.

6)   Be aware of your Body Language and how it affects your results. Now this will need you to see some humor and the ability to laugh at yourself and your life as situations become awkward or stressful in your reinventing yourself.

7)   Strive to work with the courage to see things through, or know when to stop action, because it is finished as defined by your purpose.

Your signature style will appear with an air of synchronicity once you’ve begun the conscious work. Oh, and I would suggest keeping a journey to capture every step of your adventure even the scary parts–this is October after all.

In closing, I leave you with a favorite quote – Vincent Van Gogh:

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, to learn how to do it.”

Postscript:

Another component I would like to remind you of is the healing power of Laughter, October is not only a month for kids to have fun and to laugh but for adults too. I don’t remember her words exactly, so I will paraphrase what I believe I heard Marlo Thomas said about Laughter – “Not only is it an expression of our happiness, but it also has actual health benefits. And that’s because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others.”

So please this October have some fun, and if you can’t find anything to laugh about come over to me so I can have a laugh.

Aloha

Calvin

This news from NASA may cause you to question everything.

The government space agency recently reported that there are actually 13 constellations in the Zodiac, rather than 12. So this means that if you’ve been reading your horoscope under a certain sign, you’ve been reading it all wrong. This new constellation is called Ophiuchus, and if your birthday is between November 29 and December 17, you would technically fall under this sign. Naturally, this news has caused the Internet to completely freak out and some of the reactions have been absolutely hysterical. Apparently this information isn’t new, however, it’s actually been around for millions of years and for some reason people have just seemed to ignore it. Maybe it’s because Ophiuchus doesn’t have the same ring to it as Capricorn or Aries. According to Elite Daily, its sign is a man named Serpentarius holding a snake and people born under it seek peace and harmony, are poetic and inventive and have thirsts for knowledge but also secret enemies in their close circles. Woah, calm down Ophiuchus. Check out the amended list of horoscopes and some of our favorite Twitter reactions below.

•Aquarius: Feb 16 – March 11
•Pisces: March 11 – April 18
•Aries: April 18 – May 13
•Taurus: May 13 – June 21
•Gemini: June 21 – July 20
•Cancer: July 20 – August 10
•Leo: August 10 – September 16
•Virgo: September 16 – October 14
•Libra: October 14 – November 23
•Scorpio: November 23 – November 29
•Ophiuchus: November 29 – December 17
•Sagittarius: December 17 – January 20

Ophiuchus: Facts about the Snake Bearer

Ophiuchus is a fairly large and rambling constellation, but it is one of the least well-known. Although Ophiuchus does touch the elliptic — the path that the sun appears to take through the sky — astrologers for centuries ignored it as part of the Zodiac. The constellation finally got some respect in 2011 when they added Ophiuchus as an astrological sign and realigned the Zodiac calendar.

Locating Ophiuchus

Ophiuchus [Oaf-ih-YOU-kus] spans 948 square degrees in area. It can be found northwest of the center of the Milky Way. It is situated near the constellations Aquila, Serpens and Hercules and opposite Orion. The southern part lies between Scorpius to the west and Sagittarius to the east. The position of Ophiuchus is:

• Right Ascension:  17.18 hours
• Declination:  -4.24 degrees
• Visible: between 80 degrees and -80 degrees
• Best viewed: In July around 9 p.m.

Notable stars and objects

Ophiuchus contains the second closest star to Earth — Barnard’s Star — about 6 light-years away. The red dwarf star is a magnitude 9.5, making it a challenge to find with the naked eye.

Delineating the head of Ophiuchus, alpha Ophiuchi is an A-type giant. The star is also known by the name Rasalhague, meaning “Head of the Snake Charmer” in Arabic.

Two stars — eta Ophiuchi and zeta Ophiuchi, a hot blue giant that has a reddish appearance because of interstellar dust — mark the knees of Ophiuchus.

A red giant about 170 light-years distant, delta Ophiuchi (Yed Prior), a red giant 170 light-years distant, and epsilon Ophiuchi, a class G giant 108 light-years distant, form the snake charmer’s left arm.

Ophiuchus is home to a number of star clusters, including M10, which is only 20,000 light-years from Earth. It has a magnitude of 6.6 and is a Shapley class VII cluster.

Ophiuchus also houses Kepler’s Supernova, also known as Kepler’s Star or Supernova 1604, as it was discovered by German astronomer Johannes Kepler in 1604. He tracked the supernova for a year and its remnants are still studied today as it was the most recent supernova to be observed with the naked eye.

Mythology

As is the case with all of the Zodiac constellations, Ophiuchuswas recorded in the 2nd century by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy, and the name is Latin for “serpent bearer.”

The snake is often associated with doctors, so Ophiuchus is often associated with healing images. The Romans associated the constellation with Asclepius, who learned the secret to immortality by watching one serpent treat another serpent with healing herbs. Zeus killed Asclepius with a lightning bolt because he didn’t want everyone to be immortal, but later honored his good deeds by giving him a spot in the heavens.

The Babylonians associated the constellation with Nirah, a god who was sometimes depicted with a human upper body and legs that were serpents.

Ophiuchus is the 13th sign of the Zodiac (which is not a science) and represents those born between Nov. 30 and Dec. 17.

— Kim Ann Zimmermann, SPACE.com contributor

(from collegecandy.com, space.com and Hugh John Malanaphy, H.W., m.)

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload is a bestsellingpopular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the United States and Canada in 2014.^[1] It is Levitin’s 3rd consecutive best-seller, debuting at #2 on the New York Times Best Seller List,^[2] #1 on the Canadian best-seller lists,^[3] #1 on Amazon, and #5 on The London Times bestseller list.

In The Organized Mind, Levitin demonstrates how the Information Age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data, and uses the latest brain science to explain how the brain can organize this flood of information. Levitin then demonstrates methods that readers can use to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time. It answers three fundamental questions: Why does the brain pay attention to some things and not others? Why do we remember some things and not others? And how can we use that knowledge to better organize our home and workplaces, our time, social world, and decision making? ^[4]

The book is divided in three parts. The first part focuses on attention. Levitin explains why attention is the most essential mental resource for any organism and describes how the brain’s attentional system works: it determines which aspects of the environment an individual will deal with, and what gets passed through to that individual’s conscious awareness. The attentional awareness system is the reason one can safely drive or walk to work without noticing most of the buildings or cars one passes by.

Additionally, Levitin reveals that the phrase “paying attention” is scientifically true. Multitasking comes at an actual metabolic cost: switching back and forth between tasks burns a lot more oxygenated glucose (the fuel the brain runs on) than focusing on one task does, and can lead quickly to mental exhaustion.

The second and third parts of the book show how readers can use their attentional and memory systems for better organization, from the classroom to the boardroom, from home lives to interactions with friends, doctors, and business associates.

On publication, the book received praise from a wide array of people including former U.S. Secretary of State (and Secretary of the Treasury) George P. Shultz; Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (ret.), Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Stanley Prusiner, and head writer for The Big Bang Theory, Eric Kaplan.

(via Wikipedia.org and Hanz Bolen, H.W., M.)

Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of the physical world, and the various interpretations of the theory on offer present conflicting ontological pictures. Rather, quantum mechanics is essential to the metaphysician because it reshapes standard metaphysical debates and opens up unforeseen new metaphysical possibilities. Even if quantum mechanics provides few clear answers, there are good reasons to think that any adequate understanding of the quantum world will result in a radical reshaping of our classical world-view in some way or other. Whatever the world is like at the atomic scale, it is almost certainly not the swarm of particles pushed around by forces that is often presupposed. This book guides readers through the theory of quantum mechanics and its implications for metaphysics in a clear and accessible way. The theory and its various interpretations are presented with a minimum of technicality. The consequences of these interpretations for metaphysical debates concerning realism, indeterminacy, causation, determinism, holism, and individuality (among other topics) are explored in detail, stressing the novel form that the debates take given the empirical facts in the quantum domain. While quantum mechanics may not deliver unconditional pronouncements on these issues, the range of possibilities consistent with our knowledge of the empirical world is relatively small-and each possibility is metaphysically revisionary in some way. This book will appeal to researchers, students, and anybody else interested in how science informs our world-view.

(Amazon.com)

A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual father.

While others viewed Zen practice as a purification of the mind or a stage on the way to perfect enlightenment, Bodhidharma equated Zen with buddhahood and believed that it had a place in everyday life. Instead of telling his disciples to purify their minds, he pointed them to rock walls, to the movements of tigers and cranes, to a hollow reed floating across the Yangtze.

This bilingual edition, the only volume of the great teacher’s work currently available in English, presents four teachings in their entirety. “Outline of Practice” describes the four all-inclusive habits that lead to enlightenment, the “Bloodstream Sermon” exhorts students to seek the Buddha by seeing their own nature, the “Wake-up Sermon” defends his premise that the most essential method for reaching enlightenment is beholding the mind. The original Chinese text, presented on facing pages, is taken from a Ch’ing dynasty woodblock edition.

(Amazon.com and Randy Ramsley)