Matthew Stelzner Please visit my website at www.matthewstelzner.com to see my availability for intuitive readings and to sign up for my mailing list to receive my newsletter, blog, and special offers. Please check out my previous two videos in this series: The Portal of the Expanding Heart is Wide Open: https://youtu.be/h_5RuTOcpcU Very Rare Portal of Profound Love is Open: https://youtu.be/eW92GcNAHjM Software used in this video: Astronomy: www.theplanetstoday.com Astrology: Time Cycles Research, Io Sprite

I recorded this video to help show the special astronomical alignments of both the recent time, and going forward for the next few weeks and months. We are moving into what I feel is the most dramatic alignment in over thirty years, and Venus is ushering us into it with love. The planets Jupiter Saturn and Pluto have moved within twenty degrees of each other in the same part of the sky, and will be within ten degrees by February. They have not all been within this range of each other since 1981, and then they were only at that close range for about a month. Our incoming alignment will get as close as 4 degrees of precision, and will stay within an 8 degree range for a full 10 months, from March through the end of December. Prior to 1981 the last time all three were this close was in 1445, but again only for about a month. The last time we had an alignment as sustained and potent as our current one was in the year 1285. After 2020 there is not another close triple conjunction of these three outer planets until the year 2417. In the coming months I will be making many videos about the astrological meaning of this epic alignment. In this one I mainly want to show the astronomy of the event, and how that translates to the astrological chart representation. It is my hope that by tuning into the astronomy it will be easier to tune into the alignment on the level of consciousness. In this video I use two pieces of software to do a cosmic overview of the important portals that are opening during the next month, and showing how they are leading into the epic alignment of 2020. I show the astrological map with its more abstract representation of the heavens from the perspective of the earth, side by side with the astronomical map with its heliocentric perspective (Sun at the center). I think using both of these maps, combined with actually communing with these alignments in the sky (and perhaps also using a phone app like Starwalk 2 to know where to look for them), it is easier to navigate and understand what is happening with each portal. I think this video may be especially helpful for astrologers who want to understand the astronomy behind our poetic art form. As we begin to find our roar for the 2020’s, it could be a great moment for an intuitive reading. It’s time to start setting intentions around our own personal relationship with this epic portal of possibilities. Please visit my website at www.matthewstelzner.com to see my availability for individual consultations and to sign up for my newsletter,blog and special offers. Blessings!

Carrie Williams Clifford

My goal out-distances the utmost star,  Yet is encompassed in my inmost Soul;  I am my goal—my quest, to know myself.  To chart and compass this unfathomed sea,  Myself must plumb the boundless universe.  My Soul contains all thought, all mystery,  All wisdom of the Great Infinite Mind:  This is to discover, I must voyage far,  At last to find it in my pulsing heart.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on February 8, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.

“Quest” originally appeared in The Widening Light (Walter Reid, 1922).

Carrie Williams Clifford was born in September 1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio. A poet and activist, she is the author of Race Rhymes (R. L. Pendleton, 1911) and The Widening Light (Walter Reid, 1922). A co-founder and the first president of the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women, Clifford hired African-American women for the Niagara Movement, a predecessor of the NAACP.  She taught in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and worked as an editor for the Cleveland Journal. She died in 1934.

Leo Full Moon

Leo is by nature warm, playful, and charming. But when it is confronted by its polar opposite, Aquarius, these qualities can feel stunted or denied. This is the state of play in the Leo Full Moon this month. The Moon in Leo is like an amplified version of the sensitive pussycat persona that we see when the Sun is in that sign. The characteristic Leo pride is still strong, though perhaps not underpinned by the same degree of self-confidence and surety. Instead, the lunar Leo is dependent on others to reflect its light accurately; suddenly, opinions and approval matter so much more than before. Yet, under the stress of a Full Moon, such approval may not be readily forthcoming — particularly when others do not grant the Leo personality the favoritism that it craves.

The Sun in Aquarius tends to aim at a more level playing field, promoting teamwork and toeing the line. One person shining brilliantly may pose a problem. Therefore, this could be a month for setting sights a little lower as regards glowing feedback, hopes for a raise in pay, or even just a regular pat on the back. Any such lack ought not to be taken as a sign of something significant, but more as just a symptom of a malfunctioning system. We might also do well to remember that it won’t always be this way! Meanwhile, certain things will still be worth fighting for, whether these are rights, desired outcomes, or alternative options — given the trine between the Leo Moon and Mars in Sagittarius. This fiery pairing hints that the power of heat really can reign supreme. This looks to be mostly a creative, positive warmth that works in our favor, thanks in part to the relatively gentle nature of the trine. For example, an icy barrier could be broken, creating some headway towards easier relations with someone in the future.

The hothead Moon–Mars aspect in fire may veer towards a greater problem if we fail to take action due to our own laziness or to talking ourselves out of doing anything because we do not believe that it will be worthwhile. One example is that we might not bother to take steps to reduce the risk of global warming, potentially thinking that our little, individual efforts won’t matter. This could be a risky mistake, however, for if nobody bothers to make shifts in a new direction, the negative outcomes will tend to be not only inevitable but also magnified. Perhaps some steps will feel out of reach; for instance, only some people will favor severe dietary changes. But doing something like mending or recycling clothing may feel more accessible, in lieu of falling prey to sales enticements encouraging us to buy faddish fashions that last only a short while and are then discarded, ending up in the landfill. Still, the Leo Moon suggests that individual action, especially if we feel emotionally motivated, can indeed be powerful. Since the Moon relates to habitual behavior, we may be starting positive new habits for ourselves. Our first step in the right direction could help to lay the tracks for others to make similar steps in the future, too, as they see us taking a stand for something that matters.

This Moon is quincunx Neptune, which may reflect a certain kind of erosion, showing us that something is really only temporary. It will likely be one of those phenomena that we didn’t see coming, as is often the case with the quincunx aspect. We had a blind spot, and something missed our radar as a result. This may simply remind us that we are human and not perfect. The pride that Leo is famous for might be a little dented. But saving face can be achieved through the courage it takes to apologize for any error. Maybe we can put forward a little peace offering, too, rather like a gentle and soothing balm that we could say is represented by the Moon linked with Neptune. Alternatively, we may pray for healing at all levels, since minor illness is sometimes also shown by the quincunx. Neptune might just help to push our prayers through the ether.

This article is from the Mountain Astrologer, written by Diana Collis.

A new study links abnormalities in the inner ear to a predisposition for such sensations.

The Atlantic|getpocket.com

• Sarah Zhang

Photo by Jeannette Rose Photography / Getty.

In 1958, Robert Monroe floated out of his body for the first time. It began “without any apparent cause,” he wrote. His doctor, finding no physical ailment, prescribed tranquilizers. A psychologist friend, meanwhile, told me him to try leaving his body again. After all, the friend said, “some of the fellows who practice yoga and those Eastern religions claim they can do it whenever they want to.”

Monroe did try it again—and again and again. He recalls these experiences in his classic 1971 book Journeys out of the Body, which launched the phrase “out-of-body experiences” into the public conversation. Monroe died in 1995, but the fascination with out-of-body experiences endures.

Out-of-body experience can vary person to person, but they often involve the sense of floating above one’s actual body and looking down. For neuroscientists, the phenomenon is a puzzle and an opportunity: Understanding how the brain goes awry can also illuminate how it is supposed to work. Neuroscientists now think that out-of-body experiences involve the vestibular system—made up of canals in the inner ear that track a person’s locations in space—and how that information gets integrated with other senses in the brain.

In one study from France, Christophe Lopez, a neuroscientist at Aix-Marseille Université, teamed up with Maya Elzière, a doctor who sees patient with vestibular disorders. Some of these patients complained of dizziness, with physical causes that ranged from fluid leaking out of the inner ear to an infection of a nearby nerve. Of 210 patients who reported dizziness, 14 percent said they have had out-of-body experiences. In contrast, only 5 percent of healthy participants in the study reported such sensations.

Among the patients who had out-of-body experiences, some reported “being attracted by a spiral, like in a tunnel.” Others described “entering my body, like in an envelope, from the top.” Lopez says he thinks the out-of-body sensation is a result of the mismatch between information coming from the damaged vestibular system and the normal visual system.

Olaf Blanke, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, says that the study “puts previous anecdotal suggestions about a strong vestibular component in [out-of-body experiences] on firm grounds.” Blanke, who has worked with Lopez previously but not on the current study, has also shown that electrically stimulating the brain area that integrates vestibular and visual information can induce an out-of-body illusion. Whether the perturbation is in the inner ear itself or the brain, the end result seems to be the same: a feeling of having defied physics and left one’s body.

But there is still another mystery. While 14 percent of Elzière’s patients experiencing dizziness reported out-of-body experiences, 14 percent is not 100 percent. And healthy people appear to sometimes have such experiences, too. A vestibular disorder alone does not cause people to feel like they’ve left their bodies. “We believe out-of-body experiences might be a combination of several factors,” says Lopez. He also surveyed patients about their mental states, and found that those with anxiety and depression in addition to dizziness were more likely to have out-of-body experiences.

Jason Braithwaite, a psychologist at Lancaster University, has found that people who have other perceptual anomalies—like feeling the unexplained presence of another person or a body part changing shape—are also more likely to report out-of-body experiences.

The out-of-body experience may have to do with a specific way the brain tries to make sense of a space. One way to explain this, says Braithwaite, is that your brain automatically builds a bird’s-eye view of the space around you. Usually, you see things from your own perspective. But when something perturbs the brain and it can’t make sense of different streams of sensory information, this bird’s-eye model of the world may take over.

To Braithwaite, studying out-of-body experiences gets at the big questions of self and consciousness. “Twenty or thirty years ago, psychology thought consciousness research was a flaky thing, like you get your meditation mat out and light your joss sticks,” he says. (The reaction of Monroe’s psychologist friend to out-of-body experiences suggests as much.) But, says Braithwaite, “aberrant experiences in all their forms and flavors have a great deal to teach scientists and philosophers about the nature of human experiences, even when they’re wacky and wild.”Sarah Zhang is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

This article was originally published on July 26, 2017, by The Atlantic, and is republished here with permission.

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray & What It Means for Modern Relationships

by Christopher Ryan (Goodreads Author), Cacilda Jethá 

A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you (think you) know about sex, monogamy, marriage, and family. In the words of Steve Taylor (The Fall, Waking From Sleep), Sex at Dawn is “a wonderfully provocative and well-written book which completely re-evaluates human sexual behavior and gets to the root of many of our social and psychological ills.”

(Goodreads.com)

Utopia

by Thomas More, Paul Turner (Annotations) 

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a satirical work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society as described by the character Raphael Hythloday who lived there some years, who describes and its religious, social and political customs.

(Goodreads.com)

Translators:  Mike Zonta, Melissa Goodnight, Richard Branam, Hanz Bolen

SENSE TESTIMONY:  Telling lies (and believing lies) is misleading and we might not be able to brake the resultant behavior.

5th Step Conclusions:

1)  Truth is innate all-knowing, always telling the Truth, always believing the Truth, the reality of grandeur, the unbrakeability and unbreakability of Truthful behavior.

2)  All is always only ONE, Infinite Consciousness Being, expressing and informing and conveying, the Perfectly Whole Truth — which is knowing and remembering such, in every moment of True Awareness.


3)  Truth is the One Infinite ready Mentality, persistently Cultivating it’s Center of creativity, Beautifully Bestowing it’s Fully Attentative Pre -Occupation of Playfully Singing its Melodic Utopian Dance of Living Life Fully


4) The Truth I am is the only Dominion, the Universal Integrity, Essence, Value Expression of All there is. Truth is the only Familiarity, only Evidence, Feeling Spirit, Expression, The only Value, Purchase, Agreement there is. I am Only of the Family of Truth, Guiding All there is.


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Hello there everyone I am going to attempt to tackle the subject of Monogamy… Even if we have managed to shake off the shackles of guilt, shame and conditioning, I believe that we all have different appetites around sexuality and intimacy.  I don’t believe most of us are built to only have sex with one person for our adult life. As mentioned in the book ‘Sex at Dawn’ (highly recommended reading), our DNA is almost identical to Bonobo monkeys, who happily live and procreate together in groups not in nuclear families.  This raises the question: What is social conditioning and what is our real nature? I think up to the age of twenty one and perhaps into our twenties, it is important to express ourselves intimately with many people – only then can we make better choices around our self-belief, our desires and our responsibilities, because it is the first experience of ourselves outside of the childhood setting.  In many indigenous societies, this time of teenage-hood would be a very different time of initiation where we would explore our fear of death and our own unique away of engaging life.  We have none of these initiation ceremonies in our modern culture and really have no idea who we are until we end up on a therapists couch or in an AA meeting.  Some people really are built to have many partners and some are not – we must be authentic in the face of societal conditioning.  The main aim if you are to have children is to be ready to be a mother or father and the surrender that entails.  Too many people think if they find the ‘right’ partner, they will be a good parent! Backwards thinking.  I feel it takes a whole village to raise a child and it’s that village you need to concentrate building so that you don’t fall into codependency.  If you decide monogamy is for you then it should not be held by law in a marriage contract but held by love in a heart space in the sacred bond that can happen when two people are interdependent not codependent.  Most indigenous tribes do not necessarily mate for life but have many partners (both men and women) because it’s the children and the village that matter. They feel secure in their support and in themselves so they don’t have to keep someone close in a contract but keep people close in their heart. Lots of love Wendy  xxxx

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Jordan Peterson’s year of ‘absolute hell’: Professor forced to retreat from public life because of addiction

The controversial author and professor is recovering from addiction to tranquilizers and near-death in Russia, his family says

Jordan Peterson is recovering from a severe addiction to benzodiazepine tranquilizers and was recently near death in an induced coma, his daughter Mikhaila said.

He is being treated at a clinic in Russia after being repeatedly misdiagnosed at several hospitals in North America, she said.

The University of Toronto psychologist who became an intellectual hero to a global audience by aligning self-help theory with anti-progressive politics was first prescribed the medication a few years ago to treat anxiety after what Mikhaila described as an autoimmune reaction to food. His physical dependence on it became apparent to his family last April, when his wife Tammy was diagnosed with cancer.

The last year, which saw him retreat from public life after swiftly becoming one of the most famous authors in the world, has been an “absolute hell,” said Mikhaila, also a well known speaker on diet, who advocates eating only beef.

n November, he went to a rehabilitation centre in New York. He has previously discussed his long history of depression.

Jordan Peterson writes a column for the National Post, most recently in November.

His conditioned worsened through the winter, Mikhaila said. He was driven to thoughts of suicide by a movement disorder called akathisia, a well known side effect of various drugs for mental illnesses. It is a sense of restlessness and an inability to sit still.

“It became apparent that he was experiencing a paradoxical reaction to the medication, meaning the benzos did the opposite of what they’re supposed to do. These reactions are rare but are not unheard of,” Mikhaila said in the script for a video shared with the National Post.

She said the family sought alternative treatment in Russia because they found North American hospitals had misdiagnosed him, and were prescribing “more medications to cover the response he was experiencing from the benzodiazepines,” Mikhaila said. “He nearly died several times.” https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/mikhaila-peterson.jpg?w=590&quality=60&strip=all&zoom=2

She and her husband took him to Moscow last month, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia and put into an induced coma for eight days. She said his withdrawal was “horrific,” worse than anything she had ever heard about. She said Russian doctors are not influenced by pharmaceutical companies to treat the side-effects of one drug with more drugs, and that they “have the guts to medically detox someone from benzodiazepines.”

Jordan Peterson has only just come out of an intensive care unit, Mikhaila said. He has neurological damage, and a long way to go to full recovery. He is taking anti-seizure medication and cannot type or walk unaided, but is “on the mend” and his sense of humour has returned.

“He’s smiling again for the first time in months,” she said.