In one of my weekly emails, a few weeks ago
I mentioned the word Shift, a single word reference I first
heard Jan 1st 2013.
Then Jan 5th 2013 there was a reference I should watch the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, with Dennis Quaid; a movie I've watched more than once already, about 6 times; which in itself is very interesting because usually, once I've watched a movie, I don't enjoy watching them again, alone a half a dozen times.
Jan 17th I took 'their' (their referring to that higher source of info that comes to me) advice and watched it. One... I hoped it would stop this repeated message EVERY DAY and second, I was intrigued as to what I was suppose to 'see' or 'hear', and why did I need to watch this movie again; a movie that has intrigued me since I first saw in around 2005-2006.
For those who don't know the movie, it is about global warming, the shifting or calving of an ice shelve, and the impact this 'shift' has on our earth. This shift in the movie is not what is expected in global warming, instead it puts us into an ice age, in 8 days.
Of course, it's a movie and it's done for entertainment purposes, and some of it is sensationalized for such purposes...yet after watching it again, I 'see' there's much in there that should be taken to heart, that I didn't 'see' before and it's not just about global warming.
It did get my attention more so this time, for the fact in the very first few minutes of the movie, there was that one impactul word....Shift.
I'd forgotten that much of the devastation for the movies sake was located in the Northeast with New York, and Manhattan being the hardest hit, with rains, floods, tsunami's and eventually snows and ice that buried much of the city. It felt more personalized this time, and ironically, for me anyhow, the location the main characters went for safety meant something; the Library....a place of knowledge and enlightenment.
Once in there to stay warm they had to do the unthinkable, burn the books. Also, all communications were lost, except for the land-line phones, making sense or giving confirmation to one message I'm always getting, 'do not give up your land-line'.
As I watched, with more attention to detail this time, I 'saw' how they survived was not with technology but the old ways...land line phones, natural gas stove, people helping people, news papers and actual bound books. For me, there was a message in the fact they burned the books in the library to stay warm; metaphorically implying, with kindles, nooks etc., in a way we are 'burning' books and the written word slowly removing them from our lives. That because technology is slowly taking away the physical aspects of books, if we allow this to happen, it indicated those people, with out the physical aspects of the those books and the knowledge within those books, would have died.
One book they did not burn, a medical book, saved the life of a girl. In another part of the movie, a trick learned by a homeless person, that made his way to the library with his dog (dogs are guardians in the Medicine Helper world), was to use actual newspaper to help keep them warm by lining their clothes with it. The movie incorporated survival skills without technology, listening to intuition, knowing the directions, and the use of actual books. This too confirming all these same messages that have been repeated to me, many times over the past couple years, to be prepared.
Then, this time, a reference to another book they saved in the library, I'd not caught before, was a book/bible.considered one of the first books written. In the book (which if your interest is peaked to search on your own) The prefaces reads..'This book belongs to the very few. Perhaps none of them is even living yet. Possibly they are the readers who understand my Zarathustra: how could I confound myself with those for whom there are ears listening today? -- Only the day after tomorrow belongs to me. Some are born posthumously.'
Then Jan 5th 2013 there was a reference I should watch the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, with Dennis Quaid; a movie I've watched more than once already, about 6 times; which in itself is very interesting because usually, once I've watched a movie, I don't enjoy watching them again, alone a half a dozen times.
Jan 17th I took 'their' (their referring to that higher source of info that comes to me) advice and watched it. One... I hoped it would stop this repeated message EVERY DAY and second, I was intrigued as to what I was suppose to 'see' or 'hear', and why did I need to watch this movie again; a movie that has intrigued me since I first saw in around 2005-2006.
For those who don't know the movie, it is about global warming, the shifting or calving of an ice shelve, and the impact this 'shift' has on our earth. This shift in the movie is not what is expected in global warming, instead it puts us into an ice age, in 8 days.
Of course, it's a movie and it's done for entertainment purposes, and some of it is sensationalized for such purposes...yet after watching it again, I 'see' there's much in there that should be taken to heart, that I didn't 'see' before and it's not just about global warming.
It did get my attention more so this time, for the fact in the very first few minutes of the movie, there was that one impactul word....Shift.
I'd forgotten that much of the devastation for the movies sake was located in the Northeast with New York, and Manhattan being the hardest hit, with rains, floods, tsunami's and eventually snows and ice that buried much of the city. It felt more personalized this time, and ironically, for me anyhow, the location the main characters went for safety meant something; the Library....a place of knowledge and enlightenment.
Once in there to stay warm they had to do the unthinkable, burn the books. Also, all communications were lost, except for the land-line phones, making sense or giving confirmation to one message I'm always getting, 'do not give up your land-line'.
As I watched, with more attention to detail this time, I 'saw' how they survived was not with technology but the old ways...land line phones, natural gas stove, people helping people, news papers and actual bound books. For me, there was a message in the fact they burned the books in the library to stay warm; metaphorically implying, with kindles, nooks etc., in a way we are 'burning' books and the written word slowly removing them from our lives. That because technology is slowly taking away the physical aspects of books, if we allow this to happen, it indicated those people, with out the physical aspects of the those books and the knowledge within those books, would have died.
One book they did not burn, a medical book, saved the life of a girl. In another part of the movie, a trick learned by a homeless person, that made his way to the library with his dog (dogs are guardians in the Medicine Helper world), was to use actual newspaper to help keep them warm by lining their clothes with it. The movie incorporated survival skills without technology, listening to intuition, knowing the directions, and the use of actual books. This too confirming all these same messages that have been repeated to me, many times over the past couple years, to be prepared.
Then, this time, a reference to another book they saved in the library, I'd not caught before, was a book/bible.considered one of the first books written. In the book (which if your interest is peaked to search on your own) The prefaces reads..'This book belongs to the very few. Perhaps none of them is even living yet. Possibly they are the readers who understand my Zarathustra: how could I confound myself with those for whom there are ears listening today? -- Only the day after tomorrow belongs to me. Some are born posthumously.'
If you haven't watch the movie, it might be one you'll
want to, or maybe re-watch it again. It gave me confirmations about
what I've 'heard' the past few months, about survival skills, community,
stocking up. I want to mention too, that though technology is good and it's serves much, it is important not to get
lost in it or over use it. We must aware too of the loss of our infrastructure, and not throwing away
the old ways, community and family.
Be well
Laugh often
Love large
Dig in the dirt
Grow a garden
and may the sun light your way
Kellie
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Herbs & Things
Be well
Laugh often
Love large
Dig in the dirt
Grow a garden
and may the sun light your way
Kellie
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Herbs & Things
