Chicken Little

Chicken Little

I remember the story of Chicken Little, Chicken Licken, or Henny Penny. It is a folk tale with a moral. It is about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end. Versions of this story go back more than 25 hundred years. Walt Disney made an animated version of the tale during world war two.

One of the first accounts is from the Buddhist scriptures known as Daddabha. In this story a disturbed hare is disturbed by a falling fruit who believes that the earth is coming to an end. The hare stirs up the other animals causing a stampede, when the lion investigates he finds the cause of the panic and restores calm.

The version that I remember is about a chick that believes the sky is falling because an acorn falls on his head. He decides to tell the King and on his journey meets other animals which join in the quest. The fox invites them to his lair and there eats them all. The last one, Cocky Lockey survives long enough to warn others about the fox.

Most people take this fable as a warning not to believe everything you hear.

Every day without fail there are cyber discussions about dogs and cats, religion and science, good and evil, and right verses left. 

It is interesting to watch how intense people can get when they talk about things that they favor or oppose.

I have found myself drawn to express my opinions and sometimes I am met with strong opposition.

It is these kinds of differences that make up the world in which we live.

When I see some of the articles that are posted to the net I usually do a little research before passing them along to others. I have found that not everything that you read is true and factual. If it comes with a cute picture or saying it is automatic for many to pass it on. 

I have had to retract some things that I later found were false rumors.

Whenever you bring any subject before a group of people you are going to have a difference of opinion. It is healthy to see different view points, it can lead to discussions that bring the truth into the light.

I often see two kinds of people, the sky is falling people and those who stick their head in the sand people.

I ask myself, what kind of person am I?

I have been on both sides of the debate and seldom are there positive changes for either side.

We have taken for granted that the news we watch is factual and fair. A constant barrage of bad news makes us defensive and suspicious towards others. It is always refreshing when a happy story is aired and people are helped. 

I spent a number of years looking into the historic abuses that have occurred throughout history. There are countless stories of death and destruction, power and corruption, and wars in the name of God. It is the story of the bully who wants to take something that does not belong to him.

There have been many who have been harmed by these bullies and it is time for this to stop.

Before that can happen we need to be educated on the facts.

To take advice simply because a famous or beautiful person said it is foolish. 

To reject something because of a persons background or culture is likewise foolish.

Ultimately after I have gathered all the information, I have to make a judgement that will affect my life.

A balance is what I am striving to achieve. I want to look at all sides of an issue and weigh the evidence, then I make my decision. It is not a forever, set decision, it is one based on the available information at the time. 

I reserve the right to make changes at any time, and I am not afraid to admit that I am wrong.

Having coffee this morning with the chickens, I heard the warning squawk of the rooster. The shadow of a hawk passed over the lawn and the warning sent them running as fast as they could run for safety under the porch. 

We would do well to keep our own watch over the barnyard bullies of this world and send out a warning whenever danger occurs.

Being aware and prepared we can enjoy the goodness of life, giving thanks for the blessings that we have and paying them forward whenever we can.

Who is it that is ultimately responsible

Who is it that is ultimately responsible for the sadness and pain in the world? Is it the misguided, abused child who grows up to become a bully? Is it God for allowing such things to happen? Is it the parents who are so focused on surviving in this competitive world that they neglect their children? Is it the failure of the government? The Churches? I submit that each of us came here voluntarily to experience life in the fullest way possible. We agreed to live in a free will society where each has the opportunity to make decisions that will not only affect ourselves but those around us. We must first set our own house in order before we can help those who are struggling in their own trials. Don't allow the media and the lost souls in this world to dictate how you will live your life. Make a conscious choice to make a positive difference in your life, in your home, and in your community. Don't dwell on the negativity that knocks at your door. You have the choice to create in your life a place of good and positive memories for you and your family. You can create a garden of Eden in your home and life. Pray for those that despitefully use you, pray for your enemies. It is up to us to make a difference. Above all, remember that we choose to come here and we are all responsible.

The messenger

The messenger

Last night I was watching the X files on TV, I missed the series when it came out in the 90’s so I have been watching it on Netflix. I hate the commercials on regular Television and this medium allows me to watch the programs uninterupted. After watching several episodes I decided to turn it off and go for a walk. It is cold this time of year so I put on 3 layers of coats to make sure I would be warm enough.

When I walked out the back door I saw my chickens running and squawking in distress. Chickens do not wander around after dark, they like to feel secure in their coop and roost. Each of my chickens has a pecking order, the older ones being dominant over the younger ones. My small banties being at the top of the order, pull the feathers of the larger chickens when they want them out of the way.

Last night there was no order, it was chicken pandemonium.

During the winter months I have a light inside their chicken house to keep them laying through the winter. This year I put up Christmas lights around the outside of their coop which makes it even lighter.

I talked to a commercial egg producer who told me they need about 18 hours of light a day to keep them laying. I keep a timer on the lights to give them darkness for the other 6 hours.

Running to their chicken house I looked inside. The little banties were under the coop, in an area where I keep chicks to protect them. Several of the larger chickens were crowded in one of the laying boxes with a look of terror on their faces. Standing at the end of the little coop was a great horned owl. When I looked in I was only a few feet from those great huge eyes. It stood 18 inches tall and towered over the smaller chickens. This owl is the most ferocious and the most successful predator in the owl family. It will not hesitate to take whatever prey presents itself. Most birds of prey are in awe of its formidable talons and strong beak.

I have a respect for all animals, I have done all I could to live in peace with nature. I have declared my home and property a no fly zone, a kind of peaceful sanctuary for any who come here. 

There have been several animals who have come here over the years with the intention of killing my livestock. I finally had to buy a shotgun to protect them. In our little community, the law requires us to use a shotgun in city limits to protect livestock.

Last night I had to use it. 

My neighbor lost 6 or 8 chickens this fall when an owl came into her yard and killed her chickens. This owl had an odd behavior of taking the chickens heads but leaving the bodies. This left us puzzling over the deaths.

I believe that animals are messengers. 

In the book, Animal Speaks by Ted Andrews, he gives the metaphysical, spiritual and religious symbolism of many of the animals.

Owls in particular, have a long and varied message. In using this book, it has been helpful for me to discover the message that each of these creatures has for me.

There is usually one meaning that stands out above the rest.

Owls have been my messengers for many years. 

Last night the message I received, cost this owl his life.

“One who works with owl medicine will be able to see and hear what others try to hide. You will hear what is not being said, and you will see what is hidden or in the shadows. You can detect and pinpoint the subtleties. This can make others uncomfortable because they will not be able to deceive you about their motives or actions.”

“New vision opening to you.”

“One example (balancing the male and female) is using owl and hawk feathers together as part of a dream bundle to help stimulate lucid dreaming. For example, a red-tailed hawk feather tied between two great horned owl feathers and hung over the bed may help you assert your will over the dream state. This can be used to develop astral projection or just for conscious control of the dream scenario during sleep.”

I will give the owl to my neighbor who will study it and use it for research. 

I will use the feathers to make myself a dream bundle. I will continue to hone my gift of clairvoyance, and I will repair my little chicken house and paint over the damage from the shotgun. 

The chickens are traumatized and will keep close to each other and the safe parts of their territory. They will adjust and in a few days will be back to normal.

I will take the message, incorporate it, and learn how I can make my life more meaningful, more insightful. 

I will mourn the loss of this magnificent bird of prey, but at the same time, I give my gratitude to him for being a messenger of wisdom. 

Letters from Heaven

Beloved, I feel your pain and loneliness. I have reached out to you many times and you have felt me. I am not able to be in your arms at this time. I have much to do. Trust in you heart. Do not fear. You are being prepared on many levels. Stay in your peace. Peace is your power. Many events are happening on all levels and you are not to spend your energies on these other events. Hold your sacred space in Escalante. Build the manna. Call on the elementals. You have witnessed the power of your manifestations in the weather. Continue to create Heaven on Earth. You will draw those energies to you. Some are already feeling the calls and have witnessed this to you.Your Love will come and you will once again feel the vibrations you seek. Do not despair. Stay in Peace and Love and Joy and Light. Many watch for this inspiration.

                                                                 Your Beloved Ones

The words of the song, Amazing Grace, by John Newton came to my mind as I received this message.

         Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,

That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come;
'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far
and Grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me.
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

When we've been here ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

     "Love comes when we least expect it, when we are not looking for it. Love is never outside ourselves, love is within us. Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities in yourself, and you will attract a person who has them. Be ready for love when it does come. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love." -Louise L. Hay

Colloidal Silver

Colloidal Silver

I got out my colloidal silver kit to make some more silver solution. 

With all the sickness both natural and artificial, I decided it is time to start taking it again along with my vitamins and essential oils.

The health of the world is in decline. Medicine and hospitals are out of control. Temporary solutions and a shotgun approach to the numerous new diseases and syndromes appearing in our midst is not working.

It is time to take back control over our own health. There are simple solutions to help with that effort.

Eat a healthy diet from whole foods. Avoid processed food and limit your diet of fast foods.

The amount of chemicals and artificial ingredients in our food has skyrocketed out of control. 

In an effort to lower costs on food and make up for lack of quality and nutrition, the food industry have had to make up the difference with cheap fillers and chemicals. 

We are being slowly poisoned.

The food industry is owned by the same mega corporations that run our hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. 

Poisons are sprayed on our food, dispensed from the sky and we are targeted with electronic waves to break down our natural resistance to germs and disease.

Doctors have become drug dealers in an ever increasing failure to cure disease with chemicals.

Laws are passed to limit liability to those who perpetrate their fraud on the people of the world.

What are we to do?

Fight back with natures own cure.

Colloidal Silver.

The medical community will try to scare you with pictures of a blue man or woman whose skin was permanently changed. It could happen if you drink a quart of silver every day for a couple of years. 

There is no recommended dosage and you must use your own judgement on how much to use but compared to the dozens of warnings on any pharmaceutical drug you get from the doctor, this is so much better.

I take an eye dropper full of silver each day.

I am going to teach you how to make your own at a fraction of the cost with simple tools.

This is a link to Wikipedia on Medical uses of silver     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver

This next article is taken from Natures Sunshine.com

Colloidal Silver Benefits from Silver Shield

October 4 2011 | Immune Health 

Colloidal silver benefits include reducing exposure to disease-causing agents and can be used as an internal remedy for immune system support. Silver Shield, a colloidal silver product, has been proven to effectively combat health issues caused by anthrax, yeast, food poisoning, fungal infections of the skin, bacterial infections of the skin, respiratory infections, pink eye and more.

Proven by in vitro testing, the colloidal silver in Silver Shield helps rid the body of invasive microorganisms. This is done when the colloidal silver ingredients disable the enzymes that are metabolizing oxygen for harmful bacteria and viruses.

Many turn to antibiotics to combat invasive microorganisms attacking the immune system. Antibiotics often solve the problem, but can prove harmful in other areas. Most antibiotics attack all bacteria, both good and bad, minimizing the good bacteria found in the colon required for healthy digestion and adequate immune support.

The colloidal silver in Silver Shield benefits the immune system in similar ways antibiotics do. However, because Silver Shield is processed in the kidneys it is likely that it does not affect the population of beneficial bacteria in the colon—keeping the immune and digestive system strong and healthy.

Silver Shield has been tested for safety and effectiveness. It is non-toxic and does not contain any heavy metal contamination that many other colloidal silver supplements do. Nature’s Sunshine observes a strict quality control process to verify the atomic absorption of Silver Shield. As a result, the product delivers fine, particle-sized silver colloids with 99% bioavailability. Many other popular colloidal silver products were tested and deliver only 15-65% colloids with bioavailability.

Boost your immune system with colloidal silver. The quality of Nature’s Sunshine’s Silver Shield product surpasses the market standard for colloidal silver supplements. Give your body the strength it needs to combat the harmful bacteria and viruses we face every day.

Several years ago I purchased a book along with a kit to make my own Colloidal Silver. It is titled Get plugged in ... Colloidal Silver ... antibiotic Superhero by Johnny Silverseed. This is a link to his website: http://www.colloidalsilver101.com

Do yourself and your family a favor, get informed and start using Colloidal Silver that you make yourself for only penny’s a bottle.

Stronger connections

Thank you for your kind thoughts and for sharing your experience with your family. I have been blessed to be able to understand the death process and the part I can play in that. Life is not always easy. I lost my wife 2 years ago, but that vacuum in my life has been my opportunity to become more in tune with the many ways that we connect with the spirit world. If we allow our heart to remain open we can be connected all the time with departed ones and guides. My early training in the Mormon church gave some help, but I wanted more. It has been my spiritual quest over the past 20 years to find out how I can connect and receive personal instruction and revelation. My departed wife is still very much a part of my life although I had to learn to recognize the subtle ways that she inspires me. That sad, achey, hurting, loss kind of feeling that comes when the veil is open had to be redefined for me to use this opening to bless my life. It took some time and still requires my attention to shift my perception from sad to joy. I knew deep down that I needed to keep my heart open for this process to work and allow the heavens to bless me. Give thanks and gratitude when this occurs and focus on how you feel and notice that each guide has a slightly different feeling. Acknowledge them and ask for their help. You will begin to feel the connection grow stronger with each experience. Stay in that feeling as long as possible and use the open door to communicate with your spiritual family. You can connect with anyone you choose. They are always in close proximity with you, it is our own disconnect that makes us feel alone. We are never alone. Our family relationships were purposefully chosen by each of us. We agreed to become a part of the whole so that we could use our unique skills and traits to help one another. Your influence is far greater than you realize. That is why it is so important to stay in the positive flow of energy working with the heavens. Do what feels good to you and stay strong in your personal revelation, no matter what those around you do or say. The outside world does all it can to disconnect us from our spiritual family. The water and food are poisoned with chemicals to shut down our spiritual functions and electronic waves bombarde us continuously with harmful frequencies. We can cancel those effects by surrounding our sacred spaces with positive thoughts, prayers and spiritual light from our spiritual families. When we keep that door open the light is added to our own magnificence and we can overcome any darkness that attempts to destroy our peace. Blessings always, Gary

Who knows what adventures await us ...

My Brother Rich left this earthly life last night. It wasn’t unexpected, his health has been failing for several years. I went through my pictures of our early life together in Provo and relived many memories.

His life began on July 8, 1950 in Provo, Utah. Being the first child of eight, he carried into this life the responsibility of being the older brother. 

He spent his first years in Provo where Dad was finishing up his school at BYU. When Dad got a teaching position in Escalante, he moved the family to Escalante where Richard began his schooling. Our Grandmother Ruth was his kindergarten teacher and our Grandfather Lorenzo was the principal. After several years Dad moved the family back to Provo where Richard attended the rest of his school years. 

Richard would return to Escalante many times with family to visit Grandpa and Grandma in Escalante.

Richard spent many summers with our Grandparents. He bonded with them and felt like they were his second parents.

I had my differences with him and on more than one occasion sibling rivalry caused Dad to come down to the basement and settle a dispute. This rivalry continued into High School until one day after a particularly rough teasing, I had enough. I landed a lucky punch and knocked him out cold. I got scared and left, later when I came back we didn’t say anything to each other but the tension eased and we were able to get along better. 

He was three years older than I so I never caught up with him in Jr. High or High School.

As he got ready for his mission I got ready to take over our shared room and claim it as my own.

He went to the Philippines for two years where he served a mission for the church. It was his chance to experience life in a place where he was taller than most of the people around him. He discovered his skills of salesmanship and his early training in the church helped him to be a successful missionary.

It wasn’t long after he got back from his mission that I was preparing for my own mission. I asked him to look after my piranha fish while I was gone. One day it jumped out and died. When I got home it was in the freezer waiting for me.

We shared an apartment with several other guys who were working and single. I tagged along when they serenaded the girls with guitar music, hoping to find that special girl.

Rich and his friend Ron decided to open an aquarium store and sell fish. It was there that I used my skills with glass to repair and build aquariums for him. I traded my skills and time for fish. 

We both attended a BYU branch in Orem where he met Teresa. I could tell he liked her but he was shy and didn’t want to call her.

I took care of that when I called her and pretended to be Rich and asked her out on a date.

That date became many and soon the plans were set for a wedding.

I helped set up aquariums filled with fish for their reception and then took them down after.

Soon after I met my wife and got married and moved to California.

Rich and I drifted apart, our family life began, but we reconnected at reunions, marriages and deaths.

We kept a closeness over the years and there were times when conversations would continue long into the night.

He wasn’t afraid to ask me hard questions and I always seemed to challenge his beliefs.

He remained strong in the church but had his struggles with life and the choices he made.

He and Teresa came to Escalante to visit me in October. I could see that he was struggling with his health. His body was shutting down and it was difficult for 

Teresa to manage his care. 

We talked about life and death.

I asked hard questions about death and the challenges that lie ahead for both of them.

We talked into the night, again. It was during these times that I felt close to the heavens and I could feel family there with us too.

Richard was close with Grandpa and Grandma Lorenzo. I know that they are exchanging stories and are helping him to transition from this life into the next. I know that Dad was waiting there too.

Richard will linger here for a while. He will watch as family gather to share and tell stories. He will listen as we laugh and cry. He will be in attendance at the funeral as we gather to celebrate his life. He will be with us to comfort us.

As the veil of forgetfulness begins to lift from his mind, he will remember the magnificence of his being, he will remember his past life with our Heavenly Parents. His former knowledge will be returned and he will have an opportunity to see this earth in a whole new perspective. Not as a place of struggle or difficulty, but as a marvelous learning and growing experience.

He will add this lifetime to his understanding and will continue on his path toward an eternal life with family and friends in his own little bit of Heaven.

I will miss you Richard. We are again separated in this life but we will meet again, and who knows what adventures still await us.