My Husband “Eats Crow”…
One day in early 2011, I had an interesting experience involving Crows.
Carrion Crow (Corvus Corone) Apart from the Raven the Carrion Crow is the largest member of the Crow family. Unlike Rooks, which live together in large numbers, Crows live either in pairs or in threes. (Photo credit Wikipedia)
My morning routine normally involved a house full of people, so the morning was already unusual. That morning I was left alone, everyone having somewhere else to be.
Still lying in bed just after waking-up, my attention was drawn to a congregation of Crows which were gathered toward the back of my house. These Crows were making a deafening ruckus cawing and crowing, which they seemed to be directing at my bedroom window.
“Weird.” I thought, but I brushed it off. It was not unusual to see a Crow or two around my home, as my residence was near rural farmland…
As the morning progressed, it became obvious that the Crows were following me. As I migrated from the back of the house toward the front of the house to the kitchen, the Crows moved from the back yard to the front of the house, as well.
I peered out of the kitchen window at them, and their cawing seemed to lessen in intensity as if they knew they had gotten my attention.
“Weird.” I thought, again.
Morning turned into early afternoon, and I went out to check the mailbox. At this point I knew that whatever was happening with the Crows was not my just my imagination.
I ventured outside to witness a group of twenty or more Crows amassed across from the driveway where I stood. They were all perched atop of a huge Pine tree that sat in my neighbors yard. There were a few others here and there, sitting on telephone poles and on the roof of my other neighbors house.
There was not a soul in sight, and the street was eerily quiet.
“CAWWWWW!” One single Crow crowed at me with obvious deliberate intent. The rest of the birds remained completely silent.
“Oh, What do you want!?” I called back. Frustrated and a somewhat unnerved, I returned to the house without an answer.
A little later my husband, Mike arrived home for a few minutes, before having to leave again. Strangely, the entire time that Mike was home there was not a Crow to be seen or heard anywhere in the vicinity. I casually mentioned to him that there had been Crows harassing me and received the “Uh, huh.” I expected in reply.
That evening Mike and I drove to visit some friends, Ernie and Grace who lived about an hour and a half away. When we arrived, they were entertaining some other friends, who we were unacquainted with. After everyone was introduced, Grace exclaimed..
“What a coincidence you guys showed up now! We were just showing off some of the artwork you were doing for the coloring-book!”
At the time I was drawing some artwork to be included in an “Indigenous Sacred Beliefs” coloring-book. I had used the following picture from the Mayan Dresden Codices as one of my templates for a coloring page in the book, and it was the one that they had been showing to their visitors when we arrived.
According to the information I had researched about the image, the bird at the top of the tree was suppose to represent a Quetzal, the sacred bird of the Meso-Americans. However, ever since drawing the image myself, it had occurred to me that the bird looked more like a Crow or Raven.
The fact that this happened to be the drawing our friends had shown their visitors, seemed like another occurrence, connecting to the strange Crow events of the day. With this as a jumping off point, I decided to tell everyone about the strange experiences I was having that day.
Everyone thought the whole thing was peculiar and were interested in my experience, but no one had any idea what might have been the causing the phenomenon.
For some reason the whole subject had irritated my better half, and we ended up getting in an argument on the way home about the fact that I had shared my unusual experience with everyone.
“I just don’t see what the big deal is…. Are you sure you weren’t just exaggerating the whole experience?” he complained. “People are going to think you are a lunatic if you go around telling them stuff like that. I’m not sure that I even believe all your crazy stories, these days.” he proclaimed, and would not discuss the matter further.
“Fine.” I replied, completely frustrated. I knew that he was just being his usual conservative-minded self. “You know that anything I tell you is always the truth, at least as well as I can express it…”
Silence.
“Whatever. He will come around.” I figured. I turned on the radio to help lighten the atmosphere.
I turned on KGO 810 AM radio which had a regular astronomy report. It had just begun…
“In our clear and bright Northern California sky tonight we can see the constellation CORVUS, the Crow…” began the report…
“The constellation is now aligned to be seen most clearly from our vantage point in the northern hemisphere and has not been this visible to the naked eye for several years…” it went on.
Needless to say….My loving partner has not accused me of exaggerating since!
FIVE…
On 05/05/2005 while mediating an argument between two friends, I channeled (quite unexpectedly) the following message:
“Choose five. Pick five to let go of. Pick five to hold onto and stand for. If you can do this you will both be blessed.”
My friends had always (stubbornly) refused to compromise their perspective on a handful of “root issues” which would inevitably cause reoccurring arguments between them.
I understood immediately that the term “five” ascribed to in the message was referring to unreasonable convictions or dogmas, which I elaborated to my friends.
The inherent wisdom of the message struck a chord with both of my friends and seemed to help free them from their previously rigid vantage points. (One friend in particular, actually wrote the message down and had it posted on her bedroom door for several years.)
A few days after this event occurred, I was checking my email account for the previous week’s mail.
Imagine my surprise upon opening the “Daily Buddhist Wisdom” email I received from www.beliefnet.com for Thursday 05/05/2005 (it was received at 5:55 p.m.) The quote for that day was:
370} Cut through five, let go of five, & develop five above all. A monk gone past five attachments is said to have crossed the flood.
(From Dhammapada; the Path of Dhamma / Dhp XXV: {Dhp 360-382} Bhikkhuvagga – “The Monk” or “Monks” as translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.)
Below is an alternate translation of the same text (by Acharya Buddharakkhita.)
370} Cut off the five, abandon the five, and cultivate the five. The monk who has overcome the five bonds is called one who has crossed the flood.
FEEL YOUR TRUTH!
The ONE issue above all others that causes the vast majority of spiritual people to disinherit their highest spiritual potential, (specifically that of CO-CREATOR with GOD) is the INABILITY TO FEEL THE TRUTH… The Holy Ghost never ceases to stress to me how important this skill is. Even if an individual is RESPONSIBLE in every other aspect of life, an inability to FEEL the TRUTH will often prevent many of these people from claiming this ultimate spiritual edification…
The ability to FEEL the TRUTH in any circumstance is a vital tool for successfully navigating life. Typically, any person being considered for the designation of CO-CREATOR will have already developed an intermediate level of ability to FEEL the TRUTH. However, the HOLY SPIRIT is RESPONSIBLE above all else and it is understood that each person is going to develop this skill within their own unique parameters of sacred timing and personal experience.
The ability to discern TRUTH through FEELING is naturally inherent within all people. Unfortunately this ability has atrophied in recent times and over the last few centuries we have nearly lost this skill completely. This problem is caused directly by a spiritual dis-ease. For many individuals, this imbalance results directly from overall neglect of spiritual capacities in favor of more materialistic pursuits, including that of everyday survival.
The same parameters that have limited our growth in the past also define the sacred timing of NOW. At this point in time we can manifest our FUTURE TRUTH by accepting the RESPONSIBILITY for our own spiritual capacity for growth. We only need to be reminded of this spiritual TRUTH…
Each and every ONE of us has within us a remembrance of this intuitive ability to FEEL the TRUTH as a PHYSICAL SENSATION. This ability to FEEL the TRUTH is available for any person who is wise enough to “go inside” themselves and retrieve it. Most people would agree that Indigenous cultures seem to have a deep spiritual connection to the environment and their communities. These people have often nurtured their ability to FEEL as a common-sense tool for discernment of TRUTH. The word INDIGENOUS itself actually denotes this connection meaning both “Original People” and “To bring from within, outward.” This is an especially interesting TRUTH in light of the fact that “The Kingdom of Heaven is inside” of us. The indigenous peoples have always FELT the ORIGINAL TRUTH, which is the understanding that we can literally create “Heaven on Earth” so-to-speak.
There is a great deal of information in-store for THE RECONDITE QUETZAL. Up-and-coming blog-posts will be covering a wide range of TRUTH which the HOLY SPIRIT and I consider to be the most important for edifying God’s people. Many of the TRUTHS I present may seem counter-intuitive at first, while other TRUTH’s may appear to be in direct conflict with the standard, often misinterpreted perspective of belief, pre-established by the default status quo.
The only thing that the HOLY GHOST asks is that you FEEL the TRUTH that an accurate “Base-line information exchange” is best procured through the habit of obtaining the most current information from as many diverse and reputable sources as possible, and then updating your understanding accordingly. Ideally, the TRUTH contained within these sources of information can then be FELT by you on a case-by-case basis. The key to uncovering and then dismissing commonly perpetuated misunderstanding is to adopt the policy of challenging the TRUTH of these predefined perspectives by FEELING the TRUTH for YOURSELF.
The ANOINTED CONSCIOUSNESS, Jesus Christ explained through the parables of the cloth and wineskin, (Matthew 9:14-17; Mark 2:21-22; Luke 5:33-39) that a new paradigm (or new world age) demands a new set of parameters to define itself by. Implicit in this understanding of a new TRUTH is the wisdom that the old paradigm and it’s perspectives were exactly right for the time and people for which those TRUTHS were intended. This TRUTH in-turn is a validation that our new TRUTH, which has been constructed specifically for us, is perfectly adapted four this new and more complex paradigm.
One of the more beautiful TRUTHS of the universe is that complex systems grow more complex in order to facilitate simplicity. This Quantum TRUTH is true on all levels and is the foundation of principle which explains that our cumulative TRUTH acts a catalyst enabling the growth of GOD. This Cosmo-Genesis is a mutually edifying principle and is the basis of the understanding that we are a microcosm of the macrocosm. Everything that has gone before has facilitated the collection and absorption of knowledge. It would be unwise to apply the construct of a third grade curriculum to a High School level classroom likewise, God does not find it necessary to return to a elementary grade-level which has already been completed. As above, so below…
For anyone who may FEEL that they may benefit from additional information regarding the process of FEELING their TRUTH, I highly recommend the book “FOCUSING” (by Eugene T Gendilin P.H.D., Bantam Books, 1982.) Please click the link above for a preview version of this text on Google Books.
Namaste! 
LETS TALK ABOUT IDOLATRY…
Let’s talk about the issue of IDOLATRY.
It is an issue that at least conventionally speaking, I am surprised is even an issue at all. However, there are apparently quite a few people in the world who don’t understand the current energetic distortion of idolatry.
People often consider symbols to be powerful images. This is a TRUTH for many people in our physical plane of existence. People use these material object symbols as visual stimuli to remind them of their personal spiritual aspirations. There is nothing evil or sinister about using these physical reminders.
What really worries me (and the Holy Ghost…) is the surprising number of spiritual people who don’t understand this TRUTH. Many people are under the false impression that there are other people throughout the world who are worshiping these visual reminders as their actual higher power.
There are many belief systems which perpetuate the belief that physical objects can act as a vessel or conduit for spiritual energy or power that emanates from their actual God or Higher Power. This includes many Eastern Religions such has the Bon and Buddhist religions. Additionally there are faiths, such as the Judaic based religions which believe in the power of objects which they conclude literally contain God, such as the Arc of the Covenant.
A lack of empathetic tolerance for another persons belief system can only be caused by a lack of realization that there are obvious parallels in spiritual and physical mechanism between those belief systems. This lack of empathetic quotient by a person is directly parallel to a person’s own bias and their inability to FEEL the TRUTH. This is further evidence of their own spiritual shortcomings. It is an unfortunate symptom of ego which would allow for a “spiritual person” to think that they are superior to someone who uses physical reminders to denote their spiritual beliefs.
Now I don’t know about you, but I FEEL that there is not a single person on the planet who is dull enough to look at a symbol or physical item and actually believe that it is God or any Higher Spiritual TRUTH. I know that this is not what is going on because I can FEEL that people are not that stupid, and therefore I know that it is not the TRUTH.
An “idol” can be defined as “an image or other material object representing a deity or spiritual TRUTH to which worship is addressed”. It is nothing more than a visual reminder of a person’s faith, a means by which people can help themselves remember that there is a spiritual Higher TRUTH to which they aspire. It also serves as a means to help people stay in a spiritual frame of mind as often possible.
It is the natural tendency for the human mind to interpret sensory input (what is perceived visually, audibly or tacitly) as something familiar or more easily understood and therefore accepted.
An example of a different type of sensory input that serves to recall a person’s thoughts to the spirit, are Tibetan “Reminder Bells”. These audible (as opposed to visual) reminders are rung periodically throughout the day to remind the Buddhist Monks to return to the “moment of now” and recall the spiritual HIGHER TRUTHS.
Just as these audible reminder bells carry real physical vibrations that are an integral part of these spiritual TRUTHS, so do physical “idols”which are their visual counterparts.
The real and extant danger that idolatry currently presents is not the perceived worship of inanimate objects by others, but rather the grotesque ongoing obsession for material wealth and the abject adoration of infamous personalities in popular media, which include the music and film industries.
We are spiritual souls who still reside in a physical dimension and in physical bodies. Accordingly, individuals often still need physical reminders of things. We use shopping lists, alarm clocks, photographs and all sorts of other tactical input in order to stay “on track” throughout the course of our daily lives. What may have once been misunderstood as idolatry may now be more accurately considered to be a physical representation of spiritual pursuits.
To Die Is To Awaken by V.F. Ayala
To die is to awaken
so let me sleep so I can keep my dreams alive
that one day, I can overcome my nightmares
and survive into a world of happiness
no longer having to strive
Let it be known
God is my fortress, faith is my guide
that I may overcome my nightmares
with no fear, in full stride
To dream is limitless
to fulfill your dreams is priceless
there is no capacity for what you can be
dare to believe in your dreams
and you will see
The answer to your prayers
and the fulfillment of your desires
Death is but to awaken
Heaven we acquired!
By Victor Fernandez Ayala
The Recondite Quetzal 