When an Author Figures It All Out

Posted on October 29, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Neville Goddard (February 19, 1905 – October 1, 1972)

Read this sentence from Wikipedia:

He taught various self-help methods for testing his own claim that the human imagination is omnificent, therefore God. He achieved popularity by reinterpreting the Bible and the poetry of William Blake.

Ah, another man after my own heart.

There are two inconjuncts, one linking Mercury with the Midheaven, and the other linking Venus and Mars. Hmm. Looks like a secret sauce, to me. The Sun and Moon are in opposition to each other. For sure, this man would find different ways to express inner knowledge.

Right!

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What Have I Said About Discernment?

Posted on October 29, 2025 by cdsmiller17

News vs. Noise

This phrase came to mind, yesterday, while watching the latest Ellie Dreams Down Under YouTube video. In it, Ellie was discussing how even news sources are triggering tribal reactions from their followers, in order to keep their viewers from going anywhere else for their news. MSNBC are 75% to the Left of the political divide, while FOX News are 75% on the Right. Neither side is extreme, but both are keeping the two sides apart. Somewhere in the middle is the truth.

The following cartoon probably says it all.

Hmm.

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Emails Coming from This Address are Fraudulent

Posted on October 28, 2025 by cdsmiller17

prohibitionatl.com

I was suspicious when emails started arriving in my spam folder from this address. At first, they were trying to get me to open them by claiming that my cloud storage payment had been refused by my credit card. For a solid week, I got two to three emails a day harping on the consequences of not having cloud storage for my photos, implying that I would lose them forever. When that did not work, they started switching gears. Lately (meaning, today) I got emails offering a preauthorized Avant credit card (overnight) and, just now, an AAA promo. They must catch a lot of phish with them.

Unfortunately for them, I’m a fish of a different species. I’ve caught the line they’re selling, and I won’t be taking a nibble of what they’re offering. Be warned.

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There’s a Reason Why It’s Called This:

Posted on October 28, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Doomscrolling

The general feeling these days is that we are doomed. It doesn’t help that social media and news sites are adding to that sense of impeding failure. Even religious organizations are augmenting the inevitability of the world coming to an end by focusing on the Apocalypse. Everybody’s looking for someone, anyone to save us from ourselves. Nobody realizes that they have to do it themselves.

There is no Superman.

He is a fiction.

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Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Visit to Exeter in May 2012

Posted on October 26, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Tea on the Queen, Cathedral Square, Exeter (reprise)

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It Took 31 Days to Catch Sight of This Bird

Posted on October 25, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Downy Woodpecker (October 24, 2025)

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While Driving in My Car the Other Day, I Thought:

Posted on October 24, 2025 by cdsmiller17

“Modern Pop Music is Hypnotic”

With its repetitive vocal phrases and music riffs on repeat, modern pop music has no intrinsic value, unless you want to be hypnotized.

“Nuff said.

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There are Several Ways to Say the Same Thing

Posted on October 23, 2025 by cdsmiller17

I Am One

There’s an AI video on YouTube, doing the rounds right now, purporting to teach us about the code that Jesus taught his disciples. It takes 12 minutes to string the viewer along, because the money’s in the length of time it takes to watch, not in the message it conveys.

I wondered, today, if Namaste conveys the same thing. Since the word comes from Sanskrit, I should have known its true meaning in English is, “I bow to you.” Not quite what I was hoping for.

When I Googled images of “I am One”, the image shown above came up. I like that one. It’s not quite spiritual, but it definitely is very romantic. If thought about in a spiritual sense, it also confirms what the “Monad” code is meant to convey. We are all One. (Haven’t I been saying this for years?)

Namaste.

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This Film was Billed as a “Protest in Heels”

Posted on October 23, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Dumplin’ (2018)

To be honest, I’d never even heard of this film, until we discovered it on Netflix, last night.

In some ways, I was constantly reminded of “Muriel’s Wedding”: the reason? Because Dolly Partin’s songs were the background soundtrack to the whole “Dumplin'” show, just like ABBA’s songs were used in the Toni Collette film. It’s a formula for success, for sure.

The young lady who plays Will is a natural star. Her coming-of-age story is awkward, especially as she is size conscious, because her mother was (and is) a beauty queen, played by Jennifer Aniston. It’s tough being compared to your mother, when you know she’s a beloved fixture of your town. But it doesn’t help when she calls you by your childhood nickname in public. Hence the title of the film.

Give this one a chance, you’ll have tears in your eyes by the end.

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On This Date in 1884

Posted on October 22, 2025 by cdsmiller17

Greenwich Prime Meridian (October 22, 1884)

Maybe it was originally only a suggestion by the International Meridian Conference, but it became the “real” prime meridian afterwards. Prior to that time, the UK had adopted the Greenwich Observatory as its 0° meridian. But, using satellite technology, the line is actually 102 meters east of its supposed line.

Interestingly, Neptune is inconjunct to Mercury, on the day, while Pluto is inconjunct the Sun/Midheaven conjunction at noon. Hmm. Makes me wonder if it was pushed through, anyway.

Centre of the Earth, eh?

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