Skyscapeadeles Rants

In the past week I have had really cool metaphysical conversations with other elves, a Buddhist, a born-again Xtian and a Muslim. And you know, I noticed afresh when you talk about things, and remove the “you must label your religion the same as me” stuff,  then so many ideas are similar - just with different words for the Divine/ higher powers/other powers, and maybe different mythologies representing the same things.
I was especially suprised by the born again Xtian. I am tolerant of most religions but this variety tend to really wind me up on sight (I object to being told to believe literally in the bible, in an aggressive manner) … It was only when we were winding up the conversation that she said she was, and she laughed at my gobsmackedness, because she also said she is so unlike most that she has met. :D. I had her pegged as eclectic pagan or something. i think I have only met one other who doesnt try and cram Christianity down my throat.  She was equally suprised to meet a pagan and that we dont worship Satan (her understanding of paganism until she met me) 
 
Just goes to show. Dont tell anyone your religious label, just have an interesting chat without trying to cram anything down anyones throat. Notice how many common points you all have. at the end share labels. it could be quite enlightening.  I felt this before, but this week had the luck to end up chatting to such a wide variety of people, in a short time, that it was especially brought home to me.  Its just the fanatics of anything that are the problem. :D.
Now if more people could talk like this we might have a lot less religious silliness in the world.

A Jedi / metaphysics related blog, and why I get so many spam messages via it, trying to sell me viagra, and porn and things, every day, I really dont know. I dont get all this on my other blogs and websites! I wouldnt have thought this was the most likely place, would you?

 Silly spammers!

My question: I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the idea of what I can only term as soul songs. To explain, it is something  I have dreamed of, far too vividly for it to be just dreaming, and that each person has a personal soul-song that, if sung at the right time and place allows an easier connection with homelands and other diamensions.  Its also something, so my spirit guides told me, that must never be recorded or sung for someone else. Its literally a song of your soul, energy “alignments”, and feelings.  I have read vaguely of shamanic soul songs (Castenedas writings if I remember right)

well I have been away for quite a while. Life took some funny turns spiritually and life-wise, and I have come to a new worldview based on the experiences, past life memories, and events spiritually. For quite a while that was the foremost thing to be worked through. For example, I never really believed in otherkin, and yet many things have ocurred, and I have had to completely rethink that - with the result that I ended up creating a site on what I came up with, in general terms; http://elvenportal.weebly.com./

 There is the concept of Des’tai, which is something that I am exploring at the moment.

What is Des’tai?

Des’tai is the following of the Way; it is dancing with the song of the Universe. The word Des’tai translates as “being on the path” or “the Good Path.” It has also been considered to mean “way of light” or the “right/light way.” What it really means is similar of the Way of the Tao, or the Way of the Wyrd - the weaving together of reality - but the difference is that Des’tai flows in the way which is most harmonious for all involved. Not the path of least resistance, but the path of harmony - that which leads to greater harmony.

This is a philosophy that Elenari seem to instinctively know about, whether they call it “Des’tai” or something else, and whether they choose to follow it or no. Those who are from the Elenari Homeworlds, at least those who started there or who lived there for a long time, seem to have an innate “sense” for whether something is Des’tai. But like anything, some are better at it, and some are not so good at it.

One can step off the path easily - Elenari are mortal, and make mistakes. That is called “Nes’tar” which means a temporary straying from the Path. An ongoing, chronic leaving of the Path is called “Nes’tai.” This is mostly a grammatical distinction, not something incorporating any sort of “mortal sin” as no such concept exists among the Elenari.

(from http://www.elenari.net)

I would be interested to hear what others feel is the similarities (and not) to the Force. I always think of the Force as a multidiamensional energy, the basic building block, if you like, of everything.

Well this is only one of the things I will be posting about in the next while! As I have said before, I know, I hope to be more active round Ashlaknights for a bit.

I am curious - what happened to make the site go down (clearly missed a lot of news in my time away). ??

If anyone wishes to copy posts from my holocron to thier website or blog, please ASK me first. I do not mind things showing up on ashlaknights.net, but that is the only website that need not ask. Anyone else, please ask. Its only fair.

(article that has been linked without my permission from another site and with the wrong name, has been deleted).

Thank you.

As I have observed before, if you mention honour in a conversation, people will usually do one of two things these days. * change the subject as fast as possible and/or * walk away really fast What does honour mean in my books? Well its a code of living. Its not about looking pretty to the outside world, it means a lot more than that. I think in this superficial society, thats why the idea makes people scurry off. Honour is, among other things, * telling the truth * being trustworthy * being true to yourself * keeping your word - if you find something is impossible for you to do as agreed, then you make it clear, up-front. * trying to do things that are helpful and useful to your community * respecting, and in turn expecting respect. * having an open mind And sticking by those principles come what may.

was thinking, you know, while clearing up my tomato vines. I have noticed a very strange thing, which I can only attribute to the secret mind-control attempts of the Great Capitalist Illuminati. (Okay so I dont know what the Higher- Than-Government Gorvernment calls itself, so thats my name for them. It must be pretty close because capitalists get uncomfortable when I mention that name, hehe). Say a big new movie is coming out. Take, as a recent example, Black Sheep. A movie for which I saw the trailer about 6 months ago, laughed myself sick at the lunaticly hilarious premise, and paid no further attention to, as its not my sort of film. Then around the time of the films UK release, I randomly find myself dreaming about man eating sheep. Up a tree. WTF? I hadnt even been thinking about the deitydamn movie! I have noticed this happen loads of times before, even with movies and new releases of stuff that I didnt actually know about, and its either at the time of release or within a few days before the release of something. Doesnt happen with every release of course, but often enough to be creepy. Now the explanations are:

-Capitalist mind control ray,

- tuning into a hive mind of humans

 - Reverberations of the event rippling through the Force that permeates us.

Going to the Pagan group this evening, and taking a friend along. Its funny, here I am, feeling that I am drifting away, It was a nessecary, a good, and a nice part of my life, but I feel that I am drifting away from that group of people. We will see. Maybe its temporary, maybe its not. What does annoy me is that say something is supposed to start at 8pm, it will start at 9 if youre lucky.  That while I do learn a lot, and I have, and made very good friends there, I never feel that I can talk openly about my questions, ideas, etc. I can on my blogs - so whats going on there? Maybe its just me, I reckon it is, in fact. I love whittering on to some of them….  and co. There are others I just feel I cant. It was a set of meetings that have had to happen between 2004, and now, but I just dont know now. I hold no animosity at all. Just…. I dunno. I have been away for a few months with theatre things, so will see how it goes this evening. I no longer go to things where I dont feel I can be “me”. Pretending to be what youre not, or trying to fit in with a group youre not absolutly comfy with, is unhealthy in the extreme. I want to go, and my friend wants someone she knows there, and it will be great to see friends I have missed. The rest, we will see..

okay, I have noticed all kinds of changes going on this winter. Not just in me, but overall. 

- spate of deaths of friends and friends’ friends in January, now there was far too much of this to be co-incidence (in which I dont believe anyway). I couldnt help but think this was actually a meta-soulgroup moving on. I was sad to loose a friend, and sad for other friends who lost people, but I do think that this is a “meant to be”, and that no-one is truly “lost” anyway.
- career changes  now mine has been on the change from a shop job  (bleaugh) to teaching (wheee) over the past year. Basically I was breaking my heart at Jessops, but too bone idle to do more than cry about it. When the company went into the red and we all thought we were going to loose our jobs, that prompted me to look for other jobs, apply for the teaching drama one, and on the back of getting in there, start in on doing my teacher training. A lot of people I know, are being kinda “forced” by events to seek jobs/careers anew. Lost jobs or being terribly unhappy at them, prompting them to seek new and better jobs, which of course in the Earth realm is all another opportunity to experince, and grow personally. However traumatic the change is.
- new understandings I have changed spiritually a great deal over the past year, and thats held a few changes in me, and still throws up suprises and new understandings.  a lot of other people I know have also changed spiritually as well. 
-ending of old friendships and new ones seeding.  I know that I have drifted away from some old friends, and at the same time am forging new ones, just seedling ones. For example, more (sincere and interesting) new penpals have come out of the woodwork this month than in the entire 4 months before. Several of my ongoing friends say the same is happening to them. This isnt the ending of old friendships in a nasty way, this is just a mutual “moving on” along divergant paths.   

I have also noticed a change in nature. When Mum and I moved here 10 years ago, there were no garden birds at all. Now in the past year or so there are redstarts, sparrows, robins, blackbirds, tits, all sorts, as well as the obvious seagulls. Skylarks have returned to the fields as well…. While so much bad IS happening, theres a lot of changes, and not all of them bad at all. 
Its as if the changes are gathering pace. Now I can often wish for something (like an opportunity to apply for a dream job, which has just popped up) and it will come within weeks. Years ago that used to take years, if at all. Powers to manefiest are getting stronger I think. Just be sure you concentrate on manefiesting postive stuff. You have the power to do either. Its obvious which is more comfy, even without thinking of wider planetary, spiritual and karmic issues!
Changes can be unsettling, in fact they are, but I think of the natural ones such as the ones I describe above, they are to be celebrated. I think the vast majority are positive, although, as with anything, its your choice as to weather you surf that change to where its taking you, or wriggle and struggle and get hurt and even more upset and hold yourself up on your souls evolution.

There is this laptop I really like online and I am soooo tempted to get it. Its good spec and reasonable. And now I have ranted for ages and trotted about looking for one and found one I like, and can afford, I wonder if I actually NEED a laptop. I mean, I know I do want one, for ease of taking work in the garden and stuff in the summer, and things like that. I mean, only a few years ago I would have considered myself very lucky to own a PC at all, without now whinging I cant take it in the garden. I would have been delighted just to have something to work on at all.

*sigh*