My Bucket List: I Want to Go to the Redwood Forest SKYWALK in Sequoia Park - Eureka, CA

https://redwoodskywalk.com/

Closeup of a Burl on the Redwood Tree

and Whale Watching in the Ocean Near San Francisco... and Visit The Santa Cruz Boardwalk Main Beach, Glacier Point Yosemite, Ananda Village, The Top of Squaw Valley, The Spring at Panther Meadows Mount Shasta... 

Swimming in the Damn Cold Ocean... The Rides at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk Make That Beach Special. 

https://news.beachboardwalk.com/just-the-facts/

Glacier Point Has an Excellent View of Half Dome... and Washburn Point has a view of Nevada and Vernal Falls.

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/glacierpoint.htm

https://www.nps.gov/places/000/washburn-point.htm

Ananda Village: A Commune that is Made of People That Follow the Paramahansa Yogananda. 

They are a Group of People That Grow their Own Food and Have NO Need for Contact with the Outside World. Totally Self Reliant... 

Near Nevada City, California. 

https://www.anandavillage.org/

Squaw Valley; There is a Restaurant/Bar at the Top of the Mountain with a View of Lake Tahoe. 

Bring your own water or purify the creek water nearby. https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/stnf/recarea/?recid=6576

What Would be the POINT of Visiting a Spring...
if I Can't Drink the Water?

The Spring at Panther Meadows, Mount Shasta.

This Water is Considered Holy by the Native Americans... and It Was the Location of the Harmonic Convergence of 1987... I want to Drink That Water...

https://hikemtshasta.com/mount-shasta-trails/panther-meadow-trail/

and Here is My Bucket List from 2020... 

The Integratron,  Chaco Canyon Hopi City, Chichen Itza Yucatan Pyramid and Red Rocks Ampitheater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron
The Integratron is a 38 feet (12 m) tall cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. He claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. Located Near BIG ROCK. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_Culture_National_Historical_Park 
A Religious Ceremony Site... and Four Corners, Dulce... There Are MANY UFO Spiritual Native American Places In that Part of the World... 
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a concentration of pueblos. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States.^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza
Chichen Itza^{[nb 1]} was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period. The archaeological site is located in Tinúm Municipality, Yucatán State, Mexico.^{[1] 
It's was the Location of the "End of time" Celebration in 2012}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rocks_Amphitheatre
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is an open-air amphitheatre built into a rock structure in the western United States, near Morrison, Colorado, ten miles (16 km) west of Denver. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a seating area for up to 9,525.^[1]

Global Coherence Pulse - Guided Online Meditation... and Water Blessing Ceremony... Excellent... A Global Healing Practice...

https://globalcoherencepulse.org/

SC Said: Water is truly the Source of Life,  and the evolution of our Solar system & of Gaia.  Thank you, Jude, for this Wonder of Water🙏

I Said: Right now there is water in our creek. It's a Rare Event because our Climate Does Not Rain a Lot at this time of the Year. What is wonderful is that we get frogs during the wet times... Quite Spectacular to listen to them Croak. 

and... in the Novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Heinlein there is a Water Ceremony as a Big Part of the Story. A Friend says that at Burning Man there is a Water Ceremony as Well. Since It's a Desert and Water is Rare and Precious... Every time you meet a new person... you share water... and become Water Brothers... The Trick is to Drink First and then Pass the Bottle to your friend... That way you won't be worried about getting an empty bottle back... because you have already drank. 

SC Said: Yes and liquid water is required for life to germinate on a planet.  That is why life is rather rare in this universe... and so precious.  ;<)

https://islandsofcoherence.net/

AC Said: Thank you for this wonderful time together!  I appreciate the wisdom shared as I never thought of water being ancient!  Yes!  I hope a recording of this event will become available as I need to leave now.  Looking forward to attending World Water Day!

ATC Said: For those who wish to learn about other modalities honoring the energetic and healing powers of water - check out Hope Fitzgerald’s remarkable work as defined by the “Infinity Wave” at https://www.we-infinity.com/. Her work utilizing the element of water as a spiritual alignment tool that has great power and impact, worthy of your exploration. A dear and beloved friend who is very much a part of this conversation.

Remember: Water is truly the Source of Life,  and the evolution of our Solar system & of Gaia.  Thank you, Jude, for this Wonder of Water🙏

Tales of My Participation in the Sierra Club's Work Crew - Camping Trip. Two Months in the Sierra Nevada picking up trash in 1970...

My Parents Suggested that I Work for The Sierra Club during the Summer of my Sophomore Year in High School. Fortunately, The Sierra Club got Funding from the Federal Government to Clean up Trails near a Popular Dirt Bike area... and Those Dirt Bike People were Horribly Destructive of the Forest... Garbage Everywhere... I Guess they HAD NO CLUE about Ecology... 

We Got a Giant Dumpster and a Sign Explaining Who and What the "Action Clean Up" was and we Got to Work... We Were VERY LAZY... We were Volunteers... However, We DID Burn as Much Trash as we could find and then Backpacked the Remaining Burnt Garbage OUT... Years Later I Found Out That The Program Became MUCH more Organized and Serious and THE CAMPERS PAID THE SIERRA CLUB TO GO... 

I saw a Bear sleeping on a Jeep's hood at night... when I walked near the Bear jumped up and ran away... This happened in the Little Kern River Basin Near Bakersfield, California... That was the Big Thrill of the Summer... 

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I went to a Masonic Promotion Ceremony for My Boss. His name was Glenn MacLellan and he was the owner of the San Jose Art, Paint and Wallpaper Store. I worked there unloading trucks and putting merchandise on the shelves in the store. The ceremony was "Really Goofy" in my humble Opinion... Grown men wearing aprons and chanting in a candle lit room... Just Like George Washington Did... 

(~);-} and now for something completely different {-;(~)

My Cousin Gary Lea is a Mason also... They have a little village of wooden homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the San Lorenzo River. We went there when I was a child to someone's birthday party. The river enters the Pacific Ocean at The Boardwalk on Main Beach... Gary used hypnosis to quit smoking tobacco. He had a visual Mantra that he would remember whenever he wanted to smoke. It was the O'Neil's Surf Shop Logo... I used this trick myself... why not? Gary figured out how to quit and I can simply use his technique... 

Read More of my Autobiography at :
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Music Video: "Ceremony and Ritual" by Gregory Vanderlaan - Totally Cosmic Lyrics but Every Word is True!

 https://youtu.be/FtCyPg8Mr5Y

Inspired by a Grateful Dead Concert in Philadelphia... THANKS! I was way in the Back at JFK Stadium and I noticed that the people danced MORE wildly when the Music PEAK Hit them... I could see the Intensity of the Jam flowing thru the Crowd... and then it Crashed over ME! 

VISUAL SOUND... but actually real... People Really Dance More Enthusiastically when Jerry Garcia is Wailing...

and a Three Day Concert at The Spectrum... Three days of Camping in the Parking Lot and swimming at the Public Pool... 


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OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE COLONIAL ANIMAL…
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FLOWING IN THE CURRENTS OF THE SOUND… [2X]
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adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire ! [2X]
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IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.
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THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK, FEEL THE HEAT… 
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adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire! [2X]
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WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.
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THE CROWD ERUPTS INTO OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION
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AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS
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adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire! [2X]
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MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL 
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AND I RICCOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM ARENA
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BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS. I'M SURROUNDED BY DEADHEADS
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WHO ARE INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES…
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THEY JUST…know… I WILL LAUGH… [3X]
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WE'RE A KINDA SILLY PEOPLE... [2X]
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adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire! [2X]

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My Facebook Group (Things I remember growing up in Los Gatos) has improved my memory... We all post memories of what happened to us as Children. When people talk of events that happened to me, I remember what I was doing and the names of the other people... Some memories had been lost for decades... The first girl I kissed... for example... Now I remember her Name! I wonder if the drugs they advertise on TV actually Improve Memory. In General, those ads are Lies or exaggeration... Practically speaking the best plan for improving health, including Mental Health is to eat right and exercise... This is NOT secret information... I do think it's funny that they advertise PREVAGEN very often and they repeat the name again and again and again. as if they know that their Target Audience is people that have difficulty remembering things! Good Marketing Strategy... Here is a little trick I use. I do all my word processing in NOTEPAD. It does not have a Spell Checker. I have to remember how to spell words... and the words I have difficulty spelling are Flagged as Wrong by the spell checker I use on Google's Blogger... and That spell checker has a very limited vocabulary... I laugh at the Names of People It Does Not Know... after it corrects my spelling many times, I learn... Intelligence has an I after the Double L... etc, etc, etc... 


I wonder if Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are actually more powerful than the US Government. Right Now there is a Battle between Big Tech and the Government. Facebook was Fined $5 Billion Dollars but The Stock Price Went UP! by enough to offset the fine! Real People LOVE Facebook and Hate the Government. We the People Laugh at the Old White Men in Congress failing to understand the BASIC Business Plan of Online Corporations... They sell targeted advertising. Little Stevie Munchkin wants an Investigation of Amazon because it wiped out Brick and Mortar Retail Stores. Well, no amount of Investigation will reverse THAT trend. I wanted to buy a Telescope so I could look at the boats going in and out of the Harbor in Eureka. So I went to a Brick and Mortar Store and asked questions, looked at products and the I bought it on Amazon... NO WAY was I going to Pay EXTRA so that retailer could rent a Building and heat it, keep the lights on... ETC... I see that people buy CARS online... well, no high pressure salesmen hassling the shopper... I remember shopping for a new can in the 1980s... it was very annoying to deal with those salesmen... trying to trick me into buying stuff I didn't want or need. and then they really screwed me using Chrysler Credit Corporation... Well, forget That. Online Loans, Online Car Dealers. The entire process is MUCH better for the Consumer... and... Jeff Bezos Bought the Washington Post Newspaper so he can influence Public Opinion... Try Fighting THAT you Pathetic TrumpNik!