New study points to universal code in our brains for what we find beautiful

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor subjects’ brain activity as they were shown images of art, architecture or natural landscapes, the team found that in the visual parts of the brain, these different types of images led to very different patterns of activity, even across images all judged by subjects to be aesthetically pleasing.  […]

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Energy Update | September 12, 2019

You’ve entered a vortex of consecutive wins. It’s time. You had enough lessons. You did the work. You overcame so much. You believed even when it was hard to. You never gave up. You pushed through it all.

You’ve been patient long enough. You’ve remained strong through many trails and challenges. Nothing broke you. You still here standing strong. It’s your turn. It’s your time. Something you’ve been working on is finally about to pay off. Never worry, stress, or overthink how everything you’re trying to manifest or waiting to receive will happen for you. Just believe that it will. Believe in it.

Now it’s your turn to start receiving blessings and it is about to happen for you. Things are getting more clear. The answers you need are arriving. The universe is getting ready to make a delivery in your life. In the meantime, celebrate and smile like you’ve already received everything you have been asking for.

There’s great power in believing what you can envision in your mind, not really in what’s happening in front of you. Everything that can happen for you, starts with a single thought. You have to believe in it till it shows up. The more you believe in that thought, the more you will feel it. The more you feel it, the quicker it will manifest it into your reality. You should trust in the greater power that’s constantly aligning everything for you through your visions and inner state of being.

Choose to connect with your higher power to guide you through this process of change and receiving.

You will grow stronger everyday, because you trust the energy that sustains you. How can you not trust the source that powers all of life so precisely without a single error? Don’t let fear, negativity, and lower vibrational energy steal your shine. Noticing blessings is just a matter of perspective. See the light in every situation. See what’s moving everything and what’s giving it so much life. Connect with it. Connect with your spirit during this time of great transformations. You’re about to receive in a major way!

Energy Update | September 11, 2019

Things are becoming more clear for you. You’re discovering what you want and you’re starting to speak intentionally about it. You’re taking the necessary action to release, let go, and recreate everything in your life. You’re being more present lately and you’re noticing the signs that are taking you to the next level. This sense of presence and awareness is what’s going to help you attract the best! That option to experience exactly what you want is there. You are always making choices with every single thing you do. Choose to be consciously present and see how everything always unfolds. See how much you’ve outgrown and how far you’ve come. See exactly the strength you have within your mind, spirit, and emotions. Don’t let yourself for another second ponder on the past or overthink what if. Change that up. Speak something new. Think something new. Feel something new. We are completely a collection of thoughts, feelings, and energy we entertain all day. Harness your mental energy for greater. Visualize the best for yourself by accepting, loving, and owning your truth. You are a gift. You are very special. You are a powerful magnetic attractor of what you want. Believe in yourself. Now is the time to feel a sense of relief. A sense that all is well. Every single moment is all good because you are aware now to decide and attract the best. It’s your time. It’s your turn. Shine brightly!

German Chocolate Frosting (Coconut Pecan Frosting)

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Or, as our family affectionately calls it, Coconut Snot Frosting. But that just didn’t seem like an appetizing title.  Warning: I don’t recommend sampling too much of this deliciousness before frosting your cake, or there won’t be any left with which to frost the cake. But hey, maybe you just wanted to eat the frosting anyway. It’s ok…I support that too.

IMG_4988German Chocolate Frosting

1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup brown sugar
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup (one stick) butter (regular, salted)
1 cup chopped, toasted pecans
1 1/3 cup toasted, shredded coconut

In a medium saucepan over medium low heat, combine all ingredients, mixing thoroughly to combine. Stirring very frequently, cook until all the sugar has dissolved and a thick syrup forms. Do not let it boil or your frosting will break.  Broken frosting is sad frosting and you have to start over.  Once the frosting…

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Energy Update | September 9, 2019

A new path is about to open for you. The challenges you are currently facing is about to come to an end. You’re about to get a sudden rush of opportunities and blessings that will clear the way for you. Be patient. Believe in miracles and divine guidance. It’s about to happen. You’re about to overcome something you’ve been dealing with. Your mind and heart will soon be at peace again. The weight is being lifted off of you right now. Breathe through it. Be patient about it. Trust that you will make it. Everything will be okay.

Those silent struggles and challenges can’t break you. When your in the midst of confusion and don’t know what to do, still keep believing that you will get through it. You have been trying and that’s all that matters. It might seem hard to go over the bump in the road or it might even be harder to keep going when you want to give up, but you can’t.
You’re probably wondering when will things change? When will it start to get better? Well I have great news for you, the blessings you deserve are about to arrive right now. So much will be lifted off of you. Changes might not happen right away, but they ALWAYS do. Sometimes it takes time to test your patience. To see how ready you are to step into change. Nothing is being held back from you. Everything is happening for you even when it seems like it’s against you.

Change causes discomfort because of the internal shift one experiences to create a better reality. Habits get tested. Now is the time to start owning your reality. Now is the time to start taking responsibility for your life. Miracles are about to happen for your. Your efforts never go unnoticed. Be patient, everything is about to change for you.

– Idil Ahmed

Vegan Foodstyles | Vegan Baklava Cigars

I have to agree with my younger self, on its own baklava may send your taste buds into a sensory overload, but when paired with strong, black coffee it really hits the spot. Baklava is very popular in Greece too and if not for the fact that I’m vegan, I would be tempted to simply buy it from time to time. Unfortunately, as most baklava contains a prolific amount of butter (and often honey), I now make my own when the craving strikes.

Source: https://www.lazycatkitchen.com/vegan-baklava-cigars/

Energy Update | September 7, 2019

You dwell in a time that is coming to an end. And yet in your body, in your mind and in your heart you carry the seeds of the future within you. As you live your life, breathe in and breathe out, you are planting seeds which shall be reaped by those that come after you. We ask you to plant the seeds of love and faith with a happy heart and a peaceful mind.

This is the hour in which you can choose another way.

In the face of fear, remember love.

In the face of anger, remember compassion.

In the face of disunity, remember union.

For are you not part of everyone and everything that you meet?
In the face of seeming dearth, lack and limitation of resources we ask you to dwell, in thanksgiving and joy, upon the unlimited possibilities that dwell within your imagination.

– Q’uo, The Law Of One

Art: Christina DeHoff

Lilith Tea time

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Lilith in Pisces where she must have been visiting you in your dreams, is conjunct Neptune.

Lilith Is directly opposite the Virgo sun September 6 ad both are at lucky 13+ degrees.

Lilith and Neptune face off not only with the Sun but with Mars, Mercury, and Venus in Virgo tightly bunched together like a crop of critics.

They all form a T-square to Jupiter in Sagittarius @15 degrees and joined by a Sagittarius Moon tonight @ 12:20 A.M. PDT/ 3:20 A.M. EDT and7:20 am GMT

Get on your high horse and ride. Or go to the Aesculapius for some major dream healing tonight.

Lilith is connected to the screech owl who brings dreams. She is also connected to Harpies.

The literal connection of Lilith as Harpy and Virgo’s tendency to harp on things is a big clue. The mood may feel upbeat but all that mutable energy will be…

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La’au Lapa’au | A Modern State-Federal Framework for a Regulated US Cannabis Industry

Based on the regulatory situation for cannabis (Cannabis spp., Cannabaceae) in the United States, the premise of this proposed federal framework is to create a regulatory model specific to a plant-…

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Energy Update | September 6, 2019

You’re constantly imagining. Visualize what you want and believe that things have officially shifted in your favor. Imagine you have arrived. You are now living your dream. Your vision has manifested. How would you feel? This is such an important feeling to allow to thrive within you. Let that thought of your success and accomplishment of your vision be a strong celebratory feeling. You are pure greatness and you know this already. Deep down these words ring truth. They bring you back to yourself to reclaim what’s naturally yours. Your power to create, to visualize, to love yourself, to accept who you are now is already your truth. You’re bringing your mental state higher and lifting your emotions to ponder on this new feeling. It’s already familiar to you because you are the one creating it. Sometimes you can get drawn back but think of the word lifted in every situation. Lift your thoughts higher. Lift your visions higher. Lift yourself and others higher. One thing and one situation should never keep you down. You are way to powerful to keep doubting yourself. You are too powerful to allow fear to keep you down. What if it does work out? What if it all happens for you? What happened to dreaming? Imagining? Hoping? Trusting in a greater possibility? You can do that today. You can do it right now. Be lifted into a new state. A new feeling of pure empowerment as a divine creator. You must be very patient with yourself. Through it all and in the process. Keep reminding yourself of where you’re headed by celebrating yourself and your accomplishments. Be so grateful for every little thing that’s leading you. It’s all going upwards from here. Watch in the next few months, it will all make so much sense. It will all be worth it. You will be laughing and rejoicing in your success. So keep on being lifted. Keep on being a visionary. You are so powerful and you can make dreams into a reality. That’s your natural superpower. Believe in yourself!

Energy Update | September 2, 2019 – with Matt Kahn

Whether it’s noticed as a rumbling of deeply buried emotions, the sense that everyone around you is on edge and about to explode, or just a feeling off from your known sensations of alignment, there is no doubt that something big is going down on planet Earth. At this moment, the majority of energies that create feelings of being off kilter is the gravitational force of our planet literally shifting into 5D consciousness.

While many people have grandiose notions of what life will be like on a 5D Earth, many overlook the sacred milestones that let us know that such a shift is underway.

No matter how hard you work to stay positive, remain centered, or be as present as possible, such activities employ the ego to do the busy work, while often perceiving moments of ‘feeling off’ as some sort of punishment or indication that enough work has yet to be done. This is why in the new spiritual paradigm, endless spiritual busy work is replaced with authentic self-care. Such self-care won’t guarantee specific outcomes, but it will transform your daily experiences — out of the brink of despair and into the light of true emotional freedom.

In understanding the inner workings of alchemy, feelings of displacement indicate movement, whether occurring on a physical, emotional, or energetic level. Movement, whether the movement of thought, the changing of your emotions, or even the birth and death of each passing moment acts as the evidence of change in motion. If run by a spiritual ego, you are likely to perceive the alchemical movements of change in action as proof of feeling off. Once defined as a problem or a less than desirable experience, your ego will work hard to change your experience, even though that may not be anything close to what you need to face, heal, and process in any given moment. Then, when the ego cannot decisively shift your experience out of the ‘offness’ you perceive, it creates a bigger enemy out of what is merely the evidence of your highest evolution in progress.

While your ego has the right to dislike any way in which this process unfolds, it doesn’t mean your energy field has malfunctioned or is less aligned with the Universe.

It’s simply a matter of undergoing a radical awakening process, where your ego is being stripped of its imagined sense of control, while it works diligently to control the nature of your experience. As we learn to relax our nervous system through extensive breath work, authentic self love, daily entries in a gratitude journal, along with many other facets of self-care, we are able to cultivate a vibration of consciousness that allows the nervous system to remain relaxed, even when the tumultuous terrain of change is occurring. As your nervous system learns to welcome change and even be excited about change, instead of intimidated by it, there become fewer and fewer messages sent to your ego asking it to save you from what is truly your highest expansion under way.

The ego is often a forgetful homeowner, who chases construction workers off its property, forgetting the crew was hired to rebuild the home that once dwelled on a plot of land. In the same way, your ego attempts to undo all the healing underway, just so you can feel more immediate relief, even though it truly plays no part in how, why, and what you manifest. Gone are the days where you needed to live every moment in some fantasy of alignment, as if the Universe is waiting for your most incredible spiritual performance before giving you the things that are already destined to be.

When not blinded by the ego’s insistence on what should happen, when it should happen, and why, you are able to see high vibration as an awareness of this process, which makes it so much easier and far more magical to get through. Whereas, in a low vibration, there is less awareness of a divine plan, which makes it nearly instinctive to believe in perceptions of fear, struggle, doubt, scarcity, and separation.

The more we allow ‘feeling off’ to be the vital proof that we are expanding into 5D consciousness, the less controlling the ego tends to be, as your nervous system relaxes in the presence of existential progress. When ‘feeling off’ can be a tangible sign of huge energetic processes being worked out in you and throughout the planet, you are able to see through the veil of fear and step beyond the threshold of superstition once and for all.

When ‘feeling off’ doesn’t remind you of how misaligned you are, but simply reflects how much self care is needed to support the huge leaps in consciousness being made on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, you will have outsmarted even the spiritual ego with the wisdom that only unconditional love may know.

You may not like how it feels and you may not know where any of this is headed, but you most certainly couldn’t ever be off course, unless your personal agenda differs from the divine plan of Universal will. It’s not wrong to’ feel off’. It’s a sign of massive expansions under way. The question is, can you allow yourself to relax and welcome in this depth of healing, even when it doesn’t feel the way you desire?

These feelings won’t last forever. Life most certainly will get better and will most likely begin to shift once ‘feeling off’, triggered, resistant, defensive or shut down is not wrong to experience in any way. Once its not against the spiritual law to feel exactly as you do, you will have created the proper space and perspective to tune into your needs and assist in the healing progress — now that any part of your healing is no longer being judged.

May the love of Source carry you forward and walk you home through the loving presence I transmit — from my heart to yours.