I think the best way to put all the collect wujo of the past few days out is to just toss ‘em at you – separated by some —- lines and let ‘er rip…
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“Hi George, No, this is not a psychotropic event; no mushrooms were ingested or even harmed during this event! But I digress:
My wife was leaving class for home, but wanted to stop at a local grocery store to wander about until she was “inspired” by an idea for dinner. As a bad vegan, or ovo-lacto-sushitarian, she still comes up w/tasty meals to feed her omnivore hubby – me!
She was pulling onto the street fronting the store when an overwhelming thought entered her consciousness: BUY ENOKI MUSHROOMS! She told me when she got home the thought was akin to hearing a voice inside her head it was so strong!
Being fans of stirfry, we have done our fair share of shitake mushrooms, but had never even HEARD of the enoki variety until this incident.
She parked her car, went into the produce section of the store, and low and behold – there was a sign proclaiming a big sale (50% off) on, yup – you guessed it! Enoki mushrooms! Trouble was – only the sign was evident, w/no enoki mushrooms in sight.
So she found a store worker in produce, and asked if they had any more enoki mushrooms. The worker contacted the store manager, who came over to explain no one was buying the rarely offered enoki, so the produce manager had decided to unload them (loss leader – HA!) and be done.
The store manager related the sale was unadvertised and began late that morning, and within 2 hours, the enoki stock had been completely depleted! She said she’d never seen anything so strange, as several customers had come in and specifically asked for enoki mushrooms after the sale had started!
The wife settled for some other ‘shrooms suitable for dinner, and came home to relay this event to me.
Call it universal consciousness, the military or PTB using ELF, HAARP, or some other thought-planting technology, herd mentality – but it was NO COINCIDENCE that suddenly a number of folks in our little farm town HAD TO HAVE ENOKI in their diets!
And BTW – I did some research into the enoki – has some antioxidents, but other than that – nothing really special about it – just another long, skinny Japanese mushroom. Not that sexy for a WUJO event, but left us ahhh, verrry confused! In fact – sign me “Confused in Kokomo!” Keep up the fine writing, George! reader glen”
Comment: You know what mushrooms are grown in, right? Lead-in to the “debate”?
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“Hi George, Back in May, I read something in your Wujo section that stuck with me. I don’t know why, as I’m not a numbers person, but there was a date mentioned that was apparently “channeled” by a reader, and it really struck a chord in me for some reason. Here is the quote, “…on October 3 2012 he has forecast an event where our sun will unleash a fury… a solar flare that will wipe out life on our planet. ”
While I did not take this at it’s “doom and gloom” face value, I couldn’t get it out of my head for some reason. So, I had called a friend who also “channels”, and asked her to inquire about this date. I did not tell her ANYTHING about the prediction, only that I wanted more info about the date, as I wanted to keep the results clean. I even consciously wiped it out of my mind before speaking to her, lest she “pick it up” somehow.
She called me back with her response later, and said, “The first thing that I saw was some kind of bright light, like a solar flare or a nuclear explosion.” She also said that she saw people afterwards moving in great “herds”, scavenging through rubble, and that it was very dry. She also received the message to “pray to water”. So, on the bright side, if any of it is to be believed, at least life does not become completely obsolete after tomorrow, and maybe we want to keep our dowsing rods close by. So being that tomorrow is the “big day”, and while I have made my peace with life long ago, and I’m not putting too much stock in the prediction, as there have been so very many of them,
I just wanted to share this as a reminder that any day could be your last day on earth. I say this not to cultivate fear, but to remind us of the preciousness of life, and the exquisite mystery that each one of us is. It’s so easy to get caught up in the idea of “beating death”, thwarting disaster, or “protecting me and mine”. I for one, have always taken the approach that being prepared is a good idea with the mindset of moving us ALL forward, so that if we must “hobble along”, we can at least hobble along with maybe a crutch or a wheel, which will go a long way towards sanity and thriving, rather than a Lord of the Flies or Mad Max scenario.
I’ve been studying things like infrastructure, group communications and personal cosmology as an ethical/social blueprint. So, with that mindset, I am choosing to spend today with the goal of letting every being in my life know how much I appreciate and love them as I go about my daily routine. Beyond that, I’ll just patiently wait for tomorrow. ”
Comment: “Henry” never did get us any stock tips, but so far, in terms of accuracy, his hit rate is approaching zip…and as I’ve often hinted: If someone claims to be from beyond this dimension and can’t come up with a decent set of stock tips or lotto numbers, they maybe aren’t as plugged in to Universe as they they… but I’m paitently waiting Henry to lay some tips on me…
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“Hi George,
Thought you might find this interesting. Last week I decided to can a bunch of chicken I had in my freezer. I got it all ready (14 pints of it) and put it in my pressure canner, then went to the kitchen (I do my canning in the garage on a camp chef stove because of the wind) to get the weight. This weight has been in the same place for the last 12 years (since we moved here) - in one of my kitchen drawers.
Omigosh…it was not there!!! Asked hubby if he had seen it…no! I madly went through every drawer in the kitchen 3 times…no weight (sometimes known as a jiggler.) I began to panic at the thought of all the work, time and chicken going to waste. I started calling friends. The first 3 were out. Finally I found one friend who had a similar canner and borrowed it. Fortunately , the weight was the same as mine so I was able to save the chicken.
Every day for the next week, I went through all the kitchen drawers hoping it would reappear. I didn’t want to spend $20 including shipping for a new weight since I had only paid $40 for the whole canner (36 years ago). I finally ordered a new canner from Amazon and used it yesterday to can more chicken. I decided to put the old one back in the box and keep it to use as an extra water bath canner. In the box was the never been used extra gasket I had bought years ago as a spare.
I moved it out of the way and there was a funny noise when I moved it. I turned it over to look through the plastic front of the package, and there was the missing weight!!!!Inside the unopened package with the gasket!!!!! At first I thought that it must have had a weight too, but the information on the package was only for the gasket. The price was still on it, so it really couldn’t have been for both things. When I opened it, I could tell right away it was the old used one, just from looking at it .It was not bright and shiny like the one on my new canner…it was old, oxidized, and beat up looking like the old canner. I am totally at a loss for an explanation!
I prefer reading about the WUJO experiences of others than having it happen to me…”
Comment: This is a fine example of the “universe has holes in it and things move around on their own” theory.
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“Hello Mr. Ure,
I am writing in to tell you of a freaky observation on Saturday night and maybe you or your readers have some insight. I was sitting out on the deck around 7:30-8:00 pm and the moon was full, when suddenly it appeared to shake violently in an upand down/side to side fashion. I thought I was hallucinating and kept closing my eyes and looking again. I yelled for my friend to look and he did confirm that the moon was shaking. It went on for 10 to 15 minutes. It really freaked me out.
My question would be, What would cause this?
Could it have been effect of CME solar wind hitting moon making it wobble on it’s axis. Or perhaps an earthquake on the moon ( just learned about them and they last for long periods)
Could it be that the earth wobbled as magnetic poles were on the move or because of the allignments making it appear that it was the moon. If they affect the earth causing quakes..why not the moon eh!
Or is it an optical illusion as suggested by my friend of cold and warm air masses coming together in the atmosphere. He thinks I am crazy when I give him my theories.
I wonder if anyone else seen it and I keep my eye on chatter about it. Thanks for listening. ”
Comment: I don’t know what you saw, exactly, but I would expect it has something to do with a layer of hot air aloft mixing with cold air and giving the appearance of shaking….my best guess. We would like more information on this, however, like how much shaking would it be in terms of a clock’s face? Would it be a minute or two, a half hour’s worth, or a couple of hours (which would be damn violent shaking…)? If it’s in the half hour or less period, more like a 15-minute (or less) period, then I’d put a strong bet on the mixing air. Another question would be whether you’ve experienced a lot of eye strain lately? Oftentimes if you’ver been staring at screens for a long time (trust me on this) your eyes can “flutter” and perhaps that figures into this? Damn curious, nevertherless.
next?
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“Hi George,
this one has got me really believing that universe is getting us prepared for something really big. I was about to make a call today, when I saw a message on my phone “1 missed call”. I pulled it up and it was from a friend on the opposite coast that I have known since I was five years old, but haven’t spoken to on the phone for at least over two years.
I mentioned it to my housemate, and showed him the name, and said, OMG, I haven’t talked with her for so long, think I’ll call her. When I went to retrieve the number on my phone, the missed call information had disappeared. Fortunately, she’s lived at the same place in Maine for many years, so I went to my address book and called the latest number I had for her.
She answered as if I had talked with her last week.
I told her about seeing her name on my missed call list and that’s why I was calling back and she said, “I didn’t call you, although I DID dream about you last night.” We had a wonderful almost two hour conversation of “catching up”, but she still insisted that she hadn’t phoned me (and she’s not a druggy or a drinker. LOL)
We both ended the conversation with marvelous warm fuzzies and recalling old memories, telling each other that we love each other, and I felt such a powerful weight-lift off my own heart after talking with her.
But, she did not call me. Now, what’s to make of all that? ”
Comment: Actually, things like this happen to me all the time…sometimes to the point of annoyance. I have a friend who is sending me something important – I’ll tell you about it when it gets here and is safely under lock and key – but I have been waiting since August for this thing to be shipped.
So yesterday afternoon, I get this “thing” in my head: “It’s time to call [this fellow in Oregon].” Sure enough, he reported he was just looking at this time to ship to us.
My theory is that the closer you get to whatever “right path” is, the more of this stuff happens. But yes, some days it’s like a serendipity festival…I just wish I could get the events to pop up in Outlook like they did on this reader’s phone. It’s make them a lot easier to manage.
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Then we have reader Tricia who writes:
“George- I’ve contemplated writing about odd things that seem to happen with clocks when I’m around, but most have been easily explained as electrical malfunctions.
(Same thing with streetlights turning off when I go past them, and items disappearing/reappearing- I always seem to be able to find a logical explanation.)
This past New Year’s Eve, one happened that I haven’t been able to solve. My friend “missed” a call from me on New Year’s Eve at 3:00 PM- only I hadn’t called her and the date/time on her cell phone read “February 29, 2012 6:30 PM.”
We tried everything we knew to clear the call to no avail-maybe because the call hadn’t happened yet? Any ideas?
Thanks for the input. ”
Comment: I don’t know…maybe roached data packet on the cell provider or a bad clock setting?
But on street lights going off, OMG, this is a hot buttom with both me and my friend Gaye over at www.backdoorsurvival.com. Not sure why, but we’ve talked about this for years.
My pet theory of this is that it has something to do with non-visible energies hitting the photocells on top of lights with enough power to fool the light into thinking it’s daylight again. This goes on with me every fall with a high degree of regularity, most usually when centered.
But this brings up a little story…one of those personal oddities from the past that’s worth mentioning. Back when I was news director at KMPS in Seattle, the station had just moved to new facilities across the street from the Pike Place market. And this nicely dressed fellow presents himself at the front desk and says I have an appointment with him.
He said “It has been arranged for you to interview [redcacted] as he is one of the {redcated} and would like to speak with you.
Being as there was no sense of danger from the situation, we walked the half flight of stairs down onto Western Avenue where there was a very expensive high-end converted Grayhoud diesel pusher bus parked.
Out comes the person (his exact appearance faded within hours) and he said “Let’s go for a walk…”
Over the next 45-minutes or so, we walked down the Hill Climb stairs to the waterfront, up to Ivars at pier 54, and back again.
Along the way he told me many things…all of which made sense. Well, to make a long story longer…he told me I should remember a particular “light chant” that he then repeated for me a number of times. You can find it on the net at places like this site. Tube of Light/protection chant.
That’s when the lights really started to go off around me. Like one every 20-minutes of driving at night. So that one I’ve been meaning to mention.
Never heard from or see this fellow since but it’s a bit of personal wujo I’ve never gotten around to writing about before…but with street lights coming, as fall slides in, I’m reminded that the street lights will likely start going off again when I’m out at night.
So does it have anything to do with the “Tube of Light” mantra? Naw…tell me it’s science. But still, seems more frequent than it should be happening…and Life has been ever so much more interesting every since.
More wujo experiences coming Monday. Didn’t mean to get sidetracked, but thought you’d find the story interesting.
Around the Ranch: Filling Your “Head Locker”
How can I be happy – and still worry about where events in the world are headed? I suppose there’s no explaining it, but if you want to scratch at the surface, go watch the mini-doc called simply “Happy” on Netflix.
Up to a certain point, more money will buy happiness, but once you get up some ways into six figures, money has a way of becoming its own set of problems. Hard to make more, more, more, all the time. But, if you don’t have any, hungry is bad too. Sweet spot is in the middle.
So with another weekend upon us, decent weather and a pleasant fall in full splendor, no reason to be bummed out because most of America’s problems aren’t knocking on our door on the weekend. They come back Monday. But weekends are hallowed ground – when whatever work you do for yourself comes back to you…which is why every so often I feel compelled to yell (maybe because my kids read my columns every so often):
WORK AS HARD FOR YOURSELF AS YOU DO ‘THE MAN’ – GET YOUR OWN GAME AND PLAY IT HARD.
Which is what weekends are for.
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Panama was out in the shop Friday building a frame for an oil painting he picked up somewhere. He was muttering while doing a fine high-precision bit of work on what turned into a nice picture frame. Helps to have a miter box and four corner vices, of course. Toasted the frame every so lightly with a propane torch for color and effect and then a warm honey-colored glass spar varnish.
But when I inquired about how it was going I’d caught him in about mid-grumble. He dismissed his excellent carpentry effort with an ‘I’m not very good at this stuff…’ Which took me back a bit. His craftsmanship was superb and I don’t think I could have done better.
“Pappy once told me ‘No one was born a carpenter, bricklayer, or plumber…that’s stuff you learn to do and the only way to learn is by doing it, most often wrong before figuring out what’s right.” Passing on that little bit of Seattle firehouse wisdom felt pretty good.
Except that it reminded me that fall will be coming me one of these days. So we make the most of every possible second until time’s up. Live hard, play harder, plenty of time to nap in the dirt.
As my late friend Lloyd Jones reminded me back when I was at R&B station KYAC “Life’s only about 18,000 days long, George…and every morning when your feet hit the floor, you burn one of them.” Seemed like a whole lot of days when I was 18 and just starting out.
I don’t do the math every day, anymore. Don’t have time for that. But, if you’re under 40, take a dart and throw it at how old you hope to be before checking out. Multiply times 365 and that was Lloyd’s number.
Makes getting out of bed at a run real, real easy, since my primary mission is to shove many more fine adventures into my head locker before nap time. I’d encourage you to do th same…unlike money, we can take those with us.
Write when you break even…
George Ure (email comments to george@ure.net)
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