Dance the Dream Awake - Snippet

I'm joining the Weekend Writing Warriors today to share a snippet of my novel Dance the Dream Awake:

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I was flat on my back when I came to with Louisa was looking down at me, her eyes like black pools with no bottom—windows into another time.

“You have something that must be completed, a loose string that must be tied up and imperative to your happiness. We cannot talk now, but soon,” she said while closing my eyelids with the tips of her fingers.

When I opened them again, Nick was kneeling over me, calling my name and patting my cheek. I raised up on one elbow and asked, “What happened?”

“The curanderas were drinking some sort of psychotropic mixture and you barely had a few sips before passing out.”

“Did you pass out, too?”

“No, but it’s been a very interesting two hours.”

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DANCE THE DREAM AWAKE: Romantic Suspense with paranormal elements.

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Connections

Crop Circles and a Mayan messenger

When I began my last blog on the Maya, I wanted to talk about their system of math, but decided it was too long to include in that post.

Then I viewed Kim Griffin’s blog: http://thefitnessmoms.com/2012/01/30/red-strings-connect-us/ “Introducing Mathematical Monday, a time to explore numbers and patterns and their place in the universe.”

It inspired how I would focus on Mayan math for this post. Without giving a long explanation of their system, I’ve included a chart that is self-explanatory: dots=ones, bars=fives and a shell symbol for 0. It is a base 20 system unlike our base 10 system.

These numbers can be seen on many stela in the Yucatan documenting dates of important occurrences (past and future events—like an important battle by a chieftain, a birth date, or the beginning and end of their cycle that began in 3114 BC., etc.)

On July 5, 2009 there was a crop circle that appeared near Silbury Hill in southern England that floored me. I immediately saw the distinctive Mayan numbers within this crop circle. 

I calculated the numbers but couldn’t make any sense of it—I thought it might have to do with the Dec. 21, 2012 end date (which is not the end of the world-merely the end of a cycle and we don’t know what that means; we can only speculate), but it wasn’t. I put it out of my mind knowing that sooner or late someone would figure it out.

Enter:

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/time2010f.html

I will let those interested, go to this site and peruse all the connections the author has made in detail. One connection is the date a comet came near earth around 32 BC and of the comet expected this year of 2012.

http://news.discovery.com/space/will-earthbound-comet-fulfill-2012-prophecy.html (nearly 300 million miles away and barreling toward us. The intruder from deep space, called comet Elenin, crosses Earth's orbit on its inbound leg and again on its outbound swing around the sun later this year.)

Does this indicate that another cycle is closing? And what of the unmistakable symbols in this crop circle for the legendary Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent messenger? Is he returning this year?

Agreed, you will leave this post with more questions than answers, but maybe it will stimulate your creativity like red string theory and the “coincidences” all around us.

An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. The thread may stretch or tangle but will never break.

Not limited to lovers (the subject of my novel that dips into that Mayan past) it means all the connections in the universe—so a crop circle in England is somehow tied to the plumed serpent (Quezalcoatl) and the math of the Maya indicating comets coming toward earth, beginning and ending cycles and . . . 

What does it all mean? What do you think?

What is Déjà Vu?

The main thrust for writing my first novel (not yet published) is that déjà vu experience and what would happen if you took the trouble to follow where it led.

“We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it!” (Dickens in David Copperfield - chapter 39)

The term déjà vu is a French term meaning, “already seen.” It can be a fleeting or an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that we have no recollection of; something we have never done before. Often the experience is striking in its clarity and detail but difficult to recapture or recount. As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of déjà vu.

Swiss scholar, Arthur Funkhouser, makes the distinctions that déjà visite, already visited, is one phenomena and another phenomena is déjà vecu which means already experienced or lived through and a third is déjà senti, already felt.

Apart from a medical condition like temporal lobe epilepsy, when déjà vu can occur just prior to a temporal-lobe seizure, there is much specualtion as to how and why this happens.

Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a #past life experience. And others point out there is a distinction between déjà vu and precognition. In déjà vu we feel the sense we have done this before and are now doing it again. Whereas in precognition, we see something (in a dream or vision) that then comes to pass exactly as seen and felt. I think in some instances they could be the same, the difference being that during déjà vu we don’t remember that we had the prior dream and so we’re left with that familiar feeling of having experienced it before.

What do you think? Have you experienced #déjà vu or #precognition?

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