The first time I went there I had an unnerving experience. Towards the middle of the session people sit round in a circle and someone will get up, walk over to someone and tell them about the message they're getting from a deceased relation or friend. A guy walked over to me and said, it's very strange, I can see a brown dog pulling you in a sort of buggy, he wants you to know he's ok. Now this wasn't long after I'd lost Bodie and I did, for two years take him everywhere in his buggy fastened time my bike. Even though he'd got the colour wrong, Bodie was white, it really shook me, I was almost in tears. It wasn't till perhaps the next day that I managed to make any sense out of it. Me and Bodie in his buggy were a well known sight around the town. I wondered if the guy was local and had perhaps subconsciously brought the sight to mind that evening, maybe that could explain it. The next week at the meeting I asked him where he lived, he did indeed live quite local and for me the mystery was solved.
There's a spiritualist church not far from me. I went to a couple of meetings quite a while ago, very strange indeed. The people there were fully committed to their beliefs, it just wasnt for me.
Lefty thing to seek a safe place? Not sure where the "echo chamber' bit comes into it though. We all whether we are left, right, up, down, in, out, even upside down or inside out need a 'safe place' to retreat to, particularly in these times. The mind in its natural state is a clear space, void of all thought, opinions and prejudices. It is neither good, bad or indifferent. Into that space we absorb what we perceive to be true and real then create the basis of our world. The world we create, (which only exists in our minds) is where our anxiety, angst, fears, neurosis or a multitude of complexes are formed, regardless of any political leaning.
A safe place then, is somewhere a person can retreat to in their mind to find clarity, somewhere away from immediate pressure, to slow things down and feel at peace. For some, a walk through a park or in the country can lead to a safe place, some may choose a garden or quiet room. For many, meditation can provide a sanctuary. Wherever we choose it's important to take the time to stand aside from the world that's in our minds and retreat to that safe space every now and again.
I'm sure it's wonderful ali if the parts we visited are an thing to go by. It's a shame I didn't have the opportunity to explore more places. But we were there primarily to explore the Northwest border region of the Hindu Kush to open up the area for a UK trekking company I was working for. Most of the treks in Pakistan at the time were in the north east around K2 and Nanga Parbat. We we going to work out a trek that would include Trich Mir Base camp and maybe up to camp one. At 7,708 m (25,289 ft)?, Tirich Mir is the highest mountain in the Hindu Kush and the area was rarely visited by Westerners.
Its funny you should ask that. After spending a month up in the mountains we returned to Rawalpindi for a couple of weeks. One day we went to the Afghani market in Islamabad and as a storeholder was serving me he asked if I was Pakistani. When I said no I'm English he said, but where are your family from, are they from Pakistan? When I told him my parents and grandparents were from England he said I don't believe you, you're from Pakistan, why are you denying it? At the time I was darker than him and he was Afghani, but I was more weathered than tanned after my time spent up in the mountains. I guess with my beard, moustache and dark weathered skin, I must have looked like a tribesman from the Northwest Territory Region.
I can spend weeks in Southern Spain in the sun and won't get a tan anywhere near the same as if I were to just spend a week on the west coast of the uk. It's the same in any Mediterranean country and even sub tropical countries. A week on the North Wales coast in a hot spell and I'm darker than I would be after a month in Goa. Not sure why that should be.
I've been to the Devils Kitchen, part of the traverse of Glyder Fawr a mountain in Norh Wales. A tremendous walk which includes traversing, the Devils KItchen, The Castle of the Winds and Bristly Ridge. When I explained the route to a friend on the way up there once, he replied, "those names remind me of my Mrs."
I never use sunscreen and rarely burn. Just a little red for one day then just get very brown. When I was very young I used to be called 'the brown bomber' after the boxer Joe Louis...
My skin tone changes rapidly in the sun. In fact just one day in the sun will dramatically change my skin tone and I've noticed this happens even more as I get older.
Too many to mention, difficult to pick a favourite. But I guess for sheer iisolated beauty Agua Verde would definitely make my top five. Puerto Agua Verde is a remote small fishing village by the Sea of Cortez, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Accessible only by a dirt track, we had to walk the six miles from the nearest road. I spent five days there camping on the beach, it really felt like a privilege to be there amongst such amazing and beautiful surroundings.
Someone just sent me a list of 'did you know' on fb messenger. That 'fact' was one on the list.
"The specious “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden” origin of the word “golf” has gained credence in recent years through its being made part of innumerable Internet-circulated “Did you know … ?” lists. Though the length of those lists varies from one manifestation to the next (some have six entries; others have close to fifty), the truth value of this entry never changes: it’s false."
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RE: Your karma is based off your intent...
With just 'Sandbanks' between you.