Hello. Yeah. Hello. I haven't seen you for ages love. Long time no see. I know. I miss you already. I love you. I love you too. That will end it for tonight. Bye everyone.玩? 2505? Yeah. Welcome to in early 655. She's already making a comment. Yep. That's 1 55 on my time. Yeah! What are you drinking there? You are drinking there. You got orange something right. Squash. It's Apple juice. It It's orange. Yes, Apple. Okay. apple yesterday. That was nice. Yeah. Well, I got a big old carton of it that I pretty much drank during the global predictions. And well, this is still full, but... Oh, it's good, isn't it? I like real juice. Yeah. Hello, lover girl. Hello, core love. And Sarah Anu. Hi. Hi, y'all from Texas. And Anna Rivera. What is 001, 01, 110, a palindrome, maybe? I don't know. I give up. What is it? Hopefully that's not the date on our video. Apparently I messed it up on the last time. So, yeah. So right. Yeah. No, I see it's correct. Yeah. We're good. I got a little mess in here. It's flying around. Very, very frustrating. I have a premiere video coming up at 10 o'clock this evening. Oh. Yeah. It's called, When Should a Singer Call It Quits? Never. Well, a rock and roll singer, professionally. Never. Okay. Well, I should pull the video then. As answer that.  Okay. Do you think that if there's, if you mean to say if the voice goes? Yes. You know what you mean? Yes. Because, yeah, if the voice goes and you're charging, you know, almost $1,000 for front row seats, how would you feel if you paid like $1,000 and somebody sings like a bad case of karaoke? Then, you know, that's to do with being professional, isn't it? It's like if my reading suddenly didn't make sense, I should back off. Yeah. Would I stop reading cards altogether? No. So it's like saying they should carry on singing, but they can't sing and create that amount of money. But there's still probably people that would still want to come see them. Well, the beginning of the video is going to be very telling. It's interesting. But then, you know, there's people out there, Steven Tyler, can still hit that high note and dream on.  Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Sammy Hagar still sounds good. David Coverdale, he's losing a little of his range, but he sounds good.  But there's some, maybe it's time, maybe it's time, you know, to preserve their vocal chords while they still got a chance. Yeah. I think the answer is professional, isn't it? Yes. Well, the question is, yeah. The question pertains to professionally. And yeah, you know, I'll tell you what, one of the singers that's in this video, I wouldn't pay $20 to hear that band with the way he sounds. It's horrible, horrible. He's got such a great voice. Yeah. It's a shame, though, isn't it? It is. And for them. It is. Yeah. God, I love you. I love you too. Very much. I do. I can't wait to physically get my hands on you.  What?  Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You said I could. I will. Hey, it's all yours. Everything on me is yours. Do what you want. I am your buffet. It is paint night. I'm really sorry. There is a little bit of smooch. We're allowed to do that. We are. We are. We are. But we will say hello to everybody as well. Yes. Fern. Hello again. Debbie, how are you feeling, Debbie? You haven't, you wasn't well. You, how's your knee? Hope you're feeling better. Christina. Thank you for that. Thank you. Oh, kindness matters. Jean. Hello, Jean. You've got to see. I missed that. I was just about to read that. You've got to see what's that? Davidas. Player next to you, Greg. What is that? I have no idea. Davidas? Yeah. I don't know. I can't even begin to guess. Davidas. No. Thank you. We shall. I think we cook very well, really. We do.  Okay. Hi, Lisa. Still limping around, waiting on Doctor's appointment X-ray and a shot in my knee. I feel for you. Pain's not nice, is it? It doesn't make you happy. at all. Nobody chooses it do they? I suppose there might be some sadistic people out there but I definitely, definitely no.  He's a wind-up merchant that's for sure. Ah Susan, hello. Hi Susie. Okay if we're lovebirds what kind of birds are we? Cuckoo? Cuckoo? Swans? They mate for life. I like that idea. Or penguins. Do penguins mate for life or are they just quirky like us? They do. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.  I already waddle. I do waddle. I've been studying the course in Miracles and it's changed my view on everything. Oh just wondering if you know anything about it. Greg you are looking really healthy. Here's a knee. It does look really healthy. It's because I have a tan. Everyone with tan looks healthy. You still look healthy. I feel good. You do. I do. I do. Thank you. Thank you Lee. I know. We're extinct. Yeah. Bald eagles. Far from bald eagle. Yeah I had my head drilled a lot today but I'm doing all right now. Took ages for my face to stop being numb. Aw I hate that. It does.  Yeah. Yeah. When it all comes back it's kind of like aching. Not nice. We'll send you some Kelly. I'll send you some good vibes. Coming at you. We don't have cardinals over here. Yeah. No. We don't have cardinals. Wow. That's like Dolores Cannon's bird. Yeah. Yeah. No. No we don't. You have sparrows don't you? Oh yeah. Yeah. Sparrows, blackbirds, thrush, starlings. There are most common ones. We don't have hummingbirds. You don't? No. Aw or flamingos or... What we do in a zoo. What about herons? In zoos. They must freeze their little tails off in the wintertime. Like what the fuck?  How's your holiday Marejo? How are you doing? Are you enjoying it? We have one that constantly flies into the bathroom window because it sees his reflection and thinks it's a competitor for his mate. Oh bless. Wow. Poor little love. I have so many birds visiting my feeders. My favourite is the red bellied and downy cat birds. Love these two. I've never heard of a cat bird. What's a cat bird? What does that look like? Let's see if I can find one for you. Yeah. Thank you Phil. Yeah. Thank you brother. Again my friend. Yeah. Lots of herons. Today's date is the 17th. Question everything. I agree Phil. That's the 17th letter of the alphabet. Questions everything. Marejo is going to Niagara Falls tomorrow. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. So we have a falcon in the nest by our house who eats the baby ducks from a nearby pond. Oh. I know it's the circle of life but I always feel bad. So that's the cat bird. Why is it called a cat bird? Can't you see it's feline eyes? No. Neither. No. I really can't. I don't know. Planted crystals in the ground and went through several cemeteries. Guess with what? My mobile vortex and beam of light. Oh I'm sorry. Here you go. I did it again. Where did it go? My beam of light in truth. It gets bigger as I go along. That's good. I'm sorry. I put up Rob's comment. Rob's on Facebook. He's saying Sylvester is a cat bird. Is a cat bird. What like? I taught. I taught a putty cat. Yes. Yeah. I love cat birds. They enjoy being sung to. They cause very, it sounds like screeching of cat like. Oh. There used to be a cartoon called Cat Dog that my daughter watched when she was young. Yeah. Cat Dog. Cat Dog. Cat bird. Cat cat. And the canary who sings his little heart out every day. They are at a family meeting. One of the topics is birds since we have so many bird watches. And all live in different parts of the country. Okay. Cat Dog. What craziness. I know Kelly. Never heard. Is it serious? Are you pulling my leg now about a cat dog? No. No. See. I said I watched Cat Dog with my son. Are you joking me?  I'll show you. Oh, it's a show. Is it? It's a cartoon.  I don't see. Christina used to watch Cat Dog. It was a real cartoon my son watched. Okay. This is Cat Dog. Part Cat. Part Dog. Wow. It's a cartoon. I've seen it all now. I've seen it all. And it was a good cartoon I take it. Brittany liked it and I watched it with her and I found it entertaining at times. So, yeah. I'm sure you can find it on YouTube. I'll have to. I've got to write that down. There was such a corny song that they had and I can't remember it. And if I hear it again, it'll get stuck in my head. So I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. So how does it poop? Yeah, exactly. That's a good question. I don't think I've ever seen a Cat Dog take a dump. No. Hi, Cassandra. I adore you guys. In Laquatch, a laquine, which means I am another you. You're another me. So we all adore each other. Yes. Yes. That way I can deflect the compliment. One Monday was a wolfman first. A bully was born in the cause of a little stir. No blue-blooded, no three-eyed frogs. A bee-line came down a little cat dog. Cat dog. Cat dog was a little cat. I better turn it off before...  Oh, God. Is he stuck? La, la, la, la. What cartoons did you watch when you were growing up? When I was growing up. Tom and Jerry. You haven't got Tom and Jerry, have you? Yeah, we do. The Cat and the Mouse. Oh, my goodness. I don't know. Everyone in the chat, what did you guys watch? Yeah. So just Tom and Jerry, that was it? We didn't have much of that. It wasn't TV with us. We were out all the time. Okay. Flintstones, yeah. Yes. Flintstones was good. Felix the cat. Oh, gosh, Marejo, you're dating yourself on that one. Yeah, SpongeBob with my kids. SpongeBob with kids. See, Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes. Looney Tunes. Elmer Fudd. Daffy Duck. Yosemite Sam. Yep. I remember that. I used to watch Popeye, the old Popeyes, the black and white Popeyes. Loved it. I loved his laugh. Okay, okay, okay. Undercats. Inspector Gadget. Yes. I remember Inspector Gadget. Yeah. I've never seen Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z. I've never seen it. Never seen those. Natasha and Boris. Bullwinkle. Hey, Rocky. You want me to pull a rabbit out of my hat? No. Nothing up to sleep. Presto. Something bizarre comes out of the hat. We're talking to a Russian person talking at the beach. I want to hear them say, let's get moose and squirrel. I can't speak Russian very well. Rugrats. Yes, my kids love Rugrats. Brittany loved it. Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, Popeye. He-Man, She-Ra. He-Man and She-Ra, yes. Mr. Popeye. He-Man and She-Ra, yes. Mr. Popeye. He-Man and She-Ra, yes. Mr. Popeye. I remember. Yeah. Felix the Cat, yeah. Wow, that's an old one. Mariah. Jeez. Jetsons, yeah. Meet George Jetson. His boy, Elroy. No, I don't remember that one. Lotter and Tooty. Yeah. No. Mickey Mouse before he became blatantly evil. Oh, my. before they put all the rude labels on it. I used to, I was in a bowling league. I've been bowling all my life.  And I'd be in these bowling leagues, that's pretty. Lapis. Malachi. Okay. But I'd be in these bowling leagues on Saturday morning. And I'd watch cartoons early in the morning before I would go to the bowling league.  And I thought, if I hear that bowling sound effect, I'm gonna have a great day bowling. And sometimes I did and sometimes I didn't, but I always look forward to that sound effect every Saturday morning. The Muppet Show, definitely. Snoopy, Charlie Brown, all the Charlie Brown. I can't think of it, I can see them in my head, but I can't see them. It was like the Muppet Show. In Chi, Private Eye was a, I remember that one. Oh, Wacky Races was another one. Wacky Races. That was cool, Wacky Races. They had all these cool cars. That's it. Rock, thank you, Mareho. That's what I was thinking of. Mighty Mouse, Hong Kong Fui, yeah. Number one, Super God. Something like that. Hong Kong Fui, that's a lot of human eye. Don't know, Pippi Longstockings. Pink Panther, yes. Do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do. Mm. They are classics. Captain Kangaroo, no, don't know that one. Yeah, well, that wasn't really a cartoon, though. Nor was H.R. Puffin stuff. But we could, but we could talk old programs outside of cartoons. Now, those were a couple old programs. I remember watching Romper Room and this woman had a magic mirror and she'd be looking into the crowd and she'd say, oh, I see Suzy and Bobby and Jane and Tom and she'd never say, Greg, I'm like, I'm right here. I'm right here. Here. I see Alley and Kelly and Doreen. Greg, I'm here. Aw, did they miss you out, baby? Yeah, they never said Greg. Never. Aw. Never. They go, Suzy says, and I see Greg and Alley. Yes, she's got her magic mirror out. But yeah, I remember, gosh, I had monkeys and Beatles trading cards, like baseball cards, but they were for the bands, the monkeys and the Beatles. When I was a kid, God, I'm old. Monkeys. Banana thing. What's that banana one? Banana splits, you're thinking of. Banana splits, yes. You never heard of the monkeys, though? I think so. It's a boy band. Hey, hey, for the monkeys. People say monkey around. Yeah, yeah. They had the coolest car. Gloria. Aw, there's Gloria. This is to the lady that we were interviewing. So lovely. So, and to answer your question, I haven't had a chance to add dental work done, Gloria. So it was a bit much. We can't do it quicker than the 10th of June because we've got a big conference on the 29th, and that's going to take a lot of work. So, yeah. So, yeah, she's definitely interested in the bit-shoot and then we do a bit-shoot, uncensored. Completely uncensored, yep. So, yeah. Those are a couple of old ones right there, Rob. You're dating yourself on that, Heckel and Jekyll and Woody Woodpecker. Woody Woodpecker, definitely. I remember that, Woody Woodpecker. The Brady Bunch. Did you watch the Brady Bunch? Very nice meeting you as well. I subbed to your YouTube channel, too. Oh, yeah, I saw the Brady Bunch. Come on. One of them was named, Greg. I highly recommend anybody going over to Gloria. She is one of the amazing survivors. Definitely a lady that I admire very much. Check out Handing the Shame Back. It's an amazing book I've just read. Okay, so it's Surviving Child Abuse. And so I would definitely go and have a look. She's amazing. Greg looks like Bobby Brownie, do you? No. Oh, thank you. Christina's put the book there. Thank you, Christina. So we're going to be interviewing Christina, hopefully on the 10th of June, but we're going to record it and then it will go out after that. So, yeah. Slipper. Oh, gosh. My parents and I and my sisters, we would watch the Tribal of Omaha's Wild Kingdom that came on at 7 in the evening Eastern. And then after that was the Walt Disney Hour and we would watch that. And I'd always ask my mom to scratch my back. She'd give me back scratches. That's why I love back scratches and Ellie got me this little back scratcher thingy and I use it every day. And I don't have my nails. Yes. Yeah. I'd much rather have your nails on my back. Yeah. My nails are your nails. Yeah. I can post them too if you like. Oh, my God. Lawrence Welk Show. Oh, God. I don't know that one. It's the Lawrence Welk Show and this big band who come out and do all that stuff. Yeah. How about He-Haw? Who? He-Haw. No. It's this country humor band and people playing the, I don't know, ukulele and banjo and... What's that black and white one thing that you watched? That Hillbillies. Beverly Hillbillies. Yeah. How do you relate to that? Yeah, there's a YouTube channel that has them all. So you can just play the playlist and fall asleep watching Jed Clamp it. Come and listen to my story about a man named Jay. Yeah. Come back in time, hey? Yeah. Yeah. So... What about everybody else? So, what was your... What was your mum and dad's favourite? Did they ever tell you?  We... Actually, as a family, we would watch all in the family with Archie Bunker. In the family. Wait. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days. No. Don't make that one. No laughing, stop it to me. Oh, laughing.  It's almost before my time, but unfortunately I remember that. Bewitched, I dream of Jeanie. Bewitched. Yes. You had a crush on her. Barbara Eden? What guy didn't? It was hot. Oh, Benny Hill. Marejo, I didn't know that you guys watched Benny Hill. Yeah, oh yeah. Oh my goodness. Goodness. That's brilliant. Yeah. Running around chasing each other at the end of the show in this all in fast motion. Hey, Tara. We love you too. Ah, my sister. I can't wait to meet you in person. Me too. Yeah. Love you, sister. Yeah. Yeah. Hello, Tara. How are you doing? Greg and Allie, big love to you both. Hello, Sarah. Are you feeling any better? Because she was kind of feeling quite low the other week. What if you're feeling better? Sending you lots of love. Lees. Look what came back, Lees. Oh no. What's the stamp say? The orange thingy. So it said, unclaimed, Lees. This is all your bits and pieces that you bought. So I don't know what to do. You have to let me know what you want me to do with it. Yeah. Apparently in the Netherlands they have to pay. I pay for the postage, but they have to pay as well. Which is terrible, isn't it? Well, Sunny and Cher, Carol Burnett. I dream of Jeannie Biewitsch. Mork and Mindy. Mork and Mindy. Mary Tyler Moore show. Night Rider. Night Rider, yes. X-Files. X-Files was brilliant. I love the X-Files. That was good too. I agree with you. I like Carol Burnett. Oh, what was that one? F-Troop and Mikael's Navy in Gilligan's Island. Gilligan's Island. You've never heard of Gilligan's Island? Yeah. Oh, you have? Sing the song. No, I don't know that. But yeah, Gilligan's Island. Dukes of Hazard, yes. Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip that started from this traffic for a board this tiny ship. No. The trouble is in my head. A pornographic is a portrait of this giant. You don't want to know, basically. Yeah. It's not there. That's imprinted. Yeah. That's the thing.  It's stuck in there. Unimportant things. Just keep lodging themselves in there. All the good things that I'm supposed to remember, I don't. With Gilligan the skipper to a millionaire and his wife. Go, Greg, said Debbie Porter. Go, Greg. No. Leave it to Beaver. What is that thing? Yeah. That was old.  It's like my favorite Martian was another one that was another one. Sherry lost his face. Have you seen the new one? Yes. The new one. I'm loving the new one that's on Netflix at the moment. It's really good. Hope in Zero's Lone Ranger Land of the Lost with the Slee Stacks. God. Divas in Butthead. What about movies? What are your favorite movies? That's a good question. What's yours? My favorite movie I like. Oh my goodness. There's just loads. Yeah, there are. God, I couldn't pick one. I couldn't just pick one. I could. It's a trilogy. What is it? Back to the future. Oh yeah, yeah, that's good. Time travel. Time travel baby. The trouble is a lot of the movies that I really used to love and put up there were top 10 it's with actors that I really can't follow anymore because I know that they're and I can't cope with it because a lot of the Tom Hanks ones I can't even go there anymore. Yeah, it's evil. Evil beyond evil. That was a program that was a program that was early in his career bosom buddies.  Yeah, it signifies. Yeah, you've swallowed the pill. You've signed your soul. Yeah. Yeah. Michael J. J folks. Yeah. Yeah, what was that family matters? The show he was in, was that what it was called? Family Matters. I don't know. You see I used to like Shawshank Redemption. That used to be one of my good ones. I used to like that and yeah. My mind goes blank. Wizard of Oz. It's always a Christmas one, isn't it? Twilight Zone. Somewhere in time. We saw that. You and I saw that one together. We've seen that twice now, haven't we? What's that one? Something about we here. We see you also. I can't remember what. It's all about when he puts these glasses on he sees the truth. Oh, they live. They live. So if you've never seen that, they live is good. That's great. Lord of the Rings trilogy. We saw Peggy Sue got married. Another time travel. We did care. Kinda, yeah. You see I've got to watch Outlander with you because that's time travel. I love time travel. Anything time travel gets a thumbs up. All right. We'll watch that together. We need to have a date night, like a private date night. Yeah. My parents had the soundtrack to West Side Story and I remember listening to all of them. My parents would play it all the time. Maria, I just met a girl named Maria. Yeah. I remember hearing all those songs. Yeah. Sure. Shanks redemption somewhere in time. Is that with that guy that died? Christopher. Yes. Where he hypnotizes himself to go back into the early 1900s. We saw that. That was interesting. But then he reached into his vest and pulled out a recent penny and it shocked him back into... I just ruined it for everyone that hasn't seen it yet. Oh no. You'll hate it. Oh no. I still remember. Never ending story. We were talking about that in class yesterday. Never ending story. Christina agrees with me. That's her favorite somewhere in time. Yeah. I like Adjustment Bureau. That's really good. Have you ever seen that? I think so. What's his face? What's his name? I can't think of it at the moment. Kevin. No. What's his name? Matt Damon. Yeah. Matt Damon. Yeah. Yeah. Garden State. I haven't seen that one. I opened my pool today. I'm ready for bed. Time Travelers Wife. I think I've seen that. I think I've seen that too. I'm not sure though. But if not, I think we should watch that. Because you like time travel. A good time travel one is called The Travelers on Netflix. Or is it Amazon Prime? Netflix. Netflix is it? That's good. That's really good. E.T. I loved E.T. Yeah. I like depth movies as well. I like the Pirates of the Caribbean ones. Love those. Yeah. Raiders of the Lost Star. Yes. Labyrinth. David Bowie. Yeah. I love this. Finding out what makes people tick. What they love watching. It says a lot about the person. What they listen to or watch when they were growing up. Yeah. For sure. Cocoon. I love that one too. What about the Coneheads? Coneheads. I definitely liked Raiders of the Lost Star. I liked all of that trilogy actually. The Land Before Time. Yes. Debbie liked that one. That vibrated then. When you did that, when you put that down. Oops. All wins on the names. Yeah, I didn't do it either. Oops. If anybody's wondering about the names that are going across here, if you've not been here before. Hey, there's your name. Yeah, I'm on there and you're on there. So it's people that want to find their other half. Now, of course, me and Greg have found each other, but obviously we want to be together basically. So what we've done is we've created a list. So anybody who wants to be on the list, this can be if you want. We light a candle and we put positive energy into all of the names and we put it out there and hope that they're magnetized to you. So they come together. So if that perfect person is the person that you're with, then that relationship gets stronger. If it is a soulmate that you're meant to be with and it's a twin flame, whoever is supposed to be in your vibrational energy now, then that's what this is. It's kind of like a list for love. So anybody here, we've also connected we've done Love Connections Facebook page as well. So the people on here and you can actually start chatting to each other. So it's in 5D Love Connections. So don't forget to pop over there and add your name to that as well. So. And with any luck, maybe your twin flame will stalk you in your dreams like Allie did with me. Yeah, boo!  Nope. Nope. Glad you found me. Oh, me too, Love. Oh. Definitely. And Debbie, the day the Earth stood still. Yes. Is that the one with matrix guy? Keanu Reeves. Keanu. Is that his name, Keanu Reeves? Keanu, that's the right name but I never saw that movie. Okay. That's quite good. Yeah. Keanu Reeves. The Matrix trilogy. Love the Matrix. Of course. That's the film that I was trying to remember. That's my all-time favourite. Life of a Man. Yes. He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy. Who's that Welsh tart? I love it. Monty Python.  Absolutely not. War of the Worlds. That's another good one. Very good. Jehovah. Jehovah. Yeah, that's the whole Tom Cruise. You know, he's... I know. And I like Mission Impossible. I like all of that.  Who is? Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise. No, he's Scientology. Oh, that's what I meant. I'm sorry. Yes. Just like John Travolta. There's a bunch of famous people that are into that. The capital of basically Scientology is here in Florida in Clearwater. Many of them have a place here. This is only a couple hours away from here. Hour and a half away from Sarasota. Christopher's Legend with Tom. Oh, I am Legend as well. I love that's one of my top ones. Yeah. See, I love zombie films and End of the Worlds. I can't help it. I like the survival thing. It's like I concentrate on the survival instincts and things. Love it. We don't like the same films. We don't like the same films that are the same. But my taste in films is different to yours in a lot of ways. I don't like gore. I don't like blood. I don't like scary. Can't sleep after watching something like that. You're dead, Debbie. Oh my goodness, yes. Never get tired of watching I am Legend, I know. I like the spider with Chronicle. Yeah. I'm afraid. I don't watch that. The wrong turn. That's a bit too horary for me. Yeah, I can't deal with that one. That's a bit too much. Susie's just no zombies for me. Mm-hmm. What's the other films that unite, darling? I like some of the sports ones too. Like James, A League of Their Own, Ryan Song, On Any Given Sunday, Unnecessary Roughness. The Blind Side? I don't think I've seen that one. That's with Orre, Benjamin Orre. Yeah, it's about the football player, right? Yeah. Baltimore Raven, I believe. I don't know that. It's not Benjamin Orre. It's not Benjamin Orre. It's the bass player on the cars. Yeah. Avatar, 100% Avatar. Mm-hmm. It is awesome. I like the Marvel movies as well. I quite like all the superheroes and things like that. I like that. Superman, Spider-Man. Where is it? Yeah, right here. time. Of course, that's another movie. You got more A-listers in there, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Tom Hanks, you know. Oh, Debbie, we have the same taste. Yeah, Fast & Furious. I don't mind them. They're okay. I can watch them. Oh, yeah. What was that? Point Break. I love that movie with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. That was cool. Bunch of surfer dudes. Yeah. Is it Roadhouse? Was Roadhouse Patrick Swayze? I think that was Roadhouse. I know it was Ralph Maccio. Yeah. I know you see me. Yeah, Roadhouse. Was it Roadhouse? What if I got that wrong? Hmm. Marie Ho says yes. Yes, I got it right. I quite like having cartoon days as well. Just watching cartoons. I quite like that. He was going to get some cards out, darling, wasn't he? Yeah. I've been shuffling them and shuffling them and taking some cards that just ask random questions. I thought this would be fun to put out there for all of us. So here's our first random question. Okay. Here's the, okay, it's got a quote and then the questions after the quote. Okay. Yep. A plan is what? Okay. A plan is what? Hang on. An affirmation, a vision, cosmic ordering, a prayer. Okay. This is weird. It says a plan is what? And there's a period there, not a comma. It says a plan is what? But I don't think that period should be there. A plan is what a schedule is when it takes both to get things done. That's the quote. And the question is, does my schedule reflect my priorities of becoming whom I want to be? Ah, that's a good question. I would say yes, in my opinion. Yes. Yeah.  And that's a good question to put out there. What are you doing? You know, the job that you work, is it something that's putting you on your path or is it just something that's holding space until you find something that's going to be putting you on that path? In this lifetime, it's important to do one thing and that is make a difference. Yeah. And help others. Make a good difference. Yeah. To know that your intentions are mostly good for everyone, not just yourself, good for everyone. That's how I see it. Okay. So our next card is, you'll never change your life until you change something you do. Daily, the secret of your success is found in your daily routine. And the question is, which of my habits do I want to eliminate? What new habits should I build? I know one of your habits. I'm not going to say it though because then I get loads of bashing from everybody. So I'm well aware. I know. As soon as I say it, everybody kind of like, yeah, so yeah, I'm fully aware. What about you? No, we'll stay on you. What else? Do good deeds, says Debbie. Cabin in the woods. Yeah, that's a good film. That's a UFO film, isn't it? Cabin in the woods, I think. Next question. All right. No, I haven't answered and you haven't really gone answered anything. I'm not, I'm not going there. Okay. Not after my experience of the astrology this week. I used to smoke. That was my worst habit. I don't do that anymore. I drank occasionally, but I don't remember the last time I drank. We'll put it that way. And it wasn't a lot. Which of my habits do I want to eliminate? I don't think I have any horrible, any habits that are really bad. What new habits should I build? I can't think of any right now. I'm sure there would be some that would be fantastic. You do a lot already, don't you? Do you walk with gratitude? You get your exercise in the swimming pool, the swimming seat. Yeah. And you do, yeah, there's lots of things. Yeah. Okay, this one says rich people stay rich by living like they are broke. Broke people stay broke by living like they are rich. That's true. Do I live within my means? Am I spending too much money? Yes, I do. Wait, wait, you're living within your means or are you spending too much money? I'm spending too much money. Yeah. But the majority of what I spend my money on is more things to make things than to sell. So it's kind of like a roundabout thing. Yeah.  That's in my paychecks come every month. Yeah. So I have to live within my means or else I'm homeless. So I don't have a choice. Am I spending, am I spending too much money? Maybe, maybe on some things that I, but you know what? I hardly ever buy anything selfishly for myself. No, not a lot. It's just groceries and, you know, to me a treat is going to the beach. So gas money, you know? Oh, tomorrow I'm going to this Van Gogh exhibit. Hang on. Where is it? Oh, here it is. Okay. I'm going, this, this is called Beyond Van Gogh and everything is not just the pictures, but the floor and the sounds and everything. You become part of the art at this exhibit. So my friend Rosie, her, her husband passed away and she doesn't have anybody to go with. And she asked me if I would go here with her. And I said, yeah, I'll go with her. And it's going to be, it's going to be interesting because I'm, I'm not an artsy party kind of guy, but I've heard good things about this. So I'm looking forward to that and checking it out. So that's tomorrow here in Sarasota. So. Yeah, because you wasn't, wasn't sure of it, was you? But I think, I think it will be an experience. Yeah. You know, one of my major sequences in high school was art, art and science. Those were the things that I focused on.  Two seconds, two seconds. There's a mute button. Yeah. Art and science.  But yeah, art and science for my major sequences. And art is like music. You're using that one side of the brain that's not analytical.  So what happened to Allie? She was, oh, I know what she's doing. She's doing her habit that she didn't want to talk about. She's making more horlicks. No. Well, I was doing that. Yeah. But I was trying to find my cards, because I think my cards are better than yours. Okay. And I can't find them. And of course, I have to go at the back of my chair.  Bravo. No, no, no, no, no. It's not good. There'll be an eclipse. You know, in the clips, there'll be another one.  I can't find it anyway. I love it. She is. I can't find it. I'd love to see your, your eclipse. Later, darling. Hell yeah. Stop. Oh, see, we've sent Debbie to sleep. So there's good night. Oh, can't tell what I love you guys. Oh, no night, Debbie. What you need is a cup of horlicks, Debbie. You do. Yes, you do. Oh, so you're going to pick another good one.  There might be a good one next. Okay. So every human being has genius level talent. There are no chosen ones. You just have to find what you are great at and tap into it. What is something I have done in the past that I am proud of? What am I great at? See, when you find your life path, it's kind of easy, isn't it? But it's finding that life path that a lot of people, a cup of what Debbie said, horlicks. This is what I'm having to cut down on, horlicks. It's a multi-drink. She has a whole closet full of horlicks there. No. Stacked cases stacked upon cases. No, I don't. You've even got some there for me. I do. I do. When I was coming over and when Homeland Security stopped me, yeah, you had some already, didn't you? Yep. So let's simplify that. What is, do you guys know what your life path is? Do you know what your life path is? Are you doing it now? Or what do you need to do to get there? Well, I'll actually answer it the way it is. What is something I've done in the past that I'm proud of and what am I great at? The thing I'm most proud of, there's two things actually. Mostly three. My daughter, bringing my daughter, helping to bring my daughter into this world because she taught me so much. So I'm very proud of that. I'm very proud of Allie finding me and helping complete me as well. And I'm also very proud of the work I've done on in 5D to help bring our family together. Yeah. What am I great at? I'd say I'm a great dad and I'm a great lover. You are. Couldn't ask for better. I couldn't. Nope. And in 5D, I'm going to sing your praises because everybody here that is connecting with everybody, all of those hundreds of thousands of people that have connected together over however many years you've done. Millions. It's actually millions. Millions.  There was a time before our shadow band where I could see on my AW stats and it shows you how many people are visiting, how many are unique visitors, how many total visitors you have at any given month or any given day within that month. I was having, I don't know, five, six, seven million visitors any given month or more. So but then, you know, heavy shadow banning came in and, you know, if anyone can share what we have, that would be greatly appreciated because the shadow banning takes it away from us. So we appreciate anything you share from in 5D. Please. Please, please. Yeah.  It's like, that's nothing. That's nothing in shadow banning terms. When we go live, there's 32. Yeah. Almost 150,000 followers on subscribers on YouTube. 150, right now, 148,000 and they keep taking more and more away. I just noticed they were taking them away 20 at a pop, exactly 20 at a pop.  Some of our followers have specifically told me that they've been unsubscribed without them actually doing it. So I mentioned this on the previous video. Make sure that you hit the bell notifications because I was looking at the statistics and said only 8% of my followers are right now have the bell notification chosen, which means 92% don't. And they not only are they unsubscribing people, but they're also on bell notifying people too. They're taking that away from you. So yeah, definitely. Yeah. So if you can like and share, that would be amazing because you've worked so hard to get here. All of this is going to change. We know that it's going to be, in fact, we're going to look at Facebook, can't we next week for the global predictions. We're going to have a look at that next week. Yes. Hi, Mark Zuckerberg. Hi. Cox Smoker. He's on his way. He's on his way. It's fine. Right. They're all slowly being taken over by the good guys. That's what I feel. Why couldn't Elon have bought Facebook instead of Twitter? Would have been better financially for a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. I truly believe that. Yeah. Yeah. It's unfair, but you know, it's no good whining about it. It is what it is, but you know, we just have to keep going. This is what we do. We've got to spread the love and we'll keep doing it. Yeah. So Linda says my life path is number eight. My north node is in my fourth house, family and home. I have lost all my family, even though they are still living. So that could be, Linda, your spiritual family. So sometimes our closest family aren't actually blood related. They are, you know, the people that you choose to resonate with. So we're going to do one more question. Okay. Okay. All right. So tonight, one more. Maybe next week we'll get your amazing cards versus my shitty ones. Oh, I love you. I do. Read this. Okay. I do love you too. Yeah. There is no force more powerful than a person who is determined to rise. Which of my friends or acquaintances do I find the most inspiring? Well, that's you, I would say. Yeah. Yeah. You are. I do the most inspiring. I'd go with that too. Me. Yeah. You are. No, I'd say you. Obviously, my daughter. Yep. And anyone that puts out videos that I subscribe to that gets me to think, puts me in like a different direction and makes me question things and it doesn't have to be videos. It could be somebody in the chat that says something that yeah, I didn't expect and it could be any but it's chances are it's somebody that that inspires me mentally to do something that I haven't done before. Yeah. I would say my kids too. My mom. Yeah. Parents that my kids are I watch I watch them do the things that I used to do with them and it's like, you know, like Easter, I always used to do an Easter egg hunt and now my kids are now starting to do it. They've taken over that role because I can't do it anymore. So they're taking over that role on their own and it's kind of like a tradition. And they don't just include their little family. They include the neighborhood kids and you know, so I just think that that's amazing. Yeah. And other inspiration too. It might not be it could be musically. I might hear like one line of a lead and somebody's lead solo or something or it might be a part of a song. It could be any genre of music, basically, but there might be something within that that song that inspires me to write something around that motivation, not necessarily copying, copying that song, but being motivated by that and taking it in a different direction. Yeah. Because of my friend, I was telling you about him, Chuck. Yes, what's happening with that? Do you want to tell him? Yeah. So I have one of my beach buddies, Chuck, Chuck Drager. He does, he does a little solo act at local bars and country clubs and stuff like that. And he's a wonderful singer. He's an amazing singer. But he's like, Hey, you know, I'm doing these gigs and it'd be great to have a guitar player up there with me. All you got to do is do these little fills and stuff like that. I'm like, I could do that. That'd be fun. So like, yeah, well, let me know when you want to come up with me and we'll make it, we'll make it happen. I'm like, great, that sounds, sounds awesome. So I'm going to be doing that with my friend. But my point is about Chuck. He, there's a song that he wrote. He showed me the lyrics and he goes, can you put music to this? I go, yeah, what style do you want? He gave me this, this song and a similar style to that song. I'm like, yeah, I can do that. And I came up with a riff similar to that one, but different, no copyright infringements, but it's an original riff. And now I just need to lay down and record it, which I can do on my computer and send it to him and see if he likes it. But you know, that's being inspired by a piece of music to do something else. So that's a brilliant. I'm so happy for you because you need that. You do need that. I love playing music. Where did it, I just, well, I should, I should wait until, I'm waiting until your interview because I'm going to be interviewing you and you're going to be interviewing me. So I'll save that question for then. I was going to ask you something about in five days and theme tunes, but I'll wait. I was really excited yesterday because I found I was, I played one only you, I was playing that song. I don't know the lyrics, only you and you, but I learned a chord change in there that I didn't know beforehand. I was so excited and Allie had called me then and I had to play it to her.   Oh, I did not. That's your mum's favorite as well. Yeah. That was my, my parents song. So, but yeah, there was something that was missing and I was doing one note wrong and I figured out what it was and I was just like, all right, that's cool. Now I got it down. I'm talented. You don't actually, you listen to a track, don't you? And then you can actually then play it rather than, rather than you. Yeah. The thing is, there's like a shitload of tutorials anyway. Guitar tutorials on YouTube. So you can always figure out something and you don't necessarily have to agree with their interpretation. You might change it around or you might make it your own, you know, because a lot of times like if I'm playing a lead, I'll try to learn it exactly, but then I'll do something different within that to kind of own it myself. Yeah. So when do you start, darling? I don't know. I haven't gotten that far. Okay. Yep. Good. I can't be a groupie, but I would be if I was there. Well, I'll have somebody video it or I'll set up my camera somewhere and I'll throw my knickers at you, but it might cause them, you know, it's, yeah, they're not, yeah. You don't wear knickers. I know better. Shush. Don't tell everybody, not you. I had an edit. I don't have any on right now. Want to see? No. Oh. No, no one wants to see that except you. Yeah, they do. No, just you. Only you. You're so naughty, but I love you. I love you. I do.  Definitely. I haven't been doing the ticker tape at the bottom of you. Yeah. Oh, good, because I didn't do it this week. Yeah. You did such a good job last week though. I loved it. I was concentrating on it. If I know it's my responsibility, then I will do it. So shall I light my candle ready? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I don't know where my candles are. That's my trouble. I've got one right here. So if anybody wants to join in, we're sending some good vibes over to these lovely people who want to meet their soulmate, their love, and please light a candle. Cranberry orange. I found it. I found it. I've got all these lovely candle holders. I'm stuck with that one. It's okay. I haven't got straight yet. I will. Okay. So we're going to visualise each one of these lovely people here, and whoever wants to be included, I want you to visualise that you're a magnet, and the magnet is drawn to the other half of you, and that half of you, it could be your twin. It could be a soulmate. It could be the person that you're with. It could be that person, and you might have drifted, and this way we're going to draw people back together. So let's just take a moment just to think about these people as it goes on the screen there. So that's been, their energy's been going around on the screen all night. So we are one step closer, and I'm going to stand by what my guys have told me, and there is going to be more twin flame and soulmate relationships found in 2022 than ever before. That's what I've been told. So it's going to be pretty amazing. It's because we've all got work to do. It's a love vibrational energy that needs to go all around the world. So that's how I see it. Okay. I want to make sure that everybody who hasn't joined yet, to make sure you go to N5D Love Connection. We've got 57 members right now. Of course, two are not looking for Love Connections. But I put up an icebreaker here. Where are you from and what city do you currently live in? And I think what we're going to do is up yourself, and then we'll ask more icebreaker questions, and we encourage everybody who's single and are looking for their twin flame, their soulmate to answer these questions as honestly as you can. And who knows, maybe you'll find that special someone. And this is what, you know, the love that Ally and I have, and you guys can feel that love that we have for one another. We want everyone to have this love too. You'll be in perfect bliss and harmony when you find that special, in our case, twin flame. It could be your soulmate. Sometimes not all twin flames incarnate here, but we, like Ally said, this is the time where it's going to be a lot of twin flames finding one another. And we're putting that energy out there to hopefully, hopefully you, if you're looking, you'll find that and experience this kind of love as well. The way that I can just describe a twin flame relationship is it's easy. It's just easy. Yeah. When you're in a relationship, that is hard work. And then you call that a twin flame relationship. It's not a twin flame relationship. It's just my opinion. It's just what I feel. I agree. A twin flame is the other half of you. So you can't argue with the other half of you. You can't. And if there is something that you don't necessarily agree on, you can see the other person's point of view anyway. So it's like, okay. So anyway, we don't know what we're going to be like when we live together. It's like, if you put the bin out, of course, you know. So you can always say, well, I don't know what to say later, can't we? But at the moment, I feel I can't see it being a problem. No. Well, we live together for a month and we'll live together for hopefully a couple months this year, September and hopefully October. We'll see what the travel restrictions say on that. But definitely for one month, we'll live together again. Absolutely. Zero arguing for a month. Not one. Not once. In our two years, we've not ever argued. Nope. And that's the way the relationship should be. It should be just easy. It should be just easy. And this is why we started this up, because we want this for everyone. And, you know, if you are in a really good relationship, but you feel as if you've drifted, you may find, and this has been the case that I've had people report that their relationship has got better, that they might have been trying, but the other half hasn't. And then all of a sudden, their other half starts to try harder in the relationship. You know, you draw together and get closer with family, okay? So it doesn't actually have to be just love life. Sometimes it's family are connecting and getting closer. So, yeah. Yeah, it's exciting. Life is living, and there's so much excitement coming. It's like this is going to be heaven on earth. It's coming. So, yeah. Easy is a great adjective, and exciting is what you'll be getting. So, easy and exciting. Pretty good deal. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So don't forget to sign up for in 5D love connections. Yeah. Start chatting to each other. I think that's the key. Yeah. So, I think we should wrap it up there. I just want to remind people to check out n5d.net, quantum tie-dye, n5d, quantum tie-dye at n5d.net. We've got a sale there, buy three, get one free, and that includes all shirts, whether it's the marked down ones or the ones that are regular priced, buy three, get one free. Also, we have a conference, n5d conference at the end of the month on the 29th. It's free. It goes from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday, May 29th, 2022. So, we encourage that. Yeah. Well, I'll be putting out the ad for that, the promo for it, as soon as I get all the pictures and everything together. But it's free on Sunday, the 29th of this month of May 2022. Hope you guys can all check that out. And lastly, make sure if you're single, check out n5d Love Connection. Yeah. Also, we're looking forward to interviewing the lovely Gloria Masters. Completely uncensored. She has got a story to tell. It's uncensored, and I highly, highly recommend that people listen because you will, it will, it will change something inside you, your heart, and it will just be, you know, something's got to change, so it's got to give out there. It's a, it's truly an amazing story. And in the meantime, you can have a look on her website, loriamasters.com, and her book is amazing. I have read it. I bought an audiobook. Audiobook, £8.99. I couldn't believe it. The only way I'm going to read a book. Listen to a book. Yeah. I want to, I want to thank everybody who's joined us here once again for another date night. And we've, we love just interacting with you guys and all the, you know, our favorites, going through all of our favorite stuff tonight was really fun and learning a lot about each other. If you're watching this on the recorded version, put your comments below, you know, the stuff that you watched and listened to and some of your favorite things and let us know about that so we can go back and check out your comments there as well. Remember to like and subscribe to not just only N5D, but the psychic alley, YouTube page, and be sure you hit those bell notifications on both of them so we can make sure that we can reach you on our videos. Allie. Are you there? I think it's all covered. Thank you so much for joining us. We've had a lovely, lovely time. My face hurts from smiling. I know it's been wonderful to yeah have such a great conversation with everyone, especially you. Yeah, my love. And you baby. So until the next time, I'm Greg from N5D.com and N5D.net. Allie, psychic alley.net. And have a lovely week. Yeah, you all take care. We love all of you. Thank you. Bye. Bye.


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And welcome to the annual Lucian Strike and National Translation Award Reception. I want to thank a few people real quickly. We didn't have an opening this morning of the conference, so I'm going to take a couple minutes right now to thank some of the people who made this possible. Some of you who came to the reception last night know that at least one of our sponsors was Chad Post and Open Letter Press. Also a – yes, thank you. Amazon Crossing is helping to support the event, the Milwaukee Public Library Central, where we're having some readings. Seth Schuster in the People's Cooperative Bookstore that is staffing the book exhibit on the fifth floor. The Alta Travel Fellowship Selection Committee, and wasn't that a fantastic reading just before this? Sincere thanks to the Selection Committee, which this year consisted of three people – Esther Allen, Susan Harris, and Jason Grinnebaum. Thanks very much for all your hard work. We had a ton of good applications this year. We also have benefited greatly from the organizational skills of Alta's managing director, Erica Mena. Where is she? And Brandy Host and her colleagues at IU Conferences who are making things run. As well as a number of student assistants and volunteers, including my graduate assistants, Brittany Penzer and Rachel Dom. Where are you? You're here somewhere. And also intern Sarah Corcoran. A special thanks to Alexis Leviton, who continues to organize the bilingual readings, which have grown exponentially. We're going to have to figure out how to handle them. They've just taken off, I think I mentioned last night, that at the Bloomington Conference last year we had a record 85-86 bilingual readings, which was 20 more than Alexis could remember ever getting in 26 years of administering that initially surreptitious book guerrilla movement in the Alta Conference, and this year we had 136, I believe. So, I don't know, it's like double the number that we had two years ago or more. I also want to thank Marion Schwartz for helping with the, for coaching the, sorry, the Alta Fellows this year and for MCing the event just before this one. Thank you, Marion. And tomorrow night at Declamacion you'll see the results of Barbara Pashke's work. Thank you, Barbara, in advance for organizing the Declamacion again this year. And finally, no conference would happen without an organization committee. This year's committee was led by Leah Leone, who is at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and she's stepped out for the moment, but she is our leader here. And the rest of the committee members, Erica Mena, Aaron Aji, Kathy Nelson, Avia Kushner, Siblin Forester, and Kyle Semmel. So, thank you, everybody. So, I have the honor of introducing two winners. I want to introduce more than two, though, because we have tried to expand this process a little bit to reflect the high quality of submissions that we get across the board in the Lucian Strike Prize and the National Translation Award. And so, I want to mention that we're having a long list reading of National Translation Award finalists tomorrow. And I believe they are Karen Kovacic, Jason Grunerbaum, Stephen Kessler, and Bill Johnston. So, if you have time to come out and listen to them. I think some of these people are also reading at the Public Library, which is a public event open to everybody, not just ticketed altar members, convention members, attendees. And also, I want to name our finalists. I'm going to give those in a few minutes. The long list and the short list this year, we made a great effort to publicize and to get them out into the various media outlets so that people knew who was actually nominated and made their way to the finalist round. First, I want to introduce and announce the winner of the Lucian Strike Prize by starting with the runner-up. And this year, the runner-up for the prize was a book published by White Pine Press called Magnolia and Lotus Selected Poems of Hyesim, which was translated from the Korean by Ian Haight and Taeyong Ho. And that's the runner-up for the Lucian Strike Prize. Let's give them a round of applause. That committee, I should note, forget, the selection committee for that prize. This year, we were still in slight transition mode. So the committees were not, as you know, everything used to be administered by the office at the University of Texas at Dallas. And some of the operations have still, during the year, we had a collaborative arrangement. Let me put it that way. And so this year, the selection committee for the Lucian Strike Prize would actually consisted of Jonathan Staling, Janet Kim Ha, and Reiner Schulte. And they actually, they not only administered the prize, but they worked with the publishers getting the submissions and we owe a debt of gratitude to the Dallas office for continuing to do that even after our official arrangement with them had ended. So thank you very much for doing that. And so I want to introduce now the winner of the Lucian Strike Prize who's going to come up and read a little bit from, tell you a little bit about the book, the project, and read a little bit from it. And this year's winner is Every Rock, A Universe, The Yellow Mountains, and Chinese Travel Writing, translated and introduced by Jonathan Chaves. It's a book by Wang Hongdu. And Jonathan is a distinguished translator from the Chinese and also a poet. He has his own poetry published in a variety of literary magazines, Antioch Review, and a number of others. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award in the translation category. He presents the first complete translation of Wang Hongdu's poetry in a Western language and his translation shows, according to the selection committee, a translator who recreates the world of Wang with a refined sensitivity to the nuances of the Chinese language and the underlying cultural and aesthetic landscape of the Yellow Mountains expressed in poetry and prose. Please welcome Jonathan Chaves. It is a great, great pleasure to be here. I am absolutely delighted by this award and completely and utterly surprised that a book of this sort would be selected. The writer is completely unknown anywhere, including in China. This is the first time he has been noticed at all, Wang Hongdu. He was a painter, a calligrapher, a poet, and as this book I think demonstrates a remarkable master of prose in classical Chinese and I'm going to be reading some of the Chinese to you in just a few moments and you will understand that this is what the Chinese call Wen Yan or classical literary Chinese. It is not a spoken version of the Chinese language. Huangshan or the Yellow Mountains located in southern Anhui province. I'm curious to know how many people here have ever gone to the Yellow Mountains in China? And do we have any? There's somebody back there. Okay, good, good. This is one of the most beautiful places on the face of the planet. When you go there, you feel as if you are walking through Chinese paintings and as a matter of fact the Yellow Mountains inspired an entire school of Chinese painting known as the Xin'an School or the southern Anhui province school in the 17th and 18th centuries. The key event that kicked off the great popularity of the Yellow Mountains among the literati, the scholar officials of China was the tragic invasion and conquering of China by the Manchus in 1644. And the scholars of the day not being Marxist in their inspiration, Marx was not yet born, did not consider that historical events are caused by mysterious social and economic forces nor did they consider that history is brought about by conflicts among classes. They considered that it was brought about by moral integrity or a failure of moral integrity. This is the classical Confucian philosophy. And the loss of moral integrity had caused heaven, Tian to withdraw the mandate to rule. Tian had withdrawn the Ming. The mandate to rule. They looked to the Yellow Mountains as a place where perhaps the essence of classical Chinese civilization with its moral and spiritual foundations might still be recovered. And so some of them simply refused to take the civil service examinations and serve in the government and they would go and live there. Wang Hongdu lived in the heart of the Yellow Mountains for ten years at a time when the place was completely remote and completely cut off from the outside world. Others became Buddhist monks and still others were Taoists who would go there to refine the elixir of immortality. The Dan, based on Cinnabar, the term yellow comes in fact from Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, the founder of Chinese civilization according to traditional Chinese historiography who was said to have refined the elixir of immortality right there in the Yellow Mountains. So trips there became a pilgrimage to a place not only of great beauty, stark and or steer, but great, great beauty, but also a pilgrimage back toward the origins of Chinese civilization. Huangshan Lingyaolu, or Comprehending the Essentials of the Yellow Mountains, is Wang Hongdu's brilliant collection of prose essays about the Yellow Mountains, describing them and talking about what they meant to him and his peers. The mountains were famous for their rock formations, for their pine trees, which have their own botanical name and modern botany. The Huangshanensis pine, the pine of the Yellow Mountains, they cannot be found anywhere else. They grow as it were out of rock without any place to root themselves in soil. They are twisted by the winds into dragon-like shapes, and they all have names that are given to them. And then finally, the Ocean of Clouds, or Yunhai, also known as Huanghai, the Yellow Ocean, because when you stand in these mountains, all of a sudden clouds or mists will come swirling up out of nowhere, form incredible patterns, and then disappear. And I'd like to start, in fact, with a passage descriptive of the clouds in the Yellow Mountains. First, let's listen to it in classical Chinese, although I would caution you that it comes along with something that did not exist in the 17th century, a Brooklyn accent. 于是水风古荡上下花然中风,其上天与寇然未来一色, 其下斗落缅中日光窗露风苔平之, 雅图雅吞千字飘壁左千万种运,左千万种光十故, 山一外者一望茫然,破瓶若静, 山一内者炼破千条,容悔有意于鸡方之息, 上三次而下平如蓬莱岛鱼高之天, 风海桃上,仙山楼阁,莉莉不言也, 如浮容望多丛生湖光, 建宴中因风耀阳不定也. Okay, now the same passage translated and I will add a bit more. You wouldn't think that this much could be written about clouds by anyone but a scientist who specializes in clouds. By the way, do we have any of those in the audience today? No? Thank God because I probably made all kinds of mistakes in capturing some of the terms that describe the clouds. The clouds go along with the winds sweeping and burgeoning above and below until there is a great divide formed with heaven's vault above all, a perfect blue while below in the midst of the cottony forms beams of sunlight flicker and penetrate and the forms of the peaks following these sometimes peak out and sometimes or again swallowed up while purplish blueish greenish forms produce thousands and thousands of orioles and thousands and thousands of types of scintillating light and that is why everything beyond the mountains is one vast panorama of voidness as even as the surface of a mirror while within the mountain it is as if thousands of skeins of silk are twisting and turning floating and dangling amongst the crevices of all the peaks above all is zigzagged below all is perfectly level. It is like the isle mountains of paradise jutting upwards toward heaven. The Chinese believed that there were mountain islands of paradise way out in the ocean where shenren or immortals lived so now the tips of the peaks protruding above the clouds have that appearance. While in the windswept ocean waves the towers and pavilions of the mountains of the immortals are clearly one after the other unobstructed or it is like tens of thousands of lotus blossoms growing together or scintillating wavelets of lake light shaking and swaying in the breeze and never settling down. I have heard from those who have grown old living in these mountains that the clouds actually have homes they come from a particular mountain and will inevitably return to that same mountain on hot summer days in the windswept rain the dragon clouds arise and fade at such times it is difficult to keep track of them in the haze and there would seem to be no way to determine if the clouds of all the near and far mountains are in fact facilitated by yellow mountain clouds but indeed they are. He's referring to the belief that clouds emerged not from water, not from oceans, not from lakes but from mountains the mountains were the roots of the clouds. Same cloud would always come out of the same cave and return to it at the end of the day a cloud commuter you might call it. I have further heard that once in the past there was a visitor here who was seated at his mountain window grinding his ink and painstakingly working at poetry when a cloud suddenly flew in through the window approached his desk totally absorbed the liquid ink and then departed leaving his inkstone as dry as if it had been rubbed clean. The cloud had stolen his ink. Now of course before the era of modern tourism to the yellow mountains which has been facilitated by the government in the form of launcher or cable cars that have been erected there getting through was extremely extremely difficult and we have some descriptions of how this was done for example as one proceeds to the south one sees yet another sheer cliff face he's describing a group of climbers being led into the yellow mountains by a guide usually a Buddhist monk who's living there as a hermit hundreds of feet high and broad there are no crevices or fissures one can grasp hold of nor are there any places where withered tree branches could be set the leader informs one that this is the cliff of the king of hell and at the top lies a ridge known as poison dragon back which is even worse but once past this ladder it becomes possible to reach the summit with no further difficulty once an announcement to this effect has been made the climbers tentatively crawl crab like up the cliff until the halfway point where there is a transverse crack barely a foot or so in width above it protrudes a rock which presses right against one's body preventing one from standing here but if one reaches into the mouth of the crack one can reach inside it and grab hold of some pine roots and thus manage to advance several tens of feet a gigantic pine tree next blocks one's way lying nearly horizontal where one to grasp the trunk around and pass under one's way would still be obstructed and ascent would still be impossible now at the very top of the cliff protrudes a knob of rock the size of a fist if one crawls along to the tip of the pine tree which is growing horizontally out of the cliff if you crawl to the very tip of it so that you're now thousands of feet above the valley below and secures the rope to this knob at one end and wraps it at the other around one's body and then swings one's entire body free hanging in the void from the rope one can pull oneself up by the rope as if by a hanging thread and upon reaching the top one can hang the rope back down to the next climber and who can attach it to his waist and thus also ascend to the top by leaping into the void now finally I would like to read just one passage about the various animals that live in the Yellow Mountains which captured Wang Hongdu's attention and some of what he reports about them stretches one's credibility a bit he is talking here about monkeys that is gibbons or yuan and these gibbons are so beloved to the Chinese that there was a famous painter in the 11th century named Yi Yuanji who painted nothing but gibbons it was the only thing he would paint something like Joseph Albers and Squares and his masterpiece is a hand scroll called 100 Gibbons no two of which are in the same position there are mother gibbons with baby gibbons after he was done with that he said I put aside my brush I have done my life's work now Wang Hongdu tells us that there are two groups of gibbons in the Yellow Mountains immortal ones which have eaten the leftover elixir of immortality and now can live for thousands of years if not forever and ordinary ones for the immortal gibbons of the mountains two grey ones for every white one do not flock together with the ordinary gibbons when the climate is clear and lovely they will freely emerge to observe the cloud sea below white ones crouched on the rocks looking like snow the mountain monks call them old snow gentlemen if they raise their hands to wave at one of them he will look up Yuan and gazing at them respond with a gesture of his hand as for the grey ones their whiskers too are entirely white often they seem to serve the white ones one on each flank scratching their backs or massaging their bellies as if they were servitors not daring to stand upright in the presence of their masters few are those who get to see this the other gibbons form troops and do not reside in any fixed location when they pass through a gully beneath the cliffs they inevitably search out the most hidden remote spots eating all the flowers and fruits that they can find there until these are exhausted and only then do they head elsewhere throughout the mountain these gibbons will form troops and then form themselves into a circle and if one goes out to observe them upon numbering them it always turns out that each troop has precisely 99 gibbons if the hundredth gibbon comes along they scatter them away their fur is greenish yellow not limited to a single color it is warm and thick suited to resist the cold but when everything freezes over the troop will huddle all together forming a huge ball and then roll along the cliff tops those gibbons on the inside of the ball will after a long while rotate to the outside changing places with the gibbons there who take their places within and thus they continue rotating places without cease the people of the mountain call this the yuanqiu the ball of gibbons I will end with a recommendation that you visit the yellow mountain sometime keep your eye out for the ball of gibbons and if you manage to see it please send me an email jchaves at gwu.edu thank you for your attention thanks very much I heard two titles of books that are probably now in the works one experimental volume of poetry called 99 gibbons and the other children's book the ball of gibbons so I have two other announcements about things happening tonight that are after this one is in the monarch lounge it is a banff reception and I believe that starts at 8 30 so it's like right after this and the other is the given the number of bilingual readings we devised this last year and we're going to repeat it this year it's the cafe Latino which will be at La Perla restaurant which is I'll give you the address it's in the book but you have to look a little bit it's at La Perla Mexican restaurant 734 south 5th street and that starts at 9 p.m. and there will be readings from bilingual readings from Latin America primarily if I think they're all from Latin America and Alexis Leviton will be presiding and there will be a little bit of food there and I've heard that the place has really good margaritas so please join us for that alright well this year okay so Katie Silver who is listening very carefully asked me to clarify that the banff reception is for everyone it is the banff international literary translation center reception and it is in the monarch lounge which is downstairs in this very building and it is open to everybody not just alumni of the banff residencies so that starts at 8.30 so I'm going to move on to the national translation award this year we had an illustrious committee made up of three people they were, read them there in the program but I just want to make sure I get all the names right so the committee this year was Jessica Cohen, Barbara Epler and Elaine Katzenberger thanks very much to you three for judging the finalist and selecting a winner it was a hard job I have to say we had a lot of really really fine entries and as you can tell from the shortlist actually the long list which was published and then the shortlist which I'm going to read you it was just a very difficult decision to come up with a winner and they had their work cut out for them the shortlist was the five, I believe, one, two, three, four, five five books, finalists Between Friends by Amos Oz translated from the Hebrew by Sandra Silverstone and Invitation for Me to Think by Aleksandr Widzinski translated from the Russian by Eugene Astashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich Life's Good Brother by Nazim Hikmet translated from the Turkish by Mutlu Konuk Treatise on Shelling Beans by Vislav Misłewski translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston and Theme of Farewell and After Poems by Milo De Angelis translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart and Patrizio Czekagnoli so a really fine list and you can read more about each one of them at the website each one has a little blurb and a little description of each one might have been a winner in this case I have one to announce and I'm going to invite the winner to come up and do a little reading for us it is two people actually and that should give you a clue the winner this year is Aleksandr Widzinski an invitation for me to think which was translated by Eugene Astashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich so Eugene couldn't make it I think he's in Berlin at the time and he couldn't make it but Matvei is here let me say a couple words about Eugene because he's not here and then I'll say a couple more about Matvei because he is Eugene Astashevsky was born in 1968 in Leningrad in the USSR and he grew up in New York after his family immigrated in 1979 as a translator from Russian Astashevsky focuses primarily on the late 1920s and early 1930s underground circle led by Daniel Harms and Aleksandr Widzinski in addition to Widzinski's an invitation for me to think he has edited the first English language collection of their writings called Abiryu or Obiryu I don't know how to say that in English Abiryu is the Russian anthology of Russian absurdism with contributions by Matvei Yankelevich published by Northwestern University in 2006 his as yet unpublished project on Abiryu Conversations by Leonid Lipovsky won a translation fellowship from the NEA and he is currently preparing an edition of Tango with Cows a 1913 book of visual poetry by the Russian futurist Vasily Kaminsky which won the Penheim Award he also edited and co-translated collections by the contemporary Russian poets Dmitry Golenko as it turned out which was published by Ugly Duckling Press in 2008 and Arkady Dragomoshchenko in Darkment Selected Poems published by Wesleyan University Press in 2014 finally his moonlighting in Italian as a co-translator of Elisa Biagini's The Guest in the Woods helped to win the 2014 Best Translated Book Award 3% this year I guess earlier this year and then Matvei I have to say a couple of words about Matvei and then let him come up and talk about the project and then do a little reading Matvei Yankelevich is a founding editor and volunteer for Ugly Duckling Press where among other projects he curates the Eastern European Poets series he's the author of a poetry collection Alfa Donut United Artists Books The Bella in Fragments Boris by the Sea published by Octopus Books and several chap books his translations of Daniel Harms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing the selected writings of Daniel Harms in the artist series Overlook Press he is an itinerant lecturer today wandering among us currently teaching poetry at Wesleyan University and the art of the book and translation as writing and arts among other seasonal jobs he is a member of the writing faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College please welcome Matvei Yankelevich Thank you I'm really nervous Is it Khrushchev that said I'll bury you? and that is the correct pronunciation of the group that Harms and Wiedensky are part of oberiou that's an easy way to remember it thank you for that Russell Eugene has sent me a couple of things he wanted to say and I had a couple of things I wanted to say and I'm ecstatic and kind of really nervous in front of all of you so Eugene was sorry for not being able to come to the conference his wife just gave birth to a child their second daughter last week in Berlin and now he's teaching in Paris right now I think so we are both as translators deeply honored to receive this award but we are also and maybe most grateful on behalf on our author's behalf Wiedensky born in 1904 died in 1940 when he died on a prison train 73 years ago very few had read his work and there was very little chance that anyone would read his poetry unpublished and scattered as it was yet he would have been yet another unknown of that century expunged from existence voice and all to quote John Berryman he went over everyone and nobody's missing often he reckons in the dawn them up nobody is ever missing Eugene has well I should say so much of Wiedensky's work is lost also because it was it's simply not extant in Russian and very little of it is read what is published in Russia so in a way this award allows it a kind of life that it doesn't actually naturally have it's sort of the unnatural aspects of translation and Eugene has described his translation work as a performance with intentionality almost like an interpretive dance with and by a particular poet in a particular language at a particular time well for me I guess he speaks for me too we translate with philological knowledge of the original as scholars but because we're both American poets born in Russia and brought up in Russian poetry we're not the denotative approach for us is insufficient we can't stop hearing things and prosody which can't emigrate as easily as even as easily as difficultly as we did can't emigrate so easily and it's meaning the meaning of its prosodic moves of an author's prosodic moves are unique to the language and the period so we our own prosodic moves Eugene's and mine so it's pretty horribly subjective what we're doing Eugene and I first started translating Vodensky around 88 and we didn't know each other then we met in 2000 in New York thanks to Jean Etruske and Thomas Epstein who are like our matchmakers who showed Eugene my draft of Rug Hydrangea which I'll read in a second and he said something very touching in this email he said that I should say that I'm his dearest friend and he hopes the feeling is mutual indeed it is and I'm kind of embarrassed though because it's a real pleasure to have done this book with him but especially and to win this award with him but especially because he did most of the work except now I have to be up here so I guess I okay so I want to read just a very short statement by Eugene about I asked him to write a little bit about what he thinks about Vodensky's role in contemporary Russia for the political climate can you hear me okay yeah okay Vodensky once said that his work carried out a poetic critique of language he was referring to his practice of combining linguistic units in rationally non-decodable ways which he called meaninglessness or a historian of the international avant-garde would class alongside data and perhaps future language experiments a historian of philosophy however might see his poetic, Vodensky's poetic work as taking place in the arc between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein or perhaps even Wittgenstein and Wittgenstein but in a specifically Russian context all the genealogies of early 20th century language philosophy and linguistic experiments it is hard to see Vodensky's protest before the mendacity of ordinary language as being independent of the invasion of ordinary language by Soviet and especially Stalinist Newspeak in newspapers in the workplace in the communal apartments in other words outside and inside language was turned into a machine for the manufacture of ideological fictions a poet who in such a linguistic environment asks how do we write in a language that's false cannot be viewed as an apolitical poet in Russia Vodensky is the main classical reference point for the younger artists of the opposition today most famously for Pussy Riot in that sense he has taken the canonical place that Mandelstam held for their parents the way his writing evades conventional structures the way it offers the reader constellations instead of isolatable figures this already makes Vodensky a more contemporary poet aesthetically than our most poets who are more contemporary chronologically but it is his poetic critique of language his insistent questioning how one may write in language that's false what kind of sense can be made when making sense makes no sense that makes him a central figure for today because we too live in a linguistic universe colonized by ideologies we too live in a linguistic universe where to paraphrase much ado about nothing we may very well ask are our words our own whom do I mean by we here of course I mean the Russians whose government has taken over virtually all media with the result that submits its citizens to unrelenting unimpeded and excellently choreographed an excellently choreographed barrage of propaganda but it is hard to think that we in the states although not subject to a single all embracing propaganda campaign but many campaigns some of which cancel each other out while others reinforce yet others are how can we put it the subjects of our own language we are not are spoken through sometimes unconsciously manipulative ways by political or corporate entities sometimes less consciously but always for someone's profit whether financial or psychological linguistic manipulation surrounds us we absorb it we unwittingly inflicted on others this is why Vadensky's question how do we write in a language that's false is also our question my hope is that translation in some way what everybody here in this room is doing in some way directs itself at this project or this problem by projecting language into the foreground of their work and attention I'd like to also thank I think all of you and thank also the publishers who brought out this book Edwin Frank and Jeffrey Yang at the R&B poets the new poets series I also want to thank posthumously in absentia or whatever Daniel Harms and Jacob Druskin two friends of Vadensky who actually held on to Vadensky's manuscripts a gesture that we forget the necessity of today so and in the 30s in the 1920s and 30s Vadensky wrote these works and I'm going to read I think just two pieces one in Eugene's translation first and maybe I'll read a little bit of the Russian and then if you want I can keep reading while you go drink somewhere let's see but first Russell will tell you where or maybe not I don't know he already told you I think so this is the soldier ABC translated by Eugene Stashevsky along the shore of the resounding C walked the soldier ABC he had a fundamental guiding thought about nuts he walked and whispered a song it was evening the soldier ABC approached a pitiful unlit by the inhabitant fisherman's hut where fisherman lived provided they were not out navigating the resounding black Caspian or essentially even the Mediterranean or which is one in the same the Adriatic sea but were ashore that's when they lived there the fishermen were five in number they intently ate soup with fish their names were André, Banderé, Bindré Ganderé and Coudidré they all had daughters their names were Liala, Tala, Bala Kala and Salah the daughters had all gotten married it was evening the soldier ABC did not stop by the home of these garden patchminders he did not knock on their home door he walked deep in his thought the fundamental guiding him thought about nuts the soldier ABC did not notice their fisherman's house not their nets, not their rigging not their daughters, not their soup even though he felt cold and night was falling all the same he still walked past them so much was he engulfed by his fundamental guiding thought about nuts it was evening still ABC walked by his nut song let us imagine that is let us mentally hear this song does it follow from the songs being called nut song that nuts must feature proudly in it yes in this case it follows it is far from being always so but in this case it follows here it is that's this song the soldier ABC sang about the difference in the shells of the walnut and the brazil nut the shell of the walnut is tender to look at the shell of the brazil nut is savage to look at the former shell is clean firm, lush and lean the latter shell is a simple one it's like a tailless swan why this difference goodness gracious those in the know are horribly pugnacious I like the walnut before and after its body carries a certain laughter its shell is mighty fine but thinking about it is a waste of time the brazil nut has color maybe the color is its brother yet where it's dawn gets its start no one can say either forward or backward why this difference goodness gracious those in the know are horribly pugnacious this is all that I could say about their shell that ends with an A here as if an answer to this song blazed up the candle lit previously unlit window of the fisherman's house whose light had gone out entirely and forever the fisherman andre bendray wrapped his fist on the window and shouted to the soldier abc officer officer do you take the world's offer sir but the fisherman self sufficiently cooked and went on eating his fisherman's soup it was evening although also night was falling but what could abc say in reply when he didn't hear the question he was already very far away from them and then he suddenly but not unexpectedly turned into a father and and right away sang a new song the father sang the mother listened the father sang but the mother listened the father sang and the mother listened and what was she listening to I walked along the city streets I looked for my son everywhere I couldn't find him anywhere even among the seaside cliffs then I walked into the forest then I ran to wards the sea where are you where oh my son I cried around me sadly my son answered here I am may be I entirely here then I looked around myself my son who my son wholly disappeared all the birds put up a howl the wild animal cry and cry and cry and cry the four rest to them all the soldier abc strongly inspired courageously we the text is unfinished and I'll read a poem one poem from just a little earlier from 1933 oh no I think my phone died where I had the Russian technology anyone know Cyrillic and have an iPhone huh you can find it in Russian by typing it in Cyrillic and you will come upon it very quickly so Russell if you do that I'll read a short bit from from the grey notebook in this text and then maybe read that poem with a tiny bit of the Russian and this is just apropos of this sort of what Eugene has talked about in the introduction to this book and what we both talked about in other cases this questioning of language that's going on in the Oberu poets so I'll read apart from the grey notebook which is also unfinished notebook text of Odenskis from the early 30s oh and the poem is I'm sorry I'm not a beast Russell you got that it's like on the wiki it's pretty easy to find Russian text they don't have copyrights if they're Russian did you know that so I'll read this little part from the grey notebook first before every word I put the question what does it mean and over every word I place the mark of its tense where is my dear soul Masha and where are her wretched hands and her eyes and other parts where does she wandered murdered or alive I haven't the strength who I what haven't the strength I'm alone as a candle I'm seven minutes past four alone eight minutes past four as nine minutes past four a candle ten minutes past four a moment is gone as if it had never been the clock also the window also but everything remains the same it gets dark it gets light not a dream to be had where's the sea where's the shade the notebook the word 155 is nearly at hand and that essay and poem grey notebook meditates on connections between our language about time and subjective experience of time and then I'll read this lot just one poem to finish and thank you for your patience and attention and thank you to the generous panel that chose this book I'll just read the beginning in Russian a little bit I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I


We continue on today with Chapter 5, Introduction. To heal is to make happy. I have told you to think how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself and how many you have refused. This is the same as telling you that you have refused to heal yourself. The light that belongs to you is the light of joy. Redience is not associated with sorrow. Joy calls forth an integrated willingness to share it and promotes the mind's natural impulse to respond as one. Those who attempt to heal without being wholly joyous themselves call forth different kinds of responses at the same time and thus deprive others of the joy of responding wholeheartedly. To be wholehearted, you must be happy. If fear and love cannot coexist, and if it is impossible to be wholly fearful and remain alive, the only possible whole state is that of love. There is no difference between love and joy. Therefore, the only possible whole state is the holy joyous. To heal or to make joyous is therefore the same as to integrate and to make one. That is why it makes no difference to what part or by what part of the sonship the healing is offered. Every part benefits and benefits equally. You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere. You should want to bless them in return out of gratitude. You need not know them individually or they you. The light is so strong that it radiates throughout the sonship and returns thanks to the Father for radiating His joy upon it. Only God's holy children are worthy channels of His beautiful joy because only they are beautiful enough to hold it by sharing it. It is impossible for a child of God to love his neighbor except as himself. That is why the healer's prayer is, Let me know this brother as I know myself. The invitation to the Holy Spirit. Healing is a thought by which two minds perceive their oneness and become glad.  Only the healed mind can experience revelation with lasting effect because revelation is an experience of pure joy. If you do not choose to be holy joyous, your mind cannot have what it does not choose to be. Remember that spirit knows no difference between having and being. The higher mind thinks according to the law's spirit of base and therefore honors only the laws of God. To spirit getting is meaningless and giving is all. Having everything, spirit holds everything by giving it and thus creates as the Father created. While this kind of thinking is totally alien to having things, even to the lower mind it is quite comprehensible in connection with ideas. If you share a physical possession, you do divide its ownership. If you share an idea, however, you do not lessen it. All of it is still yours although all of it has been given away. Further, if the one to whom you give it accepts it as his, he reinforces it in your mind and thus increases it. If you can accept the concept that the world is one of ideas, the whole belief in the false association the ego makes between giving and losing is gone. Let us start our process of reawakening with just a few simple concepts. Thoughts increase by being given away. The more I believe in them, the stronger they become. Everything is an idea. How then can giving and losing be associated? This is the invitation to the Holy Spirit. I have said already that I can reach up and bring the Holy Spirit down to you, but I can bring him to you only at your own invitation. The Holy Spirit is in your right mind as he was in mine. The Bible says, may the mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus and uses this as a blessing. It is the blessing of miracle-mindfulness. It asks that you may think as I thought, joining with me in Christ thinking. The Holy Spirit is the only part of the Holy Trinity that has a symbolic function. He is referred to as the healer, the comforter, and the guide. He is also described as something, quote, separate, apart from the Father and from the Son. I myself said, if I go, I will send you another comforter and he will abide with you. His symbolic function makes the Holy Spirit difficult to understand because symbolism is open to different interpretations. As a man and also one of God's creations, my right thinking, which came from the Holy Spirit or the universal inspiration, taught me first and foremost that this inspiration is for all. I could not have it myself without knowing this. The word no is proper in this context because the Holy Spirit is so close to knowledge that he calls it forth or better allows it to come. I have spoken before of the higher or true perception which is so near to truth that God himself can flow across the little gap. Knowledge is always ready to flow everywhere but it cannot oppose. Therefore you can obstruct it although you can never lose it. The Holy Spirit is the Christ mind which is aware of the knowledge that lies beyond perception. He came into being with the separation as a protection inspiring the Atonement Principle at the same time. Before that there was no need for healing for no one was comfortless. The voice of the Holy Spirit is the call to Atonement or the resurrection of the integrity of the mind. When the Atonement is complete and the whole Sonship is healed there will be no call to return. But what God creates is eternal. The Holy Spirit will remain with the Sons of God to bless their creations and keep them in the light of joy. God honored even the miscreations of his children because they had made them. But he also blessed his children with a way of thinking that could raise their perceptions so high they could reach almost back to him. The Holy Spirit is the mind of the Atonement. He represents a state of mind close enough to one-mindedness that transferred to it as at last possible. Perception is not knowledge but it can be transferred to knowledge or crossover into it. It might even be more helpful here to use the literal meaning of transferred or carried over since the last step is taken by God. The Holy Spirit, the shared inspiration of all the Sonship induces a kind of perception in which many elements are like those in the Kingdom of Heaven itself. First, its universality is perfectly clear and no one who attains it could believe for one instant that sharing it involves anything but gain. Second, it is incapable of attack and is therefore truly open. This means that although it does not engender knowledge, it does not obstruct it in any way. Finally, it points the way beyond the healing that brings and leads the mind beyond its own integration toward the path of creation. It is at this point that sufficient quantitative change occurs to produce a real qualitative shift. And from the workbook, lesson 30, God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. The idea for today is the springboard for vision. From this idea, will the world open up before you and you will look upon it and see in it what you have never seen before, nor will what you saw before be even faintly visible to you. Today, we are trying to use a new kind of, quote, projection. We are not attempting to get rid of what we do not like by seeing it outside. Instead, we are trying to see in the world what is in our minds and what we want to recognize is there. Thus, we are trying to join with what we see rather than keeping it apart from us. That is the fundamental difference between vision and the way you see. Today's idea should be applied as often as possible throughout the day. Whenever you have a moment or so, repeat it to yourself slowly, looking about you and trying to realize that the idea applies to everything you do see now or could see now if it were within the range of your sight. Real vision is not limited to concepts such as near and far to help you begin to get used to this idea. Try to think of things beyond your present range as well as those you can actually see as you apply today's idea. Real vision is not only unlimited by space and distance, but it does not depend on the body's eyes at all. The mind is its only source. To aid in helping you to become more accustomed to this idea as well, devote several practice periods to applying today's idea with your eyes closed, using whatever subjects come to mind and looking within rather than without. Today's idea applies equally to both. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. So the springboard for vision follows from our beautiful lesson yesterday. God is in everything I see and this tells us how this works when it brings in the causation of the light and love in the mind being radiated to everything and everyone without exception. It brings in the reason why God is in everything I see. It truly shows the impossibility of pantheism, the belief that God indwells in objects by bringing God back solely to the mind and seeing that the mind radiates to everything and everyone. As Jesus teaches in the Course, mind reaches to itself. It does not go out. There really is nothing else but light, whoosh past ideas of time and space and distance, of location, of coordinates in the cosmos. As we see this one pure idea of light, this beautiful source, God is in my mind and therefore is in everything without exception. So the light of God is in me and radiates through me to the whole universe, the whole cosmos. And unlike projection, which is the attempt to get rid of something that is not liked by seeing it outside, now in opening to vision we are trying to see in the world what is in our minds and what we want to recognize is there. God is there. God is in the mind. God has never left. With the power of God in our mind we can join with everything that we seem to see in perception. There is nothing that is apart from God. There is nothing apart from this light within. This is so different from the body's eyes which were made by the ego as the body was made by the ego, as part of distorted perception, as part of the focus on differences. Today we sink deep inside into God, looking for the sameness that God brings to everything and everyone, releasing the belief that anything or anyone could be apart from who we are and who God is. We lay aside these limiting beliefs of near and far, of galaxies, of light-years, of black holes. We lay aside all thoughts of astronomy, astrology. God is in me. God is in my mind. There can be no opposite to God. Seeing is light. Seeing does not depend on the body's eyes at all. Vision has the mind as its only source. We are free in God. Today we pray for vision, the vision of Christ, the vision of pure, pure light as we practice the idea for today. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.