Ute’s ShadowBlog

My favorite quote “Copying is slavery, you have to reach the Spirit.”
~ Zen proverb

When I read this proverb the first time, I was drawn to it and unconsciously embraced it right away. Now I’m more clear about the reason.

While reading the book “The Spiritual Path – Buddha Zen Tao Tantra” by OSHO it became more clear. We are mind-bound creatures. Our mind actually enslaves us, but in Spirit we are free. Actually, anything mind-bound is slavery.

Maybe the following excerpt from this book, p. 277, helps to clarify:

“People were talking about Zen as if it were another philosophy, which it is not; as it were another religion, which it is not. It is a rebellion against mind, and all your religions and philosophies are part of the mind.

This is the only rebellion against mind, against self, the only rebellion of withdrawing all the limits that imprison you and taking a quantum leap into nothingness. But this nothingness is very alive. It is life; it is existence. It is not hypothesis. And when you take the jump, the first experience is that you are disappearing. The last experience is that you have become the whole…

It is the same nothingness from where you have come and to where you are going again.

When the source and the goal become one, you will have a great celebration. In that celebration you will not be, but all of existence will be participating…

The whole existence becomes your home the moment your heart melts into the universal heart. That is where Zen is happening. In that melting into the universe, you are back to the original source, fresh, eternal, timeless, spacious.”

☯ In memory of my grandmother Elise Sturm, born Jan 9th, 1882, I like to mention here my family search web site. ☯

http://www.utesturm.info/familysearch/sturm-photos.html

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.
~ Max Delbrück

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many years ago, before I started to write my first book, I noticed that the ‘Hammer Man’ in Seattle had some numbers engraved. Adding all the numbers equals number 30, and I am invigorated by number 3 (3+0=3) derived from the day of my birth, which is number 21 (2+1=3). As I mentioned in my book I am influenced by number 3, but what is quite intriguing here is that within the Hammer Man’s numbers is the total number of my numerical equivalent from my birth name. This number is 277. The electrical meter at the house I owned in Redmond had the electrical meter number 277. When adding all these number I arrive at my destiny number 7 (2+7+7=16 and 1+6=7).

SCIENCE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

“As a final example of parallel developments in microphysics and psychology, we can consider Jung’s concept of ‘meaning.’ Where before men looked for causal (i.e., rational) explanations of phenomena, Jung introduced the idea of looking for the meaning (or, perhaps we could say, the “purpose”). That is, rather than ask ‘why’ something happened (i.e., what caused it), Jung asked: What did it happen for? This same tendency appears in physics: Many modern physicists are now looking more for “connections” in nature than for causal laws (determinism).”

“To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is “real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.”

~ Marie-Louise von Franz

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

And here are 5 suggestions by Deepak Chopra, the world-renowned expert on spiritual well-being and alternative medicine, to make 2012 a successful and joyful year.

• Embrace uncertainty

• Embrace impermanence

• Cultivate relationships

• Get rid of the box

• Unleash your imagination

http://www.ahalife.com/feature/2012/01/1/518/deepak-chopras-tips-for-new-year/?rfsr=8byo6

I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; the aura of Christmas was, long before the actual arrival of the Christmas day, in the air: next to the smell of fresh dough and baked cookies were the expectations of joyful surprises to come. I have fond memories of Christmas not only because of expectations of presents and all kinds of goodies, but also because of celebrating life together with family and relatives on a festive cheer and welcoming a new family member of humanity into our world.

Welcoming a human being that would inspire humanity throughout the world to exercise goodwill of love and compassion for all creatures. A human being who understood very well that life itself meant being one with God ― I AM ―­­­­ and dared to share his insights with his fellow human beings so that they would understand too.

May the spirit of love be with you at Christmas and all the year!

I am more and more convinced that number Pi and our numerological profile numbers are connected.

For a few days now I’m contemplating about Mark Zuckerberg’s success story in regards to his numerological profile, number Pi, and Facebook.

Mark’s numerological profile:
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, born May 14, 1984

Invigoration number: 14 and/or 5 (1+4=5)

Life lesson number: 32 and/or 5 (5+14+1984=2003 and 2+0+0+3=5)

Destiny number: 7 (M=13/4, A=1, R=18/9, K=11/2, E=5, L=12/3, L=12/3, I=9, O=15/6, T=20/2, Z=26/8, U=21/3, C=3, K=11/2, E=5, R=18/9, B=2, E=5, R=18/9, G=7 and
4+1+9+2+5+3+3+9+6+2+8+3+3+2+5+9+2+5+9+7=97 and 9+7=16 and 1+6=7)

As I have mentioned already in my book and also on my picture here on FB the number Pi hints at something very important. We are all the product of 1 and 2 make 3 whereas number Pi starts with number 3. The digits after number 3 are important and these digits starts with number 1, 4 and so on.

Our interactions are based on duality and that includes that 2 states interact with each other, or actions are expressed through 2 states like the digital coding system (1 and 0).

The meaning of double-digit number 14 actually means that number 4 works through the number 1 and will manifest in number 5 (1+4=5). Through the actions of number 4 (construction, matter, stability) and 1 (active, dominant, independent) number 5 (change, endurance, freedom) will be manifestated.

And this is actually what happened. Mark, who is not only invigorated by number 5 (change, endurance, freedom) but has number 5 as his life lesson number, contributed with the social network of Facebook whose single-digit numerical equivalent is number 4 (F=6, A=1, C=3, E=5, B=2, O=15/6, O=15/6, K=11/2 and 6+1+3+5+2+6+6+2=31 and 3+1=4) and in position number 1 (active, dominant, independent) of all social networks to a change in communication and interaction worldwide.

Also, what we have to consider is that Mark’s destiny number shows up pretty early in number Pi. Mark’s destiny number 7 shows up on position 14 in number Pi, and 14 is his invigoration number (Pi 3.1415926535897). Also, Mark’s double-digit destiny number, derived from his name, is number 97 whose numbers are on position 13 and 14 in number Pi, and the double-digit numerical value of Facebook is actually number 58 and this number is on position 11 and 12 in number Pi. This number is right before his double-digit destiny number 97.

Where is your number? Mine starts with number 3 (I’m the product of 1+2=3, male and female produce number three; the day of my birth is number 21 and 2+1=3; I’m the 3rd child; the next number, which I have in my numerological profile, in this sequence is number 14, which is the numerical equivalent of my middle name Sonja (1+6+5+1+1=14), and my destiny number 7 is at position 14. See more under Number Pi in my book

http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Cloak-Thyself-Thought-Design/dp/0981542301/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1324007733&sr=8-2

This is an inside view of the Hibulb Cultural Center where I spent part of my 2011 birthday.

I celebrated my birthday yesterday, and later on this day I wrote the following poem.

- Ute’s 2011 Birthday Poem -

Time, the most precious gift, shared with a friend, becomes a precious memory.

Time spent alone becomes a lone memory.

But time spent wisely alone becomes time well spent.

—

Spent my birthday yesterday in Stanwood and at the “Tulalip Tribes – The Hibulb Cultural Center” http://www.hibulbculturalcenter.org. And here are some photos from this event.

How do you keep your memory sharp? One way is to do all kind of tests, or to recall details of an event. We all forget things until something or someone reminds us of something, and the process of remembering starts. This happened to me in 1999. Until that year I had not thought about an event that had occurred shortly after my 18th birthday. But after I was reminded of something that had happened during that time, I slowly started to recall details in the coming months and years. The main people in this event were 2 girls from my hometown, a boyfriend of one of the other girls, also from my hometown, her future father-in-law, and a young foreign hitch-hiker. The boyfriend, who she later married, became a pilot in the German Federal Armed Forces and made career, but died during one of his flights with his fighter jet (Tornado) in January 1999 (see http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/Tornado_Germany.htm).

Now, let’s go back to the time of the event. It was in summer of 1971 when a girlfriend from my hometown with whom I also went to the same High School suggested a trip to Munich where her boyfriend went to university. Her boyfriend was enrolled in a university from the German Federal Armed Forces where he studied for an engineering degree. She also asked another girl from our hometown to accompany us on this trip. We both decided to join her, and her future father-in-law drove us to Munich. There he dropped us off, but before he left us to ourselves, he helped us to find a place were we could set up our tent. We actually set up our tent on a meadow of a farm in Fürstenfeldbruck. I only recall that her boyfriend’s father went to the farmer and asked him whether we could set up our tent on his meadow. The farmer allowed us to camp there. After her boyfriend’s father had helped us to set up the tent, we had only one tent with us, we were left to our own resources. I don’t recall which bathroom facilities we used, but I remember that we ate cold ravioli out of cans, which wasn’t fun. We stayed there for about a week.

I recall, to get from place to another, we rented scooters. On one excursion by myself I picked up a young hitch-hiker. Since he didn’t speak any German, he spoke English, I thought I could find out with the help of the other two girls, how to help him. I didn’t understand him because I didn’t speak English at that time. The foreign languages I had to learn in school were Latin and French. When we arrived at the tent, only one of the girls was there, but she wasn’t any help because a guy was at her side and she didn’t speak English either. The other girl was in the barracks with her boyfriend, and she didn’t show up until the next day. I also remember that the weather was quite unpleasant, and that is was raining a lot during the evening and night. I had no idea what to do, so I let him stay in the tent. The next morning he left, and thereafter, I never saw him again. Over time this event faded from my memory, but years later I was reminded of this event by someone else, and slowly I could remember more details.

Now, it surely helps when you have some kind of tangible reminder of an event. I didn’t know that anything existed from that trip until my youngest sister told me years ago, I believe it was in 2003, that I had written a postcard to my family when I had been in Munich-Fürstenfeldbruck in the summer of 1971. I didn’t remember that I had written a postcard, but here it was. A token of an unusual trip. Now I am glad that my mother kept the postcard all these years. It certainly helped me to remember more details.

Today I thought about something my mother had told me many years ago. The matter is in regards to the inn “Roter Hahn”, which is located in Arenberg and where she had worked for a long time. The inn “Roter Hahn” of Arenberg has a long history http://www.arenberg-info.de/htm/C-weber.htm, and during the time Mrs. Hoos was the owner of the hotel (inn) my mother worked for her.

I am writing about something that I did not experience directly. This is hearsay. But Arenberg is my hometown, and since I have also worked on weekends and during school vacation at the “Roter Hahn”, I would like to know what has really happened.

My mother told me that, after Mrs. Hoos couldn’t take care of the hotel anymore, the hotel was sold to Italians, I believe, and thereafter the hotel was sold again. After these transactions had taken place one of the statues of a “Roter Hahn” disappeared and even all the guest books, which had been part of the hotel (inn). As a result now no trace exists of the guests who have ever visited this place and had left some kind of memory in those guest books in the 50’s, 60’s and so on. I found this very strange. Why would someone want to remove guest books from a hotel (inn) in Arenberg. I think my mother found this strange too, otherwise she would not have mentioned this to me. Now, I am asking, why would someone want guest books from a hotel in Arenberg? Who had visited this place? What was written in them? What has happened to these guest books? Who has these guest books now?

If anyone reads this post and likes to investigate this matter, please do so, and please let me know what happened to those guest books. I certainly don’t have the time and resources to find out anything about this matter, but maybe someone else can.