One Week Into My Journey Semi-raw Kinda Raw Vegan for Sure-Here are some thoughts on which I gnaw!

I’ve spent my last two blogs telling you about what I’ve been eating. However just over a week into the journey I want to share with you some of my thoughts instead. Not really about how my body is feeling or what I’m thinking about the whole journey as it unfolds but just to pause instead for a moment and ask… WHY?

You see I kinda jokingly said it here and there and you can pick it up in my older blogs about last year’s journey but here is where I get serious…for once! You see here on my musings I kinda behave all footloose and fancy free dancing about everybody …you see my bhakti (love) yogic dance from over on my sister blog UCP-Universal Collective Prayer has been really getting the better of me more and more these days…that’s the reason why. So every thing is a dance for me you see! Of course it is very pleasing to me but I also wish to communicate here you see! And even over on UCP there are the times like here when I announced I was going to look at some gyan (knowledge) yoga and stuff too man so here it is the gyan yogic scoop on my current journey…scholarly hat on as I try to be like the character Owl from Winnie the Pooh instead of Pooh! As I think Pooh is a bhakti yogi and Owl a gyan yogi. So here it is me going all gyan yogini on ya!:

MOTIVATION BEHIND IT

This will still sound funny but it really was the teeth for me! I don’t know if the teeth are like some really important marker for the rest of the body like how some people say they check you hair and analyze it and can from that say what your general health status is? But ever since I’ve been on the journey even in the first few hours of Day 1 my teeth stopped feeling this kinda subtly irritating effect. It feels like the equivalent to when there is this slightly buzzing high frequency noise somewhere out there you but you can’t quite pick up where it is coming from…well that was how my teeth were equivalently feeling. And now they are at rest…so calm…

Also it was the desire to savour loads of fresh fruit and to celebrate vegetables. Seriously…on my first journey I got the idea after having an apple one morning about how lovely it must be to drink the water just at the surface of the apple that was slightly flavoured by the apple. I’m a big apple lover (it even makes up a big part of my fav perfume!) and on my good normal days I try to have at least one a morning! So I genuinely like fruits! But in the case of the vegetables I still don’t like to eat them just raw like that hence is why my journey is semi-raw kinda raw and vegan for sure. So I like to slightly cook the veges really it’s like more just warming then up a bit too. Also last year I was inspired by a fellow blogger’s journey into full raw although I can’t see myself there any time soon. But her creations really look delicious but seem to take a lot of time to prepare. I told her if she opened such a restaurant or started catering I’d be a customer for sure!

But these stints I’m on are my way of experimenting…finding out a bit more about this…taking some life notes…a lot like my experiment in UCP…where over there on that blog I try to explore this thing I call UCP-Universal Collective Prayer.

Hey that’s what life should be…exploring for me…everyone is an explorer not just me and not just those people on Nat Geo! So I see it as my responsibility to explore find out have all these lovely little journeys…like I explained on this blog…to me this is why we are here on earth!

The reason I’ve decided to get all gyan yoga on my readers is because one of them commenting on Facebook thought I was on ‘a diet’ and that I’m not. I know it must have led to a bit of awkwardness for her… as I really am not a very slim person especially not by fashionista standards but then most people aren’t! But also I can by medical standards lose some too…although I’ve not weighed in years! So yep I can do with losing pounds but I’m not on ‘a diet’ of course I allow myself in these periods to drop pounds if I do but I just enjoy it. So I’m writing this to also let her know that for sure she doesn’t need to be on a diet especially not on a Special K one! OMG! Hmmm...maybe she should be reading the beautiful Sarah Maria's book?

Now, if I was already very slim like this other friend who went fully raw well then I’d have to be careful to maintain enough calories not to drop weight but in my case I let it drop if it does…but it is just a useful byproduct of this journey. Hence my point is my intent is not to lose weight here but to explore a way of eating that I find can be more healthy and peaceful in many ways. Of course in exploring it I will get closer to my healthy weight range too because having a healthy weight and muscular tone etc is well part of being healthy hence the word healthy in ‘healthy weight’ so…so be it! It’s the same with my stepping and my pedometer …if I walk consistently and don’t over do it on the eating yes I will lose weight and build muscle and tone to some extent…but I walk to be healthier not to be a particular weight, shape or size. To me fat people are just as beautiful as scrawny people as beautiful as tall people as short and so too are people who are ‘just right’. But there is no ‘just right’…although there is a right fit for us all…I guess like how Goldilocks did…always in threes…one porridge too hot…one too cold…one just right…one bed too hard…one too soft and one just right! But it’s just about being me…I recall my theme songs: primary and sub-primary here! ...'I am the One and Only' by Chesny Hawks and 'Wonder' by Natalie Merchant...

So that’s it for the WHY??? really but here is just something too that I think overlaps into the whole healthy …in an overall way kinda thing. Apart from being healthy physically well…I guess here I’m getting all Deepak Chopra on ya …woo hoo!...the whole mind, body, spirit wellness thing. But it’s absolutely true really but you have to find it and discover it on your own. Like I’m already all happy dancing on my UCP blog so I guess that covers mind and spirit in a kinda way along with all the reading and general daily life experiments…like Winnie the Pooh …I think, think, think…on this blog as well. So I perhaps have the mind and spirit thing going on so it leaves the body for work…but you see the whole mind, body, spirit thing is suppose to combine just like all the yogic pathways to well give you something…BALANCE or HAPPINESS! SAMADHI even! ??? But really it doesn’t…none of it can really make you happy you know…happiness to me comes from just being really…it’s a lot like when I asked the question on Intent…Would You Choose Pain Over Non-Existence? And in that gyan yogic discussion the conclusion was that I should…just be…So I’m just being…however I am…But the think about the human spirit and nature is we then want to interact with other spirits you see and that is how we blend universally but here is where my other little gyan yogic discussion comes up…socialization and eating:

SOCIALIZATION

Some people say you must never eat alone…I do it all the time but hey I’m never alone really but I’ll leave that discussion for UCP. But in the gyan yogic sense I’m discussing here…two feet on the ground…us human beings need to interact with each other. One of the most important times it seems for doing this is over a meal. And when one is eating semi-raw kinda raw vegan for sure! Well one has to decline many a lunch/dinner invitation unless one can find something to eat at the restaurant or home of invite. And when it is just a brief experimentation well it’s tough to explain. Maybe I’ll just have to send them to this blog or let them look at my rumbly tumbly Pooh tummy and think…yea it’s a diet!:) I’ve been able to handle being vegetarian and teetotaller too all my life and work around it although even that sometimes depending on the other being can get all weird. I mean some people in some places and cultures still don’t get the whole vegetarian thing even! But it is generally well accepted and engrained here in Trinidad. So it’s no biggie…and I’ve had my whole life and family support to learn about that one…not to mention a whole religion behind me and a line of ancestors too!

But for raw for sure it would be tough! Is why I told my eating raw blogger friend a future business opportunity awaits her! You see and I know this is no big mystery I’m here to reveal but people who have busy lifestyles eat out a lot and they need places to get the food! I’ve been looking at my new follower on Twitter’s advice-RawfoodRepair that you should pack something. But really it’s not the same when you want to network and socialize…in fact I am in a must attend event on Sat where my veganess is going to be heavily threatened…it is why I said Semi-Raw Kinda Raw Vegan for Sure! As I figured I can at least stand up to the vegan bit for all of the three weeks…but I didn’t realize I had this charity dinner thing on during the period…but I realize that it is good too that this is going to be the case now…as this will be my ultimate challenge…being out and about in a setting like this to see how I’ll pan out…I hope I come out of it still vegan for sure! Look out to see how I fare my friends! Hmmm...will my purple elephant win? Tune in to find out... :)

Day 2 into Day 3 on My Journey Semi-Raw, Kinda Raw…Vegan for Sure!

I’m having some internet connectivity issues at home so as much as I wanted to make this a daily update if possible…that has made it just so much harder! Although I really don’t think I need to tell my readers every single day what goes into my mouth or how I feel. But I do want to generally share my experiences on the journey with you…so here it goes…

At the end of Day 1 into Day 2 I was feeling not hungry amazingly but very calm! And my teeth really feel so much nicer some how! Well I always feel that when I have the soda drinks they irritate and somehow well excuse my engineering term...but I feel it somehow corrodes them! So the teeth are no longer howling at me!

My main accomplishment for Day 2 was I was able to have a cup of Twinings Green Tea just with hot water! No sugar or Splenda or any sugar subs galore! I did hear on the radio driving home that there is Stevia and agave nectar (and you can read about that in a friend and fellow bloggers rec. as well in the comment for Mondays’ blog) …and on the radio the man said I should be looking for long chain sugar subs! Well I went without so there!

So here is what went into my mouth…

DAY 2

-three bananas
(I had 2 and a friend having bananas also for breakfast gave me one more so there 2 became 3! Hmm…fraternizing with fellow fruit eaters has its perks)
-two black plums
-two apples
-one cup of Twinings Green Tea (no sugar or cream!)
-one bowl of yellow dhal
-one very large cob of corn boiled in water flavoured with salt and hot peppers
(It was the hard in grain so even boiled it could have been raw)
-16 ozs of Ocean Spray Cran Raspberry Light juice
(Yea it had the Splenda! But it’s more and more looking like a long term solution for those teeth!)

And here’s the news! Yesterday afternoon when I went to the grocers to stock up on more fruit at the back of my mind was a very special kind of tea. It was mentioned to me by my friend and fellow Deliciously Divine Café member (where we virtually sit and shoot the breeze usually over many cups of tea!)- Noreen! Here is that tea!

Now I saw lots of tea on sale at the local Trini grocer quite a few green teas and many organic some even from the UK. But I couldn’t find the tea that my Irish friend Noreen recommended to me! But it did have this offering from Sir Thomas Lipton that I figured I’d give a whirl since I like the flavour of orange in my tea:


Im currently having a cup on my Day 3 semi-raw vegan for sure and it’s quite fine I’d say! So here it is what’s in my mouth so far just at around mid morning on Day 3…

DAY 3

-two bananas
(no fruit friend this morning sadly)
-one black plum
-one apple
-one cup of Lipton Green Tea naturally flavoured (so the pack says) with Orange, Passion Fruit and Jasmine! (no sugar or cream!)

Looking fwd to more! I think my 'Purple Elephant' is dancing forward quite nicely you see! :) Even dancing 1.5 miles yesterday again!

Semi-Raw Yet Again!

It's the first time this year I'm trying a semi-raw kinda raw but vegan for sure diet but if you've been reading me since last year you might recall my similar adventures in eating last year around the same time. Perhaps a year is what it takes to come back to this place but I've decided to give it another whirl. It was suppose to be all November long but I was ill planned for the challenge last week. Although I did generally eat way less last week and lots of vegetable soup only lunches...so I guess I was prepping for this! In case it is also not recalled I've always been vegetarian so my transitionary journey is never as drastic although apart from cutting out the dairy I try to cut back on junk and eat less as a whole. Even last week just like how I felt last year...you get to realise just how little food you really need to live and how much you need water! I'm also saying goodbye to Coke Zero and/or Coke Light and all of the Coca Cola company well except perhaps their Dasani for this! And even today my teeth feel better already! And in the past it was my teeth that prompted me on the journey!

This time around the economics of not buying lunch all three week journey long has dawned on me for the first time! And let's just say if I keep up like this for the rest of November I stand to save a pretty penny...somewhere in the US$100+ range! However the loss of socialization opportunities over meals shared is not ever easy and it's yet another dynamic to eating raw you see!

So here it is!Today is my first day back semi-raw kinda raw again and this is what into my mouth went in the order it went in too!:

-two bananas
-one apple
-a cup of Twinings green tea sweetened with one packet of Splenda (no cream although I usually drink evaporated milk in my tea and I'm thinking tomorrow I can try to drop the sweetener altogether!)
-one more apple
-one black plum
-one more cup of Twinings green tea
-one head of broccoli and six large white mushrooms sauteed
(only very lightly for warmth really just like I did in the past) in one teaspoon of olive oil with a handful of assorted nuts tossed in...seasoned with a dash of salt and some chilli pepper seeds.
-one bowl of dhal (the yellow kind) made thin (the way i like it)and the dhal mashed up
-16 oz of OceanSpray Cran raspberry Light (i.e. also partially sweetened with Splenda and supposedly free of artificially added stuff otherwise)
-lots of water throughout the day!

And that was it for me! And amazingly I was also able to do some walking after dinner too so I've walked about 1.5 miles in all today! That's something I want to focus on this time too...getting in some exercise despite eating like this! :)

So happy day one went this well for me! :) Wish me well to continue on with my purple elephant marching forward please! :)

By the way I check how much I walk with my lovely steppy thingy! i.e. my Omron pedometer! See it below...

Upcoming on Meady's Musings and the Beautiful Sarah Maria!

Just taking a few moments to share with you some upcoming events/series on Meady's Musings. I know I've been idle in following up with my reincarnation series which has since extended into talks on parallel worlds and things metaphysical as a whole!...but it is my musings and well I have to muse before I write! :) I'm still reading Dr. Michio Kaku's book Parallel Worlds and I'll be sure to follow up with some posts soon! However here is a listing of some posts to come:


- Raw/Semi-raw Yet Again!: I've gone very offtrack in the things I've been eating over the last few mths and I feel a good way to get back on track is by going all cold again literally as eating semi-raw does make me feel so cold! But will do it for the month of Nov a nice sort of body rest, fast and/or cleanse of sorts between the Diwali and Christmas seasons of eating aplenty! Hey luckily I live in the Tropics so it's not that cold! :)


-Reincarnation...Parallel Worlds and All Things Metaphysical For Sure!: I know...I know all my false promises but they will be coming Universe willing for sure!:) I've even opened up a virtual cafe of sorts on Facebook open to some special friends mostly from Intent! :) And out of it might be finally putting together a novel I conceptualised since in 2003! So you realise sometimes you do have to wait on me! :) But hey the Universe is infinite and time is fictional so you are going to get that book out one day publisher willing or not...and for sure many blog posts to come! :)

And in Dec yes...oh yes!...

My Advent Calendar: It will be on again and I'll be resurrecting my Books and Films Corner blog again! As I look forward to celebrating Christmas again on all my three blogs and dancing with those Three Wise Men again! :) BOY! Have I missed them! :)

And speaking of much loved friends and Intent...that's the next thing I wanted to speak about...THE BEAUTIFUL SARAH MARIA! :) from my interactions with her on Intent I have to say she truly is a beautiful person both within and out. And I highly recommend that you check out her new book...LOVE YOUR BODY, LOVE YOUR LIFE! :) For sure the beautiful being that she is...she should be able to share with you a thing or two if you need some tips on loving your body and your life!:) Or maybe you have a friend...sister...daughter etc who you think needs to embrace themselves more fully and for that check out Amazon to get the book right here!:


You can read more about Sarah Maria on her website- http://www.sarahmaria.com

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change-Should I Be Bothered More about My Carbon Footprint or in the Existence of Bigfoot!?

Image re-published from http://www.textually.org

Today is Blog Action Day 2009! I will continue with this post later on today but for now I will leave you with this song...relevance will become clearer later on! :) But for now...

"I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves!" -The Coca Cola Company

Hey I drink and buy their products all the time too so it's not what you might be thinking either...wait to hear more but for now sing! :)




So here I am again amid Diwali festivities trying to keep my Blog Action Day commitment. So here it goes…

My relationship with worrying about the environment started kinda young… looking back at it now…I mean I was reading Time magazine at 11 (takes you back to approx. 1986) and it seems I saw this whole thing about ozone depletion way back then…I was so into the whole ‘Greenhouse Effect’ phenomenon and everything that I took it upon myself to draw my own chart…a scaled up version of the magazine drawing and stick it up on the class bulletin board...looking back at myself now well…:)…ahmmm…but then I never really fit in…of course though as Kermit The Frog said, “It’s not easy being green!”

So I was thinking about Climate Change when it was still mostly termed as Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect…stopped using CFCs in my early teens…worried about my impact on the dwindling water supply and all of that…doing ‘the good thing’ like many others I guess closing the tap to not let the water run while brushing my teeth. I was probably wondering about my ‘Carbon Footprint’ long before it was even termed that! But I’m sure this was not unique to me…there was a whole generation of kids world over being created to worry worry about the environment! Sesame Streeters…Generation Xers…all feel the bludgeoning burden of not being easy to be green!

But like most undergoing development…as an adolescent I guess, I began to rebel…began to think…on my own…not just regurgitating facts and certainly not re-creating charts from Time magazine…in fact can’t tell you the last time I read the magazine…in fact even for this Blog Action Day I’m winging it on my own…not referring to their notes and guidelines…hey I’m not going to join the masses here…I’m not going to just add my voice because…I agreed to blog…but I’m going to question…figure this thing out for myself…after all, us humans were given the gift of independent thought you know…

Of course there are ‘experts’ out there…people who spend more time focusing or
‘uncovering’ certain 'truths' than I…and so I do have to reference them from time to time else it would be ignorant, arrogant and so know it all of me!

But to be honest the more you think about something and get into it the more you wonder about its validity…so really as I got into ‘adulthood’ and now into my 30s…I’ve often wondered- “Should I Be Worrying More About My Carbon Footprint Or In the Existence of Bigfoot?!”….seriously! :) And this is after completing studies in Environmental Engineering in my early to mid twenties and getting more and more ‘officially’ into concepts like ‘sustainable development’. In fact I had a big 30something let’s get over the Global Warming business thing discussion already on my favourite online community Intent…where I called Dave Trager a very smart man! :) And I still think he is…but I guess I’m back to where OK…OK…load me up with the backpack and let’s go…baggage on…again…as I agreed to do this blog albeit over two days…noticeably I never said we should be all nasty with the environment ever…but what’s with everyone in my generation having to be beast of burdens toting the environmental cause and a billion other causes already! Can’t we just be?

I mean the brainy pop physicists also say the universe is expanding as it should and there is also risk of global freezing! Seriously that’s what I’m kinda reading now in Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku:) But hey I understand there is a scientic consensus by the IPCC and for sure there is climate change and although in the end the forces beyond man’s control like Bigfoot coming down after the snow caps melt or who knows the thing that killed the dinosaurs doing us more harm…I have to still be responsible for my own actions and don’t use it as an excuse to nasty up the planet! :) So as I said load the backpack on again already and here I go!


But for sure I will tell you this I was always on that road…the sustainable development belief system one that is…never was I born to be an environmentalist through and through…you should have seen the look on my Biology teacher’s face when I put up my hand one day in class and said when discussing a question…and seriously this stays with me today- the disappointment she felt…and I never got to explain myself…I guess I was seen as a goody two shoes by her…filled with love for nature and birds and the bees…after all I am a Hindu…and we tend to worship nature and I am vegetarian at that! Anyway, the teacher for whatever reason expected better of me when I said “Why bother about the environment anyway!” :)

It was one of those moments…forever stuck in time…a case when if the media was covering the story and I was a famous person…the equivalent of them taking the line and running with it…so next day…if there was press to cover it the headline would read:

“Why bother about the environment anyway!” –this was the exclamation by the student who should have known better in a Biology class today when contemplating the pros and cons of building a paper making plant on a Caribbean island.

You see what we were discussing in the class was the section of a question we normally had to answer for the Caribbean exams in Biology back then…you see they were already asking about Sustainable Development even then…but I was stuck with a bunch of pure environmentalists…purist like no other?! But if you ask them..Well you love the environment right? So like would you be willing to go live by the bank of a river then…and rock in a hammock…play with the animals that come to drink water and eat berries and nuts? And they stare at you blankly…:) However,thing is I feel that maybe us going back to ‘the Golden Age’ but unless society as a whole decides to go that way…we have to live in a world of balance …development…but a sustainable one…

So back in high school Biology class, what I had meant was the option we had looked at wasn’t economically feasible so we could have scrapped the plant anyway…so there wasn’t any point in going further to discuss or analyse what would the environmental impact be…as the plant wouldn’t need to be put up in the first place since it would make no money! It didn’t mean I didn’t care about the Environment in general! If only I could get to go back in time and explain…awww…! :) I did care! :)

But perhaps then it was also me making my way into the profession of Chemical Engineering that I’m now in…but with the bent that it should be done in a genuinely environmentally friendly way and sustainable development be considered upfront…I can wish at least!


But hey here’s where Coke, Bigfoot, Indian farmers committing suicide due to drought, my carbon footprint and even Farmville the rave of a game application on Facebook comes in! Through in the buzz words sustainable development, corporate social responsibilty and social entrepreneurship and voila you are about to see why I had the Coke commercial up!:

You see when Coke did that ad…I don’t think the corporate world was the same place…they knew people liked all this peace and love and honey bees business but they wanted them to buy their Coke so…they sold their Coke by piggy backing on the whole global love and oneness theme so hey….

Coke = peace, love, harmony, global oneness…did I say peace already?

Hey but so does Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and without going into details and risk of offending religious sensibilities and the prayers over on my sister blog UCP…any character or figure head you put up there can be seen as the symbol of hope, peace, love, compassion…the list of loveliness goes on! And for sure it’s what everyone really wants for sure that IS the REAL THING! :)

OK so why not Coke! I say so be it! Of course Coke isn’t perhaps a healthy, wholesome drink but then when you look at other factors that cause death…well…of course Coke is not water…so then Coke started to sell water but then there are those plastic bottles and another plant just to give you something that should in actuality exist in nature in the first place for free! But you see that comes back to the point…we’re not in that Golden Age! We’re not in Paanchvati of the Ramayan or The Garden of Eden!

But really Coke is the real thing…and it is going to be, in a whatever sugar free version, for a very long time, from all signs of it…but if you’re the real thing Coke at least live up to your name nah…so…here is where the Indian farmers and drought and Coke and water supply come in…you see it’s all tied to Climate change because I guess the droughts this year globally so far could be pegged perhaps to Climate change phenomenon…but then Coke…is also tied to several water supply issues too in particular in India so I thought I’d throw all that into the story too…you can easily google up those stories…and Coke’s promise to become water neutral by the end of this year…don’t know the outcome…

Point being is here is my proposed solution to all this environmental baggage business…

Coke do the right thing and be the real thing if you like…so tell people what you’re selling and also try to sell things for people that are good for them at a fair price and they will give you back love…the real thing…

And there you’d have it…sustainable development moving to corporate social responsibility moving to social entrepreneurship…because to me that is the transition and it is already happening…first people were OK with (well people post the dirty Dickensian days at least and in the 'less impoverished and less populated world' where labour is not disposable i.e. India and China not included in these standards):

Sustainable development: You could build the plants once they did not drastically harm the workers, their pets, their neighbours and their pets and then don’t forget about all animals and the waterways, air etc.

Then people started to say no…

Corporate Social Responsibilty: You can’t build the plant if it is going to harm us physically for sure but also you can’t bulid it if we don’t feel happy…provide funding for cultural events, develop the local sports team…we are already inhaling badish fumes, eating bad food, drinking bad stuff…so the least you can do is encourage or help us pay to gather and do healthier things!

But then comes…

Social Entrepreneurship: We want the nice things…that your sales brings…the real thing and all…but you must make the sales by being nice…make nice products…things that don’t harm a fly to create, produce and distribute and when the flies drink them they will achieve nirvana! Make a business out of helping us reach nirvana…care for the old and call it a business…

Now perhaps the next step after that will be we all just really do want to chuck it all in and go live in a hut by a river…but guess what?

We may not be able to do it by then if the rivers are polluted and if we’re still as competitive cause then everyone will fight for who gets the best hut space and the nicest river view! So really it’s not Coke’s fault…it’s yours and yours and yours and mines…the fabulous Gandhian quote-“Be the change you want to see!” comes to mind here!


It’s why I’ll just have a sip of Coke Zero for now thank you! And join the rest of the Generation Xers on Facebook for a word game that promised to save 20 tropical rainforest trees if I made a 10 letter word and Farmville to make believe that I’m growing apple trees with honey bees and snow white turtle doves(I've already requested they add honey bees and snow white turtle doves to the game)…but as a Farmville using friend from Venezuela and I obeserved we really don’t have to face the hot sun and bachacs (ants that bite hard and eat crops) like farmers in the region would have to! And so before I close…I give a thought for those Indian farmers who committed suicide…no matter how bad things are why kill yourself I mean the worse that can happen is you would die anyway?! So sad always to hear of suicide...and really I wish I was there to give them a cold Coke and say doh worry the worse can happen is you will die so don't kill yourself over it...you will die one day anyway! But this really did happen and it is definitely a clear indicator of how hard some people on this planet have it and it’s not going to be solved by clicking a button for a cause on Facebook!

Solutions welcome…no wonder the Nobel Committee awarded to Obama! They too decided to simply sing…the Coke song! Because…all they can do is hope! :)

And Coke those Indian farmers really need the water! So please let them have it or at least leave some in the reservoirs for them..so then they can be alive and you can sell them Coke later!

Parallel Lives...Parallel Worlds?

Do you ever wonder about it? Followers of Meady's Musings will know yes I do wonder about it...as can be referenced here and here And now the time has finally come to continue my wonderment in depth and I hope to have you join me on this quest...

I have had over the past few years had this reoccurring dream (not often though about a couple times) where I live in this house with my mother...she is the same physical mother I have now and at the core...the very essence she is the same being...same soul I figure...and that shines out...it is what really marks her for me...but in the dream...she is also different. She even looks slightly different physically...like how one's looks change if they change their lifestyle and sense of style etc. The mother in the dream also has slightly different body language etc based on her different life experiences perhaps.

I'm also different in the same way in the dream as I just described about my mother...and although seriously at some deep core level I know the love and attachment between us is the same as in my normal, real, waking life...we have a slightly different relationship on the surface in this dream world...because we are a bit different and so the dynamic is a bit different.

The most interesting thing about this dream is the house and in how much detail I can picture and feel it...it's kinda in a different dimension in a way too...it seems not to be in this world...or not of this world in some ways...like suspended somewhere isolated from everything else like I don't get the sense that there is a real outdoors that we can go out into or like a street out the front...also an odd feeling that there is neither a night or day in this place just one dim twilight? Yet still the oddest thing is out at the front I get a hint in the dream don't ask me how I know this or perhaps you can say it is mumbo jumbo madness of the dream state except this dream is so deep as in it weighs on my emotions heavily and drainingly...the kind where you wake up disturbed and it stays with you...so don't think it is a random mumbo jumbo dream. Well in the dream I just get the idea that out front the house if there were streets etc. in the first place it would open out to San Francisco but at the back of the house I know for sure it is a beach front...I see the sand through the windows and hear the ocean...and some how it doesn't seem to be a cold beach but a warm beach...at least Southern California...not Northern...so how can this be? But in the quaintess of the dream you get the feeling that yes the back doors would open to a beach but the front of the house no...as if the front and back doors of the house open to two different locations...And in the house I can still recall such details although the last time I had this dream was almost 6 months ago but I can still tell you how the rooms felt how they were shaped...there is this very huge kitchen that very little cooking goes on in...with long brightly lit stretches...the cooking being little is very much in contrast to my real life mother's habits...but yet in the dream that same mother although cooks not as often has just made us a batch of something to snack on...and it seems later on we might be expecting guests...these guests seem to be very important and related to her career...I think she is about to get a promotion. Also in the dream I for sure know I'm the only child and my mother and I are inseparable...in the real world I have two brothers and although am close with my mother I'm so certainly not the only child...and my mum so certainly not the career woman type...

Now all of this even to recall now is very draining for me...it is why I've taken so long to come back on here and post although I had promised you readers to get back on with this parallel worlds business sooner...but I was doing this post more than 2 weeks ago and it was just too spooky to continue it back then...I felt myself seeing that place and I had to stop! Serious! Even now I feel a bit weirdy but I've come back biting my lips to carry out the promised task...

The universe sure works in mysterious ways though...Since starting this post more than 2 weeks or so ago and leaving it stagnant I've also stumbled on the works of Dr. Michio Kaku...I was drawn into this Parallel Worlds thing more by my own real life experiences and I've seen the TV series Sliders (so OK some might say that is why in my dream the house is in San Franciso but it could just be too cause I've visited there a couple times or it could really be where the portal exists! :) )...and even before I've just for years and years believed that for sure Parallel Worlds and Universes existed but had never heard of Dr. Kaku although had about a month or two ago stumbled on this NOVA series TV show that so happened to be running on PBS just the day after I stumbled on it on the station's website and so was able to view it...so on this show I had learned about Shrodinger and his cat and Hugh Everett but not Dr. Kaku...but as I had left this post stagnant I stumbled upon Dr. Kaku having a talk with Deepak Uncle on Intent! :) right... here! So now I'm waiting for my delivery from Amazon of these two books...can't wait to talk about them on here!



So now I feel more confident about my musings...thinkings...and ramblings...cause well known Physicists...well they I can use to verify that I'm not just a crazy person...there are facts on this too! I'm no Physicist however but for sure I believe in as much as we are all allowed our own beliefs even if they can't be proven...I believe especially for each big life decision we make I believe in this life we go on with the one that was made of course and can never get the other reality back...but out there somewhere that reality exists...we can't get to go into it though and so really we shouldn't waste must time hankering over it...but knowing this helps us explain the weirdness we sometimes feel and perhaps in some small way makes us not take things so seriously too...for even though we can't have x reality and very much have to live y's one instead...hey somewhere out there x lives on...and perhaps a certain element of us is connected to it somewhere out there in the universal fluid...cause it is a different world's version of us no? So we must somehow be connected in some limited way to our billion versions of ourselves out there? To me it is here a drawing might help...but I don't have the time to draw tonight...perhaps I'll draw it some time soon as we continue on this journey though...

I know I must have just served to confuse readers in all billion worlds I exist in! :) Or maybe I should have more faith in my reader's ability to be open to my madness! :) But I say if there are these parallel worlds and universes well surely too if we are just different elements of ourselves in these worlds...well on some small subtle level we must all be connected no? So really even though me must hammer down and live in this world and carry on with things...we are really never 100% only of this world...at some level all the worlds must communicate with one another...I'm not sure yet how this happens or what it means...and of course too I have no proof...but perhaps it is a bit of Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass...


It's is why I shared my dream with you because I believe the profound feeling I have for it...well it could be a way of communicating a parallel life or universe in which I live with my mum...I shared it with my mum and she was most intrigued...felt it could be true...totally bought into it with all smiles!:) Amazing! And she has never seen Sliders as far as I know so there! It couldn't have influenced her! :)

But what do you all think? Would love to hear you views and continue on ... on this quest into Parallel Lives...Parallel Worlds and indeed Reincarnation as we go too...Please come join me and share your views and ideas on this and feel free to critique mines...also for sure will continue to discuss the works of noted minds in the fields...like Dr. Kaku, Dr. Weiss and other related literature on the topics.

I'm Back Again!

Hey just a quick note to let my readers know I'm finally back...just a few days back from my vacation I got a bad flu not sure if swine but bad enough...so only now got my things sufficiently in order at home and in work enough to be able to slowly thread out into the blogosphere! I blogged last night on my sister blog UCP-Universal Collective Prayer and introduced my new logo for that blog.

I will be heading into those great Metaphysics topics that I'm longing to share and discuss further with you all soon have no fear! And of course reincarnation as promised! Hopefully by tomorrow a new topic will be out and about! :)

But for now let's just take a little walk in the park together on here as I share a couple pics with you lovely readers of my trip to a certain cavernous place! :) Will share more in time to come and post the album on my Facebook fan page perhaps...become a fan today! Just click to here! :)