Noticing the world

[Menna]

A few years ago lets say 2-3 I started to look up in the sky more. Especially at night looking at the stars and the moon. Very peaceful and relaxing a feeling of wonder. I impressed myself recently when I looked in the sky last week and saw two what I thought were stars in the sky and I said to myself "Those are new" so I did a little Google search and supposedly Venus and Jupiter can be seen in the sky with Venus being the brighter star (because its closer) and Jupiter being more faint. Venus is higher in the sky and Jupiter is underneath it. Now recently for the first time this spring I have been looking at plant life more. Noticing the different colors. The yellows, purples, whites and so on. When I am walking and noticing the different colors I get a peaceful calming feeling. In the past someone might say look at that tree and I would say "yea its nice" but this year its almost like something inside me is taking the initiative to notice these things more. Don't know why maybe a heightened state of awareness and appreciation but I like it. Anyone else experience this?

 

[Laura]

See: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27241.0.html and http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27242.0.html

Seems that a number of people are experiencing some heightened awareness. My response here: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27242.msg332241.html#msg332241 applies.

 

[melatonin]

I love nature. The more aware ive become of physcopaths, the more ive been drawn to nature. Atm i withdraw from as much human contact as possible, as i guess i dont feel like i have the tools/skills to face these scumbags.
I find Tree's especially amazing.
The couple of people in my life who are more 'aware' are very drawn to nature aswell. The rest talk about TV shows and the usual rubbish.
Theres def a connection imo.

 

[loreta]

Yesterday I was looking at a tree in flowers, the lilac colour was astonishing. My eyes were like a camera, maybe it is spring that make this things more alert to our minds. Maybe we know that all this is very fragile and that's why we look at them with a profound look. But the trees were there, with their beautiful colour, their movement or their flowers, and it was really, really beautiful.

 

[Thomas Alan]

Thanks for your post, Menna. I too have been more aware of nature. It's like a soft but strong background to what is occurring in the human world. In a way, despite the turmoil in human affairs, the Mother Universe is doing Her own thing. Softly, sweetly but very powerful.

A few days ago I rode my bike out into the country. I sat on a bench for awhile, enjoying the sun, the gentle breeze moving through the grass. I had a feeling of being in a strange science fiction novel. A world full of anger and strange goings on. Yet behind the great drama all is well somehow.

Mac

 

[Carl]

A few years ago lets say 2-3 I started to look up in the sky more. Especially at night looking at the stars and the moon. Very peaceful and relaxing a feeling of wonder. I impressed myself recently when I looked in the sky last week and saw two what I thought were stars in the sky and I said to myself "Those are new" so I did a little Google search and supposedly Venus and Jupiter can be seen in the sky with Venus being the brighter star (because its closer) and Jupiter being more faint. Venus is higher in the sky and Jupiter is underneath it. Now recently for the first time this spring I have been looking at plant life more. Noticing the different colors. The yellows, purples, whites and so on. When I am walking and noticing the different colors I get a peaceful calming feeling. In the past someone might say look at that tree and I would say "yea its nice" but this year its almost like something inside me is taking the initiative to notice these things more. Don't know why maybe a heightened state of awareness and appreciation but I like it. Anyone else experience this?

I have also noticed this over the past years, I think it comes naturally as you develop emotionally. Just stopping for a moment to take in the sheer beauty of the stars has often helped me when I feel down. Too bad there's so much light pollution in cities, I am lucky to see just the moon and venus!

Also, when I'm walking through the city I often focus on the buildings/people etc, and identify too much with the city and people. Then I remember to look at the sky, and it gives my whole world perspective again and helps me escape the mechanical, busy nature of it all. Combined with breathing, appreciation of nature is a great stress reliever.

 

[beherenow]

Hi all, Good for you Menna. Being the sensitive and artistic type, and having the good fortune of my folks moving to a relatively isolated place surrounded by woods when I was 9 yrs old, gave me the most wonderful playground a kid could have. It wasn't until I got a little older that I came to realize the necessity of spending time alone in the solitude of nature.

Getting in touch with terrestrial nature does seem to be the only thing that can help balance out the ugliness of human nature. The few times that I have felt to be truly one with the cosmos was when I had hiked alone to one of my favorite spots and just sat and breathed and listened. The Celts were absolutely correct about their sacred places and where one worships and cleanses the soul.

Good observation Mac. It is like a science fiction novel. When you juxtapose the peacefulness and beauty of nature against what man does to nature and his fellow man...its really hard to resolve the extremes of those conflicting realities. I'm not sure "all is well" though.
Nature is pretty ruthless about maintaining her equilibrium, and humanity, guided by patriarchal lies, has essentially prostituted its own Mother in the name of "progress".

Think about it...what would you do if you owned a beautiful piece of unspoiled woods, and you put someone in charge of its stewardship while you were away, only to return and find half the trees cut down, the hill tops blown away, huge burning holes in the ground, and poisoned water? I'm sure you can agree with me when I say one might respond with the same kind of violence our Mother Gaia is now displaying.

Thanks, Dave

 

[Miss.K]

[....] the gentle breeze moving through the grass. I had a feeling of being in a strange science fiction novel. A world full of anger and strange goings on. Yet behind the great drama all is well somehow.

Mac

I can very much relate

 

[Miss.K]

I love nature. The more aware ive become of physcopaths, the more ive been drawn to nature. [.....]

This happened for me as well, I needed to retreat, and started longing for peace more than anything else, also because of the psychopaths effect on society, which saddens me,
-though I thought it was a temporary retreat, and that I who was a city person would be bored after too long, after 3 years, I don't really have any urge to get back to the city any time soon. I like my peace very much.
-I like to visit the city, but am always a bit shook up after, and need about a day to get back into peace, after all the lights and noises, and thousands of people rushing close past me, and the billboards shouting "eat more sugar and wheat!" and such..

[.......]The couple of people in my life who are more 'aware' are very drawn to nature aswell. The rest talk about TV shows and the usual rubbish.
Theres def a connection imo.

I don't think though that liking nature, or finding it healing, is necessarily a sign of heightened awareness, I see aware city people, as well as unaware, and I see as well as aware nature people, nature people who are more animal like, not thinking too much about anything, but just liking the nature and the Endorphins that activity in nature provides.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, I think :)

 

[SeekinTruth]

Nature, with ALL her different sides, is awesome. :)

 

[ginebra]

You are right Menna!When I look at the sky at nights, there is a magnificet view of the moon planets and stars, that seems to be at the
reach of my hands. As I live in the countryside, every night I spent some time staring to the celestial dome.

 

[Avala]

A few years ago lets say 2-3 I started to look up in the sky more. Especially at night looking at the stars and the moon. Very peaceful and relaxing a feeling of wonder. I impressed myself recently when I looked in the sky last week and saw two what I thought were stars in the sky and I said to myself "Those are new" so I did a little Google search and supposedly Venus and Jupiter can be seen in the sky with Venus being the brighter star (because its closer) and Jupiter being more faint. Venus is higher in the sky and Jupiter is underneath it. Now recently for the first time this spring I have been looking at plant life more. Noticing the different colors. The yellows, purples, whites and so on. When I am walking and noticing the different colors I get a peaceful calming feeling. In the past someone might say look at that tree and I would say "yea its nice" but this year its almost like something inside me is taking the initiative to notice these things more. Don't know why maybe a heightened state of awareness and appreciation but I like it. Anyone else experience this?

Really true :)

Since I was very young my father thought me to watch the sky at the night. He usually was smoking at the window or outside the house in the dark and watched the sky, so it was "see, there is constellation "that and that", look young moon, ooh shooting star, satellite passing by" and so on :)

I think that helped me to thought myself that even if I am in the worst crowd, not to be that crowd, not to think like that.

Recently, I was watching the sky one night and did noticed the young crescent moon, Venus, big and small bear, cassiopeia's W was on my right, and I had a feeling of great calmness and "togetherness" (in the lack of better word in the english). And something like "I am here and part of this small planet, but also the equal part of all of that above, and I can never be lost or "outside" or something like that when I know that, even the sky and the stars are there to show us symbolically that we are the part of all of that.

It was not so about the nature itself. The nature also is just the small part of all that, just like I am.

I wish if I could always be so calm like that.

I remember the line from a book that I read in childhood, something like: "he is not the real human, who didn't stopped everything he was doing and enjoyed the blue sky at least once in his life".

 

[melatonin]

I love nature. The more aware ive become of physcopaths, the more ive been drawn to nature. [.....]

This happened for me as well, I needed to retreat, and started longing for peace more than anything else, also because of the psychopaths effect on society, which saddens me,
-though I thought it was a temporary retreat, and that I who was a city person would be bored after too long, after 3 years, I don't really have any urge to get back to the city any time soon. I like my peace very much.
-I like to visit the city, but am always a bit shook up after, and need about a day to get back into peace, after all the lights and noises, and thousands of people rushing close past me, and the billboards shouting "eat more sugar and wheat!" and such..

[.......]The couple of people in my life who are more 'aware' are very drawn to nature aswell. The rest talk about TV shows and the usual rubbish.
Theres def a connection imo.

I don't think though that liking nature, or finding it healing, is necessarily a sign of heightened awareness, I see aware city people, as well as unaware, and I see as well as aware nature people, nature people who are more animal like, not thinking too much about anything, but just liking the nature and the Endorphins that activity in nature provides.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, I think :)

Sorry, i didnt mean to say "aware". That sounds arrogant. Theres nothing im certain of. I should of said "people who question things".
I moved from a small'ish city in England, to a small town and the house backs onto loads of contryside walks. I love it. I like being able to be around people if i chose, rather than the other way round. I can spend 30 mins just watching the cows sat chilling together, lovely animals. :)

 

[Aliana]

Getting in touch with terrestrial nature does seem to be the only thing that can help balance out the ugliness of human nature. The few times that I have felt to be truly one with the cosmos was when I had hiked alone to one of my favorite spots and just sat and breathed and listened. The Celts were absolutely correct about their sacred places and where one worships and cleanses the soul.

I agree, beherenow - it really is a soul cleansing experience. Recently, I have started walking around a small man-made lake near where I live. Even though there are office buildings near, it still gives the feeling of peace. There are ducks on the lake, birds are everywhere in song, every bush is full of flowers and the trees are bursting with new leaves. I have started walking slower, paying attention to the smell of the lake, the feeling of the wind and warmth of the sun.

Today I felt as though DCM was sending a message via nature, that in spite of all the horrors in the world, there is still beauty and joy to experience if we but pay attention. And with that we are renewed a bit and our souls are replenished from the onslaught of the world. I felt so truly grateful for that. I also felt a bit of melancholia because of the awareness of the fragility of this beauty, knowing things may be quite different in the near future.

Thank you Menna for starting this thread, I don’t often think to voice my thoughts but it was so nice to read that so many of us are noticing and appreciating the bounty and gifts of DCM.

 

[Menna]

Thanks Laura good to hear others are becoming more aware of themselves and surroundings. What is the cause of this awareness in us...Is it the magnetic center, soul, shift in consciousness because of the approaching wave...DNA change???

I agree that the work that we are doing here is work and it is hard work it is a slow and steady process. But It just seems strange to me that on a random day I wake up look around my neighborhood and have this new found appreciation for nature coupled with new emotional sensations. How did this just come to me? Did I work for it? Has my life, trials, tribulations and how I have handled them lead to this new awareness is it a culmination of my life up to this point?

I also believe that you have to have this something the ABILITY to be able to work on yourself and without it the work can not begin you will not be able to work on yourself or become more aware, learn your lessons because you are lacking this something this ability to do so.

I always like to look deeper into what has happened, sometimes it is a downfall because I tend to overanalyze and might convince myself that it is something that its not. Its the Gemini schizo in me