Earthquake!

The day after the September 16th earthquake in Chile, I had my first earthquake vision in over a year. I felt an earthquake, posted it on Facebook, and within a week an earthquake struck Indonesia. The only reason I can think of why my earthquake "gift" - or any of my other gifts - had been absent for so long is that I wasn't living in an area conducive to truly feeling the unseen world. Now that we're permanently settled in an old house, my clairvoyance has been rapidly increasing. Stay tuned to a return of "Messages From Beyond" and other predictions! Now if I can just remember to record everything in my notebook...!

Two Messages from Beyond and Yet More Nightmares

1. I was visited in dreamtime by Mrs. Johnnie (spelling may not be accurate - Jonny, Jonney, etc.) Finnegan. She was an elderly woman, and I heard the song "Blessed Assurance" being sung during this encounter. This may have been her favorite hymn. If she's a member of your family, she wants you to know she's doing well in the Otherworld.

2. I saw a family of four in a field with a grove of trees near the road. Their car had either run off the road and struck one of the trees or they were hiding in this area. Both parents were holding a child, one of whom was a little girl. All had bloody bandages on their heads - head trauma? - but were smiling as they walked toward me. I don't know if they died from a car accident or murder, but the smiles told me they're at peace in the Otherworld. If you know of any missing persons or have had family members killed in a car accident, this visit may apply to you.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I realize I'm a broken record when it comes to community cohesiveness, but my dreamtime visions are filled with future nightmares that will be unleashed if we don't start becoming a more tolerant, loving, empathetic society. There are several ways to start today to becoming a better human race:

Twitter: Stop name-calling. If someone disagrees with you, if you can't stick to the facts in replying, don't reply at all. If you're called slurs, laugh. You know you're a fabulous person - stop feeding the beasts of slurdom. Just reply back (if at all) and say something like, "Thank you, precious. Have a fabulous life!" and then block them.

Facebook: If you have Facebook friends who constantly post articles or memes that upset you, unfriend them. It really is as simple as that. We simply have run out of time to tolerate the intolerable. I have a cousin who continually posted totally false information (garnered from Fox News, no doubt), and I felt compelled to reply with facts. I thought I was being helpful, she thought I was being mean, and she ended up unfriending & blocking me. I'm very thankful she did - her posts drove me nuts, and my replies drove her nuts. I also learned a valuable lesson: if I see more than two posts that are totally untrue, I automatically unfriend, whether friend or family. I enjoy a good argument and relish whenever what I post is challenged - it helps me grow and learn (even at this old age!) and see where some people are coming from ("walk a mile in their shoes'). But if your argument is false, you refuse to verify your info or just spout the same tired talking points (usually spread via Big Business or Big Religion in the first place), debating with you is useless, and I ain't got time to argue. These are the two main social media sites most of us use - I also use Instagram and from time to time read Tumblr.

It's urgent that we stop the hate, y'all. We are fast approaching a time of great war, not only internationally but country-wise as well. Our politicians seem to be overwhelmingly childish; where are the adults? We have great problems in our own country, and other countries have many issues as well, so it's time to come together as adults and ensure we cause no further harm. It's time we elected people into office who are not career politicians. It's time we elected people into office who are deeply committed to Mother Earth's well being. It's time we elected people into office who are deeply committed to each of us, whether we're black or white or somewhere in between, whether we're gay or straight or somewhere in between, whether we're doing well financially or are as poor as most of the dirt in the drought stricken West. Our country needs billions of dollars in infrastructure repair; it needs pollution controls firmly set into place with criminal penalties along with monetary penalties; it needs oversight into banking and the stock market; it needs a universal healthcare system for all with insurance being taken out of the equation unless one opts for supplemental insurance; it needs a straightforward taxation system, where we all pay our fair share; it needs an overhaul of the way we educate our children and take care of our most vulnerable citizens; it needs equality for all, not just for some.

Now, some of you may disagree with me, and while I don't understand why, I certainly hope that one day you'll untether yourselves from the blinds of propaganda and research, truly research, the truth. I have yet to see one valid argument about any of the above: no, businesses won't lose money by pollution and/or consumer and/or worker safety implementation - it's all tax free and only comprises 7% of their built-in operating costs; no, universal healthcare doesn't have a death panel - almost the entire world has universal care except for us; the stock market is rigged, as is banking, and each of us taxpayers are now legally on the hook for bailing them out should they embezzle or misuse or gamble away our funds; children, the elderly, the poor and the disabled need our help, desperately - it only costs you $36 annually in taxes in which to provide for them, while corporate subsidies are in the neighborhood of $4,000 and defense spending is a huge chunk out of our paychecks; all of our wars since WWII have been fought for corporate control - oil, gas, coal, minerals, cheap labor, etc. - therefore our military is Big Business' henchmen, and we need to re-define our defense system and stop invading every country certain industry sectors want to do business in. If instead of more trade agreements we kept industries here at home, not only would our economy be booming, but we wouldn't feel the need to be so damn angry at our system because those businesses would ensure our infrastructure was kept up-to-date and we would have way less of the abject poverty seen everywhere in our country now.

The reason I just ranted above is that my visions have shown death and destruction everywhere. You will not be immune, you will not have an escape, you will not be so smug and righteous when the nukes fall or the corporations take over completely, because you, quite frankly, won't be able to afford diddly if that happens. Do you really just want to hate your way into oblivion? Not me.

So I'll continue to hug strangers with whom I talk in grocery stores or other places of business, I'll continue to coo at my plants and trees and urge them to grow, grow, grow! I'll continue to refrain from name-calling and instead sincerely wish "a lovely life" on those who are so intent on spreading their malicious hate. Do I ever get angry? Of course! I just don't let that hurtful and harmful anger hurl itself into someone else's energy field. Remember: what you cast comes back to you three-fold, so disagree with someone without harming them. It ain't easy, but it does get easier the more you make an earnest effort.

A Visitation

My husband, Jeff, went out of town last week on a business trip. On Friday my cabinet doors in the kitchen started opening and slamming shut by themselves. I knew someone was visiting me, but for the life of me I could just not figure out who. It didn't alarm me or frighten me, it was just, well, annoying.

All through the weekend paranormal stuff happened: the cabinet door slamming continued; a wailing - the wail of a Banshee is how I thought of it - was coming from the chimney, even though even a high wind didn't make that kind of noise; someone kept "bumping" into the living room furniture; and I was charging my iPad while using it and noticed that it was losing power - the charge went from 82% down to 30% within a matter of minutes, and I double-checked the connection and power source and yadi yadi yada and it still lost power.

The morning after the iPad power issue, I received a call from one of my cousins telling me that our cousin had died. He lived alone kind of isolated in Montana, suffered a heart attack, died and his body wasn't discovered for quite some time. I instantly realized, "Oh! Now I know who's been trying so desperately to get my attention!" He and I were only a few weeks apart in age and had been in touch with each other our whole lives, even though we've never lived close to each other geographically.

But here's the rest of the story: my cousin's daughter said that she, too, had a visit from him on Thursday evening through an electronic foul up, and he visited my sister in dreamtime on Friday evening.

All of these incidences were a matter of his trying to get our attention. Unfortunately, none of us had any sense that it was him - he didn't show us his face or use any other cues that would tip us off. But his daughter said that it was so very typical of her father to be loud and bold in trying to get us to notice him as that's how he was in life.

So now we know he's in that Otherworld, humor still intact, energy zooming - quite literally! - all around us, and what a comfort that is to all of us still in this world we call life. If one of your loved ones dies, please be alert to any signals he or she may be sending - don't shrug off the anomalies, even though anomalies certainly do happen. Think about the odd occurrence that could firmly be tied back to your loved one, and take comfort in the fact that dying is not an ending.

Update on Earthquake(s) Prediction

I don't think the earth shaking cycle is finished yet; as a matter of fact, I feel that some really strong quakes are just around the corner, although I can't give an approximate time frame for them, I just feel the large earthquakes will happen between now and November.

Meanwhile on September 4, I wrote the following: "I've felt a series of earthquakes in the last week. Three hours before the Napa quake hit, I felt it, as well, but since I didn't record it, I can't claim to have seen it coming. However, I think all this shakin' I'm feelin' may just be leading up to one big one, particularly in the US. I hope I'm wrong, but if correct, please have an emergency plan in place if you're in a quake-prone area - actually, everybody should have an emergency plan in place since it's a Murphy's Law kind of world in which we live. If these quakes I've been feeling are indeed a future event(s), I guess you can expect it to happen with the next few weeks." see http://gertieseesghosts.blogspot.com/2014/09/two-messages-from-beyond-earthquakes.html.

Since then, there have been several newsworthy earth movements:

California earthquake swarm: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mammoth-earthquake-swarm-largest-in-a-decade-20140926-story.html

Alaska 6.2 quake: http://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2014-09-25-17-51-17-utc-6-2-102

Japan volcano eruption: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/world/asia/hikers-found-on-japanese-volcano-are-feared-dead.html?_r=0

Oklahoma 4.1: http://kfor.com/2014/09/12/4-1-earthquake-rocks-oklahoma/

Peru: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29406622

Side Effects Your Doctor May Not Know About/Warn You About re Pharmaceuticals

I have a hell of a time taking pharmaceutical medicines (and am a cancer survivor), which is why I've done so much research into holistic medicines and changed my life drastically at the age of 52 when I left the legal career field and became a licensed esthetician and certified aromatherapist and herbalist. If a prescription drug has side effects - and what drug doesn't? - I'm pretty much guaranteed to have them.

Most side effects are just bothersome, with the benefit of the drug outweighing the side effect(s). But some side effects are quite stunning and fall into the "who knew this could happen?" category. For instance I have high blood pressure (hereditary) and diet and exercise have not improved this, so my doctor has given me several different medications to try. Here are the results (I can't remember the medications' names, except for the final one):

1) First medicine: Dry cough. Doctor noticed it when I went for a 6 month check up and immediately took me off that medication (the cough was severe)

2) Second medicine: Upper respiratory illness, just like the flu but without the fever. Lasted one day, usually once a week. I finally looked up the side effects, and sure enough: upper respiratory illness was a side effect. Doc took me off of that one and put me on another.

3) Third medicine: Urinary tract infection. I had not had a UTI since before my hysterectomy in 1996. I got three within 3 months of each other, looked up the side effects, and bam! UTI was a side effect. Doctor gave up looking for an alternative, but increased slightly the diuretic I had been taking for several months (I suffer from edema, sometimes grossly so).

4) The diuretic: Chlorthalidone. I had been taking this for about a year, and when I was having issues with all the other medications, this one seemed perfect - no side effects, no dehydration, no nuthin'. Except for the last several months I've been having bouts of pancreatitis. The pain begins in your upper abdomen (usually upper right quadrant) and radiates to your entire upper/middle back. It's crippling, and nothing makes it abate except heating pads or hot baths help. I had a severe bout yesterday that I felt was coming on Sunday evening, but by mid-morning, I was bedridden (again!). Finally out of desperation because I needed to know if it was drug-related or should I go to the doctor today and possibly be hospitalized, I googled "chlorthalidone pancreatitis" and found this lovely bit of news from the NIH (see below). Damn! I also found other articles that stated that of all the incidences of diuretic-related pancreatitis, the symptoms began after taking the drug(s) for at least 6 months. I didn't take the diuretic yesterday or this morning (and won't be taking it again, ever), and I feel much better already, thank goodness.

My whole point in writing this is as a warning: if you're on prescription meds and little (or large!) illnesses keep popping up on you, it may just be your meds' fault. I mean, who knew that you could get a UTI or an upper respiratory infection or dry cough or even potentially fatal pancreatitis from meds? I didn't! As for my high blood pressure, I'm still working on it from a holistic treatment viewpoint, because obviously I can't take the prescription stuff.

If you're suffering a wonky illness and are taking meds, google the drug's name followed by the illness, like I did with "chlorthalidone pancreatitis." You just may be a bit surprised at what pops up.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3631033

A Note on the 13th Anniversary of 9/11

NOTE: From June 2001 until September 11, 2001, I had dreamtime visions of a hellish scenario: crowds running down a large city's streets, airplane propellers flying overhead the crowds, slicing into people. I was filled with dread in those months, a dread that I've been feeling again lately, although this dread is more universal - like, globally - as opposed to US-centered. I honestly thought a nuclear war was going to happen back then, and as the day of 9/11 wore on, I kept waiting for the nukes to go off. Thank the universe that never happened. Now with Putin telling the US to back off, Israel announcing their new nuke-capable submarine, and other countries going ballastic, my dread is like a lead curtain draped on my back. But I still refuse to live in fear, y'all: if our leaders don't start growing up and thinking as adults, we are, quite simply, doomed to repeat what has gone before - but we can gather our communities together to weather the coming storm(s).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Been watching MSNBC's re-airing of their 9/11 coverage. At that time we lived in Bluemont, on the side of Mt. Weather, which is where FEMA's main facility was located and which has underground bunkers for the high and mighty in times of national emergencies. The road leading to those facilities was directly above ours, and after I was told to go home from work and was climbing the mountain toward home, I saw that the road to FEMA was barricaded and blocked and numerous helicopters were flying all over the place. Our road was fine, but the cacophony of all that emergency traffic plus the ongoing news footage was pure hell - I can't even imagine how people felt working at or near the Pentagon or the Twin Towers that day.

Anyway, pure hell, and my heart grieved for those who were killed, as well as for our country. As I was watching the re-airing today, one thing struck me: the call for retaliation. "Retaliate" was spoken over and over in 2001. So we subsequently found out the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia mostly, with a few from Pakistan, and we "retaliate" two years later by invading Iraq and Afghanistan and lord only knows where else. We spent billions of dollars on "retaliation," bringing our country to its knees financially and thousands of dead soldiers and civilians, and the wounded soldiers came home to little resources, almost zero healthcare, no jobs, no hope, no skills except the art of "retaliation."

Now our country is calling for more "retaliation." This time it's against ISIL for beheading two journalists. The most outspoken advocate - besides Dick Cheney - is John McCain, who was photographed just last year shaking hands and smiling with those same ISIL members, and who said yesterday that the US is not safer now after 9/11. Really? We have spent billions of dollars (again) on homeland security and have given up many precious civil rights because of that security. So what the hell was that money spent on, and why did y'all insist on funding these safeguards (we sure could have used that money to help our own and repair infrastructure)? Of course he and his cohorts are just drumming up the fear factor among the common folk, and they're doing a really, really good job. Here's the truth, y'all: no country is ever 100% safe from terrorists - if someone is determined and lucky enough, the job will get done, so I'd suggest just stop being afraid; if it happens, we'll deal with it as a community because our politicians sure ain't gonna give a rat's ass about the common people - they'll want to "retaliate."

Our policy is to throw money and weapons at anyone who we think will topple a dictator who won't do business with Big Energy, et al - meanwhile, those overthrowers once in power in turn refuse to do business with the US, so we send in Big Money's henchmen - the US military - to "retaliate." When the President and Congress and the talking heads like Cheney talk about "protecting US Interests," they're actually talking about private business, not US citizens. When they talk about the "need for retaliation," they're talking about private business being pissed because all of the sudden their oil or minerals or factory using slave labor or whatever is being taken away by a citizenry who's sick and tired of being shafted, raped & pillaged by US private business OR US private business has discovered there's a shitload of oil, minerals, slave labor in that country, and they want it. All of it. They want it, demand it, feel entitled to it, and US sends in the henchmen. And forget the talking points that the US needs those resources; on the contrary, we don't. We export more oil than we use. We haven't been able to export liquid gas yet so we have a glut of it. As to the minerals, I would bet we probably have more than enough of those, as well, although I really haven't seen stats on that. Stop putting our military at harm, stop killing civilians, stop big business from taking over a country's assets, just stop. I weep and shudder thinking about that day 13 years ago here at home; can you imagine how all those people in the Middle East feel seeing their own versions of 9/11 play out every single day just because US private businesses want to own their countries?

What's one of our first lessons that we're taught as children? Seeking revenge/retaliation is morally wrong and psyche-crushing. Our country is formed to seek justice, not revenge, and our court system is set up to ensure (yeah, I know, it's fallible) that justice is served. So I'm not sure when the dialogue changed - all of the 9/11 reporters used the word "retaliate" - but it's been with us for far, far too long, and our politicians remind me of children having a snit fit. The worst? Dick Cheney. He made over $4 billion on Iraq, no telling how much on Afghanistan, and no telling how much he stands to gain monetarily on the current "crisis." To me, he is the epitome of what Hannah Arendt called "The Banality of Evil' - a pathetic old entitled power-mad, greed-filled thug who, when all the myths are stripped away, is a nobody. A nothing. Not even human (he lacks what it means to be human - he's lost his humanity).

As for me? I refuse to live a fear-filled life. I refuse to support war or fighting or whatever it's called by the power brokers, no matter what their argument is because I know it's bullshit. I'll stick with justice: if someone attacks us, do your forensic jobs, do your detective and intelligence work, and demand through international diplomacy that whatever country is holding the terrorist(s) extradite him(them) to stand trial. If they refuse, cut 'em off financially, ideologically, internationally. I live for justice, not retaliation.

Message from Beyond

During dreamtime I saw through the eyes of a victim, as I so often do. This future event was about the brakes on a car. I/the victim was driving down a hill when the car sped up and the brakes failed. I thought to myself, "Damn it. I should have gotten those brakes repaired when they first started faltering!" So if anyone reading this has faulty brakes right now, get them repaired immediately! This precog did not end well, so please, please get your brakes repaired. 

NOTE: We have a new car with no brake issues - or any other issues - so that's how I know this dreamtime vision wasn't a subconscious reminder to myself.

Two Messages from Beyond & Earthquake(s)

1) A couple of nights ago I had a visit in dreamtime from Ken Muldare/Muldane/Mulder? - he was in a military uniform, either Air Force or Army. If this man is one of your loved ones, he just wants you to know he's still thinking of you.

2) Last night before my head had barely touched the pillow, I was immediately taken on a "flying" journey. The only other time I've "flown" before - and flying for me is more like zoomin' around above-ground - is when the man I call Grandfather, a Dine` medicine man, has visited me. Anyway, first we flew through a swamp, then fields, trees with moss, hardwood tree forest, then up a mountain and back down and stopped at a cabin/farmhouse. The whole time I was zooming, I kept telling my guide (unseen, unknown), "I'm not understanding. I'm not not getting your point." We went in the kitchen and there was a flowered, sheer curtain blowing in the breeze coming through the window, went further into the home, and I saw a man's body half in shadow laying on the floor. I could only see his legs, clad in blue-striped pajama pants, and he was wearing brown slippers. I got the impression he was elderly. After that, we flew again, through a really nice neighborhood that looked pretty new. The homes were not McMansions but rather more one-story, well-kept chi-chi. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I suck at interpretations because these visits are not meant for me, but of course I'm gonna throw out what it could possibly mean. The man came from a humble background but ended up being well-off OR vice-versa. He was either from the South or ended up there. He may have loved roller-coasters because at times it felt as if I was on a roller coaster, complete with that little tug the coaster does when you near the top. If any of this sounds as if this man may be your loved one, I want you to know he took me on quite an adventure! I also had the sense he was a happy man, and he's still zoomin' around in the Otherworld

3) I've felt a series of earthquakes in the last week. Three hours before the Napa quake hit, I felt it, as well, but since I didn't record it, I can't claim to have seen it coming. However, I think all this shakin' I'm feelin' may just be leading up to one big one, particularly in the US. I hope I'm wrong, but if correct, please have an emergency plan in place if you're in a quake-prone area - actually, everybody should have an emergency plan in place since it's a Murphy's Law kind of world in which we live. If these quakes I've been feeling are indeed a future event(s), I guess you can expect it to happen with the next few weeks

Update on "Skin Disorders" Prediction

Another one of my predictions has come true: on February 22, 2014, I blogged, "Skin Disorders: Expect these, too, worldwide....I was shown people everywhere with small lesions on exposed body parts...." While I spoke in general terms re skin disorders (rosacea, psoriasis, eczema, and so on) and ways to treat them and just briefly touched on photosensitivity, I did that because I wanted to ensure that everyone knows that there are solutions to most disorders. As with all my predictions, my interpretations are often milder than what's really going to happen, and in this case, it's skin cancer, ugh. While treatment for skin cancer is often left to medical professionals, I would also treat it by applying a topical cream of raw honey, aloe vera gel, and a few drops of lavender/helichrysum/frankincense essential oils. The honey, aloe vera and lavender will help heal the open sore, the helichrysum helps with whole body healing, and the frankincense helps repair the DNA. You can prevent skin cancer by wearing proper clothing - including a hat - not sunbathing, wearing a sunscreen with zinc oxide, eating a whole-foods diet. Tonight NBC ran a segment on skin cancer: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/surgeon-general-skin-cancer-major-public-health-problem-n167966

Message from Beyond and Two Odd Incidents

I was contacted last night in dreamtime by a gentleman who was singing, "To All The Girls I've Loved Before," the song sung by both Julio Iglesias and Will Nelson. If you've had a loved one who used to sing that song or who maybe was a bit of a ladies' man and this song always reminds you of him (!), just know that he's thinking of you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We've had two odd incidents happen recently, and both were blackouts. I'm not talking electrical blackouts, but rather total blackness for a blip of a second. Thankfully Jeff was home when both occurred, and we were watching tv both times, and both occurrences happened at different times of the day. For a blip of a second it was if the entire world went black, no light whatsoever, and then everything returned to normal. We had our window blinds open, the sun was shining, although not directly into the windows, and we had no lights on. And I say "thankfully Jeff was home" because I'm always eager for witnesses to what I experience, and if anyone else has experienced this type of blackout, I would love to hear from you!